Quote Originally Posted by rbetieh View Post
But.. that still leave the Use Magical Device route. She could (maybe with the help of a Demigod and the demigods clerics) create some special items like Malacks Staff or Redcloaks Cloak, then use standard Godly intervention to lead a person sympathetic to her cause who happens to have UMD to the item, and get a living "High Priest" that way.... or at least I think its at least possible...
True, true. I guess it depends on whether or not "I have an artifact that confers priesthood on the user" counts as the god doing it directly or not.

Dang, these rules sound thorny.

And all of this fails to reconcile the disconnect between "no worshipers that count" versus "no worshipers at all".