Oracles and the form of a spiritual ally


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Hi,

This question is not about using either charisma or wisdom when casting spiritual ally. It is about the form the spiritual ally takes when it appears.

RAW wrote:
An ally made of pure force appears in a single 5-foot square within range. The ally takes the form of a servant of your god. The spiritual ally occupies its space, though you and your allies can move through it, since it is your ally. The spiritual ally carries a single weapon, one favored by your deity (as for spiritual weapon), which has the same threat range and critical modifiers as a real weapon of its form. (...)

Since an oracle does not necessarily worship a specific god (or even no god at all), what shape would his spiritual ally have? And what would the weapon carried look like?

I guess it would either be something closely tied to the oracle's mystery (for example, an air elemental for the Wind mystery), or an image of the oracle itself, if (s)he is quite self-centered.

In any case, I guess you'd have to confer with your GM to see what the spiritual ally would look like, if he allows you to take this spell in the first place.


The RAW is silent however I expect the RAI is the same as Spiritual Weapon. In that case I suggest borrowing from Spiritual Weapon the following text:

CRB p348 Spiritual Weapon wrote:
The weapon that you get is often a force replica of your deity’s own personal weapon. A cleric without a deity gets a weapon based on his alignment. A neutral cleric without a deity can create a spiritual weapon of any alignment, provided he is acting at least generally in accord with that alignment at the time. The weapons associated with each alignment are as follows: chaos (battleaxe), evil (light flail), good (warhammer), law (longsword).


The GM will probably allow it to look like whatever you want it to look like.
A more important question for oracles is: will the GM allow you to use your Charisma bonus in place of your Wisdom bonus?


I'd suspect it would take a form relative to your mystery in this case. Could just be a random humanoid (blacksmith for metal, soldier for battle, hunter for wood, robed cultist for dark tapestry, etc). You could probably create the description yourself.

As for the weapon it carries, I agree with Gauss.

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