Yup. They are certainly at the bottom of a mountain. A snowy one.

Not, if you're familiar with distinguishing mountains from one another, the same one.

Ugh. She has a splitting headache. She stands back up and shakes the snow off of her, and takes a few moments to bodyscan.

The headache does seem to be the only thing wrong with her. Praise Korrado. She places her hand on her temple and uses Damianos's power to heal herself. Indirectly. His power transforms touched entities to their ideals of beauty, and Feliya very much thinks that not being in pain and having no head injuries is very beautiful. It works!

She offers the same to Rendon.

He will accept. He looks restless.

"We're not in Korrado's domain anymore."

"What do you mean."

"What I said. Korrado has said as much." He gestures to the glass vial of holy rock, tied to a long steel cord around his neck.

"Um."

She'll hold up her own vial of holy earth.

"Are we really not in Korrado's domain anymore?"

"We are not. We don't seem to be in any other gods' domains either."

Okay. So they're not hallucinating.

They're not going to go down immediately. They're on a mountain, which means they'll have a good view of the surroundings. They'll try to move around the mountain, maintaining the same altitude, and try to see if they can find civilization or different biomes – a sharp discontinuity in biome is a sure sign of a divine territory border.

There are no sharp discontinuities unless you count that big frozen lake over there.

That does count as a sharp discontinuity! There used to be a lake god near Damianos's territory, before He and Korrado killed Him and took it over.

They will start walking towards it. They are used to walking for hours at a time, and Korrado has granted them both blessings for constitution and resistance to the mountain elements, which includes cold.

That's good, because it is cold, and also this will require walking for hours. And hours. It's a big lake and was visible from pretty far away.

They're tired by the end of it. When they reach the lake, Rendon will poke the ice with his walking stick to verify that it can hold a person, and then step over the threshold.

"No deity here."

Feliya sighs.

"No deity here either. And we must have walked...ten, fifteen miles? No terrain discontinuities. And no signs of civilization anywhere. Do you think we should claim territory?"

"I am not opposed."

"It seems like a good idea. You need to eat and drink, after all.

I can still feel the other parts of myself, but they're very far away. Unfathomably far away. I can barely feel them."

That reminds her of the fact that she is famished from all the walking.

She will resist the urge to rest and eat – another helpful blessing of Korrado's is resolve – and the two of them will turn around and go back to the base of the mountains. Walk walk walk.

There they will uncap their vials. Rendon will pour holy rock on the mountains, and Feliya, standing several meters away, will pour holy earth on the flat ground.

Korrado and Damianos will immediately start claiming territory.

Korrado has an easier time of it, the mountains already being, well, mountains. His domain is alpine volcano, and He just has to melt the inside of it. There is now a puddle of hot lava near the area the holy rock was poured.

It's a lot harder for Damianos, His domain being subtropical grassland. He doesn't have the energy to change the climate – which He realizes is polar – and grow plants and melt permafrost and various other tasks, at least, not yet. The both of Them will try to occupy an area several miles in diameter at first, and then consider what to do later.

He'll transition the area into tundra before trying to alter the temperature more.

Feliya will utter a quick prayer before taking out her pack and grabbing the food because she is STARVING. She didn't bring all that much food, but it should be enough for a day. Maybe two. She has nut cookies, salted peanuts, candy, and beef jerky.

After they finish eating, they will immediately go and pray again, continuously, trying to focus all their attention on Korrado and Damianos so that they can get more energy and attention with which to claim territory.

It's a lot easier to pray continuously with perfect focus when you know that if you don't, it's possible that your gods won't have enough resources to grow fruits and vegetables with which to feed you.

The two of Them have each claimed territory a mile in diameter now. Does anyone come to greet them?

Nope. There might be somebody on the way, but no one here yet.

So this place really is unclaimed. And uninhabited. Not that surprising in retrospect – the conditions are uninhabitable. In that case, they should think of the long term.

The two gods will change tack, and Korrado will start surrounding Damianos's newly claimed territory, aiming to surround it on all side by tall mountains to keep heat in, but forming rivers that outflow from the lake to prevent it from becoming a salt lake. He'll have Damianos raise His plains to be a somewhat higher than the surroundings to do that, but They can do that later. Korrado will focus on mountain formation for now, with Damianos on temperature regulation.

Their plan is to have something bordered on all sides by mountains, save for river outflows, with a humid subtropical climate – very similar to the Earth region of Srinagar, Kashmir. They probably won't have the energy to prevent the temperature from below freezing temperature during winter, which will sadden Damianos, but it will be much, much more hospitable than the original environment.