Kind of makes it explicitly forbidden by the RAW but, then again, when have gamers ever let that stop them?
About point one, you're thinking essentially trading refresh for stat points? I don't care for it. Feels overpowered but I'm too short on sleep today to do comparative math vs other powers.
Also, I'd be real careful about feeding off of faith that's spoken for by a deity. It occurs to me that they might get a bit cranky about that, which could very well explain the court's rarity.
Maybe "feeding" is wrong, then. Possibly gaining strength from it? They don't have to be a vampire but I thought it would be an interesting angle. Maybe it can just be empowered by the feelings by acting as a conductor, so that it doesn't really intercept a feeling, but rather is pulled along in the slipstream.
The only power that I would really want is the ability to boots the abilities of the bodyguards; that's really the mechanics I would think would be behind this kind of char.
And regarding the above chars, I think I'm going to go with the anti-magic guy, as a technology genius. He will have little physical strength but will be a weapons developer for an undisclosed military contractor and will have a few very high tech weapons that themselves have limited magic shielding. Remember how
Odin's computers are magic-proof? He worked on that project.
. He still doesn't know much of magic but knows that its a force and how to shield technology from it. His carried devices will work when they are on his person, but if they are anything but right on him, they stop working and have a chance to just fizzle out and break in the presence of even a small amount of magic.