Ao has nearly nil followers, yet he's still a god. The number of worshippers doesn't determine divine rank that much, I think.
Of course, I would worship Ao anyway, just to tell people that you worship him.
That's because he's freaking Lord Ao. He's the god of godhood itself. Deities pray to him.
Originally Posted by Winterwind
Mewtarthio, you have scared my brain into hiding, a trembling, broken shadow of a thing, cowering somewhere in the soothing darkness and singing nursery rhymes in the hope of obscuring the Lovecraftian facts you so boldly brought into daylight.