[quote=Drakel]
I always assumed that you could pray for anything... this included magics... Yes. But... can't we just make more shrines or move our current one? It's made of wood after all...
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You can't pray to learn something, it's not within your god's control to just implant knowledge into your head. You can use prayer to have effects on the physical world, which is sort of like prayer magic but the bigger the effect the more prayer it takes.

You can't move shrines. Eventually you might learn how to take over other gods' shrines or create new ones of your own, but right now you can't. So you best not let your current one get destroyed, otherwise you'll be stuck having to pray to revive fallen allies which will be a bitch.