Blessing

Granted by All Gods

Blessing miracles allow you to confer a sign of favour of your god, or in some cases, direct power. While all gods judge their priests on how they use their miracles, they pay particular attention to how blessing is used, and on the worthyness of the target. If you cast a blessing on an unsuitable target, or the target of the blessing breaks your gods strictures while blessed, both you and the target are likely to suffer negative consequences. You cannot cast a blessing miracle on yourself.

Blessings only remain active while the target of the blessing remains within about a mile radius of the blessing priest. If you get blessed in the temple of Azrael in the morning, and head out to the countryside to smite some undead, the blessing will rapidly fade as you leave the city walls unless the priest who blessed you is accompanying you.

Level 1: Blessing of Favour

RANGE: Touch
CALL: LEVEL 1 EFFECT and explain the blessing.

The Holy Symbol of the Caster's Diety appears somewhere on the recipient's body (chosen by the recipient), as a visible sign of favour of the church. After OOC explaining to the target what is happening, draw or let them draw the Holy symbol of your diety on them in makeup, if the symbol is appearing in a visible location, which we encourage unless you have IC or OC reason not to.

Level 2: Blessing of Protection

RANGE: Touch
CALL: LEVEL 2 EFFECT and explain the blessing

The recipient receives the mark of the caster's diety as per the Blessing of Favour. They may choose to ignore any one damage call per day by calling "resist". This does not have to be part of the next call they take. They still take any other parts of the call. For example, if they are hit with VENOM DOUBLE STRIKEDOWN they still take the effects of the VENOM and STRIKEDOWN as normal, but ignore the damage component. This blessing has no effect on DROP, SLAY, or any OOC calls, and does not stack with any other blessing, including multiple casts of the same one.

Level 3: Blessing of Authority

RANGE: Touch
CALL: LEVEL 3 EFFECT and explain the blessing

The recipient receives the mark of the caster's diety as per the Blessing of Favour. If the target of this miracle is a priest, they may cast miracles in the name of the caster's diety for no additional cost if the recipient's god is in the same pantheon as the caster's, or for twice the normal miracle cost if the two gods are in different pantheons. Note that dieties will respond particularly severely if this blessing is given to someone not truly deserving of this great priveledge, or at least working to fulfill the same goals as that god at the time.

Level 4: Blessing of Annullment

RANGE: Touch
CALL: LEVEL 4 EFFECT and explain the blessing

The recipient receives the mark of the caster's diety as per the Blessing of Favour. They may choose to ignore any one status effect per day by calling "resist". This does not have to be part of the next call they take. They still take any other parts of the call. For example, if they are hit with VENOM DOUBLE STRIKEDOWN they still take the effects of the VENOM and DOUBLE as normal, but ignore the STRIKEDOWN component. These do not have to be the next two calls they take. This blessing has no effect on DROP, SLAY, or any OOC calls, and does not stack with any other blessing, including multiple casts of the same one.

Level 5: Blessing of Fellowship

RANGE: Touch
CALL: LEVEL 5 EFFECT and explain the blessing

The recipient receives the mark of the caster's diety as per the Blessing of Favour. The target gains the ability to cast miracles in the name of the caster's god at the same spiritual cost as their own, no matter what god they follow.

Level 6: Blessing of Negation

RANGE: Touch
CALL: LEVEL 6 EFFECT and explain the blessing

The recipient receives the mark of the caster's diety as per the Blessing of Favour. They may choose ignore the entirity of any two calls they take that day by calling "resist". These do not have to be the next two calls they take. This blessing has no effect on DROP, SLAY, or any OOC calls, and does not stack with any other blessing, including multiple casts of the same one.

Level 7: Blessing of Privilege

RANGE: Touch
CALL: LEVEL 7 EFFECT and explain the blessing

The recipient receives the mark of the caster's diety as per the Blessing of Favour. The target gains the ability to cast miracles in the name of the caster's god at the same spiritual cost as their own. The target gains access to all first- level miracles granted by the caster's god, even if the target is not a priest. If the target is not a priest, they gain 3 temporary spirit points which cannot be restored or transferred in any way for the duration of this miracle. Any diety will be extremely displeased if this blessing is given to someone not already of outstandingly high favour in their own eyes.

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