what do gods do when their worshipers are being systematically wiped out, and their worship fades into memory and then into nothing.
what happens to them?
What do gods do when their worshipers are being systematically wiped out...
Jeremiah Howard
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Wyatt Cox
Depends on the mythology.
If the power of the god is derived from worship, sacrafices,etc, it ssentially fades into oscurity and relative pwerlessness. If their power is independent of such, they can keep on keeping on with either influencing thing or finding new followers.
Jonathan Anderson
They become like V:tM vampires.
They slip into a torpor that withers their bodies and paralyzes their minds, remaining that way for eternity unless destroyed or given enough blood to rise again.
Adrian Moore
See , but also remember that the gods involved may hold a grudge, especially if whoever stole the worship out from under them has injured or insulted them before.
For instance, Ra would probably not be very fond at all of the fact that it's two Abrahamic religions that now inhabit Kemet, seeing as if we take certain events to be canon, this "upstart" has flipped the old falcon quite the bird in the past.
James Robinson
>gods powered by human worship
Throw it in the trash, it’s ye old HFY
Samuel Hall
It stands to explain a lot though. Like how in the days of old, when religion was more prominent, the gods supposedly worked miracles and shaped the earth.
But today, where society is more secular, we don't see as much anymore.
Dylan Carter
Remember someone posted a while ago about a paladin character who was a woodsman who found a broken shrine of a forgotten nature goddess in the forest one day, and she asked him to become her champion and out of pity he accepts and becomes her one and only worshipper. So he's like a druid-paladin with a little goddess-sprite following him around on his shoulder. That's obviously in a setting where power is proportional to worship, but I personally think that's the best way to do it. Otherwise why do gods care about being worshiped or not?
John Adams
could also be what is mentioned in American Gods/Suicide Squad.
Humanity currently worships science and machines
Brayden Brown
No, it's a good trope, and I don't even HFY.
Wyatt Watson
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