The utterly helpful inner front cover of the Varisia: Birthplace of Legends Player Companion provides among other stuff the following:
Skoan-Quah (Skull Clan)
Oracle Mysteries: Bones, lore, nature
I have two big problems with this:
Firstly, the bones mystery revelations are almost all necromantic and related to creating or controlling undead, the greatest taboo of the Skull Clan. Cf. this old post by James Jacobs.
Secondly, the omission of the Ultimate Magic oracle mysteries from the entire list leaves the very essential ancestor mystery inaccessible for the Skoan-Quah shaman oracles.
This is just wrong. IMNSHO the bones mystery should officially be swapped for ancestor in this list.
Opinions?
i get what you're saying, and ancestors is spot-on.
obviously if none of the UM mysteries were used for that product, there wasn't any unique oversight or error, it just wasn't possible.
i would say that given skull clan lore, a bones oracle would be prime material for an evil oracle,
i.e. to be treated as the prime enemy-from-within (if/when they are aware of the oracle's powers/actions)
i get what you're saying, and ancestors is spot-on.
obviously if none of the UM mysteries were used for that product, there wasn't any unique oversight or error, it just wasn't possible.
Well, I know, but... In any future product looking in-depth at the Skoan-Quah (while allowing the use of UM), this should in my opinion really be rectified.
i would say that given skull clan lore, a bones oracle would be prime material for an evil oracle,
i.e. to be treated as the prime enemy-from-within (if/when they are aware of the oracle's powers/actions)
Totally, it's a great story hook. But such a person would hardly remain Skoan-quah's oracle shaman for long, and would surely be a rarity.
The bones mystery just doesn't seem to fit in the list of "the mysteries commonly adopted by the quahs’ oracle shamans", as the explanatory text phrases it.