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Great, you aren't late in the slightest. Feel free to initiate DMs with me to discuss any lore or character considerations to brainstorm and vet, and then once things are all-go feel free to post your char here!
I am thinking a second character that was a prisoner (illegally?) experimented upon. They had an arm cut off for the express purpose of grafting a god arm on. They then in a fit of rage murder everyone in their way and escape, including other prisoners let out of their cells for no other purpose than to slow down murderous rampage to allow the guards time to prepare a proper response, but that fails as well.
This made me think of the idea that the god-arm can free-morph like T-1000 into blades, tendrils, etc, but then I realized that that is kinda spot-on the premise to the manga Parasyte. Not that that's a bad thing, just interesting how my brain works lol
My vague notion for this setting is that the majority of the primary characters are human, as a sort of local majority. There may be some pockets of other races like elves in the forests to the far east or dwarves in the mountains to the west, but the story takes place (at least in my initial headcanon) in a human-saturated realm. Not to say that elves and dwarves will never appear in-story, but just not commonly enough to be primary characters, unless I hear a compelling pitch. And of course, I might change my mind, but the element of Otherness of the organ-bearers is sort of the center-stage dichotomy, rather than fantasy races.
Going off that what if the other fantasy races lived in secret hidden by magic or their god(s) then one day an organ bearer pierced the veil separating humans from the other races, the human is slaughtered but uses their powers and the other races are like hell no and decide to go on a genocidal war against all humanity thinking all humans are like that now.
I think this might be overcomplicating the issue. There could be allusions to other races existing in the vague distant lands, but the main stage is for humans. This is sort of a low-to-mid fantasy rather than true high fantasy so the setting is more human-oriented than that might entail. I do like the lovecraftian race idea though.
I haven't decided on a specific reason/mechanism why, but my gut instinct is that there is no means of an Organ-Bearer siring offspring. Their role is to serve as willing-or-not bastions of power for the faction standing behind them, not to have a domestic life. And there are enough God-Organs, mostly stockpiled by the Theocracy but also just in general, that the way to replace them is not to wait for an heir to grow into their power, it's to either kill them off or wait for their inevitable death and then bring about a new Organ-Bearer through the typical means.
You'll have great blood flow and plenty of spare platelets. Might need a bit more than that to champion a faction :)
Can I recommend a tournament for this? Roman Colloseum-type thing or maybe medieval jousting and whatever else.
Raw offensive power can be beaten by a smarter person without raw offensive power.
There wouldn't be a formal scale or rank for Organ-Bearers directly, but I think there would be a more established system, perhaps informal, for classifying the expected potency of the Organs themselves. You would always get deviations between the relative grade of two Organs and the relative strength of their eventual bearers, since the powers are only vaguely predictable in effects and very hard to pre-judge the magnitude of. Even two people who imbibe twin organs of the same god may end up with different powers, or different levels of a very similar power-set.
