"Small Gods" - Terry Pratchett

Brutha finds his god, Om as a tortoise and he tries to make everyone else see that it is the god, but Brutha's country, Omnia, goes to war with Ephebe about what shape the world is. Vorbis a high inquisitor on Omnia got badly injured in the fight and gets lost in the desert alone; Brutha goes back to Omnia with Om but looses him. Om finds in the desert a palace which was a place for the gods and he settles down there to stay with all the other gods. Brutha finds Vorbis and takes him back to Omnia when he gets there he becomes a high priest and then Vorbis dies at a very old age making Brutha a inquisitor and then he changes all the rules in Omnia to a less violent country. Brutha sadly dies of unusual circumstances and meets Death in a desert which you have to walk when you die. …