Austere Devotee of Majere
The priesthood of Majere includes within its ranks a
number of disciplined individuals dedicated to sharpening
the mind as much as the body. Even more so than Majere’s
other clerics, these priests maintain an ascetic lifestyle in
isolated communities, only rarely venturing forth into the
world to further their divine patron’s goals. Known as the
austere devotees, they have earned a reputation as being
highly skilled and focused, all of it much deserved.
Because of the entry requirements, most austere
devotees are multiclassed monk/clerics of Majere. A
few meet the requirements as rogues, and these austere
devotees are often former thieves and bandits that have
borne witness to Majere’s promise of discipline and
abandoned their old lives to join the Holy Order. Rarely, a
single-classed high-level cleric of Majere will retreat from
the world and take the necessary training to become an
austere devotee. Such a path is almost always the result of a
life-changing event.
NPC austere devotees are almost never found outside
of their monasteries and temples. On occasion, an
austere devotee might travel to another monastery either
alone or in the company of other monks and clerics, to
share revelations and forge stronger relations between
communities of Majere’s faithful.
Ex-Austere Devotees of Majere
An austere devotee who gains a non-lawful alignment
or who abandons his faith in Majere loses access to all
supernatural abilities and bonus spells based on his
austere devotee levels, and may no longer advance as an
austere devotee until he atones (see the atonement spell
description on page 201 of the Player’s Handbook).