Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-11555902-20140109165305/@comment-4536066-20140110215319

72.52.91.19 wrote: But yet still that does not make them a "God." unless someone believes and worships them. I wouldn't agree with that. Particularly when describing more obscure deities, like the elder gods, there's evidence that godhood is independent of whether or not anyone knows about or worships a godly being.

There are no civilizations on Gielinor we know about who worship Ful, but Ful is still able to create life and worlds from nothing, create artefacts that focus and retain power, can choose to diminish and "power down," and cannot be killed by absolutely anything. To argue that Ful is not a goddess because she is so ancient that no one knows about her (and those who do don't know enough about her to worship her) seems silly.

It goes back to whether or not ascension is psychological or physical. If it's psychological, then worship may be key to facilitating the change; a strong being that says, "Hey I'm a god now!" when everyone around him is like, "Yeah, sure you are, Joe. Sure you are," is probably not a god. However, a being that is already established as a god, like Armadyl, wouldn't stop being a god just because all of his worshippers have died off. Of course, if ascension is a physical change, then it doesn't matter what anybody believes - that being has become a god because he has experienced ascension.