It presents additional base classes, prestige classes, and feats. It also contains additional rules and character ideas based on belief and the afterlife, as well as a chapter on magic items based on the
original D&D pantheon gods and goddesses.
New base classes Shugenja Updated from
Oriental Adventures, the shugenja utilizes primal energies, and tapping into the earth to cast spells. It is a charisma based sorcerer-style divine casting class, with a spell list biased towards elemental spells.
Favored Soul Updated from the
Miniatures Handbook, the
Favored Soul is a spontaneously casting divine class, with a couple of additional divine abilities closely tied to his or her deity.
Spirit Shaman The class has a fairly narrow divine spell selection. The spirit shaman cast spells as
sorcerers do, but they change their spell selection each day by sending their Spirit Guide into the spirit world. The shaman also has a special abilities that affect spirits (incorporeal undead, fey, elementals and creatures defined as spirits in other texts). The Spirit Guide is a purely mental/spiritual creature, incapable of affecting the world, though it does grant the spirit shaman the feat, "Alertness", as well as justifying certain class features. Ultimately, at 20th level, the spirit shaman becomes a spirit (fey) himself, much as a 20th level monk becomes an outsider.
New prestige classes These include church inquisitor, consecrated harrier, contemplative, divine oracle, holy liberator, hospitaler, pious templar, sacred exorcist, sacred fist and warpriest (
Defenders of the Faith), blighter and geomancer (
Masters of the Wild), temple raider of Olidammara (
Song and Silence), void disciple (
Oriental Adventures), ur-priests (
Book of Vile Darkness), stormlord (
Faiths and Pantheons), radiant servant of
Pelor and shining blade of
Heironeous. In addition, there are several previously undescribed prestige classes.
Black flame zealot A class that combines a
hashisheen cult with the Arabic view of
Zoroastrian fire worship, but one which isn't automatically evil.
Divine crusader A class for holy warriors dedicated to a single specific deity
Entropomancer A class that worships oblivion and has the ability to summon fragments of a sphere of annihilation.
Evangelist The only five-level class in the book, designed for converting enemies rather than killing them.
Rainbow servant A class of divine or arcane spellcasters trained by
couatls to have similar abilities to the creatures.
Seeker of the misty isle A class open only to elves and closely tied to their in-game mythologies. ==Publication history==