A wizard with a single Refinement can get +1 Tolerance, +2 control for his element plus a +4 offensive control focus from his basic item slots. So he can go around firing Weapon 1 attacks, at +11 attack roll. He will never miss, and he'll be doing 6-stress hits against the best submerged defenses. And against Great rather than Fantastic defenses, you can expect 9-10 stress hits. And he'll have that at-will with effectively the expenditure of half a point of Refresh.


Far, far too cheap.

This is an old build - one of my first beyond submerged level. Originally posted it back in 2010, I think;




HEINRICH KEMMLER


High Concept: Greatest Necromancer Ever Trouble: Terminal God Complex
Other Aspects: Awesomeness Can Be Taught, Dark Lord Of The Dead, Death Is Only The Beginning, Political Wizard, The Laws Exist Only In Your Feeble Minds
Refresh: higher than you  (-51, 450 pts as Warhammer figurine)


SKILLS

+8 Discipline, Conviction
+7 Lore, Presence, Endurance
+6 Intimidate, Contacts, Scholarship
+5 Deceit, Rapport, Resources
+4 Weapons, Empathy, Alertness
+3 Craftmanship, Performance, Might
+2 Riding, Fists, Athletics
+1 Survival, Stealth, Burglary

POWERS

[-3] Evocation
[-3] Thaumaturgy
[-1] Wizard - The Sight/Soulgaze/Wizard's Constitution
[-2] Kemmlerian Necromancy
[-27] Refinement x27
[-6] Lawbreaker: 1st/4th/5th, x2
[-3] Physical Immunity: Unkillable  -  Kemmler is immune to any attack that would kill him. He may either keep going or appear to die only to come back later. The catch is that he is only immune to death; he still takes stress and consequences normally and a nonlethal attack would take him out just fine - but see below.
[-1] Mind Over Body  -  Kemmler's own will fuels his existence. As long as his will is intact, his body endures, fueled by his belief in his own immortality. He uses Conviction as a defence vs physical and mental attacks and maneuers.
[+0] Human Guise
[-6] Mythic Recovery  -  Kemmler does not need to sleep or eat and his Necromancy-fueled body can recover from most wounds.
[+2] Catch: Holy Powers and True Faith
[-1] Senses: Lord of the Dead  -  Kemmler can see and hear out of the eyes and ears of any undead being he has personally created. This is a supernatural sense.

SPECIALIZATIONS AND ITEMS

Evocation: +6 spirit power, +5 spirit control, +4 earth power, +3 earth control, +2 air power, +1 air control (may use necromancy control if spell incorporates death and/or necromanctic/psychomantic spells as evocation)
Thaumaturgy: +6 necromancy control, +5 necromancy complexity, +4 diabolism complexity, +3 divination complexity, +2 transportation/worldwalking control, +1 focus specialization.
Dark One's Rainment: a suit of armor covered in dark magic runes concealed by a black cloak and strengthened by its own enchantments (armor 3) that acts as a powerful focus for necromancy (+7 necromancy control)
The Helm of Terror: a rune-adorned thick cowl with a faceplate carved out of bone that, when drawn down, conceals Kemmler's face behind the image of a human skull. Acts as a powerful focus for destructive spirit magic (+7 offensive spirit power)
Bracelet of Warding: the weakest of Kemmler's foci but still a powerful item, this skull-adorned silver bracelet acts as a +4 defensive spirit power focus.


ROTES

Vengeful Gaze of Kemmler Using the power the magic he created, Kemmler throws an immense amount of life-erasing energy at the victim. Weapon 26 at Control 26; you die with no save.
Plague Wind Spreading necromantic energies over a large area, Kemmler could sicken and kill people in a large stadium, major building or small army. Weapon 6 over 10 zones at Control 26.
Mass Momento Mori This spell infuses all living beings in an area with deadly necromantic power, killing them then animating them and binding them at Kemmler's will. Sadly, it only creates relatively weak zombie types. Weapon 6 at Control 26 plus 5 shifts of raising and 5 shifts of binding at all creatures in 5 zones.
Mass Energy Drain This spell fuels necromantic energies to its victims, paralyzing and finally killing them over time as its energy leeches their life-force. 11 shift block (adjudicated as grapple) for 10 exchanges over 3 zones.
Raise Graveyard This spell is a quick "army-raising" spell; at the cost of quality, it raises all the dead in a fairly large area -such as a graveyard or mass grave- as relatively weak zombies. 5 shifts of raising and 5 shifts of binding at all corpses and remains in 8 zones.
Shield of Death This is a rare defensive necromancy spell; using Kemmlerian necromancy, you forge a link between the caster and a bound, mindless or willing victim. For as long as this thaumaturgy lasts, the caster is protected by a 23-shift block (unlike true Wards, it does not strike back or allow special features). Instead of blocking the attacks though, the "block" merely transfers them to the victim. The spell ends at dawn (unless extended with extra shifts) or when the victim dies/is destroyed. Kemmler used his zombies as surrogates cause he had lots of them but a living victim can take a lot more consequences than a weak zombie and has the added benefit that you find a use for potential prisoners and, if you choose correctly, your surrogate may have recovery powers.
Circle of Opening The Door of Night The wielder opens the Door of Night and calls up large amounts of necromantic power, infusing himself and a circle around him with that power that can be then tapped to fuel horribly life-violating magic. Apply 6 aspects on a scene or willing target that can be tagged for offensive necromantic purposes. You still need to flavorfully describe said aspects or your GM might wack your head with a 10-lb abridged copy of the Necronomicon.


KEMMLER AS A WARHAMMER MINIATURE
http://kurt.helborg.free.fr/warhammer/comtes_vampires/personnages_speciaux/heinrich_kemmler.php
(sorry for the french but I didn't have time to find the english equivalent)

Some versions of Entropomancy - like the ones the Fomoire sorcerors use - are unaffected by water, even water put there by mortal acts with the specific intent to disrupt magic. Simply put, they lack that weakness entirely.

On the other hand, that kind of magic has much higher involuntary hexing. So high that it makes Harry Dresden's magic seem technologically-friendly in comparison.

In addition, any spells you
wish to include as part of the ward construct
add their complexity values directly onto the
ward. It must all be cast as one spell.

IF you wish to include them in the same Ward construct, yes. But why would you? You don't want your Ward to fire off the Landmine(s) if someone hits it because hey, some poor mortal might do it by accident and wouldn't that be a stupid way to get Lawbreaker? No, you create a second, single-shift Ward construct for an alarm, in case the big one is breached (not just hit). And you attach the landmine to the second one, not the first. As I said before, no limit to the amount of separate Wards you can add to a place. (it's just that a single big ward has the advantage of being harder to dispel or damage and you only pay for duration once)

The Paranetters' multi-ward would be done in a similar way. It is just a bazillion small (3-4 shifts) individual Wards. A sufficiently high roll from a powerful enemy will go through all of them as they got the same block strength but trying to destroy the Wards themselves? You got to hit them individually and that would take a lot of effort. And if you destroyed only some of them, repairs to those would be pretty easy. Good way of keeping out mulltiple low-power enemies instead of one big enemy. The wards in Edinburg would follow a similar philosophy, except they'd be multiple big wards instead of small ones.



BTW, given enough time a Wizard could make wards of ridiculously high strength if they knew how. Harry for example could put a mild consequence into a ritual in every single scene. Assume a scene is half an hour or so. 8 hours of work for a week makes for 200+ shifts of power, easily. Add another 100 shifts of power for the timeskip at a rate of +1 complexity per scene, plus another 50 or so for total declarations and you could potentially have a Ward with enough power sunk into it to drill a hole through the Earth's crust.

Skills:
+5: Lore, Weapons
+4: Athletics, Discipline
+3: Endurance, Conviction

Powers/Stunts
[+0] Wizard's Constitution
[-3] Thaumaturgy (+1 craft power, +2 craft frequency, +2/+2 craft focus, 8 enchanted item slots)
[-4] Refinement
[-1] The Vorpal Sword
  *Discount: +2
  *It is what it is: weapon 3 sword
  *True Aim
  *Supernatural Sharpness: +2 weapon rating
  *Vorpal Strike: reduces target toughness power by 1 rank
[-1] Footwork

Items
Tactical Suit: armor 3 vs piercing, 2 vs anything else, 5 uses of 8-shift block.
Ring of the Far Hand: 8-shift might effect for throwing or moving targets, 5 uses.
Ring of Massacre: wielded weapon becomes weapon 6 and zone-wide for 1 attack, 5 uses.
Amulet of Warding: 8-shift instant ward, 5 uses
4 potions of power 8 and 5 uses each
Frag Grenades: weapon 4, each enchanted with "Deep Impact" and "Homing Projectile" aspects via ritual.
High Explosives: weapon 10, mechanical timer. Veiled to be invisible with ritual.
Lucky Charms: chain of charms, each enchanted with "Lucky Charm" and "Good Fortune" aspects via ritual.

This guy works well enough. He goes around with Weapon 5 attack +6 melee ability that eats through enemy toughness and also confers Fantastic (+6) defense via footwork. Then he has several enchanted items and potions of considerable power. He also has various mundane items improved via his Thaumaturgy. Last but not least, said Thaumaturgy is decent enough for some slow, low-key magic.

With his abilities he could go toe to toe with the Loup-Garou or one of the Denarians in their current writeups.

Actually, it is possible as a potion. Potions can be boosted with invokes, extra slots and specializations, and unlike enchanted items, they don't have a maximum power limit equal to twice your Lore. So two "potions" with Power 20, one a Ward and the other a Landmine should be enough to reflect Harry's portable "shield".

The whole issue with this though is that immortal people are basically mantles. Even with the power to kill them, you don't really kill them; the mantle immediately goes to someone else and a couple years down the line it's "Meet the new Maeve. Same as the old Maeve." In fact, if you thoroughly kill an immortal non-permanently it might take them longer to return than if you really murder the mantle's "host". And if you imprison them, you take them out much longer than in either case - potentially permanently.

That's the whole point of the existence of Demonreach; trapping immortals.

Unlikely. Just because you can kill a god if you take them out doesn't mean you can actually defeat them. Said god could be standing right behind you with a gun (or the godly equivalent) pointed at the back of your head and you wouldn't notice them at all because the veil they were using would be too strong for you to see through. Said god could send an arctic ice storm your way and freeze you to death without even getting close to you. Said god could simply wait for you to use a Way to reach their domain - and then redirect it to the nearest volcano or other natural hazard they have ready.