Loviatar - Piety System Page

Goddess of Pain

Pain is how we grow. To inflict pain is to bestow a priceless gift.

Loviatar is the goddess of pain. To her, pain is proof of existence and is therefore sublime. From the lash of the whip to the anguish of the heartbroken, Loviatar is feared and respected for her wide-reaching dominion.

Loviatar’s Champions

Alignment: Usually chaotic
Suggested Classes: Barbarian, Rogue
Suggested Cleric Domains: Death, Order
Suggested Backgrounds: Noble, Haunted One

Champions of Loviatar are those who appreciate suffering as a necessary and transformative experience.

Loviatar’s Favor

Loviatar’s favour is given to those who both give and receive pain as a route to transformation. Whilst Ilmater considers pain something to be endured, Loviatar appreciates pain as a tool for both growth, punishment and pleasure.

Loviatar’s scions vary in temperament from strident dominance to meek submissiveness and everything in between.

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

d6	Circumstance
1	You beat someone to within an inch of their life, and they’ve been coming back to you weekly ever since.
2	You blacked out from pain and saw the face of your goddess in the darkness.
3	You’ve been suffering constant pain since birth due to a disability.
4	Someone you loved broke your heart.
5	You are very skilled at extracting information with the end of something sharp.
6	You were in an accident, and as a result your life changed forever.

Devotion to Loviatar

Following Loviatar means dedicating yourself to pain. As a follower of Loviatar, 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	Courage. Nothing scares me. I know what real pain feels like.
3	Self Knowledge. Pain reveals things about me that I might never have discovered otherwise.
4	Acceptance. To cope with any trauma, we must accept the pain we experience in order to move past it.
5	Passion. Pain and pleasure are the same thing looked at from different sides.
6	Humility. My pain teaches me to worship the Goddess, and to fear her displeasure.

Earning and Losing Piety

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

• Using pain as a motivational tool to achieve your goals
• Embracing pain to learn from it
• Inflicting pain on those close to you to help them grow

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

• Giving a reward without having the recipient suffer for it first
• Soothing the pain of others

Deity Traits

Favoured God: Loviatar

Piety 3+ Loviatar trait
You gain Inspiration when you use pain as a catalyst for learning or personal growth.

Intuit Pain

Piety 10+ Loviatar trait
You can cast detect thoughts 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. You may only use this version of the spell to discern facts about what the target finds painful.

Excruciating Touch

Piety 25+ Loviatar trait
When you deal damage to a creature, it has disadvantage on Concentration checks until the end of its next turn.

Chosen of Loviatar

Piety 50+ Loviatar trait
You can spend an inspiration die to cast power word pain 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. Charisma is your spellcasting ability for this spell. You may only cast this spell on a creature with fewer hit points than you at the time of casting.