Is it how those act toward you? Is it how you can make people act toward you?Is something you can measure with Yen,Dollar, or crowns? Is it in you or those around you?

It is the willingness of one to use one's potential to effect one's environment. Will, potential, and the environment constantly change and flow, so not even power is a constant. Be careful with that.

Power, scientifically, is a measure of potential. It gives an estimate of how much change something can create in a system.

Similarly, power in its most common meaning is an estimate of how much change the person weilding it can accomplish.

Does that help?

'Power' is both subjective and conditional.

Two different people are almost certain to meter 'power' using different scales, and to apply those scales to different things. It is not something that can be quantified by simply examining quantum potential, or raw strength (physical or otherwise), or determination, or willingness to sacrifice, or a combination of any of the above; it is a highly individual concept.

Also, the conditions of an event have great impact on the meaning of 'power' within the context of the event. Cestus Pax is conditionally without power if his goal is to force someone into a certain action, and said person is willing to die rather than do so.

'Power', when it comes down to it, is a largely meaningless term without establishing a frame of reference.

You forget another factor. Personal control.

When one has full awareness of their surroundings and full harnessing of their free will. Combined with full expression of their natural talents, and their merits as a person themselves.

The greater the expression in these areas, the more power someone has.

Not in brute terms; but in careful, focussed ones. A Nova focussed on a goal, with a singular mindset and conviction, I believe is truely an unstoppable Juggernaut.

I've just discovered this fact. While I am not an irresistible force, nor do I wish to be, I have plenty of unharnessed drive. My new work only proves to be that is the case.

"How does one man assert his power over another, Winston?"
Winston thought. "By making him suffer," he said.

--George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-four

“He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still”

--Lao Tzu( Chinese taoist Philosopher, founder of Taoism, wrote "Tao Te Ching" (also "The Book of the Way"). 600 BC-531 BC)

Well, the way I see it is that you have to be committed, bold enough to stand up and make the first step on the long road. Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative and creation, there is one elementary truth the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then providence moves too.

All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one's favor all manner of unforeseen incidents, meetings and material assistance which no man could have dreamed would have come his way.

Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it.

Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.

While we're throwing around ancient baseline quotations, here's another for the mix addressing Revenant's boldness fixation:

"There are old pilots and there are bold pilots, but there are no old, bold pilots."
— W. W. Windstaff, pseudonym of an American pilot flying with the British RFC during World War I.

Wouldn't power be the ability to forsee what terrible things are coming and being able to stop them?

Power is the ability to change the world around you by choice.

Everyone, baseline and nova, has that ability.

Power is a measure of your ability to control your environment, and to express your will on your environment.

Simply put, power is many things to many different people. To ask "what is power" is almost like asking "what makes you, you", a question that I'm sure would lead us all down different paths in an attempt to answer it.

We see ourselves as we are, different and unique. I don't think there is a defininte asnwer to this question.