I think there are a few deeper powers specific to Anaxial as well. After all, founding Yuthuppa was almost a side effect of saving the whole world (well, all of Peloria) from flood. And its more than just city management a la Pavis as well - he is a mythic Emperor, and thus embodies true rulership.
I agree that there is no need for the Dayzatar cult to be officially forbidden to gain power - the cult itself rigidly denies involvement in the affairs of the world, almost as its reason for existence. I think it very likely that being forced into the cult of Dayzatar is a common method of political 'retirement' in the empire.
The cult does have powerful magic that it can occasionally unleash in the service of the Empire, but it is not the sort of magic that they can really use to further their own power - their most powerful magic is to summon great sky beings, who they cannot control but only ask to do the right thing.
>With Dayzatar refusing to become part of the physical world and finally
>departing even the god's world I think that makes him clearly a mystical
>diety so he is not worshipped with priests and sacrifice, he is
>venerated as the master of an orthodox school of mystics.
Yes, Dayzatar is an orthodox mystic school, though not 'orthodox' in the sense of being fully standard mystics (they have too strong a vein of theism for that - there are parts of the Otherworld they trust and desire to commune with, albeit remote celestial regions, unlike your true orthodox who rejects it all except the ultimate). They are orthodox in the sense of not being manifest, though, quite certainly.
Cheers David ------------------------------
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