Tempest cleric

As a cabin boy on the ______.Like the other sailors on the ship he made offerings to a fickle goddess whose moods controlled the ebb and flow of tides and the winds. that “served” the goddess had convinced the crew the captain was unfit to lead by conjuring up a mighty storm and manipulating the seas to make the captain seem foolish. The cleric staged a mutiny.

At some point during the struggle the ship gets wrecked _____ and the cleric survive. The cleric passes on what he knows about manipulating people's belief into spells.

Then the cleric passes on. After many years_____ is able to contact a passing ship. Where he sharpens his skills as a cleric. At some point he slips up and is booted off of the ship. He then drifts around for a while before he ended up in the empire. He is hoping to bring the fear of storms into the lake communities of the empire and establish his own flock.

The sea ferring clerics in his religion that escort ships are called  Lanterns. The clerics who sink ships refuse to pay tribute are called ____.

Are all the clerics aware that there are now gods in the setting. Or is it only a select few in the religion… Or is only the founder or the person on the highest tier.