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[[Main Page]] > [[Character Creation]] > [[Character Creation#Backgrounds|Backgrounds]] > [[Acolyte]]
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{{quote|"You have spent your life in service to a temple, learning sacred rites and providing sacrifices to the god or gods you worship. Serving the gods and discovering their sacred works will guide you to greatness."}}
{{quote|"You have spent your life in service to a temple, learning sacred rites and providing sacrifices to the god or gods you worship. Serving the gods and discovering their sacred works will guide you to greatness."}}


== Background Feature ==
== Background Feature ==
* '''Insight Proficiency''': Gain [[proficiency]] with [[Wisdom]] ([[Insight]]) [[Ability Checks|ability checks]].
* '''Religion Proficiency''': Gain [[proficiency]] with [[Intelligence]] ([[Religion]]) ability checks.


== Background Goals ==
* '''Insight Proficiency''': Gain [[Proficiency]] with [[Wisdom]] ([[Insight]]) ''Ability Checks''.
Performing certain actions that align with this background will reward [[Inspiration]]. These goals can be accomplished by any member of the active party, and Inspiration points are pooled, up to a maximum of 4. Completing an inspiration event will also grant experience to characters with that background.
* '''Religion Proficiency''': Gain [[Proficiency]] with [[Intelligence]] ([[Religion]]) ''Ability Checks''.


{| class="wikitable" style="width: 100%;"
== Inspirations ==
!Location
!XP Reward
!Name
!Description
|-
! colspan="4" |General
|-
!Anywhere
|20
|Fate Must Wait
|Resurrect anyone in your party.
|-
! colspan="4" |Act 1
|-
![[Overgrown Ruins#Dank%20Crypt|Dank Crypt]]
|20
|Divinity Undone
|Unlock and read the [[Book of Dead Gods]].
|-
! rowspan="2" | [[Druids Grove]]
|25
| Silvanus' Solitude
|Witness the ritual that seals off the [[Secluded Grove|grove]] from the world.
|-
|25
|Treefather's Sorrow
| Unleash [[Silvanus]]' curse upon the grove.
*Kill the druids and steal the [[Idol of Silvanus]].
|-
![[Owlbear Nest]]
|25
|Her Gift of Silver
|Recover [[Deities#Sel%C3%BBne|Selûne]]'s lost treasure through prayer.


* Read the [[Selûnite Prayer Sheet|prayer note]] while next to the locked chest.
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|-
! rowspan="2" | [[Shattered Sanctum]]
|25
|A Kiss Without Mercy
|Endure the ritual of Loviatar until [[Abdirak]] is pleased.
|-
|25
|Saving the Heretic
|Learn about Maglubiyet and safely free his priest.
|-
![[Waukeen's Rest]]
|30
|A Unified Spirit
|Pray with the Flaming Fists at Waukeen's Rest.
|-
! rowspan="2" |[[Underdark]]
|30
|Last Rites of the Dark Dancer
|Complete [[Deities#Eilistraee|Eilistraee]]'s ritual of sorrow and obtain her [[Phalar Aluve|blessed blade]].
|-
|30
|Shatter the Moon
|Destroy [[Deities#Sel%C3%BBne|Selûne]]'s protection over the Underdark fort.
 
* Destroy the Moonstone above the statue in the [[Selûnite Outpost]].
|-
![[The Festering Cove]]
|30
|Tipping the Scales
|Earn the worship of the [[Kuo-toa]].
|-
![[Grymforge]]
|50
|Acolytes of the Demonweb Pits
|Persuade the spiders in Grymforge to remain faithful to Lolth.
|-
! colspan="4" |Act 2
|-
! rowspan="2" |[[Ruined Battlefield]]
|50
|No Rest for the Wicked
|Assist [[He Who Was]] in his task.
|-
|50
|Let Sleeping Dogs Lie
|Prevent He Who Was from completing his task.
|-
! rowspan="2" |[[Last Light Inn]]
|50
|Moonweaver's Prayer
|Witness [[Isobel]]'s ritual to keep up the protection of Last Light.
|-
|50
|Tragic Love
|Witness Yonas' funeral.
|-
! rowspan="3" |[[Reithwin Town]]
|60
|Blessed's Final Rest
|Find the [[Olam's Journal|aasimar's journal]].
|-
|60
|Did My Homework
|Recite [[Shar]]'s dogma to the [[Malus Thorm|surgeon]].
|-
|60
|Honing the Darkness
|Pass all of Shar's tests in the [[Sharran Sanctuary|middle]] of the cursed town.
|-
! rowspan="3" |[[Gauntlet of Shar]]
|75
|In Her Footsteps
|Solve each of Shar's trials in the Gauntlet of Shar.
|-
|75
|Sole Survivor
|[[Break Yurgir's Contract|Discover the truth]] behind the numerous rats in the Gauntlet of Shar.
|-
|75
|Those for Whom the Bell Tolled
|Kill all of [[Balthazar]]'s undead.
|-
! rowspan="2" |[[Shadowfell]]
|75
|Cerimonia Alārum
|Release the [[Find the Nightsong|Nightsong]].
|-
|75
|Cerimonia Compedum
|Execute the ritual to bring Nightsong to [[Ketheric Thorm|Ketheric]] yourself.
 
* Ally with and allow Balthazar to take Nightsong, rather than actually doing it yourself.
|-
![[Mind Flayer Colony]]
|60
|A Piece of Three
|Piece together Ketheric's allegiances.
|-
! colspan="4" |Act 3
|-
! rowspan="6" |[[Rivington]]
|135
|Needs of the Many
|Persuade the [[Arfur Gregorio|merchant]] to let the refugee squatters stay in his home.
|-
|135
|Food for the Soul
|Donate a Long Rest's worth of food to the [[Nestor|donation chest]].
|-
|135
|A Test of Faithfulness
|Ask the [[Zethino|Master of Love]] to test your bond.
|-
|135
|The Dismemberment of Dribbles
|Find all the pieces of [[Find Dribbles the Clown|Dribbles]]' body and return them to [[Lucretious]].
|-
|135
|A Scorned Closed Heart
|Side with the [[Brother Clements|open-minded priest]].
 
* In the dialogue with the priests, choose "Sounds like your god would be proud of Father Logan".
|-
|135
|A Wounded Open Heart
|Side with the [[Brother Bill|close-minded priest]].
 
* In the dialogue with the priests, choose "If Father Logan had been pickier, he might still been alive".
|-
![[Wyrm's Crossing]]
|135
|Carnal Rituals of Sharess
|Take part in the... erm... negotiable affection provided in [[Sharess' Caress]].
|-
![[Wyrm's Rock Fortress]]
|170
|Shaking Bane's Hand
|Agree to an alliance with [[Gortash]].
|-
! rowspan="6" |[[Lower City]]
|170
|Ordinary Practises in Extraordinary Times
|Offer appropriate offerings to a deity in the [[Stormshore Tabernacle]].
 
* The offering is the same amount as needed to get a merchant to 100 Attitude as seen [[Trading and item pricing#Trader%20attitude|here]].
|-
|170
|What Remains of the Dead
|Guide [[Nina Dortmell|Nina]] to acceptance or prowess.
 
* She can be found in the [[Graveyard (Lower City)]].
|-
|170
|Child Protection Agents
|Find and rescue [[Lora]]'s daughter, [[Save Vanra|Vanra]].
|-
|220
|True Exorcism
|Burn [[Free the Artist#Mystic%20Carrion's%20Mansion|Kerri's portrait]] with the [[Torch of Revocation]] and banish [[Echo of a Lost Love|Kerri]] from the Material Plane.
|-
|220
|Rites of Loss
|Complete the [[Mapping of the Heart]].
|-
|170
|Offering to the Waves
|Make an offering for the [[Avenge the Drowned|dead waveservant]].
|-
! rowspan="2" |[[Murder Tribunal]]
|220
|Liturgy of Blood
|Embrace Bhaal and complete the [[Impress the Murder Tribunal|Murder Tribunal]].
|-
|220
|Revulsion of Blood
|Free [[Valeria]] during the Murder Tribunal.
|-
! rowspan="2" |[[Lower City Sewers]]
|170
|Grinning with Bhaal
|Agree to an alliance with [[Orin]].
|-
|220
|Forgotten, Bloodied, Halls
|Discover the [[Temple of Bhaal]].
 
|}


== Cut Background Goals ==
=== Act One ===


*'''Justice Sees All:''' Discover why Anders betrayed Tyr.
* '''A Kiss Without Mercy''': Endure the ritual of Loviatar until Abdirak is pleased.
**In Early Acess [[Anders]] was a fallen paladin of Tyr however in the release version his backstory was changed to simply be a servant of Zariel, therefore the dialogue that would trigger this inspiration was removed.
* '''A Unified Spirit''': Pray with the Flaming Fists at [[Waukeen's Rest]].
* '''Divinity Undone''': Unlock and read the [[Book of Dead Gods]].
* '''Fate Must Wait''': Resurrect anyone in your party.
* '''Her Gift of Silver''': Recover [[Selûne]]'s lost treasure through prayer - read the prayer note behind the statue.
* '''Justice Sees All''': Discover why [[Anders]] betrayed [[Tyr]].
* '''Last Rites of the Dark Dancer''': Complete [[Eilistraee]]'s ritual of sorrow and obtain her blessed blade.
* '''Saving the Heretic''': Learn about Maglubiyet and safely free his priest.
* '''Shatter the Moon''': Destrouy Selûne's protection over the [[Underdark]] fort.
* '''Silvanus' Solitude''': Witness the ritual that seals off the [[Secluded Grove|grove]] from the world.
* '''The Final Scribe's Boom''': Discover [[Jergal]]'s amulet in the [[Dank Crypt|chapel's]] hidden tomb.
* '''Tipping the Scales''': Earn the worship of the [[Kuo-Toa]].
* '''Treefather's Sorrow''': Unleash [[Silvanus]]' curse upon the grove.
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