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<blockquote data-quote="univoxs" data-source="post: 8088274" data-attributes="member: 6668320"><p>American Gods or Niel Gaiman's work in general often tackles this subject. Gods could derive power from their worshipers and likewise fade away or disappear from their being little to no reverence for them. </p><p></p><p>On the other hand there is the Malazaan approach where the gods are mostly indifferent to mortals and are concerned only with the struggle for dominance between one another and mortals are mostly tools.</p><p></p><p>If the Gods are representative of only aspects of objective reality then their existence may not require mortals. Mortals could be outside their purview anyway. A God of Time could possibly care less that mortals exist, for time exists without mortals anyway. Thus communing with the God of Time my not get you any more answers as a worshiper than non worshipers because the God is indifferent to mortals mere existence.</p><p></p><p>If Gods command the realm of the conceptual, (or as a duality a conceptual and objective truth) like Law, or Love or Patience, they may need mortals to exist and also command aspects that pervade in all mortals lives. Thus a mortal who does not worship the God of Judgment is still bound to that Gods domain of judgment, judgment being a concept that exists in the life or all mortals but only exists as a moral construct. A God of Judgement may see all mortals as its subjects but worshipers may gain favor by being agents of judgement in the material plane.</p><p></p><p>A conversation with a God could easily come down to "What have you done for me lately?" which could be fun in role play, where a character now has to do a particular task for the God, despite not being a worshiper.</p><p></p><p>Scenario: </p><p></p><p>The Elf Cleric of the God of Judgment wants to ask the God of Nature a question about whether these particular Treants attacking the villagers are truly evil or being manipulated by an outside force. God of Nature says sure I will answer this question but for the rest of the week, you may not step on flowers again, doing so will incur my wrath. The next day the Elf Cleric gets his coin purse snatched, the thief is identified but is running away through a field of tulips.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="univoxs, post: 8088274, member: 6668320"] American Gods or Niel Gaiman's work in general often tackles this subject. Gods could derive power from their worshipers and likewise fade away or disappear from their being little to no reverence for them. On the other hand there is the Malazaan approach where the gods are mostly indifferent to mortals and are concerned only with the struggle for dominance between one another and mortals are mostly tools. If the Gods are representative of only aspects of objective reality then their existence may not require mortals. Mortals could be outside their purview anyway. A God of Time could possibly care less that mortals exist, for time exists without mortals anyway. Thus communing with the God of Time my not get you any more answers as a worshiper than non worshipers because the God is indifferent to mortals mere existence. If Gods command the realm of the conceptual, (or as a duality a conceptual and objective truth) like Law, or Love or Patience, they may need mortals to exist and also command aspects that pervade in all mortals lives. Thus a mortal who does not worship the God of Judgment is still bound to that Gods domain of judgment, judgment being a concept that exists in the life or all mortals but only exists as a moral construct. A God of Judgement may see all mortals as its subjects but worshipers may gain favor by being agents of judgement in the material plane. A conversation with a God could easily come down to "What have you done for me lately?" which could be fun in role play, where a character now has to do a particular task for the God, despite not being a worshiper. Scenario: The Elf Cleric of the God of Judgment wants to ask the God of Nature a question about whether these particular Treants attacking the villagers are truly evil or being manipulated by an outside force. God of Nature says sure I will answer this question but for the rest of the week, you may not step on flowers again, doing so will incur my wrath. The next day the Elf Cleric gets his coin purse snatched, the thief is identified but is running away through a field of tulips. [/QUOTE]
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