>
> And because, in a shattered and thinly populated land, you struggle
> to get much benefit from specializing your worship. There are not
> the great temples (or equivalent) that help support higher levels of
> devotion and guard more obscure stories/rites/grimoires that enable
> the specialist to learn deeper magic.
>
> So when there is little benefit from specializing, there is little
> cost--in terms of time and power--to picking up a bit of whatever
> seems useful.
>
> So when these wealthy and somewhat powerful strangers worship
> something, why not worship it too? Maybe you can gain their power?
Yeah, Wenelia's mixed society is self-reinforcing, as the tradeoffs required to start specializing are prohibitive.
It would make for a great campaign to either help a community break out of that loop, or prevent someone else from doing so. Hmm.