Staren, The Craftsman (LN)

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While seen as a team with his sister, Piura, Staren tends to focus on things he can do on his own. He's a lone survivalist who hunts and forages, and he focuses on traditional crafting, such as leatherworking and metalworking. He prefers solitude, and believes in working on yourself before attending to others. It's also because of this lonesome outlook that he doesn't tend to bring good or bad attention to himself from the rest of the pantheon.

> **Edicts** Use your own talents and wits, keep your word, respect the forge
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> **Anathema** Rely solely on others, knowingly cheat someone, intentionally create inferior works
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> **Areas of Concern** Inner peace, animals, crafting, and hunting
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> **Follower Alignments** LG, NG, LN, N
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### Devotee Benefits

> **Divine Ability** Constitution or Wisdom
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> **Divine Font** *harm* or *heal*
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> **Divine Skill** Survival
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> **Favored Weapon** Mace or Composite Longbow
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> **Domains** Creation, Earth, Perfection, Toil
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> **Alternate Domains** Fire, Nature
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> **Cleric Spells** 1st: *Summon Animal*, 3rd: *Animal Vision*, 4th: *Creation*
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### Divine Intercession

Staren generally doesn't anger or please easily, however he does recognize when mortals give the effort on their own to make things possible, and will release his wrath on those who put in very little for their goals.

> **Minor Boon**: You find peace within your own mind. Once, when you fail a Will save, you succeed instead. If you are not within 20 feet of an ally, this extends to critical failures as well.
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> **Moderate Boon**: Staren bestows a rune of recognition on your armor or weapon. This rune acts as the next potency or striking/resilient rune available. This rune does not replace this rune step, however, so this will still be required to permanently upgrade your equipment. If you apply the next rune while this boon is in effect, the recognition rune will then apply the next available bonus. This rune does not count against your rune limit, nor does it raise your rune limit the same way a potency rune would, even if it applies a potency bonus.
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> **Major Boon**: Staren helps you use his favored weapons. When using a longbow, ignore the longbow’s volley trait, all longbows have double the normal range increment for you, and you do not provoke attacks of opportunity while using this in melee combat. If instead using a Mace, Staren grants the Deadly trait to it, and it has the Returning attribute applied without a rune.
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> **Minor Curse**: Staren challenges you to seek another path, rather than treat every problem as a nail just because you have a hammer. If you select a check because it has a higher bonus when another check would have been better for the situation, (ie. using Deception to lie because it’s your highest modifier, even if it would be better to compromise with Diplomacy), you must roll twice and take the lower result.
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> **Moderate Curse**: You must prove your skills at a craft by providing your own equipment. You gain item bonuses only from items you make yourself.
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> **Major Curse**: Those who displease Staren are shunned by nature itself. All animals are hostile to you, and any animal companion or familiar abandons you. While animals might not attack you outright if it’s not normally in their nature to do so when they are hostile, dogs growl at you, cats hiss, and so on.
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### Additional Information

Sacred Animal: Leopard

Sacred Colors: Red and Brown

Emblem: Hammer Crossed Over Bow