Divine soul

Invokers, sometimes called favored souls, are divine spellcasters who gain their power through the direct touch of a deity, carrying with them a fragment of the god's divine power. This is unlike avengers, clerics, or paladins, who channel their prayers carefully through holy symbols. Invokers have no need for such tools, however, and their prayers come directly from their god and none of their power is lost through transition. Invokers use these powers to control the battlefield, smite foes from a distance, or empower their allies, making them quite versatile.

During the war between the gods and the primordials, invokers were the most important mortal servants of the divine, fighting alongside their deities. Much because of this many who take up the invoker's path have a different view of the gods than most other divine agents. Although many see gods based on individual worship and morality invokers see all deities, even those who are the natural enemies of their own patron, as worthy of worship and respect as combatants of the primordials. In spite of this veneration of all gods, invokers have a single patron and must, like paladins, be the same alignment of that deity.

Braeden is a well-known invoker of Tiamat.

Abilities
Like other divine spellcasters invokers wield powers charged by the power of a god or other immortal known as prayers. However, the prayers of invokers differ in many important ways from the prayers of other divine spellcasters. Unlike most servants of the divine, invokers channel prayers innately and with little need for training or preparation. Invokers do not require holy symbols or rites of investiture to obtain echoes of their patron's power, instead channeling that power directly.

This power offers invokers many abilities, from summoning angelic servitors to empowering nearby allies. Typically, invokers use their prayers to deprive their foes of defenses or smite them from a distance, although most invokers also learn to either heal allies or strike enemies with deadly accuracy. Unlike other divine spellcasters, invokers use rods or staffs as implements to charge this power.

Invokers, in order to obtain the power they wield, make a covenant with their god, sometimes undergoing years of study and testing in order to seal it. Through this covenant, made most often consciously but sometimes subconsciously, the invoker channels their prayers, henceforth making the nature of the covenant incredibely important to the invoker. Some choose a covenant of preservation, working to defend the faithful, commanding and shielding them from harm. Others take on a covenant of wrath, seeking out the enemies of the divine, empowering their attacks with divine power.

In addition to their common list of prayers, invokers gain other abilities. Like other divine agents, invokers can use channel divinity prayers, each invoker knowing how to rebuke undead. Invokers sometimes pick up channel divinity prayers channeled directly from their deity and invokers also gain a form of channel divinity based on the nature of their covenant, either preserver's rebuke or armor of wrath. Invokers also know how to use rituals and can cast Hand of Fate once per day without the necessary components.