Evangelist

An Evangelist was a person with magical abilities to proselytize.

Culture
While these people were religious, they generally originated from the lay people of a particular faith. There were not a lot of clerics and druids who learned the arts of an evangelist because it forced them to sacrifice spellcasting abilities. Bards and rogues were viewed as the ones who would do good if they were religious enough to learn the skills. While only very few, compassionate paladins who wanted to sway evil people on the path of good also learnt the skills of evangelist.

Racially, gnomes, halflings, and humans tended the most towards becoming evangelists, while the entire profession had a bad reputation among elves and dwarves. For half-elves and half-orcs, becoming an evangelists was a way to find purpose in their lives.

Abilities
Every evangelist had some basic theoretical knowledge in religious matters and oratory and was also good at collecting information, discern a person's nature, and especially lying.

A skilled evangelists could persuade people in a rush and was very steady when he or she was disguising, lying, intimidating, persuading, or attempting to see through people.

As mentioned above, evangelists were skilled in oratory. They could elevate this skill to some magical abilities that, at their discretion, instilled a kind of hopelessness that eroded their enemies will power, a kind of hope that bolstered their allies will power, or to conjure fire shield-effects around their own and allies' bodies. The epitomic ability of an evangelist was the one that forced people to adopt the evangelist's philosophical view points and to be effectively under a Charm monster spell. When this forceful personality change wore off, the person could actually choose to become a changed person or revert to the original personality. However, an atonement could be necessary to regain lost powers.

Relationships
As a general rule, evangelists were wanders who tried to convince others of their faith or of their version of their faith. This could lead to conflict with people, including with those who shared their moral and ethical outlook.

Notable members

 * Daelegoth Orndeir, the leader of the Brotherhood of the Glorious Sun was an accomplished evangelist.