The Clerics · The Radiant Order
The Bulwark
Cleric · Domain of the War-Psalm
✦ Name pending — what should we call them?
The names in the book aren’t final — we’ll announce the chosen ones before launch. Yours could be it.
STR
17
+3
DEX
8
-1
CON
17
+3
INT
9
-1
WIS
13
+1
CHA
12
+1
Affinity Vigil
Ward Voice
Bane the Cold Between
Proficiencies Athletics · Religion · Insight · Animal Handling
Cleric · Domain of the War-Psalm
Battle-liturgy. Hymns that armor allies in hardened faith in the thick of it.
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The Ladder
What they learn
LV 1
Ready Tears Begin any emotional scene already weeping; you cannot be caught flat by grief.
LV 3
Chapel Door Allies behind you have full cover; those hiding behind you cannot be found.
LV 6
Weep First Your open grief teaches a crowd how to feel: allies process a fear instead of being ruled by it.
LV 10
Hold the Heart of the Green 1/story, plant yourself at a gathering's center; no fear-effect touches the crowd while you stand and feel it.
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For the Guide
How to run The Bulwark
VoiceEnormous, tender, loud even when trying to be quiet.
WantsTo be ready to feel it for everyone. To hold the line. To help the children — they hide behind him; he never tells.
Do this nowThe Bulwark shields — physically, or emotionally: he weeps first so the town can follow him into grief they don't know how to feel.
“(a whisper, heard three rows back, forgiven by all of them)”
Comic tenderness with real spine. The immovable defensive wall who also cries at nine in the morning on principle, to be ready. In the first funeral the Kingdom has ever held, he is the one who teaches two thousand mice how to grieve — by doing it, out loud, first.
Fights best beside — Quiet Mercy — she keeps one grief perfectly; he teaches two thousand to hold theirs at all.
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