Haha, claimed zeh post!

Anyways how is a god going to be prevented from taking over a country?

WIP I'll improve it later when I get more of an idea but it's a place holder for now.
Name: Alhiera (goddess)
Powers: Desert, fire/heat (not the warm and fuzzy stuff, hot and blistery stuff), and the wind. In her domain (desert) she's quite capable of very devasting destruction able to kill mortals through natural disaster, typically it will not be individuals but whole groups when she does go killing someone for whatever reason. Her commonplace practice for when taking with mortals is through forming a body of sand and wind which typically is fairly obscure, however she has proven before (once) that that she can 'draw blades' and kill a mortal with her sand and wind form.
Holy symbol or symbols:
Role in the pantheon: major goddess, and takes on the role of the summer goddess in many places, in the desert she's the primary deity of worship.
Practices: Traditionally warriors who follow her often wield dual curved swords in honor of her, that being her fighting style. Desert dwelling people will often create great bonfires and dance around (and through) the flames often dressed only wearing loose and airy light silken garments intimidating the wind. It has been noticed that during these ceremonies that the flames seem to actively avoid catching the garments on fire, however there's been at least few incidents involving landing in the coals.
People merely travelling through the desert often make some sort of tribute to her for protection against sandstorms, and general personal safety. Outside of the desert she's often worshipped as the goddess of the summer since her domains are in that area. Practices for worshipping her as the summer goddess is very wide spread and so various that in some places she's miss interpreted very badly.

(This was the other person's idea, talked over PM)
She has made it known that she doesn't tolerate people trying to invade the desert, and proved it when she stopped the invasion by the Third Empire. She formed several sandstorms in the region where the invaders were, and she made the heat go so high as to kill soldiers outright due to the fact they simply weren't used to the desert's regular tepature in the first place. With her sandstorms she ravaged supply caravans and randomly struck out at the army, the final attack was with wind speeds so high that the sand would cut away bare flesh exposed to it. In the end she drove away the invadersand personally showed up before the highest ranking officer alive and informed him that the next invasion force wouldn't have survivors.