Lliira - Piety System Page

Goddess of Joy and Revels

Imagine better days than these. We can make it happen, you and I.

Lliira is the goddess of joy and revels. She is welcomed to any group celebration, party or festival, and represents the power of joy and happiness to fight darkness.

Lliira’s Champions

Alignment: Usually good, often chaotic
Suggested Classes: Bard, Rogue
Suggested Cleric Domains: Life, Peace
Suggested Backgrounds: Entertainer

Champions of Lliira are joyous jesters and marvellous musicians who spread happiness wherever they tread.

Lliira’s Favor

Lliira’s favour is given to those who seek to make others happy. It doesn’t matter how, joy is the only objective. Most commonly this means she bestows her grace on performers, but she has also been known to bless healers and charitable workers.

Lliira’s scions are almost unilaterally filled with an unbreakable sense of optimism and fun. Jokes, games, and harmless pranks are all part of their repertoire.

Why did Lliira seek you out as a champion? The following table offers a few suggestions.

d6	Circumstance
1	You are a famous performer.
2	You invented your own festival once.
3	You came up with a joke that made it around the world.
4	You pranked a king, once. He was not amused, but the goddess was.
5	You own a pig. It is a happy, magical pig. Perhaps even a sacred one.
6	You’ve never cried. Not even once. You squash all the sadness down into a little box in your mind and never let it out.

Devotion to Lliira

Following Lliira means dedicating yourself to happiness. As a follower of Lliira, consider the ideals below as alternatives to those suggested for your background.

d6	Ideals
1	Devotion. My devotion to my god is more important to me than what they stand for. (Any)
2	Happiness. I just want everyone to be happy and enjoy themselves, nothing else really matters.
3	Freedom. Responsibility must be secondary to your sense of fulfilment.
4	Passion. It’s only worth doing if your heart and soul are in it.
5	Community. Nothing breaks my heart more than my friends arguing, I’d do anything to make them get along.
6	Selflessness. You want my hat? Take it. My cloak? here. Take it all. TAKE ALL OF IT. I INSIST.

Earning and Losing Piety

You increase your piety score to Lliira when you expand the god’s influence in the world in a concrete way through acts such as these:

• Making someone laugh
• Performing a happy piece of music, a play or something else to lift the spirits
• Taking part in a public celebration

Your piety score to Lliira decreases if you diminish Lliira’s influence in the world or contradict her ideals through acts such as these:

• Allowing your companions to despair
• Failing to find a bright side to whatever disaster
• Avoiding or foiling festivities

Deity Traits

Favoured God: Lliira

Piety 3+ Lliira trait
You gain Inspiration when you make a someone laugh or smile

The Centre of Attention

Piety 10+ Lliira trait
Creatures talking to you have disadvantage on Wisdom (Perception) checks to perceive anything other than you.

Dazzling Display

Piety 25+ Lliira trait
You can cast hypnotic pattern with this trait, requiring no components. Once you cast the spell in this way, you can’t do so again until you finish a long rest. Charisma is your spellcasting ability for this spell.

Chosen of Lliira

Piety 50+ Lliira trait
You are unaffected by magic that would negatively influence your emotions, such as an effect that bestows the Frightened condition, or planar bleed like Shadowfell Despair.