Religion

Key facts

Characteristic

Reason

Overview

Religion covers doctrine and practice: identifying which god a defaced shrine served, knowing the rites owed to a body before burial, recognizing a heresy by its symbols, understanding what a temple hierarchy will and will not permit. It is a Reason skill because it rests on study of texts, orders, and traditions. It comes up in temples and graveyards, over holy relics, during dealings with clergy, and whenever a supernatural event is claimed to be divine.

How it works

Characteristic: Reason. Skill group: Reason skills. Test: 2d10 + Reason; 11 or lower is tier 1, 12 to 16 tier 2, 17 or higher tier 3. Training grants a benefit and unlocks attempts untrained heroes cannot make. How it is used: Tier 3 names the faith, the rite, and its significance to the people involved. Tier 2 places it broadly. Tier 1 gives nothing, or a mistake that offends the faithful nearby. Edges and banes: Temple archives, visible iconography, or a faith you were raised in grants an edge (+2). A suppressed cult, a foreign pantheon, or deliberately obscured symbols imposes a bane (-2).

Tips and playstyle

Best for: Conduits and Censors, and parties whose adventures run through temples and holy ground. Character concepts: Sage career theologian, Censor of a militant order, an Aristocrat whose house sponsors a temple. Synergies: History for how a faith reached its present shape, Culture for how believers behave day to day, Magic Lore to tell a divine effect from an arcane one.

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