Entity: Avenger

Source War of Immortals pg. 58

Most people are aware of champions and clerics as the most obvious of a deity’s divinely empowered servants, and those familiar with vindicators as the more subtle arm of the church’s might have generally grown to accept their necessity. There exists, however, other corners of religious power that churches may be less open about with their lay worshippers. Avengers are one such example.

Sometimes known as slayers among more brutal doctrines, avengers are trained in remote monasteries or secret cloisters hidden from the eyes of casual passersby. They are indoctrinated in their church’s teachings while being taught a variety of martial skills, many focused around mastery of their deity’s favored weapon. These training environments often also enforce vows of silence, vows of celibacy, or other practices intended to keep the avengers-in-training from forming strong personal attachments.

Trained far from watching eyes, you use stealth, intimidation, and deadly bladework to root out threats to your church. You must select Avenger Dedication as your 2nd-level class feat.

Prerequisites: You must be a rogue.

Avenger Adjustments: You must choose a deity to be a follower of.

You are trained in Intimidation, Religion, Stealth, the divine skill granted by your racket, and a number of additional skills equal to 3 plus your Intelligence modifier, instead of your normal starting skill proficiencies. You must choose the avenger racket (below) for your rogue’s racket.

You do not gain the surprise attack class feature. You gain the Hunt Prey action.

Trained to be a precise but brutal weapon by the priests of your faith, you eschew complex trickery for swift and deadly efficiency. Subtlety and deception have their uses, but when a false smile fails, your blades have their own way of finding the truth.

You are trained in your deity’s favored weapon. Whenever you gain a class feature that grants you expert or greater proficiency with simple or martial weapons, you also gain that proficiency rank with your deity’s favored weapon.

You can deal sneak attack damage to your prey with your deity’s favored weapon, in addition to the weapons listed in the sneak attack class feature. When you critically succeed at an attack roll using your deity’s favored weapon and the target has the off-guard condition, you also apply the weapon’s critical specialization effect.

You’re trained in your deity’s divine skill and medium armor; if you’re already trained in your deity’s divine skill, you are instead trained in another skill of your choice. You can choose Strength as your key attribute modifier. When you gain light armor expertise, you also gain expert proficiency in medium armor, and when you gain light armor mastery, you also gain master proficiency in medium armor.

This archetype has some feats at a level other than their original level. Such feats are marked with a *.

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