Every character in Shattered Gods has the ability to pledge their faith to a greater being. The most common forces that receive worship are the Stewards, although there are a number of other powerful figures in the world.
In order to gain power from these beings the character must make a covenant. This covenant is a special agreement between them and the being in question. It provides that being worship and in exchange allows the character access to certain powers.
Any character wishing to make a covenant simply prays to the appropriate being, such as a Steward. The being then appears to them in a dream, and they make a covenant which outlines their service and what they will be given in a return.
In game terms the character must spend a feat to purchase a covenant. Additional feats can be spent to purchase dedications, which grant further powers or upgrade existing ones.
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Aelianna
Aelianna is the Stewardess of life and healing. Her followers tend to the sick, treat the wounded and safeguard life wherever possible. However, Aelianna is not a blind pacifist. Her followers are fight when the need arises, and many dedicate themselves to the eradication of outsiders.
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Covenant of Aelianna
Type: Dedication
Prerequisites: None
Benefit: The Covenant allows the user to cast the Lay on Hands ability twice a day. Lay on Hands heals 6 hit points at 1st level, 12 hit points at 3rd level and 18 hit points at 5th level. This ability requires the caster to touch their target, but does not provoke an attack of opportunity.
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Aura of Life
Type: Dedication
Prerequisites: Covenant of Aelianna
Benefit: As Lay on Hands, but this ability cures all beings within 30 feet. This ability may be used twice a day.
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Scourge Outsider
Type: Dedication
Prerequisites: Covenant of Aelianna
Benefit: The Covenant of Aelianna and Aura of Life now damage outsiders in addition to healing.
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Amarigen
Amarigen is the Steward of nature. His followers revere the sanctity of the wild, and strive to maintain the balance of the great cycle. They help unquiet spirits find rest, and kill demons or dreamspawn who invade the Realm of Life.
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Covenant of Amarigen
Type: Dedication
Prerequisites: None
Benefit: Those who strike a covenant with Amerigan gain the ability to sacrifice an animal to gain certain powers or to grant blessings. These blessings and abilities last for a full season after the ritual is performed.
Bull = Grant +2 strength or restore fertility to a sterile person
Stag = +2 dexterity or plentiful rains
Ox = +2 con or a good harvest
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Sanctify
Type: Dedication
Prerequisites: Convenant of Amarigen
Benefit: This dedication grants the bearer the ability to sanctify a grove or field up to 30 feet across. This area must be outdoors.
The santification prevents spiritspawn, dreamspawn or voidspawn from entering. They may still used ranged attacks, but cannot break the plane of the circle unless the circle is physically broken in some way.
This santification lasts until the following sunrise and requires the caster to slice their palm and use the blood to create the circle. This act causes 3 points of damage, which may be healed normally.
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Beast Ward
Type: Dedication
Prerequisites: Covenant of Amarigen
Benefit: This ritual allows the caster to ward an area against a specific type of animals. The area warded can be 30ft plus an additional 5ft per level. A type of beast must be named when the ritual is cast.
For the duration of the ritual no beast of that type may enter the circle. The circle lasts until the following sunrise.
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Celeste
Celeste is the Stewardess of knowledge and magic. Her followers venerate knowledge and take every opportunity to bring new books or spells back to her temples for further study. A character who makes a covenant with her must swear to seek knowledge and to teach any who wish to learn.
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Covenant of Celeste
Type: Dedication
Prerequisites: None
Benefit: A covenant with Celeste awakens the bearer’s mind, allowing them greater understanding of anything they wish to study. The first hour spent studying on any given day is treated as if the bearer had spent four hours studying. This ability allows the Dedicated of Celeste to learn spells, histories and languages far more quickly than anyone else.
In addition, it increases the caster’s recovery by 1.
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Devoted Scholar
Type: Dedication
Prerequisites: Covenant of Celeste
Benefit: This feat improves the Covenant of Celeste. The bonus to studying now applies to the first two hours a day, instead of just the first. This means that two hours of study counts as eight.
In addition it increases the caster’s recovery by an additional point.
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Call Wyrmling
Type: Dedication
Prerequisites: Covenant of Celeste
Benefit: The caster can call a wyrmling, a winged reptilian creature about the size of a house cat. Wyrmlings are able to mimic human voices, and are capable of memorizing short messages. Once the Wyrmling has heard the message the caster may dispatch the creature to deliver it to a Temple of Celeste in the city of the caster’s choice.
Wyrmlings fly at speed 30 and have an unerring sense of direction. They fly straight to their specified destination, and deliver their message to the first Dedicated they encounter.
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Dalanthar
Dalanthar is the Steward of justice, duty and authority. He expects his followers to obey the law, to adhere to their duty and to right injustice wherever it is found. His dedications deal primarily with enforing the law, but also grants the wielder abilities to destroy undead, dreamspawn and demons.
All are abominations in the Life realm, and Dalanthar firmly believes they must be erradicated wherever they are found.
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Covenant of Dalanthar
Type: Dedication
Prerequisites: None
Benefit: This feat allows the bearer to detect falsehoods told in his presence. This ability will only detect intentional lies. If a person says something they believe to be true the covenant will not reveal it as a falsehood.
This ability requires the bearer to openly display a holy symbol of Dalanthar.
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Turn Outsider
Type: Dedication
Prerequisites: Covenant of Dalanthar
Benefit: This feat allows the caster to channel a wave of energy that harms all outsiders, including undead, demons, vampyr, consumed and dreamspawn. The wave does 6 points of damage at level 1, 12 at level 3 and 18 at level 5. It affects all creatures within 30 feet of the caster, and does not provoke an attack of opportunity.
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Smite Outsider
Feat Type: Dedication
Prerequisites: Covenant of Dalanthar
Benefit: Once per day the dedicated may call upon Dalanthar to aid her. As a swift action the dedicated chooses one outsider within sight as their smite target. The dedicated adds her charisma bonus to attack rolls, and her level to all damage rolls against the smite target. The smite automatically bypasses any damage resistance.
In addition while the smite is in effect the dedicated gains a deflection bonus equal to her charisma modifier to her AC against attacks made by the smite target.
The smite remains in effect until the target is slain, or until the following sunrise. At 3rd and 6th level the dedicated gains an additional usage of this ability.
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Thandres
Thandres is the Stewardess of luck and vice. Her followers believe that life is fleeting. It can end at any time, so they have a duty to live life to the fullest. For most this means indulging in whatever pleasure or vice they choose, though some find fulfillment through service to others.
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Covenant of Thandres
Type: Dedication
Requirements: None
Benefit: The convenant with Thandres calls upon the Stewardess’s ability to manipulate luck. It allows the user to re-roll any single die roll. They may choose which result they wish to take.
This ability can be used once a day and can only be used on their own actions.
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Curse of Thandres
Type: Dedication
Prerequisites: Covenant of Thandres
Benefit: This dedication is very similar to the ability granted by the Convenant of Thandres, save that it affects an opponent. The caster may force an opponent to re-roll any single roll. The caster chooses which result the opponent must use. This ability may be used once a day.
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Blessing of Thandres
Type: Dedication
Prequisites: Covenant of Thandres
Benefit: This feat functions as the Covenant, except it may also be used to allow an ally to re-roll. The caster chooses which result the ally gets to use. This ability can be used once a day.
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Zaro
Zaro is the Steward of Battle. His followers devote themselves to combat, spending their lives in the pursuit of martial perfection at the exclusion of all else. Those who take up this cause are often said to have wed the blade.
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Covenant of Zaro
Type: Dedication
Prerequisites: None
Benefit: Each morning the Dedicated must perform an elaborate kata with their weapon of choice. While doing so they utter the prayer of perfection, a call to Zaro to aid them in striking true and deep.
If they perform the ritual they gain a +1 circumstance bonus to hit and damage until the following morning.
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Speed of the Wind
Type: Dedication
Prerequisites: Covenant of Zaro
Benefit: Speed of the wind grants the user a +4 morale bonus to initiative checks. It requires the same ritual as the Covenant of Zaro, and performing this ritual grants both abilities until the following morning.
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Blood of the Vanquished Foe
Type: Dedication
Prerequisites: Covenant of Zaro
Benefit: Any time the user kills a foe all of the opponent’s allies suffer a -1 penalty to their armor class. This bonus is cumulative and lasts until the end of the combat.
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Zelek
Zelek is the Steward of the Unseen. His followers focus on divining the future and discovering secrets.
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Covenant of Zelek
Type: Faith
Prerequisites: None
Benefit: Followers of Zelek may send and receive dream messages to anyone possessing the same feat. They must be asleep to send the message and the recipient will not be able to act on the message until they awake.
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Tavren
Tavren is Steward of crafting and creation. His followers are builders and craftsmen. Each seeks to master their craft, regardless of what that craft might be.
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Covenant of Tavren
Type: Faith
Prerequisites: None
Benefit: The user may add a +5 circumstance bonus to any craft check once a day.
