Temple Displacement

Temple Displacement is a phenomenon in the world of 'Card Table Blues.' When a temple is no longer sustained by enough practitioners, especially when it's surrounded by people who practice a religion which is extremely different from the one it was built for, it may go haywire, granting malicious miracles and causing droughts. In Europe, temple displacement was never a great danger; the god would likely be syncretized and would be happy to inhabit the temple of a similar god in the new culture. The god of an abandoned temple might even travel to a temple dedicated to the same god in a nearby settlement. Special priests are specifically employed to keep certain abandoned temples from going haywire, by purifying them, exorcising them or simply conducting the proper rites in them from time to time.