Prismatic Dragonborn

The prismatic dragonborn are an ethnicity which is constantly increasing its relative percentage of the population of the Infernal-Draconic Ascendancy, as they are the result of multiple generations of dragonborn of different colouration breeding with one another. The prismatics view themselves as the future of the dragonborn races, while the true dragonborn view them as the result of deviancy. The nature of the prismatics is somewhat of a taboo subject, and while they do not face overt racism, true dragonborn mock the prismatics for their colouration, speak in hushed tones when one enters a room, and true dragonborn employers tend to favour their true counterparts.

City Dwarf

The city dwarves are considered, by the other mortal races, as the most civilised, refined, and oppressed of the dwarven ethnicities. The city dwarves are primarily found within the human kingdoms functioning as merchants, bankers, crafters, and physical labourers. Within the human kingdoms the city dwarves face varying degrees of discimination and racism, but rarely worse that the elves, as the dwarves, and more so the city dwarves, adapt and conform to human society. The city dwarves are considered the most sociable and charismatic of the dwarven ethnicities.

Physical Description

The sea dwarves have the darkest skin tones among the dwarven ethnicities, ranging from copper to a dark ebony. The hair tones of sea dwarves are similarly dark, with both males and females capable of growing facial hair. While the sea dwarves are strong and stout, they also possess a dexterous nature uncommon to most other dwarven ethnicities.

Homeland

The sea dwarves have traveled far and wide, and are most commonly seen within harbours throughout the known world from the Atarsid Isles in the north to the icy lands of the palemen in the south. The only majority sea dwarven kingdom, the Kingdom of Sarvartar, is found within the Atarsid Isles where the majority of the sea dwarven population can also be found.

Ability Score Increase. Your Dexterity score increases by 1.

At Home on the Deck. You have proficiency in vehicles (water).

Born at Sea. You lose your Stonecunning Trait, and instead your speed when swimming is equal to your movement speed.

Island Weapon Training. you have proficiency with the rapier, scimitar, trident, and net.

Physical Description

Blade elves appear much like high elves; typically fair-skinned, though they have been known to range from darker tones, to ebony, to copper, and even a faint violet. Their hair equally ranges in colouration, with black, silver, and blonde being the most common, while brunette, and copper hues not being uncommon. Blade elves, unlike high elves, wear their hair short, or wear their hair tied back. Blade elves are, typically, the largest and heaviest of the elven ethnicities; 5'7" – 6'2" (1.70 –1.88 meters) and 150 –190lbs. (68 – 86 kg) on average. Blade elves are also the most muscular of the elves, while most retain an athletic appearance, they are capable of a muscular form rivaling even the most muscular of humans.

Homelands

The Blade elves almost exclusively dwell within the Kingdom of Legarvren, a result of the recent nature of the ideological conflict between the blade and high elves. While not often found with high elven kingdoms, blade elves are not uncommon features with the Kingdom of Elnuria, and Caedvin. Blade elves have also been known to take up residence amongst oppressed elven groups within the human kingdoms, attempting to form or organise resistance.

Ability Score Increase. Your Strength score increases by 1.

Elf Weapon Training. You have proficiency with the longsword, shortsword, shortbow, and longbow.

Elven Mantle. You have proficiency in all armour

Blade of the Elves. You know the Green-flame blade cantrip, Charismatic is your spellcasting ability for it.

Physical Description

City elves are, typically, the smallest of all elven ethnicities, usually as a result of endemic malnutrition and cramped living space; city elves which live in the Kasari Dominion, a number of Free States, and the kingdoms of the elder races do however, grow equal in size to wood elves. City elves have similar skin tones to humans, ranging from pale to dark ebony, though they are capable of possessing a wider range of hair and eye colours ranging through human colourations through to metallic tones.

Homelands

The city elves possess no great, or even lesser, kingdoms of their own, instead the vast majority have made their homes within the human kingdoms. While the majority are found within the human kingdoms, they can also be found within the kingdoms of the elder races, where some seek to regain their heritage while others see it as the best hope of equality.

Ability Score Increase. Your Charisma score increases by 1.

Makeshift Weapon Training. You are proficient with the battleaxe, light crossbow, flail, shortsword, and hand crossbow.

Escape Artist. Your climbing speed is equal to your movement speed

Protective Community. you have proficient with light and medium armour.

Physical Description

Wandering elves are lean even by elven standards, but still retain the typical even athletic build. They towards bronze, dusky, and darker skin tones, a result of generation spent in the wilds of the world, however lighter skin tones are not uncommon. Similarly the eyes and hair of wandering elves tend towards darker tones, but are also capable of lighter colours.

Homelands

The wandering elves have forsaken all homelands until they are capable of restoring their history, religion, and culture. Currently the majority of wandering elves are found within Undead, Atarsid Isles, and Wild Isles, although clans of various sizes can be found throughout the known world. The only permanent settlement exist with the Kingdom of Legarvren

Ability Score Increase. Your Intelligence score increases by 1.

Elf Weapon Training. You have proficiency with the longsword, shortsword, shortbow, and longbow.

Knowledge of the People. You have advantage on Intelligence (History) checks you make relating to the Elves

The March Must Continue. You know the mending cantrip.

Physical Description

Wild elves have darker skin than elven races, other than wandering elves, ranging from light brown to dark brown. An average male is 5'8" (173 cm) in height and weighs 150 lbs (68 kg), while an average female is 5'3" (160 cm) and 130 lbs (60 kg). Their hair can be anything from black to light brown, and it grays and turns to white with old age. They prefer to wear as little clothing as possible and choose instead to adorn themselves with other decorations like tattoos, feathers or body paint. They can make and wear complicated and intricate beadwork. Males are usually larger than females, sometimes by as much as five inches or twenty pounds, but wild elves differ little in size from other elves.

Wild elves, like other elves, are nimble and agile in body, but they are commonly thought of as less intelligent than their elven brethren, due in part to their aversion to civilization

Homelands

The Wild Isles are the only known location that the wild elves dwell in any significant numbers. The cities of the wild elves do not typically last long before they are voluntarily disassembled, however, the wild elf majority city of Deirinn is now to have existed since at least the Age of Conquest.

Ability Score Increase. Your Wisdom score increases by 1.

Survivalist. You are proficient in the survival skill.

Elf Weapon Training. You have proficiency with the scimitar, shortsword, shortbow, and longbow.

Naturalist. You know the druidcraft cantrip

Physical description

Dryads tend to have a slender and small build, more similar to elves than humans. In most cases it is very difficult to distinguish between a naturally born dryads and naturalised dryads known as hamadryads.

The skin tones of dryads are typically olive, but can range from green, to chestnut, to marron. Atypically a dryads may possess the same skin tones as humans, and it is also not uncommon for hamadryads to have human-like skin tones. It is highly common for dryads to paint their skin with thick camouflage paint, and wear leaves as camouflage, if they wear clothes at all as most dryads prefer to wear no clothes at all.

It is not uncommon for hamadryads and the rare natural dryad to be mistaken for a human, due to their similarities. Dryads typically have darker shades of hair with blonde hair and blue eyes being rare among natural dryads, but not uncommon among hamadryads.

Lifespan and maturity

Dryads have a lifespan similar to elves, typically living up to five hundred years on average. Dryads reach full maturity at the age of twenty, and beyond this dryads retain their youthful appearance and vitality until their death. Dryads possess two methods of creating new dryads, firstly, though sexual procreation with males of other species, secondly, by transforming young girls of other races in the waters of Caredreon.

Dryad Abilities

The dryads are a naturally dexterous and stealthy races, excelling in archery and hit and run tactics. The dryads also have an affinity for using natural herbs for healing, and posions to defeat those who attack their homelands. The dryads connection to the arcane nature of the Weave grants them a resistance to magical effects, allows them to communicate with creatures of the woods, and effectively teleport short ranges between trees.

Personalities

Dryads are typically regarded as distant, aloof, and restrained, they rarely act on emotions and become reckless. The dryads are far more likely to spend weeks contemplating a decision before acting upon them, when the dryads do they are ruthless and single minded in carrying them out.

Dryads are typical a highly racist races, having trouble differentiating the actions of an individual from the actions of a race; though when they spend enough time with a member they can grow a fondness for them. The dryads look more favorably upon races who respect nature, such as the elves, gnomes, and firbolgs, while despising the races that seek only to exploit nature, like the humans and dwarves.

Subraces

There are two subraces of the dryads, based upon their creation, and in most cases it is difficult to tell a natural dryad apart from a hamadryad

Natural Dryads The natural dryads who are born as dryads, it is they that have a deeper connection to nature

Hamadryads The hamadryads are those who have been transformed into dryads at a young age, hamadryads are more likely to retain traits of their natural race, like human-like skin tones.

Kingdoms

Kingdom of Caedreon The Kingdom of Caedreon is the sole remaining kingdom of the dryads in the heart of the Elnurian Forest, which is a stronghold against human encroachment.

Dual Wielder

At 3rd level, while you are raging and engaging in two-weapon fighting you add your Strength modifier to your AC (minimum 1).

Seafarer

At 3rd level, you gain proficiency in vehicles (water), and your swimming speed is equal to your movement speed.

Endless Aggression

Starting at 6th level, while you are raging when you reduce a creature to 0 hit points you can make a single weapon attack against a creature within range.

Iron Will

Starting at 10th level, while you are missing at least 25 hit points you gain temporary hit points equal to half your barbarian level + your Constitution modifier (minimum 1), these temporary hit points disappear at the start of your next turn.

Reap Vengeance

Starting at 14th level, while you are raging, and a creature hits you with a melee weapon attack you can use your reaction to make a melee weapon attack against that creature.

Flame of the Lower Planes

At 3rd level, while you are raging, you gain resistance to fire damage. Additionally, when you deal damage with a melee weapon attack you add fire damage equal to your proficiency modifier.

Fiendish Corruption

Starting at 6th level, when you are raging, you have Darkvision out to a range of 60 feet, if you already have Darkvision it is increased by 60 feet. Additionally, while raging, you gain resistance to poison damage and immunity to the poisoned condition, and you can deal poison damage instead of fire damage as your additional damage when you make melee weapon attacks.

Relentless Attacker

Starting at 10th level, when a creature hits you with a melee weapon attack you can use your reaction to headbutt the creature that hit you with the attack. Make a melee weapon attack dealing 1d4+ your Strength modifier on a hit, additionally you decrease the damage dealt to you by the damage dealt to the attacker.

Cold Blooded

Starting at 14th level, when you are raging, you gain resistance to cold damage, you can also choose to deal cold damage instead of fire damage as your additional damage when you make melee weapon attacks. Additionally, also while raging you gain immunity to the the frightened and charmed conditions, if you are charmed or frightened when you enter a rage the condition is suspended for the duration of your rage.

Bonus Proficiencies

When you join the College of the Free Folk at 3rd level, you gain proficiency with medium and heavy armor, shields, and martial weapons.

Wounded Inspiration

Also at 3rd level, you learn to inspire others to keep going in a fight. A creature that has a Bardic Inspiration die from you can roll that die when they take damage, and reduce the damage taken by the number rolled + your proficiency modifier. Alternatively, when an attack roll is made against the creature with a bardic inspiration die from you, it can use its reaction to roll its Bardic Inspiration die and add the number rolled to its AC against that attack, after seeing the roll but before knowing whether it hits or misses.

Extra Attack

Starting at 6th level, you can attack twice, instead of once, whenever you take the Attack action on your turn.

Song of Vengeance

Starting at 14th level, when a creature uses your bardic inspiration to either reduce the damage they take, they can use their reaction to make a single weapon attack against the creature that dealt damage to them. Similarly as part of a creature’s reaction to spend a bardic inspiration die to increase their AC they may make a single weapon attack against the creature which triggered the use of the bardic inspiration die.

Additionally when you use your action to take the attack action, you may use your bonus action to use a shield bash, making a melee weapon attack against a target, dealing 1d4 + your Strength modifier on a hit.

Variant: Lasting Damage

It is my recommendation that a creature that benefits from the Kiss of the Red God suffers lingering damage, be that psychological, physical, or to their memory; examples being a fear of something that had killed them, the loss of an eye, or forgetting the person they are betrothed to. It is best to discuss this with a player character should it happen to them, otherwise integrate it to an NPC.

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Red priestess performing the night ritual by Jen Zee

Spellbreaker

When you choose this archetype at 3rd level, when a creature casts a spell within range of your melee weapon you may use your reaction to force the creature to make a Constitution saving throw ability equal to 10 + your proficiency modifier, on a failed save the creature's spell slot is expended and the spell fails.

You may use this feature equivalent to your Charisma modifier, (minimum 1) you regain all uses of this feature after you finish a short or long rest.

Antimagic

Starting at 7th level you know the spells, hold person, silence, counterspell, and dispel magic. Additionally you learn the hold monster spell at 19th level.

Spell Slots

The Bright Sword Spellcasting table shows how many Spell Slots you have. The table also shows what the level of those slots is; all of your Spell Slots are the same level. To cast one of your Antimagic Spells of 1st Level or higher, you must expend a spell slot. You regain all expended Spell Slots when you finish a Short or Long Rest.

For example, when you are 13th Level, you have six 4th-level Spell Slots. To cast the 3rd-level spell counterspell, you must spend one of those slots, and you cast it as a 4th-level spell.

Spellcasting Ability

Charisma is your spellcasting ability for your spell . You use your Charisma whenever a spell refers to your spellcasting ability. In addition, you use your Charisma modifier when setting the saving throw DC for a spell you cast and when making an attack roll with one.

Warrior of the Elder Blood

The archetypal Warrior of the Elder Blood focuses on drawing on the innate power that flows with in their veins. Those who possess the Elder Blood within them use their powers to teleport and slash down their enemies, and unleash powerful psychic screams.

Faceless Technique

When you choose this tradition at 3rd level, your special martial arts training leads you to master the use of certain weapons. This path also includes instruction in the deceitful arts of disguise or forgery. You gain the following benefits:

Faceless Weapons. Choose two types of weapons to be your faceless weapons. Each of these weapons can be any simple or martial weapon that lacks the heavy and special properties. You gain proficiency with these weapons if you don't already have it. Weapons of the chosen types are monk weapons for you. Many of this tradition's features work only with your faceless weapons. When you reach 6th, 11th, and 17th level in this class, you can choose another type of weapon – either melee or ranged – to be a faceless weapon for you, following the criteria above.

Agile and fast. When you hit a creature with a melee attack on your turn you can use a bonus action to take the disengage action.

Martial Prowess. You can use a bonus action on your turn to make melee weapon attacks with faceless weapons stronger. When you do so, any target you hit with a melee weapon attack using a faceless weapon deals an extra 1d4 of the weapon’s damage type. You retain this benefit until the end of the current turn.

Path of Deceit. You gain proficiency with your choice of the disguise kit or forgery kit.

Facechanger

Starting at 6th level, you are able to change not just your face but your entire form, allowing you to look exactly like a humanoid, changing your height, skin tone, voice, and even allowing you to replicate broken teeth or other injuries. Starting at 6th level, you have a pool of five dead humanoids, of your choice, that you can transform into, you are also able to perform a magic ritual on a creature that has been dead for no longer than twelve hours. The ritual involves pouring a thick bloody potion on a dead humanoid’s face, using a special dagger to remove the humanoid’s face, and preserving the humanoid’s face with magical spells, the ritual takes 30 minutes to perform. As an action you can transform into a perfect copy of the dead humanoid, however, your clothing and other equipment don’t change.

Even to the most astute observers, your ruse is usually indiscernible. If you rouse suspicion, or if a wary creature suspects something is amiss, you have advantage on any Charisma (Deception) check you make to avoid detection.

There is no limit to the number of humanoids faces you can keep as a pool to transform into, however, the faces must remain intact. A creature can use an action to destroy a face should it fall into it possession, when a preserved face is destroyed you can no longer transform into that creature. The preserved face can be an unlimited distance away from you, and even on a different plane of existence and still allow you to transform.

Faceless Ki

Starting at 11th level, you gain the ability you ki to enhance your abilities, you can spend ki in the following ways.

Hidden in Shadows. You can spend 1 ki point to use a bonus action to take the hide action.

Martial Expert. You can spend 2 ki points, when you don’t have disadvantage, to gain advantage on a weapon attack with a faceless weapon, should you have disadvantage you can spend 2 ki point to make your attack without disadvantage.

Knife in the Dark. You can spend 3 ki points when you hit on a melee weapon attack, that you either have advantage on, if the creature is surprised, or if one of your allies is within 5 feet of the target. When you do so you add 3d6 damage of the same kind of damage as your weapon damage.

Like the wind.

Starting at 17th level, you can cast the invisibility spell without material components as a bonus action, while you are invisible your movement increases by 5 feet. You use this feature equivalent to your wisdom modifier (minimum 1),you regain all uses of this feature after you finish a short or long rest. Additionally, the damage dealt by your unarmed strikes, monk weapons, and faceless weapons increases to a d12 instead of a d10.

Tenants of the Eternal Flame

The tenants of the Eternal Flame can vary based upon the denomination of the religious sect that the oath is attached to.

Throw Down the Heathens. All those who worship the false gods must see the error of their ways.

Destroy the Abominations. All monstrous races must be destroyed as they are an anathema to the cultured races.

Burn Away Corruption. Corruption, outside of your church, be it political, financial, or the more sinister monstrous kinds cannot be tolerated and must be burned away by holy flame.

Protector of the Downtrodden. The Flame teaches that the less fortunate must be protected from both abusers and the foul monsters of the world.

Dangers of Magic. Magic and those who practice it in a reckless manner must be destroyed as they are a danger to the smallfolk, the world, and even themselves.

The Great Enemy. The most important of the tenants of the Eternal Flame, and supersedes all other oaths, your church's existential enemy must be combated at every opportunity, with collateral damage being of no concern when combating the great enemy.

Oath Spells

you gain oath spells at the paladin levels listed.

Channel Divinity

When you take this oath at 3rd level, you gain the following three Channel Divinity options.

Holy Flame. You can use your Channel Divinity to wreath yourself in swirling radiant flames. As an action, each aberration and monstrosity within 30 feet that can see you must make a Wisdom saving throw against your paladin spell save DC. In a failure, the creature is turned for 1 minute.

A turned creature must spend its turns trying to move as far away from you as it can, and it can’t willingly move to a space within 30 feet of you. It also can’t take reactions. For its action, it can use only the Dash action or try to escape from an effect that prevents it from moving. If there’s nowhere to move, the creature can use the Dodge action.

Relief of the Flame. You can use your Channel Divinity to channel the warm glow of the Eternal Flame to heal yourself and those around you. As a bonus action, you and your allies within 30 feet of you each regain not points equal to 1d4 + your Charisma modifier + Paladin level (minimum of 1).

Burning Fire. You can use your Channel Divinity to empower your weapon with holy fire. When you deal damage with a melee weapon as a reaction you increase the damage dealt by 1d10 radiant damage.

Pure and Radiant

Starting at 7th level you have an aura of warmth that you can focus on an enemy. When a creature within 10 feet of you deals damage to you or one of your allies you can use your reaction to cause the creature to make a Constitution saving throw. The creature takes 1d10 fire or radiant damage (your choice) on a failed saving throw, and half as much damage on a successful one. The range of this aura increased to 30 feet at 18th level.

Fiery Soul

Starting at 15th level you gain resistance to your choice of either fire or radiant damage.

Additionally you have advantage on all saving throws against being frightened.

Flame Incarnate

At 20th level, you become an avatar of the Eternal Flame itself, your appear as if you are aflame yourself, eminent heat and light, and are almost blinding to look upon.

Using your action, you undergo a transformation. For 1 minute, you gain the following benefits:

• All creatures of your choice within 10 feet of you, when you active this transformation and at the beginning of their turn must make a Consitution saving throw against your Paladin spell save DC or take 2d6 fire damage.

• You gain advantage on all attack roll, saving throws, and ability checks made against aberrations, monstrosities, and creatures capable of casting magic.

• You gain resistance to all nonmagical damage.

Watcher Magic

Starting at 3rd level then again at 5th, 9th, 13th, and 17th level you gain access to additional spells.

Once you gain a watcher spell, it counts as a ranger spell for you but doesn’t count against the number of ranger spells you know.

Conclave Oath

At 3rd level, you gain one of the following features of your choice.

Shield That Guards the Realms. When a creature makes a melee attack against you and deals damage, while you are wielding a shield, you can use a reaction to decrease the damage by 1d10 + your proficiency modifier.

Sword in the Darkness. While you are within 10 feet of an ally you deal one additional weapon damage die.

Watcher on the Wall. While you have half cover, three-quarters, or total cover and an enemy has no cover you have advantage on your ranged weapon attacks.

Resistant as a Wall

Starting at 7th level you have become an expert in bracing yourself against the environment and deftly leaping out of the way of incoming danger, when you make a Dexterity or Constitution saving throw you add 1d4 to the saving throw.

Deft and Agile

Starting at 11th level, you can use a bonus action to take disengage action. Additionally your movement increases by 5 feet.

Opportunism

Starting at 15th level, when an enemy misses an attack against you, you can use a reaction to make a single weapon attack against that target.

Witch Hunter Magic

Starting at 3rd level then again at 5th, 9th, 13th, and 17th level you gain access to additional spells.

Once you gain a witch hunter spell, it counts as a ranger spell for you but doesn’t count against the number of ranger spells you know.

Hatred of Magic

When you are targeted by a spell or cantrip, or forced to make a saving throw by a spell or magical effect, until the end of your next turn you may make a weapon attack as a bonus action.

Know 'em when I see em'

When you make a Wisdom (insight) check on a creature you learn if that creature is able to cast spells. If they are able to cast spells you learn the spell level of the highest level spell they can cast, and what their spellcasting ability is.

Strong of Will

Starting at 7th level when you make a saving throw against magic you may add 1d6 to your saving throw. You may use this a number of time equal to your wisdom modifier.

Charge the Caster

Starting at 11th level, When you are targeted by a spell or cantrip, or forced to make a saving throw by a spell or magical effect, until the end of your next turn your speed is increased by 5 feet and you do not provoke attacks of opportunity.

They're Casting

Starting at 15th level, as a reaction when a creature cast a spell within 30 feet of you may make a single weapon attack after they cast their spell.

Lonesome Duelist

Starting at 3rd level, you also gain an additional way to use your Sneak Attack; you don't need advantage on the attack roll to use your Sneak Attack against a creature if you are within 5 feet of it, no allied creatures are within 5 feet of you, and you don't have disadvantage on the attack roll. All the other rules for Sneak Attack still apply to you.

Swift Speed

When a creature uses a reaction to make an attack of opportunity against you, you can use your reaction to parry and dodge out of the way of the attack. If it is still your turn when you use your reaction you gain an additional 5 feet of movement and gain the benefits of the disengage action.

Dancer's nature

Starting at 9th level, while you are wearing light armour and have one free hand your mastery of the sideways stance of the water dancers allows you to add your proficiency modifier to your AC.

Additionally, at 9th level your perceptive training allows you to add your Intelligence modifier to Wisdom (insight) and Wisdom (perception) checks.

Dualist

Starting at 13th level, when a creature makes a melee weapon attack against you can use your reaction to your intelligence modifier to your AC for the purpose of that attack. If the creature still hits you with its melee weapon attack, you must as part of this reaction make a single melee weapon attack against the creature that triggered this ability.

Dance Master

Starting at 17th if there is nothing imposing disadvantage on you you have advantage on your attacks, if there is something imposing disadvantage on you you make your attacks without disadvantage. Additionally your sneak attacks against humanoids deals an extra 2d6.

Font of Pure Magic

Starting at 1st level you gain resistance to force damage, proficiency in the arcana skill, and when you cast a spell or cantrip that deals force damage you add your Charisma modified to the damage.

Defensive Jump

Also at 1st level when take damage from a melee attack you may use a reaction to disengage and teleport yourself to an unoccupied space that you can up to a distance no more than 5 times your Charisma modified (minimum 5 feet) feet away from you.

Channel Force

Starting at 6th level, as a bonus action you may disengage and teleport yourself to an unoccupied space that you can see up to your remaining movement speed

You also learn to bend magic to suit your inherent arcane nature. When you cast a spell that does damage, you can spend 2 sorcery points to change the damage type to force.

Focused Jump

Starting at 14th level you are able to call upon your blood to teleport yourself short distances. As a bonus action, you can teleport yourself up to 45 feet to an unoccupied space you can see. Additionally any creature within 5 feet of your target and original location takes 2d4 force damage.

Channelled Psychic Scream

Starting at 18th level, as an action, you expend 5 sorcerer points you unleash a horrific scream affecting all creatures of your choice within the affected area. All creatures in 45-foot-radius of you must make a Strength saving throw. A creature takes 5d8 Psychic damage plus 5d8 force damage and is knocked 10-feet in a straight line away from you and falls prone on a failed save. On a successful one a creature takes half as much damage and is pushed back 5-feet.

Resilient Blood

Starting at 1st level your strength and resilience which flows within you markedly increases your vitality. Instead of adding your Constitution modifier to your Hit Dice instead of your Constitution modifier when calculating your hit point maximum and recovering hit points.

Failure is Not an Option

Also starting at 1st level, when you would miss an melee or spell attack you can choose to add 1d4 and add it to your total.

You can use this feature number of times equal to your Charisma modifier until a long rest.

Salvation through suffering

Starting at 6th level, when a creature would hit you with an attack you can inflict damage to yourself to increase your AC for the purpose of that attack, for every 3 points of damage your AC is increased by 1. Additionally when you fail a saving throw you can inflict damage to yourself to increase your roll, for every 3 points of damage you inflict to yourself your roll is increased by 1. You can use this feature equal to your Charisma modifier, before a long rest.

Temporary Vitality

Starting at 14th level, as a bonus action, when you deal damage to a target you may expend 2 sorcery points to gain temporary hit points equal to half the damage dealt.

Stored Anguish

Starting at 18th level, as a reaction when you take damage, you may expend 4 sorcery points to store damage that you have dealt. When you do so you may add damage equal to the damage stored to a spell attack against a single target, the additional damage type is force. You can store damage for up to 1 minute, and can only have one source of damage stored at a time.

The Flame

Your patron embodies the very flames of the Elemental Plane of Fire, they are warm, beautiful, and invariably dangerous. Your patron may be the embodiment of the burning flames of the Plane itself, a supernaturally powerful Efreeti, great Elder Elemental, or a Primordial a creature with god-like powers.

The Ice

Your patron embodies the bitter cold of the Elemental Plane of water, they are harsh, cold, but malleable. Your patron may be the embodiment of the bitter frost of the Plane itself, a supernaturally powerful Marids, great Elder Elemental, or a Primordial a creature with god-like powers.

Expanded Spell List

The Stone lets you choose from an expanded list of spells when you learn a warlock spell. The following spells are added to the warlock spell list for you.

Stone Touched

Starting at 1st level, while you are not wearing armor your AC becomes equal to 10+ your Charisma modifier. Additionally Your hit point maximum increases by half your charisma modifier (rounded up, minimum 1), and it increases by the same amount every time you gain a level.
Additionally, you can speak, read, and write Terran.

Stone Glide

Starting at 6th level, as an action, your patron grants you its innate connection to the stone. For one minute you can burrow through nonmagical earth and stone. While doing so, you don’t disturb the material it moves through. Once you use this feature you cannot use it again until you have finished a short or long rest.

Stoneskin

Starting at 10th level, as a reaction before you would take damage, you can cast the Stoneskin spell without material components. Additionally, while you are under the effects of the Stoneskin spell your AC increases by 2.

Stone’s Endurance

Starting at 14th level, when you would be reduced to 0 hit, you can instead drop to 1 hit point. When you choose to do so you gain temporary hit point maximum + your Warlock level. Once you use this feature you cannot use it again until you have finished a short or long rest.

Expanded Spell List

The Storm lets you choose from an expanded list of spells when you learn a warlock spell. The following spells are added to the warlock spell list for you.

Stormbringer

Starting at 1st level, when you deal lightning or thunder damage, as a reaction you can choose to deal an additional 1d6 of the same kind of damage.

you can use this feature a number of times equal to your Charisma modifier, until you finish along or short rest.

Starting at 6th level the damage increases to 2d6. Starting at 10th level the damage increases to 3d6. Starting at 14th you can use this feature an unlimited number of times.
Additionally, you can speak, read, and write Auran .

Thunderous resonance

Also starting at 1st level, your patron infuses your voice with a thunderous roar. You can choose to add 1d6 and add the result to a Charisma check roll of your choice. You can use this feature a number of times equal to your proficiency bonus, until you have finished a short or long rest.

Lightning Jump

Starting at 6th level, as an action your patron temporarily transforms into lightning energy allowing you to teleport to an unoccupied within 45 feet of you that you can see. Each creature within 5 feet of your starting location and target destination must make a Dexterity saving throw taking 3d6 lightning damage on a failed save, or half as much on a successful one.

Expanded Spell List

The White Frost lets you choose from an expanded list of spells when you learn a warlock spell. The following spells are added to the warlock spell list for you.

Chilling Cantrips

Starting at 1st level, you learn the Chill Touch and Ray of Frost cantrips. They count as warlock cantrips for you, and they don’t count against your number of cantrips known.

Weapons of Winter

Starting at 6th level when you cast a spell which deals cold damage you add your charisma modifier to your role.

Additionally, when you deal damage with a melee or ranged weapon attack you deal an additional 1d4 cold damage, this damage increases to 1d6 at 10th level, and finally to 1d8 at 14th level.

Cold’s embrace

Starting at 10th level when you take damage you wreath yourself in the cold armour of your patron. As a reaction, before you would take damage you gain temporary hit points equal to your warlock level + your proficiency modifier.

Additionally, you gain resistance to cold damage and ignore the effects of extreme cold as described on page 110 of the DMG.

The White Frost Incarnate

Starting at 14th level, you can unleash the bitter cold of the white frost upon all surrounding you. All creatures of your choice within 30 feet of you must make a Constitution saving throw against your spell save DC taking 10d10 cold damage on a failed save, or half as much on a successful one.

Additionally, when you use this feature you gain immunity to cold damage for 1 minute. Once you use this feature you cannot use it again until you have finished a long rest.

Expanded Spell List

The Dead lets you choose from an expanded list of spells when you learn a warlock spell. The following spells are added to the warlock spell list for you.

Necrotic Mantel

Starting at 1st level, you learn the toll the dead cantrip, which counts as a warlock cantrip for you. Additionally, you can use a reaction you reroll any number of necrotic damage dice of your choice. You can use this feature a number of times equal to your Charisma modifier, until you finish along or short rest.

Undead Kin

Also starting at 1st level, you become closer to the undead and the nature of your patron. Wisdom (Perception) checks made by undead creatures to see you have disadvantage. Additionally, you also have advantage on saving throws against any disease.

Create Clawers

Starting at 6th level, when you reduce a creature to 0 hit points you can use your reaction to animate the hands of the creature to fight for you. Providing the creature you reduced to 0 hit points has appendages you can animate two of them, whatever the appendage you animate it has the statistic of a Crawling Claw (MM p.44). You can command the two claws with a bonus action, commanding it to both move and make attacks.

The crawling claws remain animated for 1 hour or until they are reduced to 0 hit points.

Undeath

Starting at 10th level, you can hold your breath indefinitely, and you don't require food, water, or sleep, although you still require rest to reduce exhaustion and still benefit from finishing short and long rests. You also have resistance to necrotic damage and immunity to being poisoned.

Additionally, you age at a slower rate. For every 10 years that pass, your body ages only 1 year, and you are immune to being magically aged.

Servants in Undeath

Starting at 14th level, when you cast a spell that animates or creates undead you can use your bonus action to empower them. When empowered the undead creatures gain the following benefits:

• The creature's hit point maximum is increased by an amount equal to your warlock level.
• The creature adds your Charisma modifier to its weapon attack and weapon damage rolls.
• The creature’s AC is increased by half of your proficiency bonus (rounded down).

You can use this feature once, until you finish along or short rest.
Additionally, you gain resistance to poison damage.

Necromantic Force

Prerequisite: 9th level
When you cast Animate Dead, you can target one additional corpse or pile of bones, creating another zombie or skeleton, as appropriate.

Superior Thralls

Prerequisite: 9th level
Undead creatures under your control lose any vulnerabilities they have, and gain resistance necrotic damage if they do not already have it.

Undead Exemplar

Prerequisite: 15th level
You can cast create undead once without expending a spell slot. You can't do so again until you finish a long rest.

School of Fiendology

The school of fiendology is perhaps the only school of magic with a worse reputation than the school of necromancy. Fiendologists utterly devote themselves to the study of the various demons and devils that make their homes in the lower planes of existence. The study of such evil lore, dealing with fiends, and fighting them leaves a distinct and sometimes horrid effect on a fiendologist’s mind, body, and soul.

The vast majority of fiendologists are madmen, sadists, and power hungry wizards who have turned to most evil creatures in all the known planes of existence for power. While the majority are evil, there are fiendologists who seek to use the powers of fiends against the Nine Hells and Abyss; they believe that the sacrifice of their bodies and souls are a small price to pay to gain power to drive off greatest threat to the material plane, demons and devils.

Natural Learner

Beginning when you select this school at 2nd level, the gold and time you must spend to copy a spell found in both the wizard and druid spell list is halved. Additionally you may learn spells from willing creature, to do so you must be able to learn the spell, the time both you and the creature teaching you must expend is equal to twice the time it would take you to copy the same spell into your spellbook, the creature teaching you would typically ask for the same amount of gold you would expend to copy the same spell into your spellbook as payment, and finally you and the creature that is teaching you must share a language or be able to communicate telepathically for the duration of the training; upon completion of the training the spell appears written in your spellbook.

Nature’s Blessing

Starting at 2nd level, when you cast a spell found within both druid spell list and the wizard spell list, you can siphon off a portion of the magic to give a creature that you can see within 30 feet of you a number of temporary hit points equal to the spell slot expended + your wizard level.

Monstrous Shapechanger

Starting at 6th level you can assume the shape of a monstrosity or beast with a challenge rating 1/4 or lower that doesn't have a flying speed. At 10th level this increases to a challenge rating 1/2 or lower beast or monstrosity that doesn't have a flying speed, and again at 14th level to any challenge rating 1 or lower beast or monstrosity.

You can use this feature twice before you finish a Long rest.

Expanded Spell List

Starting at 10th level you gain access to a number of spells and cantrips based on your Wizard level. Once you gain access to one of these spells, you always have it prepared, and it doesn’t count against the number of spells or cantrips you can prepare each day or know. All spells count as Wizard spells for you

Expanded Spell list

Monstrous Spellcaster

Starting at 14th level, you can cast spells 1st level spells while in your shapechanger form, this increases to 2nd level spells at 17th level, and 3rd level spells at 20th level.

Additionally, when you cast a spell of 3rd level or lower found on the druid spell list you may add your intelligence modifier to your damage roll.

Power of a Name

chose one of the following features to determine the power your family name holds.

Feature: Gold, Riches, and Vanity

Your family is known for their obscene wealth. Low and high born alike may do much to please in hopes of gaining just a fraction of your wealth, supporting you even when you do not deserve it, or lending their swords to your cause, though if they receive little recompense for their efforts they are unlikely to continue this show. While many may flock to there are those who assist you to gain a fraction of your wealth, there are those who may seem to extort, steal, beat, or ransom the coin out of you.

Feature: Honour and Inflexibility

Your family is known to be of the most honourable, true, noble, and inflexible of the noble families. All who know your family name treat your word as good as deed, unless you repeatedly fail to uphold it, and are willing to take your word that, for example, you will pay a debt,return a favour, or even provide you with a reward before you perform a task. Criminals, brigands, and the like are unlikely to surrender to you, should they know your name, knowing that you are inflexible in your approach and that you will force the full weight of the law upon them.

Feature: Political Manipulators

Your family are known to be keen political artists, full of ambition, capability, cunning, pragmatism, and a willingness to step on others to climb up the ladder. You know courtiers in every court throughout the realms, and many even be able to bring them on board with your political machinations, out of fear or a belief that it will also help them climb their way up. While you see smiles and friends everywhere the people you use know they cannot trust you knowing that you may try to tear them down next, making these tools a risky prospect.

Feature: Righteous and Lacking Learning

Your family are keen supporters of the faith, pious, and regarded highly among the religious of the realms. Members of your extended family can be found throughout many of the religious church of the lands and will be willing to offer you and your companions shelter and meal free of charge, for a reasonable time. They may also be willing to offer you a discount on temple goods and services. The zealty has also earned your family the disdain of those who put their faith in academic learning and those lacking faith.

Feature: Patrons of Learning

Your family have been great patrons of learning throughout the kingdoms. You, by virtue of your family name, have the respect of some, but the thanks of the men and women of the institutions of learning your family supports. Through the use of your name you are able to gain access to even the most guarded areas of learning institutions, learned peoples are more inclined to provide you with information, and may even provide you a discount on goods and services. While those more academic may thank you, the smallfolk believe you are high minded and waste money that could better be spent improving roads or feeding the poor, earning their contempt more than most.

Feature: Patrons of the Arts

Your family have indulged many a poet, singer, and mummer, and provided them with many a coin to tell the stories of your family's deeds, and embellish them greatly. You are able gain many a favour from these folk, having them infiltrate courts or sing songs to the common folk to have them look more favourably upon you. However these folk are easily brought and may be more than willing to betray you or sell information to those offering coin.

Suggested Characteristics

Highborn are born and raised to a very different lifestyle than most people ever experience, and their personalities reflect that upbringing. A noble title comes with a plethora of bonds responsibilities to family, to other nobles (including the sovereign), to the people entrusted to the family’s care, or even to the title itself. But this responsibility is often a good way to undermine a noble.

Feature: A Person of Both Worlds and Neither

The Highborn of the realm know your name and will be more inclined to hear your words or pleas, though almost all of them look down upon you as if your presence in their hall is an insult. The commoners and lowborn pay particular deference to your words and commands, though they call you Lord to your face they call you bastard behind your back. Skill Proficiencies: Deception, Insight
Languages: Two of your choice.
Equipment: A set of fine clothes, a memento for your common born parent, a memento for your highborn parent, and a coin pouch containing 25gp.

Feature: Martial Brotherhood

Your time training men and highborn has allowed you to make contacts far and wide. You can find a man you trained, or a close friend has train who may be willing to take on mild risk, loss of goods or gold, or provide you with information to help you in your tasks.

Skill Proficiencies: Athletics, Intimidation
Languages: One of your choice.
Tools: One Gaming set of your choice, vehicles (land) Equipment: An insignia of the House you serve, a trophy taken from a fallen enemy (a dagger, broken blade, or piece of a banner), a set of bone dice or deck of cards, a set of common clothes, and a belt pouch containing 10 gp

Feature: Knowledge of Mages

You know a great deal about not just the magic of the world but its sorcerer, warlocks, and wizards as well. You know the names of powerful or interesting mages, their specialties, interests and research, and the general location of where they reside. You can use your family’s name and influence within the Magisterium to gain a meeting with a mage, and they will be willing to provide you with information.
Skill Proficiencies: Arcana, Persuasion
Languages: One of your choice.
Tools: Alchemist’s supplies
Equipment: A set of fine clothes, a signet ring, a bottle of black ink, a quill, a small knife, and a purse containing 20 gp

Arcane Pulse

Prerequisite: Weave Stricken

You can use your action to cause arcane energy to burst out of your very form. All creatures within a 15 foot radius of you, each creature in the affected area must make a Constitution saving throw. The DC for this saving throw equals 8 + your Constitution modifier + your proficiency bonus. A creature takes 2d6 force damage on a failed save, and half as much damage on a successful one. The damage increases to 3d6 at 6th level, 4d6 at 11th level, and 5d6 at 16th level.

Charming Nature

Prerequisite: Dryad

Your fae-like appearance and disarming charm. You gain the following benefits.

• Your Dexterity or Charisma score is increased by 1, up to a maximum of 20.

• As a bonus action you may target one humanoid or beast that you can see within 30 feet. If the target can see you, it must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw with a DC equivalent to 10+ your Charisma modifier or be magically charmed. If you are fighting the creature, it has advantage on the saving throw. The charmed creature regards you as a trusted friend to be heeded and protected. Although the target isn't under your control, it takes your requests or actions in the most favorable way it can.

• Each time you or your allies do anything harmful to the target, it can repeat the saving throw, ending the effect on itself on a success. Otherwise, the effect lasts 24 hours or until you become unconscious, is on a different plane of existence from the target, or ends the effect as a bonus action. If a target's saving throw is successful, the target is immune to charming nature for the next 24 hours.

You can have no more than one humanoid and up to three beasts charmed at a time.

Martial Magic

Prerequisite: Elf (blade)

You learn more of the magic typical of blade elves. You learn the heroism spell and can cast it at will, without expending a spell slot. You also learn magic weapon and fear, each of which you can cast once without expending a spell slot. You regain the ability to cast those two spells in this way when you finish a long rest.

Charisma is your spellcasting ability for all three spells.

Opportunistic by Necessity

Prerequisite: Elf (city)

You have trained in the unsavoury arts city elves all too often find themselves drawn to, sometimes out of necessity and sometimes out of discontent. You gain the following benefits.

• Your Dexterity or Charisma score is increased by 1, up to a maximum of 20.

• You gain proficiency in either the disguise kit, forgery kit, poisoner's kit, or thieves’ tools.

• You add your Charisma modifier to checks relating to your chosen kit or tools.

Nature’s Pathways

Prerequisite: Dryad

Your connection to the primordial and deep woods of the world has grown. You gain the following benefits.

• Your Wisdom score is increased by 1, up to a maximum of 20.

• You can use 10 feet of your movement to step magically into one living tree within her reach and emerge from a second living tree within 60 feet of the first tree, appearing in an unoccupied space within 5 feet of the second tree. Both trees must be Large or bigger.

You can use this feature a number of times equivalent to your Wisdom modifier (minimum of 1)

Prehensile tail

Prerequisite: A race with a tail.

You have trained to use your tail within the mits of combat. You gain the following benefits.

• Your Strength or Dexterity score is increased by 1, up to a maximum of 20.

• As a bonus action, you may make a melee weapon attack against a creature within 5 feet of you that is no more than one size larger than you. On a hit the creature falls prone.

Prismatic Resistance

Prerequisite: Dragonborn (prismatic)

The control over your draconic heritage extends to your resistances. You gain the following benefits.

• Your Constitution score increases by 1, up to a maximum of 20.
• You choose either acid, cold, fire, lightning, or poison damage to gain resistance to. You can change this resistance as a bonus action.

You can take this feature up to five times, gain an additional resistance choice each time, and being able change one of them as a bonus action.

Call the Contract

3rd-Level Conjuration (ritual)

• Casting Time: 1 hour
• Range: Touch
• Components: V, S, M (Blood of a humanoid that died no longer than 24 hours ago, which the spell consumes)
• Duration: Concentration, up to 1 hour

You use your Arcane skills to perform a diabolic ritual using the blood of a humanoid creature that died no longer than 24 hours ago. The ritual contacts one Erinyes (MM p.73) summoner variant, which transports itself to your location. The devil is not hostile unless attacked, if attack the Erinyes is capable of casting plane shift (only to the Nine Hells) 3/day, and if it believes that I cannot defeat the creature or creatures that summoned it, it flees back to the Nine Hells. You are able to negotiate infernal contracts with it and also trade souls for magical objects, as described in the soul trade table.

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