When you have contests between various guilds, it’s going to be harder to maintain your existence as a smaller guild. Skyforge‘s pantheon conflicts have made smaller pantheons a bit less attractive, but the game’s next patch is addressing that. You don’t need to watch your members slowly bleed away from your group while losing everything you worked toward; instead, you can merge with another pantheon and create one larger group from the remnants of the old.
Much like a corporate merger, one pantheon essentially “takes over” the other one, with the “destroyed” pantheon having its holdings converted to resources for the newly merged group. The deal does have a slightly bigger benefit for the pantheon that absorbs the smaller group, but it will allow a sudden influx of resources that wouldn’t be possible if the smaller group was just disbanded. Check out the full announcement for more of the fine details.