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In-game Description
”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 Features
- Insight Proficiency: Gain Proficiency with Wisdom (Insight) Ability Checks
- Religion Proficiency: Gain Proficiency with Intelligence (Religion) Ability Checks
Inspirations
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Act One
- A Kiss Without Mercy: Endure the ritual of Loviatar until Abdirak is pleased.
- 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 that's 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 safele free his priest.
- Shatter the Moon: Destrouy Selûne's protection over the Underdark fort.
- Silvanus' Solitude: Witness the ritual that seals off the grove from the world.
- The Final Scribe's Boom: Discover Jergal's amulet in the chapel's hidden tomb.
- Tipping the Scales: Earn the worship of the Kuo-Toa.
- Treefather's Sorrow: Unleash Silvanus' curse upon the grove.