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* Much like the Duchess from ''[[Monstrous Regiment]]'', Brutha will replace Om whether he wants to or not. In the Tiffany Aching books, for example, the "good" Om worshippers refer to Brutha instead.
* Alternately, Om ''will'' survive, because he's adopted a strategy of pure [[Fridge Brilliance]]: he's living off his worshipers' ''uncertainty about what he wants'' rather than their certainty. If there are dozens of schismatic sects out there, all saying that Om wants different things, then ''all'' of his worshipers could be in the same boat as Mightily Oats: unsure of which Om is correct, and worried about whether they're pleasing him or not. In which case, they're still demonstrating a belief ''in'' Om through their anxiety—something that must be sufficient to keep Om alive, if saying "Oh, god, what did I just hit?!" when your wagon squashes a small animal is enough to sustain a minor deity — just not a belief in any particular characteristic ''of'' Om.
** Living off their anxiety about whether they're pleasing him is better than living off their anxiety about whether he's about to kill them horribly, I suppose.
== Angus is one of the small gods of the desert ==
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