Varisian Pilgrim Cleric and choosing domains

[Belryan]

The Varisian Pilgrim cleric (Inner Sea Magic, pg. 42) gets the following:

Inner Sea Magic, pg 42: wrote:

Fortunate Road: At 1st level, a Varisian pilgrim must select the Chaos, Community, Liberation, Luck, Travel, or Weather domain (or the Exploration, Fate, Freedom, Trade, or Seasons subdomains from the Advanced Player’s Guide, if available in the campaign) as one of her domains. If the cleric worships a deity that doesn’t normally grant one of these domains, she gains access to this domain but can only pick this one domain—she effectively loses the option to pick a second domain. As a result, very few clerics who worship deities who don’t grant access to one of the domains or subdomains listed above opt to become Varisian pilgrims. In all other respects, this works like and replaces the standard cleric’s domain ability.

Now, I'm building a Cleric of Shelyn, but will mostly be a Monk, to make use of the Crusader's Flurry feat.

Of the domains listed above, Shelyn grants the Luck domain. However, I'd rather pick the Defense Subdomain (granted by Shelyn) and the Travel domain (granted by the archetype).

1. A Varisian Pilgrim just select the ...Travel... domain.
Check.

2. If the cleric worships a deity that doesn't normally grant one of these domains...
Shelyn does grant one of those domains

3 ... she gains access to this domain but can only pick this one domain

Okay.. but does this mean I have to pick one that she grants (ie Luck), in order to get a second domain, or am I okay with picking Travel since she does grant one of those domains?

So, my question is:

The archetype is not exactly clear. A conservative interpretation would say: "If you pick one of these domains that your deity normally does not grant, then that's the only domain you can choose." As written, though, it says "You must pick one of these Domains. If your deity doesn't grant one of these domains, you can not pick a second domain." Which is correct?

[TGMaxMaxer]

Fortunate Road wrote:

: At 1st level, a Varisian pilgrim must select the Chaos, Community, Liberation, Luck, Travel, or Weather domain (or the Exploration, Fate, Freedom, Trade, or Seasons subdomains from the Advanced Player’s Guide, if available in the campaign) as one of her domains.

If your deity grants one or more of the listed domains, then you follow normal rules for domain selection, with the restriction that one of the domains chosen be on the Varisian Pilgrim list.

Check.

wrote:

If the cleric worships a deity that doesn’t normally grant one of these domains, she gains access to this domain but can only pick this one domain—she effectively loses the option to pick a second domain. As a result, very few clerics who worship deities who don’t grant access to one of the domains or subdomains listed above opt to become Varisian pilgrims. In all other respects, this works like and replaces the standard cleric’s domain ability.

If your deity doesn't grant -any- of the Varisian Pilgrim domains, then you get to pick one of those domains anyways, but then you only get one domain instead of two. Since Shelyn does, this portion of the text does not apply to clerics of Shelyn.

In the case of Shelyn, since she has one of the choices on the VP list, you must pick that one, and then choose your other domain from her normal list as well.

The only way to legally get the Travel domain from the VP archetype would be to pick a deity that has it already and choose it, or to pick a deity who has none of the VP domains listed and take it as your only domain.

You could also be the separatist archetype as well if they don't have any other conflicting trades.

[Belryan]

Aah, cool. Thanks!