Sanguine Devoted

The background of the Sanguine Devoted derives from the eternal vampiric guards of the Sanguine Paragon, a hidden collective of many sorcerers, assassins and clerical nobles devoted to the deity of blood, sacrifice and extreme forms of judicial punishment. This deity creates vessels of power called the Hemorrhage Paragons under the care of the Sanguine Paragon, the lords of visceral magic and power serving as emissaries of the deity known as the Severed Omen. The Hemorrhage Paragons, are sorcerers and clerics chosen from the collective to act as the enforcers and protectors. The collective accepts all individuals willing to cast aside their beliefs and choose to serve the god of the Sanguine, and the end goal for any practicing devoted is to become a Hemorrhage Paragon of the Severed Omen and become an ascended member of their house. As to become a Paragon is to become a guardian of the deity themselves, not just a servile worshipper.

The Sanguine Paragon has been seen to immoral and too cold, for mortal judgement but the collective exists to carry the legacy of their millennia old family. To devote the blood of the unworthy to the Severed Omen as their vampiric ancestors did and achieve ascendance beyond their current plane of existence. The Sanguine Paragon many families under their control and inside their groups, children born under the Sanguine Paragon's banner are blessed with the blood of a Hemorrhage Paragon in hopes of becoming one. The children of Sanguine-born families are trained from birth to control the flow of visceral energy and thus the entirety of the Paragon, aside from a few, are all medics and knights trained in love of the Severed Omen, becoming infused with knowledge, and power of blade, bandage and blood.

The Paragon rarely interacts with the rest of the realm and to exile an individual from the Paragon is to brand them a traitor to the divine. This exiling is so incredibly rare that the exiled have formed a sub-section of the Paragon called the Severed. Little is known about these individuals and thus they often develop their own practices of more depraved bloodthirsty society.

Skill Proficiencies: Insight, Religion

Languages: Languages granted are that of race, passed down by generations of that race or simply learnt to the devotee's own choice. However all Sanguine Devoted learn a sect of language known and spoke only to other members of the Paragon. This language is not uttered to the masses who are not entwined with the Severed Omen, and to speak it to a non-member of the Paragon is exile. 

Equipment: A holy symbol (a gift to you when you entered the priesthood), a prayer book or prayer wheel, 5 sticks of incense, vestments, a set of common clothes, and a pouch containing 15 gp. Depending on the training given to a devotee, by their family or mentor within the Sanguine Paragon they may be issued an Aegis of Blood: a shield formed by the manipulated blood of the Hemorrhage Paragons. Or even a bloodied cloth which is tied around their eyes as this individual is a blessed child of a Hemorrhage Paragon.

Suggested Characteristics

Devoted are shaped by their teachings at their house by the Paragon. Many who devote themselves as sorcerers become very critical and cold individuals with their morals bring beery in tune with that of the Severed Omen. As Clerical figures the devotees of the clerical sect are usually very moral and are truly neutral in their judgement. The people who aren't trained from childbirth are usually joined via change in beliefs and are usually heavily susceptible to the temptations of external forces.

d8	Personality Trait
1	I idolize a particular hero of my faith, and constantly refer to that person’s deeds and example.
2	I can find common ground between the fiercest enemies, empathizing with them and always working toward peace.
3	I see omens in every event and action. The gods try to speak to us, we just need to listen.
4	Nothing can shake my optimistic attitude.
5	I quote (or misquote) sacred texts and proverbs in almost every situation.
6	I am tolerant (or intolerant) of other faiths and respect (or condemn) the worship of other gods.
7	I’ve enjoyed fine food, drink, and high society among my temple’s elite. Rough living grates on me.
8	I’ve spent so long in the temple that I have little practical experience dealing with people in the outside world.

d7	Ideal
1	Tradition. The ancient traditions of worship and sacrifice must be preserved and upheld. (Lawful)
2	Charity. I always try to help those in need, no matter what the personal cost. (Good)
3	Change. We must help bring about the changes the gods are constantly working in the world. (Chaotic)
4	Power. I hope to one day rise to the top of my faith’s religious hierarchy. (Lawful)
5	Faith. I trust that my deity will guide my actions. I have faith that if I work hard, things will go well. (Lawful)
6	Aspiration. I seek to prove myself worthy of my god’s favor by matching my actions against his or her teachings. (Any)
7	The ideal of divine judgment, must overrule the actions of the mortal.

d6	Bond
1	I would die to recover an ancient relic of my faith that was lost long ago.
2	I will someday get revenge on the corrupt temple hierarchy who branded me a heretic.
3	I owe my life to the priest who took me in when my parents died.
4	Everything I do is for the common people.
5	I will do anything to protect the temple where I served.
6	I seek to preserve a sacred text that my enemies consider heretical and seek to destroy.

d6	Flaw
1	I judge others harshly, and myself even more severely.
2	I put too much trust in those who wield power within my temple’s hierarchy.
3	My piety sometimes leads me to blindly trust those that profess faith in my god.
4	I am inflexible in my thinking.
5	I am suspicious of strangers and expect the worst of them.
6	Once I pick a goal, I become obsessed with it to the detriment of everything else in my life.