Champions of Kelemvor

Alignment: Usually lawful, often neutral
Suggested Classes: Cleric, monk, rogue, wizard
Suggested Cleric Domains: Death, Grave
Suggested Backgrounds: Hermit, sage, sailor, urchin

Earning and Losing Piety

You increase your Piety score to Kelemvor when you honor him or the cycle of life and death through acts such as these:

Providing coins and overseeing burial rites for those slain during a tragedy

Ensuring that the deeds and knowledge of someone who has died are preserved

Slaying a Returned and its associated eidolon

Your piety score to Kelemvor decreases if you diminish the River Guide’s influence in the world, impede his work, or disrespect the dead through acts such as these:

• Denying a dying person their final rites
• Removing wealth from a corpse or defiling a tomb
• Aiding those who seek to escape from the Underworld, or who already have

Kelemvor’s Devotee

Piety 3+ Kelemvor trait
Your life is intertwined with the fate of the dead. You can cast gentle repose with this trait, requiring no material components, a number of times equal to your Wisdom modifier (minimum of once). You regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest. Wisdom is your spellcasting ability for this spell.

Kelemvor’s Votary

Piety 10+ Kelemvor trait
You can cast speak with dead with this trait, requiring no material components. Once you cast the spell in this way, you can’t do so again until you finish a long rest. Wisdom is your spellcasting ability for this spell.

Kelemvor’s Disciple

Piety 25+ Kelemvor trait
You can cast false life with this trait, requiring no material components. When you do so, you gain an additional 25 temporary hit points. Once you cast the spell in this way, you can’t do so again until you finish a long rest. Wisdom is your spellcasting ability for this spell.

Champion of the Passage

Piety 50+ Kelemvor trait
You can increase your Intelligence or Wisdom score by 2 and also increase your maximum for that score by 2.

Table of Contents

Type

Religious, Holy Order