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Earth, Air, Fire, and Water

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Chapter I: The Elemental Powers................................................... 3

The Priest Class ......................................................................... 3

The Wasting ............................................................................. 5

The Pact .................................................................................... 6

Pawns ....................................................................................... 6

Elemental Powers ....................................................................... 7

The Old Gods .......................................................................... 7

Chapter 2: Elemental Clerics.......................................................... 8

The Duties of Clerics .............................................................. I 0

Breaking the Pact .................................................................... I 0

Powers and Limitations ............................................................ I 3

Turning Undead ................................................................. I3

Followers............................................................................. I3

Element Effects................................................................... I3

Gate Abilities..................................................................... I 3

Optional Granted Power: Sacrifice ...................................... I3

Clerics Above the 20th Level ................................................... I3

Access to Spheres .............................................................. I 4

Recharging Spells .................................................................... I 5

Recharging Spells Table ...................................................... I 5

Kits for Clerics ......................................................................... I5

The Wanderers .................................................................. I6

Guardians of the Shrines .................................................... I 7

Clerics of the Cities ............................................................ I 8

Shamans ............................................................................ I 8

Clerics and Races .................................................................... 20

Dwarves ............................................................................. 20

Elves................................................................................... 20

Half-elves ........................................................................... 20

Halflings ............................................................................ 20

Muls .................................................................................. 20

Thri-kreen .......................................................................... 20

PC by Element and Race Table .......................................... 2I

The Elemental Clerics.............................................................. 2 0

Earth Clerics ...................................................................... 2I

Air Clerics .........................................................................

Fire Clerics ........................................................................

Chapter 4: The Druids................................................................. 45

The Bane of Sorcerer-Kings ..................................................... 45

The Organization of Chaos ...................................................... 45

Druids and the Pact ............................................................ 45

Becoming a Druid .............................................................. 46

Guarded Lands ................................................................. 48

The Time of Wandering...................................................... 48

Druid Characters ............................................................... 49

Weapons and Armor........................................................... 49

Inherent Powers................................................................... 49

Druids Above the 20th Level ................................................... 5 I

Chapter 5: The Templars ............................................................. 52

Templars and Sorcerer-Kings .................................................... 53

Balic .................................................................................. 53

Draj .................................................................................. 54

Gulg ........................................................................ 54

Nibenay ........................................................................ 54

Raam ........................................................................ 54

Tyr ..................................................................................... 55

Urik .................................................................................. 55

Templar Magic ........................................................................ 55

Ceremonial Powers ........................................................................ 5 6

Secular Powers ........................................................................ 5 6

Granted Powers and Spells ................................................. 57

Chapter 6: Shrines and Power Conjunctions................................ 58

The Shrines of Athas ............................................................... 58

Gunginwald, a Shrine of Earth ............................................ 5 9

Ahpotex, a Shrine of Air .................................................... 60

Fume, a Shrine of Fire .......................................................... 6 I

.................................................... 6 3

Shillisa, a Shrine of Silt ....................................................... 64

Mount Solace, a Shrine of the Sun ...................................... 65

Groomsh, a Shrine of Magma ............................................. 6 7

The Rain Tree, a Shrine of Rain .......................................... 68

Power Conjunctions ................................................................ 70

Clerics ............................................................................... 70

Druids................................................................................ 7 I

Templars ............................................................................ 7I

Chapter 7: Advanced Beings

and Adventures in the Inner Planes......................................... 72

Clerical Transformation ........................................................... 72

Clerical Transformation Levels Table ................................... 7 2

Druidic Transformation ........................................................... 73

Druidic Transformation Levels Table ................................... 73

Adventures in the Inner Planes ................................................ 74

Travel in the Inner Planes .................................................... 75

The Elemental Realms ............................................................. 76

Chapter 8: New Priest Spells........................................................ 78

1st-Level Spells ........................................................................ 78

2nd-Level Spells ...................................................................... 78

3rd-Level Spells ....................................................................... 80

4th-Level Spells ....................................................................... 83

5th-Level Spells ....................................................................... 88

6th-Level Spells ...................................................................... 8 8

7th-Level Spells ....................................................................... 9I

Appendix: Complete DARK SUN

Water Clerics ..................................................................... 3 I

Combination Casting .............................................................. 34

Chapter 3: Paraelemental Clerics................................................. 36

The Duties of Paraelemental Clerics ........................................ 36

Paraelemental Clerics as PCs ............................................. 37

Powers and Limitations ............................................................ 37

Turning Undead ................................................................ 37

Followers ............................................................................ 37

Element Effects .................................................................. 37

Gate Abilities .................................................................... 37

Paraelemental Clerics Above the 20th Level ............................. 37

Access to Spheres .............................................................. 38

Recharging Spells .................................................................... 3 8

Paraelemental Clerics as NPCs ............................................... 38

Types of Paraelemental Clerics ................................................. 3 8

Clerics and Races .................................................................... 39

The Paraelemental Clerics ....................................................... 39

Silt Clerics ......................................................................... 39

Sun Clerics ........................................................................ 4I

Magma Clerics .................................................................. 4 2

Rain Clerics ....................................................................... 4 4

Spell Index .......................... 9 4

Grace, a Shrine of Water

campaign

worldand, perhaps, the least understood. Earth, Air, Fire,

and Water is also a valuable source of knowledge about the

strange and mighty powers associated with each subclass of

cleric.

This book begins with an explanation about the nature

of the elemental planes in the wake of Athass devastation

and its effects on those mortal champions who are the

Athasian priest class. Later chapters deal with elemental

clerics, paraelemental clerics, druids, and templars. Their

system of power conjunctions and shrines, and their

unusual relationships with the powerful elementals they

serve are also revealed. The transformation of clerics into

advanced, elemental beings, the terrible duties of high-level

clerics and druids, and the hidden aspects of the elemental

planes about Athas are presented here for the first time.

Finally, this book has more than 50 new spells for clerics,

druids, and templars that can be used in any DARK SUN

campaign! Dungeon Masters may choose to allow their

players immediate access to the new spells, or gradually

introduce them into the campaign as desired. A complete

list of all of the spells available to priests in a DARK SUN

campaign setting is included in a special appendix.

The Priest Class

The clerics and druids who inhabit the wastes of Athas are

very different from those of a standard AD&D ® campaign.

They do not pray to patron deities, for they have no deities.

Priests beneath the dark sun pledge themselves to the very

powers that dwell on the elemental planes.

Like the Athasian deserts, the elemental powers are nei-

ther benevolent nor malevolent, caring only that their nat-

ural forms are preserved in the material world.

In a world with no gods, how, what do priests serve? Earth,

Air, Fire, and Water is designed to reveal to the player and

to the DUNGEON MASTER (DM) exactly how

priests function on Athas. Clerics are one of the most

important character classes in the DARK SUN

This is the source of their power, and the impending eco-

logical collapse in this realm has created an unusual and

dynamic power struggle on the inner planes of the elemen-

tals. The priests of Athas are the pawns of this titanic

struggle.

Resisting the efforts of the clerics and druids are the tem-

plars. The templars are men and women who have become

the minions of the sorcerer-kings. They enforce the dictates

of those willful tyrants with fanatical fervor in exchange for

small scraps of personal power. The kings and queens they

serve are the greatest wizards Athas has ever known.

Tales of the ancient priest class are woven into the fabric

of life on Athastales of power and greed, and wanton,

wasteful destruction.

Jurgan, an earth priest who lives in the shadow of

Hamanu of Urik, understands the nature of these titanic

struggles all too well. . . .

day, they discovered a terrible, dark secret. They fixed their

little spells to feed from the energy of the elements, and they

magnified their power a hundred-fold! The land and every

living thing in the land fed their vile sorcery. And the land

and its creatures were sucked dry by their defiling magic.

Elemental clerics and the mysterious druids banded

together to oppose their blasphemous power, but it was too

late. The dark sorcerers and their sniveling minions slew

priests by the score, and the deserts ran red with blood. It

would be the last such drenching our parched world would

know.

A few clerics remained when the slaughter was

overthey were fortunate compared to the druids. The

defilers knew as little about them as we know about the

thoughts of a thri-kreen. The defilers did know that druidic

power was derived from the land, and they assumed the

druids were in competition for the same resources. This was

not entirely true (no one knows more than I), but the sor-

cerer-kings and the thousands who now followed them saw

the druids as a threat, and they became as kirre fighting over

the same herd of erdlu. That which they did not understand

they had to destroy.

Some hunters went into the wastes in search of the

druids, but they met with little success. After years of fruit-

less searching, the sorcerer-kings began to ravage the land,

knowing that the druids must come out of hiding to do bat-

tle or allow their lands to wither at the defilers touch. The

tactic worked; the guardians emerged from their hiding

Jurgan, the mad priest of Urik. Thats what some call him,

behind his back. A screaming lunatic prattling on about

days so long ago they are far beyond the years of even the

most ancient elf. The templars ignore him as harmlesshis

ramblings too ridiculous even for the children who gather

around him like awed little rasclinn.

Still, his rants are ominous. And sad. And he tells one

tale that will shiver the spine of any man.

Listen well, my children, Jurgan said as he sat by the

well and watched the blazing sun slide toward the horizon

under an olive sky. Once there was a time when men like

myself were as common as injustice is today. Men and

women, pledged to the earth, or to fire, or water, or the

caressing wind, roamed the green fields of Athas in large

numbers. Few are left now, a desperate and scattered few

vainly trying to pump the lifeblood back in to the dried-up

well of our world.

Hamanu; the others, Kalak, Nibenay, Lalali-Puy, all of

them, were but sandmites compared to the real power.

Compared to the power of the earth and the sky. Then one

places.

The years of frustration wore heavily on the defilers

brow, and the druids paid for their elusiveness in flesh and

blood. When the winds of Athas no longer bore the

screams of its defenders, the sorcerer-kings returned to their

citadels. Jurgan sighed and paused, a distant, sad look

creeping in to his ancient eyes.

Finally, he continued, his voice hoarse and troubled.

The druids are no longer hunted in force. The kings

believe there simply arent enough left to threaten them.

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