Many gods and goddesses participate in a game. They have authorities they control to manipulate the world into their own making. But they only start with 1 race. The game is simple: make the world follow only 1 god. All the gods with zero worshippers end up in oblivion. Factional conflicts, holy wars, Forge alliances, make any means possible to be that 1 god. Because in the eyes of god, we are just pawns in a massive game of chess