To Ken:
The demon lords themselves could take out 100's of their own kind in one strike using the artifacts they carried. Gords power was even greater than theirs. Though there were a few times he got into some trouble.
Also the demons had great power but when fighting each other, they didnt really use their innate magical abilities due to the magic resistances all demons have. Now when they fought regular mortals they could blast away with magic.
The magic used was with great artifacts of power. ALL of the Demonlords had artifacts that were unresistable (no saving throws). Gratz's item was the "Eye of Deception". That one artifact was so powerful, it was the main reason he was the toughest demon in the Abyss. He actually altered space and time with that thing once, and that was just one of its many abilities.
Let me be clear. This is not like playing Ad&D (btw it was 1rst editon back then). At this point Gord was not a Player Character. Like if your character where to make demi-god status he would immediately become an NPC (as per 2nd edition rules I believe).
A spoiler for you since you think its BS anyways
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"Vengeance!" Gratz shrieked, and from the Eye of Deception burst a force that contained all of the pent-up rage of the Abyss.
Gord was taken unawares, and the blast of enery struck him from behind. It sundered the aura of azure and slammed into the young man's body in an instant. Gord fell as if struck by a titanic maul.
"Now all is mine!" Grazt shouted in triumph, plying the forces from the artifact he held upon the cowering yeth before him.
Tharizdun arose as if the ravening energy refreshed him. "No stupid demon," the archfiend countered. Now you and all are mine!" With a flick of his fingers Tharizdun turned the Eye of Deception back, and Grazt was felled by his own device.
Then the final slaughter of demonkind began.
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As you can see, to fight Tharizdun he needed the power he was given. You also see that Gord was also hurt by Grazzt(he was not invunarable like you were led to believe). You just have to view the scope of the book. You are trying to put an average character in an Abyss wide war.
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