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Pantheon enhances the RP of a religious character by allowing you to invoke the blessings of deities whose shrines you have visited in your travels. ESL-flagged and includes support for Pilgrim - A Religion Overhaul by Simon Magus and Tate Taylor as well as Wintersun by Enai Siaion.

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Features:
  • ESL flagged, so it does not take a load order slot for SE players.
  • Full compatibility with Pilgrim - a Religion Overhaul.
  • Full compatibility with Wintersun as of Pantheon version 1.1.0.
  • Optional use of MCM Helper and UIExtensions to provide more convenient configuration adjustments and to enhance deity/blessing selection, respectively.
  • A power based config system is used in lieu of MCM Helper if and only if the MCM fails to load, as of version 1.1.0.
  • Interacting with a shrine will add it to a rotating list of the last 9 that you have visited, representing your characters personal pantheon of deities.
  • First interaction with a shrine will grant the lesser power "Invocation", which will allow you to access and renew any one blessing from your current pantheon when used.
  • Interacting with a shrine when your pantheon is already full will simply eject the oldest shrine from the list to make room.

Deity/Blessing Selection:
If you have visited only one shrine, there is no need for any selection. Just use Invocation to begin praying to your god, and when you decide to move and stand back up you will receive the blessing immediately.

Once you have visited more than one shrine, Invocation will provide a glowing spot in front of you while active. Activating it will allow you to change to a different shrine blessing than the most recent received. Deity selection will vary depending on whether or not UIExtensions is installed.
  • With UIExtensions and its dependencies, a list menu will be presented to you to directly select the blessing/deity you want.
  • Without, each time you activate the deity selection, it will instead cycle one "step" through your pantheon, giving a notification of what is currently selected.

In either case, the blessing you have chosen will be applied when you stand back up, same as with single blessing behavior.

Customization:
If MCM Helper by Parapet's and all of its dependencies are installed, then an MCM menu (and corresponding .ini file) is provided to adjust settings for Pantheon.

In this menu you can:
  • Change the maximum number of shrines that Pantheon keeps track of, up to a hard limit of 20.
  • Forcibly disable UIExtension support, if you prefer the "cycling" behavior.
  • If Pilgrim is installed, there are additional options available to hide the "Prayer" power (since Invocation is a complete functional replacement) or sync Pantheons most recent invoked deity with Pilgrims Prayer system, in case any need for that power specifically arises.

Beginning in version 1.1.0, all of the above customization will also be available via a configuration power that is added if and only if the MCM fails to load.

Compatibility:
Pantheon is compatible by default with any mod that adds new shrines and blessings using the vanilla script(s), provided that they do not also modify those scripts in any way. Special notes for specific mods will be tracked below
  • Pilgrim by Simon Magus and Tate Taylor (link): Fully compatible, supported and highly recommended. Load Pantheon after Pilgrim.
  • Wintersun by EnaiSiaion (link): Starting with version 1.1.0 of Pantheon, Wintersun is now also fully supported. Load Pantheon after Wintersun. By default, invoking will change your deity in Wintersun's systems instead of granting the shrine blessing. Also by default, you will resume worship with the favor you previously had when switching back to a deity within your pantheon instead of having to start over. Both of these options can be turned off separately in the configuration menu.
  • Trua by EnaiSiaion(link): Functional as is, with minor user friction. You will have both Pantheon's "Invocation" and Trua's "Pray" powers. Using Invocation will let you switch Trua deity the same way as activating a shrine normally would (and trigger the Trua prayer animation with extra effects if you do so) and will not interfere with any functionality on Trua's end. No ETA on if/when I will make an update to improve this integration, but if I do it will be a save game safe update so there is no need to avoid playing with them installed for now.
  • Follow on your knees for Wintersun (link): Patch in optional files for this functionality. Only relevant if also using Wintersun, of course.
  • Religion by IronDusk33 (link): Incompatible, and no plans to support.
  • Death Consumes All by Anbeegod (link): Incompatible due to an overlapping script edit to the TempleBlessingScript used by shrines. If you absolutely insist on using Pantheon with Death Consumes All, then you can hide/delete that script in your installed copy of DCA, but this will break whatever functionality DCA needed to edit the script for. I have no plans to patch this.

Special thanks:
Simon Magus and Tate Taylor for making Pilgrim - A Religion Overhaul, which directly inspired me to make this mod.
Parapets for making MCM Helper which made it feasible to support convenient configurations for a mod as small as this.