You can Dream anywhere.
Knowing this, the Ethereal gods have found an excellent way to be worshipped
openly. A scout is sent (in a Vessel of a beam of sunlight) to Alpha
Centauri or Polaris, picks a suitable planet or asteroid, and starts
constructing a fantasy world. The Greek pantheon is famous for creating
'lost worlds' where they are openly worshipped by cities built by lost Roman
legions (there are over a dozen worlds founded by "The 9th") while the
faerie courts create true worlds of fantasy. It's not that difficult to do,
really. Sure, there is a shortage of worlds; however some of the elder gods
can take world Vessels. Also, it is possible to create a small inhabitable
bubble on a desolate world and expand it slowly - some worldviews, eg
Melnibone, are especially suited to this approach. Of course, even desolate
worlds are in short supply, so a single planet may host a dozen Fantasy
Worlds - especially as it's a lot easier to enter someone else's Fantasy
World and travel a few thousand miles across the planet than to cross
interstellar space.
These worlds are slowly being populated by humans. The founding humans are
invariably Pagan Saints, who establish the culture and worldview. Of course,
they can't have children with each other; in addition to needing a Song of
fruition they need a mortal partner. So yes, there ARE planets where a
mortal hero will be told that all the men have died out, and asked what his
stamina is like...
It's fairly easy to get mortals to these planets. Once a candidate has been
chosen, (s)he is possessed and then the Song of Transfiguration used; the
ethereal returns to the Fantasy World via The Marches and the dreams of
those who now live there.
Getting back is as easy. However, it is rarely revealed to mortals how they
arrived - and it is very difficult for them to find out.
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