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When a god is forgotten, it doesn’t die. Because a well-known god can and, will be reborn. No, when a god is forgotten, it disappears.
The days, weeks, months, even years leading up to their final worshiper losing faith; it's during this stage, that the god grows weaker, smaller; but no less themselves. The god may try to soothe the feelings of those close to them during this painful time.
They may release their familiars, their followers, their regalia if they are certain of their own end, and do not wish to see the ones they care for so deeply, to suffer over something that no one can change.
When a god is forgotten, their shrine remains. It was built by the humans after all, but the humans don’t take the shrine down, it was forgotten right along with the god that once belonged there.
When a god is forgotten, they leave behind those that they were close to. The Regalia that they took in, the familiars they had contracts with, the friends they had made; are all left behind with memories of someone no longer around.
When a god is forgotten, those that served the god are on their own once more. Those that served the god have only a few options:
Some will go and find a new god to serve.
Some will go back to the way they were before.
Some, will stay with the shrine- and wait for a god that will never come back.
But no matter what choice they make, no matter how hard they may try.
They will never forget the god that once lived, that once taught them, talked with them, laughed with them, lived among them, is now gone forever.
But even if human kind forgets a god; they will never be completely gone.
For when a god is forgotten, it may disappear from existence, but it will never disappear from the minds and hearts of those that knew them.