[Globu]

You don't need to set them as human players for either map commands or, unless I am sorely mistaken, SemiRandom. I've gotten to tinker with this subject a bit when setting up a slate of thematic pretenders for my version of the Glory SP map. It's extremely minor, but the one thing that it fails to address is the appellations and gender of the god -- so, even though you've completely changed the pretender an AI has gotten to, say, a male dual-bless Earth/Nature or something, it still might be listed as a female Eater of Children and all that, and constantly referred to as she.