Cleric Domains — Divine Spheres & Sacred Powers
At a Glance
| Choose Your Domain | Follow a sphere that expresses your cleric’s faith: healing, war, knowledge, the natural world or another divine power. |
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| Choose Your Rules | Open the matching edition section: D&D 5.5e/2024, D&D 5e/2014, Pathfinder 1e or D&D 3.5e. |
| Choose Your Deity | Explore the associated deities below, then check your deity’s domain choices and your campaign’s rules. |
| Domain Spells & Powers | Each domain’s page gives its available spells, powers and requirements. Use one edition’s rules throughout. |
A domain is a sacred sphere of power: the storm a priest calls down, the wound they close, the secret they uncover or the threshold they guard. It shapes both the magic a cleric commands and the duties their faith places upon them.
Find a Domain for Your Cleric
- War — martial faith and the demands of battle.
- Protection — guardianship, sanctuary and defence.
- Community — kinship, cooperation and shared strength.
- Plant — sacred groves, growing things and the green world.
- Knowledge — learning, memory and hidden truths.
- Liberation — freedom and resistance to oppression.
Domain Directory
Browse domains alphabetically and follow their associated deities. Availability varies by edition; check the domain’s rules before choosing it.
A–C · 26 domains
D–F · 19 domains
| Domain | Associated Deities |
|---|---|
| Darkness | Erebus, Graz’zt, Hades, Morpheus, Nyx |
| Death | Anubis, Aegir, Hades, Hel, Nidhogg, Persephone, Thanatos |
| Demonic | Demogorgon, Graz'zt, Yeenoghu |
| Denial | Vesta, Hestia |
| Desert | No deity currently assigned |
| Destiny | Raum |
| Destruction | Aegir, Apep, Loki, Nidhogg, Skadi, Thrym, Ares, Poseidon, Tefnut, Wepwawet |
| Devil | Beelzebub |
| Diabolic | Asmodeus, Baalzebul, Mammon, Mephistopheles |
| Domination | Leviathan |
| Dragon | Bahamut, Tiamat |
| Earth | Geb, Hades, Skadi |
| Eloquence | Mnemosyne, Ipos |
| Equines | Epona, Freyr |
| Evil | Apep, Ares, Beelzebub, Eris, Hel, Hecate, Nidhogg, Nyx, Sobek, Thanatos, Thrym |
| Fertility | Freyr |
| Fire | Apep, Hephaestus, Loki, Odur, Prometheus, Wepwawet |
| Flow | Manannan Mac Lir |
| Fur | Artemis |
G–L · 23 domains
| Domain | Associated Deities |
|---|---|
| Glory | Victoria, Sol Invictus |
| Good | Daghdha, Enlil, Heimdall, Prometheus, Selene, Shu, Tefnut, Thor, Tyr |
| Greed | Mammon |
| Hatred | Eris, Cronus |
| Healing | Apollo |
| Heaven | Zeus |
| Herald of the Sea | Amphitrite, Poseidon, Tethys |
| Hunger | Yeenoghu |
| Imbolc (Protection) | Arawn, Brigid |
| Influence | Oghma, Arianrhod |
| Inquisition | Tyr |
| Isolation | Uranus |
| Joining | Eros |
| Joy | — |
| Justice | Forseti |
| Knowledge | Apollo, Athena, Cairbre, Cronus, Demeter, Hera, Odin, Tyr, Hecate, Nyx, Prometheus, Ptah, Thanatos, Thoth |
| Law | Arawn, Athena, Forseti, Tyr, Hera, Nike, Persephone, Ptah, Shu |
| Liberation | — |
| Light | Balder, Eros |
| Litha (Fire) | Brigid |
| Lore | Cairbre |
| Love | Aphrodite, Freya, Arianrhod |
| Luck | Hermes, Tyche |
M–P · 20 domains
| Domain | Associated Deities |
|---|---|
| Madness | Dionysus, Eris |
| Magic | Freya, Hecate, Odin, Thoth |
| Marriage | Hera, Frigga |
| Metallurgy | Goibhniu |
| Mind | — |
| Moon | Artemis, Diana, Hecate, Luna, Arianrhod, Selene |
| Murder | Set |
| Music | Apollo, Balder, Dionysus, Mnemosyne, Pan |
| Mutation | — |
| Night | Erebus, Hecate |
| Nobility | Enlil, Nike, Zeus |
| Ocean | Amphitrite, Oceanus, Poseidon |
| Ostara (Healing) | Brigid |
| Pact | — |
| Pain | Loviatar, Nidhogg |
| Perversion | — |
| Plant | Artemis, Dionysus, Freyr, Demeter |
| Pleasure | Eros |
| Protection | Forseti, Heimdall, Inanna/Ishtar, Hestia, Prometheus, Rhea, Sif, Selene, Tyche, Wepwawet |
| Purification | — |
Q–S · 15 domains
| Domain | Associated Deities |
|---|---|
| Rage | — |
| Renewal | Arawn, Inanna/Ishtar |
| Repose | Anubis |
| Retribution | Horus, Loviatar, Osiris, Tyr, Hera |
| Revelry | Pan |
| Rune | — |
| Samhain (Death) | Arawn |
| Sand | Apep |
| Satire | Cairbre |
| Scalykind | Apep, Sobek |
| Sea | Njord, Poseidon |
| Seafolk | Poseidon |
| Set's Blood | — |
| Strength | Aegir, Amon, Skadi, Zeus |
| Sun | Amon, Apollo, Odur |
T–Z · 17 domains
| Domain | Associated Deities |
|---|---|
| Time | Thoth |
| Trade | Nephthys, Hermes |
| Travel | Cairbre, Hecate, Njord, Odin, Ullr, Hermes, Ptah, Selene, Tyche |
| Trickery | Eris, Hecate, Loki, Odin, Hermes |
| Underworld | Hades, Persephone |
| Venom | — |
| Vigilance | Heimdall |
| Void | Uranus |
| Voyeur | Alpheus |
| War | Ares, Athena, Enlil, Eris, Inanna/Ishtar, Odin, Sif, Thor, Thrym, Tyr, Nike, Wepwawet |
| Water | Aegir, Alpheus, Poseidon, Sobek, Tefnut, Tethys |
| Weather | Athena, Freyr, Shu, Thor, Zeus |
| Wind | Amon, Njord |
| Windstorm | Bahamut, Tefnut |
| Wine | Dionysus |
| Winter | Uller |
| Wrath | Tyr |
Other Divine Spell Collections
Using Domains in Play
Use the features, spell lists and level progression from the edition you are playing. A familiar domain name can have different powers in another ruleset. Official rules, playtest options and adaptations are identified where they appear on the individual domain pages.
Pathfinder subdomains refine an associated domain by replacing specified powers and spells. Apply those replacements within Pathfinder 1e; use the separate rules provided for other editions.
Sources & Licensing
Each domain page includes the sources and licensing for its own rules. Consult those references alongside the matching cleric class rules when building your character.
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