Missing Theomes

Some theomes are just terrain. They're 'dead', without a spiritual animating force that has power over them. This state confuses the people of Theoma, who expect every rock, branch, and animal to be an expression of a land god's will. They call them Missing theomes, and wonder if someday they'll unravel the mystery of what happened to the land gods who should be running them.

A very few of the Missing theomes actually have land gods attributed to them, courtesy of incorruptible monuments found in them with names and short messages inscribed on them. Most of them have no sign of having ever had a land god touch them. A side effect of that is that their natural resources tend to eventually get depleted.

Of Fate's Skeptics...

Some people in the setting love missing theomes and dwell in them very preferentially. They are far from the Fate manipulations of the land gods and relatively unaffected by fluctuations in Fate, ensuring that they have their own will to the greatest extent possible. Whatever communities rise up in Missing theomes are considered to be truly the expression of the free will of the people who dwell in them.

Notably however, this trend is powered by a common misconception. Fate in Theoma is actually a structure that affects the entire setting, and the people who dwell in Missing theomes are affected by it just like everyone else. The difference is the absence of a land god making specific local alterations or plans. Fate sits lighter on Missing theomes, but this most commonly means that protections instituted by land gods are not being granted to people, so that deaths from accident are predominantly a feature of Missing theomes.

...and Necromancy.

Since there's no land god in a Missing theome to get upset at necromantic study and practice, some Missing theomes become havens for necromancy. Most of the great necromantic academies on Theoma are located in one or another of the Missing theomes. Some people consider necromancy steadfastly revolting, and so even some Missing theomes are anti-necromantic, but the way that necromantic exertion breaks Fate ensures that many see the siting of a necromantic academy as a pinnacle achievement in freedom. The Missing theomes with great necromantic academies are truly the least Fate-altered places on Theoma.

Even this does not sate some people, and so those who study geomantic lore from a position of true opposition sometimes come to believe that they need fatebreaker shrines dedicated to them in order to escape Fate's manipulations. Fatebreaker shrines are Personal Shrines "to the cursed", and their existence offends the land gods enough that they are least rare in Missing theomes where land gods struggle to extend their will. The availability of shrines to the cursed is greatly augmented by the presence of a necromantic academy, as it takes a necromancer of substantial skill to produce one!