Lord Adod

Origin: Kananite
Calling: Messenger
Starting ability: ✪Offering

Language: Shinarian
Literacy: –
Starting items: Dagger, 1𐤑

You’ve learned how to please and appease Lord Adod, the mighty ruling god of Tel-Kanan. Perhaps you’re a priest who led sacrifices to the Lord at a Kananite temple. Or perhaps you had a revelation in a windward wilderness or the open Skysea, believing that the Lord spoke to you through the sound of the wind. Shinarian-speaker. You know the Shinarian language. Prayers to the Lord are typically spoken in an archaic form of the common tongue that’s closer to Shinarian than modern Kananite.Temple-wise. You’re well-versed on all aspects of Adod’s temples, and you can easily find favor with the god’s priests. You also have passing familiarity with the customs of Syre, the capital of Tel-Kanan, even if you’ve never visited the sacred city. You know the following ability:

Ask the Guide:

Does anything about this temple or ritual seem out of place or not up to the Lord’s standards?
How can we find favor with the local priest?
How does this compare to the customs in Syre, the holy capital?

✪ Offering

Starting ability

As an endeavor when you rest, Compel yourself to make ritual sacrifice to the Lord. If you’re a Messenger, you have Brace advantage on this roll. Gain lord-focus equal to your result. Spend this focus during your rest as follows:

Spirit: Gain +1 overflow for 3 focus, +2 for 7, or +3 for 15
Strength: Gain +1 overflow for 4 focus, +2 for 9, or +3 for 17

You can keep any lord-focus you don’t spend during your rest and apply it to your next Offering. Your sacrifice must be something that is physically transformed into a gaseous state. It can be a burnt offering of the corpses of foes you’ve slain in the Lord’s name. The Lord is also said to enjoy boiled wine and the rich smoke from fatty, well-salted foods burnt on a sacrificial brazier.Idols. If you use an idol to help direct your offering, you may gain a bonus or additional options for this activity. See Items & Conveyances.

Abilities to Learn

✪ Lord's Constitution

Mark of STRENGTH

Gain +6 max Life.

✪ Lord's Fortitude

Mark of STRENGTH

Add 1 to the calculation that determines the size of your Brace Die.

✪ Secrets of Worship

Mark of AWARENESS

You gain 3 revelations distributed as you like among the following lore, but not more than 2 for any single lore. Dance, Path of Air, Politics, SongAdditionally, you can take -1 spirit to cast ༄Name of Adod.༄ Name of Adod Speak a sentence to Adod, who answers with a sentence of his own, booming in archaic Shinarian. How you cast this spell depends on your conception of what Adod is. Followers of Lord Adod believe this sentience is a god, who responds to and perhaps is even shaped by the beliefs and prayers of his subjects.

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