This guide assumes that you will have a premium character.
== Followers ==
You need to become a Follower before you can become a Priest and you need to have 1.5+ Body to become any sort of Follower. You also need 1.0+ Alignment to become a Follower of Fo, Magranon or Vynora.
== Champions ==
If you later want to become a Champion you will need to bear in mind that:
* Priests of Libila and Magranon need 25 soul strength to become a champion.
* Priests of Vynora and Fo need 23 soul depth to become a champion.
== Preparation ==
* [[Pickaxe]]
* [[Shovel]]
* [[Wooden Spindle]] and [[Floor Loom]] == Champions == '''Soul strength''' - Soul strength helps defend against offensive spells cast upon you. '''Priests of Libila and Magranon need 25 soul strength to become a champion.'''
'''Soul depth''' - Used by nature and cooking skills. '''Priests of Vynora and Fo need 23 soul depth to become a champion.'''
== Important Skills ==
=== All Priests ===
[[Channeling]], [[Praying]], [[Taming]](not Libila)
Soul Depth based skills are most important though, I assume, that all Soul raising skills are useful.
[[Botanizing]], [[Farming]], [[First Aid]], [[Fishing]], [[Foraging]], [[Forestry]], [[Gardening]], [[Hot Food Cookingfood cooking]], [[Pottery]], [[Tracking]]
[[Masonry]], [[Mining]], [[Paving]], [[Tailoring]]
== Being a Follower ==
You need to raise your Faith to 30 before you can change from Follower to Priest.
The fastest way to do this is to pray 5 times daily at 20 minute intervals. Praying more often will not affect your [[Faith]].
While you are waiting on your Faith to rise, your best use of your time is to concentrate on the appropriate skills listed above.
Bear in mind that Priests are severely limited in what they can do so you may want to postpone becoming a Priest until your Soul Strength is 25 or your Soul Depth is 23 if you know that you want to become a Champion later.
== Being a Priest ==
The most important things to do are to Pray regularly and to raise your Channeling skill.
Channeling is raised by casting spells and benefits from sleep bonus. The fastest way to raise Channeling is to have a large supply of high value items to [[Sacrifice]], especially while you have sleep bonus.
[[Farming]] (not Libila) and making [[Rope]] is one way for priests to help themselves get high value items to sacrifice. It is certainly going to be faster to have village support to make you other high value items, such as jewellery, for you to sacrifice.
If you intend to become a Champion, then, as well as the requirements mentioned above, it is advisable to first raise at least Channeling to 30 (and perhaps all religious skills) since these will all be immediately boosted by +50 to a maximum value of 80.