The Gods and Goddesses of our world were, and still are, beings of made of power and causality. They strode across the material realm granting comfort and blessings to the faithful, while their divine powers performed miracles that bend and break what we would consider the 'natural laws' of our world.
But where do they come from? Where do the beings that can build or break a civilization in an instant come from?
The fact of the matter is that they come from us. From our subconscious, our dreams, and from our very thought. A god doesn't even need to have direct followers for them to come into being. The mere fact that people well and truly believe that they exist is enough to give them form. Though it should be said that direct worship advances the scale of their abilities a great deal farther. Xa'uatal believes that their gods take the form of the serpentine Coatl native to their homeland and so their gods can and do such an act. The Devils of Brimm believe that their goddesses can grant skills to their followers, and so they can. The god Ulragr, from Vralgard, can do neither of those but has the strength to shatter a mountain as per the myth that defines him. Interesting how the gods, beings of pure might and paracausality, are bound to the mental template that we have subconsciously made for them, isn't it?
To use any of their power directly, the gods must leave the Godrealm, a realm parallel to our own that consists of nothing but gods in every stage of growth, and take on an avatar. If they don't and attempt to come into our world as the nebulous mass of energy that is their true form, they are cannibalized by the Arcane Tapestry. Their power not wound tightly enough to their being, and stripped off of them until there is nothing left.
Luckily, a god hasn't taken an avatar form in just over a century, and if a god should take to their avatar form, every country on the planet will be watching them closely. The circumvent this limitation, the gods grant some of their followers their blessing, letting said followers access to their reservoir of power, and allowing them to apply their god's world bending abilities at their own command. The next question one might wonder, is what a god has to fear, even from the nations fo the world, were one to come in avatar form. They're immortal, right?
Incorrect.
A gods avatar is it's most vulnerable state. For the mortal zeitgeist betrays it once again. To be seen is to be believed to exist in a physical sense, and to exist in such a way is to be able to be destroyed, as far as the brain is concerned at least. That underlying perception, held by every mortal being that gives the gods their forms, means that the death of a god's avatar is the death of the god. Their power collapses and their section of the Godrealm crumbles into nothing. The end of their very existence.
While the transition from the death of gods to the structure of the Godrealm is an abrupt one, it does need to be discussed. The Godrealm, as stated before, is a world parallel to our own in which the gods all exist. When not observed, It is a churning mass of energy. Collections of pure energy that remain separated from each other like oil in water. When observed, it takes the form of the god's own realms as defined by their myth. It is unknown whether it is another side effect of the mortal subconscious attempting to make sense of the impossibility of the Godrealm, or an unconscious reflex by the gods, who format their section of the Godrealm to look like it should as according to their myths and legends. Several in the past have attempted to siphon power from the Godrealm directly, thinking that they themselves could become gods. Perhaps they are correct, but they would need to survive the process first. Each and everyone has left naught but ash behind.
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