SoP Divine Heretic Warpriest archetype

[Bashamo]

Domain Spheres:

At 1st level, the divine heretic gains two spheres as his domain spheres. The first of these spheres is the War sphere. A divine heretic gains the War sphere and Totemic Aura as bonus talents, as well as the Personal Conflict drawback. This drawback may be bought off as normal. If the divine heretic already possesses the War sphere, then the Totemic Aura talent is gained as a bonus talent with no drawback. If both are already possessed, then he may choose any talent from the War sphere as a bonus talent...

Personal Conflict:

You can only create totems attached to creatures. You must use the talent gained from this drawback to purchase the Totemic Aura or Totemic Presence talent. Turning any totem you create into a fixed totem (such as through the use of the Redeployment talent) dispels it. You can create mandates and rallies normally.

The Personal Conflict drawback lets me grab either Totemic Aura or Totemic Presence as a bonus talent. The Domain Spheres class feature gives me Totemic Aura AND Personal Conflict. Can I still select Totemic Presence as my bonus talent from Personal conflict, or is Domain Spheres intended to be making the decision for me?

[GM Rednal]

...It could've been worded better, but I think it's saying that Totemic Aura is the bonus talent you get for having Personal Conflict, and you must choose it. Note the later part where it says you can get Totemic Aura without the drawback if you already have the War Sphere, and if you already have the Sphere and that talent, you can just choose any other Talent instead.

The implication here is that you should only be getting the equivalent of one bonus talent. That is, either one talent, or two talents and a drawback. If you could select Totemic Presence, you're getting more power than intended.

[A J Gibson]

GM Rednal wrote:

...It could've been worded better, but I think it's saying that Totemic Aura is the bonus talent you get for having Personal Conflict, and you must choose it. Note the later part where it says you can get Totemic Aura without the drawback if you already have the War Sphere, and if you already have the Sphere and that talent, you can just choose any other Talent instead.

The implication here is that you should only be getting the equivalent of one bonus talent. That is, either one talent, or two talents and a drawback. If you could select Totemic Presence, you're getting more power than intended.

Yep. The idea is that you use Fervor if you want to swift action a totem on yourself, which is what Totemic Presence lets you do. I would not consider it unbalanced if the GM let you take totemic presence instead, however.