Covenant

As part of selecting this class you must also establish what creature you are in a covenant with and what the pact you made with them was for. These choices determine not only what class features and options may be available to you, but also what the role play story elements you are choosing to inextricably tie to your character.

Pacts are made with many different, powerful, supernatural creatures. These creatures (or entities) have motives and agendas, goals and a will. Your pact will have strings, and your power has a price. As payment for the powers these creatures have vested in you, they will demand service, payment or acts of fealty.

This element of the class cannot be prescribed by rules. Instead you and your GM must come to an accord as to the nature, requirements, payment and contingencies that form your pact.

The creatures and entities that you can enter a covenant with, and what pacts such creatures will make are:
Demons: Malign supernatural creatures which have their origin in the lower planes.
Numen: Great spirits sometimes revered as gods that are closely tied to specific areas / peoples or objects.
Lesser Gods: Divine beings that reside outside of the material plane. Beings of diminished power compared to gods favored and worshiped en mass. These are gods of minor things, or gods whose worship has faded with time.
Outer Gods: Great an unfathomable beings whose origin and nature is alien to all else.

The pacts you are the specific request for power that you have made from your patron, and they determine the majority of the features and abilities that you will receive. The pacts, who can provide them, what they represent and what features you get if selected are as follows:

Patrons: All

Description: A pact of gnosis represents a request to learn the secrets of the arcane. To satisfy a lust for magical prowess and enable great feats.

Feature: You gain mastery level one with Arcanum and add arcane talents to your talent pool.
Your spells know is equal to 6 from any one doctrine. You learn two more from that doctrine each time you level up in Covenant.

Patrons: All

Description: A pact of erudition is made to satisfy and enable an insatiable desire for knowledge. These pacts are made by those must know everything they can.

Feature: You may add any one tool to your mastery pool, and any two skills. Whenever you gain a skill mastery increase, you may increase your mastery level with a tool as well, or choose to increase your mastery with two skills instead of one.
You also add any corresponding talent type of the tool selected to your talent pool (eg. alchemical).

Patrons: Demon, Numen, Lesser God

Description: A pact of valor is made when someone needs the strength, courage and capacity to face the dangers they know await them, or those who stand to gain should their martial capacities increase.

Feature: For this and every other level gained with this class, you increase your HP gained per level to 6. You add martial talents to your talent pool and add one weapon of your choice from any to your mastery pool. You also gain the ability to wear medium armor.

Patrons: Numen, Lesser God

Description: A pact of revelation is a pact made with a divine being to be granted a portion of their miraculous power. Often accompanying a requirement to worship, pacts of revelation directly tether the mundane to the divine.

Feature: You gain mastery level one in a domain of your choice. Whenever this class would provide you with a mastery level with arcanum, you instead gain a mastery level with your chosen domain. In addition, you add Religious talents to your talent pool.

Your patron choice matters, providing benefits in and of its self.

1/E when a creature you can see attacks you, you may spend 2AP to deal 3d6 fire damage to that creature.

2/E you can gain advantage on any roll of your choice

1/E you can spend 4ap to regain 4d6 Hp.

2/E whenever you or a creature you can see makes a roll, you can choose to replace any single dice within that roll with 1d12.

You gain a mastery level with arcanum.

Your spells know is equal to 6 from any one doctrine. Each time you level up in this class, you learn an additional 2 from that doctrine.

You add arcane talents to your talent pool.

Your pact provides you with more benefits.

You learn two additional spells from any doctrine.
Your mana pool is increased by your Covenant level.

You gain an additional talent, as well as a skill and weapon mastery increase.

Your melee weapon attacks deal additional damage equal to your Will.

Your favor increases by your Covenant level.