Divinity on a Budget

Antasso's Blessings on the Cheap

Step this way, adventurer, and receive your blessings! Any religion or all of them! You're headed over the bridge, aren't you? I can tell. I'm sure you'll make it back just fine, but shouldn't you make your peace just in case...?

Livio Antasso operates perhaps the most egalitarian temple in the world. As a young man, he traveled the world becoming anointed, ordained, and generally trained in the rites of nearly every tradition from the old gods to the new. Whether he truly has the spiritual authority to perform all the sacred rituals he knows is anybody's guess, but Antasso certainly seems to think so, and he does so regularly.

Antasso's Blessings on the Cheap has a prime location at the very end of the Street of Wonders, mere feet from the Iron Bridge to Beast's Landing. He gets adventurers coming and going, exhorting them to make their peace or seek blessings of good fortune on the way out, and thank their god on the way back in. Each of these services, of course, costs a small fee. Antasso has a number of acolytes working under him, who perform the simple rites and keep the temple clean. They are, without exception, attractive and charming young men and women, and they spend their time hanging out on the street in front of the temple trying to attract business. Most of them are devoted to a single god, but Antasso considers one acolyte, Nemeria Wist, his protege and has been training her in all the rites and signs he knows.

Antasso's is a fairly large building cobbled together of wood and fabric. The interior is divided into multiple small chambers by colorful hanging cloths from many lands, all centered around a large main "chapel" (really just an open area with a driftwood altar) where the important rituals take place. Seekers of small blessings may be pulled into one of the side rooms by an acolyte, or whoever is handy may just perform the blessing out on the street.

1 bit	An acolyte says a few words and maybe sprinkles you with holy water
1 cp	An acolyte performs a proper blessing in the chapel
1 ss	Antasso himself performs a proper blessing, with incense and everything
1 gc	Weddings, baptisms, funerals, etc.