Aspects of The Dead, The Underworld, and Misfortune

Suggested Deities: Erebos, Kelemvor, Hades, Anubis

Worship of What Comes After

To many mortals, these deities are primarily concerned not with death, but with gold. Most of these followers downplay the association with death and misfortune, instead praying for material wealth. Others pray because they want to be more accepting of their misfortune. These individuals see themselves as beyond hope of improving their lot in life, asking only that the deities grant them the strength to endure until they enter the ethereal realm at their predestined time.
A smaller but more dangerous group of Erebos worshipers are those who actively glorify death. These cultists and assassins congregate in secret in communities across Theros, engaging in campaigns of violence.

Common Ideals Among These Followers

• Mortality. I will enforce the most important law: anything that lives must one day die. (Lawful)
• Consolation. Everyone deserves the solace that comes with accepting their destiny. (Good)
• Acceptance. Whatever my fate, I will embrace it with Erebos’s blessing. (Neutral)
• Wealth. Death is forever, so I’m going to get rich while I still can. (Neutral)
• Power. I relish having mastery over life and death. (Evil)
• Honesty. Peace and Order come from openness and honesty. (Good)
• Beauty. Death can and should be as beautiful as life. (Neutral or Good)
• Fainess. There is a rightful place for everyone in the afterlife. (Lawful or Neutral)
• Duty. We each have a position to fill in society, it is our duty to do so to the best of our abilities. (Lawful)

Earning and Losing Piety

You might increase your piety score through acts such as these:

• Convincing a group of people to accept misfortune
• Easing someone’s death or assisting with funeral arrangements
• Retrieving a prominent figure’s eidolon or Returned form
• Putting the dead to rest
• Helping others accept their own death, or the death of another
• Exterminating undead

Your piety score may decrease through acts such as these:

• Saving a life without securing compensation for Erebos
• Forsaking your duties for personal gain or pleasure
• Allowing a soul to escape the Underworld
• Desecrating tombs or buriel places
• Creating undead or resurrecting those whose time has come
• Causing a death to be unnecessarily violent or cruel

Devotee

Piety 3+ trait
As a devotee of this deity, you have proven yourself an executor of the Underworld’s grim laws. You can call on your deity's favor to cast bane 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 vampiric touch with this trait. 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
When a soul is sent to its rightful place, you can draw on the energy of the Underworld to empower you. When a creature dies within 10 feet of you, you can use your reaction to gain a number of temporary hit points equal to your level.

Champion of the Dead

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