Even after you've killed either one, or both of, the remaining tribunal, and after removing their godhood, why do the shrines to the myou can find in every temple and in various tombs will work? Would it be the power of ALMSEVI that makes them run, even though its more like VI now, amirite?

Assuming they're dead and assuming godhood (what ever that means today) can be taken away, there always is the love of the people, it kept the moon up long enough.

Of course you can also just assume an oversight. What ever you'd like to hear really.

I always assumed that the shrines where actually just enchanted to provide those effects.

I don't see why it would make any difference, really.

The power is there, naturally. It's all around-- different sorts of people tap into it for their own purposes. They don't create it-- they just learn how to harness what's already there. The Tribunal, though on a much grander scale, just did the same thing. They didn't create the power-- they just found a way to harness an extraordinary amount of it for their own uses. The shrines were undoubtedly never dependent upon the gods-- they were just another manifestation of the same power, set up in a particular way in order to reflect the specific powers and personalities of specific gods. Some of them were reputedly created by the gods themselves, but most of them are just sitting there, with no reason to believe that they weren't created by people-- priests or technicians, depending on how one wishes to look at it. Without the gods, the power's still there anyway.

As I've just been expounding about elsewhere, I really think that that was part of the point, particularly with Tribunal. And it's really a broad point about religion in general too. The gods really don't matter. It doesn't matter in the least whether Vivec or Almalexia or Sotha Sil (or whomever the religion is founded upon) exist or not. They're just figureheads-- just an initial reason for a group of people to come together for fellowship and worship and charity and fulfillment. Whatever benefits the religion provides, it provides not because of the nominal figure of worship, but simply because of its members. The Temple isn't what it is because Almalexia's floating around in some room surrounded by Her Hands (which is clearly demonstrated by the fact that it doesn't change at all when she's NOT floating around in the room surrounded by Her Hands)-- ultimately it's what it is because Mehra Helas, through light of day and dark of night-- through clear skies and ash storms-- when Almalexia's a radiant goddess floating in the middle of the Temple and when Almalexia's a crumpled corpse in the Dome of Sotha Sil-- is standing out in the plaza, collecting donations to help the poor and dispensing blessings upon those who help.

The people, and that they share a belief that leads them to work to benefit others, are what's important-- the gods themselves are secondary, at best. They don't even need to exist at all, really.