Champions of Talos

Alignment: Usually chaotic, often evil
Suggested Classes: Barbarian, bard, cleric, druid, sorcerer
Suggested Cleric Domains: Tempest, War
Suggested Backgrounds: Acolyte, entertainer, guild artisan, noble, sage, sailor

Earning and Losing Piety

You increase your Piety score to Talos when you expand the god’s influence in the world in a concrete way through acts such as these:

• Solving a challenging riddle or puzzle
• Smiting the unwise and foolish in Talos’s name
• Building or restoring a temple to Talos
• Giving in to wanton fury and destruction

Your piety score to Talos decreases if you diminish Talos’s influence in the world, contradict his ideals, or make him look ridiculous or ineffectual through acts such as these:

• Jeopardizing others through rash or foolish actions
• Willingly subverting or impeding a wise course of action
• Failing to plan appropriately for a challenge
• Helping a polis successfully plan for or adapt to a threat

Talos’s Devotee

Piety 3+ Talos trait
As a devotee of Talos, you have proven your wisdom and your allegiance to the storm lord. Once on each of your turns when you hit a creature with a weapon attack, you can deal an extra 1d6 lightning damage to the target. You can use this trait a number of times equal to your Intelligence modifier (minimum of once). You regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest.

Talos’s Votary

Piety 10+ Talos trait
You have advantage on saving throws against being poisoned, and you are immune to disease.

Talos's Disciple

Piety 25+ Talos trait
The energy of the storm fills your being, granting you advantage on initiative rolls.

Champion of Storms

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

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