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Dystopian Fantasy where large man consumes souls for his god and pulls him everywhere on ship tied around waist
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I skimmed this book on a fantasy bin next to R Scott Bakker’s The Prince of Nothing series in 2008/2009. It seemed fairly new then. It’s an adult fantasy; not quite grimdark, but violent.
Details as remembered below. Potential spoilers, though this should only contain details from the first couple of chapters, if that.
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The gods, who are generally siblings (or at least have a sibling-like relationship), rely on directly consuming human souls for power/life. It may be that the number of worshippers they have might have been the old measure/source of power for them, but now they have to directly consume souls, or maybe it still is a factor, albeit reduced (faulty memory, sorry).
The main character is a large man, slow-seeming, but with a strongly implied capacity for violence. He is implicitly trusted by his god, for whom he might be the only follower. Unusually as well, his god has pretty much delegated all soul consumption to him, to empower him for some as-yet unrevealed grand plan/purpose. He also has his god's ship (with his weakened god in it) connected to a large chain around his torso, and he pulls it around everywhere he goes. It is implied to be mystically floating in the air (at least that's how I imagined it), or dragging on the ground everywhere. I seem to recall the main character's name as John (or something similarly prosaic and macho, but I could be wrong).
There is a male god on speaking terms with his god (at least to the point of visiting him on the ship), and who is a god of flowers (roses?) and swords.
It read like a "dark" / "adult" fantasy, but not quite grimdark, though.
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