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Aspects of Passage and Death

Suggested Deities: Athreos, Charon, Myrkul, Nephthys, Grim Reaper

Worshipping the Final Voyage

Most funeral traditions include small offerings and words of reverence to these deities. Predominant among these traditions is burying or burning the dead with a clay funerary mask, to “frame” the identity of the dead for their deity, and with at least one coin, so a soul might pay the deity to ferry them to the Underworld. Some people are laid to rest with large amounts of grave goods. Memorial practices vary widely by culture, from tearful, somber affairs to lively celebrations. These rituals serve more as catharsis for the living than as meaningful boons to Athreos, though.  

Common Ideals Among These Followers

  • Tradition. Honor the dead through rites of respect and by continuing their ways. (Lawful)
  • Dread. Mortals put their fear out of mind, but through me, they will remember the inevitable. (Evil or neutral)
  • Apathy. Life is but a rehearsal for death, and it’s best not to grow too attached to it. (Neutral)
  • Succor. I offer balm to the dying—which, to varying degrees, includes all of us. (Good or neutral)
  • Judgment. Violations against the order of life and death must be set right. (Lawful)
  • Unstoppable. Nothing can stop the arms of death from reaching you. (Neutral or Evil)
  • Nihilism. We are born, we live, we die. That is the way of things. (Neutral)
  • Cold-Heart. There is no point in helping people, it is just delaying the inevitable. (Evil or Neutral)
  • Tyranny. Fear of death drives all people, I use that for my own ends. (Evil)
Children
Earning and Losing Piety     Your piety score may increase through acts such as these:  
  • Providing coins and overseeing burial rites for those slain during a tragedy
  • Ensuring that the deeds and knowledge of someone who has died are preserved
  • Slaying a Returned and its associated eidolon
  • Convincing people to surrender to their inevitable death.
  • Terrifying someone with the threat of death.
Your piety score may decreases through acts such as these:  
  • Denying a dying person their final rites
  • Removing wealth from a corpse or defiling a tomb
  • Aiding those who seek to escape from the Underworld, or who already have
  • Trying to become immortal
  • Convincing others not to be afraid of death

Devotee

Piety 3+ trait   Your life is intertwined with the fate of the dead. You can cast gentle repose with this trait, requiring no material components, a number of times equal to your Wisdom modifier (minimum of once). You regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest. Wisdom is your spellcasting ability for this spell.  

Votary

Piety 10+ trait   You can cast speak with dead with this trait, requiring no material components. Once you cast the spell in this way, you can’t do so again until you finish a long rest. Wisdom is your spellcasting ability for this spell.  

Disciple

Piety 25+ trait   You can cast false life with this trait, requiring no material components. When you do so, you gain an additional 25 temporary hit points. Once you cast the spell in this way, you can’t do so again until you finish a long rest. Wisdom is your spellcasting ability for this spell.  

Champion of the Passage

Piety 50+ trait   You can increase your Intelligence or Wisdom score by 2 and also increase your maximum for that score by 2.

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