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I have a player who is archetyping into Champion as a Cleric, and this rules question came up (more out of curiosity than anything).

The Cleric reads the following way:

Core Rulebook pg. 116 wrote:
As a cleric, you are a mortal servitor of a deity you revere above all others.

So we pick a deity. Then, we archetype into Champion, which reads:

Core Rulebook pg. 223 wrote:
Choose a deity and cause as you would if you were a champion.

Which refers to the Champion:

Core Rulebook pg. 104 wrote:
Champions are divine servants of a deity. Choose a deity to follow; your alignment must be one allowed for followers of your deity.

Now as far as I can tell, the archetype makes no mention of the deity having to be the same as the one you wrote in the "deity" box on your character sheet. However, the "Deity" section throws a wrench in this somewhat:

Core Rulebook pg. 29 wrote:
Write down the deity your character worships, if any. Champions and clerics must worship a deity. See pages 437–440 for more about Pathfinder’s deities.

This explicitly calls out "the deity", not "the deities". However, this is a general rule, and doesn't explicitly put a limiter on your deity count. As with Syncretism (Gods & Magic pg. 105), where you can select a second deity (where the specific rule overrides the general), I would assume since the archetype gives you an additional "choose", you are not forced to choose the same deity as a Champion as you did as a Cleric.

I was curious as to what the general consensus on this was, or at the least what people's thoughts were. I would say as a GM you simply treat the classes separately, where breaching anathema set by your Cleric side locks you out of Cleric stuff but not your Champion stuff, and vice versa. However, there could be something I missed here.