Quote Originally Posted by Lunaxia View Post
But you're merely assuming here that most Ancients could single-handedly end the world in a way their superiors could not contain, and ignoring that Hermes and Athena were both immensely gifted and near enough the "pinnacle" of their race, if you like, if we accept the premise Amaurot was the intellectual capital of the world, the Convocation the most powerful of them, and that they were considered to be on the same level.
Actually, we are given explicit proof that the Convocation are not determined based on power; Hytholodaeus — who had exceptionally low power outside of his perception — was offered the position of Emet-Selch before Hades, and the only reason he wasn't on the Convocation was because he refused the invitation.

As for the proposal that Hermes is immensely powerful, I don't see anything in the narrative that supports that idea. We're never told that, never shown that. Are we assuming he's powerful because he has a high-ranking position? Again, Hythlodaeus is his boss and outranks him, reminding us that there is no correlation between power and Amaurot's hierarchy.