Quick question regarding Archetype feats and prerequisites (or lack thereof)

[XPartay]

To the point here, using Blessed One as an example. Certain feats in this archetype list "Blessed One Dedication" as a prerequisite, while others (such as Accelerating Touch) only list "devotion spell (lay on hands)."

A possible read, then, is that a Champion (who has lay on hands as a devotion spell) could take Accelerating touch without taking the Blessed One Dedication.

Is this correct, or have I missed language somewhere (which I looked for) that says something like "feats with the X archetype trait can only be taken after you've taken that archetype's dedication feat."?

There is the language in the archetypes section that reads "Once you have the dedication feat, you can select any feat from that archetype in place of a class feat as long as you meet its prerequisites," but such a sentence seems lacking a certain comprehensiveness.

If the answer is that yes, you must take a dedication feat to take any further feats in the archetype, why do *some* archetype feats list the dedication feat as a prerequisite at all?

Thanks for any help fam

[Perpdepog]

Where are you looking at the feats? If you're looking on Archives of Nethys or PF2SRD it could be that you're looking at the feats that were transplanted into the Blessed One archetype from Champion, which does seem like it could get confusing.

[XPartay]

Gosh darn AoN! Thanks for the quick and concise reply - what a crazy post this would seem if no one had caught that!

As it is, I have looked at my book and I see that all archetypes list the dedication feat as a prereq for all feats, so everything is clear now.

Thanks again.

[Perpdepog]

Super understandable, and happy to help. They used to have all those feats listed at the bottom in their own section, which was less confusing, but then stitched them into the overall feat progression for an archetype, I think because they wanted feats to be organized more strictly by level.