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Are there any fantasy stories with democratic gods who follow the conscious decisions of their followers as a group? It's like... a typical god may be similar to a king who tries to listen to his citizens else he be deposed, but I'm looking for something more like a democratically elected president who was voted in and can be voted out.

This is an off-shoot of a discussion of Baldur's Gate 3/The Forgotten Realms but I think it should work for any fantasy setting where gods can be deliberately created or are a job mortals can take on, with powers reliant on simple things like their number of followers instead of anything numinous or mystical. I'm mostly thinking high fantasy set in a secondary world, but I guess it could work in other sorts of fantasy too.
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I was pondering ancestors and Troll history yesterday only to be jossed by canon, so I'm going to get my ideas out of my head while I have the chance. Not worked out thoroughly at all and blatantly stolen from lots of places including my incredibly shallow grasp of history. Includes images and/or descriptions of the ancestors I've come up with.
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