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Well, again, it's the physical laws of the plane, where it is located relative to the various polarization forces (see the Appendices of Book III).
And it can be what the gods are doing.
But the multiverse is unbelievably big, and there are sets of laws for some parts of it that are incompatible with "life as we know it" that doesn't mean there isn't life there, but the rules are so far off, it is hard even for an immortal to figure out how to get there safely.
I.e. there are planes where gods must wear special "gear" to exist in those planes. And there are others where they can't. That being said, there is a spectrum of immortals such that some can wiggle into planes others cannot and vice versa.
Think about it like habitable zones around a star. There are certain habitable regions in the multiverse where what we understand life exists, and that region runs a very large gamut in multiple dimensions.
E.g. Entropy vs Order. The more entropy, the more magic, until the point "life as we know it" cannot exist, and the more Order, the less magic, more technology you need up until there is so much order "life as we know it" cannot exist. The vast majority of the "habitable" planes like on the spectrum between those two ends (and there are of course, other polarizations as well)
And a point of matter--pardon the pun--when I say life, I mean material life, in the material planes. TheAbyss, TheOuterplanes, the Intermediate Planes, those exist outside the material plane, so gods can roam pretty freely with their own set of rules. However, different parts of the Outer Planes reflect different parts of the material planes so there is some variation--but this is because immortals want that region of the Outer Planes to reflect different parts of the material planes (hence refleca--btw)
Yada yada the answer is, it varies.
But on top of this, the action of various gods can affect these planes and they can do things that make a world (at least small parts of it) appear more or less entropic.
In the case of your Earth, that "planet" is overrun by mana hoovering priests, so that just makes what was a tough sell for magic, a "very tough sell"
Before the Catholic Church overwhelmed Europe there was a lot more mana there, and in particular shamans, druids, animages could do some interesting stuff. Now there just isn't as much "free" mana laying around, except at certain hidden/remote locations.
There is a reason mystics and monks like to build temples in extremely remote regions of your planet--there is likely to be more mana there. yes it was generated by flora and fauna, not by humans--so there is less than there could be, but still no priests going around sucking it up.
But, if you can bring your own mana--like a powerful off world priest with strong links to a willing god in the Outer Planes you can heal people, and all your other normal priestly spells.
So a Priest of Tiernon on Earth could operate normally--at least in terms of spending mana to do spells--worship would be harder since there aren't any worshipers there to harvest mana from. So, could the Church Tiernon make a move--yes, if Tiernon wanted to spend the effort and take the chance of sparking a war with the pantheons that think they "own" the planet.
This is basically what happened to the Nyjyr Ennead. They were pushed out and their worshipers killed or assimilated (on multiple worlds) They were not helped by that nincompoop Pharoah that lost all the slaves to a certain super deity on the planet. Quite the irony he ends up being an archdemon.
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