User blog comment:BobaFett2/Some Fixes/@comment-4724333-20130711200410/@comment-1392407-20130714003530

These are hypothetical characters. A minor tweak to something like that is easy to do. And, since this is a hypothetical character, we can assign any power value to him that we wish.

Sure, he could be a shadow of his former self...but that doesn't prevent him from being more powerful than everyone else on the planet. If he's what is essentially a creator deity, then it's quite easy to believe that even in a severely weakened state he'd be stronger than just about everyone else.

Also, Mvp said it exactly the way I think of it. Oblivion is a character who only complicates the story unnecessarily. There's nothing forbidding you from doing that kind of story, but Oblivion is not a necessary component.