Anointed

“Where others see wounds, the Anointed sees burdens waiting to be shared.”

The Anointed serves as healer, caretaker, ritual guide, and steward of recovery. Across Erosia, they tend the sick, comfort the grieving, bless the hopeful, and stand beside those who bear more than they can carry alone. Anointed understand that suffering takes many forms. Broken bones can be mended with magic, but fear, exhaustion, despair, longing, and spiritual strain require a gentler touch. Through divine grace and sacred devotion, they guide others through hardship and help communities endure.

In battle, Anointed preserve life through miracles of restoration and protection. Outside battle, they serve as counselors, mediators, ritual attendants, and spiritual caretakers. Their greatest power is not the ability to destroy their enemies, but the ability to ensure their allies continue forward. For the Anointed, healing is not an act. It is a calling.

Creating an Anointed

When creating an Anointed, consider why your character feels responsible for the well-being of others. Do they see suffering as a burden that should never be carried alone? Do they believe healing is a sacred duty entrusted to them by a deity? Do they offer comfort through wisdom and compassion, or through practical care and unwavering presence?

Also consider how your character first answered their calling. Were they raised within a temple devoted to healing and restoration? Did they survive a tragedy that taught them the value of mercy? Were they trained by a respected spiritual guide, or did their gifts emerge naturally when someone desperately needed help?

Anointed are found wherever people struggle to endure hardship. Some serve as battlefield healers. Others guide sacred rituals, care for isolated communities, tend the sick, or counsel those burdened by grief and loss. No matter their path, all Anointed share a common belief:

No burden should be carried alone.

Standard Desire Engine

Generate Grace through compassionate intervention, spend it to protect and restore others, and turn Sacred Release into an opportunity for recovery.

Your Gameplay Loop

1. Help: Restoring hit points to someone else generates a Mercy Mark through Burden of Mercy. 2. Gather: Starting at 2nd level, Acts of Compassion can generate 1 Grace once per turn on qualifying aid or protection. 3. Minister: Spend Grace on Sacred Ministrations without allowing the same spent-Grace effect to refund itself. 4. Release: On Climax, Sacred Relief and later release features provide the restoration printed at their respective levels.

Veiled Play

Use the Veiled Play clauses of Burden of Mercy, Acts of Compassion, and Sacred Relief for the specified emotional support and Arousal interactions.

Unveiled Play

Specific abilities may reduce Arousal, restore Libido, or alleviate Climax consequences, sometimes generating Grace. None of those benefits is universal to every healing spell.

At the table: Grace is available from 1st level at a maximum of PB + Wisdom modifier (minimum 2). You know three Sacred Ministrations at 1st level and one more at levels 5, 9, 13, and 17.

Shared rule: These play modes preserve agency and consent; Veiled and Unveiled alternatives do not stack. Track Arousal normally. At Arousal 6, resolve the applicable Climax Effect, reduce Libido by 1 where Libido is tracked, reset Arousal to 0, and then resolve applicable aftermath triggers. Climax does not automatically restore hit points or impose Exhaustion; those results occur only when a specific rule grants or imposes them. A class release adds only its expressly stated effects.

Class Features

As an Anointed, you gain the following class features.

Anointed at a Glance

An Anointed is a full divine spellcaster built around restoration, protection, and stewardship of recovery. Spellcasting provides the class’s broad sacred toolkit, while Grace turns acts of compassion into a renewable resource for Sacred Ministrations and other miracles of care.

Anointed are strongest when they remain attentive to the condition of the entire party. They restore wounds, reinforce allies under pressure, remove harmful effects, and intervene when another creature approaches collapse. Their role is not simply to replace lost hit points. They help companions remain functional through the full consequences of an encounter.

In the Desire Cycle, the Anointed’s rhythm is recognize, carry, restore. Arousal represents pressure that may need guidance, Grace represents compassion translated into sacred action, and Climax becomes an opportunity for release and communal recovery. Where other classes exploit mounting pressure for personal power, the Anointed asks what that pressure is doing to everyone around them.

Hit Points

Hit Dice: 1d8 per Anointed level

Hit Points at 1st Level: 8 + your Constitution modifier

Hit Points at Higher Levels: 1d8 (or 5) + your Constitution modifier per Anointed level after 1st

Libido

Starting Libido: Your Proficiency Bonus + your Constitution modifier (minimum 1).

Libido at Higher Levels: Your Libido increases whenever your Proficiency Bonus increases. If your Constitution modifier changes, your maximum Libido changes by the same amount.

Proficiencies

Armor: Light armor, medium armor, shields

Weapons: Simple weapons

Tools: Choose one artisan’s tool or herbalism kit

Saving Throws: Wisdom, Charisma

Skills: Choose two from Insight, Medicine, Persuasion, Religion, History, Investigation

Equipment

You begin with the following equipment, in addition to the equipment granted by your background:

A mace or a quarterstaff
Scale mail or leather armor
A shield or a simple weapon
A priest’s pack or an explorer’s pack
A holy symbol

Tools of Ministry

Anointed rarely separate the implements of faith from the practical tools of care. A mace may defend a wounded companion while a healer works. A shield creates the few precious moments needed to restore someone who has fallen. A priest’s pack carries the ritual materials of devotion, while an explorer’s pack serves an Anointed whose ministry takes them far beyond temple walls.

The equipment listed here represents a typical adventuring Anointed, not a religious uniform. One may wear polished scale mail engraved with the symbols of a beloved deity, while another carries a weathered shield marked only by years of service. A battlefield chaplain, village healer, wandering confessor, shrine keeper, and temple-trained priest may all equip themselves very differently.

A holy symbol likewise reflects relationship rather than obligation. It may represent a deity with whom the Anointed resonates, a sacred philosophy, a community, an ancestral tradition, or a personal promise that gives shape to their calling. What matters is not the splendor of the symbol, but the conviction behind the care it represents.

The Anointed Table

The Anointed Table summarizes your class features and spell slots from 1st through 20th level. The spell slots follow the full-caster progression described under Spellcasting. A dash indicates that you do not yet have a slot of that level.

Level	PB	Features	Grace Maximum	Ministrations Known	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th	7th	8th	9th
1	+2	Spellcasting, Burden of Mercy, Grace, Sacred Ministrations, Sacred Relief	PB + Wis (min 2)	3	2	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
2	+2	Acts of Compassion, Shared Relief (Channel Divinity option)	PB + Wis (min 2)	3	3	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
3	+2	Divine Calling	PB + Wis (min 2)	3	4	2	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
4	+2	Ability Score Improvement	PB + Wis (min 2)	3	4	3	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
5	+3	Restorative Miracle, Restorative Release, Additional Sacred Ministration	PB + Wis (min 2)	4	4	3	2	—	—	—	—	—	—
6	+3	Divine Calling Feature	PB + Wis (min 2)	4	4	3	3	—	—	—	—	—	—
7	+3	Shared Burden	PB + Wis (min 2)	4	4	3	3	1	—	—	—	—	—
8	+3	Ability Score Improvement	PB + Wis (min 2)	4	4	3	3	2	—	—	—	—	—
9	+4	Grace Overflow, Additional Sacred Ministration	PB + Wis (min 2)	5	4	3	3	3	1	—	—	—	—
10	+4	Sacred Release	PB + Wis (min 2)	5	4	3	3	3	2	—	—	—	—
11	+4	Divine Calling Feature	PB + Wis (min 2)	5	4	3	3	3	2	1	—	—	—
12	+4	Ability Score Improvement	PB + Wis (min 2)	5	4	3	3	3	2	1	—	—	—
13	+5	Miracle of Renewal, Additional Sacred Ministration	PB + Wis (min 2)	6	4	3	3	3	2	1	1	—	—
14	+5	Sanctuary Keeper	PB + Wis (min 2)	6	4	3	3	3	2	1	1	—	—
15	+5	Divine Calling Feature	PB + Wis (min 2)	6	4	3	3	3	2	1	1	1	—
16	+5	Ability Score Improvement	PB + Wis (min 2)	6	4	3	3	3	2	1	1	1	—
17	+6	Ascendant Grace, Ascendant Release, Additional Sacred Ministration	PB + Wis (min 2)	7	4	3	3	3	2	1	1	1	1
18	+6	Divine Calling Feature	PB + Wis (min 2)	7	4	3	3	3	3	1	1	1	1
19	+6	Ability Score Improvement	PB + Wis (min 2)	7	4	3	3	3	3	2	1	1	1
20	+6	Avatar of Restoration	PB + Wis (min 2)	7	4	3	3	3	3	2	2	1	1

Spellcasting

1st-Level Anointed Feature

Beginning at 1st level, you can channel divine power to perform miracles of healing, protection, purification, and restoration. The Anointed uses the full-caster spell progression.

Spell List Compatibility

2014 Fifth Edition + Erosian Grimoire

Traditional spell list. Use the 2014 Fifth Edition Cleric spell list as the Anointed foundation. Preparation, rituals, full-caster slots, Wisdom and any class-specific divine calling spells continue to follow the published Anointed rules; this addition does not change the count of prepared spells.

Erosian Grimoire access. Spells in the Erosian Grimoire that explicitly name Anointed under Available Classes are additional Anointed spell-list options. Select, learn, prepare, record or replace them only through your existing Anointed Spellcasting features and only at levels you can actually cast. They are not automatically known, prepared or granted as extra spells. For the categorized additions, visit the Anointed Grimoire spell collection.

Spellcasting and Desire. Use Wisdom for these Anointed spells. Resolve the spell’s ordinary effect under 2014 Fifth Edition rules; apply its printed Veiled Play or Unveiled Play options in the group’s chosen mode using the Mechanics of Desire. No extra Arousal, Libido, resource points or Climax trigger occurs simply because a spell belongs to the Grimoire. Respect the shared per-turn Arousal limit.

Class-specific interactions. An eligible Grimoire spell counts as an Anointed spell. Sacred Ministrations, Grace, Mercy Marks and other Anointed resources still require their own stated triggers: shielding an ally, granting temporary hit points, changing Arousal or healing another creature are not interchangeable events unless a feature explicitly treats them as such.

Availability rule. Spell school, Erosian discipline, divine patron, and theme alone never grant a spell to a class. Other classes’ spell lists require an explicit subclass feature, boon, magic item or another rule that grants access.

Preparing and Casting Spells

You prepare spells from the Anointed spell list. The number of spells you can prepare equals:

Your Wisdom modifier + your Anointed level (minimum of one spell).

You may change your prepared spells after completing a long rest.

Spellcasting Ability

Wisdom is your spellcasting ability for Anointed spells. Your magic flows through spiritual understanding, compassion, devotion, and divine insight.

Spell Save DC

8 + your proficiency bonus + your Wisdom modifier

Spell Attack Modifier

Your proficiency bonus + your Wisdom modifier

Ritual Casting

You may cast any prepared Anointed spell with the ritual tag as a ritual.

The Sacred Burden

Most classes seek power. Anointed seek responsibility. Where others learn to wield magic, master weapons, or command supernatural forces, the Anointed learns how to bear the suffering of others without being consumed by it. Anointed understand that pain takes many forms. A wound may break the body. Fear may weaken the spirit. Shame, grief, longing, and exhaustion can linger long after physical injuries have healed. Their sacred duty is not merely to restore health, but to restore wholeness.

Because of this, Anointed interact with Desire differently than most classes. A Bloodborn channels Desire into magical power. A Wildheart channels Desire into instinct. A Reveler channels Desire into emotional resonance. An Anointed channels Desire into recovery. As emotional pressure builds within allies and companions, the Anointed learns to recognize that pressure, guide it safely, and help others recover from its consequences. Rather than exploiting the Desire Cycle, they act as its caretakers. To an Anointed, rising pressure is not a source of power. It is a call for compassion.

Sacred Offerings

Anointed recognize that compassion itself can carry resonance. In rites of healing, mourning, renewal and return, a willing creature may sometimes offer a Whisper—a discrete fragment of emotional resonance released through genuine sacrifice, devotion, grief, hope or love. Such an offering is never owed to the Anointed or to the deity they serve.

Existing Anointed features do not automatically consume Whispers. When a spell, miracle or optional resurrection rule allows a sacred offering to matter mechanically, the choice must be explicit and freely made. The Anointed’s role is to steward what is offered, not to extract it.

Stewards of Recovery

Many classes focus primarily on what happens before release. The Anointed focuses on what happens afterward. In Erosia, Climax is not merely a mechanical event. It is a moment of transformation, vulnerability, relief, and consequence. Most creatures experience release and then must deal with its effects alone. Anointed refuse to let that happen. They specialize in helping others recover from emotional, spiritual, and physical strain. They preserve endurance, protect companions from dangerous overexertion, and ensure that moments of release become opportunities for healing rather than collapse. When a skilled Anointed is present, allies can push themselves further than they otherwise could, knowing someone stands ready to help them recover.

Grace

Compassion leaves a mark upon the soul. Each time an Anointed protects the vulnerable, eases suffering, or helps another creature endure hardship, a small measure of divine favor gathers around them. This sacred energy is known as Grace. As an Anointed, Grace is your primary class resource. Unlike a wizard’s spellbook or a fighter’s martial training, Grace is earned through service. The more you care for others, the more Grace you accumulate. Many of your abilities generate Grace when you restore health, protect allies, remove harmful effects, or guide companions through the pressures of Desire. You can then spend Grace to perform miracles of healing, protection, recovery, and restoration. A novice Anointed learns to preserve life through Grace. A master Anointed learns to restore hope itself.

Starting at 2nd level, your devotion manifests as a reservoir of divine compassion known as Grace. Grace represents your ability to transform care into miracles. The Grace maximum for your level is shown on the Anointed table. You regain all expended Grace when you complete a long rest. Certain class features restore Grace during play. If a feature requires a saving throw, the DC equals your Spell Save DC.

Sacred Release

Every class experiences Desire differently. For an Anointed, Climax is not an eruption of power. It is an act of renewal. As pressure builds, an Anointed carries not only their own burdens but often the burdens of those around them. Eventually that weight must be released. When it is, the Anointed transforms personal relief into communal restoration. A Bloodborn’s release unleashes magical force. A Wildheart’s release awakens primal instinct. A Reveler’s release becomes shared inspiration. An Anointed’s release becomes recovery. Experienced Anointed learn to transform their own moments of release into waves of healing, comfort, protection, and emotional renewal that strengthen everyone nearby. To an Anointed, the highest expression of Desire is not power. It is compassion.

Burden of Mercy

1st-Level Anointed Feature

You have learned to recognize suffering before others speak of it. Through prayer, experience, and sacred devotion, you instinctively sense when another creature requires aid. Whenever you restore hit points to a creature other than yourself, you gain one Mercy Mark. You may possess a number of Mercy Marks equal to your Proficiency Bonus. You lose all unspent Mercy Marks when you finish a Long Rest. Many Anointed features and Sacred Ministrations reference your Mercy Marks.

Veiled Play. Whenever you restore hit points to a creature other than yourself, gain one Mercy Mark.

Unveiled Play. Whenever you restore hit points to a creature other than yourself, you may also reduce its Arousal by 1. If you reduce a creature’s Arousal in this way, gain one additional Mercy Mark. A creature may benefit from this reduction only once per turn.

Sacred Ministrations

1st-Level Anointed Feature

You have mastered specialized acts of care known as Sacred Ministrations. Each Ministration represents a different method of restoring, protecting, guiding, or comforting others. Unless otherwise stated, using a Sacred Ministration requires a Bonus Action, expends 1 Grace, and targets a creature you can see within 60 feet. If a Sacred Ministration requires a saving throw, the DC equals your Anointed Spell Save DC. You learn three Sacred Ministrations of your choice at 1st level. You learn one additional Sacred Ministration at each of levels 5, 9, 13, and 17, as shown on the Anointed table. Whenever you gain a level in this class, you may replace one Sacred Ministration you know with another Sacred Ministration for which you qualify.

Comfort

You offer reassurance, prayer, encouragement, or simple presence that reminds another creature it is not alone. Choose one creature within range. The target gains Temporary Hit Points equal to your Wisdom modifier + your Proficiency Bonus and gains Advantage on the next saving throw it makes before the end of its next turn.

Veiled Play. The target also gains Advantage on its next EROS Save before the end of its next turn.

Unveiled Play. If the target succeeds on that EROS Save, it may reduce its Arousal by 1.

Soothe Burden

You ease emotional and spiritual strain before it becomes overwhelming. Choose one creature within range. The target gains Temporary Hit Points equal to your Wisdom modifier and may immediately end one effect causing it to have Disadvantage on Wisdom ability checks.

Veiled Play. The target may also reduce its Arousal by 1.

Unveiled Play. The target reduces its Arousal by an amount equal to your Wisdom modifier (minimum 1). If this prevents a Climax before the start of your next turn, you regain 1 Grace.

Preserve Life

You intervene before disaster can claim another soul. Choose one creature within range. Until the start of your next turn, the target cannot be reduced below 1 hit point by damage unless it is killed outright.

Veiled Play. The target also gains Temporary Hit Points equal to twice your Proficiency Bonus.

Unveiled Play. If the target would gain a level of Exhaustion before the start of your next turn, it may ignore that level of Exhaustion. A creature may benefit from this effect only once per Long Rest.

Bless Resolve

You strengthen another creature’s determination. Choose one creature within range. The target gains Advantage on the next saving throw it makes before the end of its next turn. If that saving throw succeeds, the target gains Temporary Hit Points equal to your Wisdom modifier.

Veiled Play. The target gains Advantage on its next EROS Save before the end of its next turn.

Unveiled Play. If the target succeeds on that EROS Save, it may restore 1 Libido. A creature may regain Libido from this Ministration only once per Long Rest.

Shared Burden

You willingly carry a portion of another creature’s suffering. Choose one willing creature within range. Until the start of your next turn, whenever the target takes damage, reduce that damage by an amount equal to your Proficiency Bonus. You gain Temporary Hit Points equal to your Wisdom modifier.

Veiled Play. The target may reduce its Arousal by 1.

Unveiled Play. You may transfer up to 2 Arousal from the target to yourself. This transfer cannot trigger your Climax.

Gentle Recovery

You encourage the body and spirit to recover together. Choose one creature within range. The target regains hit points equal to your Wisdom modifier + your Anointed level. In addition, the target gains Advantage on Constitution saving throws until the start of your next turn.

Veiled Play. The target may immediately end one effect causing it to be Frightened.

Unveiled Play. The target also gains Advantage on Constitution checks and saving throws made to resist Climax consequences before the start of your next turn.

Sacred Relief

1st-Level Anointed Climax Feature

When you Climax, divine comfort radiates outward from you. Choose one creature within 30 feet, including yourself. That creature gains Temporary Hit Points equal to your Wisdom modifier + your Proficiency Bonus. This benefit represents the relief, reassurance, and renewed strength created through your release.

Veiled Play. The chosen creature may reduce its Arousal by 1.

Unveiled Play. The chosen creature may either reduce its Arousal by 1 or gain Advantage on its next EROS Save before the end of its next turn.

Grace

1st-Level Anointed Feature

Grace is the divine compassion that gathers around those who dedicate themselves to the care of others. Every wound healed, burden shared, and life preserved strengthens your connection to this sacred power. You possess a pool of Grace points beginning at 1st level. Your Grace maximum equals your Proficiency Bonus + your Wisdom modifier (minimum 2), as summarized on the Anointed table. You begin play with your full Grace pool, so you can use Sacred Ministrations at 1st level.

You regain all expended Grace when you finish a Long Rest.

Beginning at 9th level, your connection to Grace deepens. Whenever you finish a Short Rest, you regain Grace equal to your Wisdom modifier (minimum 1).

Acts of Compassion

2nd-Level Anointed Feature

Your devotion continually replenishes your Grace. Once per turn when one of the following occurs within 60 feet of you, you gain 1 Grace:

You restore hit points to another creature.
You grant Temporary Hit Points to another creature.
You remove a condition affecting another creature.
A creature succeeds on a saving throw because of one of your abilities.
A creature benefits from one of your restorative spells.

You cannot exceed your Grace maximum.

Grace Cannot Refund Itself. If an Anointed feature, Sacred Ministration, spell enhancement, or other effect requires you to expend Grace, no part of that same effect or its immediate resolution can cause you to regain Grace through Acts of Compassion or another Anointed feature. A later, separate act of healing, protection, recovery, or successful intervention can generate Grace normally.

Veiled Play. Whenever a creature within 60 feet reduces Arousal because of one of your abilities, you gain 1 Grace. This benefit may occur only once per round.

Unveiled Play. Whenever a creature within 60 feet regains Libido or recovers from a Climax consequence because of one of your abilities, you gain 1 Grace. When a creature within 60 feet Climaxes, you may immediately gain 1 Grace. This benefit may occur only once per round.

Shared Relief

2nd-Level Anointed Feature (Channel Divinity Option)

As an Action, choose a number of creatures within 30 feet equal to your Wisdom modifier. Each chosen creature regains hit points equal to: 2d6 + your Wisdom modifier Each chosen creature may also immediately end one of the following conditions: Charmed or Frightened

Veiled Play. Each chosen creature may also reduce its Arousal by 1.

Unveiled Play. Each creature that reduces its Arousal to 0 through this feature gains Temporary Hit Points equal to your Wisdom modifier. In addition, one chosen creature may restore 1 Libido.

Divine Calling

3rd-Level Anointed Feature

Every Anointed develops a unique philosophy regarding healing, recovery, and sacred responsibility. This philosophy shapes how they gather Grace, guide others through Desire, and transform suffering into restoration. Some Anointed focus on protecting communities and creating safe places of refuge. Others nurture growth and renewal wherever they travel. Some tend to the wounds of the spirit and walk the paths between dreams and waking life. Others embrace the sacred mysteries of Desire itself, transforming passion into healing. Choose one of the following Divine Callings:

Path of Radiant Will

Path of Grace

Path of Devotion

Your chosen Divine Calling grants features at 3rd level and again at higher levels as shown in its description. Your Divine Calling also grants additional spells and Channel Divinity options, reflecting your unique approach to restoration and sacred care.

Ability Score Improvement

4th-Level Anointed Feature

When you reach 4th level, and again at 8th, 12th, 16th, and 19th level, you can increase one Ability Score of your choice by 2, or increase two Ability Scores of your choice by 1.

As normal, you cannot increase an Ability Score above 20 using this feature.

Alternatively, if your table uses feats, you may choose a feat for which you qualify instead of increasing your Ability Scores.

Restorative Miracle

5th-Level Anointed Feature

Your Grace has matured into true miracle-working power. Through faith, compassion, and unwavering devotion, you can restore others from hardships that lesser healers cannot mend. Whenever you restore hit points to a creature using an Anointed spell or Sacred Ministration, add your Wisdom modifier to the amount restored. In addition, whenever a creature regains hit points from one of your Anointed spells or Sacred Ministrations, it gains Temporary Hit Points equal to your Proficiency Bonus.

A creature can gain these Temporary Hit Points only once per turn.

Veiled Play. Whenever you restore hit points to a creature, it may immediately reduce its Arousal by 1. A creature may benefit from this reduction only once per turn.

Unveiled Play. Whenever you restore hit points to a creature, you may choose one of the following:

Reduce its Arousal by 1.
Restore 1 Libido.
Remove one negative effect imposed by a recent Climax.

A creature may benefit from only one option each turn.

Restorative Release

5th-Level Anointed Climax Feature

Your Sacred Release carries greater restorative power. When you Climax, choose a number of creatures within 30 feet equal to your Wisdom modifier (minimum one). Each chosen creature gains Temporary Hit Points equal to your Wisdom modifier + your Proficiency Bonus. In addition, one chosen creature may immediately end either the Charmed or Frightened condition affecting it.

Veiled Play. Each chosen creature may reduce its Arousal by 1.

Unveiled Play. One chosen creature may restore 1 Libido. A creature may benefit from this restoration only once per Long Rest.