Divine Gift

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A Divine Gift is a gift handed from a god, deity or a powerful vestige of one. .

This article contains SPOILERS! Continue read at risk of spoiling the experience for yourself.



Notes


https://www.reddit.com/r/CurseofStrahd/comments/jgz1l6/dark_gifts_from_puffin_forests_cos_campaign/

Essentially, the rules I used for these gifts were:

    Death before lvl 5 resulted in a Dark Power intercepting the PC's soul in the mist, giving them the option of resurrection with Stage 1 of their gift.
    At lvl 5, a PC can reach out to their Dark Power to receive Stage 1 their gift
    At lvl 7, a PC is asked by their Dark Power if they would like more power.
        If they say yes, gift progresses to Stage 2
        If no, the offer stays open.
    At lvl 9, it's the same as lvl 7, but gift progresses to Stage 3.
    At any point during this process, a character who has not received their gift yet can call upon their Dark Power and receive all the gifts their level allows
    At the Amber Temple, they can visit their Dark Power and choose to make a Pact, this unlocks the rest of their gift, but also may have a price to pay. It also condemns them to being trapped in The Domains of Dread.

For those who have no idea what I'm talking about and would like to see our playthrough, you can find the series here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRriJ4swzIY&list=PLruqoIF23LV910443_s_j9tygFEotfukE






https://tabletopjoab.com/a-full-guide-to-every-dark-gift-from-van-richtens-guide-to-ravenloft/

https://www.reddit.com/r/CurseofStrahd/comments/9zswmf/fleshing_out_curse_of_strahd_running_the_dark/


Level 1
https://www.reddit.com/r/CurseofStrahd/comments/jgz10i/dark_gifts_from_puffin_forests_cos_garo/
Language/special/skill
Perma spell (lvl 2)
Cantrip x2

OR
https://www.reddit.com/r/CurseofStrahd/comments/jgz0xn/dark_gifts_from_puffin_forests_cos_gouda/
lots of little spells eye magic
spell lvl 1

OR
https://www.reddit.com/r/CurseofStrahd/comments/jgz0lt/dark_gifts_from_puffin_forests_cos_krusk/
Bite/claw
Orc traits ("charge"/carry)


Level 2
Spell lvl 1
Cantrip
Spell lvl 4?
Spell lvl 1

OR
more wild magic
more eye magic

OR
feat
+orcish fury
feat ish
spell ish lvl 4

Level 3
Permanent lvl 4 spell
Spell lvl 4

OR
more wild magic
more eye magic

OR
see in magic darkness
cast darkness 1/rest

Pact
Transport via Plants (lvl 4)
Knowledge of how to Re-Consecrate the Fanes

OR
Gain non-attune items
feats x2
Reincarnate 1/day
extra eye

OR
demon armor
change race

Table

https://www.reddit.com/r/CurseofStrahd/comments/9uf047/dark_powers_in_barovia/

Name Gift title Theme Gift/lvl Physical Other
Dahlver-Nar,

He of Many Teeth

The gift of many lives Resurrection, at the cost of teeth
  • First:
    • Innate Reincarnate - If you die, you are affected by a modified Reincarnate spell. Your new body only has 25% of its maxium hit points and you take 1d3 Con damage. Extended race list. If you have 0 or less Con after this you are unconscious (not dead) and you will regain 1 Con per hour until you have at least 1.
      • If you Reincarnate, a tooth is lost (keep track, 32 to start with!).
      • Lose most racial features but keep your ability scores.
      • Gain +1d2 on an ability score appropriate to the new race as well as all other racial features.
    • Boon of Dahlver-Nar - At times, you will gain a small boon from your gift-giver. Boons to choose from:
      • Inspiration
      • 2d8 + lvl healing
      • 1d8 + lvl temporary hit points
      • If you at any point has Inspiration and then receives Inspiration from some sort (including a Boon of Dahlver-Nar), you may choose to replace the first instance with one of non-Inspiration options.
    • Soul Drinker - If a sentient creature that has a soul dies within 5 ft of you (or a "marked" creature - like a hex - is killed by you), a faint outline of mist leaves the creature's body and enters your mouth and eyes, granting you a boon.
    • If given upon death, instead revive the original body, your maximum HP is doubled for 1 hour and you gain full HP
    • If given in an agreement, your maximum HP is doubled for 1 hour and you gain full HP and you may cast Revivify once without any material component during the next hour
  • Second:
    • Innate Reincarnate - If you Reincarnate, your new body gains 50% of its maxium hit points and you take 1 Con damage instead. You may take 2 Con damage instead of 1 to add or subtract up to 7 from the race selection roll.
      • As an action, you may use your gift to Reincarnate someone else. First, lose a tooth and expend a Greater Tooth Component then your ability stops working until recharged. Then, the target is reincarnated as per the lower level of this ability. Following a long rest you may attempt to recharge it; make a flat DC 15 check. On a success, or after at most 5 long rests, the ability is recharged.
    • Teeth of Dahlver-Nar - Every time you lose a tooth to Innate Reincarnate, make a flat DC 11 check; on success the lost tooth becomes a tooth of Dahlver-Nar (DM's call) that you may reinsert, keep or give away.
      • Any number of implanted teeth of Dahlver-Nar in your mouth together count as ONE attuned item.
    • Soul Drinker - Increase range to 10 feet and now also includes "marked" creatures killed by others if you dealt at least some necrotic damage to it.
    • Boon of Dahlver-Nar - The choices changes to:
      • Inspiration that when used casts Bane (no concentration) on a other character of your choice withing 30ft (if there is no other character nearby you are the target).
      • 2d8 + lvl healing and half that to another character of your chocie within 30 ft (if there is no other character you only gain half).
      • 1d8 + lvl temporary hit points and half that to another character of your chocie within 30 ft (if there is no other character you only gain half).
      • You gain a temporary spell slot (1/2 lvl round down) that lasts until your next long rest. If you don't have spell-casting abilities, the spell is Hex.
    • Innate Spellcasting - Gain the ability to innately cast spells at will. You may choose to cast it at a spell level lower than its maximum:
      • Inflict Wounds, up to spell level equal to 1/2 your character level. When you deal damage in this way, you deal the same amount of unpreventable necrotic damage to someone within 30 ft you consider an ally and you heal 1d10 hp to yourself and gain 1d10 temporary hp. If no ally is within reach (or you so choose), you may instead choose to take the damage yourself; half the inflicted damage and no gained healing or temp hp.
      • Life Transferrance, up to spell level equal to 1/2 your character level. The recepient receives 1d8 less than inflicted on yourself.
  • First: You choose a tooth to give up, become heterochromatic with one eye of your old colour and one turning purple. The eyes stay if you are resurrected into a new body.
  • Second: The pains involved with Reincarnation are significantly lessened. You lose a tooth. You start growing teeth, eyes or other oddities in odd places.

Completing the pact includes two parts; a prompt in the Amber Temple and to defeat Ceithlenn's hold of Barovia

Drizlash,

the Nine-Eyed Spider

The gift of wall-walking Spidery gifts
  • First:
    • Gain permanent effects of Spider Climb as well as Darkvision up to a range of 30 feet
    • Gain the ability to cast Web once per long or short rest
    • Gain the ability to cast Gift of Alacrity or Identify once per long rest
    • If given upon death, you are revived with full HP and also enjoy tremorsense 30 feet for 1 hour
    • If given in an agreement, gain full HP, enjoy tremorsense 30 feet for 1 hour, and for one minute become aware of all life forms, undead creatures and extraplanar creatures within 60 feet
  • First: Gain an extra eye somewhere on your body. The eye is blind and always open.
Delban,

the Star of Ice

The gift of deadly cold Cold-related powers
  • First:
    • Gain the ability to cast Frost Fingers twice per long or short rest.
    • Gain the ability to cast Rime's Binding Ice once per long rest.
    • Gain Resistance to cold and Weakness to Fire. Effects of temperatures is skewed one step towards cold (comfortable in cold, uncomfortable in hot)
    • If given upon death, you are revived with full HP and under the effects of Armor of Agathys cast at a level 2 spell slot
    • If given in an agreement, gain full HP and under the effects of Armor of Agathys cast at a level 2 spell slot, reapplied up to two times if the shield is used up within the first 10 minutes
  • Second:
    • Gain the ability to cast Armor of Agathys once, recharged after a long or short rest. The spell is cast as a level 3 spell slot.
    • Gain the ability to cast Ice Storm at will. If so cast, you take 3d8 unpreventable necrotic damage.
  • First: Your eyes turn icy cold. You randomly gather frost on your hair, brow or beard

Ireena?

Fanes of Barovia

The Triade

The Ladies Three

The Weaver, The Huntress & The Seeker

Gift of The Ladies Three Druidic powers
  • First:
    • Gain the ability to speak and understand Druidic
    • Gain the effects of permanent Barkskin, but the feature disappears if you take fire damage. You can dismiss it as an action. As a bonus action, you may expend the effect to turn it into Stoneskin for 1 turn per character level. If removed, the effect returns after a long or short rest.
    • Gain the ability to Rage like the barbarian class feature. If you already have the ability to Rage, gain one additional use of it before next long rest.
    • Gain the Shillelagh and Druidcraft cantrips (or two other Druid Cantrips if you already have these)
    • If given upon death, you are revived with full HP and gain Stoneskin for 1 hour.
    • If given in an agreement, gain full HP, gain Stoneskin for 1 hour and you become under the effects of Fire Shield; you choose warm or cold shield
  • First: Your eye colour becomes emerald, your skin takes on streaks of green and grass and leaves start spontaneously growing in your hair, brow and beard
Bigwig, as a way to attone to his cursed deeds
Fekre,

the Queen of Poxes

The gift of disease (Negnal)
Great Taar Haak,

the Five-Headed Destroyer

The gift of great strength Strength-related and using it
  • First:
    • Gain +2 Strength and increase the maximum Strength you can get from Ability Score Improvements by 2.
    • Gain the ability to cast Enhance Ability as a 2nd level spell (but only Strength) once per long or short rest.
    • Gain the Rage feature from the Barbarian class. If you already had the Rage feature, or you gain it later, instead gain +1 use and +2 damage while raging.
    • If given upon death, you are revived with full HP and gain a +5 bonus to Strength for 1 hour.
    • If given in an agreement, gain full HP and gain a +5 bonus to Strength for 1 hour and your unarmed attacks deal 5 extra damage for 10 minutes and the damage is magical
  • First: Your voice deepens and you become visibly more muscular
Bigwig?

5-headed dragon thing

Khirad,

the Star of Secrets

The gift of divination
Norganas,

the Finger of Oblivion

The gift of creating undeath
Savnok

the Inscrutable

The gift of mind shielding
Seriach,

the Hell Hound Whisperer

The gift of beasts
Shami-Amourae,

the Lady of Delights

The gift of persuasion Convincing, seducing, controlling
  • First:
    • Gain the ability to cast Charm Person or Suggestion twice per long rest.
    • Gain the Friends cantrip.
    • When you cast Friends, Charm Person or Suggestion, you do not need to concentrate on it.
    • If given upon death, you are revived with full HP and you may cast Suggestion or Charm Person up to five times without needing concentration for up to an hour (duration is also up to an hour from the revival).
    • If given in an agreement, gain full HP and you may cast Suggestion or Charm Person like if given from death and any skill check or save using Charisma has advantage for 10 minutes
  • First: Your appearance is altered individually depending on whom is observing you, adding a trait which that particular person finds alluring
Greyhawk actual succubi demon lord
Sykane,

the Soul Hungerer

The gift of raising the recently deceased Raise dead
Tarakamedes,

the Grave Wyrm

The gift of flight Skeletal wings
Tenebrous

the Knowledgeable

The gift of arcane knowledge (Khazan) Knowledge leading to becoming a lich
  • Every time you gain spells from Tenebrous, at least 2 must be from the school of Necromancy.
  • First:
    • Gain two additional languages. If you don't already know Draco, that must be one of the languages
    • If you don't have Wizard levels you gain one level of the Wizard class, but use your highest mental ability instead of Intelligence. A spellbook written in your hand appears in your inventory. Your future level gain effects are delayed; on the third long rest following gaining a level you gain the level effects if you succeed on a flat DC 12 check. If you fail twice, you still gain the effects after the following long rest. Should you gain another level in the meanwhile, gain the effects and start a new level effect delay period.
    • If you have Wizard levels, you gain +2 Intelligence and increase the maximum Intelligence you can get from Ability Score Improvements by 2 as well as instantly learn 3d2 valid spells from PHB, added to your spellbook in your hand.
    • Gain the ability to cast Warding Bond at will without material components.
    • If given upon death, you are revived with full HP and +5 to Intelligence for up to an hour.
    • If given in an agreement, gain full HP and +5 to Intelligence for up to an hour and any skill check or save using Intelligence has advantage for 10 minutes.
  • Second:
    • Gain two additional languages.
    • If you had one Wizard level, you gain one more level. Your future level ups are delayed like the weaker level but you start rolling on the fourth day, the DC is 16, you gain the effects if you fail four times and you can be lagging behind on one additional level up effect before gaining the benefits.
    • If you had three or more Wizard levels, you gain +2 Intelligence and increase the maximum Intelligence you can get from Ability Score Improvements by 2 as well as instantly learn 3d2 valid spells from PHB.
    • Gain the ability to cast Life Transference once per long rest.
    • Gain the Grim Harvest feature from the Necromancy Arcane Tradition. If you already had it, its effects are instead doubled.
    • When you use Arcane Recovery you may restore four additional spell levels.
  • First: Your appearance becomes slightly more gaunt and your skin a hue paler
  • Second: Your skin turns very light and your eyes grow deeper into their sockets. You have palpable enjoyment from learning new spells, languages or eldritch facts
Demon lord of undead

Jack, in relation to his bio father and the connections

Vampyr,

the Undying

The gift of immortality (Strahd) Becoming vampire
Vaund

the Evasive

The gift of evasion Evasion of scrying and dex threats
Vecna,

the God of Secrets

The gift of evil Not in module
Yog

the Invincible

The gift of resilience Hit points
  • First:
    • Gain +2 Constitution and increase the maximum Constitution you can get from Ability Score Improvements by 2.
    • Gain the ability to cast Enhance Ability as a 2nd level spell (but only Constitution) once per long or short rest.
    • Gain the Second Wind Fighter class feature; if you already have it, double the restored HP.
    • Following a Long Rest, make a flat DC 10 check. If you succeed, you permanently gain +1 HP (max: +50).
    • If given upon death, you are revived with your maximum HP doubled for 1 hour and gain full HP.
    • If given in an agreement, you are revived with your maximum HP doubled for 1 hour and gain full HP. Gain 30 temporary HP that you retain until they are lost from damage, even after the first hour.
  • First: You gain some weight and your gait receives an unconscious swagger
Garth is approached as it can sense the need for protection
Zantras,

the Kingmaker

The gift of presence and personality Pure charisma
  • First:
    • Gain +2 Charisma and increase the maximum Charisma you can get from Ability Score Improvements by 2.
    • Gain the ability to cast Enhance Ability as a 2nd level spell (but only Charisma), recharged after a long or short rest.
    • Gain the Skill Expert feat. You must use the ASI for Charisma, if able, and either Persuasion or Intimidation must receive proficiency or expertise.
    • If given upon death, you are revived with full HP and gain a +5 bonus to Charisma for 1 hour.
    • If given in an agreement, gain full HP and gain a +5 bonus to Charisma for 1 hour and any skill check or save using Charisma has advantage for 1 hour
  • First: Your facial and bodily traits are altered to be more chiseled and royal; where you go people notice you. A small scar appears above your right eyebrow.
Kev?

https://www.reddit.com/r/AmberTempleLibrary/comments/f0ysqu/amber_temple_prisoner_zantras_the_kingmaker/

Blackened, burning soul. Strives for power through 1) charismatic force 2) actual force



- - Zhudun, the Corpse Star The gift of raising the ancient dead (notably sought by Kasimir)

- Zrin-Hala, the Howling Storm The gift of lightning (also accepted by Negnal)

- Yrrga, the Eye of Shadows The gift of true sight




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