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Message: <blockquote data-quote="gamerprinter" data-source="post: 5396940" data-attributes="member: 50895">Another way to look at it is as how a Miko Shrine Maiden operates. She serves many area shrines, not just a single one, though she serves a selection of spirit/deities and not all of them. So you could perhaps say all lawful spirits in a given area, or all neutral spirits. When the Miko Shrine Maiden appears, she needs to spend some time bonding with a given shrine, so she can commune with the spirit at hand, and obtain spells, rituals, prayers as is needed by the constituents at a given shrine.This also means that spirits don't require a priest to worship it exclusively. One could worship at a hundred different shrines with a hundred different spirits for a hundred different needs - which requires an expected polytheism by the adherents as well as the spirits to be contacted.The idea of one worshipper, or one priest dedicated to a single spirit is actually laughable in polytheistic cultures. We are mortal they are immortal, if you can commune with one, you can commune with them all.One needn't be bound to a single shrine or temple. One only needs the training as a spirit-talker, and be in the vicinity of a given spirit to make contact. You don't have to be exclusive to that one spirit or one location.This, I think works better than the supposition of being tied to a single shrine.GP</blockquote>