Help Choosing a deity


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Grand Lodge

I'm making a Neutral Good Undine Ocean's Echo oracle with the Elemental mystery- main strategy is standard action summon Earth or Water elementals, tack on Augment Summons and Superior Summoning, and use Inspire Courage and possibly throw on the Blood Rage spell for funsies.

But with minions to do most the damage stuff for me, I'm thinking what kind of fun spells could I benefit from worshiping the right deity. Pharasma lets me cast False Life as an Oracle, for example. But she's not exactly fitting for my theme here. Plus I retired my Life Oracle in PFS who was devout to her, so i'm looking for something different.

Are there any good elemental/water themed deities that are 1) PFS legal, 2) able to be worshiped by a Neutral Good character (within one step; I'm set on alignment), 3) fits the elements/water theme I have going for this character and 4) grants decent or interesting spells for me to cast as an Oracle.

I've been combing through Inner Sea Gods and Archives of Nethys for a bit now, but there's so many deities I figured asking for help would be, well, helpful.

I'm not set on worshiping a deity for this character, so if nothing satisfying comes up I won't be disappointed, but I thought it best to ask around.

*edit* despite no mechanical benefit I might worship Onos since they seem kind of cool and fits the theme. Still on the lookout for new spells though.

The Exchange

how are you getting standard action summons?


Sacred Summons I assume, but unclear how you can make elementals a standard action since they don't have an alignment...but anyway, I didn't actually know about the Unique Spell Rules! Innnnnnteresting...

Gozreh is the obvious one, although he/she only grants Whispering Wind...

The Exchange

JiaYou wrote:

Sacred Summons I assume, but unclear how you can make elementals a standard action since they don't have an alignment...but anyway, I didn't actually know about the Unique Spell Rules! Innnnnnteresting...

Gozreh is the obvious one, although he/she only grants Whispering Wind...

Oracle don't have Aura, so can't take sacred. Thought maybe, found away


You can summon aligned ice elementals through worship of Kostchtchie, but that's chaotic evil, and they're fiendish elementals. Not much help there.

I'd say go with Apsu, cause the draconic ally spell seems like a fun addition to your summoner. But while oracles of Apsu are granted the spell, Apsu also doesn't have oracles. I'm not sure what's going on there exactly.


The elemental mystery gives you standard action summons for elementals through the Elemental Allies revelation.


ErichAD wrote:
But while oracles of Apsu are granted the spell, Apsu also doesn't have oracles. I'm not sure what's going on there exactly.

If I understand correctly, it is "oracles who worship Apsu" who are granted the spell, not "oracles who draw their mystery from Apsu" (which as you point out do not exist).

The Exchange

Lelomenia wrote:
The elemental mystery gives you standard action summons for elementals through the Elemental Allies revelation.

Well, I'll be, I didn't know that way existed.

Grand Lodge

Oh yeah, I didn’t mention it in the original post but Elemental Allies is a revelation that lets me summon Elementals as a standard action a number of times per day equal to my level. Requires 7th level to choose that revelation so it’s going to take some buildup.

Grand Lodge

Fuzzy-Wuzzy wrote:
ErichAD wrote:
But while oracles of Apsu are granted the spell, Apsu also doesn't have oracles. I'm not sure what's going on there exactly.
If I understand correctly, it is "oracles who worship Apsu" who are granted the spell, not "oracles who draw their mystery from Apsu" (which as you point out do not exist).

If I remember my lore correctly apsu doesn’t create oracles because he doesn’t think the curse they suffer is worth the power granted to them.

But nothing is stopping an oracle from worshipping Apsu anyway.


Very true Syries

People seem to get confused about Oracles.

Being granted power by a god does not mean you must worship that god.

Worshipping a god does not mean you got that power from them.

Oracles have no need to be directly related to any gods at all.

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