The Hierophant
A holy creature of grand aspirations, tested by greed. Converts its enemies through benevolence or bribery.
The Hierophant fills the priest archetype, though there is some of trader, moneylender and conquistador in the cards too. Here are the main mechanics:
Piety is a buff you can acquire that decays quickly, but directly impacts the fight; if your Piety exceeds the HP of an enemy at the end of your turn, that enemy is defeated peacefully. It’s possible to beat the entire game through peaceful means, but very difficult without any damage support.
While Piety is great at dispatching multiple weak-minded enemies, Fervor excels at taking down big targets. An alternative to Strength, Fervor is a buff that stacks and grants multiplicative extra damage to your next attack. It fades at end of turn if it’s not used, so you’ll need to make sure it’s not wasted.
The Hierophant manipulates gold through the Hoard and Tithe keywords, that allow you to choose your balance between strategy and tactics. With an entire subtheme of Doubloons and trade, it is possible to build an entire strategy around bribery.
There are many other subthemes and interactions that I hope you’ll enjoy. Have fun!
You can find the Russian translation of the mod at https://github.com/leshless/-rus-theHierophant-StSmod- . Special thanks to Leshless at the StS discord for providing the translation! Unfortunately the mod wasn’t actively supported at the time of this translation so it’s not part of the main Steam package.
Русская версия мода временно недоступна в мастерской из-за отсутствия поддержки перевода. Вы можете найти ее по ссылке: https://github.com/leshless/-rus-theHierophant-StSmod- . Перевод на русский: leshless.
CREDITS: Credit to Jason Nguyen (https://www.artstation.com/jasonn) for the main character illustration, which I adapted and animated. Credit to many artists for their work that I fed into a hungry style transfer AI.
Thanks to the discord #modding channel for their help and testing!
Special thanks to Rita-B at discord for providing the Chinese translation.
Special thanks to Leshless again for the Russian translation.
Also special thanks to Dalamzi for providing the Korean translation.
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BaseMod — Steam Workshop
ModTheSpire — Steam Workshop
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