Editing Ameth (section)

===7 Gods===
The leaders of the Faith that change every 7 years are actually the original 7 gods. Ancient arch-liches they build this civilization from scratch eons ago as a continuous supply of life energy and materials for themselves.

The Faith doesn't rule Ameth with an iron fist. This is a deliberate decision as an utopia would lead to stagnation and the 7 gods enjoy seeing new creations made by human hands. New arts, architecture or form of war. For this reason the Ameth is usually split in several states.

The pyramids are giant magical circles powered by the collected life force. Some are used by the 7 gods to communicate with Elder entities beyond the stars, some to protect cities form giant worms roaming the deserts, some to change landscapes.  Often powerful rituals require more then life force. In one night the populace of a whole village or city can be abducted to be sacrificed  in a ritual. And so another dead city is born and no one knows what happened.

The reason that the 7 gods haven't killed each other for power over the nation is because they consider ruling Ameth a side-job. Like a bunch of roommates starting a farm and each day it is turn of one or another to tend to the chickens.