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Across the Inner Sea region, few things are as ubiquitous as faith and religion. However, among the myriad nations and cultures, worship and devotion isn't limited to only the area's most widely acknowledged deities. Pathfinder Campaign Setting: Inner Sea Faiths sheds light on 15 lesser-known deities who nonetheless offer great power to their followers, granting spiritual might to any characters willing to offer devotion. Inside this book you'll find details about these gods' histories, dogmas, and practices, all designed to enrich your campaigns with divine lore, including:

  • In-depth articles about the Inner Sea region's more esoteric divinities, from Achaekek, god of divine punishment and patron of the deadly Red Mantis assassins, to Besmara, the lusty queen of pirates and tamer of the fierce beasts that dwell beneath the waves, to Milani, vehement enemy of tyranny and slavery, to Naderi, goddess of romantic tragedy and forbidden love.
  • Guidance on how to play an adventurer or create an NPC devoted to a particular god, including the clothing, texts, and holidays sacred to the faithful, as well as aphorisms common among their ranks.
  • Obediences and boons that can empower all worshipers of each divinity, especially those with levels in prestige classes devoted to their faith.
  • Details about each divinity's standing in the Great Beyond, as well as a look into the gods' personal extraplanar realms.
  • Insight into the fascinating creatures that serve each divinity, including the unique astral deva who heralds Kurgess, the Strong Man, and the veiled trumpet archon who heralds Sivanah, the Seventh Veil.

Pathfinder Campaign Setting: Inner Sea Faiths is intended for use with the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game and Pathfinder campaign setting, but can easily be adapted to any fantasy world.

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Great follow-up to Inner Sea Gods

5/5 —

Read my full review on Of Dice and Pen.

I love this book just as much as I love Inner Sea Gods, and it has seen a lot of use in my games. It is full of evocative and flavourful information that can form the basis of all kinds of characters and adventures. I particularly like that it uses its full space for this information and doesn’t feel the need to include numerous new feats and spells. I now have ideas for about fifteen new campaigns that I will probably never have time to run, but it’s fun to have the ideas anyway!

A Great Addition

5/5 —

While the book is basically Inner Sea Gods: Part 2, I'd argue it is an even better addition to the system. While Inner Sea Gods updated the old AP articles and put them in one place for people to find, this book serves to breath life into many of the minor deities of the Inner Sea that hadn't gotten one before.

Honestly, it has given me more ideas for characters, villains, and adventures than anything I can recently recall. Whether you are more often a player or GM, if you find deities and religions at all compelling I'd say this is the #1 campaign setting book you should pick up this year.

Please, sir, may I have some more?

4/5 —

I want to add my voice to the other positive reviews. Inner Sea Gods is also my favorite book that Paizo has published. ISF is a good book, but it is not as great as ISG. That may be due to constraints of length or other factors to which I am not privy.

I'm writing this review because I have read that these reviews help the developers know what to develop. I would very much like to see the deities and their cults receive more attention and more detail, so here we go.

The Good:

The lore this book contains is, without a doubt, the best part. If you don't care about the origins and motivations of deities and those who follow them, buy a different book. ISF, got me excited about deities like Besmara who I never before found interesting, while also giving me rich details about deities I already found interesting. Her section made me want to be a pirate. I think that's the highest praise that I can give as a consumer. The author(s?) of that section painted a vivid enough picture that a new perspective became compelling.

The Bad:

Some of the Obediences could have been better fleshed out. The best Obediences give you at least two options on how to appease your god: one needs to be something you don't need other people or specific locations. Some of these did not. Nobody wants their divine powers turned off because they couldn't find find someone to whom they could brag or whom they could bully.

Some of the Boons evoked the "who would want that?" (which may be a failure of my imagination and not the design) or "why is that so bad?" (Seriously, Mahathallah has better illusionists than Sivanah. Does that seem right to anyone?) Also, if you give a boon that effects Channel Energy, then let Exalted levels stack with Cleric levels for that ability. Let Sarenrae's exalted boon be your guide. If you don't, them you make that boon suck for your Exalted and unlikely to ever come up if you go straight cleric given how late access boons are without the appropriate prestige classes.

However many of the other Boons were good. (Besmara lets her evangelists summon sea monsters she has bullied and even coerce people themselves with her divine charisma. How cool is that?)

Some alignment appropriate deities did not have paladin or anti-paladin codes. Ghaulander is CE and is a god of disease. There is no doubt in my mind that he has anti-paladins and that they have specific beliefs. One of my favorite parts of ISG was the alternate paladin codes. Paladins have codes tailored to their patron makes so much sense, and makes them much more fun to play. You guys struck gold with that innovation. Keep mining it.

There were some editing and grammar errors, but it only confused or annoyed me a couple of times. It's only a minor complaint.

The Odd:

Achaeckek is now a full god (with 5 Domains) rather than a demigod. It seems a bad call on the pantheon's part to let him get bigger than a demigod. He is an assassin after all. :-p

What Improvements I Would Like:

ISG was so great because it gave feats and spells specific to each religion. This book could have greatly benefitted from such additions along with the missing Heralds. I know some of these gods got feats in ISG, but I want more. I understand that there might have been space constraints. I would have paid more. If this book had been ISG Volume 2, I would be giving it 5 stars, and want to give it 6. Seriously, I would be grateful to have the honor of giving you $10 more.

TL;DNR?

Consumers: buy this book for the excellent lore, but temper your expectations: many of the boons are either not as cool or not as thematic as they were in ISG.

Developers: please make more books in this vein, but more in the style of ISG. ISG seemed to sell well. You guys have a market here. Please exploit it and take our money. It's not like you don't have more gods to detail.

Inner Sea Gods Minus A Star

4/5 —

Honestly, how much you will like/use this book depends on the mileage you got out of Inner Sea Gods.
Take whatever rating you would put Inner Sea Gods and subtract a single star: That is the rating of this book.
I LOVE ISG, so this book is still of great value to me.
However, it falls a bit short of it's predecessor.

Why's that?
Each minor god get's the ISG treatment, but only to a degree.
*We open up with a Deific Obedience and some boons, all of which are flavorful but many of which are near impossible to complete regularly (Good luck finding two unblemished white roses and a nearby stream every day you adventure).
*We then get a sidebar about the god, paladin and antipaladin codes for the god, but oddly not for every god that could have paladins/antipaladins (What makes an antipaladin of Ghlaunder special?).
*The next portion is fairly straitforward:
Understanding the God, the Church, Temples and Shrines, *picture of a worshiper*,a Priest's Role, Adventures, Clothing, Holy Text, *Picture of the deity*, Holidays, Aphorisms, Relations with Other Religeons, Realm, Planar Allies. Nothing too odd.
*Variant casting abilities for the faithful are mentioned at the tail end of A Priest's Role, except for the dragon gods, who have none mentioned.
*Heralds for those who have been printed in Adventure Paths (Brigh, Milani, Besmara, Zyphus) are referenced to the appropriate AP; other heralds are described but not stated.
*The sidebars from ISG about deity appropriate spells, items, feats, etc is completely absent.
*Mechanical resources beyond Deific Obedience are also absent; players looking for faith specific magic items will need to dig through ISG (though it looks like each minor god does get at least one magic item there) and conjurists looking to invoke their god's servitor race or herald will need to work with their GM more than Core Deities.
These points all drag down the overall usefulness of the book.

That said, this book DOES provide some wonderful background information of each minor god.
no longer will we be tormented with figuring out just what to call followers of Zyphus (the answer is Zyphens).
Dahak is fleshed out into something other than a draconic parody of Rovagug.
The mysterious Alseta and Naderi are finally unveiled! (The mysterious Sivanah is still mysterious. That's her shtick).

Oh, and Achaekek assassinates another building...

Great Info on More Deities

5/5 —

Inner Sea Gods is perhaps my favorite campaign setting book for Pathfinder, so seeing several of the "lesser" deities get the same treatment in Inner Sea Faiths was very exciting for me. The book contains deific obediences and evangelist/exalted/sentinel boons for each of 15 deities, and aside from that, the book contains pure setting info for the gods. I do like deity-specific items and spells, but I was more excited to see information about the history and worship of these deities. Alseta and Naderi were the ones I was most interested in, but I was also excited to see more about Achaekek, Sivanah, Hanspur, and Groetus. There's at least one deity of every alignment, so there should be something for a variety of play choices.

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I believe Desna's entry in Inner Sea Gods shows her fighting Ghlaunder. I could be mistaken, though.

But otherwise I'm not aware of any stand-alone art for the mosquito god.
Kalindlara wrote:
For the curious - this is the piece I was thinking of.

But it says "Hag of Gyronna" not "Gyronna".

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The way that the artists title the pieces that they make for Paizo don't always align perfectly with what Paizo actually presents them as though. And Paizo sometimes changes their mind about what a given piece represents as well - James' was talking about Apsu a page or so back, and that's a good example. That art was on the Nirvana page of the Campaign Setting, and the art was posted to the blog with "Nirvana Dragon" written right on it. That art may be Apsu now, but when the art director paid Warren Mahy to create it, it was a Nirvana Dragon. So it's entirely possible that Vicky Yarova was paid to paint a Hag of Gyronna that Paizo afterwards decided would represent Gyronna herself.

Looking forward to this this as I'm a sucker for fantasy religions, and was especially looking forward to more info on Brigh for some of my gnomish backstories.

Happened to look up the item on Amazon and saw this

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1601258259?keywords=Inner%20sea%20faiths&a mp;qid=1454870987&ref_=sr_1_1&sr=8-1

What a fantastically beautiful cover, of Brigh I can only imagine.

It got me checking and Amazon has lots of different covers for upcoming products like campaign settings and modules. It's seems the paizo ones are put up as mocks way early but are never updated. At least I hope that's the case because I want that Brigh cover ;-)

If it is then Paizo should update the mock, because that cover alone would drive presales

The cover you see on this product page is the final cover. The cover on Amazon is, I believe, the mockup that was also used here until the final cover was ready.
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Heine Stick wrote:
The cover you see on this product page is the final cover. The cover on Amazon is, I believe, the mockup that was also used here until the final cover was ready.

Yep, the cover here switched from the mockup about two weeks ago. The Amazon image is actually a small section of a full portrait used for a writeup on Brigh in one of the APs a couple years ago.

Ooh do you know which AP I must get my hands on it ;-)
Gnomatsu wrote:
Ooh do you know which AP I must get my hands on it ;-)

Lords of Rust, I believe.

Paizo Employee Developer
Luthorne wrote:
Gnomatsu wrote:
Ooh do you know which AP I must get my hands on it ;-)
Lords of Rust, I believe.

^^ Correct ^^

Great Thanks!

That article is likely to be pretty much reprinted with minimal changes in Inner Sea Faiths. While I recommend buying the whole Iron Gods AP anyway, if you just want Bright stuff (or the Zyphon stuff printed in a later Iron Gods issue), just wait for this book.

What if I want stuff on Kurgess or Gyronna?
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Then this is the book you want.

LMAO if you wouldn't buy this just for Sivanah.
Silver Crusade
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Just found out Jessica Price is who wrote the Naderi section! At first I was extremely excited since she's one of my favourite deities that we know little about but now that I know Price is writing her?

WANTWANTWANTWANTWANTWANTWANTWANT!
Dark Archive
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I'm also pretty much getting this for Naderi, but thathe sounds awesome.
Dark Archive

Who wrote the article for ask Sivanah?
Project Manager
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Chris Ballard wrote:
Who wrote the article for ask Sivanah?

That was also me.

And thanks, Rysky. <3
Paizo Employee Creative Director
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Rysky wrote:

Just found out Jessica Price is who wrote the Naderi section! At first I was extremely excited since she's one of my favourite deities that we know little about but now that I know Price is writing her?

WANTWANTWANTWANTWANTWANTWANTWANT!

I like that this post can be interpreted as stating that Jessica Price is one of your favorite deities. :)

Project Manager
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James Jacobs wrote:
Rysky wrote:

Just found out Jessica Price is who wrote the Naderi section! At first I was extremely excited since she's one of my favourite deities that we know little about but now that I know Price is writing her?

WANTWANTWANTWANTWANTWANTWANTWANT!

I like that this post can be interpreted as stating that Jessica Price is one of your favorite deities. :)

English is a wondrous language. ;-)

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Jessica Price wrote:
James Jacobs wrote:
Rysky wrote:

Just found out Jessica Price is who wrote the Naderi section! At first I was extremely excited since she's one of my favourite deities that we know little about but now that I know Price is writing her?

WANTWANTWANTWANTWANTWANTWANTWANT!

I like that this post can be interpreted as stating that Jessica Price is one of your favorite deities. :)
English is a wondrous language. ;-)

What domains, alignment, and favored weapon?

Silver Crusade
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Jessica Price wrote:
Chris Ballard wrote:
Who wrote the article for ask Sivanah?

That was also me.

And thanks, Rysky. <3

Aww, np ^w^

Silver Crusade
Jessica Price wrote:
James Jacobs wrote:
Rysky wrote:

Just found out Jessica Price is who wrote the Naderi section! At first I was extremely excited since she's one of my favourite deities that we know little about but now that I know Price is writing her?

WANTWANTWANTWANTWANTWANTWANTWANT!

I like that this post can be interpreted as stating that Jessica Price is one of your favorite deities. :)
English is a wondrous language. ;-)

YUS.

Silver Crusade
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James Jacobs wrote:
Rysky wrote:

Just found out Jessica Price is who wrote the Naderi section! At first I was extremely excited since she's one of my favourite deities that we know little about but now that I know Price is writing her?

WANTWANTWANTWANTWANTWANTWANTWANT!

I like that this post can be interpreted as stating that Jessica Price is one of your favorite deities. :)

Hmm, actually, she might even have edged out Cosmo...

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Rysky wrote:
James Jacobs wrote:
Rysky wrote:

Just found out Jessica Price is who wrote the Naderi section! At first I was extremely excited since she's one of my favourite deities that we know little about but now that I know Price is writing her?

WANTWANTWANTWANTWANTWANTWANTWANT!

I like that this post can be interpreted as stating that Jessica Price is one of your favorite deities. :)
Hmm, actually, she might even have edged out Cosmo...

So are you saying we should take our 'blames' to Jessica Price? That all the woes in my life are her fault and not Cosmo? Has my life been a lie?

I Blame C...I don't know who anymore.... :(
Paizo Employee Developer
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John Kretzer wrote:
Rysky wrote:
James Jacobs wrote:
Rysky wrote:

Just found out Jessica Price is who wrote the Naderi section! At first I was extremely excited since she's one of my favourite deities that we know little about but now that I know Price is writing her?

WANTWANTWANTWANTWANTWANTWANTWANT!

I like that this post can be interpreted as stating that Jessica Price is one of your favorite deities. :)
Hmm, actually, she might even have edged out Cosmo...

So are you saying we should take our 'blames' to Jessica Price? That all the woes in my life are her fault and not Cosmo? Has my life been a lie?

I Blame C...I don't know who anymore.... :(

As project manager, Jessica is very good at taking the blame and passing on praise, but as a freelancer, I don't know. Pray on it and see what answer comes from the Goddess.

Project Manager
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I am a complete and utter diva as a freelancer.
Dark Archive
Jessica Price wrote:
I am a complete and utter diva as a freelancer.

Does goddess work too?

Project Manager
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I was punning, since "diva" literally means "goddess." ;-)
Silver Crusade
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Jessica Price wrote:
I was punning, since "diva" literally means "goddess." ;-)

Huh, so that's where that word comes from, interesting :3

*makes offering of chocolate and tea (NOT Lipton)*
Paizo Employee Creative Director
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Rysky wrote:
Jessica Price wrote:
I was punning, since "diva" literally means "goddess." ;-)

Huh, so that's where that word comes from, interesting :3

*makes offering of chocolate and tea (NOT Lipton)*

Best not be microwaving that tea water!

Completely psyched for Apsu.
Silver Crusade
James Jacobs wrote:
Rysky wrote:
Jessica Price wrote:
I was punning, since "diva" literally means "goddess." ;-)

Huh, so that's where that word comes from, interesting :3

*makes offering of chocolate and tea (NOT Lipton)*

Best not be microwaving that tea water!

*blink*

*blink*

... people do that?
Project Manager
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Rysky wrote:
James Jacobs wrote:
Rysky wrote:
Jessica Price wrote:
I was punning, since "diva" literally means "goddess." ;-)

Huh, so that's where that word comes from, interesting :3

*makes offering of chocolate and tea (NOT Lipton)*

Best not be microwaving that tea water!

*blink*

*blink*

... people do that?

No. Barbarous heathens who don't understand science do that.

Silver Crusade
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Jessica Price wrote:
Rysky wrote:
James Jacobs wrote:
Rysky wrote:
Jessica Price wrote:
I was punning, since "diva" literally means "goddess." ;-)

Huh, so that's where that word comes from, interesting :3

*makes offering of chocolate and tea (NOT Lipton)*

Best not be microwaving that tea water!

*blink*

*blink*

... people do that?

No. Barbarous heathens who don't understand science do that.

... that... doesn't even look remotely good.

Grand Lodge

Wait, APSU! I have paladin of apsu who has been grabbing every little peice of Apsu related stuff he can find. If Apsu gets a wrtie up, I will immediately be paying for retraining to pick up his obedience!
Dark Archive
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Hoping previews of this comes up soon!
DeciusNero wrote:
Hoping previews of this comes up soon!

Hoping it starts shipping and PDFs come out soon.

I need this for my Hell's Rebel character, Zealot Vigilante of Milani.
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I'd just like to help out my player's character who is a cleric/brawler of Kurgess.

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Tell me everything there is to know about Apsu. I must know! :D

*wants to know more about Kugress, especially if killing other players is something Kugress would punish by removing spells*
Thomas Seitz wrote:
...if killing other players is something Kugress would punish...

Is Metagaming/4th-wall-Breaking within his Pantheon now? ;-)

Dark Archive
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Axial wrote:

SUBSCRIBERS!

Tell me everything there is to know about Apsu. I must know! :D

Apsu does not like tummy rubs. If you flip him over, five out of six of his bits are pointy (and the tail can still mess you up).

Set wrote:
Axial wrote:

SUBSCRIBERS!

Tell me everything there is to know about Apsu. I must know! :D

Apsu does not like tummy rubs. If you flip him over, five out of six of his bits are pointy (and the tail can still mess you up).

Fascinating. I assume then that Dahak loves belly rubs?

Aghhhhh. I forgot what I was and wasn't subscribed to, and I gotta wait till the 30th. Like everybody else. Oh well. Gives me lots of spoilers. 'Cept car spoilers. I'll even take Stephanie Brown Spoilers.

Anybody got any new info on Naderi?
Quandary wrote:
Thomas Seitz wrote:
...if killing other players is something Kugress would punish...
Is Metagaming/4th-wall-Breaking within his Pantheon now? ;-)

No not the demi-god personally but a priest of his killed a druid who was possibly indirectly responsible for the death of another party member.

I'm just wondering if Kugress would frown on such action...
Silver Crusade
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NADERI!

Ooo, the couple that catalyzed her apotheosis serve as her heralds.

And as she has Daemon AND Agathion servants!

*hugs computer screen

I don't suppose you can post the table of contents Rysky?

I don't suppose some one could say how much new info is there for Milani? I have a Milanite Ranger/Preist who needs fleshing out in Hell's Rebels.
Silver Crusade
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Sure

Introduction 2
Achaekek 4
Aliseta 10
Apsu 16
Besmara 22
Brigh 28
Dahak 34
Ghlaunder 40
Groetus 46
Gyronna 52
Hanspur 58
Kurgress 64
Milani 70
Naderi 76
Sivanah 82
Zyphus 88
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