Little Gods of Planegea

This month, Sean Holland at Sea of Stars is co-hosting the RPG Blog Carnival on the topic "Small Gods, Saints, and other minor divinities." You might remember that Holland also hosted a celestial topic back in February, that time on big gods, which I'm in favour of. The bigger, in fact, the better. I wrote about that in my response, "Gods Must Give: An RPG Blog Carnival Post." I came out quite hard against small gods, or at least ones dependent on mortal belief and worship, and I think my reasons were sound. However, I also acknowledged that there are several ways small gods can work, and in particular I made an exception for David Somerville's stonepunk Planegea setting, published with Atlas Games: Maybe, in your games, archfey or elementals or primordial spirits or eldritch horrors are what personify those things that exceed mortal control. For example, in David Somerville's Planegea, all gods were once animals, plants, or objects that human awe divinized, but mortaldom seems so…