What about the intentional causing of large numbers of battles?
Depends. Why are you causing them?
Anyway. I thought I had said this somewhere, the 100 is representative. That's about equal to 100(00), so there's around a hundred thousand people in the world. Or were. Before disease and new races changed that.
So, there WERE 100,000 people? A bit on the low side, if they've spread out to the pole, but better. Certainly within reason for a game in which most of us are gods.
Sorry, ten thousand. Bit on the low side. A wheel is still new. Don't worry, tech will progress, and the population rise...bad for you too though. More people means more upkeep.
You'll get influence from death and war if it's in your name, or if people know you caused it. It's like fame. That said, war and conquest will give you a bit of power, but not Influence.
And if your avatar is a light form...well, bending light to your will, even if it's one of your domains(indeed, that would be the only reason I'm letting you do so) is kinda hard to do. And also, darkness is a substance as much as light, in this world(for the purposes of Magic). So is cold. and the other 'empty space' things. Most anyway.
Oh, and one more thing. Light is very insubstantial. So claw and tentacle would disperse it quite easily. Anyway. We'll see how things go. Once everyone posts their turn, anyway. (What I meant, Puffy, was what creature or angel or avatar or somesuch are you using? You have to have something to use the claw/tentacles, after all.))