You have spent your life in the service of a temple to a specific god or pantheon of gods. Choose a god, a pantheon of gods, or some other quasi-divine being, and work with your DM to detail the nature of your religious service. The Gods of the Multiverse section contains a sample pantheon, from the Forgotten Realms setting. Were you a lesser functionary in a temple, raised from childhood to assist the priests in the sacred rites? Or were you a high priest who suddenly experienced a call to serve your god in a different way? Perhaps you were the leader of a small cult outside of any established temple structure, or even an occult group that served a fiendish master that you now deny.
One day your love one died. How did they died? You begged the Gods to bring them back. You did not care the cost. With a cruel twist of fate, they grant a partial of your request. What cost did you pay for it? Your love one's soul is trapped in the physical body of El Maquech, a bug shaped jewelry. You abandoned the temple. It is time to seek out the remaining steps to fulling bring your love one from the dead, before it is too late.
- Skill Proficiencies: Arcana, Religion
- Languages: Two of your choice
- 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 clothes, set of common clothes, El Maquech containing your love one (active or inactive), and a pouch containing 5 gp.
You were a pure acolyte until your love one died. Torn with grief, you begged the higher power to bring them back. As a cruel twist of fate, you were taught on how to create El Maquech. El Maquech are jewelry bugs. With a magic word, they transform into constructs bug, serving as a living jewelry. You know the truth. El Maquech is powered by souls.
During a short or long rest, you can preform a ritual El Maquech. It requires a 100 gd worth jewelry shape like a bug, around 3 inches. The ritual consumes 200 gd worth of ritual component. These components depends on the higher power you learn this from. The final piece of the ritual is an item that is closely connected to the dead person or the blood of their love one. Once the ritual is completed. To spirit is bound to jewelry and a new El Maquech is born. When El Maquech becomes non-magical, the exhausted spirit is released and they are immune to this ritual.
The higher powers has informed you that this is the first step to revive your love one. They said that you have to find the rest of steps before El Maquech containing your love one runs out of charges.
Suggested Characteristics
Acolytes are shaped by their experience in temples or other religious communities. Their study of the history and tenets of their faith and their relationships to temples, shrines, or hierarchies affect their mannerisms and ideals. It all changed when their love one died.
| d8 | Personality Trait |
|---|---|
| 1 | I idolize a my love one, and constantly refer to that person’s deeds and example. |
| 2 | I can find common ground between the fiercest enemies. I know how it feels to loose a love one. |
| 3 | I see omens in every event and action. The gods are hinting on my next step to save my love one. |
| 4 | Nothing can shake my optimistic attitude as long my love one is with me. |
| 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 missed the fine food, drink, and high society among my temple’s elite. Rough living grates on me. |
| 8 | I’ve spent so long with my love one that every lovers in the outside world reminds me of them. |
| d6 | Ideal |
|---|---|
| 1 | Tradition. If traditions can save my love one, I follow it to the ends of the world. (Lawful) |
| 2 | Charity. I always try to help those in need, just like my love one. (Good) |
| 3 | Change. God's changes in this world will lead to my love one's salvation. (Chaotic) |
| 4 | Power. I need to rise to the top of my faith’s religious hierarchy to save them. (Lawful) |
| 5 | Faith. I trust that my deity will guide my actions. I have faith that if I work hard, my love one is saved. (Lawful) |
| 6 | Aspiration. I seek to prove myself worthy of my god’s favor so that they can show me the next step. (Any) |
| d6 | Bond |
|---|---|
| 1 | I would die to bring back my love one. |
| 2 | I will someday get revenge on person that killed my love one. |
| 3 | I owe my life to the priest who introduced me to my love one. |
| 4 | Everything I do is for the my love one. |
| 5 | I will do anything to protect the El Maquech that is containing my love one. |
| 6 | I seek to preserve a sacred text that can bring my love one back before an evil group gets it. |
| d6 | Flaw |
|---|---|
| 1 | Since their death, I judge others harshly, and myself even more severely. |
| 2 | I put too much trust in those who taught me to create El Maquech. |
| 3 | My piety sometimes leads me to blindly trust those that profess faith in my god. |
| 4 | I am inflexible in my thinking. |
| 5 | Since their death, 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. |
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