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Gods Need Prayer Badly

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Gods Need Prayer Badly	comment	In the world of fantasy, it is a largely accepted fact that the power of any given deity is proportional to the amount of belief in them or the amount of worship they are currently receiving. The deity could have been originally conceived and shaped by the needs and desires of one small group, but like any good meme, this "idea" grows with each new person who responds, then spreads the word of this great new "god on the block". Soon, the deity has enough collective belief behind their "name brand" that they come into existence, and use that power to fulfill the needs of their worshippers. In this sense, a god is a form of Tulpa, a thoughtform, made completely out of their worshippers' belief and faith in them. The opposite is also true: as a deity's power base of worshippers shrinks, their divine strength fades and if all worship of them ceases, they may completely fade out of existence. The tragedy here is that worshippers who leave the god because they didn't grant their miracle will continuously weaken the god until they can't grant any miracles. It's kind of like a bank run on a god. Similarly, significant changes in how a faith perceives its deity might cause matching changes in personality; a signficant schism might even cause it to split into multiple deities to match each interpretation. In a similar manner, the well-being of an Anthropomorphic Personification is often tied to whatever concept they personify. Big concepts like Fate or Death are pretty safe, but Disco is in critical condition. A subtrope of Clap Your Hands If You Believe, which can be used to explain why Powers That Be care whether or not anyone worships them. In games where you play as a Physical God, this is often used as a game mechanic to explain why you can't just Deus ex Machina your way through everything. It can also be used by authors as a Take That! against organized religion. Compare I'm Not Afraid of You, where smaller Anthropomorphic Personifications can be destroyed through disbelief. This weakness is often used by misotheistic (god-hating) characters to deliberately harm or kill a god. It is often one of few ways. Depending on the setting, the gods can often provide incentives for people to worship them. The gods of most typical Dungeons & Dragons games grant divine spells to their priests, which give them all kinds of fancy powers. Mortals and gods then end up in a symbiotic relationship, with the humans providing belief and worship to the gods and the gods providing assorted divine miracles in return. This trope is related to Emotion Eater, but doesn't imply evil, vampirism, or negative emotions unless the god is tied in with those by nature. In belief systems of this kind, the empowered god often gives power back to his worshipers. Gods in such a system should be very worried indeed if they find out that they're down to The Only Believer. Some gods may choose to update themselves to stay relevant. If the story is about the process of one set of gods dying out this way to make room for another, it's Death of the Old Gods. Contrast Stop Worshipping Me, for when the god hates the worship they get. Unless the god wants to die and can't because of all the worship... If the empowering prayer is directed at one's ancestral spirits, see Ancestor Veneration instead. A Deity of Mortal Creation may play this trope by needing to be worshipped to maintain existence. This trope is dependent on a Physical Religion to entice prayer in the first place. Contrast Answer to Prayers, when the deity in question doesn't need prayer but rather uses prayers to determine how they dispense their Divine Intervention. Probably In Mysterious Ways. Named for Gauntlet's "<character> needs food, badly!" catchphrase.
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Gods Need Prayer Badly / int_10321784	comment	Disgaea 4: A Promise Unforgotten: The Netherworld and Celestia need fear and love from humans to maintain their power, but it's become difficult for demons to plant fear in humans since humans have become so corrupt that they now fear themselves more than demons. As a result, this means they no longer have to pray to angels for protection and guidance.
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Gods Need Prayer Badly / int_10510c81	comment	In the Iron Druid Chronicles the gods have their own sources of magic and don't really need to be constantly worshiped to remain powerful, but active worship is required for them to be able to physically manifest on Earth, and the way people believe in them shapes their appearance when they do. However, they only need to manifest after their original bodies die. Otherwise they're fine. Jesus does not like to appear to people because he would have to appear nailed to a cross and it's a very painful experience, even for a deity. Mary's appearances are much more frequent and often triggered by the belief of old devout ladies. Complicating matters is the fact that if two groups of believers in the same god diverge enough in their beliefs, the god will split into regional aspects. There are dozens of versions of the Native American god Coyote running around. The Thor from American comics is brought up a few times, but according to Odin 1.0, he exists only as a concept. Without worship he doesn't have enough magic to manifest himself. Perun's grudge against Thor was him blaming Thor for being forgotten and weakened in power. Yet in actual practice did not appear any weaker. On the other hand, Jesus is the most powerful known supernatural being and one of the most widely worshipped. So as a whole the series flip flops on how much gods need prayer.
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Gods Need Prayer Badly / int_106cc8b1	comment	The second episode of Natsume's Book of Friends has a very poignant example of this trope (that also doubles as a Tear Jerker) when a Youkai that took up residence in a roadside shrine begins to lose his power (and his tether to the living world) as the people who once prayed to him all begin to die of old age. Natsume himself offers to pray to him but the Youkai refuses saying: "It's impossible, because you are my friend."
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Gods Need Prayer Badly / int_10c105b6	comment	This becomes a significant plot-point in the last two Brimstone Angels novels. The god Enlil is all but dead, and needs mortal worshippers to power himself back up to the point of being able to have much effect on the world. Unfortunately for him, the only mortals he's been able to make contact with are dragonborn, who are a proud race of Nay Theists who neither need nor want a god to worship. The eventual agreement that's reached is more like a business contract than a religion, with the dragonborn agreeing to pray to Enlil so long as he uses his restored powers to protect their city, and even give him an affectionate but silly nickname (Uncle Lightning-Bolt) as a reminder that he's their ally, not their master.
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Gods Need Prayer Badly / int_1215a23d	comment	A variant in Genshin Impact; the power levels of the Archons are determined by how much control they have over their nation, not just how believed in they are. Everyone in Mondstadt worships the Anemo Archon Barbatos, but since he's taken on human form as the bard Venti to secretly live among humans rather than rule over them, he's not much stronger than the other playable characters. Meanwhile, the Cryo Archon, the Tsaritsa, rules her nation as a God-Emperor, and is set up as the game's Big Bad.
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Gods Need Prayer Badly / int_12381dc	comment	Divinity: Original Sin II: Played for Horror, although given the game's liberal use of Retcon it's unclear how much of this also applies to other games in the Divine Divinity series. The Seven Gods couldn't care less about mortals' prayers, because what they are really after is the Source they unwitting collect throughout their lives. When a mortal dies, vestiges of their identity and personality sublimate in the Source they've collected as a kind of "ghost", which is then guided by their belief to what they believe to be afterlife at the side of the god they worshipped in life. Except that said Gods then simply consume the "ghost" for its Source, literally feeding on their worshipers to replenish their divinity. In other words, the Seven "Gods" are nothing but Rivellon's oldest Source vampires, functionally no different from the protagonists of the game.
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Gods Need Prayer Badly / int_128dbc6c	comment	Implied in Memories of Days Long Past.
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Gods Need Prayer Badly / int_14205e40	comment	In Penny Dreadful Dracula taunts Lucifer over falling prey to this, while he was cast onto Earth to feed on the blood of the living and thus lacks such an incorporeal weakness.
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Gods Need Prayer Badly / int_15234bc6	comment	Partly how gods are created in The God Eaters, where a human born with magic is worshiped until (at least in the case of Medur) they gain enough power to return after death. Eventually, however, they amass enough power that they don't need belief to keep going. Still doesn't mean they're indestructible, though.
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Gods Need Prayer Badly / int_1a2d9d58	comment	One of the short stories in Tortall and Other Lands concerns a country where the primary god has a male and female voice, but for a long time people have only listened to and respected the male one, praising and preaching about only this aspect of them. To restore its other aspect they empower a young woman from the rare sect that still remembers the female voice of the god as being sacred, and she starts to preach about it.
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Gods Need Prayer Badly / int_1bdeba5a	comment	In the X-Men comics, the Dimension Lord Mojo's magic powers are tied to the number of people who pay him homage, which they do by watching his TV shows.
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Gods Need Prayer Badly / int_1c1d7608	comment	One chapter of Franken Fran shows the point when the Flying Spaghetti Monster finally gets enough worshipers to become real because of this trope. FF being the kind of manga it is, it manifests by absorbing several of its followers into a single hideous mass.
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Gods Need Prayer Badly / int_1dd6d08b	comment	Care Bears: In "Share Bear Shines!", Princess Starglo explains that stars are powered by belief and wishes, but so few people believe in her or wishing on stars that she doesn't have much power left, which leads to her turning off all the stars in the sky (including the Sun). By the end of the movie, she nearly fades away, but is saved by a burst of belief from the Care Bears. The Care Bears themselves, as well as their home, stay alive because of the love and goodness on Earth. If everyone stopped caring, Care-A-Lot and its inhabitants would fade away.
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Gods Need Prayer Badly / int_1e9828c4	comment	Shown in Nura: Rise of the Yokai Clan when Senba, a god of healing, feared he would fade away and disappear because no one visited his shrine anymore.
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Gods Need Prayer Badly / int_1ef6f0be	comment	In The Magic Trolls and the Troll Warriors, without the power of laughter and happiness the Magic Trolls will fade away and die.
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Gods Need Prayer Badly / int_20ab9261	comment	In God Complex it's established that mankind is extinct early on, and many of the elder gods are scrambling to find alternative power sources. Gods proportionate power and rank amongst one another was determined by their real world worship counterparts, with Christianity having taken power once intended for other pantheons.
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Gods Need Prayer Badly / int_223c2a48	comment	In The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Hyrule's four Great Fairies (and Malanya, the Horse Fairy) require the devotion of mortals to maintain their power. Unfortunately, since the fall of the Kingdom a century prior to the events of the game, humans have stopped visiting the Great Fairies' Fountains, rendering them nearly dead. Link can restore the Fairies by offering tithes of Rupees, restoring them; in gratitude, they will upgrade his armor in exchange for raw materials.
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Gods Need Prayer Badly / int_227a9bb9	comment	C.S. Friedman's Coldfire Trilogy is set on a world where an occult force makes human imagination become real. Unsurprisingly, a number of god-beings start to appear who answer prayers in return for feeding on their worshippers' life-energy.
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Gods Need Prayer Badly / int_2284ad36	comment	Grim Dawn: According to multiple hints in the base game and as explicitly stated in the Forgotten Gods expansion, deities need prayer and belief to sustain themselves, and when forgotten will eventually fade away. While abundance of prayer didn't stop Empyrion from apparently disappearing off to who knows where, Korvaak certainly faded away... but he left a messenger that could spread the word of his existence. And when a man we know as Father Kymon came to him desperately looking for something to believe in, something to save the world from the Ch'thonic menace, Korvaak was more than willing to play the part. With Kymon's Chosen fueling him, he returns, driven to madness by the sheer rage he felt at being forgotten (and usurped by the Witch Gods, which set off his fade into oblivion) as well as his new followers' sheer fanaticism, and eager to take revenge on both the mortals that forgot, and the Witch Gods that tried to bury him.
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Gods Need Prayer Badly / int_2330255c	comment	The Folk of the Air by Peter S. Beagle features a former earth-mother goddess from the neolithic era now working as a therapist in a fictionalized Berkeley.
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Gods Need Prayer Badly / int_2405b546	comment	The old gods reveal to the player in Ultima VIII; they are nearly powerless now that about everyone worships the four new gods instead.
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Gods Need Prayer Badly / int_254629b6	comment	In Kill Them All Samael, the god of Silent Hill, was born from the primordial fears of humanity and feeds on those very fears to sustain itself. When it tries to claim all Earths, Taylor manages to significantly weaken Samael by inspiring nearly the entirety of humanity to overcome its fear and fight back.
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Gods Need Prayer Badly / int_27ae0ef7	comment	In Q: The Winged Serpent, the Aztec god Quetzalcoatl is prayed back into existence and begins terrorizing New York City in the form of a giant flying snake-bird thing with four legs. Incidentally, Quetzacoatl was one of the more benign Aztec Gods.
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Gods Need Prayer Badly / int_2b70efd4	comment	Old World of Darkness Demon: The Fallen: Demons need faith to fuel their powers. They can either force steal it, which causes spiritual damage, or set up cults of various stripes to get a small but steady flow without necessarily hurting their worshippers (unless they want to be hurt). Werewolf: The Apocalypse: Tribal totems gain power from the Garou they sponsor. In one Time of Judgment scenario, Whipporwill grows weak due to insufficient worship from the Black Spiral Dancers, who divide their fealty among many different totem spirits. Grandfather Thunder then defeats Whipporwill, absorbs his gnosis, and assimilates the Black Spiral Dancers into the now-fallen Shadow Lord tribe.
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Gods Need Prayer Badly / int_2bb4ae0f	comment	Heroes season 4 Big Bad Samuel Sullivan is a super whose geokinetic powers become stronger if he is surrounded by other supers who believe in him. In theory he could break the world if he had a large enough crowd of supers nearby. His brother Joseph hid the true nature of Samuel's power from him and deliberately limited the size of their super carnival to prevent Samuel from becoming too dangerous and Samuel killed him when he found out the truth. Samuel is eventually defeated when his fratricide is brought to light, causing his fellow super carnies to lose faith in him, and Hiro teleports them away. Samuel is left all alone in an empty carnival as a powerless, broken, shell of a man.
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Gods Need Prayer Badly / int_2c01ad7c	comment	In the first book of The Numair Chronicles a Cool Old Lady who's friends with a crocodile god says that mortal prayers, tribute, and respect strengthens the gods and helps them in their eternal fight to subdue Uusoae, who will consume them followed by all mortal life if not held in check. In the same book, there's some discussion of the Great Mother Goddess and how the Cult of the Gentle Mother (which was shown in Beka Cooper) has thoroughly changed mortals' perspective on her, from including nurturing and the home into one that only encompasses that aspect of her. The Graveyard Hag won't allow priests to soften her into a kindly grandmother, but the Great Mother hasn't taken any steps. The characters speculate that two centuries is just not that long for gods and she hasn't noticed, but readers know that simultaneously in Song of the Lioness the Great Mother has chosen to favor a champion who will break the glass ceiling and spearhead a change in Tortall's perception of women; by being Alanna's patron, the goddess' own nature as a proactive and powerful deity will be reinforced.
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Gods Need Prayer Badly / int_2c920943	comment	In Crimson, humans are most favored by the Creator because his existence is sustained by their collective belief and worship, in contrast to supernatural monsters such as vampires, werewolves, dragons and etc. One of the reasons why the Devil managed to turn to his side a very powerful race that predated mankind known as the Grigori, was because they were shunned by God due to their inability to "sustain" him. This turns into a plot-point when the Big Bad's plan to destroy reality starts with wiping out humanity, which would weaken God enough for her to destroy him herself.
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Gods Need Prayer Badly / int_2cb2e5e0	comment	Breath of Fire II: Used for evil by the Church of St. Eva, where half the priests are demons in disguise trying to power-up the Big Bad, who is in fact not a god, but an archdemon with an Omnicidal Maniac agenda. Subverted by Ladon the dragon god, who's a bit grumpy that nobody believes in him anymore but nonetheless continues to exist and aid you. Granted, it turns out that the Dragon Clan is still around, so he still has a few worshipers out there.
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Gods Need Prayer Badly / int_2cd28570	comment	A key theme in Serial Experiments Lain; Masami Eiri defines godhood as this, and the main thrust of his scheme is ensuring he will have people believe him to be God, so that for all intents and purposes he will be.
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Gods Need Prayer Badly / int_2f203125	comment	In Shin Megami Tensei, this is a main staple, to justify Deity of Mortal Creation being so prevalent in the games. In at least Shin Megami Tensei I continuity (II, Devil Summoner, Soul Hackers, Raidou Kuzunoha and Persona — all of which are either in the same timeline or Alternate Timelines), IV and Apocalypse continuity, and perhaps more: demons, angels, monsters, and spirits only exist because people remember and believe in them. Oddly, at least in II, if the supernatural creatures believe hard enough, they create duplicates of other supernatural entities: with the Archangels believing in a False YHVH. This has some interesting bearing in the game. In general, the more people in Real Life that believe in a particular god/demon/angel/etc., the stronger they are in any given game. God, Lucifer, and the Archangels Michael, Gabriel, Raphael and Uriel are obvious examples, but Shiva and Vishnu, both primary gods in Hindu (which remains one of the oldest active religions in the world) are also among the strongest. Exceptions do exist, like Metatron (less than one-quarter of one percent of the world's population are Jewish) being among the strongest. This trope is typically averted in spinoff series (Last Bible, Devil Children, Devil Survivor 2) where demons and gods have different origins than in main series. Strange Journey downplays this with the gods and demons who instead emerge from "the will of the Earth", and thus don't require humans to exist (though they can still benefit from human worship), and averts it entirely with an incarnation of God who predates humankind. Persona 3 averts this with Nyx, who is a Cosmic Entity predating complex life on Earth.
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Gods Need Prayer Badly / int_334f9ddc	comment	In Injustice: Gods Among Us, Ares reveals that Superman's One World order had eliminated most conflict, leaving the God of War far weaker. In the game's tie-in comic, Wonder Woman suggests Ares become the god of something else in order to regain his powers, then hilariously calls him, "Ares, God of Ponies". In the game proper, Ares decides to help the heroes, explaining that their struggle against the Regime is empowering him in the short-term, but if the bad guys win, conflict will drop completely.
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Gods Need Prayer Badly / int_349adaba	comment	The Norse monster in The Ritual functions like this; as the bastard child of Loki, it needs people to worship it and make sacrifices in its name. Interestingly, it seems to have trouble understanding the idea of people not worshipping it; when Luke refuses to kneel and attacks it with his axe, it actually freezes up as if in shock and takes a moment to respond, having seemingly never been attacked by a human before.
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Gods Need Prayer Badly / int_36ef13eb	comment	Used in Adylheim: the less powerful gods require constant supplication and sacrifices to be made in their honour, whereas the more powerful ones merely use this as something of a divine power up. In return they're usually inclined to offer everything from providence to small miracles.
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Gods Need Prayer Badly / int_37419634	comment	Discworld Noir: As usual on the Disc. The entire plan turns out to be an attempt by the worshippers of the small god Anu-Anu to have their god defeat Nylonathotep and thus win enough believers to become a recognised deity.
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Gods Need Prayer Badly / int_375e8f14	comment	The Last Hero introduces Nuggan, a minor deity hailing from Borogravia. An unpleasant god with an unpleasant mustache, he's a bossy little deity whose holy books are three-ring binders so he can constantly add to the list of Abominations that make life so miserable for his followers - when the Silver Horde brings a Borogravian bard to Dunmanifestan, they have to physically restrain the man from attacking his god. By Monstrous Regiment, the Abominations have helped cripple a war-torn Borogravia's economy (no more crop rotation) and have become so deranged (Abominating babies and the color blue) that citizens have taken to praying to the land's Duchess for succor. In the end, Nuggan is revealed to have faded away, with the Abominations as a sort of echo, while Borogravia's faith in its Duchess has given the now dead woman a quasi-deity status, much to her consternation. Her subjects' belief does not actually hold that the Duchess herself can change anything, see — the idea is that the Duchess can plead their case to Nuggan as an intermediary. This left the poor woman stuck in some sort of limbo, powerful enough to know what her subjects are going through, but unable to do anything about it herself.
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Gods Need Prayer Badly / int_37ec0416	comment	Doom Valley Prep School: The Goddess of Written History, Ms. Parch, is also a history teacher. She encourages her students to pray to her when they run into problems with their homework. Mortals of the world realize the gods and demons need prayers and try to abuse it. Petra has a large number of holy symbols at home, and goes to several temples, churches, cults of various gods and demons, praying for help before getting sent to Doom Valley Prep School.
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Gods Need Prayer Badly / int_38fa34eb	comment	DC gods tend to be more vulnerable to this, though the Olympians can also draw strength from the veneration of their attributes, like war (Ares), skill & wisdom (Athena) and love (Aphrodite) which lead to those three becoming the most powerful Olympians in Wonder Woman (1987). This also effects the way they're able to adapt with the times as Zeus and Hera are sky gods without worship or venerated attributes to draw on their personalities and values are static and ancient. These days power relies less on direct worship and more on how important the concept a god represents is to the mortal world, for instance Ares can feed on conflict of any kind. When the Olympians were widely worshiped they had to split off avatars of themselves—the Roman pantheon—or be overwhelmed with power, a problem even the strongest of their number has no issue with in modern times indicating worship is their best source of strength. At one point, Wonder Woman caused Ares to realize that as much as he wants to trigger World War III and wipe out humanity with nukes, he can't. While such a war would give him a short term power boost, if everyone is dead, there will be no more war and he would eventually fade into nothing. Ares eventually found a way around this by overthrowing Hades and becoming the God of the Dead too. As the dead in the Underworld are all his worshipers, he was safe to try to trigger World War III again.
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Gods Need Prayer Badly / int_3a596334	comment	In at least Shin Megami Tensei I continuity (II, Devil Summoner, Soul Hackers, Raidou Kuzunoha and Persona — all of which are either in the same timeline or Alternate Timelines), IV and Apocalypse continuity, and perhaps more: demons, angels, monsters, and spirits only exist because people remember and believe in them. Oddly, at least in II, if the supernatural creatures believe hard enough, they create duplicates of other supernatural entities: with the Archangels believing in a False YHVH.
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Gods Need Prayer Badly / int_3a5e2165	comment	In True Villains, there is a god of everything, but only five have any real power because they are believed in and worshiped.
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Gods Need Prayer Badly / int_3b72d0a5	comment	The Weaver Option explains the rise of pleasure cults in the ancient Aeldari Empire led to nearly their entire population worshiping the nascent Chaos God Slaanesh, starving the original gods of power. This made them easy prey for Slaanesh when it was finally brought into existence.
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Gods Need Prayer Badly / int_3c33bf0f	comment	Demon: The Fallen: Demons need faith to fuel their powers. They can either force steal it, which causes spiritual damage, or set up cults of various stripes to get a small but steady flow without necessarily hurting their worshippers (unless they want to be hurt).
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Gods Need Prayer Badly / int_3ee3ceda	comment	The Last Continent features the God of Evolution, who has no worshipers. He exists because he believes in himself very strongly, or more precisely, what he does.
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Gods Need Prayer Badly / int_3f35c69c	comment	Deverry: It is explicitly stated that gods not only need prayer to have power; they need it to even exist. Gods exist as energy constructs on the various astral planes, and do not form unless there is a great deal of belief in not only their existence, but in who and what they are. Even when they exist, it takes genuine power to get them to do anything -they're still "just" constructs, and the power from the living person is what gets things done.
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Gods Need Prayer Badly / int_3faaab79	comment	At least thrice in the third game, but for separate reasons. The first time it happens, Eden, a new nation born from the Seven Sages (or what's left of them), ends up sapping the shares as the new console on the market, the TurboGrafx-16. The new console (Yellow Heart) holds well, but its price threshold and the eventual reveal about who she really is marks the end of its short life. The second time, although it takes place in the past but is explained near the end, the previous nation's CPU, Rei Ryghts, was the leader of Tari. She controlled the populace through fear and greed, but she didn't know her power was fueled by the people, so when that happened, the people revolted and she became extremely weak. In retaliation, she decided to destroy the entire nation outright. The third is when Hyper Dimension Rei manipulates the populace to only believe in her and weaken every other nation, effectively destroying the balance of the dimension's shares and threatening to destroy an entire dimension with her newfound power.
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Gods Need Prayer Badly / int_4098be6b	comment	Swan's Braid & Other Tales of Terizan: In "In Mysterious Ways" the gods gain strength the more worship they get. Given this fact, the clergy of new god Cot'Dazur decide to get more power by having thieves steal the icons from all other gods since people focus their belief on these. Terizan realizes this and foils them, stealing the icons back which she puts back into their original temples.
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Gods Need Prayer Badly / int_41b0198a	comment	The Dresden Files use this with a few unique ripples. Spiritual entities need some level of recognition to operate on Earth. Thus the various old gods (with a little 'g') have very little ability to act on their power. This is laid out in info concerning the Venatori, who fight the Oblivion War, trying to get all memory of magical entities removed from the human psyche, and therefore cut their connection to the material world. Need-to-know basis doesn't even begin to describe it. But now you know, so now they have to kill you.. Also evidence suggests that this doesn't apply to God (with a big 'G') and His assorted Archangels. Not that it would really matter if He did need prayer, given how many believers He has. The other gods we've met so far (Odin and Hades) seem to have plenty of power, despite not having that many followers, though Hades makes it clear that he is "weaker". But "weaker" is relative to a major god. Neither comes close to the Abrahamic God in power (at least, as far as we've seen) but both can still throw some weight around. (That said, Santa Claus is an aspect of Odin, and Santa Claus, even if he doesn't have many real believers, is a pretty big influence nowadays... and Hades is rather famous... as a backstabbing Manipulative Bastard that doesn't even vaguely resemble his actual personality, but hey, fame is fame.) It should be noted that they do not cease to exist with lack of worship. They can still be active in the spiritual realms and other dimensions. Some books have implied that how humans perceive the universe is very limited compared to gods and other supernatural creatures. To humans, the god might be inactive, but they are still active in other ways. Many of these entities predated humanity and it is unknown how they came into contact with Earth or if the ever changing rules of magic had anything to do with it. It is possible (if more of a stretch) that it's not based on worship, but on awareness. Lots of people know who Odin is, but not many worship him. This theory gets traction in Skin Game when Hades, who is still as powerful as ever, says he never asked for prayers and sacrifices, and was honestly a bit confused at the point of worshiping him. After all, what would come of it? Did they think he would be merciful? Answer: no. Hades is not merciful. Hades gives you exactly what you deserve, good or bad, completely fairly. Which is why we can all take heart that Deirdre's fate will be just as horrible as she deserves. Even the type of worship a god receives can change. Butcher notes in their heyday, the old gods would need to listen to prayers, make social calls, and do more active things. If, as the modern world doesn't worship like that, a god could still get a cult of followers believing in the principals the god holds to and using the newest name the god has picked up, that would suffice. So a god could use a comic book character or persona to gain followers, take that belief to sustain himself, but not have all the old obligations he once had.note Heracles is mentioned to be using the Incredible Hulk in such a method The Oblivion War acknowledges this trope and uses it against some very old and very evil gods. These ancient and evil forces don't need prayer to reenter the human world, just simple knowledge of them will suffice. So those who fight on humanity's side seek to make sure the total sum of any who remember a god is zero. If word of a god's followers is discovered, orders to take them out are sent to a small group of people, to minimize the numbers of people who might learn that god's name. The current number of fighters is close to 200 for the entire world. Now, some beings, like spirits of intellect, can have knowledge of the name but that won't sustain the god. They need mortals to know their name. Once a god's rememberers are all eliminated and all is quiet for a few hundred years, the Archive, the repository of all human knowledge, written or typed, deletes the name of the god from her own memory and the god is now sealed away to Oblivion. As those on humanity's side forget and never record how many they killed, it has lead to an interesting point they don't know how well they have done. Simply recording the kill could be enough of a tether for the god to work its way back. Ethniu, who is notably an order of magnitude stronger than the likes of Odin, claims that the gods never should've asked for worship, only fear. It's unclear if this is actually the source of her power, given that she's a little-known figure from Celtic Mythology.
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Gods Need Prayer Badly / int_42ffb88e	comment	SCP Foundation: The Scarlet King is said to work this way in Tufto's Proposal of SCP-001. He's said to be less of an actual deity and more of a concept born from the conflict between tradition and progress that is strengthened by attempts to understand it and the world, with the intent of ending rationality and civilization. The Foundation's response? Kill all its worshippers, then simply ignore it and hope it goes away. SCP-5721 is anote fictional paragraph within the Terms of Service for the messaging software Discord that signs over the users' souls to the Greco-Roman goddess Eris, allowing her to drain users' Life Energy as a substitute for actual worship. When interrogated by the Foundation she states that the bigger gods have millennia left before they need to worry about needing worship while "the little guys like me or Aristaeus or Eirene? We'll go out like smoke," and threatens to kill off all ~250 million Discord users if the Foundation tries to lock her up. SCP-5866, Tiamat, is a living thoughtform — it's suggested that most gods are — and consequently depends on human belief for her existence and qualities. She becomes more or less real depending on how much she's believed in, and her traits and past can be altered based on changes in how she's understood and portrayed. She began strictly as the Babylonian serpent goddess, but in recent years traits of the five-headed, draconic Tiamat from Dungeons & Dragons have begun to manifest in her memory as it becomes the more well-known version. This is exploited by Dr. Corbin, who deliberately spreads talk of her around the site and bumps up her containment class to increase her perceived prestige in a gambit to create enough awe and regard to shift the nearly-dead goddess back to life.
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Gods Need Prayer Badly / int_43576f5	comment	Supernatural: In one episode, the guys come across the haunting that originally started out as just a practical joke. The prankee buys it and posts the story on the Internet where it becomes well known in an Urban Legend kind of way. Once enough people believe that there is a ghost there it actually appears. Realizing that belief would determine what the ghost would be weak to as well, the Winchesters decided to defeat it by writing a weakness into the text - once enough people believed it, the ghost was to be defeated that way. Unfortunately, the Internet site with the text collapsed and the change in belief that would have made it weak never occurred. Instead they destroyed the ghost by simply burning the haunted house, and the sigil the ghost was bonded with, to the ground. In the Christmas Special episode of season 3, the brothers run into two old Gods who are kidnapping people and sacrificing them to themselves. The couple boast that they used to be so powerful people would make sacrifices to them daily, but time moves on and they've assimilated themselves into modern culture and now only kidnap a couple people a year to sacrifice and keep themselves going. In the episode "Fallen Idols", one such old god can only survive on the sacrifices of people that worship it. Since belief in the old gods has all but died in the modern era it transforms itself into whatever its intended victim happens to worship, like becoming Abraham Lincoln to eat a Civil War historian, appearing as Mahatma Gandhi to Sam, and shapeshifting into Paris Hilton to devour a teenage girl.
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Gods Need Prayer Badly / int_43f52aa9	comment	In Oblivion, if the Champion of Cyrodiil choses to do the Daedric quest for Sheogorath after becoming the new Sheogorath at the end of Shivering Isles, their servant questions why they just prayed to themself... only to then reconsider that as the Mad God, that sort of lunacy is rather appropriate.
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Gods Need Prayer Badly / int_4522fd1	comment	Seen in the Whateley Universe with the New Olympians. After escaping imprisonment (by whom hasn't yet been revealed) into the modern world, the old gods of Olympus find themselves greatly weakened and without worshippers to draw power from, and end up having to take mortal hosts. Who in the present day form their own loose school clique at Whateley Academy... It's also been mentioned in the canon background material that even simple spirits (basically considered randomly occurring self-motivated 'knots' of magical energy) may be able to evolve into 'gods' over time if given a source of worship to draw on.
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Gods Need Prayer Badly / int_4811a5a6	comment	In Asura's Wrath, humanity prays to provide the Seven Deities with Mantra, which is used as a power source for various weapons in their fight against the Gohma. Unfortunately, the Deities later learn how to take Mantra by force...
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Gods Need Prayer Badly / int_49a88442	comment	In Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn, the Primals are brought forth from the aetheric flow by the worship of their followers. Unfortunately for said followers, Primals take a very proactive role in ensuring their continued worship by "tempering" them into mind-controlled slaves who seek to gather more people to turn into brainwashed worshippers. The player turns out to be one of a handful of people immune to tempering. This is a good thing, as your first encounter with a Primal is as part of a group of prisoners brought before Ifrit to become his new servants. The pantheon worshiped by the player races, the Twelve, are implied to be the same, with Gaius van Baelsar claiming they're not that different from the Primals, but they at least are benevolent enough not to brainwash people into following them. The post-launch patches and first expansion extrapolate on the nature of Primals revealing them to be figments made real more than actual deities, making them closer to Tulpa than true gods. While they do require worship to be sustained, they are not divine so much as they are very, very powerful beings made from magic that take a form and personality in lieu of whatever their followers believe them to be. The strength of the Primal is determined by a combination of how fervent the prayers of its followers are, and how strong the source of magic being used to summon them is. This is how the game justifies its hard mode encounters; not only are the Primals able to be resummoned if slain, but stronger sources of magic and more fervent prayers from their followers create stronger incarnations. In Endwalker, it's revealed that the summoning used by the Beast Tribes and others is a corrupted version of the creation magicks used by the Ancients millenia ago. "Corrupted" in the sense that the Ascians, the initial Big Bad group of the game and the remains of said Ancients, put in the ability to Mind Rape everyone to sow the chaos to rejoin the star and revive their dark god Zodiark. The Loporrits teach the Beast Tribes the correct way and this is even passed down to the Warrior of Light as, by Level 90, they can now summon the three initial Primals to aid them in attacking. The "Myths of the Realm" raid line in Endwalker reveals that the Twelve, the gods that watch over the planet, have changed over the years and actually created an epitaph to make sure that they remembered their purpose. G'raha Tia hypothesizes that dynamis, the emotional-based energy that drives the expansion, may have had a hand in the Twelve's evolution over time, such as Halone gaining a spear and shield via Ishgard's constant prayer for their goddess.
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Gods Need Prayer Badly / int_4a09e781	comment	Discussed and generally averted in Undocumented Features. Corwin, an ascended Physical God, seems to have no need for anyone to worship him, but that doesn't deter Chip, his self-proclaimed first worshiper, from doing so. Corwin's admonishments of Stop Worshipping Me have gotten to the point of gentle admonishment/Running Gag.
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Gods Need Prayer Badly / int_4a9ecddc	comment	The titular character in I, Claudius believes in this. He also believes that belief can create new gods, e.g., he makes Livia a deity by deifying her.
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Gods Need Prayer Badly / int_4b434423	comment	The Mythical Pokemon Calyrex in PokÃ©mon Sword and Shield suffered this. The people of Freezington forgot about it when its power waned and its steed abandoned it. When the player starts taking the steps to help Calyrex return to power (that include jogging the NPCs' memories about it), the crops in town that weren't doing too well start to grow better.
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Gods Need Prayer Badly / int_4d9653ef	comment	Planescape: This mechanic is explained via the fact that the Outer Planes (where the gods live) is shaped entirely by belief.
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Gods Need Prayer Badly / int_4f4ca7c8	comment	Special Circumstances: The more people who worship a deity (even by proxy), the stronger their mortal servants are. That's because the deities with more worshipers have more power to lend to their priests/priestesses.
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Gods Need Prayer Badly / int_4fb9c0c0	comment	In the same book, there's some discussion of the Great Mother Goddess and how the Cult of the Gentle Mother (which was shown in Beka Cooper) has thoroughly changed mortals' perspective on her, from including nurturing and the home into one that only encompasses that aspect of her. The Graveyard Hag won't allow priests to soften her into a kindly grandmother, but the Great Mother hasn't taken any steps. The characters speculate that two centuries is just not that long for gods and she hasn't noticed, but readers know that simultaneously in Song of the Lioness the Great Mother has chosen to favor a champion who will break the glass ceiling and spearhead a change in Tortall's perception of women; by being Alanna's patron, the goddess' own nature as a proactive and powerful deity will be reinforced.
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Gods Need Prayer Badly / int_50070be8	comment	Used subtly in Chronicles of Chaos:
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Gods Need Prayer Badly / int_5022a2c4	comment	Xena: Warrior Princess implies this, rather than it being outright stated. The Olympian Gods (the primary pantheon dealt with on the show), were shown to have a reach and influence as far as the Middle East, and were considered the greatest of any gods in the show, while others were shown as powerful, but not nearly on the Olympian scale. The show attributed it to less worship, and Ares even remarked to Kal once that Kal's temple and power had gone downhill since "those tributes stop[ed] coming in". In some episodes set in the modern day, Ares is a lot weaker than usual because modern day people don't usually pray to him. An episode of Young Hercules ("The Skeptic") deals with this, too. The newest Academy of Adventure cadet repeatedly refuses to believe the Olympians exist, much to the annoyance of the son of Zeus. This also irritates Strife, but Fatuus (the god of unwelcome prophecy) tells him that he foresees a day when all mortals stop believing in the Olympians, which he says means they'll all cease to exist. Calling the new cadet a trendsetter, Strife spends the rest of the episode trying to antagonize him (which Herc naturally standing in the way).
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Gods Need Prayer Badly / int_503d5009	comment	Ayakashi Triangle: All ayakashi, from the smallest to the largest, gain power from humans believing in them. For spirits of wind or storms or even art, losing belief isn't a huge deal as they'll never lose so much belief as to die (and there are other power sources anyway)—but the Odd Job Gods such as the spirit that rattles beans at people have a lot to worry about. Ayakashi with strong willpower can keep their strength, but most will weaken and have to fulfill their purpose to keep existing. On the other hand, humans believing in an ayakashi give it a huge power boost... even if the humans don't know it's an ayakashi. Garaku Utagawa was originally just the spirit of an ink brush, but gained enough power to maintain a human form that normal humans could interact with. He then proceeded to become a world-famous artist, making him one of the most powerful ayakashi around. It's a lot rarer, but it is possible for humans to benefit too. Queen Himiko was turned into a goddess due to her people believing she was the source of all life. After she was assassinated, the power was transferred to her successor, Queen Iyo. Queen Iyo continued to inherit the power in all of her lives, even after Reincarnation, which is how she came to be known as the Ayakashi Medium.
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Gods Need Prayer Badly / int_505b62a	comment	The initially conventional Christian-themed horror series Brimstone, in which a damned policeman is given a second chance at life by Satan in return for tracking down 113 souls who had escaped from Hell, undergoes a dizzying Genre Shift when the LAPD policewoman who had been his inside track with Earthly authorities is revealed to be the ringleader of the souls, a dead Canaanite priestess who had engineered the escape from Hell by seducing Satan. (The policeman had, unwittingly, been helping her to eliminate members of her "gang" that had gone rogue.) Her plan is to systematically eradicate belief in the God of Abraham from human culture, thereby causing God, Heaven, and Hell, to all blink out of existence. The protagonist realizes that Satan had been desperate to retrieve the escaped spirits, not out of some altruistic desire to restore the cosmic balance, but because if the priestess were to succeed in her agenda, Satan, being part of the Abrahamic mythos himself, would blink out of existence as well. Naturally, just as the series threatened to actually become interesting, the network pulled the plug.
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Gods Need Prayer Badly / int_52dd4a4c	comment	In the Ultimate Marvel universe, a reimagination of the Marvel Universe, Thor fought against Thanos in Ultimate Fantastic Four. The latter notes that as powerful as Thor is, he's nowhere near as powerful as he was when his pantheon was actively worshipped.
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Gods Need Prayer Badly / int_55d26b1a	comment	RWBY: Fate Disaster: Several Servants get sent to the world of Remnant, but are not as powerful as they would normally be. Ishtar figures this is because nobody in Remnant has heard of them, so no one believes in them. Ishtar becomes a local hero to the kingdom of Vacuo by protecting it from the Grimm, and the people's cheers quickly replenish her strength. However, after Ishtar and Ereshkigal get mistaken for and worshiped as the Gods of Light and Darkness, they only receive half of the energy because the other half goes to the actual Gods of Light and Darkness.
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Gods Need Prayer Badly / int_5755b96a	comment	The Order of the Stick universe in general employs this trope to explain any god not in the three original pantheons. In particular, Elan and some orcs are Banjoists, worshippers of Banjo the Clown, god of puppets. He doesn't have many followers, so his divine lightning is little more than a spark. One of the prequel books reveals that mortal characters can ascend to godhood in this manner. Since Elan was unwilling to leave Banjo (who is an actual puppet) with the orcs, he creates Banjo's twin brother and rival, Giggles the Clown, as the god of slapstick. The violence-loving orcs appreciate this, and immediately convert. So Banjo went back down to a single worshipper, but since they were defined as equally powerful rivals, that probably remains the case. The OotS-verse has established that being defined as a rival gives free XP to keep one side from being too weak for the role. Elan once tried to get Banjo inducted into the Northern Pantheon, specifically to gain more worshippers. The local priest angrily rejected this idea, and Elan then decided Banjo was too good for their pantheon, unaware that Odin (who likes puppets) approved of the idea. Similarly, several elves and one goblin (the Dark One) became so revered after their deaths that they ascended to godhood. Longrunning movie snacks like Popcorn, Milk Dudes [sic], and Soda have apparently gained power "like unto tiny refreshing GODS!" from generations of popularity. Later, it is explained in more detail that gods need four things from mortals: Belief that the god exists. Active Worship. Dedication, which is described as a big burst when a mortal dies and is sent to their deity. Souls of the deceased, where their presence powers the Outer Planes and the afterlife. Gods need a specific balance of these things to maintain their "health" — Hel, who gets a lot of dedication when mortals are sent to her realm but little to no worship of any sort, is described as being particularly messed up due to this imbalance. Gods who don't have significant stores of belief, worship, dedication and souls on standby can also fail to survive prolonged "dry spells". This tends to happen to newly-ascended gods in the interim between the Snarl destroying a world and it calming enough to be trapped again. On a more comedic note, the comic uses this concept to explain why Odin is a Cloud Cuckoolander in this comic: In the last iteration of the universe, the Northerners were barbarians who disdained magicnote Possibly a Shout-Out to The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. Since Odin is the Northern god of magic, this left him starved of belief and seemingly affects him like Alzheimer's. According to Thor, he should be back to normal in a few centuries now that he has proper worshipers again.
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Gods Need Prayer Badly / int_585e42e5	comment	In Elf, Santa's sleigh is said to draw power from children's belief in him. Lately that's been dropping, so he relies on the assist of a modern combustion engine.
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Gods Need Prayer Badly / int_5b9d6dcb	comment	In the end of Pita-Ten it is revealed that angels' and demons' existence depends on human faith in them, and once some entity is forgotten it ceases to exist which is a way to kill demon or angel, however if memory is restored it is possible to revive a dead demon or angel. Strangely enough these virtual creatures have quite strong real powers and can manipulate human memory as well.
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Gods Need Prayer Badly / int_5ba0fc51	comment	Love of Magic: Downplayed. Gods are powered by their Mantles, which can be recharged by the faith of their worshipers, but the God will continue to exist even if their Mantle is drained.
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Gods Need Prayer Badly / int_5c66fff9	comment	Neverwinter Nights 2: In the expansion Mask of the Betrayer, a major plot point is an exploitation of this trope. Myrkul, the previous god of death, created the Wall of the Faithless as a place to imprison Faithless and False souls after death — respectively, those who didn't worship gods and those who failed to uphold their gods' tenets. His intent wasn't to punish them for not worshiping the deities who keep the world running, but to ensure that he would never die so long as the Wall exists, because memory and belief in it would effectively empower him. The good deities and Kelemvor, the much more benevolent god of death, tolerate the Wall's existence on the grounds that when Kelemvor did try to remove it, it caused a chain of events that would have led to The End of the World as We Know It. Myrkul again exploited this trope by creating the Spirit-Eater curse, which drives the plot of MotB: as long as there's a Spirit-Eater, there's at least one person who fears and/or worships him, so he can never truly die. Then the game gives you the opportunity to finish him off with the Spirit-Eater.
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Gods Need Prayer Badly / int_5cfb879b	comment	The New Gods tend to stay strong without a race to draw strength from, but at times they have implied to be more the gods of Ideas- Darkseid, for instance, is the God of Tyranny. Incidentally, he is the only god worshipped on Apokolips and he is far more powerful than all of his minions, each gods in their own right. However, this has nothing to do with how many worshipers he has- he has instead been periodically slaughtering entire pantheons of gods of other worlds and stealing their power for himself, and he was amongst the strongest New Gods before doing that anyway. The New Gods do not seem to ever depend on worship for their power.
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Gods Need Prayer Badly / int_5d79a99f	comment	Eon: Gods generally don't die from it, but lack of worshippers can lead them to the brink of "starvation". An entity called "King Frost"; an amnesiac old man walking the frozen deserts of the northlands, is theorised to be a 'fallen god' clinging to life. It's worth to note that the gods can return when they get worshipped again though.
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Gods Need Prayer Badly / int_5e150650	comment	Exalted: Essence, the game's Mana, can be generated in a number of ways, but the most efficient is through being prayed to, worshipped, and offered sacrifices. Humanity was created by the Primordials for the express purpose of generating Essence through prayer — humans were made weak, puny and easily killed specifically so they'd be constantly praying for help and deliverance — but in the modern day gods, elementals, ghosts and Exalted all foster and maintain cults to boost their personal power. The game spends quite a bit of time and wordcount examining the ramifications of this trope, too. Gods in Exalted are, by and large, jerks who want to get as much power as possible, and in Creation this usually translates to theological feudalism: the strongest local god receives prayer and sacrifice, and in return doesn't cause the harvest to fail and doesn't let dangerous interloper gods take over the region. The Immaculate Faith, the religion of the Realm, isn't just about getting prayers to the appropriate gods, it's also about preventing gods from getting greedy and extorting extra worship out of the Realm's mortals.
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Gods Need Prayer Badly / int_5f040277	comment	In Fine Print, Gods keep themselves immortal through Eternal Ambrosia, growing it through human worship. Since people don't worship the Olympians in modern times, they had adapted to cultivating it in individual people, cubi and cupids having been created for this very purpose.
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Gods Need Prayer Badly / int_5f76cba1	comment	Prior to the New 52 reboot, DC villain Eclipso tried to kill God by destroying the focal point of the worship that sustains Him: Earth.
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Gods Need Prayer Badly / int_60515a97	comment	Fans! has the occasional god make an appearance. These gods usually claim they were conceived by Roman clergy, during nights with a little too much wine. These gods include the god of gaming, and the anti-cupid (who shoots you with a tommy-gun and takes away your devotion to another person).
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Gods Need Prayer Badly / int_61e400a0	comment	In Path of Exile gods originate from mortals who become revered for their deeds until they ascend into divinity, though the process tends to warp their minds. After the sleeping gods awaken, the player is given the task of killing them while they are still weak, before they can reestablish their worship. Kitava had a cult of worshippers before he revealed himself and the most time to feed, and thus is the most difficult to defeat, requiring the aid of two other gods and permanently weakening the player both times they face him.
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Gods Need Prayer Badly / int_638624c8	comment	In the Slayers world, the dragon gods gain strength from praise and worship, which is in contrast to the opposing Mazoku who feed on human suffering. This plays a role in a war between one of the gods and the Mazoku race that occurs a thousand years in the past from Lina's time. The Mazoku crippled the Water Dragon King by killing all the worshipers and destroying all the temples dedicated to the latter.
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Gods Need Prayer Badly / int_645d2bd1	comment	Warbreaker has an unusual take on the trope: the Returned subsist on what are widely considered human souls (Breath) that must be given willingly. Thus, Returned need people to believe in them enough that they would willingly give up their souls to see them live another week. In this case, it helps that the Returned can, in turn, give away their own Breath - albeit at the cost of their life - in order to heal someone. Additionally, any person who gives up their Breath for one of the gods receives generous financial compensation.
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Gods Need Prayer Badly / int_665f48ad	comment	Mythica: Apparently the gods lose power as their worshipers die, according to Szorlok.
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Gods Need Prayer Badly / int_66d0cab8	comment	Populous is the Trope Codifier. The more worshippers you have, the more powerful miracles you can perform. In the first two games, only settled worshippers benefit you in that way, by the strength of the settlement. Giving you the choice between producing a lot of worshippers or personal power and tougher worshippers. Peter Molyneux is at it again with Godus where the number of followers affects the type of spells you can use.
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Gods Need Prayer Badly / int_66fd2e30	comment	Wax and Wayne averts this, as a god's power or existence is independent of how much worship they receive. In fact, the three gods of Northern Scadrial ended up with inversely related to the amount of followers (all three religions are henotheistic, worshiping one god in a pantheon). The Shard Harmony is the only genuine Physical God, but his religion is the smallest and forbids worship (to be exact, doing good things serves as worship, and actual worship is considered a waste of time). Ironeyes is immortal and arguably the most powerful living Allomancer and Feruchemist, and has a religion of an unspecified size between the other two. Itâ€™s at least bigger than Harmonyâ€™s because Ironeyes hijacked the Lord Rulerâ€™s religion from the previous trilogy, which was fanatically followed by the government. The Survivor is the most ineffective because he died three hundred years ago, until he turns up alive in the South. His religion is the biggest because he engineered it to incite widespread, fanatical devotion among the massive skaa population, promising (and delivering) hope in a Crapsack World.
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Gods Need Prayer Badly / int_684610	comment	BlazBlue has an interesting variation on this trope: Yuuki Terumi's existence is sustained by other people's despair, fear and hatred of him. Which really does explain his thorough traumatization of Ragna at the start of the story, as well as his behavior in general... He also has his network of Observers and Life-Links to fall back on if that lifeline ever failed him. And that's before it's revealed he really is a god. Though despair, fear and hatred sustains Terumi's existence, thus making it necessary for him to be the worst kind of Jerkass possible in order to stay alive, he is still as far from sympathetic as one can get. He has no shades of I Did What I Had to Do, and has even openly admitted that he loves ruining other people's lives for the sheer hell of it. "As far from sympathetic as one can get," indeed. The final game in the series, Central Fiction, reveals that Terumi's long-term goal is to use The Azure to remake reality into a cesspool of fear and despair with no reprieve and no escape, where he will be the Top God and all other beings in existence will pay tribute to him with their "prayers" in the form of cries of fear, wails of despair, and curses laced with hatred. Ergo, the same thing he's always done, but dialed up.
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Gods Need Prayer Badly / int_68dd9872	comment	Discworld Roleplaying Game inherits this trope from the Discworld novels, and permits "small god" characters — who have to take the "Faith Maintenance" character disadvantage.
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Gods Need Prayer Badly / int_692882cc	comment	In the Aaahh!!! Real Monsters episode "Where Have all the Monsters Gone?", it's revealed that monsters need the fear of humans to exist. If not enough humans are afraid of monsters, the monsters start disappearing bit by bit.
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Gods Need Prayer Badly / int_696c8ec0	comment	In Mister Frost, the title character — an elegant but vicious serial killer who was declared insane and who has been shuttled from asylum to asylum across Europe as everyone tries to figure him out — finally breaks a two-year silence to reveal to the film's protagonist, a psychologist, that he's actually Satan. Frustrated that humanity's belief in him and the concept of Evil itself has dwindled due to the rise of the sciences and especially psychology in the 20th century, he's taken on human form to find and corrupt someone who absolutely doesn't believe in Satan. By slowly exerting his powers upon her and those around her in a variety of ways, Mister Frost intends to bring her to the point that she not only has sincere faith in his identity and abilities, but is willing to slay his corporeal form despite the consequences she would face, which would prove he's "stronger than passing time." He succeeds, and it's even implied that he goes on to possess the body of his "killer".
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Gods Need Prayer Badly / int_6a8aff51	comment	The Stormlight Archive: It is theoretically possible for gods of this sort to exist as extremely powerful spren (beings shaped by thoughts), but it's unclear if they would actually have godlike power. The Stormfather is shaped by human belief in the Almighty, since the actual Almighty is dead and apparently gave the core of his being to the Stormfather, but he was already the strongest spren on Roshar before that started happening.
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Gods Need Prayer Badly / int_6aaac103	comment	PJ Sparkles lives on love and will die without it. When The Cloak's Malice Mist saps all the love from Twinkle Town, P.J. becomes weak, and Blaze turns back into an old horse. Conversely, the love of just one boy is enough to recharge her powers.
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Gods Need Prayer Badly / int_6aaf56f7	comment	Tales of Innocence: A direct, symbiotic case. The Devaloka needs the prayer and faith of people from the Naraka to sustain itself. The church's role was to deliver the prayers of the faithful to the gods. In turn, the gods would bestow miracles upon Naraka with the power of the Heavenly Artes. When the people's faith started to wane, they had to resort to taking human souls to fortify it, and the church lost its influence.
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Gods Need Prayer Badly / int_6ab4996a	comment	A variation in The Wolf Among Us: Fables are classic fairy tale characters forced into the real world. If their fairy tale is popular among "mundies", then that belief makes the Fable very resistant to physical injury and capable of healing very quickly. For example, Little Red Riding Hood is one of the most popular of all fairy tales, and hence the Big Bad Wolf can survive dozens of shotgun blasts at close range, and the Woodsman can survive taking his own axe to the back of his head. It is also suggested that killed Fables can be resurrected if enough people still know about their stories. The only way for a Fable to be permanently killed is if not enough people know about their story any more as is seemingly the fate of Faith and Georgie Porgie, or if the Fable is physically thrown down the Witching Well as is possibly the case with the Crooked Man.
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Gods Need Prayer Badly / int_6ac55ec7	comment	Dungeons & Dragons: Video games set in the Forgotten Realms world tend to follow the franchise's lore of deities depending on their followers' worship to survive. Baldur's Gate shows that a dead god can still exist if its followers are still undead echoes, believing they must live for eternity guarding the temple of a dead god, which at the same time creates a demon of hatred to fight their dead god, time and time again. The god wouldn't be without its guardians, and the guardians wouldn't be without their god, thus both perpetually creating a living echo of each other. Neverwinter Nights 2: In the expansion Mask of the Betrayer, a major plot point is an exploitation of this trope. Myrkul, the previous god of death, created the Wall of the Faithless as a place to imprison Faithless and False souls after death — respectively, those who didn't worship gods and those who failed to uphold their gods' tenets. His intent wasn't to punish them for not worshiping the deities who keep the world running, but to ensure that he would never die so long as the Wall exists, because memory and belief in it would effectively empower him. The good deities and Kelemvor, the much more benevolent god of death, tolerate the Wall's existence on the grounds that when Kelemvor did try to remove it, it caused a chain of events that would have led to The End of the World as We Know It. Myrkul again exploited this trope by creating the Spirit-Eater curse, which drives the plot of MotB: as long as there's a Spirit-Eater, there's at least one person who fears and/or worships him, so he can never truly die. Then the game gives you the opportunity to finish him off with the Spirit-Eater.
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Gods Need Prayer Badly / int_6b2d45ba	comment	This is the case in the setting for Herman Hedning, which includes 12 or so creator gods (including the Christian God who created our particular corner of the universe), and countless other minor divine beings. As explained by God himself, gods and certain other entities such as Santa Claus require active belief in them to continue existing. This also applies retroactively, as gods do not exist until someone comes up with them, and enough people belive in them. Once they do, the god will suddenly always have existed. Of course, this also means that both the god and his creations created EACHOTHER as one cannot exist without the other.
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Gods Need Prayer Badly / int_6c013d08	comment	The World of Darkness: Old World of Darkness Demon: The Fallen: Demons need faith to fuel their powers. They can either force steal it, which causes spiritual damage, or set up cults of various stripes to get a small but steady flow without necessarily hurting their worshippers (unless they want to be hurt). Werewolf: The Apocalypse: Tribal totems gain power from the Garou they sponsor. In one Time of Judgment scenario, Whipporwill grows weak due to insufficient worship from the Black Spiral Dancers, who divide their fealty among many different totem spirits. Grandfather Thunder then defeats Whipporwill, absorbs his gnosis, and assimilates the Black Spiral Dancers into the now-fallen Shadow Lord tribe. New World of Darkness: The Astral Realms include the Temenos, the collective consciousness of humanity. Among the conceptual archetypes present there are every god ever worshipped. In this case, since they are formed through human belief, their power is proportional to how much humans regard them, not necessarily through worship. For example, Anubis exists in the Temenos, and though not as powerful as he was when he was actively worshipped by a powerful nation, he is still a relevant and well known symbol, which means he still possesses the power of a minor god. Other gods are less fortunate. Since the Temenos is a focal point for all human knowledge and experience, even a completely forgotten god would still exist somewhere, albeit significantly weakened. Its also suggested that some Temenos gods might be based by humanity on truly divine beings (a theory particularly popular with devout mages who suffer crises of faith upon learning they can meet their deities in the Temenos). Various spirits in the Shadow realm are often shaped and empowered by human belief. Whether a particular one appearing as a god was an inspiration for human worship or was formed by human worship is often unclear.
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Gods Need Prayer Badly / int_6d40e4c5	comment	The Kane Chronicles has a retirement home for mostly forgotten gods, who have become senile.
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Gods Need Prayer Badly / int_6f43d2e4	comment	An episode of Young Hercules ("The Skeptic") deals with this, too. The newest Academy of Adventure cadet repeatedly refuses to believe the Olympians exist, much to the annoyance of the son of Zeus. This also irritates Strife, but Fatuus (the god of unwelcome prophecy) tells him that he foresees a day when all mortals stop believing in the Olympians, which he says means they'll all cease to exist. Calling the new cadet a trendsetter, Strife spends the rest of the episode trying to antagonize him (which Herc naturally standing in the way).
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Gods Need Prayer Badly / int_701f0ece	comment	In Berserk, the entirety of Astral Plane of existence is actually the embodiment of the collective human subconscious. As such, beings that exist in human fantasy such as mythological creatures exist within the Astral realm. Even the Idea of Evil, the equivalent of God in this setting, is created from humanity's desire for a reason in their suffering.
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Gods Need Prayer Badly / int_70814599	comment	Stargate SG-1: The Ori don't actually need prayer to survive, but they do gain power from human worship, although they're still extremely powerful on their own. Once Adria takes their place in Stargate: The Ark of Truth, SG-1 needs to take away her worshippers to make her vulnerable. The Ascended Orici Adria, being the focus of everyone's worship as the last remaining Ori, is too strong for anyone to challenge. However, once the Ark of Truth is deployed and the Priors stop believing in her she loses a significant bulk of that power, opening the way for an Oma Desala gambit.
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Gods Need Prayer Badly / int_74365738	comment	During Going Postal Moist Von Lipwig perpetrated a con that resulted in the border-line small god Anoia, Goddess of Things Getting Stuck In Drawers, seeing a sudden surge in popularity and a possible promotion to Goddess of Lost Causes. Moist prays to her on the basis that she owes him, and Making Money reveals that this may have paid off - the secondary villain suffers a sudden and disabling malfunction of his dentures when one of its springs gets unstuck at a critical moment.
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Gods Need Prayer Badly / int_74379c77	comment	The entire premise of KamiKatsu: Working for God in a Godless World. The protagonist is transported into a world without the concept of Gods, along with his deity, and the power of the deity is proportional to the number of followers she attracts. Rival "gods" later joins in the fray.
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Gods Need Prayer Badly / int_74f7210c	comment	Some of the later titles in The Legend of Zelda series use this trope. In The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker, it's revealed that the Master Sword is fueled by the prayers of the Sages of Earth and Wind, who must play special songs in the inner sanctums of their respective temples to honor the gods and give the blade the ability to repel evil. In a dark display of Genre Savvy, the first thing Ganondorf does upon reviving is kill the Earth and Wind Sages, thus leaving the Master Sword powerless. In The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Hyrule's four Great Fairies (and Malanya, the Horse Fairy) require the devotion of mortals to maintain their power. Unfortunately, since the fall of the Kingdom a century prior to the events of the game, humans have stopped visiting the Great Fairies' Fountains, rendering them nearly dead. Link can restore the Fairies by offering tithes of Rupees, restoring them; in gratitude, they will upgrade his armor in exchange for raw materials.
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Gods Need Prayer Badly / int_769c365b	comment	A recurring theme on MythQuest. In episode 4, the myth they visit is set in motion by spirits attempting to ensure the survival of the aboriginal people who worship them. Cleo then has this opinion about that myth as a whole, and to an extent, mythology in general.
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Gods Need Prayer Badly / int_76e7de99	comment	Forgotten Realms: A god's power is determined by his/her number of worshippers, and needs at least one worshipper to maintain Divine status (albeit at a demigod level). The only exception is the overdeity Ao, who needs no worshippers to maintain power because he rules over other gods. This wasn't always the state of things, as the deities were independently powerful before the Avatar Crisis, when Ao got fed up with nobody doing their duties or taking care of their worshippers any more. The post-Avatar Crisis fluff tended to suggest, when the subject came up, that the gods did gain power from being prayed to and having followers before the Crisis. What Ao did after the Crisis was, essentially, toning down the power you gained from your Portfolio, and ramping up how much power you gained from beliefnote this may explain how Myrkul got the idea for the Spirit-Eater Curse failsafe despite the Avatar Crisis not having occurred yet at that point. Interestingly, even after the Avatar Crisis, the elemental gods (who were MIA during it) seemed to avoid this, as despite being greater gods of roughly equal power, only Kossuth actually bothers maintaining any sort of large-scale worship. 4E retconned those four into being Primordials, powerful elemental entities on par with the gods, which may explain the discrepancy as Primordials are not typically empowered by worship.
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Gods Need Prayer Badly / int_77677ed1	comment	Inverted in Sword of the Stars II with the Suul'ka. They don't need prayer from their Zuul underlings/worshippers. The Zuul, on the other hand, need to give that prayer if they want their "gods" to help. Given their shift from Difficult, but Awesome Crutch Character to Magikarp Power, this is a vital end-goal for them now. So Worshippers Need To Give Prayer Badly then.
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Gods Need Prayer Badly / int_7994e42b	comment	In Godzilla: Rage Across Time, Aphrodite vainly tries to warn Zeus and the other gods of this trope, as she feels that they've become too uncaring for the fates of mortals. Her warnings turn out to be true when Godzilla appears and attacks Mt Olympus: Zeus finds that the lack of faith has weakened him and the gods are slain by the King of Monsters.
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Gods Need Prayer Badly / int_79a57c7e	comment	In Black & White, A God Is You, believers are your most important resource, and the gameplay is built on this trope: Each god is called into existence by a single pure prayer, and a god who loses all their followers ceases to exist or is banished from the world. Gods gain power by convincing villages to believe in them above all other gods. The area where you can affect the world directly is defined by how many followers are in your villages, how profoundly they believe in you (in the first game), and how many buildings you have (especially in the second game). Your ability to create Miracles depends on Mana, which is generated by villagers worshipping at your altars. (Or, in the first game, through sacrifices.)
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Gods Need Prayer Badly / int_7bf97a85	comment	ActRaiser: Subverted in the original for the SNES. While you gain levels as your population grows, it turns out that your powers are dependent on the number of people on the planet, not their faith. At one point, a Path of Inspiration turns a lot of people in one country against you, but it doesn't lower your levels. Additionally in the end your temples are empty because the people can stand on their own and no longer need you to handle their every need, but you don't fade away or anything.
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Gods Need Prayer Badly / int_7c48915b	comment	In Gunnerkrigg Court, Coyote believes that this is how he came into existence. Whether or not this is TRUE is another matter entirely. That said, with what happened to the Native Americans, it's clear lack of worshippers doesn't diminish the power of something that has gained it (assuming Coyote's theory is true).
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Gods Need Prayer Badly / int_7d8f1ed5	comment	The Heartstrikers: The actual mechanics of this are examined in some depth. All humans have the ability to unconsciously move magic (mages are simply those who can do so consciously). Therefore, whenever enough humans believe in something, they will carve out a hole in the Sea of Magic that will fill with magic, the vessel for a new spirit. These "Mortal Spirits" are the ancient gods of humanity, death and war given shape. Not only do they tend to be very dangerous (since humans tend to believe more in things that terrify them), but they are far more powerful than natural spirits like those born from mountains or forests. In fact, these Mortal Spirits are the reason the magic was turned off. Unless a Mortal Spirit is bound to a Merlin who can temper its nature, it will inevitably go on a destructive rampage. But the Mortal Spirits vastly outnumbered the Merlins, so the last Merlins sealed away all magic instead in order to put the Mortal Spirits to sleep. Thankfully, by the time the Mortal Spirits return, Marcie realizes that the human population is so much higher that they should be able to provide one Merlin for every Mortal Spirit, preventing another apocalypse.
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Gods Need Prayer Badly / int_7e86f5f5	comment	Warhammer Fantasy Battle: The von Carsteins want to convert the entire world to zombies under their command in order to deny Chaos their bodies and minds. Sadly, the other factions failed to see the logic in this and fight the vampires as much as they do Chaos and each other. This is based off the plan of their forebearer, Nagash the Undying, who considers this Step 1 in his plan to Kill and Replace the Chaos Gods and be the only will in existence. The serpent god Sotek is implied to have been created by the belief (and thousands of skaven sacrifices) of the skinks. The skink-priest Tehenhauin found a golden plaque he believed prophesied the god's coming, and though the Slaan mage-priests initially disdained his claims when Sotek did show up they acknowledged his arrival as part of the Old Ones plans. It's not totally clear if he was correct all along about his interpretation of the plaque or if the events were his own doing but, when faced with a living deity and possible rebellion from the skinks who effectively run Lizardmen society, the Slann decided to not to argue.
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Gods Need Prayer Badly / int_7efbc126	comment	While gods in Divine Misfortune are powerful by default, they can gain strength through acts of prayer and sacrifices done for them. The exact parameters are a little vague, but these can be anything from leaving food by an altar and pouring their favorite drink down the drain, to lifelong vows, blood sacrifices and human sacrifices.
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Gods Need Prayer Badly / int_7f343ea	comment	Twokinds: The gods are waging proxy wars to determine which of their creations will become the apex species. Since the humans worship one god (name unknown so far) and the keidran worship Neutral, it's implied that the extinction of a species means the respective god will die or be weakened from a lack of followers. Furthermore, it's implied that the god of the Basitins made his creations extremely obedient so they would always follow the rules, but they were so obedient that they worshiped the law instead of their god and starved them to death.
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Gods Need Prayer Badly / int_7fbd159a	comment	ThunderCats (1985): In "Lion-O's Anointment, Final Day: The Trial of Evil", while exploring a series of tunnels to try to sneak into Mumm-Ra's pyramid, Lion-O discovers a beautiful, brightly-lit room full of treasures. A mysterious figure, clearly terrorized by his presence, attacks him but is too weak and decrepit to put up any resistance. After Lion-O assures him that he is not a thief, the creature introduces himself as Maftet the Lynx God, explaining that millennia ago he was a much-renowned god, but that his power has withered to virtually nothing after enduring many centuries without having been worshipped. He goes on to explain that anyone can become a god, even Lion-O if he felt like it, but few attempt it as without worshippers, this is certain doom.
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Gods Need Prayer Badly / int_7fcbd3e	comment	Mystara: The Immortals need at least some worshipers or they fade away. They can come back if someone starts worshiping them again for some reason. A new Immortal can survive on power from his sponsor for his first year or so, but he'd better have found some worshipers by then.
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Gods Need Prayer Badly / int_803465e9	comment	Sierra's City-Building Series cuts both ways. While gods need sacrifices or festivals almost constantly, ignoring them only makes them angry. Cue earthquakes, plagues, floods, failing crops... On the other hand, keeping them happy also brings benefices.
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Gods Need Prayer Badly / int_82523872	comment	In Noragami, the more worshipers a god has, the greater their power. Main character Yato is hoping to become the most revered deity in the world, even though he's just a shrineless vagrant who waits on cell phone calls for jobs. He's reduced to granting wishes for Â¥5, whether they be finding a lost cat, cleaning a bathroom or breaking a curse. However, unlike normal fiction with this trait, a god with no followers whatsoever won't vanish, they'll merely continue their immortal lives with only a fraction of the power they could have. Revealed later to actually be a straight example of the trope. Gods disappear if they have no followers to pray to them, and if a god is slain, while a more popular god will reincarnate (albeit without their former incarnation's memories), an obscure god with few believers is out of luck. The fact that Yato has been able to endure for centuries is considered by others to be something of a miracle.
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Gods Need Prayer Badly / int_8281aef3	comment	KonoSuba: Gods gain power from their faithful. Aqua and her subordinate Eris are about equal in power, because while Eris has far more followers, Aqua's are just so damn passionate (read: completely insane) that she gets more bang for her buck. In the season 2 finale, they unknowingly power her up for the final battle by chanting her divine commandments. The fact that those commandments are random pseudo-philosophical drivel about avoiding responsibility explains why the cult is so bizarre.
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Gods Need Prayer Badly / int_8573ffe6	comment	Played very straight in The Acts of Caine, but with a history. A long time ago, gods had whatever power they could draw from T'nalldion a.k.a. Home, the fundamental pattern/source of all magic on Overworld. Then this lowly human named Jereth got involved in a religious war, kicked some ass, earned the title of Godslaughterer, and died to establish the Covenant of Pirichanthe, which limits the power of all deities to what their believers provide. The exceptions are the Outer Powers which feed on the suffering and fear of sentients, and the Blind God, who is happily nigh-omnipotent on Earth despite the fact that his worshipers neither believe he exists nor care.
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Gods Need Prayer Badly / int_86061aff	comment	This ends up becoming a gameplay mechanic and a key plot point in Neptunia. Goddess party members gain stat points when the shares of their homelands increases, usually by completing dungeons there. In the first game, Arfoire, the villain, spends most of the game spreading rumors of a fake overlord with monster attacks and heretics, using the fear and belief of the people to gain power. It's how she kept reviving and getting stronger each time. Re;Birth 1 (which takes notes from the first game but tells its own story) does something similar, and then flips it on its head. How do the CPUs defeat a monster that regenerates because people believe it will? Run a propaganda campaign to convince a majority of people it won't. In the second game, Arfoire's goons are deliberately increasing Arfoire's shares (by taking them from the goddesses) in order to revive Arfoire. At least thrice in the third game, but for separate reasons. The first time it happens, Eden, a new nation born from the Seven Sages (or what's left of them), ends up sapping the shares as the new console on the market, the TurboGrafx-16. The new console (Yellow Heart) holds well, but its price threshold and the eventual reveal about who she really is marks the end of its short life. The second time, although it takes place in the past but is explained near the end, the previous nation's CPU, Rei Ryghts, was the leader of Tari. She controlled the populace through fear and greed, but she didn't know her power was fueled by the people, so when that happened, the people revolted and she became extremely weak. In retaliation, she decided to destroy the entire nation outright. The third is when Hyper Dimension Rei manipulates the populace to only believe in her and weaken every other nation, effectively destroying the balance of the dimension's shares and threatening to destroy an entire dimension with her newfound power.
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Gods Need Prayer Badly / int_86312631	comment	Naturally, this is noted in The Tough Guide to Fantasyland, and that gods cease to exist without belief in them.
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Gods Need Prayer Badly / int_865b5c19	comment	In Runescape, pre-Retcon, most gods required worshipers to maintain their influence in a given world, though a few were able to draw energy directly from the Anima Mundi without mortal intermediaries. Post retcon, the gods' power has no direct connection to their followers.
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Gods Need Prayer Badly / int_86772227	comment	In Knights of the Dinner Table, after Bob's character, Knuckles III, dies, his next character (Knuckles IV) manages to get Knuckles III promoted to gawdhood. Temples to Knu-Kyle-Ra are now a recurring feature in the comic. Unfortunately, they don't owe Bob's other characters any favors.
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Gods Need Prayer Badly / int_877bfaf7	comment	Better Bones AU: Cats in the afterlife of StarClan who are more remembered and had stories told about them, usually for being famous for their actions in life, become more powerful, some to the point where they are comparable to minor gods (though only the collective StarClan is as powerful as the four main gods). If their belief builds up enough they will be able to keep their power even if cats stop remembering and believing in them later. Averted with said four gods themselves, though, though they might have originally been like that they have long since beyond too powerful for belief to matter.
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Gods Need Prayer Badly / int_88233763	comment	In the Book of Swords, when people find out gods can be killed, their faith is shaken. Eventually, it is discovered that humans created gods by believing... which they stop, destroying all the gods. This leads to the question of "If humans made the gods, where did humans come from?" (Inversion of a question often asked of theists in Real Life.)
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Gods Need Prayer Badly / int_88b580f0	comment	Werewolf: The Apocalypse: Tribal totems gain power from the Garou they sponsor. In one Time of Judgment scenario, Whipporwill grows weak due to insufficient worship from the Black Spiral Dancers, who divide their fealty among many different totem spirits. Grandfather Thunder then defeats Whipporwill, absorbs his gnosis, and assimilates the Black Spiral Dancers into the now-fallen Shadow Lord tribe.
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Gods Need Prayer Badly / int_89465e75	comment	For the most part averted in the Percy Jackson and the Olympians book series. The Olympians have not been widely worshipped in centuries and have not suffered any major loss in power. The Titans were sealed in Tartarus for thousands of years and survived. The almost unheard of snow goddess Khione is doing fine. However, there is some link. It's been stated that if Western Civilization were to fall, it would weaken the Olympians. Being forgotten can cause a god to lose their will to live, leaving them to fade from existence, though like Khione or the Titans it is largely a matter of personal will. The god Pan tried to fade two millennia ago, but the beliefs of nymphs and satyrs caused him to continue to live.
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Gods Need Prayer Badly / int_8a063c55	comment	The Gods of Arr-Kelaan gain power from their followers, but mostly they provide their own (considerable) power. Interestingly, the Abrahamic god is shown to be a concept created by a pantheon of minor gods in order to conserve the lessening magic in our world. The Traveler Gods actually gain power from worshipers in a slightly sideways manner - worship itself doesn't grant the gods more power, but deceased souls that have an affinity for them (including those that were never worshipers, or never even heard of them) are drawn to their afterlives to seek enlightenment through exploration of some state of being (such as through learning for Claremont, the god of Science). As souls Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence on achieving enlightenment, the gods gather power from the act of ascension. It's in their interests more to promote their portfolios rather than their faiths - Claremont would get more power from fostering a love of learning worldwide rather than creating an authoritarian church to enforce his dogma.
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Gods Need Prayer Badly / int_8a217f9c	comment	Alundra: The villagers of Inoa pray to Melzas, who is (unknown to said villagers) actually evil. Even better (or worse,) Melzas knows he gets his powers from prayer, and thus perpetuates a vicious cycle of secretly inflicting horrible nightmares on the people of Inoa to keep them in fear so that they keep praying to him. Also Nirude, a giant god, lives off the prayer of midgets.
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Gods Need Prayer Badly / int_8ca6f796	comment	In Chitra, Phobinus the God of Beauty wants to become a major player in his world's pantheon, like the God of Lightning or the God of War. To do this, he needs his apostle Chitra to attract faithful devotees to live in his kingdom (and eventually expand the territory). The more devotees a god has, the more powerful they become. In a flashback conversation between advisor Tornian (a native of the land) and Chitra (a girl from 21st century Earth) in Chapter 37, Tornian compares belief in the gods to a form of currency among the divine:
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Gods Need Prayer Badly / int_8ddaf763	comment	In the Fear Itself crossover, Iron Man mocks, invokes, and turns this into one helluva Tear Jerker. He started screaming at Odin and the other gods (but mostly Odin), yelling that if they wanted a sacrifice he'd give them the "only thing he could give worth anything": his sobriety, by taking a huge swig of alcohol. Even though it was a Narm scene, it was effective to the fans who know how hard he works to stay sober.
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Gods Need Prayer Badly / int_9004922f	comment	In Hogfather, this fact is deliberately used in an attempt to kill the Disc's Crystal Dragon Santa by using Mind Control to stop children from believing in him. When the Hogfather falls out of existence, all that belief goes into completely random concepts that never existed before, such as the Verruca Gnome; the Eater of Socks; and Bilious, the Oh God of Hangovers. Oh, and it might mean the end of the world. Hogfather also shows that old gods and mythological beings don't always fade away, sometimes they just change jobs. The Hogfather used to be a harbinger of the sun, and the Toothfairy used to be the original Boogey man. This would later come back in Going Postal and Making Money.
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Gods Need Prayer Badly / int_916f149a	comment	In Lanfeust, the Darshanide Gods need believers to exist. The first time the heroes visit the divine court, they witness the goddess LynrenÃ¶ fading into nothingness as her last believer dies.
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Gods Need Prayer Badly / int_91f0df16	comment	Salt and Sanctuary: The Nameless God, the Big Bad of the game, is a Deity of Human Origin Driven by Envy towards the true gods because they possess the one thing he can never have: the soul of a god. He exploited the hell out of this trope by imprisoning every other god in history, then began intercepting and answering all the prayers meant for them in their place in order to starve them to death. By the time of your arrival, only the Three are still left standing, reduced to mindless rotting husks that attack you on sight even if you are one of their worshippers. And the only reason they're still standing at all is because their religion is the most recently founded one in the setting so they've only been imprisoned for a relatively short time compared to the rest, who have all been there so long that they've decayed away to nothing.
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Gods Need Prayer Badly / int_929cef3c	comment	There is also a case of regional variance in power. The Graveyard Hag is a fairly weak goddess of trickery in most of the world. In her domain of Carthak, her power is so absolute only her father the god of death can oppose her. Although he's the kindest of the Great Gods and she isn't, he largely defers to her.
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Gods Need Prayer Badly / int_93b9b77c	comment	Nexus War: The Elder Powers need mortals to keep fighting for them in the titular war in order to have a chance at reshaping the cosmos and keeping the ideas that they represent relevant. The current pantheon is made up of the gods that win often enough that their divinity isn't immediately in peril (and there's no sign of a clear winner in sight), but all of them have no choice but to keep manipulating the war for eternity.
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Gods Need Prayer Badly / int_93cc5f35	comment	In Virtual Villagers 5: New Believers, you play as a giant flying hand god worshipped by your villagers. You can work miracles, called God Powers, that are key to solving the game's puzzles using energy that is increased by increasing the quantity and quality of your worship — your village's population growing, collecting relics, having the villagers carve a large block of stone in the middle of the village into a giant hand idol, and upgrading the Spirituality technology.
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Gods Need Prayer Badly / int_93fc1d2b	comment	Paper Mario. The star spirits in the first game gain power from the wishes of the denizens of Mushroom Kingdom. In the final boss fight, the young star spirit Twink gains enough power from Peach's wishes to beat up Bowser's sidekick and help Mario save the day.
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Gods Need Prayer Badly / int_942b7257	comment	A slight variant in Underling, in that they are powered by knowledge of them, even more so belief.
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Gods Need Prayer Badly / int_9a396de	comment	Re;Birth 1 (which takes notes from the first game but tells its own story) does something similar, and then flips it on its head. How do the CPUs defeat a monster that regenerates because people believe it will? Run a propaganda campaign to convince a majority of people it won't.
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Gods Need Prayer Badly / int_9a7088bc	comment	The original Star Trek episode "Who Mourns for Adonais?" involves a cosmic entity claiming to be the Greek God Apollo, who says that his fellow gods faded away as humans stopped worshiping them. He tries to force the Enterprise crew to worship him, but their resistance to the idea ultimately convinces him that humanity has indeed outgrown him, and he chooses to fade away himself.
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Gods Need Prayer Badly / int_9d1cd04f	comment	A major point in Naqua-Den as the Gods need prayers for power in order to fend off threats from malicious or corrupt Gods. But since most people in the modern era don't believe or worship them like they used to anymore, Nakua has to find ways to get them to do so.
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Gods Need Prayer Badly / int_9d34190a	comment	The Elder Scrolls: Throughout the series and in the Backstory, it is repeatedly implied that a deity becomes more powerful as they gain mortal worshipers. According to one theory, the Aedric Divines are technically dead, having sacrificed much of their power during the creation of Mundus, the mortal plane. Now, they "dream they are alive" through mortal prayer and worship. The deities who did not participate in the creation of Mundus, the Daedra, have Complete Immortality as they did not sacrifice any of their power to create the world, and can exist independent from prayer and worship. (Though they do seem to enjoy receiving it and may still gain power from it.) Other lesser deities can be outright killed by lack of worship. The reason it's easier for greater deities (Aedra and Daedra) is because they personify widely-known abstracts, so even if all their followers in one culture are purged, they have another culture to pick up the slack. As Aldmeri (precursors of the modern races of Mer) society evolved, commoners stopped worshiping their own ancestors and began worshiping the ancestors of their social "betters", elevating them to the level of gods through collective adulation. The warrior-spirit Trinimac was one such ancestor. (After being eaten and excreted by Boethiah, Trinimac would become the Daedric Prince of outcasts Malacath, and his followers became the first Orcs.) Morrowind: This is the case for the Tribunal (a trio of Dunmeri Physical Gods) after the Nerevarine severs their ties to their divine power source (the Heart of Lorkhan). Unlike Dagoth Ur, who is destroyed by this process, the Tribunal are able to persist with a trace of their divinity in tact thanks to, as Vivec states, the faith of their followers. Vivec actually has this going on in a second instance as well: In ages past, Sheogorath, the Daedric Prince of Madness, hurled the "rogue moon" Baar Dau at Vivec's new Egopolis. Vivec used his power to freeze it in place above the city, and told his followers that it was held in place by their love for him. Due in no small part to the player's actions, Vivec disappears early in the 4th Era. After some temporary measures fail, the moon continues its descent with its original momentum, destroying the city and causing Red Mountain to erupt, destroying most of Vvardenfell and choking much of mainland Morrowind with volcanic ash for centuries to come. Boethiah's Daedric quest is for this exact reason. His shrine has been destroyed and sunk beneath the sea, meaning he isn't getting as much worship as he used to. He tasks the player with rebuilding it so that he can once again receive worship. In Oblivion, if the Champion of Cyrodiil choses to do the Daedric quest for Sheogorath after becoming the new Sheogorath at the end of Shivering Isles, their servant questions why they just prayed to themself... only to then reconsider that as the Mad God, that sort of lunacy is rather appropriate. According to Word of God, this is a motivation of the Thalmor in Skyrim. The Aldmeri Dominion, led by the religious extremist Thalmor, a faction of elven supremacists, have forced the Empire to ban the worship of Talos, leading to the Stormcloak rebellion. The "official" reason for this ban is that the Thalmor believe that they descend from the Aedra and refuse to accept that a human could join their ranks. The unofficial reason is because they play up Altmeri religious beliefs which state that the creation of the mortal world was a cruel trick which robbed their ancestors of pre-creation divinity. They believe that Talos is one of the last things keeping the mortal world extant, and if he is destroyed, the mortal world would be destroyed as well, allowing them to return to a divine state. There is also evidence that they aren't completely wrong about this. Furthermore, it's possible that Talos isn't quite a god in the same way as the other Divines are, and he may have even surpassed them (and the Daedra as well). It's quite possible that he no longer even needs prayer. There's a rather good Game Mod for Skyrim that uses this trope as a gameplay mechanic, called Wintersun - Faiths of Skyrim. You can devote your character to a deity and gain their favour by praying to them regularly and following their tenets to get special powers specific to the deity you worship, and lose it by neglecting to pray or breaking the tenets. At 100% Favour you gain a special active ability that is very powerful, and at 0% Favour the deity abandons you. There are many deities to choose from: the Nine Divines build Favour slowly and apply more passive bonuses, but also can be appeased by simple prayer and are unlikely to abandon a faithful unless they egregiously defy the tenets or neglect worship. By contrast, followers of the Daedric Princes can gain impressive active powers very quickly but must perform strict tasks to stay in their good graces (and many of these tasks are illegal, immoral and/or deeply detrimental) - for example, Peryite can let you learn all skills at a much faster rate but the only way to gain his favour is to afflict yourself with diseases and trying to cure them can see Him abandoning you, Sanguine gives you a powerful booze based healing power but requires you to drinks tons of alcohol and flout the laws of the land for his amusement, and Boethiah can give you superior Daedra Invisibility for a time but He will want you to often murder innocent people. There are also race-specific deities, like the Khajiiti and Redguard pantheons, the Elven Ancestors, the Nord War God Shor, Sithis and Mannimarco.
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Gods Need Prayer Badly / int_9f02efb1	comment	EverQuest has two examples. Mayong Mistmoore ascends to Godhood because having a raiding party assembled to defeat him somehow counts as worship. When killed, his disembodied voice says "You have martyred me, you have worshipped me." The next several expansions deal with the repercussions until he's defeated again. Another expansion dealing with Time Travel showed the bad future after the end of the world. The only two survivors were Zebuxoruk (Sealed in a prison that could only be opened by the end of the world) and a single tree. The tree relied on him to keep the air bubble around the rock fragment, and that 'worship' gave him just enough power to maintain the air bubble.
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Gods Need Prayer Badly / int_9f89a5f0	comment	PokÃ©mon: In PokÃ©mon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire, Rayquaza is depicted as being a Physical God revered by the people of Hoenn, and its Mega Evolution is achieved through the player praying to it. It should also be pointed out that Mega Rayquaza has (as of PokÃ©mon Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon) the highest base stat total of all PokÃ©mon (only tied with both Mega Mewtwo X and Y). The Mythical Pokemon Calyrex in PokÃ©mon Sword and Shield suffered this. The people of Freezington forgot about it when its power waned and its steed abandoned it. When the player starts taking the steps to help Calyrex return to power (that include jogging the NPCs' memories about it), the crops in town that weren't doing too well start to grow better.
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Gods Need Prayer Badly / int_a0219faa	comment	Star Trek: New Frontier: Th Greek gods (who were also the Roman gods, the Norse gods, etc.,) known as the Beings, were kin to Apollo in the original series episode "Who Mourns for Adonais?" They eventually get all powerful thanks to the worship of the Danteri... and the fear of the Excalibur and the Trident. They're beaten by said crews becoming quite literally fearless, along with the help of Mark McHenry (the descendant of Apollo and Carolyn Palamas)... and Woden/Zeus/Santa Claus, god of all gods.
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Gods Need Prayer Badly / int_a2dee471	comment	In The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker, it's revealed that the Master Sword is fueled by the prayers of the Sages of Earth and Wind, who must play special songs in the inner sanctums of their respective temples to honor the gods and give the blade the ability to repel evil. In a dark display of Genre Savvy, the first thing Ganondorf does upon reviving is kill the Earth and Wind Sages, thus leaving the Master Sword powerless.
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Gods Need Prayer Badly / int_a3fcd166	comment	In The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Trilogy, Oolon Colluphid uses the existence of the Babel Fish to prove the existence of God, but since "proof denies faith" and God Needs Faith Badly, the concrete proof of his existence caused him to promptly vanish in a Puff of Logic. The text goes on to mention that while he made bank with the book spreading this argument, it's generally considered a bunch of dingo's kidneys.
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Gods Need Prayer Badly / int_a41b49fe	comment	In Kamisama Kiss, this is played largely straight. Early on, Tomoe explains to Nanami that fulfilling godly duties increases her overall magical abilities (called "Divine Power") and the fastest way is by answering the prayers who've come to the shrine. Later on in a flashback, Lady Yonomori explains that she came to exist when people living near the river grew fearful of the river flooding and being violent, so they created a shrine, and she came into being. However, eventually the people forgot the shrine and built a dam instead, which drowned the shrine and Yonomori faded from existence - much to the sorrow of Mizuki.
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Gods Need Prayer Badly / int_a6543322	comment	Touhou Project works like this (and Clap Your Hands If You Believe in general). This is most relevant in the 10th game, Mountain of Faith, where goddess Kanako Yasaka, faced with fading away due to modern Japan's waning faith in the divine, decides to relocate the Moriya Shrine to Gensokyo, where she ought to have an easier time finding worshipers. Unfortunately, this muscles in on the local religious "authority," protagonist Reimu Hakurei, and Bullet Hell ensues. After this ends, Kanako stays around and attempts to gain faith through other ways, treating the whole thing like a business venture.
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Gods Need Prayer Badly / int_a665b3aa	comment	In the Chaos Gods series, the gods are empowered by prayer. Strangely, however, despite it being a source of power to them, most of the gods seem to dislike and discourage human prayer. This is because the so-called High Gods and Low Gods are actually Demon Lords elevated to that rank by the Chaos Gods. Prayers directed to them actually feed the Chaos Gods instead.
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Gods Need Prayer Badly / int_a7ba3dc6	comment	Discussed at various points in The Confectionary Chronicles; Loki explains to Hermione that most modern witches and wizards gain their power from a â€œblessingâ€� performed by Hecate to try and preserve her worshippers as Christianity spread. Unfortunately for Hecate, this failed to guarantee her a steady supply of worshippers as she had intended, as witches and wizards lost their faith in the â€˜Triple Goddessâ€™ as time went on. Loki himself doesnâ€™t need prayer in the same sense given his true nature as Gabriel, and his children are also relatively unchanged in terms of their potential power as they were never worshipped in the first place. However, after spending so long acting as a pagan god, Gabriel can still draw some power from Hermioneâ€™s prayers to Loki, which he uses in particular to help himself travel in time on a couple of occasions without needing to exhaust himself rather than tap into Heaven and draw attention to his presence. The need for faith is the reason Odin was able to capture Loki in the past and lost to him in the present, as Odin has become weaker now that the Norse gods arenâ€™t worshipped on the same scale as they were before whereas Loki and his children are essentially on the same power level as they were in the past. Loki also mentions that while Samhain is a demon who has been trapped in Hell for centuries, he still has a degree of power on Halloween in particular, as mortals perform variations of the rituals he invoked.
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Gods Need Prayer Badly / int_a7ff76a4	comment	In Freddy vs. Jason, Freddy Krueger needs people to fear him to be able to infiltrate their dreams, so he became powerless when the inhabitants of Springwood systematically eradicated any trace of his existence. He uses Jason as a pawn to reinvigorate the locals' belief in him so he can return.
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Gods Need Prayer Badly / int_a825da3e	comment	Magic: The Gathering: The God cards of the Theros block are indestructible Legendary Enchantment Creatures, but if the god's controller doesn't have a strong enough devotion to that god's color (or colors) note measured by the number of colored mana symbols in the mana costs of permanents that player controls, they cease to be creatures altogether. This represents their in-universe nature, as the gods are born from humanity's beliefs infused in Nyx (Theros' magical night sky, associated with dreams and the subconscious). According to Kruphix, the god of horizons and mysteries, many gods have come and gone, including previous sun gods. Following Elspeth's death, Ajani Goldmane has openly declared war on the gods by convincing people not to worship them. The gods of Amonkhet are also powered by faith. When Nicol Bolas invaded the plane, he crippled them by immediately wiping out the entire adult mortal population, leaving behind only the faith of scared panicking children. Nicol Bolas promptly killed three of the gods and brainwashed the others into his unwitting shepherds.
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Gods Need Prayer Badly / int_a92c264a	comment	Being partially based on 40K, the Gods in Exterminatus Now work this way. Daemons, or at least former mortals, supposedly do as well.
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Gods Need Prayer Badly / int_ad55ec2d	comment	The Reluctant King: The gods need prayers and sacrifices from worshippers, or else they'll just fade away, eventually to death. Consequently, the more worship they receive the more powerful gods are. Poor little Tvasha has grown very weak indeed when Jorian finds his statue, but he repays Jorian's worship of him as best he can.
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Gods Need Prayer Badly / int_ad622d64	comment	A dark variant of this exists in the Malazan Book of the Fallen. Gods gain strength, retain their power and influence and become even more powerful thanks to the prayers of their followers. A god who is not prayed to becomes gradually forgotten and eventually dies. Yet at the same time, accepting worship binds them to their followers, sometimes even distorting their nature and directing their actions against their own will.
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Gods Need Prayer Badly / int_adbcf945	comment	In Too Much Information (2005) some spirits can become Astrals by having enough worshipers. Losing those worshipers causes them to die.
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Gods Need Prayer Badly / int_b4816c2e	comment	Legacy of Kain: The Elder God is sustained by consuming the souls of the dead. How this fits into this trope is that the Ancients worshipped it as a deity and used to offer it their souls as religious sacrifice. However, the war between the Ancients and the Hylden resulted in the Hylden turning the Ancients into vampires with near-immortality, thus preventing them from sacrificing their souls to the Elder God and it shunning them eternally. Eons later, Kain's decision to not sacrifice himself to purify the Pillars of Nosgoth and instead raise an empire of vampires to conquer the world results in an eternity of decay and the disruption of the Elder God's source of food.
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Gods Need Prayer Badly / int_b5a2b326	comment	Morrowind: This is the case for the Tribunal (a trio of Dunmeri Physical Gods) after the Nerevarine severs their ties to their divine power source (the Heart of Lorkhan). Unlike Dagoth Ur, who is destroyed by this process, the Tribunal are able to persist with a trace of their divinity in tact thanks to, as Vivec states, the faith of their followers. Vivec actually has this going on in a second instance as well: In ages past, Sheogorath, the Daedric Prince of Madness, hurled the "rogue moon" Baar Dau at Vivec's new Egopolis. Vivec used his power to freeze it in place above the city, and told his followers that it was held in place by their love for him. Due in no small part to the player's actions, Vivec disappears early in the 4th Era. After some temporary measures fail, the moon continues its descent with its original momentum, destroying the city and causing Red Mountain to erupt, destroying most of Vvardenfell and choking much of mainland Morrowind with volcanic ash for centuries to come. Boethiah's Daedric quest is for this exact reason. His shrine has been destroyed and sunk beneath the sea, meaning he isn't getting as much worship as he used to. He tasks the player with rebuilding it so that he can once again receive worship.
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Gods Need Prayer Badly / int_b67ae714	comment	Subverted in The Soldier Son trilogy by Robin Hobb. The main character attempts to denounce that he owes ones of the "Old gods" a favour, saying that he "Believes in the Good God - You have no power over me" at which point the Old God laughs and tells him "How weak do you think Gods are? Do you think we require your belief in us to exist, how weak would such a god be?"
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Gods Need Prayer Badly / int_b9b796cf	comment	Fate/stay night: The Heroic Spirits (not outright gods but at least a few levels of spiritualism above humans) mostly exist due to - and are partially sustained and empowered by - the belief they've inspired in humanity and their strength is based as much on their Popularity Power as it is on their skills in life. As Rin explains in the game prologue, even fictional characters count. What matters is the image created by the minds of the people. The game features two major explorations of this - Assassin is a nameless samurai called forth to play the role of Sasaki Kojiro, an opponent of Miyamoto Musashi, who is entirely fictional in the Nasuverse. In other words, the pure belief that humanity has in the existence of said hero is so strong that it allows him to exist, albeit through summoning a nameless spirit to take on his name and fill his role. On the flip side, Archer (EMIYA) is a hero from the future; nobody knows of his existence and he therefore owes neither his existence nor any of his powers from belief, persisting as a Heroic Spirit only through the connection all Heroic Spirits have with the earth itself. Heracles, naturally, gets top billing either way you look at it, being a monumentally popular mythological figure and a peerless hero in his time. The actual gods of the Nasuverse also experienced this. While some existed before there were beings who could believe in them, many Divine Spirits were created by the belief of humanity. As time passed and worship waned, they faded and became weaker Elementals, or ceased to exist. Gilgamesh was created by the gods of ancient Mesopotamia in a vain attempt to stop this from happening to them. He saw that the gods were oppressing humanity, and instead hastened their end. The Greek Gods/Olympians play with this. In their original forms, they didn't need worship because their power was innate to their beings as giant divine mecha and worship simply served to bolster them further. After a certain incident involving the White Titan Sefar about 14,000 years before the present-day, however, their original bodies were destroyed but their spirits lingered on, at which point they became dependent on human worship to anchor and maintain their existence. But it wasn't all bad as this allowed them to develop human emotions due to constant contact with humans.
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Gods Need Prayer Badly / int_b9cc7496	comment	While God, angels, and demons in Dogma apparently exist independently of humans, they are still influenced by the way humans believe in them. This is made more explicit in some of the deleted scenes.
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Gods Need Prayer Badly / int_ba06ad8b	comment	Warhammer: The Chaos Gods are both formed and fueled by the concepts they represent. On the other hand, they don't really need prayer: every feeling of anger, ecstasy, hope, or despair feeds one of the Chaos Gods, whether the person who has the feeling is a follower of Chaos or not (and praying to Khorne instead of killing and bleeding is liable to get your head chopped off). Background material indicates this is the same for all deities, except for the God of Atheism, who gets strong if people don't believe in anything. Warhammer 40,000: It's speculated that the Emperor of Mankind's almost militant atheism and denial of any superstitious talk of "daemons" was a direct attempt to starve the Chaos Gods of belief. While this effort obviously failed, the Imperium's faith in the God-Emperor of Mankind may have helped him become a proper deity himself, enhancing his already-formidable psychic presence and giving humanity a fighting chance, and it must be mentioned that the Horus Heresy is the only documented time when all four chaos gods got off their collective behinds and actually seriously worked to affect the galaxy at large, so the Emperor might have had something right to scare them that way. The Necrons' master plan to end Chaos works like this pre-6th edition. The Ruinous Powers are embodiments of emotions felt by living creatures, so, if you kill off all living beings in the universe (the Necrons are robots inhabited by uploaded consciousness, and don't register as living creatures for the purpose of Chaos), there'll be nothing for Chaos to feed on. Warhammer Fantasy Battle: The von Carsteins want to convert the entire world to zombies under their command in order to deny Chaos their bodies and minds. Sadly, the other factions failed to see the logic in this and fight the vampires as much as they do Chaos and each other. This is based off the plan of their forebearer, Nagash the Undying, who considers this Step 1 in his plan to Kill and Replace the Chaos Gods and be the only will in existence. The serpent god Sotek is implied to have been created by the belief (and thousands of skaven sacrifices) of the skinks. The skink-priest Tehenhauin found a golden plaque he believed prophesied the god's coming, and though the Slaan mage-priests initially disdained his claims when Sotek did show up they acknowledged his arrival as part of the Old Ones plans. It's not totally clear if he was correct all along about his interpretation of the plaque or if the events were his own doing but, when faced with a living deity and possible rebellion from the skinks who effectively run Lizardmen society, the Slann decided to not to argue.
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Gods Need Prayer Badly / int_bcadd7cb	comment	Warhammer 40,000: It's speculated that the Emperor of Mankind's almost militant atheism and denial of any superstitious talk of "daemons" was a direct attempt to starve the Chaos Gods of belief. While this effort obviously failed, the Imperium's faith in the God-Emperor of Mankind may have helped him become a proper deity himself, enhancing his already-formidable psychic presence and giving humanity a fighting chance, and it must be mentioned that the Horus Heresy is the only documented time when all four chaos gods got off their collective behinds and actually seriously worked to affect the galaxy at large, so the Emperor might have had something right to scare them that way. The Necrons' master plan to end Chaos works like this pre-6th edition. The Ruinous Powers are embodiments of emotions felt by living creatures, so, if you kill off all living beings in the universe (the Necrons are robots inhabited by uploaded consciousness, and don't register as living creatures for the purpose of Chaos), there'll be nothing for Chaos to feed on.
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Gods Need Prayer Badly / int_bdc2b9c1	comment	In Age of Mythology, the player literally generates favour for their gods to produce mythical creatures, heroes and upgrades. Greeks pray at temples, Egyptians build monuments, Norse go to war, and Altanteans control town centers to generate favour.
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Gods Need Prayer Badly / int_be59a7e9	comment	Servants of Remnant: Achilles comments that since no one on Remnant has heard of the Servants, they are not as strong. He notes it is similar to when the people of Chaldea were the only people who believed in them when they were fighting the Singularities and Lostbelts, so he is used to it.
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Gods Need Prayer Badly / int_c054aa77	comment	In Cult of the Lamb, the Lamb receives power from their followers and if they all leave or die, going too long without any results in a Non-Standard Game Over that deletes your save file.
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Gods Need Prayer Badly / int_c1d0f909	comment	Implied in Suicide Squad (2016). El Diablo says that as his criminal empire grew, his pyrokinesis seemed to get stronger in proportion to his wealth, respect, and political power. And he seems to be possessed or the reincarnation of an Aztec God or something.
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Gods Need Prayer Badly / int_c2ee71a6	comment	Worm Grand Order: Hero meets a god nicknamed the Old Man who explains that he is from a religion that had been long forgotten on Earth Bet. No one on Earth Bet has any faith, so gods like him are on their last legs and will disappear soon.
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Gods Need Prayer Badly / int_c3d129cd	comment	Gods don't need followers to survive in High School DÃ—D, but it certainly helps. The old pantheons consist of very powerful individuals, but without faithful to carry out their will on a strategic scale, there's not much they can do. Especially since most of the world is some variant of Abrahamic, and all Abrahamic religions actually refer to the same (physically extant) heaven and holy figures, meaning the Angel faction is a juggernaut. God being dead and the angels' powers being reliant on a rickety system that requires blind faith that would be compromised by active leadership, along with a manpower shortage after the Great Offscreen War are needed to balance what would otherwise be a story-breaking advantage.
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Gods Need Prayer Badly / int_c43df4d8	comment	Doctor Who. The Monster of the Week in "The God Complex" turns out to be an alien god imprisoned by a race that had Outgrown Such Silly Superstitions. The prison abducts people and forces them through terror into expressing their faith, which the god then devours. The episode is a deconstruction of the Doctor, who is also an ageless being with godlike pretensions, sustained by the hero worship of his companions. The spin-off audio "Time in Office" sees the Fifth Doctor meet the Arimcei, a race of beings who genuinely need the faith of others to keep themselves alive, which is helped by the fact that their voice touches a part of the brain that makes one believe that a god has actually spoken to them. They previously had quite a few planets to their name, praising them as gods. They were forced to retreat after they tried to establish their reign on Gallifrey, and the Doctor's companion Tegan unintentionally destroys them when she proves to their last worshippers that they're fakes.
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Gods Need Prayer Badly / int_c48af607	comment	DC has this apply to Uncle Sam, whose power is directly proportional to the American People's belief in freedom and liberty. Whether American protectorates like Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Virgin Islands' people's belief in freedom and liberty counts towards this is never specified.
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Gods Need Prayer Badly / int_c66faaaa	comment	This is a very important part of The Avatars Trilogy; the gods and goddesses of various pantheons are growing progressively weaker as fewer and fewer people believe in them, or even remember their names. This does, however, lead to a very interesting take with the Greco-Roman pantheon, with several of them opting to use either their Greek or Roman names depending on which is more well-known (i.e., Zeus continues using his original name rather than the less well known Jupiter, but Venus and Vulcan have all but abandoned the names Aphrodite and Hephaestus).
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Gods Need Prayer Badly / int_c70a1171	comment	Conan the Barbarian: In one of the later Savage Sword of Conan comics, Conan's physical likeness to a hero-turned-demigod is exploited by a local tyrant looking to put down a growing rebellion and win droves of recruits to his army. (Said hero, Shan, had once promised to return to his people one day when their suffering became intolerable.) This becomes problematic when the actual demigod shows up on the battlefield and strikes down everyone who participated in the fraud, except Conan. Impressed by his bravado, Shan decides to slay Conan in hand-to-hand combat. Clearly outmatched, Conan undermines Shan by questioning his motives, pointing out that if he really cared about the welfare of his worshipers, he would have freed them from the tyrant long ago; he only appeared on the battlefield because he was in serious danger of losing their adulation. Conan's words make Shan's followers question their belief, which actually de-powers the deity. Conan finally disarms him and runs him through, forcing Shan to retreat to the realm of the gods, now deprived of the worship needed to sustain him. Averted by Crom. He's liable to kill anyone who dares pray to him, as it implies his gift of life and the will to do battle was not enough. Though in the movies, he does answer Conan's first and only prayer to him due to the extraordinary circumstances.
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Gods Need Prayer Badly / int_ca4949d1	comment	Villains by Necessity: With the banishing of the Dark and Evil from the world, gods related to those things faded as their worshipers disappeared. They didn't cease to exist though, as the end shows those gods returning when the Dark and Evil do.
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Gods Need Prayer Badly / int_cbbb2270	comment	Tears to Tiara 2: The reason Tart at first could not cast even a single heal spell and is no different from a teenage girl. Her people are forced by the Holy Empire to worship Watos, and her temples are torn down to build churches. Only by Hamil's desperate pleas for guidance was she even able to take form. Part of her powers come back to her on the Canaanites' battle cry of Ashtarte, and prevents both of them from being burnt alive.
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Gods Need Prayer Badly / int_cce6f49d	comment	Between The Rivers: It appears to be the case that the gods depend on their worshipers, though part of the plot is that the gods have taken care to prevent any of their worshipers suspecting this.
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Gods Need Prayer Badly / int_ccffdd1f	comment	Dominions II: The faith of people in various provinces is represented by a candle. This affects the knowledge you have on the province, the level at which you can affect it and, should you move it into the area, the hitpoints of your Pretender God.
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Gods Need Prayer Badly / int_cf725007	comment	Daughter of the Sun: The more worship, prayer and sacrifices the gods get, the stronger they are. Aelia is a very weak chaos god with almost no worshipers, so she's very envious of her more powerful divine siblings with lots of them.
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Gods Need Prayer Badly / int_cfcbc91d	comment	Scarred Lands: This is the status for the gods... except for Chaotic Evil Vangal, who derives his power from how many people his worshippers slaughter. Otherwise he would've died, since most people aren't too keen on worshipping a Blood Knight who doesn't even pretend to have any other motive besides fun.
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Gods Need Prayer Badly / int_cfd860dd	comment	The actual gods of the Nasuverse also experienced this. While some existed before there were beings who could believe in them, many Divine Spirits were created by the belief of humanity. As time passed and worship waned, they faded and became weaker Elementals, or ceased to exist. Gilgamesh was created by the gods of ancient Mesopotamia in a vain attempt to stop this from happening to them. He saw that the gods were oppressing humanity, and instead hastened their end.
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Gods Need Prayer Badly / int_d1bf110e	comment	In Sleepy Princess in the Demon Castle, the level of power a god currently holds is directly proportional to the amount of faith and prayer they receive from humans at any given moment. For Poseidon, under normal circumstances he has enough faith to be reasonably powerful but nothing special, but on "Marine Day", a holiday during which faith in him is at an all-time high, his power skyrockets, along with him transforming into an adult form.
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Gods Need Prayer Badly / int_d2cd3b5e	comment	In Nomine: The non-Abrahamic gods are called Ethereals, explained as being formed by humanity's imagination and empowered by their worship. The angels came up with the different Abrahamic religions and Buddhism in order to undercut their power, and Uriel opted to wipe them out directly before God yanked him up to the Higher Heavens to have a little chat with him about it. Of course, the Ethereals say that Yahweh/Jehovah/God/Allah was one of them and simply managed to gain enough worship to Retcon reality.
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Gods Need Prayer Badly / int_d4563edc	comment	Adam R. Brown's Astral Dawn series plays with this trope through the high spirits. Many high spirits became gods during a period called the God Age. The psychic energy they received from their followers made them even stronger than they had become. All high spirit gods, be they light or dark, are beyond normal space-time, allowing them to feed off of their worshippers from a specific time period. This means they never need to worry about their worshippers decreasing or dying off.
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Gods Need Prayer Badly / int_d47b7f5f	comment	The Trickster's Duet mentions this principle, although it's not necessarily the number of people who believe, but who's in power. The trickster god Kyprioth needs his followers to defeat the mortal followers of his siblings Mithros and the Great Mother Goddess in order to gain enough power to defeat them, return from the exile they imposed, and resume rule over the Copper Isles.
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Gods Need Prayer Badly / int_d4d8ce5f	comment	Deadlands: The godlike Reckoners/Manitou gain more power when they spread fear and belief in the supernatural.
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Gods Need Prayer Badly / int_d57d722e	comment	Power-ups in Ōkami come from the praise you get for performing miracles. And at the end, Ammy gets an 11th-Hour Superpower through people praying directly to her. Purely cosmetic, though. Overall, this trope seems to be one of the game's underlying themes, as it's mentioned quite early on how people's faith in the divine has dwindled. This mechanic returns in the sequel, Ōkamiden.
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Gods Need Prayer Badly / int_d5ad47ed	comment	In A Moment of Peace the gods of the universe eat human emotions to survive, like baked cheer or gruel made of sorrow.
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Gods Need Prayer Badly / int_d5b6d7cd	comment	Literally the basic story premise of Smite. The Gods need prayers, so they fight in various arenas to prove who's Top God.
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Gods Need Prayer Badly / int_d603791d	comment	In Rise of the Guardians, the Guardians (and other beings) cannot be seen or touched by those who don't believe in them, and are weakened by lack of belief. This becomes a problem when Pitch Black, AKA the Boogeyman, attempts to destroy children's belief in them, as he is tired of children not fearing him, at one point weakening Bunny to the size and shape of a regular rabbit.
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Gods Need Prayer Badly / int_d7c4626a	comment	The Sandman (1989) has gods born from dreams and when they are forgotten they return to the world of dreams to eventually fade away. Lucifer follows a similar idea. The goddess Bast is a shadow of her former self. A brief burst of belief from a young cat-loving boy gives her the energy to create a portal to allow her to visit Dream. Ishtar had to become a stripper, the love goddess reduced to feeding off the sexual "worship" of her clients. Pharamond changed his role and became a minor god of transportation, supported by his travel business. The Japanese gods absorb articles of faith from other pantheons and modern times to survive. The Norse gods appear to be doing pretty well though, as they still have genuine worshipers on Earth. In fact, Neil Gaiman frequently reminded readers that The Endless are not gods, because they do not care if they are remembered and will persist long after humanity is gone. They really are Death, Dream, Despair etc, and their existence depends on these aspects of the universe rather than mythology, and not just on Earth. That said they can be altered by human perception or simple changes in the cosmos, but these changes typically happen over the course of eons.
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Gods Need Prayer Badly / int_d8520b74	comment	Referred to in Sam & Max: Freelance Police, where Hell is conquered because too many goofy portrayals in media mean that nobody believes Beelzebub to be a threat any more and thus he is weakened, whereas the Soda Poppers are widely hated enough to have the power to challenge him.
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Gods Need Prayer Badly / int_da9864b	comment	In the 2010 Clash of the Titans, Zeus and most of the Olympians sustain their immortality through the prayers of humans. This provides a problem when humans not only stop worshiping Olympus, but actively try and starve the gods of badly-needed prayers through blasphemy. As one would expect, it doesn't go well... especially since Hades doesn't need people to pray to him. Hades draws power from people's fear of death. In the sequel Wrath of the Titans, prayers have dwindled so much that the gods have all lost their immortality and many have died before the movie even started. They still have most of their powers, but they are fading. Thus, the Titans are breaking free.
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Gods Need Prayer Badly / int_db2eaaa1	comment	In The Book of Life, in order to stay in the joyous Land of the Remembered the dead need the living to remember them. If they are forgotten by the living they go the Land of the Forgotten.
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Gods Need Prayer Badly / int_db666026	comment	In Chapter 97 of The Gamer, it is revealed that gods are born from people's shared belief.
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Gods Need Prayer Badly / int_dc63e32f	comment	In the world of The Saga of Billy, this is the case for the lesser gods, like Bit'hum, protector of Roads and Pathways. However, the greater gods are actually recognized as such if they are self-sufficient. These major deities' powers are fueled by the simple actions of mortals, which are now akin to worship: for instance, the god of Craftsmanship is sustained by the fact there are craftsmen in the world, and the goddess of Motherhood is unconsciously worshipped with every birth.
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Gods Need Prayer Badly / int_dcbaf050	comment	Subverted in Thor: Love and Thunder, where gods doesn't seem to need worshipers at all, given Rapu's indifference to Gorr being his last devotee (and even tells him there'll always be more believers and there is no eternal reward as he believed). It is this callous indifference that sets Gorr down the path to becoming the God-Butcher, murdering gods with the Necrosword. The other gods of Omnipotence City seem to pass the time in carefree hedonism, similarly not needing belief or competing for believers.
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Gods Need Prayer Badly / int_dd261527	comment	Come The Trials of Apollo, where Apollo is rendered mortal, there is a bit more information provided on the subject. All of the pantheons in this universe (Egyptian, Norse, etc.) are tied to the cultural impact they have had on society, and draw power from the memories and beliefs people have about them. This explains why the loss of Apollo as the god of the sun can still leave the world in functioning condition, without people wondering where the hell the sun went, because the sun gods of other mythologies (and the scientific explanation for why the sun rises and sets) can pick up the slack. Should the culture they are tied to disappear, or should no one remember them, then they would ultimately fade away. This trope is also exploited by the new big bads of the series called the Triumvirate, a trio of Roman emperors who made such a historical impact that they have been able to live for thousands of years off of people's worship and memory of them.
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Gods Need Prayer Badly / int_dda7f303	comment	In Dark Heart, the gods of Caliel are more powerful the more worshipers they have. The world's new gods, Vraxor, Shayna and Nimrod, exploited this effect to undermine the power of the old gods and ultimately destroy them.
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Gods Need Prayer Badly / int_deaae920	comment	In Dungeon Crawl, the gods are powered by worship. This doesn't come up very much because most of them have plenty of worshipers, but there are a couple exceptions: Jiyva the Shapeless, god of slimes. There's only one slime powerful enough to sustain it; if you kill it, Jiyva ceases to exist (unless you took it upon yourself to worship it beforehand, in which case you'll suffer penance for killing such a powerful slime). Ignis the Dying Flame, a god of fire whose worshipers have all left it long ago. Ignis is so obscure that you can't even choose to follow it in the usual way; you can start the game worshiping Ignis as a Cinder Acolyte, or a faded altar might turn out to be dedicated to Ignis, but otherwise you'll never see any sign of it. Those who do find and follow Ignis will be granted what little power it has left all at once — you'll have access to a few potent fiery abilities, but they have limited uses and don't scale well past the early game. Use up all your piety with Ignis and you'll be stuck with a nigh-useless husk of a god; at that point, it's often better to abandon it for a new god, despite Ignis subsequently burning itself completely out in an attempt to kill you for the betrayal.
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Gods Need Prayer Badly / int_df277244	comment	American Gods uses this as a central plot point. There's some major Fridge Logic (or perhaps Fridge Brilliance) at one point given the slighting way one of them refers to Jesus. Given that deities are powered by belief and sacrifice, he (probably along with Vishnu) would likely be the most powerful god around at present. There's also the implication that each nation has localised versions of gods: the American Kali mentions that there is a much more powerful Indian Kali, the protagonist briefly meets an Icelandic Odin and a powerless Jesus in Afghanistan is mentioned. Ä’ostre is shown to be one of the most powerful old gods thanks to Easter. Even though most people, even self-proclaimed "pagans", don't know about her connection to the holiday. Gaiman was originally going to include a scene where Shadow met Jesus, but didn't like it and took it out. It's included in an appendix to the 10th Anniversary Edition. There he explains that he is very successful, but at the cost of losing a cohesive identity as so many people come up with their own idea of what he is.
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Gods Need Prayer Badly / int_e293455a	comment	There's a Buffy the Vampire Slayer fic that deals with the gang visiting a realm that serves as a home for the forgotten gods to seek help from Ares. While there Ares comments that two of the gods don't really belong there since they seem to have plenty of followers, a South American god still worshiped by natives, and even more strangely, a norse god who seems to have gained power in the last century. Another fic has as a subplot Illyria becoming a famous singer with a rather rabid fan base; according to the God-King, they actually work better than modern day worshipers.
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Gods Need Prayer Badly / int_e2bb8bee	comment	The Cosmere: Warbreaker has an unusual take on the trope: the Returned subsist on what are widely considered human souls (Breath) that must be given willingly. Thus, Returned need people to believe in them enough that they would willingly give up their souls to see them live another week. In this case, it helps that the Returned can, in turn, give away their own Breath - albeit at the cost of their life - in order to heal someone. Additionally, any person who gives up their Breath for one of the gods receives generous financial compensation. The Shard Odium (the Greater-Scope Villain of the Cosmere as a whole, but most present in The Stormlight Archive) does this in a weird way. He doesn't need or want worship, but rather encourages mortals to hate and blame him (or anyone other than themselves, really) for all their mistakes, and then psychologically manipulate them into using that to excuse serving him; they can also let him remove the pain they feel from guilt, resulting in robotlike servants who insist that they can't be blamed for doing horrible things.. However, it's not clear if he's literally consuming their emotions or just figuratively; one villain was the subject of a Breaking Speech where a hero pointed out that joining Odium obviously hasn't actually made him feel better. Another villain was reduced to a guilt-ridden mess just from some magic which removed his Spiritual Connection to Odium. Wax and Wayne averts this, as a god's power or existence is independent of how much worship they receive. In fact, the three gods of Northern Scadrial ended up with inversely related to the amount of followers (all three religions are henotheistic, worshiping one god in a pantheon). The Shard Harmony is the only genuine Physical God, but his religion is the smallest and forbids worship (to be exact, doing good things serves as worship, and actual worship is considered a waste of time). Ironeyes is immortal and arguably the most powerful living Allomancer and Feruchemist, and has a religion of an unspecified size between the other two. Itâ€™s at least bigger than Harmonyâ€™s because Ironeyes hijacked the Lord Rulerâ€™s religion from the previous trilogy, which was fanatically followed by the government. The Survivor is the most ineffective because he died three hundred years ago, until he turns up alive in the South. His religion is the biggest because he engineered it to incite widespread, fanatical devotion among the massive skaa population, promising (and delivering) hope in a Crapsack World. The Stormlight Archive: It is theoretically possible for gods of this sort to exist as extremely powerful spren (beings shaped by thoughts), but it's unclear if they would actually have godlike power. The Stormfather is shaped by human belief in the Almighty, since the actual Almighty is dead and apparently gave the core of his being to the Stormfather, but he was already the strongest spren on Roshar before that started happening.
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Gods Need Prayer Badly / int_e2f9b5f8	comment	In one of the later Savage Sword of Conan comics, Conan's physical likeness to a hero-turned-demigod is exploited by a local tyrant looking to put down a growing rebellion and win droves of recruits to his army. (Said hero, Shan, had once promised to return to his people one day when their suffering became intolerable.) This becomes problematic when the actual demigod shows up on the battlefield and strikes down everyone who participated in the fraud, except Conan. Impressed by his bravado, Shan decides to slay Conan in hand-to-hand combat. Clearly outmatched, Conan undermines Shan by questioning his motives, pointing out that if he really cared about the welfare of his worshipers, he would have freed them from the tyrant long ago; he only appeared on the battlefield because he was in serious danger of losing their adulation. Conan's words make Shan's followers question their belief, which actually de-powers the deity. Conan finally disarms him and runs him through, forcing Shan to retreat to the realm of the gods, now deprived of the worship needed to sustain him.
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Gods Need Prayer Badly / int_e4e6153f	comment	In Laurell K. Hamilton's Merry Gentry series, the main characters are fairies, and referred to repeatedly as deities or former deities. Those who are still believed in [e.g., Frost] grow in power, and those who are no longer believed in diminish. There are also characters who exist as a sort of vampiric ghost of gods whose worshippers have died out, referred to as the Starving Ones - they are responsible for several slaughters, increasing in scale, in one of the books, as they use the energy to attempt to rebuild themselves. The Fey are touchy about this, as most both believe in the existence of higher powers (which have no need for worship) and that they never were gods, seeing the collapse of most of their power (causing them to watch the deaths of the worshippers they could no longer care for) as punishment for the hubris of ever thinking they were. At the same time, they are influenced by human attitudes, and can feed off human notice, admiration and attraction. Also, by now the title character technically has a few human worshippers.
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Gods Need Prayer Badly / int_e556181c	comment	It is possible (if more of a stretch) that it's not based on worship, but on awareness. Lots of people know who Odin is, but not many worship him. This theory gets traction in Skin Game when Hades, who is still as powerful as ever, says he never asked for prayers and sacrifices, and was honestly a bit confused at the point of worshiping him. After all, what would come of it? Did they think he would be merciful? Answer: no. Hades is not merciful. Hades gives you exactly what you deserve, good or bad, completely fairly. Which is why we can all take heart that Deirdre's fate will be just as horrible as she deserves.
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Gods Need Prayer Badly / int_e6267766	comment	Star Wars Legends: The Yuuzhan Vong, a species of zealots, seem to think this way: "The gods may have created us, but it is we who sustain them through worship." Although with their creation myth (life was created through a terrible wound inflicted on its creator), this could instead refer to the expression of their worship through omnicide returning the gift of life to the gods.
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Gods Need Prayer Badly / int_e66a25a9	comment	Rifts: Gods are naturally more powerful in their own home dimensions, and ones where they have a strong base of the devoted, than in any other dimension.
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Gods Need Prayer Badly / int_e6758d93	comment	Scion: A character's Legend rating represents how well-renowned an individual is, and determines the strength of his divine powers. Full-blooded deities have very high Legend ratings, but some very famous mortals even without divine Ichor can have very low Legend ratings. Notably, this connection works both ways: the higher a character's Legend, the stronger the Fatebindings they create, which force people the character works Legend around into various roles (the Lover, the Jinx, the Catastrophe)... and in turn force the character to adhere to those roles as well (by granting dice pool bonuses for doing so and penalties for not doing so). This is why the Gods don't walk the World the way they used to.
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Gods Need Prayer Badly / int_e6841b88	comment	Very important in Kannagi: Crazy Shrine Maidens. As traditional faith dwindled the sisters have been losing their powers to the point where they are fighting over the remaining faith power. Nagi's sacred tree which once sustained her has been cut down, and Zange's is inside a church, further dwindling / altering their powers and conditions. Zange has been taking on Christian aspects and resorting to setting herself up as a pop star to gain "faith" in the form of fans. The more believers they get, the more powerful they become.
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Gods Need Prayer Badly / int_e75c6d45	comment	Goblins Minmax gets to experience what it is like to be a god when he says the wrong thing in a room where false statements become true. After he is returned to normal, he says that being a god without worshipers sucks so he created a miniature universe in a bottle. So apparently, gods can exist without followers, but doing so is extremely painful.
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Gods Need Prayer Badly / int_e8d18577	comment	Goddess Reborn Chronicle, sort of. Given a high amount of Unreliable Narrator, it's unclear how much effect belief and prayer have on demons but it clearly has a high importance. The rise of Humanism for instance is explicitly spelled out as part of why Veritas is doing so well, as well as the spread of Gnosticism, Buddhism, Neo-Paganism and belief systems that believe in choice and humanity's ability to rise above on their own merits and transcend the ordinary.
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Gods Need Prayer Badly / int_e91580b	comment	This trope is typically averted in spinoff series (Last Bible, Devil Children, Devil Survivor 2) where demons and gods have different origins than in main series. Strange Journey downplays this with the gods and demons who instead emerge from "the will of the Earth", and thus don't require humans to exist (though they can still benefit from human worship), and averts it entirely with an incarnation of God who predates humankind. Persona 3 averts this with Nyx, who is a Cosmic Entity predating complex life on Earth.
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Gods Need Prayer Badly / int_ea4c5e89	comment	In Dark Shores prayer is necessary for gods to exist. That is why they have disappeared from the East, as Celendrial Empire is militantly atheist and "paganism" is punished with death. Teriana says once that there used to be more gods but now only the Seven still exist.
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Gods Need Prayer Badly / int_ec2531c4	comment	In Coco, the dead vanish (or perhaps go somewhere beyond the Land of the Dead; nobody knows) when no living person remembers them any more, and when no one places their picture on their ofrenda.
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Gods Need Prayer Badly / int_ec9155b1	comment	Small Gods concerns the rise, fall, and return of the Great God Om, patron deity of the theocratic empire of Omnia. He left at the height of his power, promising to return during the rise of the next prophet. When he does come back from his godly vacation, he finds himself inexplicably trapped in the body of a small tortoise, unable to conjure more than a spark of static. As it turns out, his followers began to believe less in him and more in his church, or more specifically that showing proper commitment to the church was less likely to have you tortured to death for heresy. By Om's return, only a single lowly acolyte believes in the actual deity Om rather than Omnianism. There's also one man who disbelieves in him so intensely and specifically (and to his face) that it's almost as good; Om is suitably impressed at this and takes something of a liking to him. In the end, it takes an impossible-to-deny public miracle to bring him to proper, Divine strength.
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Gods Need Prayer Badly / int_ecd2d797	comment	Baldur's Gate shows that a dead god can still exist if its followers are still undead echoes, believing they must live for eternity guarding the temple of a dead god, which at the same time creates a demon of hatred to fight their dead god, time and time again. The god wouldn't be without its guardians, and the guardians wouldn't be without their god, thus both perpetually creating a living echo of each other.
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Gods Need Prayer Badly / int_edd0982	comment	Seven Kingdoms had temples where you'd sent people to pray to your nations "Greater Being" (based on a god of the respective mythology). In this case, you'd could either summon the god himself (some are fighters, some have special abilities) or trigger a random miracle.
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Gods Need Prayer Badly / int_ef57d399	comment	Touched on in The Mountain and the Wolf: Tyrion asks a priest of the Red God why they can't ask the Seven or the Old Gods of Westeros for help in fighting against the Chaos Gods (Samwell aked a similar question earlier, unfortunately he'd asked The Fundamentalist among the delegation and was rebuffed). The priest says that while it's not as simple as "more followers=more power", the Seven were dealt a severe blow from Cersei blowing up the Sept, the Old Gods are ancient and don't act directly, and who knows what the Drowned God is up to.
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Gods Need Prayer Badly / int_f00d733b	comment	New World of Darkness: The Astral Realms include the Temenos, the collective consciousness of humanity. Among the conceptual archetypes present there are every god ever worshipped. In this case, since they are formed through human belief, their power is proportional to how much humans regard them, not necessarily through worship. For example, Anubis exists in the Temenos, and though not as powerful as he was when he was actively worshipped by a powerful nation, he is still a relevant and well known symbol, which means he still possesses the power of a minor god. Other gods are less fortunate. Since the Temenos is a focal point for all human knowledge and experience, even a completely forgotten god would still exist somewhere, albeit significantly weakened. Its also suggested that some Temenos gods might be based by humanity on truly divine beings (a theory particularly popular with devout mages who suffer crises of faith upon learning they can meet their deities in the Temenos). Various spirits in the Shadow realm are often shaped and empowered by human belief. Whether a particular one appearing as a god was an inspiration for human worship or was formed by human worship is often unclear.
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Gods Need Prayer Badly / int_f0688fff	comment	In PokÃ©mon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire, Rayquaza is depicted as being a Physical God revered by the people of Hoenn, and its Mega Evolution is achieved through the player praying to it. It should also be pointed out that Mega Rayquaza has (as of PokÃ©mon Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon) the highest base stat total of all PokÃ©mon (only tied with both Mega Mewtwo X and Y).
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Gods Need Prayer Badly / int_f1b13839	comment	The Camp Half-Blood Series: For the most part averted in the Percy Jackson and the Olympians book series. The Olympians have not been widely worshipped in centuries and have not suffered any major loss in power. The Titans were sealed in Tartarus for thousands of years and survived. The almost unheard of snow goddess Khione is doing fine. However, there is some link. It's been stated that if Western Civilization were to fall, it would weaken the Olympians. Being forgotten can cause a god to lose their will to live, leaving them to fade from existence, though like Khione or the Titans it is largely a matter of personal will. The god Pan tried to fade two millennia ago, but the beliefs of nymphs and satyrs caused him to continue to live. As early as the first book there are hints about this. Medusa mentions sadly that her two sisters are no longer around. In Battle of the Labyrinth Briares says his brothers have also faded. The Kane Chronicles has a retirement home for mostly forgotten gods, who have become senile. Come The Trials of Apollo, where Apollo is rendered mortal, there is a bit more information provided on the subject. All of the pantheons in this universe (Egyptian, Norse, etc.) are tied to the cultural impact they have had on society, and draw power from the memories and beliefs people have about them. This explains why the loss of Apollo as the god of the sun can still leave the world in functioning condition, without people wondering where the hell the sun went, because the sun gods of other mythologies (and the scientific explanation for why the sun rises and sets) can pick up the slack. Should the culture they are tied to disappear, or should no one remember them, then they would ultimately fade away. This trope is also exploited by the new big bads of the series called the Triumvirate, a trio of Roman emperors who made such a historical impact that they have been able to live for thousands of years off of people's worship and memory of them.
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Gods Need Prayer Badly / int_f1bd343d	comment	Gods in The Raven Tower have a finite amount of power to draw from, which gets expended when they alter reality. Being worshipped adds to the pool faster than it accumulates naturally, especially the sacrifice of a willing human, allowing those gods to work greater miracles â€” but if the god dies, usually by trying to expend more power than they possess, no amount of prayer can bring them back. Notably, the Ancient Ones, gods who predate humanity, arenâ€™t bound by such limits for reasons unknown even to them.
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Gods Need Prayer Badly / int_f1d185d1	comment	In The Epic of Gilgamesh, a character recalls the gods "crowding like flies" around a sacrifice after most of mankind is destroyed. To clarify, the gods created the humanity so that they will work and feed the gods, allowing them to live in leisure. Then, the gods couldn't stand the noise people made, so they tried to exterminate them a few times, culminating with The Great Flood. It was apparently successful, but then they realized they Didn't Think This Through...
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Gods Need Prayer Badly / int_f349915b	comment	Dragonlance: Averted. The deities do not need any worshipers to maintain their power. They do need mortal followers to have much influence in the mortal world however, but they will not die from a lack of followers.
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Gods Need Prayer Badly / int_f367511c	comment	Yu-Gi-Oh!: Numen erat Testudo was a turtle who ascended to godhood from worship. Unfortunately, his temple was destroyed and his worshipers stopped supporting him, causing him to revert to mortality as Testudo erat Numen.
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Gods Need Prayer Badly / int_f3e1a2a5	comment	The Merlin TV miniseries explicitly says that creatures like Mab and the Lady of the Lake only exist because people believe in them. Once Christianity moves in and people don't believe in magic, it doesn't exist any more. The climax has Mab literally fade into thin air because the crowd turn their backs on her and move on with their lives.
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Gods Need Prayer Badly / int_f404be35	comment	In Parallel Dementia, most nightmares (read: supernatural beings) gain power from belief. This also works for humans, as demonstrated by a legendary assassin who faked her death who still gains power from people believing in her former name, Mistress of Blades.
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Gods Need Prayer Badly / int_f4528946	comment	The End of Mr. Y by Scarlett Thomas: Gods are created by belief and, of course, gain power from worship. Apollo Smintheus, the mouse god, has a cult of six guys in Illinois with a website. As you might guess, he's not particularly powerful.
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Gods Need Prayer Badly / int_f5a4d814	comment	The Ori don't actually need prayer to survive, but they do gain power from human worship, although they're still extremely powerful on their own. Once Adria takes their place in Stargate: The Ark of Truth, SG-1 needs to take away her worshippers to make her vulnerable.
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Gods Need Prayer Badly / int_f6c5733b	comment	In the second game, Arfoire's goons are deliberately increasing Arfoire's shares (by taking them from the goddesses) in order to revive Arfoire.
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Gods Need Prayer Badly / int_f95eaabe	comment	The MLP Loops: Relatively early on, Pinkie experiences a Warhammer 40,000 loop where she takes the place of Slaanesh when she throws a civilization-wide party for the Eldar, ascending as the Chaos Goddess of the Eternal Party. That means that she can access her god powers in any loop — but thankfully for the sanity of everyone, without a galaxy-spanning civilization worshiping her, she's a very weak god. She still has unspeakable power from other sources, but her Chaos powers aren't much stronger than her unAwake self most of the time.
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Gods Need Prayer Badly / int_f97683ef	comment	Hollow Knight: Long before the events of the game, the people of Hallownest worshipped the Radiance, a cruel moth goddess who kept her citizens enslaved in a Hive Mind... until the Pale King came along and brought them free will in exchange for fealty to him. Losing followers, the Radiance was all but forgotten about until an ancient statue of her was found at the summit of Crystal Peak. Now, the Radiance holds sway over Hallownest once more, having created the Infection to pettily spite those who had failed to properly worship her.
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Gods Need Prayer Badly / int_fe6dcd31	comment	Greyhawk: Averted. Several of the greater gods hold their exalted station despite people not being very inclined to worship them. Boccob the Uncaring, god of magic, is completely disinterested in being worshiped, and in turn very few people actually worship him. Nerull the Reaper and Incabulos, god of disasters, likewise do not get a lot of attention, if only because most people fear attracting their notice.
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Ned Stark Lives (Fanfic) / int_4c782fb9	type	Gods Need Prayer Badly
NightOfRime	seeAlso	Gods Need Prayer Badly
The Power of Friendship (And This Gun I Found!) (Fanfic) / int_4c782fb9	type	Gods Need Prayer Badly
Theogony (Fanfic) / int_4c782fb9	type	Gods Need Prayer Badly
There Was Once an Avenger From Krypton (Fanfic) / int_4c782fb9	type	Gods Need Prayer Badly
Titan's Blessing (Fanfic) / int_4c782fb9	type	Gods Need Prayer Badly
To Walk the Narrow Path (Fanfic) / int_4c782fb9	type	Gods Need Prayer Badly
White Sheep (Fanfic) / int_4c782fb9	type	Gods Need Prayer Badly
White Sheep (RWBY) (Fanfic) / int_4c782fb9	type	Gods Need Prayer Badly
Candyman / int_4c782fb9	type	Gods Need Prayer Badly
Clash of the Titans (1981) / int_4c782fb9	type	Gods Need Prayer Badly
Clash of the Titans (2010) / int_4c782fb9	type	Gods Need Prayer Badly
Dogma / int_4c782fb9	type	Gods Need Prayer Badly
Freddy vs. Jason / int_4c782fb9	type	Gods Need Prayer Badly
Malpertuis / int_4c782fb9	type	Gods Need Prayer Badly
Q: The Winged Serpent / int_4c782fb9	type	Gods Need Prayer Badly
The Ritual / int_4c782fb9	type	Gods Need Prayer Badly
Wonder Woman 1984 / int_4c782fb9	type	Gods Need Prayer Badly
A Nightmare on Elm Street (Franchise) / int_4c782fb9	type	Gods Need Prayer Badly
Persona (Franchise) / int_4c782fb9	type	Gods Need Prayer Badly
WonderMomo	seeAlso	Gods Need Prayer Badly
Shin Megami Tensei (Franchise) / int_4c782fb9	type	Gods Need Prayer Badly
The Hohenzollern Empire (Lets Play) / int_4c782fb9	type	Gods Need Prayer Badly
KonoSuba / int_4c782fb9	type	Gods Need Prayer Badly
Magika no Kenshi to Shoukan Maou / int_4c782fb9	type	Gods Need Prayer Badly
The Death Mage Who Doesn't Want a Fourth Time / int_4c782fb9	type	Gods Need Prayer Badly
A Chorus of Dragons / int_4c782fb9	type	Gods Need Prayer Badly
American Gods / int_4c782fb9	type	Gods Need Prayer Badly
Ariadne / int_4c782fb9	type	Gods Need Prayer Badly
Aztec / int_4c782fb9	type	Gods Need Prayer Badly
Baba Yaga / int_4c782fb9	type	Gods Need Prayer Badly
Between The Rivers / int_4c782fb9	type	Gods Need Prayer Badly
Blood Books / int_4c782fb9	type	Gods Need Prayer Badly
Book of Psalms / int_4c782fb9	type	Gods Need Prayer Badly
Book of Swords / int_4c782fb9	type	Gods Need Prayer Badly
Chronicles of the Kencyrath / int_4c782fb9	type	Gods Need Prayer Badly
Circe / int_4c782fb9	type	Gods Need Prayer Badly
Cityverse / int_4c782fb9	type	Gods Need Prayer Badly
Cold Copper Tears / int_4c782fb9	type	Gods Need Prayer Badly
Craft Sequence / int_4c782fb9	type	Gods Need Prayer Badly
Dark Heart / int_4c782fb9	type	Gods Need Prayer Badly
Deathbound Duke's Daughter / int_4c782fb9	type	Gods Need Prayer Badly
Discworld / int_4c782fb9	type	Gods Need Prayer Badly
Divine Misfortune / int_4c782fb9	type	Gods Need Prayer Badly
Doom Valley Prep School / int_4c782fb9	type	Gods Need Prayer Badly
Dragonlance / int_4c782fb9	type	Gods Need Prayer Badly
Dungeon Robotics / int_4c782fb9	type	Gods Need Prayer Badly
Enchantment / int_4c782fb9	type	Gods Need Prayer Badly
Fae Tales / int_4c782fb9	type	Gods Need Prayer Badly
Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser / int_4c782fb9	type	Gods Need Prayer Badly
God Complex / int_4c782fb9	type	Gods Need Prayer Badly
Heaven Official’s Blessing: Tian Guan Ci Fu / int_4c782fb9	type	Gods Need Prayer Badly
Hogfather / int_4c782fb9	type	Gods Need Prayer Badly
I, Claudius / int_4c782fb9	type	Gods Need Prayer Badly
Iron Druid Chronicles / int_4c782fb9	type	Gods Need Prayer Badly
KonoSuba / int_4c782fb9	type	Gods Need Prayer Badly
Lord of Mysteries / int_4c782fb9	type	Gods Need Prayer Badly
Lost Gods / int_4c782fb9	type	Gods Need Prayer Badly
Magika Swordsman and Summoner / int_4c782fb9	type	Gods Need Prayer Badly
Malazan Book of the Fallen / int_4c782fb9	type	Gods Need Prayer Badly
Monstrous Regiment / int_4c782fb9	type	Gods Need Prayer Badly
Nightmares & Dreamscapes / int_4c782fb9	type	Gods Need Prayer Badly
Nightside / int_4c782fb9	type	Gods Need Prayer Badly
On a Godless Planet / int_4c782fb9	type	Gods Need Prayer Badly
Pact / int_4c782fb9	type	Gods Need Prayer Badly
Percy Jackson and the Olympians / int_4c782fb9	type	Gods Need Prayer Badly
Petty Pewter Gods / int_4c782fb9	type	Gods Need Prayer Badly
Raising Steam / int_4c782fb9	type	Gods Need Prayer Badly
Rose of the Prophet / int_4c782fb9	type	Gods Need Prayer Badly
Saintess Summons Skeletons / int_4c782fb9	type	Gods Need Prayer Badly
Small Gods / int_4c782fb9	type	Gods Need Prayer Badly
The Acts of Caine / int_4c782fb9	type	Gods Need Prayer Badly
The Avatars Trilogy / int_4c782fb9	type	Gods Need Prayer Badly
The Death Mage Who Doesn't Want a Fourth Time / int_4c782fb9	type	Gods Need Prayer Badly
The Divine Cities / int_4c782fb9	type	Gods Need Prayer Badly
The Elenium / int_4c782fb9	type	Gods Need Prayer Badly
The End of Mr. Y / int_4c782fb9	type	Gods Need Prayer Badly
The Finder's Stone Trilogy / int_4c782fb9	type	Gods Need Prayer Badly
The Four Gospels / int_4c782fb9	type	Gods Need Prayer Badly
The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul / int_4c782fb9	type	Gods Need Prayer Badly
The Numair Chronicles / int_4c782fb9	type	Gods Need Prayer Badly
The Pusadian Series / int_4c782fb9	type	Gods Need Prayer Badly
The Reluctant King / int_4c782fb9	type	Gods Need Prayer Badly
The Riftwar Cycle / int_4c782fb9	type	Gods Need Prayer Badly
The Salvation War / int_4c782fb9	type	Gods Need Prayer Badly
The Soldier Son / int_4c782fb9	type	Gods Need Prayer Badly
The Spellmonger Series / int_4c782fb9	type	Gods Need Prayer Badly
The Tombs of Atuan / int_4c782fb9	type	Gods Need Prayer Badly
The Tough Guide to Fantasyland / int_4c782fb9	type	Gods Need Prayer Badly
The Trials of Apollo / int_4c782fb9	type	Gods Need Prayer Badly
The Twilight Reign / int_4c782fb9	type	Gods Need Prayer Badly
The War Gods / int_4c782fb9	type	Gods Need Prayer Badly
The War of the Flowers / int_4c782fb9	type	Gods Need Prayer Badly
The Werewolf Asylum / int_4c782fb9	type	Gods Need Prayer Badly
Tortall and Other Lands / int_4c782fb9	type	Gods Need Prayer Badly
Tortall Universe / int_4c782fb9	type	Gods Need Prayer Badly
Tree of Aeons / int_4c782fb9	type	Gods Need Prayer Badly
Villains by Necessity / int_4c782fb9	type	Gods Need Prayer Badly
Warbreaker / int_4c782fb9	type	Gods Need Prayer Badly
AdditionalEvilOverlordListCellblockA	seeAlso	Gods Need Prayer Badly
Creepypasta / int_4c782fb9	type	Gods Need Prayer Badly
JerkAssGods	seeAlso	Gods Need Prayer Badly
Kriegsmesser	seeAlso	Gods Need Prayer Badly
Our Gods Are Greater	seeAlso	Gods Need Prayer Badly
Stop Worshipping Me / int_4c782fb9	type	Gods Need Prayer Badly
TheTwilightReign	seeAlso	Gods Need Prayer Badly
Gingitsune (Manga) / int_4c782fb9	type	Gods Need Prayer Badly
Kannagi: Crazy Shrine Maidens (Manga) / int_4c782fb9	type	Gods Need Prayer Badly
Kekkaishi (Manga) / int_4c782fb9	type	Gods Need Prayer Badly
Maria the Virgin Witch (Manga) / int_4c782fb9	type	Gods Need Prayer Badly
Naqua-Den (Manga)	seeAlso	Gods Need Prayer Badly
Noragami (Manga) / int_4c782fb9	type	Gods Need Prayer Badly
Silver Diamond (Manga) / int_4c782fb9	type	Gods Need Prayer Badly
Sleepy Princess in the Demon Castle (Manga) / int_4c782fb9	type	Gods Need Prayer Badly
Sibylline Sounds (Podcast) / int_4c782fb9	type	Gods Need Prayer Badly
The Distant Wrath / Role Play	seeAlso	Gods Need Prayer Badly
A Geek's Guide: DeathWorld Earth (Roleplay) / int_4c782fb9	type	Gods Need Prayer Badly
A Sword Without A Hilt (Roleplay) / int_4c782fb9	type	Gods Need Prayer Badly
Aut Omnia Aut Nihil (Roleplay) / int_4c782fb9	type	Gods Need Prayer Badly
The Dragon Has Three Heads (Roleplay) / int_4c782fb9	type	Gods Need Prayer Badly
American Gods (2017) / int_4c782fb9	type	Gods Need Prayer Badly
Brimstone / int_4c782fb9	type	Gods Need Prayer Badly
Guardian: The Lonely and Great God / int_4c782fb9	type	Gods Need Prayer Badly
Legend Heroes / int_4c782fb9	type	Gods Need Prayer Badly
Merlin (1998) / int_4c782fb9	type	Gods Need Prayer Badly
Star Trek: The Original Series / int_4c782fb9	type	Gods Need Prayer Badly
The Stand (2020) / int_4c782fb9	type	Gods Need Prayer Badly
Age of Aquarius (Tabletop Game) / int_4c782fb9	type	Gods Need Prayer Badly
Ars Magica (Tabletop Game) / int_4c782fb9	type	Gods Need Prayer Badly
Demon: The Fallen (Tabletop Game) / int_4c782fb9	type	Gods Need Prayer Badly
DomhainSceal	seeAlso	Gods Need Prayer Badly
Eberron (Tabletop Game) / int_4c782fb9	type	Gods Need Prayer Badly
Forgotten Realms (Tabletop Game) / int_4c782fb9	type	Gods Need Prayer Badly
Godbound (Tabletop Game) / int_4c782fb9	type	Gods Need Prayer Badly
Greyhawk (Tabletop Game) / int_4c782fb9	type	Gods Need Prayer Badly
Immortal The Invisible War (Tabletop Game) / int_4c782fb9	type	Gods Need Prayer Badly
In Nomine (Tabletop Game) / int_4c782fb9	type	Gods Need Prayer Badly
La Notte Eterna (Tabletop Game) / int_4c782fb9	type	Gods Need Prayer Badly
Nephilim (Tabletop Game) / int_4c782fb9	type	Gods Need Prayer Badly
Old World of Darkness (Tabletop Game) / int_4c782fb9	type	Gods Need Prayer Badly
Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_4c782fb9	type	Gods Need Prayer Badly
Princess: The Hopeful (Tabletop Game) / int_4c782fb9	type	Gods Need Prayer Badly
Scarred Lands (Tabletop Game) / int_4c782fb9	type	Gods Need Prayer Badly
SenZar (Tabletop Game) / int_4c782fb9	type	Gods Need Prayer Badly
Sword World RPG (Tabletop Game) / int_4c782fb9	type	Gods Need Prayer Badly
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_4c782fb9	type	Gods Need Prayer Badly
WitchCraft (Tabletop Game) / int_4c782fb9	type	Gods Need Prayer Badly
Afterlife (1996) (Video Game) / int_4c782fb9	type	Gods Need Prayer Badly
Alundra (Video Game) / int_4c782fb9	type	Gods Need Prayer Badly
BattleForge (Video Game) / int_4c782fb9	type	Gods Need Prayer Badly
Black & White (Video Game) / int_4c782fb9	type	Gods Need Prayer Badly
Breath of Fire II (Video Game) / int_4c782fb9	type	Gods Need Prayer Badly
Colossal Kaiju Combat! (Video Game) / int_4c782fb9	type	Gods Need Prayer Badly
Darkstone (Video Game) / int_4c782fb9	type	Gods Need Prayer Badly
Devil Survivor (Video Game) / int_4c782fb9	type	Gods Need Prayer Badly
Discworld Noir (Video Game) / int_4c782fb9	type	Gods Need Prayer Badly
Divinity: Original Sin II (Video Game) / int_4c782fb9	type	Gods Need Prayer Badly
Dominions (Video Game) / int_4c782fb9	type	Gods Need Prayer Badly
Dragon Quest IX (Video Game) / int_4c782fb9	type	Gods Need Prayer Badly
Dungeon Crawl (Video Game) / int_4c782fb9	type	Gods Need Prayer Badly
Dwarf Fortress (Video Game) / int_4c782fb9	type	Gods Need Prayer Badly
Edge of Eternity (Video Game) / int_4c782fb9	type	Gods Need Prayer Badly
Forest of Drizzling Rain (Video Game) / int_4c782fb9	type	Gods Need Prayer Badly
Graveyard Keeper (Video Game) / int_4c782fb9	type	Gods Need Prayer Badly
Heroes of Newerth (Video Game) / int_4c782fb9	type	Gods Need Prayer Badly
Hexyz Force (Video Game) / int_4c782fb9	type	Gods Need Prayer Badly
Injustice: Gods Among Us (Video Game) / int_4c782fb9	type	Gods Need Prayer Badly
Książę i TchÃ³rz (Video Game) / int_4c782fb9	type	Gods Need Prayer Badly
Love of Magic (Video Game) / int_4c782fb9	type	Gods Need Prayer Badly
Ōkami (Video Game) / int_4c782fb9	type	Gods Need Prayer Badly
Ōkamiden (Video Game) / int_4c782fb9	type	Gods Need Prayer Badly
Onmyōji (2016) (Video Game) / int_4c782fb9	type	Gods Need Prayer Badly
Pharaoh (Video Game) / int_4c782fb9	type	Gods Need Prayer Badly
Planescape: Torment (Video Game) / int_4c782fb9	type	Gods Need Prayer Badly
PokÃ©mon Sword and Shield (Video Game) / int_4c782fb9	type	Gods Need Prayer Badly
Sacrifice (Video Game) / int_4c782fb9	type	Gods Need Prayer Badly
Seven Kingdoms (Video Game) / int_4c782fb9	type	Gods Need Prayer Badly
Shin Megami Tensei III: Nocturne (Video Game) / int_4c782fb9	type	Gods Need Prayer Badly
Shin Megami Tensei IV: Apocalypse (Video Game) / int_4c782fb9	type	Gods Need Prayer Badly
Sign of Silence (Video Game) / int_4c782fb9	type	Gods Need Prayer Badly
Skyforge (Video Game) / int_4c782fb9	type	Gods Need Prayer Badly
Splatterhouse (Video Game) / int_4c782fb9	type	Gods Need Prayer Badly
Tales of Innocence (Video Game) / int_4c782fb9	type	Gods Need Prayer Badly
Tears to Tiara 2 (Video Game) / int_4c782fb9	type	Gods Need Prayer Badly
The Last Comer (Video Game) / int_4c782fb9	type	Gods Need Prayer Badly
The Messenger (2018) (Video Game) / int_4c782fb9	type	Gods Need Prayer Badly
The Sandman (2014) (Video Game) / int_4c782fb9	type	Gods Need Prayer Badly
Touhou Kaikidan ~ Mystic Square (Video Game) / int_4c782fb9	type	Gods Need Prayer Badly
Touhou Mother (Video Game) / int_4c782fb9	type	Gods Need Prayer Badly
Ultima VIII (Video Game) / int_4c782fb9	type	Gods Need Prayer Badly
Unchained Blades (Video Game) / int_4c782fb9	type	Gods Need Prayer Badly
Wonder Momo (Video Game) / int_4c782fb9	type	Gods Need Prayer Badly
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_4c782fb9	type	Gods Need Prayer Badly
Xenoblade Chronicles 1 (Video Game) / int_4c782fb9	type	Gods Need Prayer Badly
Zeus: Master of Olympus (Video Game) / int_4c782fb9	type	Gods Need Prayer Badly
Disgaea 4: A Promise Unforgotten / Videogame / int_4c782fb9	type	Gods Need Prayer Badly
The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds / Videogame / int_4c782fb9	type	Gods Need Prayer Badly
Cinders (Visual Novel) / int_4c782fb9	type	Gods Need Prayer Badly
WILL: A Wonderful World (Visual Novel) / int_4c782fb9	type	Gods Need Prayer Badly
An Ordeal In Osondu (Web Video) / int_4c782fb9	type	Gods Need Prayer Badly
Critical Role (Web Video) / int_4c782fb9	type	Gods Need Prayer Badly
Critical Role: Campaign Three (Web Video) / int_4c782fb9	type	Gods Need Prayer Badly
Koibu (Web Video) / int_4c782fb9	type	Gods Need Prayer Badly
Paint (Web Video) / int_4c782fb9	type	Gods Need Prayer Badly
Star Trek Continues (Web Video) / int_4c782fb9	type	Gods Need Prayer Badly
The Cartoon Hero (Web Video) / int_4c782fb9	type	Gods Need Prayer Badly
Verum (Web Video) / int_4c782fb9	type	Gods Need Prayer Badly
A Girl and Her Fed (Webcomic) / int_4c782fb9	type	Gods Need Prayer Badly
APT Comic (Webcomic) / int_4c782fb9	type	Gods Need Prayer Badly
Ape, Not Monkey (Webcomic) / int_4c782fb9	type	Gods Need Prayer Badly
Chitra (Webcomic) / int_4c782fb9	type	Gods Need Prayer Badly
Elf Life (Webcomic) / int_4c782fb9	type	Gods Need Prayer Badly
Epiphany (Webcomic) / int_4c782fb9	type	Gods Need Prayer Badly
Exterminatus Now (Webcomic) / int_4c782fb9	type	Gods Need Prayer Badly
Goblins (Webcomic) / int_4c782fb9	type	Gods Need Prayer Badly
Skadi (Webcomic) / int_4c782fb9	type	Gods Need Prayer Badly
The Gods of Arr-Kelaan (Webcomic) / int_4c782fb9	type	Gods Need Prayer Badly
The Idaten Deities Know Only Peace (Webcomic) / int_4c782fb9	type	Gods Need Prayer Badly
Too Much Information (2005) (Webcomic) / int_4c782fb9	type	Gods Need Prayer Badly
Underling (Webcomic) / int_4c782fb9	type	Gods Need Prayer Badly
Yet Another Fantasy Gamer Comic (Webcomic) / int_4c782fb9	type	Gods Need Prayer Badly
Aaahh!!! Real Monsters / int_4c782fb9	type	Gods Need Prayer Badly
Coco / int_4c782fb9	type	Gods Need Prayer Badly
Constantine: City of Demons / int_4c782fb9	type	Gods Need Prayer Badly
Kizazi Moto: Generation Fire / int_4c782fb9	type	Gods Need Prayer Badly
PJ Sparkles / int_4c782fb9	type	Gods Need Prayer Badly
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_4c782fb9	type	Gods Need Prayer Badly
Valhalla / int_4c782fb9	type	Gods Need Prayer Badly
Lanfeust (Comic Book) / int_4c782fb9	type	Gods Need Prayer Badly
The Pendragon Adventure / int_4c782fb9	type	Gods Need Prayer Badly
Natsume's Book of Friends (Manga) / int_4c782fb9	type	Gods Need Prayer Badly
Age of Mythology (Video Game) / int_4c782fb9	type	Gods Need Prayer Badly
Sword of the Stars (Video Game) / int_4c782fb9	type	Gods Need Prayer Badly

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