has pointed out in a comment they do die, just not like humans.) That's really what happened to all the nameless small gods in the desert. (Om also doesn't show signs of regressing into turtle-hood too much when Brutha makes it out of the desert and back to the Citadel before he does, but since all he could focus on was getting back to Brutha, and the distance wasn't vast, I think we can accept that as a light exception.)Īlso, gods don't usually die in the messy mortal fashion, they just lose whatever body they inhabit and dwindle into nothingness afterwards without worshippers.

If he was dependent on worship, he should have shown signs of starting to fail while he was still in Ephebe. It was only after he was sunk and left for dead - except by Brutha - that he seemed to take a shock and go mute. Vorbis never lost any kind of consciousness or functionality when he left the Citadel and crossed the sea to threaten the Tyrant. Setting aside that Vorbis being any kind of anything other than Vorbis guts the themes of the book.

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