You have been granted stewardship of a temple, church, or sacred site somewhere in your nation, leading the worshippers who pray there and gaining access to a fraction of the tithes made to your god’s church to do with as you please.

A Congregation grants you access to a number of Worship Actions that you can take during Downtime:

• Prayers — You lead your congregation in prayers, soothing their fears and building a small font of sacred power that you can use to perform more rituals than usual during your time in Veilguard. You generate +1 Stability* in your Congregation’s Province, and you can increase your Ritual Fatigue by +1 for a single day during the next event you attend.
• Missionary — You lead your most devout followers out to an area under attack by cultist forces and attempt to bolster the hearts, minds, and souls of the people living there, protecting them from the insidious corruption of the Old Gods. You generate +1 Stability* in the target Province, and prevent an amount of damage that the cultist forces would do to that Province’s Security or Economy during the coming Round of Downtime equal to one-third of your Congregation’s Level, rounded down.
• Pilgrimage - You put the tithes from the temple to use by taking a pilgrimage to a holy site of your faith, returning with sacred artifacts and a renewed connection to your deity that greatly enhances the faith of your flock. The amount of money and Aether Crystals you gain from your Congregation is reduced to 0, but you generate an amount of Stability* in your Congregation’s Province equal to one-third of your Congregation’s Level, rounded down.

*: Stability reduces the likelihood that a Dread Herald will appear in or move into a given Province.

<aside> 💡 Please note that currently the Strategy Layer is under development, and the effects of Worship Actions on the Strategy Layer are subject to change until those rules are finalized.

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You can perform only one Worship Action during Downtime. You must present a written request to Wheelhouse describing which Worship Action you are taking within 1 month of the end of the event. If you do not, your Congregation performs Prayers automatically.

A Congregation starts at Level 10, and its monetary & resource output can be increased or decreased by changing its Level, whether permanently or temporarily.

You can increase your Congregation’s Level permanently (”upgrading” it) by bringing 5 Luminium, 3 Aether Crystals, and 5 Arachne Silk to Wheelhouse. You can only upgrade your Congregation once per event, and the cost of Upgrading it goes up by +5 Luminium and +5 Arachne Silk for every level your Congregation is above 10.

Some catastrophic events can permanently decrease your Congregation’s level. Repairing the damage caused by such an event requires the expenditure of a flat 5 Luminium and 5 Aether Crystals per level you wish to restore.