Faith Commands

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Faith commands are necessary for priests; especially if they want to make money outside of the killing of innocents or even not-so-innocents. Rods and batons, for example, can sell for hundreds or thousands of dollars depending on the difficulty of the ritual. For Divine Hand, you must have consecrate, and also some priests of the opposite alignment may ask you to consecrate their relics so they can shatter them to help with their alignment.

The commands are:

Bestow: Bestow imbues a ritual onto a part of a holy weapon so others may use it. The item must be holy to the priests deity, there must be enough space for the ritual (you can find out how many rituals an item can hold by looking at it), and you must succeed in bestowing with slight penalty. Only priests and worshippers of the god may use the imbued weapon, however after it has been fully imprinted it may be reconsecrated to another god. Bestowing requires deity points, and therefore excommunicated priests cannot use this command. Ever.

Cost: Varies according to the ritual.

Consecrate: Possibly the most used command next to pray. Consecrates an item to your deity. It has to be done at a high altar and only works if you are in good standing and in alignment. A bonus of 140 in faith.rituals.special is necessary to successfully consecrate an item.

Cost: 50 gp

Ensumpf: Ensumpf buries corpses in a proper, priestly fashion. The way it is destroyed depends on the deity, and it also helps with your alignment should you be out of it. You can recover a corpse after it has been ensumpf'd (Why? I don't know!) but you can only ensumpf it once and it cannot have been buried already. Ensumpfing those of your own faith doesn't affect your alignment. But killing them does. You need a 100 bonus in faith.rituals.special to successfully ensumpf with any regularity.

Cost: 50 gp

Pray: The number one most used command on the Disc. Pray takes all of you faith guild points and offers them to your god, which will bring you closer to your deity's desired alignment, as well as keeping the DP pool full. Praying is also used to charge rods are batons.

Cost: All faith gp. You can also pray in different ways to use less gp. See 'help pray' on Discworld for more information about that. (Note: Praying to anyone/thing other than your god is a VERY bad idea. Try it at your own risk.)

Scour: Scour removes all rituals from a holy weapon. It's the same as reconsecrating a holy weapon to another god before it is imprinted.

Cost: 50 gp?

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