Ruined City Faith (GLOG Class: Saintmaker)

Q: Between the royal Braid and the lowly god, who answers the prayers of Cath Celdaenn?

A: Neither. We do it ourselves.

[inspired by random_interrupt's Priest and theisticGilthoniel's Shrine Priest, many spells stolen from Loch]

SAINTMAKER
Start with: ominous red candles; ludicrously expensive soap; two relics (see below).
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A - Make Saints, Make Relics, Ordained
B - +1 MD, Reliquary, Kindle
C - Manifold Blessings
D - +1 MD, Living Saint

A: Make Saints
You know the rites by which corpses are made into saints, and saints are made into relics.

With an hour's work and a source of clean water, you can turn a corpse into a saint. The body of a saint is immune to fire and decay, and may possess other numinous qualities.

For a person to be Made Saint, they have to: 1) perform at least one miracle; 2) die; 3) be venerated by at least ten HD of people.

A saint's base of worship determines their level, which in turn determines the number and strength of their blessings:

• adventuring party in a cave with a fresh corpse → Level 1 → 1, an echo of their greatest miracle
  
• decently well-furnished temple → Level 2 → 4
  
• hundreds of worshipers → Level 3 → 6
  
• theocratic city-state → Level 4 → 12, a whole wizard school's worth
  

A: Make Relics
It's as simple as cutting a piece off; Saintmakers can do this without pissing off the saint.

You can quickly enshrine a relic to access the saint's blessings. In short:

Blessings are floating 1 MD spells the whole party can cast so long as they maintain that saint's strictures. The party may only carry one blessing at a time. The party can add up to [saint's level] MD by making an appropriate sacrifice, visiting the corpus, and/or making an oath.

Relics contain up to 1 unique blessing/slot they take up: the White Hand of Cay may allow access to Flowers to Arrows, while her Tusks may offer Snowshoe.

The main body of a saint, or corpus, offers all their blessings.

Saint-killing weapons are also relics.

A: Ordained
You can touch idols, relics and sacred objects without harm or risk of being cursed, even if they belong to a rival and/or odious faith. You still need to treat them with the proper respect.

B: Reliquary
You can cast from relics without enshrining them using your own MD.

B: Kindle
You can force a relic to burst into flames as you cast from it. If you do, you cast with +1 MD.

Charred relics retain their potency, but cannot be kindled again.

C: Manifold Blessings
Your party can carry an additional blessing, or two additional blessings, if they are all of different saints.

D: Living Saint
You know the rites by which a living person can be Made Saint.

You cannot do this to yourself; to the Saint, their Saintmaker. All things interwoven. Each loose strand paired or pared.

This is how we patch a hole.

The 9 Saints Everyone Knows

Saint Cay predates the City itself. She is depicted on wolfback, hunting unicorns with bow and arrow. Her consort is the tilling wolf Cath. A well known epic follows her quest to slay the wizard who stole her eyes and legs. Her strictures are: Be ungovernable, and Avenge yourself.
1. Hunt Down
2. Flowers to Arrows
3. Snowshoe: You do not sink in snow, sand, earth, or plant matter, and leave no traces thereupon.
4. Glass Eye
5. Conjure Hounds
6. Status Symbol: You conjure a golden torc. For as long as you wear it, royalty cannot ignore you or order others to harm you.

Saint Julius is believed to have reincarnated. He is depicted as fat, bald, and sitting on a body of water. His consort is the spectre knight Murgo. His strictures are: Minimize harm, and Extend hospitality.
1. Absorb Mutation
2. Dredge: Buried objects (or memories) rise to the surface in an area (or creature).
3. Right of Way: You move thru crowds of people as if they weren't there.
4. Phantom Limb
5. Water Walk
6. Stone Egg: Collapse into a stone egg with [sum]x10 HP. Emerge [highest] hours later. (doesn't count as a rest)

Saint Aris is the ancient rival of Saint Akat. She is depicted as a lightweight semi-automatic rifle. Her consort is Wheel-Breaker. Her strictures are: Spare no one, and Never surrender.
1. Empty Graveyard: Deal [sum] damage to a corpse. It turns to dust when destroyed.
2. Naturalise
3. Conjure Pit
4. Forward: You run faster than a horse in a straight line. The spell ends when you stop, slow, or turn.
5. Awesome Weight of Human Life: Object becomes 10% heavier for each person it has killed.
6. Reload

Saint Dair-Shelom is a legendary pacifist. He is depicted with long red hair and a sword between his jaws. His consorts are Quiet Gort and Jesca Hands-In-Prayer. His strictures are: Harm no tree, and Never strike first.
1. Horsebreaker: Deal twice [sum] damage to cavalry with your bare hands and teeth.
2. Suppress Emotion
3. Lore of the Herald
4. Sharpen
5. See Shame
6. Stonespeech: [dice]+1 stones scream incoherently.

Saint Thoraxximos is the patron saint of the Grey Maidens. They are depicted with both feet in the earth and a broken neck. Their consort is the singing knight Jelev. Their strictures are: Keep no secrets, and Open tombs.
1. Speak With Dead
2. Taboo: You unerringly track the next person to speak a phrase of your choice.
3. Orient: A distant, melacholy song calls from the East.
4. Lay On Hands: Dull fear and pain in those you touch.
5. Create Skeleton
6. Reconstruct Ashes

Saint Maya of Kenesse designed the Citizen language. She is depicted with a sunlight halo and enormous wings. Her consort is the kind wind Masad. Her strictures are: Protect what is beautiful, and Cover your imperfections.
1. Syncretize: [dice]+1 creatures understand one another and only one another.
2. Darkness
3. See Through
4. Cloud Reading
5. Prodigious Size: You grow [sum] feet taller and gain +[dice] FORT.
6. Discus of Sunlight

Saint Abaddon is the first keeper of the Capital Tree. He is depicted growing out of a vast nest of tree roots. His consort is the mad knight Narn.
1. Golden Remedy: Swallow 10g to end the effect of up to [dice] poisons, drugs, and/or chemicals you are under the effect of. You regurgitate a black iron pill which inflicts those same effects on whoever eats or drinks it.
2. Lightning Strike
3. Serpentform
4. Babble
5. Illusory Cat
6. Dreamspeak: Send a cryptic dream of [dice] words and [highest] symbols to someone you saw today.

Saint Hurong martyred herself in the war against Hell. She is depicted run through with seven black swords. Her consort is the caldera morrigan. Her strictures are: Never strike without warning, and Love thy enemy.
1. Thaumaturgic Anchor: Every spell that can target you must target you.
2. Resounding Voice
3. Swords to Horses
4. Wild Crown: You grow horns. You can speak to anything with horns.
5. Mimic
6. Magnetize

Saint Nwnvyr led the Ilmari back to Cath Celdaenn. She is depicted with two shepherd's crooks and four arms. Her strictures are: Ask permission before entering a home, and Leave no trace.
1. Upwell: A spring of seawater appears.
2. Summon Star: This spell does nothing.
3. One Hundred Hands
4. Shuffle: [dice] + 2 creatures instantly switch places at random.
5. Sleep
6. Sculpt Silver

...and 9 You've Never Heard Of

Saint Joashura is a runaway from Nemea. Her stricture is Daily orgiastic worship, and her blessing is Head Of A Bear.

Saint Paluc's feline effigy appears throughout the Drud sprawl. His stricture is Eat everything smaller than you, and his blessing is Summon Storm.

Saint Enthusiasm is the patron saint of a deep City skeleton crew. His stricture is Do not let the Sun see you, and his blessing is Servant Hands: Your hands crawl off of your arms like helpful crabs.

Saint Shadrach's relics are inordinately huge and heavy. Her stricture is Embrace physical change, and her blessing is Feather.

Saint Larsene is depicted in terrible pain with snakes hanging from his face. His stricture is Seek punishment, and his blessing is Remove Venom: Shoot [dice] poisons and/or drugs in your system out thru your eyes.

Saint Mong Rua is the patron saint of a professional wrestling team in Ancilla. Her stricture is Never apologize, and her blessing is Flesh to Iron.

Saint Og is well known as a mapmaker, but rarely respected or revered. Her stricture is Only eat what you steal, and her blessing is Moonview: You see the terrain around you from the perspective of the moon.

Saint Cado is tragically young. His stricture is Take a 2 hour nap mid-day, and his blessing is Turn Bladed Weapons.

Saint Branwyn is depicted as a weeping willow. Her stricture is Beware the skald, and her blessing is Bone to Wood.