(The Speech essence was to bypass your guard against it.Also I didn't expect to actually get any converts from Grauel,Azem,Quebare and Yaos's followers,I just wanted to set the other mortals against my opposing spheres,Seriously though that was kind of cheap,Again Sorry.)
OOC, I hold nothing against you for the "cheap" move. Stuff like that happens in God games all the time. IC, it was almost certainly a bad move though. Gods have been killed for far less and your character is new and thus at a significant disadvantage if he incurs someone's wrath. It's just my helpful OOC advice. Power differences and power plays definitely exist here and there is little protection for weaker characters against more powerful players except alliances and being cautious. If you want to oppose someone stronger, you need to be clever, have allies or become more powerful first. Truthfully it's almost a shame your against Grauel because out of all the gods he seems one of the mostly likely to help others become more powerful. He's to date made a lot of pacts privately and also rarely gives power when he likes someone. Also that's rare and it backfired once so it's harder to have that happen.
Tangentially related. Opinions on the essence capacity transfers / absorption?
Seems like there aren't many ways for low capacity gods to catch up. Only current idea I have is massive essence absorption by eating a bunch of things but that would result in a lot of justified anger from other gods. Also it's effectiveness might be lesser for all you non hunger gods. Yaos's attempt at eatings demons like me seemed to indicate more problems at any rate. We also aren't entirely sure of how essence capacity increase through essence gain works yet.
I recall asking by PM a long time ago and being told it occurs fractionally with a 1/100 chance of a full 1 capacity gain. I think that's per 1 essence over cap absorbed but it wasn't clear to me from what I was told.