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You ask some questions.
Whisper replies: It looks like you need a lecture on the nature of worship and belief. If people believe in you, you become stronger. But it gets complicated when you go into the details. First, people can be devoted to many gods at a time, but for some reason many of them like choosing a primary god. When they pray for specifics, however, they tend to pray to the god that they know will help them best. This is why we gods tend to specialize. We pick an area of miracles that we can get people to pray to us for, and that in turn gives us power. Primary worship gets you more power, of course, but that is difficult to get outside of a priesthood, and a country made entirely of priests would soon starve itself, even if one of us spent all of our power sustaining it.
While we are not necessarily limited by our domains, we tend to get better at certain kinds of miracles if we try them repeatedly, so a god of trees, for instance, tends to be good with growing, health, and similar miracles. Also, the kind of worship you get will sometimes flavor the belief. Prayers for specific tasks are best used to carry out miracles relevant to those tasks. If a farmer asks for a good crop, it's easier to use that belief to help his crop than it is to, say, burn down his house. Miracles are easiest when asked for. On another note, worship through sacrifice is a powerful way to collect belief, but it is best used for miracles of destruction. For some of the tribal gods, though, that's the only way they can collect enough power to do anything big.
As to whether you're going to upset anyone by collecting believers, that depends entirely upon the god. Personally, I'm more amused than anything else, but other gods will feel differently. Most gods are quite protective of their followers, and don't appreciate poaching, even if its from areas outside their domains. After all, they can provide those services too, if necessary. The sky goddesses are nice enough to others, but only because they know how difficult it is to influence the sun and moon. But don't expect any help from them. Smaller gods tend to be more jealous, since they are at more risk. For your own sake, you should definitely try to get more followers than you have now, but don't expect it to be easy, especially with that ridiculous avatar you seem to have manifested. Whatever possessed you to do such a thing with so little strength? Your ties to it are so strong that you'll find it a difficult shell to relinquish until you have much more power.
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