[DF] Placing areas of different mana in Dungeon Fantasy

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Originally Posted by David Johnston2

She who gives can also take away. Propitiatory worship is a thing.

The thing is in polytheistic religions spheres tend to have overlap. Ares, Athena, and Aphrodite Areia were all Greek war deities. Aphrodite Areia was only worshiped in Sparta and when it fell she effectively became irrelevant.

So one deity of magic wants to play hardball but other doesn't. The hardball deity allows mana areas to be reduced in power or destroyed but the other deity does the exact opposite.

As I said before if you are going with the deities get everything from their followers concept the hardball deity will be basically cutting off her nose to spite her face.

The more she tries to gain control the less worshipers she has and the less power she has - she is in an effectively death spiral and will be reduced to a deity of divine magic able to only effect sanctity before too much time passes.

If she still refuses to get the memo she will wind up like Aphrodite Areia - no worshipers and therefore irrelevant to the mortal world.