Sanctified spells acquiring them

[mouser13]

How do you play them for wizards and archivist. Searched a bit and seems like some saying you need to learn them the normal way. Others point to line say all prepare casters can prepare and cast Sanctified spells meaning they don't need to be learned in the normal way. Wanted to get others opinion here.

[Saintheart]

Read your BoED, page 83-84. It's set out explicitly there. You don't learn them, you just prepare them in your slots, you can't be evil, and you can't cast them as a spontaneous caster unless from a scroll. They're neither arcane nor divine nor specific to any particular character class, they're arcane if you cast them as a wizard, divine if you cast them as an archivist. They are basically gifts from good gods that do you ability damage at the spell's expiry once you've cast them.

[Psyren]

Read your BoED, page 83-84. It's set out explicitly there. You don't learn them, you just prepare them in your slots, you can't be evil, and you can't cast them as a spontaneous caster unless from a scroll.

I don't think this is quite accurate to the OP's question - the pages you quoted state:


Spellcasters prepare sanctified spells just as they do regular spells, and casters who do not prepare spells (including sorcerers and bards) cannot make use of them except from a scroll.
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Sanctified spells are specific to no character class. They are neither inherently arcane nor divine spells. A divine caster casting a sanctified spell casts it as a divine spell, while an arcane caster casts it as an arcane spell.

While wizards, druids, rangers, and paladins can all prepare sanctified spells, clerics have a special advantage: they can spontaneously cast any sanctified spell, just as they can spontaneously cast cure wounds spells.

I read "Prepare {them} just as they do regular spells" as meaning "Wizards/Archivists still have to get a sanctified spell into their spellbook/prayerbook before they can prepare it, which usually means finding a scroll containing the spell they want and scribing it in." They can't just skip this process to prepare any sanctified spell in the game sight unseen.

Clerics and Druids (and other prepared divine casters like Healers and Paladins) don't have this problem - the gods/divine forces they worship already know every sanctified spell, so all they have to do is pray for them like they would any other spell.

[Thurbane]

Just as an aside, I believe a Sorcerer or Bard can also access Sanctified spells with the Arcane Preparation feat.