Priest/Theologian Faith talents

Shadekeep · 09-04-2018, 08:10 AM

For clerics in my game world I've devised a series of Rites, which roughly correspond to Spells for wizards. These are fundamentally the same in practice across the various religions in my world, though they have different rituals and trappings. For example, the Rite of Consecration purifies and makes the consecrated repellent to the undead and unholy. This Rite looks very different when carried out by a Buddhist priest than a Catholic cardinal, but functions the same.

Religions in my game world divide largely along a light/dark axis, though there are subtleties and aspects of each that make them unique. But overall a light religion gets the positive versions of the Rites, and the dark religions get their opposite (so the Rite of Consecration becomes the Rite of Defilement for them).

09-04-2018, 08:10 AM	#5
Shadekeep Join Date: Aug 2018 Location: Aerlith	Re: Priest/Theologian Faith talents For clerics in my game world I've devised a series of Rites, which roughly correspond to Spells for wizards. These are fundamentally the same in practice across the various religions in my world, though they have different rituals and trappings. For example, the Rite of Consecration purifies and makes the consecrated repellent to the undead and unholy. This Rite looks very different when carried out by a Buddhist priest than a Catholic cardinal, but functions the same. Religions in my game world divide largely along a light/dark axis, though there are subtleties and aspects of each that make them unique. But overall a light religion gets the positive versions of the Rites, and the dark religions get their opposite (so the Rite of Consecration becomes the Rite of Defilement for them).