Worshipping Gods (Boons & Smiting)

The dungeon’s opt-in religion system, laid out in annotator Sinjin’s margin notes. See a god, temple, or scroll of prayer and you may choose to worship a deity: it grants a few benefits but binds you to fussy daily rules (Sinjin’s ice-goddess Kuraokami demands he touch every corpse with ice once a day). Keep them five days for a random boon; miss days and the god “turns her back,” debuffs you, or casts you out with a 50% chance of being “smote.” Worshipped gods can even message you, and a bored, sponsor-piloted one won’t shut up. Azin’s follow-up note reports that a member of her own party was smote by their god, permanently blinding them. The takeaway, per the annotator Azin: stay the fuck away from gods.

Book 4 appearances

• Chapter 30 — Sinjin’s 15th-edition notes and Azin’s grim follow-up frame the gods’ worship mechanic just as Carl tangles with Emberus.

Related entries

• The Cookbook Annotators (Lore)
• Emberus (Character)
• Mordecai (Character)

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