[quote=@Kho]
We could always excuse the extraordinary power used by Level 1 lite-gods at the start by saying that much of it had to do with Fate and Mater lending them the power necessary to create an entire universe to their liking. So the basic laws etc. of the universe will be created by the gods as with Mk.II

Unless Mater creates a basic intelligent species with which the newborn gods can go about playing and developing into different species.
[/quote]

I'm... Pretty strongly inclined not to do either of these. The former sounds vague and inflexible, and I'm generally opposed to any kind of 'baseline' fauna. *

[quote=@Double Capybara]
I think it could work if the world initiated as a cold desert or just water or seas of sand, the cool gods congregate in one area, create a small oasis of life, each one flexing their divine muscle, and then from there, life spreads to the rest of the planet. The outcasts, shy, and edgy, could go and make their own areas with pool tables and punk music, send just an ambassador, or act in the shadows.

Such area would work in a similar way to the initial "nothingness" of the previous divinus MKs, except once it is done and the world has life, this original land could become a permanent "godly land", legendary to mortals, coveted by many gods, so on. (though it would take some turns, or for example, if there is no god of seas, it could stay permanently as a land where sand separates continents instead of water, so on) 
[/quote]

This is pretty much what I was thinking, yes!

*ed: Microbial baseline flora is good though, let's have some oxygen and stromatolites and methanogens and volcanic extremophiles and GOD I LOVE PROKARYOTES