Lead me in and I will change the order of things (Class: Zealot)
The song won't leave your head. It appears on empty pages and clear skies, on the backs of your eyelids, in a silent room. When you sing it, you choke on your own tongue and must bite it into submission. When you write it down, the ink is your own blood, and it smears uselessly across the scroll. You give it to your Grace, and she can read it perfectly. She’ll tell you the truth. She’ll teach you what it means to be devout.
Devotion is violence against Lugal’s enemies, and His enemies are widespread. The Obligators misuse His authority to make themselves as kings in miniature. Heretics meddle with powers beyond their ken, the sole realm of divinity. The Wild Men, the beasts you once were like, threaten the safety of Lugal’s perfect kingdom. Other Zealots, those who are not you, are probably insane, and they should be put down like dogs. Only you can be trusted to safeguard the future. Your Grace told you so.
The Zealot1
Your Grace says you’re a man.
Extra starting items: concealable knife quenched in the river, a blessed blade from its conception; elephant amulet on a leather thong; lock of your Grace’s hair
A: Ablution, Zealot
B: Dog of Heaven, Inquisitor
C: Iron Will
D: Beyond Death
A: Ablution
At dawn, noon, and dusk, wash your hands and feet in unsullied river water. If you miss one of these ritual washings you are unclean and cannot again be clean until you have completely immersed yourself in the river proper. While you are clean your touch burns that which is unholy (serpents, monsters, and shades denied reincarnation, to name a few), you may add a bonus equal to your level to attacks, and your fingernails glow in the presence of evil. (That which opposes Lugal is evil.)
A: Zealot
You have a pool of rage points equal to your level plus one. You may spend a point when rolling fortitude to wildly succeed, or when violence begins to enter a rage for the duration. While raging, you take half damage from all weapons and cannot do anything defensive, curative, or tactical with your allies. All you can do is attempt to kill things. While raging, you cannot stop fighting until you kill, subdue, or drive off all enemies, or until you succeed a breath roll at the beginning of your turn to end the rage.
When you lay with your Grace, whether that means having sex or simply clinging to her breast like a babe, regain a rage point. When you spend a night dreaming either of the love your Grace will have for you should you prove your devotion or the wrath of Lugal should you fail, regain a rage point.
If disrespected while your rage pool is full, roll breath to resist attacking the disrespecter with lethal intent.
B: Hound of God
It is impossible to kill you before your Grace, relaying the will of Lugal, allows it. She is now the master of your FATE. (Ereshkigal allows this intercession only until it acts against her interests.) You do not die if you are reduced to zero hit points, though roll injuries as normal. You can still be mangled, dismembered, scarred, blinded, half-drowned, crushed, and tormented, but you cannot die until Lugal wishes it so. Your Grace will surely tell you when that happens.
Though you do not know it, poison, subtlest of killers, bypasses FATE and kills you like a normal man. The serpent is the first and greatest enemy of man.
B: Inquisitor
Your Grace further prepares you for your holy mission. You are taught how to pass as an Obligator and, in this process, learn to speak and write Lemur, the secret language of the Obligators. Pick a single cult, the basic rites of which you know. Your disguise only fails in the presence of someone extremely knowledgeable about and specifically quizzing you on advanced theology or clerical bureaucracy.
C: Iron Will
Your rage becomes focused and cold. You are able to think tactically while raging and need not devote all of your actions to attempting to harm your enemies. You may end your rage at will, and need not roll breath to react violently to disrespect when your rage pool is full.
Additionally, you can spend a rage point to overcome a mental or magical compulsion, excepting those originating from your Grace.
D: Beyond Death
While raging, your injuries cannot prevent you from fighting, and you cannot drop below one hit point. Your Grace relays the will of Lugal, and she says He commands you to keep fighting. If your guts are spilled out into the bloody mud, spool them up and stuff them back inside and keep fighting. If your legs are crushed by stone hammers, drag yourself back into the fray with your hands and keep fighting. If you are decapitated, pick up your head and keep fighting. Keep fighting.
Almost all of the mechanics here are taken near-word-for-word from deus ex parabola's GLoG conversion of the 5E zealot barbarian, so please do read his blog in its entirety before even thinking about returning here, but I think it worth copying his words to this post rather than simply referencing them for completeness's sake.↩