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The following new faith traits are designed to ref lect the ways in which your character’s worldviews, personalities, and even

abilities are inf luenced by their spirituality or philosophy. Additional traits can be found on the inside back cover.

Abject Belief

You cling tenaciously to a faith that is doubted

by many, perhaps based around a god

who has vanished, or was never a god in

the first place. You refuse to forsake your

beliefs despite all evidence, perhaps due to

a need to belong, respect for tradition, or a

religious experience. As a result, it is nearly

impossible to convince you of your

deity’s absence. You gain a +2 trait

bonus on Will saving throws against

fear effects.

Devout Visionary

As a child, you had a strange vision while suffering from a terrible

illness, and only found your way back to the mundane world by

following the call of a spiritual leader—perhaps a shaman’s

drum or a druid’s lilting poetry. Since then, you have studied

symbolism and dreams in the hope that you might understand

your own vision, though your lessons prove just as helpful to

others. You gain a +1 trait bonus on Will saving throws against

spells and effects that grant the confused or dazed condition.

Once per day as a full-round action, you may grant an adjacent

ally a new Will saving throw to end an effect that grants the

confused or dazed condition.

Born Free

You were introduced to an individualistic belief as a youth.

Thriving under the promise of control of your own destiny,

you soon began to demonstrate the truth of this ideal. Though

others may mock you for your unwillingness to go along with a

group or accept the easy security and comfort promised by more

ecclesiastical faiths, you know that the revelations and destiny

you seek can only be brought about through your own actions

and individual search for meaning. Once per day, after you roll a

saving throw against a compulsion effect, you can choose to roll

again as an immediate action before the result of the saving throw

is announced. You must keep the new roll, even if it is worse.

Divine Denier

You can’t bring yourself to accept the

authority of the gods, even though

friends might hound you relentlessly

to change your ways. Perhaps you’re a

Rahadoumi objecting on ideological

grounds, or perhaps you just want to

be left alone. Your doubt causes you

to shrug off divine magic more quickly

than others. Once per day when you are

affected by a divine spell, you may reduce that

spell’s duration to half (minimum 1 round) for you alone.

Bound by Honor

Your code of honor, obligations, and

taboos stem from the shame of a

misspent youth. Now, a personal code

reminds you how to live, and you

have an impressive ability to resist

temptation. Once per day, if a mind-

affecting effect would compel you to

take an action that would cause you

to lose Honor Points (see page 8), you

may make a new saving throw against

the original DC to end the effect.

Monastic

Either your parents sent you to be raised in a monastery, or

you traveled there yourself later in life in order to escape the

conf lict and distractions of the greater world. There you learned

to eschew the material concerns that plague so many and cloud

their minds, instead embracing an ascetic lifestyle. You readily

let go and step away from trouble, free from any tie or baggage

that might slow your path to enlightenment—f iguratively or

literally. Once per day as a swift action, you gain a +1 trait bonus

to Armor Class as long as you are wearing no armor, not using

a shield, carrying a light load, and have nothing in your hands.

This bonus lasts for 1 minute.

Crisis of Faith

You were raised to uphold a specific set of tenets, and you never

had reason to doubt their veracity. Recent events, however, have

undermined that certainty, and you now find yourself wondering

if any of the universal truths you once believed in can actually

hold up to scrutiny. Perhaps you witnessed a mentor or church

official fall from grace or violate your shared tenets. Maybe you

watched a friend injured terribly despite (or because of ) her pure

faith. Whatever the case, your shaken confidence grants you a +1

trait bonus on saving throws against illusions. You may replace any

other faith trait with the Crisis of Faith trait whenever you gain a

level. This replacement is permanent until you receive

atonement.

Nature Worshiper

When you were young, you saw a

dead creature’s body fertilize a

field. Witnessing the connection

between life and death moved

you to recognize your own

connection with the world, and

ever since you have revered nature

and feared death less. You gain a +1

trait bonus on saving throws against

death effects and effects that use negative

energy, such as energy drain and inf lict spells.

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• Savannah Broadway, Paris Crenshaw,

Neall Raemonn Price, David Ross,

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Owen K. C. Stephens, and James L. Sutter

Cover Artist

• Ben Wootten

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• Eric Braddock, Jorge Fares,

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and Maichol Quinto

Creative Director

• James Jacobs

Editor-in-Chief

• F. Wesley Schneider

Senior Editor

• James L. Sutter

Development Lead

• Mark Moreland

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Patrick Renie

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Ryan Macklin

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Paizo CEO

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REFERENCE

This Pathfinder Player Companion refers to several other Pathfinder Roleplaying Game

products and uses the following abbreviations. These books are not required to make use

of this Player Companion. Readers interested in references to Pathfinder RPG hardcovers can

find the complete rules from these books available for free at

paizo.com/prd.

Advanced Player’s Guide

Advanced Race Guide

Inner Sea Magic

The Inner Sea World Guide

APG

ARG

ISM

ISWG

Paths of Prestige

Ultimate Campaign

Ultimate Combat

Ultimate Magic

POP

UCA

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Philosophies

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For Your Character

In every Pathfinder Player Companion, you’ll find something for your character. This companion includes the following.

FOCUS

CHARACTERS

This Player Companion provides

new options particularly well suited

to members of the following classes.

FOR EVERY

CHARACTER

ards

Bards are versatile characters, and

thus often required to fill varied roles

in a party or community, including

those of clergy and healers. The

arcane healer archetype (page 13)

allows bards to support parties with

more clerical abilities. A bard taking

feats from throughout the book can

round out his abilities to f ill a more

faith-based role.

Certain game elements transcend

the particulars of race or class. The

following elements work equally well

for any character in the Pathf inder

Roleplaying Game, regardless of type,

focus, or background.

QUESTIONS TO

ASK YOUR GM

Asking your GM the following

questions can help you get the most

out of

Pathfinder Player Companion:

Faiths

Philosophies.

How large a role will my

character’s faith play over the

course of the campaign?

What deities or philosophies

can we choose from when creating

a character background?

Will the campaign incorporate

any rules subsystems, such as

the honor system presented in

Pathfinder RPG Ultimate Campaign?

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ruids

Druidism itself is covered in detail

on pages 10–11, including the Green

Faith initiate archetype. New druid

domains based on the totem spirits

of the Shoanti and Mwangi peoples

are presented on pages 24–25, giving

druids a better connection to the

spirits of the land.

Members of any class can gain more

notoriety and inf luence in the ranks

their respective faiths by advancing

the philosophy’s aims and goals.

Honor-bound PCs will f ind several

new tools to advance as adherents of

their chosen organizations (page 9).

This book includes information on

Ichimeiyo, the Knights of Ozem,

the Prophets of Kalistrade, and the

assassin cultists of the Red Mantis.

editation

Though not divine characters, per se,

monks make a good f it for devout

followers of faiths and philosophies

that require personal perfection and

dedicated training. The meditation

rules on page 19 are particularly

geared toward monks, who can take

any of the provided feats in place of

the standard monk bonus feats as

they advance in level.

onks

Any character can make use of

meditation feats (page 19), which

focus the mind and body toward a

specif ic goal. Characters can take

multiple linked meditation feats to

gain extraordinary new abilities.

raits

Numerous faith traits offer different

background options for pious souls.

TRAITS

Abject belief

Born free

Bound by honor

Crisis of faith

Devout visionary

Divine denier

Monastic

Nature worshiper

Priest-blessed

Proxy of many

Religious reformer

Self-actualization

Totemist

Traditionalist

Wendifa apprentice

Zealot’s bearing

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antheons

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Spontaneous divine casters who gain

power from an innate connection

to some greater force—rather than

from devoting themselves to prayer

or study—oracles may or may not

participate in organized religions.

The juju mystery (page 14) provides

oracles with new options based on

the worship of enigmatic spirits

known as wendo.

Pantheists, characters who actively

worship more than one deity, can

gain some divine power from their

devotion to a cadre of thematically

linked gods. These can include racial

pantheons, archdevils and demon

lords, Vudra’s myriad deities, and

more. Several prominent pantheons

and the benef its of dedicating

oneself to their worship are presented

on page 21.

DID YOU KNOW?

When naming the gods in the Pathfinder campaign setting, Editor-in-Chief

F. Wesley Schneider suggested Gozreh for the nature deity, a reversal of

film director Werner Herzog’s surname. Herzog’s films often portray nature

as a dangerous force to be reckoned with—an outlook we wanted to

emphasize in the setting.

RULES INDEX

In addition to the various class-specif ic rules mentioned

on the previous page and the new faith traits presented

on the inside front and back cover of the book, this Player

Companion contains the following new rules elements,

many of which can be of use to characters of all races,

classes, and backgrounds.

ARCHETYPES

Arcane healer (bard)

Green Faith initiate (druid)

FEATS

Animal Ally

Atheist Abjurations

Bend with the Wind

Body Control

Body Mastery

Combat Meditation (Combat)

Divine Defiance

Divine Denouncer

Druidic Decoder

Focused Disbelief

Friend to Animals

Iconoclast (Combat)

Meditation Master

Meditative Concentration

Nature Soul

Pantheistic Blessing

Perfect Awareness (Combat)

Perfect Center (Combat)

Seeds of Doubt

Slow Time (Combat)

Weather Eye

MAGIC ITEMS

Gloves of personal purity

Hand wraps of blinding ki

Kalistocrat’s coin

Leshy mulch manual

Pantheistic clasp

Prophetic paraphernalia

Propitious metumbe

Shield of countless causes

Tome of heretical revelation

Vest of shed servitude

Warden’s cudgel

SPELLS

Blood song

Hallucinogenic smoke

Jungle mind

Lay of the land

Source severance

Tectonic communion

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