God Granted Abilities and Specialized Miracles

Agad	Anshar	Anu	Ea	Gibbil
Girru	Gula	Irra	Ishtar	Kishar
Marduke	Nabu	Nergal	Nerrul	Ninurta
Nusku	Shammash	Sin	Tashmetu	Tiamat

Marduke

The God of Fifty Names, Achmage of the Gods, Lord of the Winds, Kingu Slayer,
Ruler of Esharra, Rider of the Storm Chariot, God of the Cities, Ishmangalla the Wrestler

• Spheres: Cities, Trade and Commerce, Wind, Magic, Wrestling
• Other Names: Enlil (Aerdian), Marduke, Ishmangalla (Rel Mord, wrestlers), Nuri, Namru, Ziukkinna, Shazuu, Son of the Sun (Shammash) 
• Marduke is the many-eyed, many-mouthed god of all capital cities. He fights with a net.
• Clerics of Marduke choose a Patron City instead of a Patron Saint. (all efforts go to making city prosperous) 
• Clerics of Marduke run the Guilds in Cities of Marduke making then very efficient. 
• May never destroy minted coins. 
• Holy Symbol is a minted coin from their patron city.
• Clerics of Marduke receive elemental attack spells at one level lower (angering clerics of Ninurta and Agad)

1st- trade related secondary skill goes up +1 per 2 lvls
3rd- May use the god-granted abilities of any other Nyrundian cleric within 60' (no save). Must be comensurate w/ lvl. This use counts toward the number of uses allowed the target cleric per day.
5th- Gain access to ALL spheres except one (choose)
7th- Enthrall (q.v.) when speaking on matters concerning the cities or on chosen nwp
9th- Voice controls the winds (as per control winds)
12th- May pray for 1st lvl MU spells, May pray for thaumaturgy (at 3rd lvl), All trade ventures at +10% luck, all creatures recieve prayer when travelling with a caravan on trade or city business.
14th- Voice of Destiny (words become reality as per limited wish - age 1yr)

City Spells: Raise the Walls (protects city); Mint Coin (know the secret of coining money)

Tiamat

The Salt Waters, Mother of Creation

• Only female clerics, all chaste, all virgins (quest spell to this effect)
• Tiamat Church recieved the Baptisms of St Anda (may cast quest spells at 7th level instead of 9th) 
• Clerics are required to learn one dragon language every 3 levels.

1st-   Fear Gaze, may affect 1 person/lvl/day, saves are at -1 per 2 levels
            at 5th lvl may paralyze with fear
            at 9th lvl may kill with fear (requires contest of wis, drops clerics wis by 1 for day if successful)
5th-   Immune to Fear (all types), water miracles at double effects
9th-   Cloak of Fear permenently surrounds cleric, cleric ages at half rate
13th- Fear may overcome 1 immunity at 13th, 2 at 16th, 3 at 19th; fear power in voice as well (at 4 lvls lower)
         Immune to time & chaos related magics,
16th- May travel to Hell at will (1st plane) or send another (no save)

Specialty spells:
Clerics possess all miracles related to the seas, salt water, and ships
Clerics have many fear miracles at each level, some paralyze
Clerics possess sleep miracle (as MU spell but 3rd lvl)
Clerics have nightmare-causing miracles (dream of being hunted naked by a dragon)
Clerics possess miracles that cause abortions or create pregnancy,
Clerics can bestow or take away the power of creation (i.e. change sex to or from female)
Clerics poses a miracle that places a cloak of fear around a dragon-prowed ship.

City Spell: Spirit of Power (Summon Tiamat Avatar); Tsunami/Hurricane (generate violent storms at sea, sink ships); Summon Sea Creatures, Dominion over the Air

Shammash 

God of Justice, God of Judgement, Sun God,

• Holy Symbol is Golden Sun on white background, blessed 
• Clerics lose all abilities during solar eclipses
• Clerics appear as Lawful Neutral (may be other align, most are LN) 
• Clerics have +2 torture skill, +1 lawyer nwp, 
• +15% reaction with conservatives (Rel Mord, Dyvers, Trigol, Shammash cities,) 
• -15% react with liberals (Beer, Woodwych, Babylon, Chathold) 
• May request 1 Shield Knight per level as companion.

1st - Light spell 1/day/lvl, 1 extra at noon
3th - Know Alignment 1/day/lvl, 1 extra at noon
5th - Sunray (q.v) 1/day, 1 extra at noon
7th - Shackle Spell 1/day, 1 extra at noon
9th - Speak with Sun (may speak to any other clerics speaking to sun at that moment) 1/day, 1 extra at noon
12th - Sight of Shammash - Paralyzing light from eyes, 60' cone 40' at base, -3 save, lawful neutrals immune, 3/day -2 to save per 2 levels over 12th

City Spell: Sunbeam--acts as judgment align status 1 or as long distance communication with any city that has hired a sun reader.

Anu

Laws & Bureaucracy, Father of the Iggigi, The Sky, Highest Authority among Gods

• Spheres: divination, law, numbers, bureaucracy, sky, order
• Son of Anshar and Kishar, Father of the Iggigi, Slayer of Apsu, God of the Archcleric

1st - Cleric must pray seven times a day for at least 15 minutes each. Cleric reflects on
     the day's experiences and how good laws can improve it. (The Ceremony miracle is
     granted) (must face Theocracy)
 2nd - Clerics must burn 10 gp/lvl in incense & ritual components each day.
 3rd - Rigid Thinking 3/day, -1/2lvls on save.
 4th - May act as a recognized lawyer in any Nyrundic City
 5th - Compulsive Order qv Tome of Magic, (will affect up to 3 creatures) 1/lvl/week {may trigger all at once}
 6th - Must perform day -ong ceremony in a consecrated Nyrundian church (any) each month
 7th - May act as a magistrate in any Nyrundic town, Must write 1 lvl of scrolls/lvl/month (given to church)
 8th - required to subsist on diet of freshly prepared foods (no uncooked or stored meats)
 9th - Impending Permission radiates within 10ft of priest, all creatures entering must make a save.
 10th - Consequence 1/day + 1/lvl/month,
 11th - Thought Broadcast affects any creature affected by any of the above Anu god-granted abilities
 12th - Voice acts as Legal Thoughts spell constantly
 13th - Must report to the church in the Theocracy once a week.
 14th - Commune 1/day/lvl on matters of law
  Archcleric - Vision of Perfection (a continuous vision (7th lvl) of perfect rule)

 If a cleric fails to meet any requirements she/he may only pray for miracles for 2 hours/day.
any cleric of Anu may have up to three Writs at any time (Scrolls of Impending Permision) - to be used at their discretion
- scrolls are replenished only at Churches of Anu or by request through another church (take 1-8 days to arrive, +d8 more if distant from Theocracy) 

City Spells: Writ of Haspurgus (cast by the Archcleric may assign clerics to other gods); May punish cities with plague or storm (on land or destruction of ships). Hurricaines are his word, weapon, sends floods, watering over the Tablet of Destiny; May pray for spells that prevent other clerics from receiving miracles.

Ishtar

• Symbols: Blue Crystal Rod (holy symbol of clerics), Star, Sword
• All clerics have +5% reaction adjustment and 10% fame as good wives in Nyrond, Furyundy, and the Southlands.
• Church has the 'Beneficience of Gula' placed upon it (may spontaneously cast healing)
  

1st--Weapon Focus Sword or Rod +1 to base attack and +1 to attack rolls with that weapon
3rd- Beauty of the Goddess (1d4+1 sacred bonus to chr 1/day)
5th- Fury of Battle (as Mass Haste 2/day)
9th- Multiple True Loves 1 per 3 lvls. Each love will always feel that the cleric spends enough time with him or her. Healing one love will heal all loves, and clerics can reach one level higher with heal spells (enabling clerics to resurrect or regenerate loves)

Ea

God of Wisdom, the Hearth, Craftsmen, Artisans, Spellcraft, Wife of Anu and Counselor to the Gods

• Daughter of Anshar and Kishar, Mother of the Iggigi, Mother of Humanity, Other Names: Enki, Nudimmud, Lugaldinnerankia

• Symbol is Fish Cloak

3rd - Words of Wisdom (Increase wisdom of listening creatures by 1 pnt/3lvls for 1 hr/lvl)
9th - Wise Path - (cleric chooses a course of action, all non-combat rolls for cleric and faithful are made by cleric. Each is rolled for twice and the better is chosen, to a max of 5 rolls per person, course of action may last up to 1hr/lvl)  For example, cleric chooses the best path is to take the fork to the left, all encounter rolls, tracking, survival rolls may be rolled twice. Those following the cleric must listen to all the cleric's directives or Wise Path ceases to work.

Anshar

Horizon of Heaven

• Outer planes, planar travel, dreams, salvation
• Ansharian Spheres: Major Access--Astral, Guardian, Conversion, Wisdom, Dream; Minor Access: healing, spells that affect turning of undead (better or worse)
• Clerics of Anshar may turn undead or control undead if of neutral or evil alignment. 
• All turning/controlling attempts are made at +1 for the clerics strong faith.
• Ansharians can cast call upon faith at any distance on the same plane for any person of religion. 
• Ansharians can also affect others with Draw Upon Holy Might provided that character worships a god--the range for such miracles is touch. 
• Ansharians are the only clerics who can cast astral projection. All other clerics must ask permission

1st lvl ---choose one---
Know alignment 1/day/level (at 9th lvl gives align status)
Call Upon Faith 1/day/level (at 9th lvl adds 50% range, -2 saves to other's miracles)
Dream Reading 1 person/day/lvl (at 9th lvl, can determine who sent dream if its sent)

5th lvl ---choose one---
Banshisment 1/day (affects outer planar creatures only)
Persuasion 1/day (change alignment of target creature for 1 rnd/lvl, save negates)
Dream walk 1/night (1 creature within 1 mile, save negates, observe their dream only).

9th lvl ---choose one---
Astral projection 1/week
Dreamscape 1/week
Commune Other 1/week (can affect person touched!!!)

13th lvl ---choose one---
choose from 9th lvl abilities list, may pick same twice which allows 3/week

Kishar

The Rim of Oerth

• Spheres: Elemental, Earthpower, Travel, Road Building and Map Making 
• Required Skills: map making 
• Miracles prayed for while the cleric is in the presence of a natural wonder are at double effect (aoe or duration) 
• Clerics can enchant mineral/stone (not metals) - can place any touch range miracle in stone, etc, lasts 1 day/lvl
  

1st- Road Tell 1/day- may speak with a road as per Stone Tell, lasts 1 rnd/lvl,
5th- Move Earth (as per druid spell, double aoe if creating a path) 3/day
9th- Formation - can shape natural stone, minerals as per stone shape but double a.o.e 

City Spell: Build Road--knowledge to build longlasting roads. Other roads will wear away with time. 

Girru

One of the Twin Fire Gods (with Gibbil)

• Spheres: fire, weaponmaking (may pray for mu fire spells, may not pray for healing) 
• Required skills: firebuiling, blacksmithing, weaponsmithing 
• Special skills: may use any weapon made of steel 
• Min strength required: 15
• Clerics provide fire for forging magical and holy weapons, Clerics create Girru's Oil and Coal
• As per the Spiritual Tenet of Fire, All fire miracles do half damage in elemental fire and half damage is spiritual fire (creatures with fire resistance still take half damage)

1st- Affect Normal Fires 3/day (any extra damage caused is spiritual) - may make magical weapons of +1
5th- Flame Strike 1/day - may make magical weapons of +2
9th- Firestorm 1/day - may make any magical weapons (may need special components, miracles, or mage)

Gibbil

One of the Twin Fire Gods (with Girru)

• Spheres: fire, weaponmaking (may pray for mu fire spells, may not pray for healing), blacksmithing, wood
• Required skills: firebuiling, blacksmithing, weaponsmithing 
• Special skills: may use any weapon made of steel, including swords 
• Min strength required: 15
• Clerics provide fire for forging magical and holy weapons, Clerics create Gibbil's Wood
• As per the Spiritual Tenet of Fire, all fire miracles do half damage in elemental fire and half damage is spiritual fire (creatures with fire resistance still take half damage)

1st- Affect Normal Fires 3/day (any extra damage caused is spiritual) - may make magical weapons of +1
5th- Flame Strike 1/day - may make magical weapons of +2
9th- Firestorm 1/day - may make any magical weapons (may need special components, miracles, or mage)

Ninurta

• favorable weather, multiple call lightning, predicts storms for sea travels, calls storms for crops, metes out punishments decided by Anu
• Control Weather spell is exclusive to this church.
• City Spell: Call East Winds (summon spring) for Akitu Festival

Sin 

The Moon Goddess, Demon Slayer

• Holy Symbol: The Crescent Moon, The Shining Boat of Heaven
• Clerics lose all clerical abilities on 14th of every month or during lunar eclipse.
• Church has the 'Beneficience of Gula' placed upon it (+1hp/lvl to healing spells) 
• All clerics have access to magic user spells relating to demon banishment, controlling, protecting against, etc i.e. Pentagram) 

1st - detect lower planar creature within 90ft
3rd-Grant Strength (strength spell 1/day)
5th - +1 on all weapons within 5ft/lvl under moonlight (does not add to magical weapons)
9th - Cacodaemon 1/day (demon must be on prime material plane, no need for true name, must be within 30ft)
12th - Cleric gains twice his or her level in extra miracles related to demon protection or any type of banishment each full moon.

City Spell: Receive sacrifices to Sin made in other cities

Nusku 

• Clerics take vow of poverty and wear brown beggar's robes, though the public works of the city display tremendous wealth
• Clerics can also augment spells which require sacrifice.

1st lvl Penance - For each die of damage done by any fire spell, 5% of the victims wealth and magic items are transported and magically sacrificed to Nusku. (Applies only to those items carried or worn, can be dealt with as a % for each item).

3rd lvl Intermediary - May perform the 5th level miracle to physically send the food &
     sacrifices to the gods for any person including clerics of other faiths

5th lvl Living Flame - Cleric may shapechange into a living flame and employ Flame Travel (q.v)
     (moves at a rate of 24" through flames).

7th lvl- They can call a 6d6 fireball that burns magic items and strips target of all possessions. 

9th lvl Passage by Flame - Word of Recall (must be in flames).

City Spells: Receive sacrifices made to Nusku made around the map (40%); Collect Tithe

Gula 

God of Healing

• Holy Symbol is a clay statuette of Gula 
• All clerics have a strange appearance, as if they have Downs Syndrome (-5% reaction, -4 int, +1 wis) 
• Clerics do not travel from Woodwych 
• Healing miracles can cure disease and wounds created by clerics of Irra if cleric is higher level
• These are the only clerics who can pray for resurrection and regeneration miracles (except clerics of Ishtar on their True Loves).

1st- all healing spells heal an additional 1hp/lvl, Immune to normal diseases
5th- immune to magical diseases, wisdom check for diagnosis
9th- treat as 4 levels higher for purposes of gaining and using healing spells

Agad

• Symbol is the Fork-Shaped Flash of Lightning
• Medium distance communication with the great drums of thunder
• Speak with Animals and Druid's Cant

Nabu

• Scroll keeper, collects scrolls from each church especially specialty miracles
• Writes the Fates
• Skills: Legend Lore and Mathematics
• God-granted abilities include legend lore, and the curse of illegibility (placed on others)
• Speciality Spells: Protective Spells for Writings, Carbon Copy, Retain Records, etc. 
• City Spell: get copy of anything written from anywhere in Oerth (has Gilgamesh’s personal diaries, for example)

Tashmetu

• Hears all, Messenger to the Gods, Hears prayers and delivers then, Eavesdrop on prayers
• Symbol is the infinity sign
• Clerics are excellent craftspeople and sculptors and are often enlisted to design and craft great shrines and prayer chambers.
• Clerics are reclusive.
• Metaclerics.
• Shut off all access to the god when someone is excommunicated

Nergal

God of Night, Ruler of the Underworld, Lord of the City of Nine Domes (in the Lower Planes)

• Holy Symbol is a pure Black Shield
  
• Holy Garb: Black Robes
• Clerics are Evil
• -2 lvls during daylight, +2 lvl casting at night, +2 lvls during eclipse
• +2 to control undead
• Raise Dead scrolls/items may function as Summon Shade (q.v)
• Darkness miracles negated only by light from Shammash clerics, then spell saves as cleric -1 lvl of Shammash cleric

1st- Darkness, 30 radius 1/day/lvl
5th- Night,  1/day, 10 ft radius/lvl, 1 turn lvl,  (as darkness, save vs fear at -2 every turn)
9th- Summon Shade 1/night - summon killed foe from Underworld. as previous level when slain plus shade abilites, if MU or cleric, powers at clerics lvl only.

Nerrul

The Grim Reaper, the Harvester of Souls, Nergal's Assassin (Pagan God, adopted by Nergal as an ally)

• Holy Symbol is a Scythe, most runes and glyphs are scyth oriented. 
• All clerics gain +3 on turning undead, gravedigging nwp, may use scythe 
• Clerics are evil. 
• Clerics gain 1 extra miracle per level during harvest season
• Clerics may not heal.

1st - Dead affecting magics/spells at double # effected (includes animate dead, turning)
5th - Animate dead at lvl 1/day
7th - Ceremony 30ft radius (claims all souls for Nerrul)
9th - Finger of Death 1/2 days
12th - Animus (may animate 1 creature as equal HD in undead, use chart, i.e. 10HD = ghost) 1/2days

Specialty miracles:
4th - Endure Arrows (may endure extra 10hp/lvl in arrows, still takes damage - just prevents death, when spell ends cleric dies unless healed)
other endure damage spells.
2nd lvl miracles which mimic assasin skills
5th - God's Assasin - bestows assasin abilities at lvl

Irra

God of Plague, God of Disease

• Sect is Evil. 
• Role of the church is to send punishments decided by Anu, and Anu ensures that a few Irra clerics are always alive, even using a Writ of Haspergus to create new clerics as needed.
• Patron Saints are Archanadaemons. Cleric becomes carrier for that disease, consult DMG for types of diseases.
• Cleric will die of disease within 5 years unless he or she reaches 9th lvl!

1st - Cause disease by touch (save at -1 per lvl) severity increases with level
        at 5th lvl range increased to 10'/lvl range
        at 7th lvl may affect 1 creature/lvl, if cast at someone with immunty, they become a carrier
        at 9th lvl also acts as Contagion spell 
        at 13th may affect 1 creature on another plane
5th - detect disease (tells type, approximate time till death)
9th lvl - cleric may Endure any disease (throw off the effects for 1 turn/lvl each day)
         Endurance prevents cleric from dying of disease.

City Spell: Prevents the progression of any illness of anyone in Riftcrag at the time (effect lasts one month).