What Ye Ting Gained as Thoth

In fact, from the methods Type-Moon's gods used to resist the decline of the Age of Gods and the future disappearance of True Ether, Ye Ting thought of a world renowned far and wide.

The Forgotten Realms, also known as Faerûn, the world of Abeir-Toril.

In that world, the earliest deities had likewise been able to endure without faith. Yet precisely because of that, the gods paid no heed to their believers and wantonly toyed with mortals, until Ao, the Overgod above them, became angry.

Thus, after the Time of Troubles, when he temporarily cast the gods down into the mortal world, Ao linked the gods' divine power to the number of their believers and the strength of their faith, so that they would focus on their duties.

If a god lost their believers, their power would grow weaker and weaker, until they gradually died.

From that moment onward, believers were no longer dispensable worshippers to the gods, but the source of their power.

On careful thought, wasn't that very similar to the current state of the Type-Moon world?

In the Age of Gods, when True Ether had been abundant, the gods themselves had not needed believers. Their might had come from their mastery of concepts rather than the power of faith. But when True Ether faded away and the Age of Gods ended, mortal faith became their final means of survival. It was truly tragic.

After returning from Egypt, Ye Ting had also conducted some research into the power that came from mortal faith.

As the founding master who had spread magic throughout Egypt, Ye Ting's legends had, in fact, been deified alongside Nitocris's in Egypt.

The difference was that, perhaps due to political factors, or perhaps because people disliked the foreign man at the Egyptian female pharaoh's side,