Base Class: Cleric
"Beauty is more than skin deep. It issues from the core of one's being and reveals one's true face to the world, fair or foul. Believe in romance, as true love will win over all. Follow your heart to your true destination. Love none more than yourself except Sune, and lose yourself in love of the Lady Firehair. Perform a loving act each day, and seek to awaken love in others. Respond to love at least once in a day. Encourage beauty wherever you find it. Acquire beautiful items of all sorts, and encourage, sponsor, and protect those who create them. Keep your own body as comely as possible and as attractively displayed as situations warrant. Let hairstyle and clothing best suit your personal appearance, striving to stir and delight others who look upon you. Moreover, hide not away, but always seek to present yourself to those around you in a pleasing variety of garbs and activities so as to move them with love and desire. Love those who respond to your appearance, and let warm friendship and admiration flower where love cannot or dares not." -Sune's Dogma
Love is a complicated thing. There are hundreds of different kinds, and thousands of ways still to express them. Love by nature is a beautiful thing, but like a rose petal, it can quickly wilt and be torn apart in the wrong hands. As a Love domain cleric, it is your job to spread and nurture love where you see it, but also to keep it safe from those who'd use it to do harm. Your charm and beauty will help you with this feat, and need not worry, because even if things go wrong, your God's love will never falter in you.
Much in the same way that Love has many sides, so do the Gods of the domain. Rarely do they rule over only Love. Sune rules love and beauty. Kiltzi rules love, fertility, and health. And Sheela Peryroyl rules over half a dozen things. One thing remains true however: Love is a powerful thing.
Love Domain Spells
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Bonus Proficiency
When you choose this domain, you get a choice in which way you'd prefer to plant the seeds of love. There are three main ways to do it: the Way of Anteros (Persuasion), the Way of Eros (Deception), and the Way of Hedylogos (Performance).
Deception
You follow the lead of Hedylogos (Deception). Your motto is "If White Lies Makes Love Grow Faster, What Is The Harm? Love is Love, Afterall." Your love is sprinkled with little white lies here and there. Or maybe it's grown in a bed of deceit. Either way, your beauty, and your ways of flattery hide the truth. Truly you believe that honesty only gets in the way of your goal—spreading hate as the Indescriminant Dagger of Honesty cuts everyone around it. In contrast, Deception spreads love, as when you hear everything you want to hear, you are more open to love.
You feed others love that is honey-coated poison. You know it may come back to haunt you, but that is a problem for another day. Today, you will spread love in the way you do best.
Performance
You follow the lead of Eros [Tooltip Not Found]. Your motto is "Sometimes The Best Way To Spread Love, Is Using Methods Beyond Casual Words." Your beauty is only accentuated through your graceful movements and sensual looks. You know a million things can be said with just the bat of an eye, the touch of a hand, or the swivel of hips. The exact way you spread love through Performance is unique to you; it could be a dance that sturs emotions, it could be a song that brings tears to the eyes of those who hear it, or it could be a poem that only reveals the truth among the flowery words to those who know the hidden meanings.
You know that unspoken words could have mixed messages, but you are willing to take the risk to reap the reward.
Persuasion
You follow the lead of Anteros (Persuasion). Your motto is "Only Honesty Breeds True Love". You choose to spread love through perfect honesty, knowing that white lies only taint good things in the end. The beauty of your heart makes people trust you with greater ease and believe you when you tell the truth. With proficiency in Persuasion, people are more likely to believe your truths, even if they are hard to swallow. Sometimes the truths are a double-edged sword, hurting both you and the others involved. But the cut of honesty, never tainted with lies, is a clean cut and will heal in time and allow love to bloom in the place of the pain.
You know that the truth hurts, but without pain, one cannot surely know love, as one cannot exist with the other. There is no light with darkness, and you carry this fact close to your heart.
All's Fair
As they say "All's Fair on Love and War".
Despite how lovely you are, some people won't be able to see that at first. If a creature saves against being charmed by you, you can use your reaction to force them to reroll their save. Any previous advantage or disadvantage is still in play. If the creature fails, they are charmed by you. If the creature successes again, they are immune to all charmed spells cast by you for 24 hours. You can use this ability once per short rest.
At Higher Levels: Every four levels you get an extra use (level 1 one use, level 4 two uses, etc. Maxing at five uses per short rest)
Channel Divinity: Head Over Heels
At 2nd level, you can use your Channel Divinity to make feebleminded creatures weak in the knees.
I mean, who'd blame them for wanting to know themselves at your beautiful feet? This means when you cast a charmed spell, all creatures with a WIS score lower than yours and can see you have disadvantage on saving throws against being Charmed by you. The creatures must have full line of sight on you. This ability has no effect on creatures you appear to have half cover, three-quarters cover, and full cover against. The effect lasts 1 minute.
Charm Offensive
At 6th Level, as an action, you can pick a number of creatures equal to your CHA modifier and force them to make a WIS saving throw against your spell DC. On a fail, the creature is Charmed by you. On a save, the creature remains unaffected and is immune to your Charmed for 24 hours. The effect lasts until you either: dismiss the spell, leave the creature's line of sight, or the creature takes damage.
While Charmed by you, the creatures are friendly. They won't attack or use harmful abilities against you or your allies unless provoked. They can't take bonus actions and moves without urgency. As far as the creatures are concerned, you are an old friend, and they have no reason to feel unease about the current situation.
Lovely Creature
At 8th level, your devotion to the beauty and love of the world does not go unnoticed by your God:
- You gain advantage against being charmed.
- You now add your CHA modifier to the damage from your cleric cantrips.
Statuesque Beauty
At 17th level, your God blesses you for your continuous commitment to their goal with a stunning beauty that no creature can resist:
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