Here's another one of the few things that I feel might be interesting to lift from the world building that I've done some years ago, it's basically an idea about people who are extremely devoted to their chosen god in a world with multiple deities or have other reasons to give away part of their humanity for divine favor.
Godsayers, living prayers
People have used different forms of prayers as a medium for requesting aid and miracles from their gods since the beginning of religion, and in time these requests have been performed in a variety of ways. Mass prayers, chanting choirs, rituals and different ways of dedicating oneself to your god. Godsayers are one such practice, being individuals who have offered their everything to their deity including their very bodies for them to act through.
Becoming a godsayer would in essence turn one into a living prayer, your body now belonging to your god instead of you so everything you see, hear, feel or say is directly felt and heard by your god. Depending on the religion this might be done for variety of reasons ranging from ensuring there will always be an oracle of god for people to ask for guidance, to being given as an alternative choice for criminals facing death penalty.
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Originally I had designed these godsayers to be a replacement for magic users, being able to talk freely to their god who would almost always be there to listen and thus allow them to perform feats comparable to casting magic. This of course could then have come around to bite the PCs in their backsides if for example the godsayer ever claimed they were lost in wilderness or that it was too dangerous to keep heading forwards as their god might just make those things true.
Looking back at the concept though I nowadays would probably let each religion have maybe one or two godsayers that would be central to the religion, and certainly not as player characters.
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