To Master Thread

To the extent of causing miracles...
Stage FIVE~
—Boss; BGM: Faith is for the Transient People
Spell Card: Esoterica "Gray Thaumaturgy"
The example of the way belief and faith works in Gensokyo, and of the select few who has the context to talk about current Outside World stuff.
Newbie Goddess of the Mountain

"Why, you, of course.
I'll punish you with the power of a living god...
With the divine power to cause miracles!"
~Kochiya Sanae
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"I'm Sanae, a wind priestess, descendent of a
long-forgotten line of gods incarnate in the outside world.
Sometimes, humans that revere a god are themselves revered.
Sometimes, shrine maidens can become gods.
Since you're a shrine maiden, are you prepared for
such things to happen?"
~Kochiya Sanae
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"Oh, did you come to visit the shrine in this cold weather?
Hehe, I've learned how to do the greetings here.
You can't let yourself be held back by common sense in Gensokyo, right!?"
~Kochiya Sanae

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An outsider who ascended to divinity after accumulating faith of her own. As such, science-and-tech- savvy and a bit of a nerd. Likes giant robots.

Species: Human
Occupation: Wind Priestess
Ability: Causing miracles
A human who possesses the knowledge of a secretly inherited art.
She has a very straightforward personality, so she has a lot of confidence in her own abilities.
Sometimes, perhaps a bit too much confidence.
Wind Priestesses were originally a devotees of the wind god, but as they used their secret abilities to create miracles such as summoning the wind and rain, the people around them began to believe in these humans with mysterious abilities.
In short, over time, people began to mistake the miracles caused by the wind god as being caused by them.
In addition, as keepers of secrets, they began to accrue faith and be treated as gods, even though they were humans. They became living gods.
When she was young, Sanae had mastered the secrets to call upon miracles that had been passed down through an oral tradition only. A young girl that could call upon the power of miracles would certainly collect great amounts of faith --- one would expect.
However, the outside world had changed a great deal. Faith in even gods with many divine virtues had been decreasing rapidly. There were few who would worship even a living god who had attained divinity during their life as a human.

Though she didn't really have much faith, Sanae was able to live as a normal human without any real problems, but this would not do for the god she worshiped, Kanako.
When people lose faith in gods, the gods lose their power. They can't manifest their divine virtues. This is the same as death, for a god.
Kanako came to a decision. There were limits to the amount of faith that could come from humans. From now on, she would have to also look to youkai as a source of her faith.
Sanae was surprised to hear the details of her plan: a world called "Gensokyo" has existed within our nation since time immemorial. It is said that this world still exists, hidden. Gensokyo has collected a number of things that have become lost - or, become fantasy - in the outside world. One could say that even people's faith in gods is in the process of moving to Gensokyo.
And so, Kanako decided to move her shrine into Gensokyo. She would say farewell to the world of humans.

Sanae was afraid of leaving the world of humans, but as a person with the power to call on miracles, going to a world of miracles was one of the fun parts.
She did not take the humans of Gensokyo seriously. She thought that if they threatened the only shrine in Gensokyo, the Hakurei Shrine, Gensokyo itself would submit to their every wish. She went to deliver her ominous message to Reimu, and then was in turn defeated.
The humans who lived in Gensokyo were more troublesome than she'd imagined, and in time she learned of the power they held, as well.
Here, she was nothing special.
She realized she had gone from being a god incarnate to just a normal human being.
All she could do now was to live a normal, peaceful life as a human of Gensokyo.