Priest

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Description

At 30 faith you can go to the Altar of Three or the Bone Altar (depending which of the Gods you follow) and choose "Become a priest".

Altar Text

You may chose to become a priest of <your god>

If you answer yes, you will receive special powers from your deity, such as the ability to cast spells.

You must also walk this path if you strive to become a Champion of <your god>.

You will however by very limited in what you can do.

You will for instance not be able to do such things as dig, mine, create, repair or improve items or use alchemy.

You will also not be able to steal, pick locks or destroy structures to mention just a few other limitations.

If you later decide to become a Champion of <your god> these restrictions will be lifted.

As a Champion, you may only escape death a few times though.
After that your life ends permanently.

If your faith ever fails you, you will lose your priesthood.

Do you want to become a priest of <your god> despite the severe limitations it will have on your actions?

Restrictions

• Priests cannot improve. This includes finishing unfinished items.
• Priests cannot continue on walls or structures. They can plan them.
• Priests cannot dig.
• Priests cannot cut wood.
• Priests cannot use alchemy
• Priests cannot use bows (Exception: Magranon and Libila)
• Priests cannot mine (Exception: Magranon and Libila)
• Priests cannot pave or destroy roads (Exception: Vynora priests can pave)
• Priests cannot use healing covers (Exception: Fo priests can use healing covers)
• Priests cannot steal, pick locks or destroy structures. (Exception:Libila)
• Fo priests cannot attack (Note that at 60 faith, normal animals are not hostile to Fo priests. This severely restricts fight training)
• Libila priests cannot use farming, gardening or taming skill.

Losing priesthood

You can remove your priesthood by going unfaithful, and doing actions your god does not like. When you go below 30 faith, you will lose your priesthood, and your faith will be set down to 20.

Preparing to Become a Priest

Basic or Premium?

It is by far the best option to start your priest as a premium character from the outset, the reason being that all your characteristics will then be rising the whole time you are raising your Faith.

Become a Follower

1. Research each religion's priests abilities and penalties to find which will suit you.
2. Raise your Faith to 30.
3. As a Follower or someone on a basic account you cannot raise your Faith beyond 30.

Skills

1. Nature skills should probably be kept as low as possible if you are on a basic account, since they generally affect Soul characteristics which, in turn, improve spell casting abilities. Keeping them low at the start in that case should help you raise Soul faster if you become premium.
2. Support skills such as Blacksmithing, Carpentry, Cloth Tailoring, Masonry, Pottery, Stone Cutting and Wood Chopping should all be raised to at least 20 so that you will not be left mostly unable to help yourself or your village in other ways after you become a priest.

Note: 30 is a much better level to raise your support skills to for all skills except Stone Cutting, though raising Masonry to 30 via Stone Cutting alone would be a good idea.

Characteristics

Assuming that you start as a premium character or that you intend to become premium around the time you become a Priest, it is important to raise your Strength characteristic to at least 21 before you become a priest, since most priest penalties affect skills that raise Strength well.