Favored Soul

Classes

Arelith Wiki
Character Creation
Creation (New Players Guide) Race - Deity - Class Gifts - Backgrounds - Alignment Marks - Epic Sacrifice Customization - Head List - Builds
Character Systems
Description - Disguise / Covered Languages - Experience - Quests Pickpocket - Rest - Role Play Bonus Death - Lycanthropy - Investigate Sequencers - Runic Sequencers
World Systems
Settlements - Factions Quarters - Shops - Taverns - Banks Riding - Sailing - Boons Communication - Portals Time - Containers/Bags Radiant Heart - Assassin's Guild Sencliff's Pirates
Item Creation Systems
Alchemy - Art Craft - Carpentry Herb - Smith - Tailor Dweomercraft - Runes
Armor Weapons - Melee / Ranged / Siege Resources - Poison
Arelith Changes
Classes - Skills - Feats - Trap Summons - Familiar Reskins Spells (list) - Misc
Help
Rules - Roleplay - Maps Console Commands Common Bugs - Staff Support Tickets - Character Remake [The Astrolabe]

Favored Soul is a custom base class available on Arelith.

Introduction

Favored Souls are the chosen agents of the gods. Although they are divine spellcasters, their magic comes to them innately through their connection to a god or goddess, rather than through prayer or ritual. While many Favored Souls may be chosen by intentionally earning the favor of a certain divine being, some may be chosen against their will. Favored Souls do not have to worship the being that granted them their powers, and they may not even want the powers they have been given. In spite of this, their newfound connection to a certain god or goddess may give them urges to do their patron being’s will, even if it goes against the Favored Soul's morals or personal code of honor.

Class Features

• Hit Die: d8
• BAB: Medium
• Proficiencies: Simple weapons, all armor, and shields
• Saving Throws: High: Fortitude, reflex, and will
• Skill Points: 4 + Int
• Class Skills: craft mastery, concentration, intimidate, heal, leadership, lore, sail, spellcraft, ride
• Special: Favored Souls are unable to use the feats Divine Might and Divine Shield.
• Special: Favored Souls multiclassed with Cleric offers synergy options, including access to domain abilities.

Spellcasting

• Divine (spell failure from armor is not a factor)
• Charisma-based

• A base charisma score of 10 + the spell’s level is required to cast a spell
• Bonus spells are based on modified charisma
• The charisma modifier affects spell DCs

• Spontaneous cast (no spell preparation required)
• Spellcasting Costs: Requires Piety to cast spells greater than level 6.

• Level 7 spells cost -1%
• Level 8 spells cost -2%
• Level 9 spells cost -4%
• Epic spells cost -5%.

Level progression

						Base spells per day										Known spells
Lvl	BAB	Fort	Ref	Will	Feats	0th	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th	7th	8th	9th	0th	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th	7th	8th	9th
1st	+0	+2	+2	+2		*	3	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	4	2	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2nd	+1	+3	+3	+3		*	4	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	5	2	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
3rd	+2	+3	+3	+3		*	5	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	5	3	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
4th	+3	+4	+4	+4	Resist Energy: Fire	*	6	3	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	6	3	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
5th	+3	+4	+4	+4		*	6	4	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	6	4	2	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
6th	+4	+5	+5	+5		*	6	5	3	-	-	-	-	-	-	7	4	2	1	-	-	-	-	-	-
7th	+5	+5	+5	+5		*	6	6	4	-	-	-	-	-	-	7	5	3	2	-	-	-	-	-	-
8th	+6/+1	+6	+6	+6	Resist Energy: Cold	*	6	6	5	3	-	-	-	-	-	7	5	3	2	1	-	-	-	-	-
9th	+6/+1	+6	+6	+6		*	6	6	6	4	-	-	-	-	-	8	5	4	3	2	-	-	-	-	-
10th	+7/+2	+7	+7	+7		*	6	6	6	5	3	-	-	-	-	8	5	4	3	2	1	-	-	-	-
11th	+8/+3	+7	+7	+7		*	6	6	6	6	4	-	-	-	-	8	6	5	4	3	2	-	-	-	-
12th	+9/+4	+8	+8	+8	Resist Energy: Electrical	*	6	6	6	6	5	3	-	-	-	8	6	5	4	3	2	1	-	-	-
13th	+9/+4	+8	+8	+8		*	6	6	6	6	6	4	-	-	-	8	6	6	4	4	3	2	-	-	-
14th	+10/+5	+9	+9	+9		*	6	6	6	6	6	5	3	-	-	8	6	6	4	4	3	2	1	-	-
15th	+11/+6/+1	+9	+9	+9		*	6	6	6	6	6	6	4	-	-	8	6	6	5	4	4	3	2	-	-
16th	+12/+7/+2	+10	+10	+10	Resist Energy: Acid	*	6	6	6	6	6	6	5	3	-	8	6	6	5	4	4	3	2	1	-
17th	+12/+7/+2	+10	+10	+10		*	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	4	-	8	6	6	5	5	4	4	3	2	-
18th	+13/+8/+3	+11	+11	+11		*	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	5	3	8	6	6	5	5	4	4	4	2	1
19th	+14/+9/+4	+11	+11	+11		*	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	4	8	6	6	5	5	5	4	4	3	2
20th	+15/+10/+5	+12	+12	+12	Resist Energy: Sonic	*	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	8	6	6	5	5	5	4	4	4	3
21st	-	-	-	-		*	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	8	6	6	5	5	5	4	4	4	4

* Note: Cantrips on Arelith have been customized to allow infinite casting

Resist Energy Information:

• This feat does stack with and is applied before other (non-feat) sources of damage resistance.
• Epic energy resistance supersedes resist energy; they do not stack.

Spells

See Category:Favored_Soul_Spells for a list of all spells by category.

Cantrips	1st level spells	2nd level spells
Cure Minor Wounds Inflict Minor Wounds Light Resistance Virtue Sacred Flame Sustain Bestow Wound	Bane Bless Command Cure Light Wounds Detect Poison Divine Favor Doom Endure Elements Entropic Shield Inflict Light Wounds Magic Weapon Negative Energy Ray Protection from Alignment Remove Fear Sanctuary Scare Shield of Faith Summon Creature I	Aid Bear's Endurance Bull's Strength Cat's Grace Cure Moderate Wounds Darkness Deafening Clang Detect Curse Eagle's Splendor Elemental Weapon False Life Find Traps Fox's Cunning Frostbite Hold Person Inflict Moderate Wounds Invisiblity Lesser Dispel Lesser Restoration Owl's Wisdom Remove Paralysis Resist Elements Silence Sound Burst Stone Bones Summon Creature II Ultravision
3rd level spells	4th level spells	5th level spells
Animate Dead Bestow Curse Blindness/Deafness Call Lightning Clarity Contagion Continual Flame Cure Serious Wounds Darkfire Death Armor Dispel Magic Glyph of Warding Halt Undead Inflict Serious Wounds Invisibility Purge Life Transference Magic Circle Against Alignment Magic Vestment Negative Energy Burst Negative Energy Protection Pacifying Shackle Prayer Protection from Elements Remove Blindness/Deafness Remove Curse Remove Disease Searing Light Strangulate Summon Creature III Sustenance Vengeful Mount Hemorrhage	Cure Critical Wounds Death Ward Dehydrate Dismissal Divine Power Flame Shield Freedom of Movement Frost Shield Greater Magic Weapon Hammer of the Gods Improved Invisibility Inflict Critical Wounds Neutralize Poison Phantasmal Killer Poison Restoration Slow Sound Lance Stoneskin Summon Creature IV Predator	Battletide Circle of Doom Energy Buffer Enervation Evil Blight Flame Strike Greater Life Transference Haste Healing Circle Illusory Fall Lesser Planar Binding Lightning Shield Monstrous Regeneration Negative Energy Flood Raise Dead Slay Living Soul Scour Spell Resistance Spinal Tap Summon Creature V True Seeing
6th level spells	7th level spells	8th level spells
Banishment Blade Barrier Chain Lightning Control Undead Create Undead Greater Dispelling Greater Sanctuary Harm Heal Planar Ally Planar Binding Redbolt Summon Creature VI Transmute Blood Undeath to Death War Cry	Aura of Vitality Blasphemy Destruction Greater Restoration Regenerate Resurrection Summon Creature VII Word of Faith Grim Terror	Aura Versus Alignment Bestow Curse, Greater Create Greater Undead Earthquake Fire Storm Greater Planar Binding Illusory Pit Mass Heal Nybor's Wrathful Castigation Stop Heart Summon Creature VIII Sunbeam
9th level spells	Epic spells
Curse Storm Energy Drain Extrusion Gate Implosion Storm of Vengeance Summon Creature IX Undeath's Eternal Foe Vitae's Coronet	Mummy Dust Dragon Knight Hellball Greater Ruin Planar Conduit Elemental Avatar Elemental Meteor Vampiric Feast

Epic Favored Soul

Hit die: d8

Skill points: 4 + int modifier

Bonus feats: The epic favored soul gains a bonus feat every three levels after 20th. In other words, at levels 23, 26, and 29.

Additional epic feats: epic spell: planar conduit

Epic Favored Soul level progression

Lvl	Feats
21st
22nd
23rd	bonus feat
24th
25th
26th	bonus feat
27th
28th
29th	bonus feat
30th

Roleplaying Tips

• Favoured souls are, by all means, divine characters with a strong connection to their gods. Their understanding is an innate and spontaneous one.
• There are many ways to portray them, but they should always reflect in some aspect of their gods, consciously or not.
• In the same way, they should serve the agenda of their gods. Like clerics, if they were to stray from their purpose, they would be considered Fallen and lose their powers.

Favoured Souls by the Books

This is the way the class has been portrayed in the books. Arelith's Favoured Souls are inspired and based on this, but they are far from a mirror copy, both mechanically and in RP.

Favoured Soul, by Complete Divine

Introduction

The favored soul follows the path of the cleric but is able to channel divine power with surprising ease. She is able to perform the same tasks as her fellow divine spellcasters but with virtually no study; to her, it comes naturally.

Scholars wonder if favored souls have traces of outsider blood from unions, holy or unholy, centuries ago and generations removed. Others suggest that divine training of the proper type awakens the ability, or that favored souls are simply imbued with their gifts by their gods when they begin the cleric’s path.

In any case, favored souls cast their spells naturally, as much through force of personality as through study. Though this gives them extraordinary divine abilities no normal person could ever match, they see their gift as a call to action, and so in some ways may lag behind their more studious colleagues.

Adventures

Favored souls are often loners, wandering the land serving their deities. They are welcomed by their churches but treated as unusual and are sometimes misunderstood. They are emissaries of their deities and outside the church’s command structure—respected mystics not requiring the support normally crucial to a priest’s success.

This makes them sometimes revered and sometimes envied by their cleric cousins. While favored souls are occasionally disrespected for their perceived lack of discipline, devout worshipers know that they are a powerful message from, and indeed a living manifestation of, their deities.

Characteristics

Favored souls cast divine spells by means of an innate connection rather than through laborious training and prayer, so their divine connection is natural rather than learned. These divine spellcasters know fewer spells and acquire powerful spells more slowly than clerics, but favored souls can cast spells more often, and they have no need to select and prepare them ahead of time.

Alignment

Divine magic is intuitive to a favored soul, not a matter of careful prayer. This intuitive nature leads to a freer interpretation of faith and doctrine, and so favored souls tend slightly toward chaos over law.

Although a favored soul is often of similar alignment as their deity, they aren't restricted to the same or one step away like clerics. A favored soul may be any alignment while gaining power from any deity.

Religion

A favored soul can be of any religion. The most common deity worshiped by human favored souls in civilized lands is Lathander, god of the sun. Among nonhuman races, favored souls most commonly worship the chief deity of their racial pantheon.

Unlike clerics, favored souls are not able to devote themselves to a cause or a source of divine power instead of a deity.

Background

Favored souls learn of their connection with the divine at a young age. Eventually, a young favored soul understands the power that she has been wielding unintentionally.

Favored souls, as naturally inclined divine channelers, are also born loners. Unlike clerics in a temple, they gain little by sharing their knowledge and have no strong incentive to work together.

Races

The innate talent of spontaneously channeling divine power is unpredictable, and it can show up in any of the common races.

Divine spellcasters from savage lands or from among brutal humanoid tribes (such as orcs or half-orcs) are more often favored souls than clerics.

External Links

Arelith Favored Soul news post

NWN2 Favored Soul wiki page