[Types]

Priest

You propitiate the dark ones, ancient entities, or possibly a very real and present god who will punish you if you fail to continue singing their praises and offering sacrifices. But in return for your worship and idolatry, you can call upon their antediluvian aid, allowing you to manifest inexplicable powers to heal, enhance, cleanse, or punish.

Your allies count on you to interpret strange dreams, identify lost gods and their works, heal and ward them against malign influences, and, when it matters most, step into a fight with your magic or weapon. You’ve journeyed long and far enough to know that the capacity to strike a foe down with an axe or sword is just as much a blessing as magic, as long as thanks are given afterward.

Background Options

• Your natural carving talent was so advanced that the gods noticed you even as a child.
• A year ago another priest predicted you would soon die in a bloody, surprising manner.
• An idol you gave to a barbarian warlord was returned to you recently, bloodstained and hewn.
• A message from your father arrived a few weeks ago, demanding that you return to your homeland.
• Missionaries in an obscure faith raised you. Now you hope to spread the good word as far and wide as possible to grow your faith’s reach.
• You woke in a tomb this morning. You got out but don’t remember how you got there.
• Last month you cast out a demon that was possessing a bandit. Their promised reward is still pending.
• You believe the gods keep claiming credit for your innate magical abilities. One day you hope to cut them out entirely, but until then, you repeat their dogmas to the gullible.

Priest Abilities

You gain all of the following benefits:

• Able to take two more minor wounds and one more moderate wound
• Add +3 to Intellect Pool
• Add +1 to Might Pool
• Add +1 Edge in Pool of your choice
• Freely use light and medium weapons
• Freely use light and medium armor Gain one weapon of your choice
• At tier 3 and tier 6, choose an ability from the Fantasy Genre Abilities list

Idol (3+ Intellect) Action+

At the conclusion of a ten-minute ritual, you create an idol that persists until its magic is exhausted. The idol could be a symbol etched in stone, a figurine woven from twigs, a small carving, or something similar. The idol must be set on a solid surface with a nod toward being protected from the elements, such as being set in a tree hollow, at the base of a wall, or inside a structure.

Effort: You can carry the idol with you.

The idol’s holy connection to the ineffable provides your choice of one of the following fixed benefits. Whoever prays to the idol as their action gains this benefit whether you are present or not. The idol has a depletion of 1–2 in 1d6; roll each time it grants its benefit to someone.

Bestial Fury

The supplicant is infused with a latent spirit of bestial fury. The fury activates when the supplicant loses their temper or they choose to rouse it as an extra action on their turn.

When the fury emerges, the character visibly changes into a swollen, rage-filled version of themselves. While furious, they can’t spend Intellect points for any reason other than to try to regain their composure. They attack any and every living creature within short range, rolling twice for each attack and taking the better result. The fury lasts until they use a ten-minute or longer recovery or they use an action to succeed on a difficulty 2 Intellect task. When the supplicant reverts to normal, the physical toll of the change deals two moderate wounds. (A furious NPC supplicant is effectively one level higher and takes 6 damage when the fury ends.) themselves. While furious, they can’t spend Intellect points for any reason other than to try to regain their composure. They attack any and every living creature within short range, rolling twice for each attack and taking the better result. The fury lasts until they use a ten-minute or longer recovery or they use an action to succeed on a difficulty 2 Intellect task. When the supplicant reverts to normal, the physical toll of the change deals two moderate wounds. (A furious NPC supplicant is effectively one level higher and takes 6 damage when the fury ends.) Healing: The severity of one of the supplicant’s wounds is reduced by one step.

Spiritual Cleanse

The supplicant is freed from one curse, demonic possession, or similar spiritual affliction of level 5 or less.

If Healing is used on an NPC, they regain 5 health. Ten minutes to initiate.

Retribution (1 Intellect) Last

You call forth the powers of a deity to assail a foe within short range that you can see. If your Intellect attack hits, the target takes 3 damage; they are also marked with an obvious sign relating to that deity until you make a ten-minute or longer recovery. For example, if you call for the retribution of Thesk the Serpent Lord, the attack looks like ephemeral snakes twining around and biting your foe, and they are marked on their forehead or another obvious location with glowing fangs or a snake’s head.

At tier 3, the retribution increases to 5 damage.

Priest Equipment Bundle

Choose the following equipment bundle to quickly outfit your character, or assemble your own starting equipment

A battleaxe, appropriate clothing, chainmail armor, a shield, a backpack, a bedroll, 50 feet (16 m) of rope, a book of prayers, three torches, rations and water for three days, a tinderbox, and enough extra currency to buy a moderately priced item. <