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Message: <blockquote data-quote="gamerprinter" data-source="post: 6305837" data-attributes="member: 50895">Not knowing what game system you are using, so I'll use Pathfinder for my ideas on this. No cleric? Use oracles instead they tend to fit better as vessels to speak with the spirits and spirit world - as an alternative to actual deities. The witch from PF is an arcane caster with connections to a patron being that could be a great spirit as well. Those two caster classes would be the only such that I might include in your setting, as the closest ones that fit.In the further development of the Kaidan setting of Japanese horror (PFRPG) which I am the creator, developer, and one of the writer/designers for and is published as an imprint under Rite Publishing. One of the ideas we are working on, something to fit the "Shinto" worship niche. Kannushi are it's clerics. Like normal clerics, they possess 2 domains. One never changes, but the other changes based on which particular spirit inhabits a given region. When a cleric (or oracle, which might be better) ventures into a new area, they find what appears to be a holy place and perform a communing ritual to contact the local spirit. Once contact is made there is a period of appeasing this spirit, so that the oracle can empower their spellcasting while in the duration of remaining in that spirits region of control. In shinto, spirits tend to inhabit locales, unique eco-systems - a holy mountain, a special marshland along a river, etc. I think playing a neutral alignment might be best, so you can contact all alignments of spiritual beings and access them for power. To me most spirits aren't generally good or evil, rather more ambivalent where some of their concerns help the good, some help the bad, but neither with intent to promote a particular alignment - rather the moods of such spirits that change. This sounds like the direction you might take.Unfortunately this explanation of changing local spirits is still in development, although it should be finished in development in a few months - so nothing ready to show to expand my explanation above.Edit: something else to look at is Purple Duck Games<a href="http://rpg.drivethrustuff.com/product/113081/Legendary-Classes-Covenant-Magic?term=covenant+magic" target="_blank">  Legendary Classes: Covenant Magic</a>, which features a medium class with very unique abiliities, that might be really well suited to the worship of varying nature spirits - I think it's worth a look. (I have no connection to this product except as a customer, I got it).</blockquote>

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