Editing Skein of Worlds:The Divine Realms (section)

== Outside the Divine Realms ==
There is one fact of vital importance in explaining how the universe works on an everyday level. Deities that leave their divine realm leave their divine power behind. This explains why deities rarely interact with the material plane directly.

Belief is channeled through the Astral Plane, along the colored threads, to the divine realms, not directly to the deity, so outside this realm the deity has no access to that belief. That's not to say that a deity has no power without this belief. No person or creature becomes a deity without first being powerful enough to warrant that level of belief. 

Still, there are some benefits to divinity that few deities are willing to do without for long. The first among these is the simple fact that a deity cannot be killed. Their body can be reduced to ash and they will simply reform within a short while. Outside their realm they will be as vulnerable as they were before becoming a deity. While it may seem that few things could kill a deity, even without their divine power, those things exist. ''Note: Killing a deity outside of their divine realm may not actually kill them. Instead, they may be forced back to their realm minus one divine rank.''