I've been looking, and there are no mysteries linked to Callistria, does this mean you can't have an oracle of Callistria?
I don't remember seeing anything about being restricted to mysteries your god provides, since oracles don't have to worship anyone.
So to rephrase, I think Oracles can choose any mystery, regardless of god.
Well herolab lets you pick any mystery, but that isn't canon.
I don't remember seeing anything about being restricted to mysteries your god provides, since oracles don't have to worship anyone.
So to rephrase, I think Oracles can choose any mystery, regardless of god.
Every single Mystery does include a list of deities associated with that Mystery though, and Calistra isn't on any of those. While there is no RAW that says an Oracle that worships a deity must choose a revelation associated with their deity, some GMs are likely to interpret it that way.
There is some nice player made Calistria oracle work on the boards here. Check out this link although it is not in rules since it is homemade stuff.
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Oracle's are not "of" a given Diety. They can follow on but Oracle's powers do not come from one specific Deity. The gods listed with the mysteries are common gods associated with that mystery. So yes you may have an Oracle who follows Calistria, said Oracle would not however receive their power from Calistria in specific.
Fair enough, I think I can tell this player that by RAW nothing stops him from going that path if he wants to.
Deity choice is has no mechanical effect, and does not create any sort of restriction for the Oracle.
An Oracle can be an Atheist, if they choose, and nothing changes.
An Oracle is not a Cleric, or Inquisitor.
And in fact: Alahazra
Though she maintains that she has never worshiped a god—the cornerstone of her bitterness toward both her father and her homeland—she has come to respect a wide variety of deities, whom she refers to as "powerful and strategic allies."
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I could totally see an oracle who feels particularly close to Calistria being inspired to the mysteries of Battle (vengeance-obsessed, given preternatural insights into the arts of war, to better obtain vengeance on those who have wronged them, or who have wronged others beloved by the goddess), Flame (symbolizing the fiery passions of the goddess, serving as metaphor for their own burning emotional intensity, or the 'burning' pain of the goddess' holy entropic wasps), Life (a literal lust for life, with their healing effects feeling sensuous and tantalizing), Lore (knowledge is one of Calistria's domains, and the character could regard their supernatural insights as being literal 'pillow talk' from the goddess herself! (or, more humbly, one of her servants)) or Nature (focusing on the holy wasps of calistria, as much as possible, but also on other creatures that could be associated with trickery or lust or vengeance, like weasels or cats or falcons).
If the GM is amenable, one of those mysteries could even be made more appropriate, such as changing some of the Nature revelations to apply to insects as well as (or instead of) animals, or replacing the mount revelation with one to bond to a giant wasp companion (and only a giant wasp companion, eliminating some of the versatility of the base revelation).
Other Mysteries may be less immediately intuitive, but it only takes a tilt of the head to look at them sideways and think how the goddess of trickery and vengeance might 'enlighten' someone in the Mystery of Bones to A) ensure *eternal* vengeance on those who have wronged her faithful, by making their bodies (and perhaps even spirits!) serve those they wronged for eternity and B) prank or 'hack' that fussy old biddy, Pharasma, by sashaying wantonly back and forth all over her precious inviolable curtain between life and death, and snatching people to and from her Boneyard willy-nilly with sweet temptations of earthly pleasures that they have left behind.
That's a nice set to think about, Set, thank you!
I play an atheist oracle in a Kingmaker campaign right now. Though the DM and I have worked out that her powers are granted by Pharasma, there's nothing that says I have to follow any of her teachings – which I usually don't. The only thing that tends to keep my character in line is the threat of the Curse which has led to some fun RP moments.
An oracle isn't about what god you believe in, its about what god believes in you.
Or feels like screwing with you.
Yep, my idea of the oracle is that a god looks down, sees you and says "You'll do" and after that, you're stuck with it. A cleric aspires to their god and is blessed by them. An oracle is lumbered with a god, and cursed by them.