"...you're literally going to beat me with those signs? Well, I guess it is an improvement over what you used to do."

Yeah, at least in the North.

Three pantheons of ancient pagan deities descend once more. They perform actual miracles. Their followers travel the world. The dying are revitalised, those with the most serious of injuries are healed. And yet still the faith of Christians and in their conspicuously absent God remains utterly unshakable.

I find this to be very realistic. A true believer's conviction is so strong that no force in all the realms could change their mind. Up to and including a personal encounter with an actual god.

I can easily see a few of the more determined churches would even go so far as to send missionaries in to the realms in an attempt to save those they believe were tricked in to the worship of demons and false idols. I'm sure this would be quite entertaining for the locals.

I imagine things are a lot worse in the Islamic world, though, with their extreme views on apostacy and proud rejection of religious plurality. A lot of those countries would make it a capital offence to bear a mark, forced or voluntary, and ban entry to the country for life for anyone who had set foot in the realms.

I'm still debating how to handle some of the geopolitics. As for the missionaries, yes, it happens, and doesn't always turn out well.

Meanwhile the furries all want to know how you get a mark like that.

Well, if you want a mark, basically you just show up in the Divine Realms and the temple of the god you want a mark to!

Ah, not too hard!

I mean, in theory at least! In practice there's other issues...