Atone
Ritual 4, Nature or Religion (expert)
Pathfinder 2e (Remaster)
You help a truly penitent creature atone for misdeeds, typically acts that are anathema to your deity.
- Uncommon
- Rank
- 4
- Traits
- Uncommon
- Cast
- 1 day
- Casters
- 1 primary, 1 secondary caster
- Secondary caster requirement
- must be the ritual's target
- Cost
- rare incense and offerings worth a total value of 20 gp x the target's level
- Primary check
- Nature or Religion (expert)
- Secondary checks
- Nature or Religion (whichever is used for the primary check)
- Range
- 10 feet
- Targets
- another creature of up to 8th level who is a worshipper of the same deity or philosophy as you
You help a truly penitent creature atone for misdeeds, typically acts that are anathema to your deity. A creature that is not truly penitent always gets the critical failure outcome. The ritual uses Nature if the target is a druid and Religion otherwise.
Degrees of success
- Critical Success
- The creature receives absolution and regains standing with your deity, including any abilities it lost. Before the atonement is complete it must perform a special quest or task chosen by your deity to fit its misdeeds; done during downtime, that task should take at least 1 month. For 1 month the target receives divine insight just before it would perform an act anathema to your deity.
- Success
- As critical success, but the creature gains no special insight about its later actions.
- Failure
- The creature receives no absolution and must keep meditating and redressing its misdeeds. Later atone rituals for the same misdeeds cost half as much and gain a +4 circumstance bonus to the primary and secondary checks.
- Critical Failure
- The creature offends your deity and is permanently cast out from the faith. It cannot rejoin your religion without a more direct intervention.
Heightened
- (+1)
- Increase the maximum target level by 2 and the base cost by 20 gp.
Source: Pathfinder Player Core, p. 390
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