If you have clerics, you have deities. Or deity.
I found a video talking about making the Holy better than the default set that comes with your setting book.
The section on aspects was neat.
But the mention of Shinto really got me. It reminded me of the Romans too.
Everything has a little god that's in charge of a teeny little space. The Romans called them house gods.
Car guys get it. You have to make sacrifices to the garage gods or your 10mm socket disappears and the car overheats.
But all those little gods have a lot of power in their teeny space. The cleric of the village god would have a lot of pull in the village, but none just over the hill.
The sanctity map would be nuts.
I don't think I'm bored enough to do this yet.
Sounds similar to "Small Gods" by Pratchett where small gods can become big gods then become small again depending on the amount of belief in them and need to fight off other small gods to maintain their followers.
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DeleteEverybody's worshipping something
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