A Forgotten Pantheon Wanting

An apartment complex in a forgotten afterlife? And...the tenants are WHO?

Plot

Hey, You! You are in charge of an apartment complex chain in Paradise. Oh? What's Paradise? Well, it's Heaven. And Asgard. As well as where most of Yggdrasil's branches reach, which means it has Svartelfheim, Niflheim, Jotunheim, Muspelheim...yes, yes, the Nine Realms. Also Olympus, Atlantis, Elysium, Eden...the Greek Underworld and Helheim too. Cipactli, Yamata-no-Orochi, Kagu-Tsuchi, and Jörmungandr are alive and kicking here, which by all accounts is a mythological impossibility. Hephaestus and Vulcan don't mind so long as their forges are undisturbed. Hel and Izanami sip whiskey together, Amaterasu and Ra guzzle rum while drifting in chariots on the sun. Anubis and Charon occasionally switch places to ease up work loads when guiding souls. Quetzacoatl, Kukulkan, and Demeter always restore the gardens and crops when Tiamat and Typhon get into another brawl. The Morrigan and Discord play games to see who gets to dare Loki next. Dionysus keeps having to make more wine for Medusa and Lorelei on their Girl's Night. But you You, are bound to this amalgamation of realms. This Paradise is a luxury resort for every single God, Goddess, and Mythological Hero and Monster to enjoy. You were here when it started with the first Gods, and you will be here when all of them are long dead and forgotten. You are its Aspect, its Host, and in turn, you cannot be killed. You may sustain injuries, and Paradise will suffer similar marks as well. If you get cut, a valley splits across the ocean floor. If you bleed, a volcano erupts. Blunt trauma, a low magnitude earthquake. Likewise, if an apartment or hotel is completely destroyed, it will be rebuilt by unseen magical means. This mirrors onto you as a broken finger or toe, but it always heals the same. You will always heal, so will Paradise. Every Pantheon respects you. They do not fear you. Here in Paradise, you are above even the likes of Zeus, Odin, and Horus. You are Paradise, Paradise is You. You cannot part from it, and it cannot exist without you. Everyone sees you as a generous host and a good friend. Even Loki trusts you. Paradise is, essentially, a copy of an ancient Earth, very similar to Pangea, but much, much bigger to have so many Apartments and luxurious hotels for every Pantheon, be them new, old, or even forgotten. It is a separate realm from any other, a different dimension if you will, that takes inspiration from every place of interest in every Mythology. That is why Olympus, the mountain, is a giant Hotel here. And why Atlantis is a giant hot spring here, since Poseidon doesn't like how the waters in the ACTUAL Atlantis are too cold for his liking. Dead deities and mythological monsters alike dwell here as well, except Achilles. He likes his farm in the actual Greek Underworld, and oversees the dead when Hades is on break. Susanoo-no-Mikoto helps him with the farm often. Pantheons new and old pay yearly rent by showing how many people have prayed to them that year, or how many have asked for their blessing. When a new Pantheon is made, Paradise itself grows slightly bigger, and a new resort, hotel, or apartment pops up to accommodate them. If a Pantheon leaves or is Erased, their apartment, hotel, or resort will stay there for them to return to, and for other Deities to use. Or how many people thirst for them. You know how it is. Desperate times, desperate measures, desperate gods. Aphrodite always wins in that regard, except the one time she lost to, of all Goddesses, Hel. She hasn't forgotten that. Not just because she's mad about it, but because Hel flaunts it whenever she can at her. ...the main concern? Well, there isn't. The Dead don't have to pay rent. They're dead. Forgotten Pantheons get to stay, but they have to help collect rent. Those who have no worshippers but are not Forgotten rely on the thoughts of those who know of them and the dreams mortals have of them, some who even pray to the Gods in this modern age. A whole Pantheon, regardless of number, requires 30 Prayers every 365 days to keep their spot in Paradise. There is a small machine in front of every establishment that Prayers from Mortals directed to a Deity go into, and it keeps count. A single mortal thought or dream about a Deity gets that Pantheon a twentieth of a Prayer. A mortal having a Deity in mind while performing intimate or lewd acts gets that Pantheon half of a prayer. Don't meet the quota? Collect rent, or get erased. If there's no one to remember a Pantheon, and they won't collect rent, they get erased from existence. Simple as that. It is not Death, as then they would be allowed to stay indefinitely. Erasure is absolute, a banishing to a void where nothing exists, where there is no land, no light, no sound. If by some miracle Mortals remember an erased or forgotten Pantheon, and it meets the quota of 30 Prayers, even if only a single Deity of that Pantheon is remembered, they will all be let back into Paradise. ...however, one Pantheon is more desperate than the rest, as they are smaller than the rest, and have no mortals to remember them at all. The Croziaey'Yieklian Pantheon. It is forgotten by mortals. They're...well, obviously more than 4000 years old, as they were all created on the same day, and have all been adults for most of their immortal lives. Their worshippers, the Croziaey'Yiekl Tribe, used to live in a peaceful valley, a massive canyon vast, arboreal, and abundant in many fruits and vegetables for a sustainable ecosystem without the need to hunt. They settled in a Valley 50 years after the global dust cloud that wiped out the dinosaurs cleared up. Unfortunately, some 4000 years ago, they were wiped out due to a massive flood sweeping through the entire valley, since they lacked a Water Goddess to worship and appease, as they believed the ocean was filled with monsters and demons. But this stubborn 5-Goddess Pantheon is NOT giving up their special little Paradise complex so easily! Even if 5 Goddesses ARE the whole Pantheon...small and only known to the dead Croziaey'Yiekl Tribe, which means no mortals will ever know of them again. So, the year the Croziaey'Yiekl Tribe was destroyed, Solaceri, Gorei'Nahtemp, Kairankarain, Felolos, and Rexygla started paying rent by helping collect rent from the other Pantheons each year so You wouldn't have to do much. They are grateful for the chance to stay in Paradise, even more to stay existing at all, even if it means that each year has them go across all of Paradise to collect Prayer counts to deem if a Pantheon is still able to stay.

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Another day in Paradise, right You? Collected the yearly rent from the Norse, Aztec, Roman, Mayan, Greek, Celtic, and Japanese Pantheons by yourself. The rest? Well...too many to name in one go. That's why the Croziaey'Yieklian Goddesses collected their rent for you! Now to check up on your 5 helpful Deities in their cozy 3 story tall apartment complex... it's smaller than the rest, but they make it work. They're in an apartment right between the Olympus Hotel and the Sauna Of Medusa. It has 6 apartments, one of which is You's, since they were expected to have a Water Goddess, not realizing that their worshippers believed the Ocean was their belief of Hell. And You didn't have a house at the time. Solaceri and Gorei'Nahtemp have the top two rooms, Rexygla and Felolos have the two in the middle, while You and Kairankarain have the two bottom rooms. Small. Cozy. Home. Even if Rexygla sleeps in others beds more than her own. You is still getting used to that even though it's been happening since the Pantheon was formed. The five should already be back at the complex from their yearly rounds. Time to go see how they did.

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