Invoker Invokers , are divine spellcasters who gain their power through the direct touch of a deity , carrying with them a fragment of the god ' s divine power . This is unlike avenger s , cleric s , or paladin s , who channel their prayer s carefully through holy symbol s . Invokers have no need for such tools , however , and their prayers come directly from their god and none of their power is lost through transition . Invokers use these powers to control the battlefield , smite foes from a distance , or empower their allies , making them quite versatile . Braeden is a well - known invoker of Tiamat . Culture . Invokers are an unusual sort . While most divine agents draw their power through religious rites and careful training , invokers find this power to come with far greater ease than others . The divine equivalent of sorcerer s , invokers come naturally , instinctively to their abilities , leading some scholars to believe they perhaps have immortal ancestry hidden in their family bloodline . Others believe invokers are all the results of particular forms of training or perhaps chosen by a god for some divine purpose . Whatever the origin of their abilities , however , invokers are gifted with extraordinary abilities most can never match , making them ideal servants of the gods whom they serve . Most invokers are lonely , wandering souls , sometimes welcomed by the churches of their deity and sometimes rejected or misunderstood . Generally , invokers are outside of any church ' s hierarchy , instead serving their god directly as an emissary apart from their other agents who can act in ways that a cleric or paladin could not . Because of this , though invokers must be the same alignment as their god , invokers are more commonly chaotic than lawful , chaotic gods preferring the use of invokers over lawful gods , who generally prefer the more organized paladins or clerics . Though sometimes distrusted for their lack of discipline , the truly devout recognize invokers for what they are - powerful manifestations of the divine . Invokers cast their prayers through an innate connection to their deity , rather than by study and ceremony . An invoker generally learn of their connection to the divine at an early age . Like sorcerers , they often demonstrate their power unintentionally at first , eventually coming to understand it at a later age . Because of this process of self - discovery invokers rarely , if ever , rely on anyone else and gain comparatively less from cooperation than other divine agents . Generally , invokers are more common amongst the so - called savage races than the more civilized ones , since civilization generally prefers the rites and organized nature of cleric - run churches . Likewise , more orc or goblinoid divine spellcasters are invokers than clerics . Among the more settled races , deva s or dwarves are most commonly invokers . Regardless of cultural origin , most invokers find more common ground with sorcerers , with whom they share a history of personal discovery and innate power , than with other servants of the divine , who they often feel are too bound by church dogma . Invokers also commonly enjoy the company of druid s or ranger s . During the war between the gods and the primordial s , invokers were the most important mortal servants of the divine , fighting alongside their deities . Much because of this many who take up the invoker ' s path have a different view of the gods than most other divine agents . Although many see gods based on individual worship and morality invokers see " all " deities , even those who are the natural enemies of their own patron , as worthy of worship and respect as combatants of the primordials . In spite of this veneration of all gods , invokers have a single patron and must , like paladins , be the same alignment of that deity and old gods are more commonly served by invokers than young ones . Abilities . Like other divine spellcasters invokers wield powers charged by the power of a god or other immortal known as prayers . However , the prayers of invokers differ in many important ways from the prayers of other divine spellcasters . Unlike most servants of the divine , invokers channel prayers innately and with little need for training or preparation . Invokers do not require holy symbols or rites of investiture to obtain echoes of their patron ' s power , instead channeling that power directly . This power offers invokers many abilities , from summoning angel ic servitors to empowering nearby allies . Typically , invokers use their prayers to deprive their foes of defenses or smite them from a distance , although most invokers also learn to either heal allies or strike enemies with deadly accuracy . Unlike other divine spellcasters , invokers use rod s or staff s as implement s to charge this power . Invokers are also skilled in the use of chainmail and lighter armors , as well as virtually all simple weapons . Invokers , in order to obtain the power they wield , make a covenant with their god , sometimes undergoing years of study and testing in order to seal it . Through this covenant , made most often consciously but sometimes subconsciously , the invoker channels their prayers , henceforth making the nature of the covenant incredibly important to the invoker . Some choose a covenant of preservation , working to defend the faithful , commanding and shielding them from harm . Others take on a covenant of wrath , seeking out the enemies of the divine , empowering their attacks with divine power . In addition to their common list of prayers , invokers gain other abilities . Like other divine agents , invokers can use " channel divinity " prayers , each invoker knowing how to " rebuke undead " . Invokers sometimes pick up " channel divinity " prayers channeled directly from their deity and invokers also gain a form of " channel divinity " based on the nature of their covenant , either " preserver ' s rebuke " or " armor of wrath " . Invokers also know how to use ritual s and can cast " Hand of Fate " once per day without the necessary components . A number of invokers are also well - versed in the use of the favored weapons of their gods , gaining a degree of proficiency in them that exceed that of most warriors . Many invokers are also resistant to various types of energy . Often , experienced invokers gain resistance to the damage caused by silver or cold iron as well , which one based upon whether the god the invoker serves is lawful or chaotic , respectively . Several invokers develop the capacity of flight as well , taking on wings that are either feathered or bat - like , based on whether the god served is good or evil . Invoker covenants . The prayers and characters of an invoker depend , to some degree , upon the kind of covenant they form with their god . Most invokers are part one of the covenants listed below . Preserving invoker . Invokers of the " covenant of preservation , " preserving invokers are protectors of their god ' s faithful . These invokers acquire aspects similar to those of a cleric , including an emphasis on self - discipline and empathy over cunning or durability . Preserving invokers still value their intellect , however , and while wisdom is seen by them as more important , most preserving invokers try not to neglect the other side of their mind . Preserving invokers specialize in keeping their allies out of harm ' s way , while calling down the wrath of their god upon the attackers of the faithful through the " preserver ' s rebuke " prayer . Malediction invoker . Though all invokers draw on the power of the gods with an uncanny degree of efficiency and ease , some draw on power that even other invokers are afraid to dabble with . These invokers are those who swear themselves to the " covenant of malediction , " which entrusts the mortal invoker with the very power of thought with which the gods first stabilized the primordial chaos from which the world eventually came . These " words of creation " are unspeakably powerful , so much so that to use them , malediction invokers must pay a physical price with each prayer they cast using them . As a result , many malediction invokers , while still placing wisdom as the most important of their attributes , must train their bodies to a high degree of endurance just to withstand the power they use in the service of the divine , placing the honing of their mind by the wayside in terms of priority . Malediction invokers , in addition to the powerful words of power they learn from their covenant , gain the ability to use the " maledictor ' s doom " prayer . Wrathful invoker . Agents of divine rage , wrathful invokers , rather than emulating the ways of a cleric , take on methods similar to those of an avenger , smiting enemies of their god and his or her faithful with scant mercy . Like other invokers , wrathful invokers favor self - discipline and strong judgment , but also put a high emphasis on physical durability , so that they might survive long enough to fell their god ' s foes . Wrathful invokers are agents of the " covenant of wrath " and from this oath of allegiance to their god they draw great strength for their own preservation with the " armor of wrath " prayer as well as additional potency for their attacks .