Quote Originally Posted by Jandor View Post
There are only six shards left, and one of them is the void, leaving us with five really. Yet we've still got twelve gods.
Do we, though? Discounting Primals, the Gods worshiped by the various peoples of the world do not seem to directly intervene in mortal affairs. The Twelve are no exception to this. There are occasional hints that they might be real, such as their apparent presence when Lousoix called upon the prayers of Eorzea to face down Bahamut - but with all the belief-charged Aether in the air, pretty much ANYTHING could have been made real at that point, while it lasted.

If the Twelve ARE linked to the Shards, it's entirely possible that seven or eight of them HAVE ceased to exist. Would that stop folks from worshiping them? I don't see why - how would the worshipers even know that their god was gone?