Still, I suspect that if Lord Kroak and the Seraphon had done all of this, nobody would bat an eyelash. But Teclis is right up there with him, isn't he?
That would be tricky... Kroak is far older than Sigmar, Teclis, and pretty much any beings other than the Chaos Gods themselves. And at least in the old Fantasy lore, he was cannonically the most powerful being in the setting (again, other than the Chaos Gods themselves). Heck, even most of the regular Slann were many times stronger than the mightiest Elf mage, and could do things like shift continents and move entire mountain ranges like it was nothing. But it's harder to say now since those same Elves are now literal gods and are each basically in charge of an entire world.
I'm sure that Teclis is a powerhouse in his own right (GW certainly thinks so too), but I get the feeling that he gets a bit too much of his power from Celennar. In fact, as I said previously, the whole "elemental spirit-gods making the Lumineth their chosen people" thing is part of why the faction is being viewed as Mary-Sue-ish right now.
However, the fact that all the different gods in AoS are mostly ascended mortals from the previous world is actually an interesting choice for the lore. It makes me wonder if GW actually decided to give the Seraphon some actual significance in the lore again if they wouldn't say that Lord Kroak was now even more powerful than he was in the previous world and has achieved a sort of godhood himself. Of course, they probably won't do this. We've been around since the beginning of AoS, and even before, being the only faction that escaped the Old World's destruction and made it into AoS pretty much intact. But even in the Old World the Lizardmen never really had any major part in the story. And GW realizing that they could single-handedly prevent the End Times from happening is why they had to literally use the "rocks fall, everyone dies" plot armor level of storytelling to nerf the Slann and prevent the Lizardmen from kicking Archaon's butt into orbit. And for almost seven years now since AoS was released, the Seraphon haven't had a single major appearance in the lore at all. I would personally prefer something more interesting than just an over-the-top "Seraphon kick everyone's asses" style of story that the Lumineth are getting. But something where they make a major impact and establish themselves as a real power in the Realms once again would be nice
All in all though, this type of conversation makes me realize how much I dislike the general style of storytelling in AoS in general. Everything important is done by the gods. Whether that be Sigmar, Nagash, Morathi, Teclis, or any of the many other ascended Elves, it's still disappointing that there's little room for actual mortal heroes in the story. Yes, we have named characters like the Mortarchs or Gordrakk doing things here and there, but it's hard to get interested in say, Gordrakk trying to take on the Lumineth when you know that that big mountain cow spirit could probably stomp him, let alone Teclis himself. The factions that have their gods leading them get to do pretty much everything, while everyone else gets to sit in the background going about their insignificant daily lives, for the most part. It's fine for the gaming aspect, because (for some reason) you can "kill" the gods' models, but you can't write a story where a faction without a god leading them does anything close to what the Lumineth just did
