A lot of high-power magical classes for Cloak-and-Sword have been released lately. I mean, I'm certainly not blameless with my Fay. So, I wanted to write up a contrast, something more down to earth, more human.
Beguine
Start with: the grey habit of your order, herbs and medicines, weaving supplies, a book of prayers, a stout staff.
Sisters
You are part of an informal religious order of women of all ages and classes, sworn to frugality, chastity, and mutual aid. You are free of the obligations and expectations of domestic life expected of most women. However, unlike a nun, your vows are not binding; you are not expected to give up your former worldly possessions, and you may return to the paces of secular life at any time. Whenever you need shelter, minor favors, or someone to talk to, you have the aid of your fellow sisters, as well as the Beghards, the less-significant but similarly-sworn order of men; there are usually at least one or two others in every populous town and city.
Cloth
Due to the grey zone between secularity and sacredness that you dwell in, you get -2 reaction and are viewed with suspicion by church and government officials and misogynists. However, due to your work, you get +2 reaction with the poor, the sick, the pregnant, and the dying.
Hand
You are proficient in a trade from your former life. If you ever abandon your vows, you may return to it.
Staff
You are proficient in the healing of sickness and injuries. Childbirth which you midwife for is always safe for both mother and child. Deaths which you minister for are always peaceful, and the body may not be raised as undead by mortal power. You are completely immune to leprosy, and have +2 to save against all other infectious diseases besides plague.
Bowl
Food you serve is always filling, and staves off hypothermia for the next twelve hours.
Book
While you have not taken binding vows, while praying aloud you count as of the cloth for the purpose of warding off devils and fairies and so on.
Sash
People mock the chaste, but you have known intimacy in the divine that mortal hands can never provide. You are immune to being charmed, feared, or esprited by mortal sources.
Nothing
Most Beguines are content to remain charity works, living relatively independent lives for women. But light shines through the cracks. If you fast for a month, remain in a single room for a year, or return from the edge of certain death, then you may choose to simplify your soul. From henceforth, you are of the cloth. You are always simultaneously charmed, afeared, and esprited by the Divine, and immune to all other mental effects. You may subsist off nothing but water. You are immune to extreme heat, extreme cold, disease, drowning, bleeding, and pain. You have -2 to reaction rolls from everyone who isn't poor, sick, pregnant, or dying. Reaction rolls of 2-10 with church officials count as a 2 (open hostility, accusations of heresy), and rolls of 11-12 count as a 5 (open suspicion, the most fragile begrudging tolerance of presence). When you die, your body will turn to light, and then nothing.
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