Questions about Blessed Lands Book

And a story/mechanics question that probably only Henry can answer…

Why is Soldier-Saints of Dagha restricted to Almeric, Coryan, and Milandir? Why not any follower of either Mother Church or Milandric Church?

I was thinking of having my Kio (from League of Princes) become a Soldier-Saint before I noticed the nationality restrictions. It’s not a huge loss though as I have my tier 1 and 2 paths already assigned.

While these nations may be officially members of one of the two relevant churches, there are cultural and theological differences among the followers of the other nations of the Known Lands which preclude them from joining the Soldier Saints of Dagha. It is for similar reasons why you do not find Soldier Saints from among the followers of the Dark Triumvirate in Canceri, even though their religion shares a common genesis as the Mother Church and the Milandric Orthodox.

Gnomes can choose to be from human nations or dwarven enclaves. Is it legal to choose Tultipet enclave as a Gnome? If so, that is one legal option for accessing Runic Warrior (non-trivial needing to be gnome from Tultipet with DSC (or ASC) plus the other prereqs).

Tultipet is not a valid choice of a starting nation in the Campaign unless you purchased the right to play a Dwarf from that nation through the Kickstarter. I’m sorry.

Sigh. Bad memory on my part. I had remembered it as Tultipetan Dwarf was restricted (not the nation of Dwarven Enclave: Tultipet). It’s very frustrating that one of the new paths in Blessed Lands is only accessible if you bought a cert from the Kickstarter (before you knew the path existed). The only bright spot is that the inclusion of Khitani Empire would seem to indicate that we will (eventually) be able to play a Khitani…

And a story/mechanics question that probably only Henry can answer…

Why is Soldier-Saints of Dagha restricted to Almeric, Coryan, and Milandir? Why not any follower of either Mother Church or Milandric Church?

I was thinking of having my Kio (from League of Princes) become a Soldier-Saint before I noticed the nationality restrictions. It’s not a huge loss though as I have my tier 1 and 2 paths already assigned.

While these nations may be officially members of one of the two relevant churches, there are cultural and theological differences among the followers of the other nations of the Known Lands which preclude them from joining the Soldier Saints of Dagha. It is for similar reasons why you do not find Soldier Saints from among the followers of the Dark Triumvirate in Canceri, even though their religion shares a common genesis as the Mother Church and the Milandric Orthodox.

It seems that coryani mother church followers from the Blessed lands should qualify as well. It seems odd that the children of soldier-saints and their followers don’t qualify…

Hello,

It’s very frustrating that one of the new paths in Blessed Lands is only accessible if you bought a cert from the Kickstarter (before you knew the path existed).

Imagine how much more frustrating it would be to have purchased a special cert and then find nothing for your dwarf to take that was uniquely Tultipetan.

I did buy the val’Vasik cert and there is nothing uniquely val’Vasik (and the certs cost the same). I wasn’t expecting there to be anything for any of the special certs (at least nothing that wasn’t also usable without the cert) – buying them was simply a way to help PCI and get stretch goals funded.

Hello,

I agree the nations seem overly restrictive to a Soldier Saint. In addition to people of the Blessed Lands I see no in game reason why an Altherian couldn’t (somehow) qualify…

We’ll have to chalk this one up to story reaosns. In my vision of the Soldier-Saints, I see them as made up of tranditions from the Knights and Equestrian orders of Milandir and the Coryani Empire (and by extension, Almeric).

Altherians, Cancerise, Yhing Hir, etc just don’t fit that vision.

And of their own? i.e. Blessed Lands? Possibly a family line of knights? Or would a knight have to keep his family based in Coryan for that to work? I suppose the knights might not have family (Since they’re all so dedicated) but between them, their squires, servants, etc, it seems like there should be some families associated with the order

I think you’re stretching to find the exception to the rule.

No ,the SSoD don’t keep families with them. Theirs is a very dangerous life and looking after their spouses and children is not what they do.

So no…

Your cert came with unique val’Vasik Bloodline powers.

The Tultipetan dwarves cert had nothing of the sort.

Hence why adding the Runic Warrior was a way to give them something uniquely theirs.

Personally, Henry, I want to thank you for the Runic Warrior option. I think it was the good and fair divide after we the PCs failed to acquire runes for everyone. I remember at the time thinking it was unfair for the Tultipetan players to not have access to their own magic because we failed to get it in the interactive. I was very glad to see the option in the book, and I’m someone who failed to by a Tultipetan character like I should have in the Kickstarter.