I like the ESU more than the FF7verse, but how would they deal with his speed? (Barring the powerful reality warpers and what not, in which case its just obvious.)
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In seriousness, if the things NemeBro's told me are true, there are many characters in ES that could annihilate Sephiroth, without even counting the top tiers like Sithis.
Normal mages in the Elder Scrolls are capable of feats such as deleting you from existence via proving you do not exist... MATHEMATICALLY.
Any "god" could crush Sephiroth easily, from the Tribunal to Sithis. The Tribunal, perhaps the weakest deities in the setting, would harharharcrush Sephiroth. Vivec alone and with but a gesture was capable of stopping a moon sent by Sheogorath from destroying the city of Vivec, and Oblivion proves not only does the moon destroy city of Vivec when it falls, but most of Vvardenfell as well. Vivec also has demonstrated potent reality warping, flooding the entire country of Morrowind while simultaneously granting the Dunmer the ability to breathe water.
This is a low tier god in Elder Scrolls. Daedra and Aedra are far more powerful, and Sithis is more powerful than all the Daedra and Aedra put together.
I noticed some using gameplay.
Using gameplay, in Morrowind it is completely possible to give your character the strength to backpack over a trillion tons, cross the province of Vvardenfell in about three seconds (VERY hypersonic, in other words), and leap from one end of the island to the other.
While Sephiroth would obviously be stronger than the average citizen, a powerful enough mage, such as Mannimarco (Daggerfall) would crush him with their reality warping might, and would argue powerful enough warriors could crush him too. Then of course there are powerful artifacts that would make Sephiroth look trivial as well.
For the more powerful reality warpers like the daedras, speed isn't going to be important for them to get off their reality warpingness as there is nothing Seph can do to stop them before they make their move.
But for Vivec? I'm not sure. Is he going to be able to keep up with Seph before he begins his offense?
Well, Vivec as seen in Morrowind may be beatable by Sephiroth, possibly, seeing as he is massively drained by then.
But even then, with his power waning, he was capable of confining Dagoth Ur and his bullshit to Red Mountain with the Ghostfence, powered by his own godlike energies at all times. Dagoth Ur who was able to best and drive off the combined might of the Tribunal, being stronger than all three. So it is not unlikely that he could protect himself or seal Sephiroth in one place.
Would argue his durability would be pretty up there too, all the Tribunal are. Sotha Sil and Almalexia capable of besting an avatar of Mehrunes Dagon, who destroyed Mournhold when some jerkface summoned him. And of course, Vivec is still technically immortal while the Heart of Lorkhan beats. At least, lore Vivec is, Morrowind Vivec is a different story.
Will they compare swords, as Vivec and Molag Bol compared spears.
Although the hermaphrodite thing and ****ing Molag Bol is probably not actually true.
Vivec is famously a liar, I trust nothing from his sermons, except one thing: That the text implies that Vivec, Sotha Sil, and Almalexia DID in fact kill Nerevar.