Follower Alignments - Any non-Evil (before Remaster).
Must be Holy (after Remaster).
This is interesting, because it means that he got way more radical post-remaster. "Holy", if anything, is a more significant requirement than "good" was. If he was allowing neutrals before, but requires everyone to sign up on the Holy side after....
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This is interesting, because it means that he got way more radical post-remaster. "Holy", if anything, is a more significant requirement than "good" was. If he was allowing neutrals before, but requires everyone to sign up on the Holy side after....
Follower Alignments - Any non-Evil (before Remaster).
Must be Holy (after Remaster).
Yes. I thought the apparent discrepancy / paradox was too good to not keep. After all a paradox is often the key to greater understanding.
Way I see it, alignment and sanctification do not describe quite the same thing.
Alignment is what you naturally tend to do. So a LN person who focused on classifying and putting order in everything was quite OK as long as they followed Berod's edicts and anathemas.
Whereas Sanctification is a goal/cause you commit to. And Berod now asks his followers to commit to the cause of good (Holy).
The same person who was a LN follower can still perfectly be an adherent of Berod. Just now it is even clearer that they must strive to uphold good and fight those committed to evil (Unholy). How they do it still follows the same principles (edicts and anathemas) as before.
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Deschain, "I leave snazzy nicknames to people who want them"
Areas of Concern- Knowledge, Cross-Cultural Appreciation, Mental Agility
Since TRB did it, WHY NOT ME?!
Sacred Animal : Rather mean and relatively small dogs- if Australian Cattle Dogs exist on Golarion, there you go.
Sacred Colors : "Who cares? Some of my clergy are probably blind anyway. Just wear whatever, it's not like I expect you bastards to hang out together much."
ADDED BONUS PRIZES!
Symbol: An open book with a map on one visible page and text on the other
Blessings and curses: Deschain is insanely stingy with both.
His curses are vicious affairs, wherein those suffering his curse can never get a moment to themselves. Privacy, solitude, a moment to think without someone chattering at you all evaporate when he has you in his sights. The degree of severity ranges from letting a victim at least get an uninterrupted night's sleep to truly incessant pestering from all corners.
His blessing, such as it is, takes effort on the part of the blessed, but those who apply themselves will see new sights and/or find lore that broadens their horizons in some fashion.
Typical Worshipers: The faith is far too scattershot and deliberately disorganized to have knightly or monastic orders affiliated with it, but the faith of Deschain has caught on with some of the more curmudgeonly Pathfinders out there. Beyond adhering to his Edicts and Anathema, he's not even remotely picky, and the ban on actively proselytizing means that followers of the faith tend to be an idiosyncratic bunch.
Note that as literally nothing in his rules actually requires a follower to be a crabby hermit, even lively extroverts can find themselves drawn to the faith.
Sacred Animal : Rather mean and relatively small dogs- if Australian Cattle Dogs exist on Golarion, there you go.
Your sacred animal is literally the small but vicious dog?
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Sacred Animal : Rather mean and relatively small dogs- if Australian Cattle Dogs exist on Golarion, there you go.Your sacred animal is literally the small but vicious dog?
My best-beloved (and sadly lamented) dog in real life was a blue heeler. So if this is "me" passing the Starstone test, well...
But we gotta draw a line, we're not talking absurdly tiny incarnations of pure hatred like a Chihuahua or anything :P
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Sacred Animal : Rather mean and relatively small dogs- if Australian Cattle Dogs exist on Golarion, there you go.Your sacred animal is literally the small but vicious dog?My best-beloved (and sadly lamented) dog in real life was a blue heeler. So if this is "me" passing the Starstone test, well...
But we gotta draw a line, we're not talking absurdly tiny incarnations of pure hatred like a Chihuahua or anything :P
The thing that amused me was the reference. "small but vicious dog" is a classic Warhammer Fantasy RPG reference, after it showed up on the starting gear list for the rat catcher profession (...which was one of the better intro professions for humans who wanted to follow a fightery career)
...and it turns out that the Rat Terrier comes in just under the Blue heeler in size (the heeler is 18-20 inches tall, and the terrier tops out at 18) so it shoudl still fit into your range.
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Terriers can be tiny, but they don't know it. So yes, they'd work.
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Rydge (The Y makes it more godly)
Category - Newly Risen God
Edicts – Try to suck a little less today than you did yesterday; if you’ve done no harm then you don’t owe people explanations for who or what you are; Events in life are not fair but people should strive to be. Spin worlds of wonder without shame
Anathema – Putting someone else down just so you look taller, Judging another hastily, Refusing to admit you were wrong when you are. No Pineapples on Pizza (I mean it)
Areas of Concern- Imagination, Privacy, trying to be good but reserving the right to #### about it!
Symbol: A stick figure pushing a boulder up a hill!
Follower Alignments – Rydge prefers to hang out with people who are better than he is so mostly good aligned preferred. As they have better options in gods, most of his worshipers are Neutrals TRYING to be better with mixed results anyway
Pantheons – Rydge is leery of joining any pantheon that would want him as a member. He would be alarmed to find out he was also rather redundant even before he arrived by other new gods, but hey, thems the breaks
Devotee Benefits
Divine Ability – Constitution or Wisdom
Divine Font - Heal
Divine Skill - Stealth
Favored Weapon – Halberd
Domains – Dreams, Introspection, Secrecy, Truth
Alternate Domains – Freedom, Magic
Cleric Spells - 1st: Biting Words, 3rd: Non Detection, 6th: Word of RevisionAssuming Rydge is a better god, than Ridge was a mortal, jokes about low bars might be made freely. No doubt he would be utterly confused at first, but then begin granting spells hoping to do SOME good by empowering a few brave souls in need so they could do some good personally before he was inevitably destroyed by pineapple on pizza loving writers for Paizo. Rydge would also develop the unfortunate tendency to speak of himself in the third person, another reason he would be an unpopular god and likely to get the cosmic axe fast!
Since "No Pineapples on Pizza (I mean it)" is an Anathema then you insist on all pizza having pineapple...hmmmm even with Anchovies?