Editing Deities (section)

=== Human Gods===
Most gods start out with human faith empowering them; either starting out with the power of faith and having that propel them to a god's powers over creation, starting out with divine power over creation and acquiring faith later, or being born with both.<ref name=":13">Durocher looked up at him.  “And many are like yourself, others are, hm, what would we call them?  Raymond?  Glitches in the system?”  She looked to Raymond, who sat off to the side.<br><br>“Emergent gods,” Raymond said.  “Sometimes we’ll term them cosmic rounding errors.  Complexities of a deific scale?”<br><br>“Complex, in that case, being used in the same sense we talk about complex spirits, elementals, and such?”  Durocher asked, pacing, looking at the class and not Raymond.<br><br>“Yes,” Raymond said.<br><br>“You have to be careful with that lot,” Metaphaos said.  “[[Mess]]y.  Interesting, but not fun.”<br><br>“Why?” Durocher asked, pointing at him, without turning around.<br><br>“They don’t always have humanity and humanity’s faith giving them a push from behind from the outset.  You can get less human forces, and that gets out of control fast.  They might not speak your languages, they might not have very good aim, or they might not care either way.  [...] Most gods get to be gods because they have that faith backing them and they have the tools to do that creating.  Sometimes it’s one and the other follows, other times?  We’re like this, right out of the tin.  Grown and gorgeous.” - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2021/01/09 Excerpt] from [[Vanishing Points 8.1]]</ref> They aren't necessarily known to [[Innocent]] society at large, however. They may be primarily worshipped by Practitioners, people in pocket Realms, or the like.<ref>I’m not one of your gods from the books, and very few of the gods who practitioners will deal with are.  Being bound up in history is too constraining, too formalized, it comes with too much baggage.  You only find the best gods if you go looking in places unknown. - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2021/01/09 Excerpt] from [[Vanishing Points 8.1]]</ref><ref name=":14" />