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Image transcription: a section of a Wikipedia article titled "Relationship with Reality". It reads "From a scientific viewpoint, elves are not considered objectively real. [3] However," End transcription.

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[–] Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world 22 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Discworld's Small Gods work like this.

They only gain power if you believe in them. So they stand around like a used car salesman trying to convert you

[–] Neato@kbin.social 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

That kind of system seems ripe for a pyramid scheme.

[–] reverendsteveii@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago

Are you Djelibeybi?

[–] shasta@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Same for ff14 eikons. And I think the goauld in stargate?

[–] Arbiter@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The Ori were the bad guy that gained power from followers, the Goa’uld were just brain snakes with advanced tech.

[–] shasta@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago

That was it, ty

[–] reverendsteveii@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago

Discworld's ~~elves~~fair folk, however, do not work like this and remain wildly powerful even as human belief in them withers and dissipates. The belief in elves at the beginning of Lords and Ladies is much akin to the belief in Om at the beginning of Small Gods. From memory, "like worshipping the shell left behind by a crustacean that has long since died". But for some reason elves maintain power in the human world whereas Om is reduced to hoping the melons in the church gardens aren't too thick-skinned.