You alos have to take into account that these gods are essentially real... Exceptions made for the specifics of how. They're blessings are readily seeable to the masses and they're not exactly beneath sticking their fingers into a pie or two throughout history.I'm not expecting thousands of religions to be plotted out. Just the specific line from Nareva that I quoted implies that the world had precisely 7 main deities, which conveniently fit the situation she describes. That's what specifically bothers me, and it'd be easy enough to have her say that there were other gods, and the selection of the 7 meant the others faded out of prominence.