Equipment

You start with the following equipment, in addition to the equipment granted by your background:

• (a) a scale mail or (b) leather armor
• (a) a martial melee weapon and a shield or (b) a longbow and 20 arrows.
• (a) a scholar's pack or (b) a dungeoneer's pack
• (a) a light crossbow and 20 bolts or (b) two simple melee weapons.
• a component pouch and embalming tools

Death Brands

At 1st level, you skin is marked with a Deathbrand, the symbol of your new path. This Deathbrand contains bits of necromantic power, and grants you new and strange abilities. You have 1 deathbrand, and gain more as you reach higher levels, as shown in the Deathbrand column of the Inquisitor table. You can never have more Deathbrands than shown on the table for your level. As a bonus action, you can choose to sacrifice a spell slot of a certain level in order to gain a number of Deathbrands equal to the spell level. For example, if you sacrifice a 2nd-level spell slot, you regain 2 Deathbrands. You regain all spent Deathbrands when you finish a long rest. You use your Deathbrands to activate and empower different class abilities.

You can also use your Deathbrands to detect the presence of necromantic activity in the area. As an action, you can expend 1 Deathbrand and open your awareness, detecting such magic. Until the end of your turn, you know the location of any undead within 60 feet of you that is not behind total cover. You know the subtype (vampire, zombie, skeleton, wraith, etc) of any being whose presence you sense, but not its identity. Within the same radius, you also detect the presence of any creature, object or place that bears necromantic magic, and you automatically knows the name of any necromantic spell used on that creature, object or place in the last minute.

Judgments

Starting at 1st level, an inquisitor can pronounce judgment upon their foes. As a bonus action, you expend one of your Deathbrands and activate a judgment. Starting when the judgment is made, the inquisitor receives a bonus or special ability based on the type of judgment made. Once activated, this ability lasts for 1 minute, at which point all the bonuses immediately ends. The inquisitor must participate in combat to gain these bonuses. If they are frightened, incapacitated, paralyzed, petrified, stunned or unconscious or otherwise prevented from participation on combat, the ability does not end, but the bonuses do not resume until they can participate in the combat again. When the inquisitor uses this ability, they must select one type of judgment to make. As a bonus action, they can change this judgment to another type, ending the effects of the previous judgment. Each judgment is detailed at the end of this class description.

You can use this feature once. You regain expended uses when you finish a long rest. Beginning at 6th level, you can use your Judgment twice between rests, at 11th level you can use it thrice between rests, and at 17th level, you can use it four times between rests.

Fighting Style

At 2nd level, you adopt a style of fighting as your specialty. Choose one of the following options. You can't take a Fighting Style option more than once, even if you later get to choose again.

Spellcasting

By the time you reach 2nd level, you have learned to use the necromantic essence of your Deathbrands and your the power of your will to cast spells. See chapter 10 of the PHB for the general rules of spellcasting. You can find the list of Inquisitor spells at the end of this class description.

Spellcasting Ability

Wisdom is your spellcasting ability for your ranger spells, since your magic draws on the power of your own will and your attunement to necromantic energies. You use your Wisdom whenever a spell refers to your spellcasting ability. In addition, you use your Wisdom modifier when setting the saving throw DC for an inquisitor spell you cast and when making an attack roll with one.

Cult of the Hexenwerk

Hexenwerk, a Northumbreisen word that can be roughly translated to the Common tongue as "witchcraft", is an occult and, for many, sacrilegious practice, that involves the creations of special ointments, used to aid the inquisitor in any activity it may partake. This strange form of alchemy was rediscovered in the gloomy lands of Northumbreisen, when Undertakers started using the parts of their undead preys in order to create concoctions and potions that helped them when they were hunting down dead aberrations. This lead to unearthing of ancient knowledge, and various recipes were found.

Hexene (hexe in singular) are see with strange and suspicious eyes, even by other inquisitors, because of the gruesome of their work, and the easy temptation of using this kind of powers in order to pursuit malicious goals. Also, there's a little secret. The body parts of a hexe works wonders as ingredients for the ointments. So it is not weird that many evil hexene hunts their own to harvest these valuable ingredients.

Discovery

Starting at 7th level, your constant studies in alchemy makes you discover new secrets. Select a discovery from the discovery list below. Unless otherwise noted, you cannot select an individual discovery more than once. When you reach the 9th, 13th and 17th level, you learn a new discovery, and can choose to change one that you already know for a new one. A list of discoveries presented in alphabetical order are presented below.

Bitter Blood. Whenever a creature makes a melee weapon attack against you using natural weapons, it is forced to make a Constitution saving throw (DC equal 8 + your proficiency modifier + your Constitution modifier). On a failed save, the creature is poisoned.

Eldritch Secrets. You learn one cantrip of your choice from any spell list.

Extended Effects. For a number of days equal to your Intelligence modifier, you can cause any potion you drink that does not have instantaneous duration to function at twice its normal duration. This doesn't apply to Ointments.

Feral Instincts. You gain a natural weapon in the form of a bite attack. It is an unarmed strike that deals piercing damage equal to 1d6 + your Strength modifier, instead of the bludgeoning damage normal for an unarmed strike.

Glowing Vision. You gain darkvision up to 60 feet. You can see in both mundane and magical darkness.

Hunger of the Below. You gain a prehensile, arm-length tentacle on your body. The tentacle is fully under your control and cannot be concealed except with magic or bulky clothing. The tentacle does not give you any extra attacks or actions per round, though you can use it to make a tentacle attack (unarmed strike; if it hits, the target is Grappled). The tentacle can manipulate or hold items as well as the yours original arms can (for example, allowing you to use one hand to wield a weapon, the tentacle to hold a potion, and the third hand to hold a shield). The tentacle can't use or benefit from any magical item.

Resilient Physiology

At 11th level, your body has begun to adapt to the toxins and noxious substances that you manipulate. You gain immunity to diseases and poison damage, and the poisoned condition.

Grand Discovery

At 15th level, you make a grand discovery, that represents a truly astounding alchemical breakthrough of significant import. For many hexene, the promise of one of these grand discoveries is the primary goal of their experiments and hard work. You choose two grand discoveries from the list below, presented in alphabetical order:

Awakened Intellect. You gain advantage on all Intelligence checks and saving throws.

Essence of Life. You discovered a cure for aging, and from this point forward you take no penalty to your physical ability scores from advanced age. If the you are already taking such penalties, they are removed at this time.

Irresistible Personality. You gain advantage on all Charisma checks and saving throws.

Lighting Reflexes. You gain advantage on all Dexterity checks and saving throws.

Outstanding Sagacity. You gain advantage on all Wisdom checks and saving throws.

Perfect Body. You gain advantage on all Constitution checks and saving throws.

Perfect Senses. You gain immunity to the blindness and deafness condition.

Piercing Strike. Your attacks score a critical hit on a roll of 19-20.

Touch of the Aether. Ethereal wings grow on your back, giving you a flying speed of 20 feet.

Unbreakable Body. You gain resistance to bludgeoning, piercing and slashing damage.

Unstoppable Force. You gain advantage on all Strength checks and saving throws.

Ointments

These ointments are divided in two types (minor and mayor) and presented in alphabetical order. The materials described for each one are mostly flavor. For the sake of simplicity, you can ignore them and use the following rule instead: for Minor Ointments, the price for the ingredients is 10 gp, except for Fury of the Patriarch and Scourge of Perdition (both 50 gp) and Tear of the Gods and Veil of the Weeping Widow (both 70 gp); and for Mayor Ointments, the cost is 100 gp.

Blade of Winter

As an action, you can smash this jar of ointment in your hand, forming a ice sword with an impossible thin and sharp blade. As part of the same action, you can make a single melee weapon attack against an undead creature. If the attack hits, the blade is destroyed, and the creature is stunned until the end of its next turn.

Ingredients. Holy water, a rose stem with thorns, and a couple of drops of hexe blood (it can be your blood).

Compassion of the Mother

As an action, you can drink this ointment to remove a minor curse, disease, or the poisoned condition. An undead creature that drinks this ointment becomes poisoned instead.

Ingredients. A dense soup of wild vegetables and holy water.

Fury of the Patriarch

You can use your whole turn to stab with this stake an undead creature that is unconscious. The body is destroyed and the creature can't go back to life.

Ingredients. A stake of sacred wood, smeared with a puree made of herbs and natural poisons and then blessed by a cleric of the Light or Life domain.

Laugh of the Spring Fairies

As an action, you can consume this ointment. Until the end of your next turn, you gain advantage on saving throws against the frightened condition.

Ingredients. Fresh spring flowers, tree sap and rain water mixed with dense syrup.

Malediction of the Grim

As a bonus action, you can apply this ointment to a weapon you are holding. If your next attack hits a creature, the creature has disadvantage on its next attack. If that creature is an undead, it suffers disadvantage on its next ability checks and saving throw, too.

Ingredients. A corrosive mixture of natural poisons sprinkled with pure silver shavings.

Phantasmal Poison

As a bonus action, you can apply this ointment to a weapon you are holding. If your next attack hits a creature, you ignore the damage resistances of the creature, and trait its damage immunities as resistances. If that creatures is an undead, you ignore all resistances and immunities.

Ingredients. A mixture of potents poisons of natural creatures, like black widows or cobras.

Red Temptation

As an action, you can apply this ointment to your body. Any undead that makes an attack against a target other than you needs to pass a Wisdom saving throw against your spell save DC. If the save fails, the creature needs to select you as a target or the attack is lost. This effect lasts until the end of the next round.

Ingredients. Rotten meat and berries, boiled together with roots and spicy herbs.

Scourge of Perdition

As a bonus action, you can apply this ointment to a weapon you are holding. If your next attack hits a creature, that creature can't use any special ability it may have until the end of its next turn. If that creature is an undead, it can't also take the attack action until the end of its next turn.

Smile of the Sun

You can apply this ointment as an action. You remove one negative condition provoked by undead creatures.

Ingredients. A poultice made from the water of a fast stream and very sweet and cloying herbs.

Tears of the Gods

You can use your whole turn to apply this ointment to a recently dead body. That body cannot be raised as an undead for the next seven years.

Ingredients. A viscous substance made with anointing oil and rare spices.

Veil of the Weeping Widow

As an action, you can apply this ointment to your skin. The next time an undead creature hits you with an attack, you can reduce the damage of that attack to 0 as a reaction. Once you have reduced the damage to 0 points, or 8 hours pass since you applied the ointment, this ointment is destroyed.

Ingredients. A withered chrysanthemum collected from a tomb, washed with holy water and then blessed by a cleric of the Grave domain.

Dead Man's Blood

If an undead inserts this ointment to its body (by injecting it, consuming it, etc) the creature becomes unconscious for 1 minute. Keep in mind that a big quantity needs to be consume to be effective, it is not worthy apply it to a weapon and attack with it.

Ingredients. A mixture of blood from a recent corpse and various herbs, poisons, roots and other similar things.

Eyes of the Specter

As an action, you can smear the outline of your eyes with this ointment, and gain the capacity to see spirits, ghosts and other similar monsters that normally would be invisible. You gain truesight up to 30 feet for 1 hour, or until you end it using a bonus action.

Ingredients. Eyes ripped from a recent dead, mixed with holy water and mandrake.

Funerary Porridges

A humanoid that eats this ointment needs to succeed on a DC 15 Constitution saving throw or suffers 4d10 necrotic damage, halving the damage on a successful save. If the humanoid dies the same day it ingested the Funerary Porridges, it raise as a zombie under your control for 8 hours (your DM should have the stats). Once the 8 hours pass, the zombie crumbles and turn to ashes. Take in account that utilizing this ointment is considered evil by many.

Ingredients. A kidney and a liver of a corpse crushed to get lumpy gruel and mixed with poisons and powerful sedatives.

Incorporeal Stride

As an action, you can consume this ointment and automatically falls unconscious. At the start of your next turn, a spiritual manifestation of yourself appears next to you. You have a chord that binds you to your material body, that extends from your back and trails behind you, fading to invisibility after 1 foot. This cord is your tether to your material body. If the cord is cut, you die instantly.

In spiritual form, you can move through objects and creatures, and can not be detected expect for effects and abilities that can detect invisible creatures. Your spiritual form have your same game statics that you have, including hit points and AC, but can't wield weapons or objects and cast spells. You take 1d10 force damage if you end your turn inside an object. Your spiritual form also has immunity to cold, necrotic and non-magical piercing, slashing and bludgeoning damage.

If your spiritual form dies, it returns to your body, and you are stunned until the end of your next turn. You die if you don't come back to your material body before the next dawn or dusk (whatever happens first), or if your spiritual form is destroyed and can't come back to your body (for example, if your body is in another plane).

Ingredients. The heart of a humanoid milled and mixed with herbs and sedatives.

Soul Jail

You take 10 minutes to draw a figure (a circle, a square, a pentagram or any other closed figure) using this ointment, with a 30-foot radius. While the figure stays intact and closed, no undead can't cross it or affect any creature that is within the figure. No undead can break the line (by erasing it, breaking the surface where it is drawn, etc), but any other creature can. A Dispel Magic spell and similar effects can dispel the figure. Treat this effect as a 6th-level spell to establish the spell effectiveness. The figure lasts until it is dispelled or break in any way.

Ingredients. Moss from a tombstone or from a mausoleum, boiled and melted, mixed with salt and bones until a dense, sticky paste is obtained.

Cult of the Mortice Master

Although the inquisitors started as undead slayers, some of them realized that with enough training, mental fortitude, and the mastery of the necromantic arts, they could overpowered some of them and put them under their control. The Mortice Masters are known to be followed always by a certain cold mist, that makes everyone feels shivers. They like to wander near haunted or desecrated places, where the restless spirits of the dead can be found. This kind of inquisitors learned that the incorporeal undead are easier to control, and more subtle than a rotting corpse walking at your side.

Mortice Masters and Undertakers don't see each other eye to eye, mainly because the Undertakers have a strong conviction that all undead should be destroyed, no matter their usefulness.

Judgment of Binding

When you choose this cult at 3rd level, you gain a new judgment option.

Judgment of Binding. The inquisitor chains the soul of a creature no more than one size larger than they within 30 feet. The target must succeed on a Strength saving throw against your spell save DC or be restrained until the end of its next turn. Regardless of whether or not the save is made, the target creature is immune to the inquisitor’s Judgment of Binding for 24 hours.

Incorporeal Companion

At 3rd level, you learn to use your magic to create a powerful bond with a wandering spirit of a dead creature.

With 8 hours of work and the expenditure of 50 gp worth of rare incense, body parts and special candles, you call forth a restless spirit, to bind it to your will. You normally select a companion from among the following list: a shadow, an specter, or a will-o'-wisp. However, your DM might pick one of these creatures for you, based on your background and general terrain surrounding you.

At the end of 8 hours, the incorporeal creature you selected appears in front of you. You immediately need to expend an use of your Deathbrands feature within the next round. Then, the creature needs to make a Wisdom saving throw against your spell save DC. If the creature succeeds this save, or you are unable to expend a Deathbrand, the creature turns hostile and attacks you. If the creature fails the save, it is under your complete control, and gains all the benefits of the Companion's Bond ability. You can have only one incorporeal companion at a time.

Companion's Bond

Your incorporeal companion gains a variety of benefits while it is linked to you.

Their alignment changes to unaligned.

They loose any damage immunity and resistance they would have.

They loose any ability or hit point reduction effect that they may have in their attacks. Their damage dice also changes, to 2d4 of the type of damage dealt with that attack. For example, the Shadow's Strength Drain becomes a 2d4+2 necrotic damage, and don't have the Strength reduction effect. A Will-o'-wisp Shock attack becomes 2d4 lighting damage, and so on.

The companion obeys your commands as best it can. It rolls for initiative like any other creature, but you determine its actions, decisions, attitudes, and so on. If you are incapacitated or absent, your companion acts on its own.

Your animal companion has abilities and game statistics determined in part by your level. Your companion uses your proficiency bonus rather than its own. In addition to the areas where it normally uses its proficiency bonus, an animal companion also adds its proficiency bonus to its AC and to its damage rolls.

Your animal companion gains proficiency in two skills of your choice. It also becomes proficient with all saving throws.

For each level you gain after 3rd, your animal companion gains an additional hit die and increases its hit points accordingly.

Whenever you gain the Ability Score Improvement class feature, your companion’s abilities also improve. Your companion can increase one ability score of your choice by 2, or it can increase two ability scores of your choice by 1. As normal, your companion can’t increase an ability score above 20 using this feature unless its description specifies otherwise. If they have an ability score above 20 already, you can't increase that score unless its description specifies otherwise.

Your incoporeal companion can't get healed by usual methods. Instead, you can expend one use of your Deathbrands feature as a bonus action and heal you companion a number of hit points equal to your 1d4 + your Wisdom modifier. You can choose to expend more uses as part of the same action, and increase the amount of healing by 1d4 for each additional deathbrand used.

Coordinated attack

Beginning at 5th level, you and your animal companion form a more potent fighting team. When you use the Attack action on your turn, if your companion can see you, it can use its reaction to make a melee attack.

Ethereal Sight

At 7th level, you gain darkvision up to 60 feet. If you already had darkvision, you gain an extra 30 feet. You can see in magical darkness, as well as invisible creatures and objects up to 30 feet.

Additionally, as a bonus action, you can expend one use of your Deathbrand feature to see 60 feet into the Ethereal Plane until the end of your next turn.

Spiritual Defense

At 11th level, if your incorporeal companion can see you, it the benefit of the Evasion feature (when it gets subjected to an effect that allows you to make a Dexterity saving throw to take only half damage, it instead takes no damage if it succeeds on the saving throw, and only half damage if it fails.)

Howling Wraiths

When you reach 15th level, your incoporeal companion gains the Howling Wraiths action.

Howling Wraiths (Recharge 6). As an action, the companion can target a number of creatures equal to your Wisdom modifier within 30 feet of it. Each creature needs to make a Wisdom saving throw against your spell save DC. On a failed save, the creature suffers 4d6 psychic damage and is frightened of you and your companion until the end of its next turn. On a success, the creature suffers half the damage and it is not frightened.

Cult of the Undertaker

The Cult of the Undertaker is the original organization that kickstarted the creation of these kind of orders. As the oldest and most traditional, it is the one with most active and known members, and harness the secrets of necromancy in order to destroy the undead in a more effective way. Undertakers hates the undead with every fiber of their being, swearing to destroy them at first sight, no matter their intentions. They are usually individuals who were greatly affected by an undead outbreak or any of its consequences, or that see the undead as unnatural and a blasphemy. They are obsessed with them, and will even stay nearby graveyards or attend different funeral rites, in order to be sure nothing foul escape from it.

5th Level

• Dawn¹
• Dispel Evil and Good
• Enervation¹
• Geas
• Hallow
• Holy Weapon¹
• Wall of Light¹

¹ Found in Xanathar's Guide to Everything