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Legal Rose
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Here's another thought: how many of these gods were, or still are, that interested in creating people? Some might prefer experimenting with raw magic, weather and nature, or with nonsapient animals. These might form either:
Forbidden Lands that tried to drive out any people that entered (they might still come to hide in it, to prove themselves, or to harvest unique materials).
Lands that the god allowed limited people from other lands to settle in, on his terms-- tending his gardens and carrying out his negotiations with the other gods.
(In fact, if a god like that was attacked by a rival, he might not have the right power to recreate people except by bargaining for new settlers, and if the attacker saturated the place with plagues or other things the defender couldn't cure --or put the word out that he would, if anyone tried to repopulate it-- you'd get a truly "lost" land. At least lost from a human perspective; the god's own powers would still work on his real interests, but it would be no place for people.)
Yeah, I especially like the idea of a god that just wants to be left alone for some reason or another.
And one issue with all of these scenarios is that no one really knows how a person's mind would warp with extreme power and immortality. I mean, the gut instinct seems to be to assume that they become increasingly bored and detached, but I'm no so sure that would necessarily apply to everyone.