| RATHANOS · Energy · Chaotic Neutral · Eternal | |
| Portfolio: Fire, fire creatures, energy, power, male supremacy | Domains: Energy, Chaos, Fire, Magic, Strength Weapon: Torch; all bludgeoning weapons |
| ⚜ CLERIC PRAYERS TEMPORAL ◆ Produce Fire (Free) The cleric may cast Produce Fire once per day without expending a spell slot. This is Rathanos’s most basic gift — a cleric of fire who cannot call flame freely is no servant at all. ◆ Resist Fire (Free) The cleric may cast Resist Fire once per day without expending a spell slot. Combined with Produce Fire, Rathanos’s clerics are never cold and never burned — they are masters of flame. CELESTIAL ◆ Fire Research Insight +5% to all magical research rolls for spells that use fire as a primary component or effect. Additionally, the cleric may learn fire-based arcane spells as if they were on the Clerical list, but only for research and identification purposes — they cannot cast them. ◆ Inferno Casting When the cleric casts a fire-based damage spell, the area of effect is increased by 50% (round up for partial squares). The fire of Rathanos does not constrain itself to small dignities. EMPYREAL ◆ Purifying Conflagration The cleric may cast Cure Disease by burning the disease out of a target with holy fire — the target takes 1d4 fire damage per disease level removed, but the disease is destroyed instantly rather than over the spell’s normal timeline. The damage cannot be avoided. ETERNAL ◆ Rathanos’s Supremacy The cleric may cast Fire Ball (treating it as a divine spell at their current level, not as an arcane spell). The fire ball deals d8 damage per die instead of d6. This represents Rathanos granting direct access to elemental fire rather than mere knowledge of the spell. HIERARCH ◆ The Fire That Judges Once per week, the cleric may designate one creature as fuel for Rathanos’s eternal fire. That creature takes 2d6 fire damage per round, automatically, with no saving throw. The effect persists for a number of rounds equal to the cleric’s level. Only Dispel Magic at 12th level or higher terminates this effect early. | ⚔ FIGHTER PRAYERS (9th level+) TEMPORAL ◆ Flame-Touched The fighter is immune to mundane fire damage (campfires, torches, burning oil). Magical fire damage is reduced by 2 points per die. Rathanos marks his warriors with the brand of flame at the moment of induction. CELESTIAL ◆ Rathanos’s Fury Once per day, the fighter’s melee weapon blazes with fire for 1 turn. Each hit deals +1d6 fire damage. Any target ignited by this fire must save vs. Death Magic or take 1d4 ongoing fire damage next round (extinguished by rolling on the ground or dousing with water). EMPYREAL ◆ Flame Body The fighter can choose to ignite themselves — they take no damage but project intense heat. Any creature that strikes them in melee takes 1d6 fire damage. This lasts 3 rounds and can be activated once per combat. ETERNAL ◆ Inferno Presence The fighter radiates such heat that all creatures within 10 ft suffer -1 to attack rolls (heat shimmer and discomfort). This is a passive, always-active effect. It does not affect the fighter’s allies if the fighter chooses to suppress it (a free action to toggle). HIERARCH ◆ Pillar of Fire Once per day, the fighter may call down a column of divine fire on a point within 60 ft. All creatures in a 10-ft radius of that point take 6d6 fire damage (save vs. Spells for half). The pillar persists for 1 round. This requires the fighter to spend a full Missile phase in invocation — they cannot act in the Melee phase that round. |
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Updated on March 18, 2026