Martial Archetype: Valkyrie

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## Martial Archetype
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### Valkyrie

The Valkyrie soars above the battlefield in search of worthy souls to escort to the afterlife, who will be resurrected to fight again at the end of the world. A Valkyrie trains in healing, service, judgement, and most importantly, battle, for she will fight alongside her chosen. These fighters are warrior-spirits born mortal, proving their worth before their ascension.

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#### Restriction: Female characters only
While both male and female warriors can die honorably, only female souls can become these glorious champions. Valkyries both mortal and immortal are a special variety of celestial, that always manifests in female form.

#### Warrior of the Hall  
At 3rd level, you can open your soul to the hall of glorious dead, channeling a fragment of its power. You gain the following benefits:

***Inspiring Cry.*** When you take the Attack action, you can shout a snippet of heroic poetry that inspires any number of friendly creatures within 30 feet that can hear you. Those creatures can add your Wisdom modifier (a minimum of 1) to one attack roll or saving throw they make before the start of your next turn. You can use this ability thrice per short rest.

***Rise Again.*** At dusk in Valhalla, the lethal wounds of the dead close, and as one of its stewards you can heal the fighters you choose. You learn *prayer of healing*. Wisdom is your spellcasting ability for this spell, and when you cast it in this way it has a casting time of one action. You can cast *prayer of healing* in this way three times per long rest.

#### Shield Maiden 
Starting at 7th level, your experience preparing yourself and others for battle allows you to strip and don armor efficiently. It costs an object interaction, rather than an action, for you to don or doff any shield, and you don and doff armor in half the time. When you help another creature don or doff armor, the time the process takes is quartered, rather than halved.

#### Honored Dead 
Also at 7th level, your ability to choose the final destination of a mortal soul allows you to ease its return to life. You can conduct a minute-long ritual over the body of a deceased creature, preparing the soul to either return or cross over. Once this ritual is completed, the material cost of any spell cast to resurrect the creature is waived and it comes under the effect of *gentle repose.*

A creature cannot benefit from this ritual more than once, and you cannot bless a creature that was not killed in combat.

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#### Ride of the Valkyrie
When the day comes, you will charge with your sisters <br> across the sky. Starting at 10th level, when you use <br> Inspiring Cry or finish casting *prayer of healing* granted by Rise Again, you grant yourself and one targeted creature a flying speed of 60 feet for 1 minute. This ability can manifest as feathered wings sprouting from your back, a mighty gale that holds you aloft, a shadowy eight-legged horse that appears beneath you, or another form of your choice.

#### Judge the Fallen 
Starting at 15th level, you can cast *speak with dead* a <br> number of times equal to your Wisdom modifier per <br> long rest (a minimum of once). If the target of your spell <br> died violently, your casting does not expend a use of this feature.

In addition, allied creatures within 30 feet of you have advantage on death saving throws.

#### Dawn of the Final Day
Starting at 18th level, you have been found worthy. When you die, your soul will ascend to Valhalla. More importantly, your powers of healing cannot be matched. Once per day, you can use your action to cast *mass heal*. You and every creature that gains hit points from *mass heal* gain a flying speed of 60 feet for 1 minute.

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***Valkyrie,* Jason Deem**