Power ranking the gods.

Evil

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In that case, are the gods powerful in the sense that they have a given "level" of power, or are they the kind of gods who are empowered by their worshippers?
 

coldmonkey

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In that case, are the gods powerful in the sense that they have a given "level" of power, or are they the kind of gods who are empowered by their worshippers?
They're all equally as poweful
It seems unlikely that they'd all be equally powerful if the number of worshippers influences their power, unless there're some really weird god politics going on behind the scenes to ensure they all have the same amount of worshippers all the time. Unless they all pull their power from a shared pool, so no matter what God in the Pantheon is worshipped they all grow stronger equally. That way the number of worshippers would matter without anyone becoming stronger than the others.
 

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Not necessarily. It could depend on the worship attributed to a god and what they represented. For example, a god of death would be one that not everyone outwardly worships, but who people would make a quiet offering or quietly respects. Conversely a sun god could be a prominent god in a pantheon due to the worship of farmers, but not so much by those who live in cities.

The two gods might be on an equal footing, one because of the fervent nature of their worshippers, the other because, well, you might not like the god of death, but everyone is going to meet them one day, so its good to be cordial at least.

Spoilers.
Well this isn't intriguing and in no way makes me the slightest bit suspicious.
 

coldmonkey

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The two gods might be on an equal footing, one because of the fervent nature of their worshippers, the other because, well, you might not like the god of death, but everyone is going to meet them one day, so its good to be cordial at least.
That a minimum of seven gods would end up with an equal amount of power just out of pure demographical coincidence doesn't seem very likely to me, at least not until Savin starts habitually including more Douglas Adams/Neil Gayman-like pieces of comedy into his writing.