Acolyte

Acolyte is a character background with skills and inspirations themed around religion. Shadowheart and the hireling Zenith Feur'sel have this background.
== Background features ==
* Insight Proficiency: Gain proficiency with Wisdom (Insight) ability checks.
* Religion Proficiency: Gain proficiency with Intelligence (Religion) ability checks.
== Background goals ==
Performing certain actions that align with this background will reward Inspiration. These goals can be accomplished by any member of the active party, and Inspiration points are pooled, up to a maximum of 4. Completing an inspiration event will also grant experience to characters with that background.
Location 	XP Reward	Name 	Description
General 	General 	General 	General
Anywhere 	20 	Fate Must Wait 	Resurrect anyone in your party.
Act 1 	Act 1 	Act 1 	Act 1
Dank Crypt 	20 	Divinity Undone 	Unlock and read the Book of Dead Gods.
Druids Grove 	25 	Silvanus' Solitude 	Witness the ritual that seals off the grove from the world.
Druids Grove 	25 	Treefather's Sorrow 	Unleash Silvanus' curse upon the grove. 
*Kill the druids and steal the Idol of Silvanus.
Owlbear Nest 	25 	Her Gift of Silver 	Recover Selûne's lost treasure through prayer.
* Read the prayer note while next to the locked chest.
Shattered Sanctum 	25 	A Kiss Without Mercy 	Endure the ritual of Loviatar until Abdirak is pleased.
Shattered Sanctum 	25 	Saving the Heretic 	Learn about Maglubiyet and safely free his priest.
Waukeen's Rest 	30 	A Unified Spirit 	Pray with the Flaming Fists at Waukeen's Rest.
* The option to do this is only available to Clerics of good-aligned deities and Paladins.
Underdark 	30 	Last Rites of the Dark Dancer 	Complete Eilistraee's ritual of sorrow and obtain her blessed blade.
Underdark 	30 	Shatter the Moon 	Destroy Selûne's protection over the Underdark fort.
* Destroy the Moonstone above the statue in the Selûnite Outpost.
The Festering Cove 	30 	Tipping the Scales 	Earn the worship of the Kuo-toa.
* Also granted by convincing BOOOAL to let you kill in his name.
Grymforge 	50 	Acolytes of the Demonweb Pits 	Persuade the spiders in Grymforge to remain faithful to Lolth.
Act 2 	Act 2 	Act 2 	Act 2
Ruined Battlefield 	50 	No Rest for the Wicked 	Assist He Who Was in his task.
Ruined Battlefield 	50 	Let Sleeping Dogs Lie 	Prevent He Who Was from completing his task.
Last Light Inn 	50 	Moonweaver's Prayer 	Witness Isobel's ritual to keep up the protection of Last Light.
Last Light Inn 	50 	Tragic Love 	Witness Yonas' funeral.
* Talk to Meygan while she's mourning Yonas just south of the inn.
Reithwin Town 	60 	Blessed's Final Rest 	Find the aasimar's journal.
Reithwin Town 	60 	Did My Homework 	Recite Shar's dogma to the surgeon.
Reithwin Town 	60 	Honing the Darkness 	Pass all of Shar's tests in the middle of the cursed town.
Gauntlet of Shar 	75 	In Her Footsteps 	Solve each of Shar's trials in the Gauntlet of Shar.
Gauntlet of Shar 	75 	Sole Survivor 	Discover the truth behind the numerous rats in the Gauntlet of Shar.
Gauntlet of Shar 	75 	Those for Whom the Bell Tolled 	Kill all of Balthazar's undead.
Shadowfell 	75 	Cerimonia Alārum 	Release the Nightsong.
Shadowfell 	75 	Cerimonia Compedum 	Execute the ritual to bring Nightsong to Ketheric yourself.
* Ally with and allow Balthazar to take Nightsong, rather than actually doing it yourself.
Mind Flayer Colony 	60 	A Piece of Three 	Piece together Ketheric's allegiances.
Act 3 	Act 3 	Act 3 	Act 3
Rivington 	135 	Needs of the Many 	Persuade the merchant to let the refugee squatters stay in his home.
Rivington 	135 	Food for the Soul 	Donate a Long Rest's worth of food to the donation chest.
Rivington 	135 	A Test of Faithfulness 	Ask the Master of Love to test your bond.
Rivington 	135 	The Dismemberment of Dribbles 	Find all the pieces of Dribbles' body and return them to Lucretious.
Rivington 	135 	A Scorned Closed Heart 	Side with the open-minded priest.
* In the dialogue with the priests, choose "Sounds like your god would be proud of Father Logan".
Rivington 	135 	A Wounded Open Heart 	Side with the close-minded priest.
* In the dialogue with the priests, choose "If Father Logan had been pickier, he might still been alive".
Wyrm's Crossing 	135 	Carnal Rituals of Sharess 	Take part in the... erm... negotiable affection provided in Sharess' Caress.
Wyrm's Rock Fortress	170 	Shaking Bane's Hand 	Agree to an alliance with Gortash.
Lower City 	170 	Ordinary Practises in Extraordinary Times	Offer appropriate offerings to a deity in the Stormshore Tabernacle.
* The offering is the same amount as needed to get a merchant to 100 Attitude as seen here.
Lower City 	170 	What Remains of the Dead 	Guide Nina to acceptance or prowess.
* She can be found in the Graveyard (Lower City). Either helping her resurrect her brother or convincing her not to will award Inspiration.
Lower City 	170 	Child Protection Agents 	Find and rescue Lora's daughter, Vanra.
Lower City 	220 	True Exorcism 	Burn Kerri's portrait with the Torch of Revocation and banish Kerri from the Material Plane.
Lower City 	220 	Rites of Loss 	Complete the Mapping of the Heart.
Lower City 	170 	Offering to the Waves 	Make an offering for the dead waveservant.
Murder Tribunal 	220 	Liturgy of Blood 	Embrace Bhaal and complete the Murder Tribunal.
Murder Tribunal 	220 	Revulsion of Blood 	Free Valeria during the Murder Tribunal.
Lower City Sewers 	170 	Grinning with Bhaal 	Agree to an alliance with Orin.
Lower City Sewers 	220 	Forgotten, Bloodied, Halls 	Discover the Temple of Bhaal.
== Cut Background Goals ==
*Justice Sees All: Discover why Anders betrayed Tyr.
**In Early Acess, Anders was a fallen paladin of Tyr. However, in the release version his backstory was changed to simply be a servant of Zariel pretending to be a paladin; therefore, the dialogue that would trigger this inspiration was removed.
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