Acolyte

"You have spent your life in service to a temple, learning sacred rites and providing sacrifices to the god or gods you worship. Serving the gods and discovering their sacred works will guide you to greatness."

Background Feature

• Insight Proficiency: Gain Proficiency with Wisdom (Insight) Ability Checks.
• Religion Proficiency: Gain Proficiency with Intelligence (Religion) Ability Checks.

Background Goals

Performing certain actions that align with this background will reward Inspiration. These goals can be accomplished by any member of the active party, and Inspiration points are pooled, up to a maximum of 4.

General

• Fate Must Wait: Resurrect anyone in your party.

Act One

• A Kiss Without Mercy: Endure the ritual of Loviatar until Abdirak is pleased.
• A Unified Spirit: Pray with the Flaming Fists at Waukeen's Rest.
  • Must be a Cleric of Helm.
• Acolytes of the Demonweb Pits: Persuade the spiders in Grymforge to remain faithful to Lolth.
• Divinity Undone: Unlock and read the Book of Dead Gods.
• Her Gift of Silver: Recover Selûne's lost treasure through prayer.
  • Read the prayer note behind the statue.
• Last Rites of the Dark Dancer: Complete Eilistraee's ritual of sorrow and obtain her blessed blade.
• Saving the Heretic: Learn about Maglubiyet and safely free his priest.
• Shatter the Moon: Destroy Selûne's protection over the Underdark fort.
• Silvanus' Solitude: Witness the ritual that seals off the grove from the world.
• Tipping the Scales: Earn the worship of the Kuo-toa in The Festering Cove.
• Treefather's Sorrow: Unleash Silvanus' curse upon the grove.

Act Two

• A Piece of Three: Piece together Ketheric's allegiances.
• Blessed's Final Rest: Find the aasimar's journal.
  • Read Olam's Journal in the southern chamber of the House of Healing Morgue.
• Cerimonia Compedum: Execute the ritual to bring Nightsong to Ketheric yourself.
  • Triggered by allowing Balthazar to take Nightsong, rather than actually doing it yourself.
• Did My Homework: Recite Shar's dogma to the surgeon.
• Honing the Darkness: Pass all of Shar's tests in the middle of the cursed town.
• Moonweaver's Prayer: Witness Isobel's ritual to keep up the protection of Last Light.
• No Rest for the Wicked: Assist He Who Was in his task.
• Sole Survivor: Discover the truth behind the numerous rats in the Gauntlet of Shar.
• Those for Whom the Bell Tolled: Kill all of Balthazar's undead.
• Tragic Love: Witness Jonas' funeral.

Act Three

• A Scorned Closed Heart: Side with the open-minded priest.
  • Found in the Temple of Ilmater.
• A Test of Faithfullness: Ask the Master of Love to test your bond.
• Child Protection Agents: Find and rescue Lora's daughter, Vanra.
• Forgotten, Bloodied, Halls: Discover the Temple of Bhaal.
• Needs of the Many: Persuade the merchant to let the refugee squatters stay in his home.
• Offering to the Waves: Make an offering for the dead waveservant.
• Ordinary Practises in Extraordinary Times: Offer appropriate offerings to a deity in the Stormshore Tabernacle.
• The Dismemberment of Dribbles: Find all the pieces of Dribbles' body and return them to Lucretious.
• What Remains of the Dead: Guide Nina to acceptance or prowess.