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Bad Powers, Good People: An Ardent's mantles have no alignment requirement, so you can absolutely have an Ardent with the Pain, Evil, Destruction, and Death mantles while still being Good-aligned-after all, an Ardent can be intrigued by these concepts without endorsing them.They are restricted to a small number of Mantles that give them their powers. Introduced in Complete Psionic, the Ardent serves as a kind of psionic equivalent to the Cleric, gaining their power through their fascination with specific philosophies and concepts that they choose to study and embody, such as Time and Justice. Of course, since Divine Power is on the Archivist spell list, this usually isn't as big a problem as it could be. Squishy Wizard: A consequence of being Divine Wizards the only divine class with worse combat stats is the Healer.The Smart Guy: Like the Wizard, half the power of his spells comes from Intelligence.Recycled IN SPACE!: They're Divine Wizards, as evidence by them needing Intelligence and prayerbooks to cast divine spells in similar ways to Wizards and their Arcane spells.

Paladins learn Lesser Restoration at first level, you say? Loophole Abuse: A smart Archivist will take heavy advantage of what can be called a divine caster.If your DM is stupid enough to leave a scroll of it lying around, you can conjure up a trio of fiendish hill giants at a level where the wizard's lucky to get one dire wolf. For instance, the Disciple of Thrym prestige class learns Summon Giants, a 8th-level Cleric spell that does exactly what it sounds like, as a 4th-level spell. which you can then copy and use several levels early. Disc-One Nuke: Some casting classes have a slow progression, and learn high-level spells at a lower level than normal.Badass Bookworm: Archivists add spells to their prayerbook from divine scrolls, and can learn any divine spell in the game, giving them the most versatile spell list around.

Awesomeness by Analysis: Dark Knowledge allows an Archivist to make a Knowledge check and instantly divine an advantage against his foe.

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As a full caster, the Archivist is basically always going to be powerful, but how powerful can vary heavily between theory and execution. Most DMs will at least give you domain spells and Druid spells, but the stingiest might not let you go past your core Cleric list, basically making you a lamer Cloistered Cleric.

Awesome, but Impractical: An Archivist can potentially be the most powerful caster in the entire game by scribing scrolls from domain spells, divine variants of arcane classes, and classes that get their spells at earlier levels, but that's dependent on the scrolls you can find or buy.

Their most notable feature is that, while they only automatically gain Cleric spells, any divine scroll can be added. They cast using a prayerbook in which they inscribe countless divine spells, and gain many abilities relating to their esoteric discoveries. Introduced in Heroes of Horror, the Archivist is a kind of mix of Cleric and Wizard, seeking to uncover truth and knowledge at any cost.