Hematurge

Hit Points

• Hit Dice: 1d10 per hematurge level
• Hit Points at 1st Level: 10 + your Constitution modifier
• Hit Points at Higher Levels: 1d10 (or 6) + your Constitution modifier per hematurge level after 1st

Proficiencies

• Armor: Light armor, shields
• Weapons: Simple weapons, battleaxe, hand crossbow, longsword, trident, warhammer
• Tools: Choose one from herbalism kit or poisoner's kit

• Saving Throws: Constitution, Intelligence
• Skills: Choose two from Arcana, Athletics, Insight, Medicine, Nature, Perception, and Survival

Equipment

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

• (a) a simple weapon or (b) a shield
• (a) adventurer's pack or (b) a healer's pack*
• Leather armor, a dagger, and an arcane focus
• A martial weapon in which you are proficient

Preparing and Casting Spells

The Hematurge table shows how many spell slots you have to cast your hematurge spells. To cast one of your hematurge spells of 1st level or higher, you must expend a slot of the spell’s level or higher. You regain all expended spell slots when you finish a long rest.

You prepare the list of hematurge spells that are available for you to cast, choosing from the hematurge spell list. When you do so, choose a number of hematurge spells equal to your Intelligence modifier + half your hematurge level, rounded down (minimum of one spell). The spells must be of a level for which you have spell slots.

For example, if you are a 5th-level hematurge, you have four 1st-level and two 2nd-level spell slots. With an Intelligence of 14, your list of prepared spells can include four spells of 1st or 2nd level, in any combination. If you prepare the 1st-level spell heroism, you can cast it using a 1st-level or a 2nd-level slot. Casting the spell doesn’t remove it from your list of prepared spells.

You can change your list of prepared spells when you finish a long rest. Preparing a new list of hematurge spells requires time spent replenishing vitality: at least 1 minute per spell level for each spell on your list.

Spellcasting Ability

Intelligence is your spellcasting ability for your hematurge spells, since your power derives from your knowledge of ones life force. You use your Intelligence whenever a spell refers to your spellcasting ability. In addition, you use your Intelligence modifier when setting the saving throw DC for a hematurge spell you cast and when making an attack roll with one.

Healing Blood

At first level, you can use Vitality Die to add additional healing to any of your healing spells or any healing potion at the cost of your hit points, equal to half your vitality die + your hematurge level. You can not heal yourself this way.

Expanded Spell List

When you undergo the Rite of Restoration you are granted access to an expanded list of spells when you learn a hematurge spell. The following spells are added to the hematurge spell list for you.

Expanded Spell List

Spell Level	Spells
1st	Cure Wounds, Healing Word
2nd	Gentle Repose, Warding Bond
3rd	Mass Healing Word, Revivify
4th	Aura of Purity, Death Ward
5th	Mass Cure Wounds, Raise Dead

Cleansing Ritual

At 6th level, you go through a ritual of blood that helps you better understand how to clear it of poisons and the undead taint of necrotic energies. You now have resistance to poison and necrotic damage.

Spark of Life

At 10th level, you understand that a spark of life lingers even after death. You have learned to grasp onto that last spark of life. When a medium or small creature you can see dies, you can call upon that remaining spark to temporarily raise them from the dead. They have hit points equal to your hematurge level.

While you hold this spark of life, you have control over them until they are reduced once again to 0 hit points. As a bonus action, you can decide what action the corpse will take and where it will move during its turn, issue a general command, such as guard, or you can learn up to three things they knew in life. The creature must have an intelligence of at least 4 when alive.

If you issue no commands, the creature automatically takes the dodge action. Once given an order, the corpse continues to follow it until its task is complete. To learn what they knew you can ask three questions. Answers are usually brief, cryptic, or repetitive, and the corpse is under no compulsion to offer a truthful answer if you are or were hostile towards it. Once the questions are answered the corpse is reduced to 0 hit points.

You can do this a number of times equal to your Intelligence modifier. You regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest.

Blister

Necromancy, Cantrip

• Casting Time: 1 action
• Range: Touch
• Components: V, S
• Duration: Instantaneous

You heat the blood of a creature to a boil, creating bursting blood blisters. The creature must succeed on a Constitution saving throw or take 1d12 necrotic damage.

This spell’s damage increases by 1d12 when you reach 5th level (2d12), 11th level (3d12), and 17th level (4d12).

Reave

Necromancy, 1st level

• Casting Time: 1 action
• Range: 60 feet
• Components: V, S
• Duration: 1 round

You extend your hand toward a living creature and attempt to draw forth the blood of your foes. Make a ranged spell attack on one target within range that you can see. On a hit the target takes 1d6 force damage, and must make a Constitution saving throw.

If the target fails, it takes an additional 1d6 necrotic damage, and you gain temporary hit points equal to the necrotic damage dealt. On a success it suffers no additional damage, and no temporary hit points are gained. You lose any remaining temporary hit points from this spell at the end of the round.

At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 2nd level or higher, the necrotic damage increases by 1d6 for each slot level above 1st.

Blood Transfusion

Necromancy, 4th level

• Casting Time: 1 action
• Range: 20 ft radius
• Components: V, S, M (a drop of blood)
• Duration: 1 minute (Concentration)

Life-preserving energy radiates from you in an aura with a 20-foot radius. Until the spell ends, the aura moves with you, centered on you. When a hostile creature enters the affected area for the first time on a turn or starts its turn there, the creature takes 1d8 force damage.

At the end of the creatures turn they must make a Constitution saving throw. On a failure the creature takes 2d6 necrotic damage, and you regain hit points equal to half the amount of necrotic damage dealt. On a success the creature takes half damage, but you regain no hit points.

At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 5th level or higher, the force damage increases by 1d8 for each slot level above 4th.

Exsanguination

Necromancy, 5th level

• Casting Time: 1 action
• Range: Touch
• Components: V, S, M (an empty vial, a needle, and a tourniquet)
• Duration: 1 minute (Concentration)

You drain the life force out of a creature. Make a melee spell attack against a creature within your reach. On a hit the target takes 4d8 necrotic damage and must make a Constitution saving throw. On a failure the creature takes one level of exhaustion, on a success nothing happens.

At the end of each of the target's turns, the target must make a Constitution saving throw. If the target succeeds on three of these saves, it is no longer exhausted, and the spell ends. If the target fails three of these saves, the target takes another level of exhaustion. The target is subjected to level two exhaustion for the spell's duration.