Combat
Prayer
In use
The world hands nobody this skill. Burial earns it; belief gates the rest.
Emergent
Prayer is not in the roster the world starts with. Burying the dead earns it; belief gates the rest.
What it governs
- Burying the dead earns Prayer XP, alongside Construction — not belief.Charter, Part II — Combat group
- It works, but only deniably: every effect fits inside ordinary luck.Mechanics §15 — Prayer, the emergent skill
- The world provides no gods; it answers belief, so rival faiths both work.
- Protection prayers spend a hidden pool the size of the level, drained by the threat.Charter, Part II — Combat group
- A darker second book opens only to a faith that has sacrificed many citizens.
- No prayer potions: faith is not chemistry, and a sacred brew is only ritual.
What happens today
Burial trains it; a believer's faith deniably softens blows, cursed faiths deflect, sap and leech.
What opens, and when
The charter gives Prayer no ladder and no levels.
Not yet
Sap and leech reach only melee's own roll, not a spell's; deflect reaches both.