Bestow

Bestowing

You will need deity points, the ritual, and the relevant faith skills to put a ritual on a rod.

You will need to find an empty "slot", and bestow the ritual into that slot.

You can only put one copy of each ritual into each rod, and when you bestow it you will attempt to perform it normally, but with a success resulting in that ritual becoming imbued.

Since bestowing costs DP it cannot be done by excommunicated priests.

The different types of rod have affinities that suit some ritual types more than others (see Faith rods). It is much harder to bestow a ritual into a rod if it has a poor affinity for it.

Bestowal Cost

This list is gives the cost to "bestow" a ritual after using Divine Guard or Divine Sentinel.

Bestowing rituals on a best affinity baton costs as much gp as the ritual's base cost.

Note: the GP cost for bestowing a faith rod or performing a ritual is affected by environment modifiers. Bestowing a ward is not affected. When testing for the performance cost, please do so with neutral modifiers.

The data for the following table is very old and really needs to be rechecked.

Ritual or Command	GP cost	Bestowal Cost
Agoraphobia	90
Artefact Inquisition	20
Bestow - Command		90
Bless (+1 stats)	70	45
Blight	75	70
Breath Underwater	20	110
Calm	25
Celestial Anchor	120
Chant (group calm)	70	50
Clarify (read)	60
Cool	35
Creeping Doom	90
Cure Drunkenness	60
Cure Knurdness	60
Cure Light Wounds	20	30
Cure Medium Wounds	30
Cure Serious Wounds	45	135
Dark Sight	15
Demoralise	10	30
Detect Alignment	20	70
Detect Magic	25
Devout Inquisition (check on the deity pool)	15
Divine Guard (minor ward)	120
Divine Hand (passage)	100	200
Divine Sentinel (major ward)	170
Dust Devil	50	120
Endless Halls	100	60 or 200?
Far Sight (see a remembered place)	30	55
Fear	70
Feedback	135
Find	45
Find Corpse	30	20
Food of Life	70
Fumble	120
Great Stasis (trap)	(2 for 150 gp)	90
Haunting	40	90
Heal	70	10
Holy Aegis (like major shield)	80
Holy Couturequisition	90
Holy Insight	60
Holy Sacrifice	55
Holy Sanctuary	70	180
Holy Weapon	90
Horror	135
Life of the Party	140
Light	20
Longsight	45	35
Lost Highways	55
Major Shield	120
Meditate - Command at Altar	100
Mend	30
Minor Shield	90
Odiferous Wrath	50
Paralysis	115
Parasitic Vision	20
Parch (dry)	20
Piscatorial Patulous	80
Pray - Command	388
Profound Darkness	70
Rage	65
Raise Dead (loose xp)	106	70
Raise Dead Pet	24	110
Relief (give gp)	24	24
Remember Place	40
Restore (reset stats)	150	135
Resurrect (returns xp)	270	30
Sacred Fins	50
Scour - Command		40
Searing Touch	100	80
Security Blanket	155	150
See Alignment	120	45
See Consecration	50	90
Silence	70	55
Soothe (remove beserk)	110	120
Soothing Rain	90	40
Sotto Voce	110	135
Sparkling Shelter	120
Splash (wet)	30	20
Stasis	120	70
Summon Fluff	25
Terror	110	55
Tongues	70
Totem	30	n/a
Turn Undead	150	90
Unquiet Spirit	120	20
Unwilling Host	70	150
Ventisepelate - Command	50	45
Visions	80	30
Visit	100	25
Warm	35	45
Weft Warping	90	135
Withering Touch	35	60
Wrath	90	25

See Also

Faith rod - Information about faith rods in general.

Faith rods - List of available faith rods and their affinities.

External links

• Discworld known command help: Bestow
• DWPriests: Bestow