Whitecoat, The Dread Pirate
Minor God/Goddess of Piracy, Strife, Skullduggery, and Invincibility
Onward, lads! Those born to hang shall never drown!Titles: The Oceanic Emperor/Empress, The Invincible Dreadnaught, The Dread Pirate, Pirate King/Queen, The Grand Pillager, Brineskimmer Favored Weapon: Cutlass/Scimitar Alignment: Chaotic Neutral Church Moniker: The Whitecoats Obedience: Spend an hour carefully counting out your plunder acquired over the last 24 hours, making sure to set aside a share for Whitecoat. Once you have finished counting, spend the rest of the time drinking, eating, indulging yourself and causing strife if your surroundings will permit it in whatever ways are most convenient for you. During this time, never admit to a fault, show a vulnerability, or let yourself appear as fallible. Effect: As an immediate action, you can either turn a confirmed critical hit against yourself or an ally within 30ft into a normal hit OR negate a normal melee or ranged hit entirely on the same targets. You may use this ability a number of times per day equal to your HD +3, but each time after the first demands a hefty toll - requiring you to sacrifice 2000GP(Or Item worth the same) per 10HP you seek to prevent in this manner(For critical hits, treat the HP to prevent as the damage dealt by the critical alone, not counting the attack's base damage). Items sacrificed to power this ability whose value exceeds the GP cost do not refund you the extra value. Additionally, any seafaring ship/vehicle capable of holding at least 10+ people you are on gains Fast Healing 2 while you are onboard it. Finally, your touch is capable of turning water into medium quality alcohol, though this only works on small bodies of water like mugs or glasses. Anything bigger than a keg simply fails to convert.
Divine Domains
Destruction, Glory, Liberation, Protection, Water
Artifacts
Though Whitecoat undoubtedly has a great many artifacts, he has a rather unique relationship with his faith in that he has always refused to even tell his faithful about his artifacts or grant them to his faithful for any reason - daring his faithful to find and take his valuables if they be brave enough.
To date, only one of Whitecoat's artifacts of any note has been discovered - an old and tattered flag bearing the holy symbol of Whitecoat that has come to be known as The Mariner's Shackle that, when flown high above the mast of a ship, infuses each living creature upon that ship as well as the ship itself with a blessing of invincibility. However, this blessing is as much a curse as it is a boon - for awhile the power of the flag prevents the death and destruction of the ship and all creatures aboard it, it does nothing to prevent damage done unto such creatures; merely preventing such damage from impeding their functions. As a result, this flag, while extraordinarily powerful, has the unfortunate side effect of turning its crew into shambling horrors whose bodies are often disjointed limbs and portions of flesh that levitate in the air, held together by an invisible force as their ship often turns into little more than a collection of shavings and splinters, the crew able to traverse invisible decks that were blasted into shrapnel long ago. This flag is perhaps most dangerous should it be flown for extended periods of time - for if the mast of a ship upon which it flew is destroyed while the flag was flown, the flag's magic will trap the ship in a purgatory of undeath - the flag, still floating and flying from an invisible mast where the mast once stood, is often too high for the sailors to take it down and thus, will fly without end: eventually gnarling the blessing in on itself and preventing those aboard from leaving without dying instantly.
Holy Books & Codes
The Shackled Edicts, The Pirate Code
Divine Symbols & Sigils
The Jolly Roger (Skull and Crossbones over a black flag)
Tenets of Faith
Currency over corpses. Dead men earn no more - coin is ever more valuable than blood.
Each man shall have a fair share of plunder. Those who aid in the gathering or acquisition of a good or valuable shall be given their fair share for their work.
He who falls behind shall be left behind. The failings of another are nothing but my opportunity - I will not put myself or my belongings in danger to save another unless it would lead me to greater wealth.
Take what you can, and give nothing back. Ownership is a lie; the only truth is that which is taken. Never pass up an opportunity for plunder and do nothing in charity - the greater the prize, the greater the prestige in taking it.
Let your name be feared. Terror shall be my greatest weapon against the world. I shall not merely kill, but mutilate; Not merely destroy, but despoil and corrupt. I will play the part of monster in one battle that a thousand more might never begin in fear of my name.
Honor my name. I, Whitecoat, shall always be owed one share of all treasure gained upon the high seas. Never spare me my share of treasure.
Holidays
None
Divine Goals & Aspirations
Raid and Pillage locations across the Planescape.
Fight and crush powerful monsters.
Endure and survive all attacks directed at him/her and piratekind.
Crush Law and Order and spread the code of freedom and anarchy.
The perfect god for us pirates! Serve 'im well, give 'im his share, and he'll bless yer hunt! No ritual, no prayer, just admiration and plunderin'. But try to serve 'im without giving him his due, and He'll drag yer ship down to the locker. Who wouldn't want to serve the greatest pirate ta ever sail these seas?
Divine Classification
Religions
Alignment
Chaotic Neutral
Children
A God of Many Faces
Whitecoat is wholly unique amongst other deific figures in that his followers have no semblance of unity in how they envision their god's appearance. To each of his followers, Whitecoat simply appears as what that individual believes to be their "Ideal Pirate"...so for some, that might be a dashing, beautiful female captain...and to others, a grizzled, leather-skinned male who shows signs of an eternity on the briny seas. Their appearance is infinitely varied, just like their followers, and is one of the many aspects that makes Whitecoat so unique...they are both God and Goddess at the same time, and yet more than either.
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