>Mortals create gods >Gods enslave mortals >Dystopian

Warhammer

>>54324863

Makes sense to me. Sci-fi has done similar with AIs. I'll also say that the execution is more important than the premise here.

everything here sounds god besides
>mortals create gods
always hated that shit

>>54324863
>dominate now the world
>Does that sound stupid?

yeah

>>54324863
That's pretty much Forgotten Realms, Greyhawk, and Dragonlance, except everyone is brainwashed into the good/evil narrative the deities push to fuel their relevance and worship.

Mostly happens with Pelor, fucker loves his theocracies.

>>54325091
Well, what is a god without people who worship them as gods? Titans were no different from Olympians, yet they weren't "gods."

>>54325164
they were still "gods" they just weren't Olympians. Hades was plenty a god, but he wasn't an Olympian because he lived somewhere else.

>>54324863
Ever read Fred Saberhagen's Book of Swords series?

>>54325164
>Titans were no different from Olympians, yet they weren't "gods."

Yeah they were. Or at least the translations I can find call them gods, I don't speak ancient greek.

>>54324863
I mean if they depend on worship, then I can definitely see this happening. What if there was a republic who rebelled against the gods then?

>>54324863
You just described the real world.

>>54325164
>>54325338
>>54325315
'God' is a very flexible concept that covers a wide span of supernatural beings. Japan has kami, usually translated as 'god', for tiny things like a single well or a stream. Japan and China have gods who used to be mortals, died, and are now heavenly beings who help people out - that's the same ballpark as Christian saints, but they get called 'gods'. In another religion they might just be called ancestor spirits.

So tldr, don't get too hung up on the word itself.