Editing Deities (section)

=== Lesser Gods/Deiform ===
Some have been noted to be lesser gods, like the god of light that remains as part of [[The Drains]].<ref name=":3" /> A [[Deus ex Machina]] or [[Nex Machina]] is considered a type of minor god.<ref name=":8" /><ref>“Years ago, there was something on the horizon that clouded my Sight.  It recurred as an image.  A teenage boy dressed as a king, sitting in a chair with water running over him, repeating the same nonsense phrases over and over again.  If I gutted a bird and pulled out its entrails for a simple fortune telling, I could find papers in the guts, with the phrases on it.  It was… obnoxious.  I traveled from Toronto to Winnipeg, met with other Practitioners who had run into the same problem, some of your parents, as a matter of fact.  A company that managed and experimented with server architecture had rented out three floors of its building to a startup and had unwittingly played host to a group of technomancers trying to get users to engage with rituals they’d programmed.  They abandoned their work, killed by Witch Hunters or run off by Others, and their work was deleted.  As Raymond Sunshine would be sure to tell you, however, deleted does not mean gone.  Just as you can pull something out of your trash bin on your desktop, their work was still there, gradually taking form, reaching out into the rest of the servers in the building until it could become a small god.  After that, it started expanding out, until it was interfering with my Sight. [...] It had taken over the building and the running of the company that managed the servers.  Within was a world of its own that would take a month to cross.  I went to deal with it, and ran into someone else who was doing the same.  A young lady who would be best described as being very interested in the most vast and uncontrolled parts of conventional practice,”  He indicated Mrs. Durocher.  “She had already contacted a colleague of hers from a previous errand, a man who was just then achieving notoriety for his first practitioner-facing website.”  He indicated Raymond Sunshine. [...] Together with Mr. Bristow and Mr. Musser, we annihilated the god, shared out its power, and we drank together that night.  For Mr. Sunshine, Mrs. Durocher, and myself, it sparked a close friendship that has lasted ever since.  One of the things I hold most important about that experience was the epiphany I had, during that night of conversation and light drinks.  It wasn’t the power that I was happiest with -and I was as power hungry as they come- but the moments I had been with other practitioners and felt purpose and felt like we were all better for those deals.  Better informed, and we all know having the right information makes us strong.  Dealing with other practitioners makes us safer, better equipped, stronger, and more capable of covering our weaknesses.  That epiphany would eventually lead to us starting the Blue Heron Institute alongside Mr. Bristow, Mr. Musser, and others.  We named it after one of the faces the god in the machine had worn.” - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/09/01 Excerpt] from [[Leaving a Mark 4.5]]</ref> A lesser god might be on a par with a powerful [[Incarnation]] or greater [[Goblin]] or [[Spirit]]; the sort of being that might create a [[Ritual Incarnate]].<ref>That much power that fast has to come from somewhere, and then be given form as a ritual by someone or something.  A strong incarnation, a lesser god, a great Goblin.  If it had appeared in the last month, I might think it had something to do with the current state of the Carmine  Beast.  That could be a big enough power source… ''perhaps''.  [...] There are things that have that kind of power, like gods and strong incarnations, but I’m not aware of anything that strong that could have any connection to the Choir, and I’ve done some extensive searching. - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/07/18 Excerpt] from [[Out on a Limb 3.2]]</ref> Numerous Others are mentioned to be able to become equivalent  to a god given the right circumstance and available [[Power]],<ref> “So he’s like a god.”<br><br>“He ''is'' like a god,” [[Nameless diabolist|my driver]] said.  “And we could go into a deep discussion of the common elements between gods and incarnations, the abstract versus the straightforward, but that’s outside of the bounds of your agreement with the firm, and I believe we’re on your street.” - [https://pactwebserial.wordpress.com/2014/03/04  Excerpt] from [[Collateral 4.1]]</ref> such as the right [[Heroic figures]].<ref>Heroes themselves are far, far stronger as entities.  They are human and not human, incarnations without a set theme, gods but more material.  A true Hero is an incredible weapon or tool and often the culmination of generations of a family’s work.- [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1tKrCvBQt8stvO4p1zoovnDs9IYhvqTyQQ4KPKSzg_N8#heading=h.ctli737k3w4j  Pact Dice: Heroics]</ref>

[[Corvidae]] could be compared to the least of gods,<ref name=":1" /> as could the empowered [[Wraith]] of [[Molly Walker]]<ref>Jacob’s Bell is going to become a new attraction in the Abyss, complete with a spiteful lesser god and a perpetually tolling bell.  - [https://pactwebserial.wordpress.com/2014/12/02 Excerpt] from [[Sine Die 14.1]]</ref> 

A lesser god which worships itself is one of the feedback loops that could develop into a [[dragon]].<ref name=":0" />