Religion

Most of the Gods of Dalaya can be sworn to. The exceptions are Gorzenath, Master of Fire in Azzerach, the Forsaken Realm who can not be sworn to, and Malath who only Taldorians can be sworn to.

Deity	Plane	Deity description	Alignment	Alignment	Augment Quest	Holy Day
Gradalsh	Plane of Entropy	Destructive, entropic	Chaotic	Evil	A Plague for all Seasons	October 20th
Tarhyl	Tower of Tarhyl	Dominating, violent	Chaotic	Evil	Flames of Vengeance and Strife	June 1st
Sivyana	Towers of Agony	Vengeful, sadistic	Neutral	Evil	Sivyana's Necklace and Augment	May 19th
Marlow	Plane of Nightmare	Manipulator, controller	Lawful	Evil	Daymare into Night	December 24th
Shojar	Azmaen, Heart of Frost	Schemer, warlord	Lawful	Evil	Shojar's Necklace and Augment	December 1st
Enthann	Plane of Valor	Martial, self-improving	Chaotic	Neutral	Enthann's Necklace and Augment	February 9th
Shiritri	Tasineth, Land of Bliss	Whimiscal, emotional	Chaotic	Neutral	Shiritri's Necklace and Augment	March 1st
The Divine Light	None	Worship of the pantheon as a whole	Neutral	Neutral	None	January 15th
Sihala	Plane of Earth	Balancing, systematic	Lawful	Neutral	Instincts and Intentions	September 1st
Malath	Haegra Malath	Orderly, conservative	Lawful	Neutral	Malath's Necklace and Augment	April 3rd
Tarhansar	Caverns of the Deep One	Defender, impulsive	Chaotic	Good	Tides of Blood	April 28th
Jayla	The Grand Library	Builder, rational	Neutral	Good	The High Price of Knowledge	August 7th
Althuna	City of Mercy	Healer, just	Lawful	Good	Roses of Judgement	July 12th

Taldorians will start the game sworn to Malath, Paladins to Althuna and Shadowknights to Marlow. Anyone else will be offered to pick a faith at the Island of Voices in the Sea of Swords. Once you pick a faith, the only way to lose it is by unswearing and becoming a pariah.

Being a pariah will be a legitimate belief and basically represents a distrust of the gods and a belief that mortal beings are better off without them. Once you become a pariah, as before, you will never be able to swear to a God again.

A player sworn to a certain faith can not harm or loot NPCs of that faith. They can not help anyone fighting NPCs of that faith and cannot buff or resurrect anyone of a different faith while on their home plane. If you kill a creature protected by a deity, you will never be able to pledge to that deity.

Anyone who swears to a religion will be given the means to teleport to their home plane, part of the quest Gods and Mortals, with the exception is the Divine Light which has no home plane. Swearing to a deity will make the NPCs of their home plane friendly.

Factions of the Heartland

You will be able to join any faction group, even if your character's alignment is in opposition to the alignment of the faction you are attempting to join. Factions have quests that can be an excellent way to boost alignment with your deity, if chosen appropriately.

Faction	Alignment
Order of the Blackscale	EVIL
Silver Crown Trading Company	LAWFUL
Council of Innovation	GOOD

Specialization bonus

When sworn to the Divine Light or as a Pariah, you will gain a 15% flat bonus to all your specializations. When sworn to a different deity, you will gain a bonus or penalty depending on how in sync your alignment is with that of your deity - if your deity is LAWFUL EVIL, the more lawful and evil points you rack up, the bigger the bonus and the more good and chaotic points you rack up, the bigger the penalty. Paladins, Shadowknights and Taldorians are not in any way special here - their bonuses and penalties work exactly like those of any other worshiper of their pre-chosen deities. This bonus/penalty is between +20 to -20% for all gods of any alignment. However the neutral part matters much less than the non-neutral part does. This is to prevent people from getting a 10%+ bonus right out the door by pledging before they have any real alignment.

If you are completely neutral and completely good and your god is Jayla, then you get:

5% spec for NEUTRAL

15% spec for GOOD

If you were completely lawful and completely good and had Althuna:

10% spec for LAWFUL

10% spec for GOOD

As long as your alignment is NEUTRAL in the area where your god wants you to be NEUTRAL, you will always get the +5% bonus even if you are close to EVIL/GOOD or CHAOTIC/LAWFUL as long as you don't tip over into those areas.

"Completely" means +100 towards either side, not that you only have good or evil points. If you have 150 good and 50 evil points you are +100 to good and "completely" aligned.

The max is 65535; anything more than that and you'd roll over to 0.