Legendary Artifact
Lucius noted Maleck's words as he found a few specks of important information in them. He knew that the gods did actually watch mortals, though not as often as one would think. They were usually busy doing whatever they liked and only watched the mortals when something interesting happened or if an alarm was detected.
There were different methods that gods used to rule over the mortals, but most of them chose to automate it unless there was something very important to do. Though there were exceptions to this, of course.
The smaller a god's domain, the fewer people they would have. This almost meant that the god would watch their people more often than the bigger gods. It was simply a game of numbers and they wanted to ensure that their believers did not leave them or lose faith in them.