My oracle wants to know. She uses a plethora of duality related effects and spells. Can she take spells that are holy, unholy or sanctified, even though she is none of those things?
My oracle wants to know. She uses a plethora of duality related effects and spells. Can she take spells that are holy, unholy or sanctified, even though she is none of those things?
According to Player Core pg 110, "casting spells with the unholy trait is almost always anathema to deities who don't allow unholy sanctification, and casting holy spells is likewise anathema to this who don't allow holy sanctification." This is pretty restrictive, but "almost always" leaves room for a reasonable GM to allow clerics of Pharasma to use anti-undead spells like holy light.
An oracle doesn't have anathema, though, so I don't think anything prevents them from using holy or unholy spells. No class has restrictions on sanctified spells.
That said, I'd at least consider sanctification on any divine caster through the cleric or champion dedications. Fiends are really common, and you get a lot of free weakness damage against them when you're sactified. The drawbacks are largely non-existent. Unless it's for RP/concept reasons, you're better served serving a god.
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As far as I can tell, not only can your Oracle learn and cast spells with the Holy trait, if the spell has the Holy trait, the trait still does its thing even while you yourself are not Sanctified.
So for example, Holy Light will still do its extra 5d6 spirit damage to Unholy targets when cast by your non-Sanctified Oracle.
What doesn't happen is the extra effects of spells with the Sanctified trait. The Sanctified trait does nothing on its own. It only has effect if the caster is Sanctified as Holy or Unholy - at which point the Sanctified trait is replaced with the appropriate Holy/Unholy trait.
So Divine Lance can be learned and cast by an Unsanctified Oracle to do the normal Spirit damage that it does. It won't be triggering Holy/Unholy weakness on creatures though.
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Is there a way to become Sanctified outside of cleric and Champion archetypes. I had an idea for an Oracle who worships Urgathoa, but in a way that is anethema to her. freeing the oppressed, feeding the hungry, etc. That's the reason for his curse. He has divine power, but she hates him for his heretical preaching. And, just to piss Urgathoa off further, another Goddess (I'm thinking Calistria) sanctified him so that he thinks he has Urgathoa's blessing in his preaching.
I'm not aware of any official way of doing it. But it is certainly a reasonable houserule to allow.
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Is there a way to become Sanctified outside of cleric and Champion archetypes.
The newly reprinted Red Mantis Assassin archetype in Prey for Death allows unholy sanctification with the level 2 dedication, and the Cultivator archetype in the almost released Tian Xia Character Guide allows sanctification (either) with a level 10 feat.