Cayden Cailean
Cayden has no formal churches or structured clergy, but simple shrines to
him appear in almost every tavern and roadside inn. Many of his priests own
such businesses and offer healing to patrons, some of whom may have been
injured during a drunken brawl. While Cayden’s faith is a charitable one,
Caydenites still seek payment for such services—at the very least, the injured
party is expected to purchase a round of drinks for the house. Only in places
where worshippers of the Adventerous God are in direct opposition to the local
powers, such as where a rebellion is forming under a tyrant’s nose, is his
church out of the public eye. Caydenites can bring themselves to be
quiet in the face of oppression only for so long, however, and once a
rebellion reaches full bloom, the god’s silver tankard is often proudly
displayed across every bar.
While the consumption of alcohol is central to most of
Cayden’s worship, drinking to excess and dependency on
drink are seen as misuse of the Accidental God’s gifts. Clergy
who develop such an addiction are encouraged by their
community to take a large role in the faith’s other works, such
as maintaining orphanages or supporting rebel efforts, and
those who recover often work to assist others with their own
recovery from alcoholism. Though being the god of alcohol is
a popular aspect of Cayden Cailean, members of his faith often
find personal freedom and rejection of tyranny just as appealing
as a strong drink, and it is not uncommon for teetotalers to number
among Cayden’s followers.
Cayden is not particular about who worships him, so long as they abide
by the simple expectations of freedom, bravery, and enjoying a good drink.
As such, he has followers from almost all ancestries. A good number of his
worshippers are half-orcs, who find the casual tenets and welcoming nature
of the faith to be a good fit for those who have been ostracized from more
stringent communities. His followers are typically good natured, boisterous,
and optimistic. Life simply holds too much to take in for anyone to spend
it gloomy. Many adventurers find Cayden’s tenets to be a natural fit, taking
jobs when they can and bucking cruelty wherever they find it.
DIVINE INTERCESSION
Cayden sometimes hands out his blessings and communicates his ire at seemingly random opportunities based on his drunken whims. In particular, Cayden blesses the recently liberated to help secure their freedom. Cayden is also known to grant particularly trivial and harmless curses to those who disrupt revelry. These curses typically cause the disruptor to change in appearance, taking on a comical or farcical look. He is quick to lift these curses by dawn or for those who give in to the enjoyment of the evening and join the festivities. Minor Boon: Cayden Cailean helps you recover from nights of carousing. While you still get drunk and otherwise experience the effects of alcohol normally, you are never hung over the next morning. Moderate Boon: You share some of the bravery Cayden espoused during his ascension. When you roll a success on a saving throw against a fear effect, you get a critical success instead. If you have the fighter bravery class feature, when you roll a critical failure on a save against a fear effect, you get a failure instead. Major Boon: An embodiment of freedom, you break fetters with ease. At the end of each of your turns, you can end one effect that is currently making you immobilized (including effects that make you immobilized by grabbing or restraining you) as a free action. Minor Curse: Individuals who raise Cayden’s passing displeasure awake as if from a hard night of drinking and find that drink tastes foul. Moderate Curse: Cayden has afflicted you with cowardice. Whenever you roll a critical success on a saving throw against a fear effect, you get a success instead, and each time you roll a failure on a saving throw against a fear effect, you get a critical failure instead. Major Curse: Cayden curses you to suffer in the presence of drinking, making it hard for you to bear entering any tavern. Whenever any creature drinks alcohol within 100 feet of you, you suffer all negative effects from the alcohol (but only the alcohol) instead. This doesn’t apply if the creature gains any special effect from drinking alcohol.
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