Shargaas - Piety System Page

Orc God of Darkness and the Unknown

This world is a place of misery and corruption. It’s not fair only I should have to suffer.

Shargaas is the orc god of darkness and the unknown. He bestows his favour on very few, and stalks only the areas of the world that light cannot touch. Shargaas embodies the inauspicious calm of someone who has nothing to lose.

Shargaas’s Champions

Alignment: Usually lawful
Suggested Classes: Rogue, Warlock
Suggested Cleric Domains: Death, Trickery
Suggested Backgrounds: Haunted One, Faceless

Champions of Shargaas are picked from the forgotten and cast out, remade in the image of their patron.

Shargaas’s Favor

Shargaas’s favour falls like a shadow over the fringes of society. Every soul that can’t find a purpose elsewhere, every lost cause and abandoned child - Shargaas sees them all, and sweeps them away under his leathery wings.

Shargaas’s scions are the lost and broken, the friendless and despised. With nowhere else to turn, Shargaas will find a home for you in his unseen legions.

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

d6	Circumstance
1	You were born with a disability and your parents attempted to abandon you on a hillside. You survived.
2	They tried to hang you for serial murders, but you escaped. You ran far away, into the dark.
3	Your whole adventuring party died to a terrible evil, and it was all your fault.
4	You ran away from home, and before you could return your village was slaughtered.
5	You displayed cowardice in battle, and were branded as such, never again permitted to march alongside your people.
6	You were driven from your town on charges of witchcraft and diabolism.

Devotion to Shargaas

Following Shargaas means being defined by the bad things that have happened to you. As a follower of Shargaas, 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.
2	Judgment. People are exactly as bad as they seem.
3	Hate. This world stole everything from me, and I despise it.
4	Rage. I can’t let go of my past and how angry it makes me.
5	Secrecy. I’d never admit it, but I’m still running away.
6	Dread. In time, the world will come to fear me as I fear it.

Earning and Losing Piety

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

• Acting with spite, hate or violence to emotionally charged scenarios
• Retreating to protect yourself from vulnerability

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

• Allowing others to harm those you love without repercussion

Deity Traits

Favoured God: Shargaas

Piety 3+ Shargaas trait
You gain inspiration whenever you take meaningful action under cover of stealth, night or darkness.

Shargaas’ sight

Piety 10+ Shargaas trait
You gain darkvision out to 60 feet. If you already have darkvision, it is extended a further 60 feet, to a maximum of 120 feet. Magical darkness doesn’t impede this darkvision.

Wicked Steps

Piety 25+ Shargaas trait
You can cast pass without trace 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. This ability can only affect you.

Chosen of Shargaas

Piety 50+ Shargaas trait
When in dim light or darkness, you can use an action to spend an inspiration die and turn invisible. This invisibility ends until you enter bright light, make an attack or cast a spell. Otherwise, it lasts for 1 hour.