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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MechaTarrasque" data-source="post: 9849510" data-attributes="member: 6801226">In my setting, gods are basically Zeus's kids' level of gods, more in charge of things people do than things like the sun or the ocean (they can be, but they have to spend power on that, which they do for branding purposes).  For example, Kord is the God of Training.  If you spend effort to increase your strength, dexterity, constitution, or movement speed (but not by magic), you Venerate Kord; that gives Kord power.  To encourage people to do that, he has priests (many of whom own or work in gyms on the side).  To get people to pay attention to His priests, he is the God of Storms.  That costs power, but if people think skipping leg day caused a hailstorm, that is usually ends up with a net positive for Kord.Most gods are Veneration farmers.  Most of the Lawful gods and a fair number of the Good and Evil gods believe there will be a Twilight War (either Law vs Chaos or Good vs Evil) and planning on being the boss of their faction takes up most of their non-farming time. Clerics are a god's attempt to move the needle, but the universe is a big place, and most gods have a couple of clerics running around, so the higher level the cleric is, the more likely to attract the god's attention.Slightly off topic, but demon lords have a similar gig.  The Abyss awards them when a dragon, elemental, fey, giant, or humanoid gets changed into an aberration, construct, fiend, monstrosity, ooze, or undead (Yeenoghu has the sole concession for beasts becoming aberrations, constructs, fiends, monstrosities, oozes, or undead), as that damages reality in a way that makes it easier for the Abyss to absorb that chunk of real estate (it takes a lot of damage for that to happen, but a zombie apocalypse is usually sufficient).  You can blame Orcus for the local necromancer's scheme, but honestly, Orcus doesn't really care what the necromancer is doing as long as he/she is turning living people into undead (for Orcus to get paid, the process has to start when the person is alive, like when a vampire feeds or a ghoul bites someone).</blockquote>

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