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Message: <blockquote data-quote="paradox42" data-source="post: 4987058" data-attributes="member: 29746">Method 5: the Worship MethodTo do this, a deity must be the only deity on an entire plane, and must have a religion on that plane which claims every living sentient mortal being as a member- whether lay or clergy is irrelevant, but the mortals must all genuinely worship the deity in question and feel the being is worthy of such devotion. Also, to prevent this from being acheived rather easily with a young world, I required that no less than 1 trillion beings can be involved in this church, for it to count towards this method (though other DMs may decide to make that number less- 1 billion would be sufficient for most standard games I think).After achieving the condition of having such a powerful monotheistic religion, and also (hopefully, with all the quintessence generated by the mortal worshippers) reaching the pinnacle of Greater Godhood (or whatever is highest non-Sidereal in your cosmos), the deity must then Send a message to all those mortals simultaneously- renouncing his or her godhood and effectively "resigning the position."To put this in Earth context, picture a world where Christianity (for the sake of argument) has absolutely crushed all other religions out of existence, and where also there are no atheists- everybody knows God exists, and everybody worships God. Then, one day, God makes a pronouncement from on high, that everybody in the world receives unambiguously and inarguably- saying "I QUIT."Picture what the people would then do.The idea here is, the cognitive dissonance within the mortals, between their adoration of the deity and the deity's ultimate rejection of them, causes the god's soul to be torn from its quintessence and hurled into a nightmarish realm of quantum madness wherein it neither exists, nor does not exist. Within this realm of being-and-nonbeing, the soul undertakes a journey into and through itself, and upon reaching a complete understanding of its own mind and consciousness, it spontaneously births a new demiplane and becomes a Sidereal.</blockquote>

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