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🏛️ OVERVIEW

During character creation, a Cleric taking a divine Bounded Foundation selects 1 Major Domain.

Your Major Domain serves three distinct purposes:

1. Thematic Touchstone: It defines the visual signature, sensory details, and narrative impact of your spells and miracles.
2. Channeling Perk: It grants a unique passive or reactive mechanical feature that triggers during high-stakes scenes.
3. Bond Alignment: Actions taken that directly honor, spread, or protect your Major Domain tick your Bounded Track toward Divine Accord (+1 to +3).

MAJOR DOMAIN DIRECTORY

1. 🌿 Life & Renewal

• The Ethos: Creation, growth, endurance, and the sacred sanctity of mortal vitality.
• Visual Signature: Soothing green or golden light, blooming flora, warmth beneath the skin, the smell of spring rain.
• Channeling Perk — Breath of the Living: > Whenever you spend a Bond Point to clear a Mark on an ally, you may also allow that ally to immediately recover 1 Morale or Endurance die if they are currently at 0.

2. ⚔️ War & Retribution

• The Ethos: Martial triumph, righteous fury, holy vengeance, and standing firm against overwhelming odds.
• Visual Signature: Searing crimson or bronze radiance, the ringing of iron, smell of ozone and steel, phantom war horns.
• Channeling Perk — Righteous Counter: > Whenever an adversary inflicts Harm or a Mark on an ally in your presence, your next action roll against that adversary gains a +1d8 Action Die.

3. 🛡️ Protection & Sanctuary

• The Ethos: Defense of the helpless, unbreakable barriers, guardianship, and the preservation of sacred spaces.
• Visual Signature: Translucent rune-carved shields, solid silver light, hushed echoes, physical weight against blows.
• Channeling Perk — Aegis Interposition: > You can perform an Interrupt Action (using Conviction or Harmony) to interpose your body, holy symbol, or shield in front of an ally within arm's reach, taking a Mark intended for them onto your own sheet instead.

4. ⚡ Storm & Tempest

• The Ethos: The raw, unbridled power of nature—lightning, roaring winds, crashing waves, and swift judgment.
• Visual Signature: Crackling arc-lightning, howling gales, static charged air, thunderous booms that rattle stone.
• Channeling Perk — Concussive Flare: > Whenever you achieve a Clean Outcome (8) or Critical Success (8, 8) on a divine check, wind or thunder flares out from your presence—automatically knocking back small threats or clearing physical environmental hazards in your zone.

5. 💀 Death & Shadows

• The Ethos: The natural transition of souls, the honor of the quiet grave, whispering shadows, and ending unnatural rot.
• Visual Signature: Pale moonlight, chilling mists, quiet whispers, shadow-draped robes, scent of dried lilies and soil.
• Channeling Perk — Grave Interrogation: > You inherently sense the presence and cause of death of any nearby corpse. Additionally, you can spend 1 Bond Point to compel a recently deceased spirit to answer one direct question truthfully.

6. ☀️ Sun & Truth

• The Ethos: Absolute illumination, revelation, purity, purging corruption, and burning away falsehoods.
• Visual Signature: Searing golden sunlight, blinding radiance, rising heat, clear bell tones.
• Channeling Perk — Unmasking Light: > You can emit true, warm sunlight at will as an At-Will Cantrip. Furthermore, any creature or adversary attempting to lie, deceive, or maintain an illusion in your direct presence adds +1 d6 Pressure Die to their check.

7. ⚖️ Judgment & Order

• The Ethos: Inviolable contracts, universal law, balance, justice, and the punishment of oath-breakers.
• Visual Signature: Geometric glowing chains, golden scales floating overhead, cold echoing gavel strikes, blinding white script.
• Channeling Perk — Inviolable Edict: > When an adversary within sight attempts to break a promise, defy a legal decree, or target a designated protected ally, you can force them to take 1 d6 Pressure Die on their action.

8. 🛠️ Forge & Innovation

• The Ethos: Craftsmanship, creation, fire, industry, physical resilience, and the mastery of raw materials.
• Visual Signature: Dancing embers, the smell of coal and molten iron, golden heat, rhythmic hammer strikes.
• Channeling Perk — Master’s Temper: > You can instantly reinforce a piece of armor, weapon, or gear in the scene. Once per scene, when an ally's gear would break or take structural harm, you can spend 1 Bond Point to render it completely immune to that damage.

9. 🌊 Tides & The Unseen Deep

• The Ethos: Fluidity, transformation, mysterious depths, emotional waves, and the unseen currents of fate.
• Visual Signature: Shimmering azure light, crashing surf, the smell of brine and sea-salt, dark swirling waters.
• Channeling Perk — Fluid Evasion: > You and adjacent allies ignore terrain-based Pressure dice caused by liquid, mud, ice, or slippery footing. When shifting your Bounded Track, you may move 1 additional step if you are near a natural body of water.

10. 🌌 Void & Astral Mysteries

• The Ethos: Cosmic geometry, secret knowledge, the expanse between stars, fate, and forbidden cosmic truths.
• Visual Signature: Starlight pinpricks floating in darkness, deep indigo auras, distorted gravity, silence.
• Channeling Perk — Starlight Revelation: > When making an action roll using Revelation or Ingenuity to discern hidden magic, ancient traps, or secret doors, convert a Grim Outcome (2–5) directly into a Mixed Outcome (6–7).

🛠️ CUSTOMIZING DOMAINS FOR PLAYTESTS

If a player wants to create a unique god or pantheon concept not covered by these 10 core domains, use this template:

[ DOMAIN NAME ]
- Ethos: (1 sentence description of what the god stands for)
- Visual Signature: (3-4 sensory descriptions for spell flavor)
- Channeling Perk: (1 situational passive feature or reaction that interacts with Action d8s, Pressure d6s, Marks, or Bond Points)