Oath of the Fallen Features

Oath Spells

You gain oath spells at the paladin levels listed in the Oath of the Fallen Spells table.

Channel Divinity

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

Raise Dead. You can use your Channel Divinity to animate one medium or smaller skeleton you can touch with necrotic magic as an action, animating it under your control until they are destroyed. Skeletons under your command cannot have their hit points restored. Skeletons raised through this feature will take their turn immediately after yours in the initiative order. You determine how they will act on their turn by issuing telepathic commands to them as a free action. The amount of skeletons you can have under your control through this feature cannot exceed your proficiency bonus. If you animate a skeleton through this feature beyond your maximum, the oldest skeleton will become an inanimate pile of bones.

Hellfire Orb. As an action, you can use your Channel Divinity and a paladin spell slot of 1st level or higher to hurl a magical ball of fire that explodes at a point you can see up to 120 feet away. Each creature in a 20-foot radius sphere centered on that point must make a Dexterity saving throw against your spell save DC. The sphere spreads around corners. A creature takes 2d6 fire damage and 2d6 necrotic damage on a failed saving throw, or half as much on a successful one. The amount of damage the hellfire orb does increases by 1d6 fire damage and 1d6 necrotic damage for each slot level above 1st.

Curse of Undeath

Also at 3rd level, your fallen status causes your divine smites and the extra damage from your improved divine smite feature to deal nectrotic damage instead of radiant damage.

Additionally, your undead nature means you no longer need air, food, or drink. You will gain the benefits of a long rest by remaining in an inactive state for 6 hours. While in this state, you remain conscious and are aware of your surroundings.

Aura of the Undead Marshal

At 7th level, the cursed magic that prevents your soul from escaping your undead form will now serve to empower other undead under your control. You and Undead creatures under your command that are within 10 feet of you have advantage on saving throws against features that turn undead. If one of your undead within 10 feet of you would be reduced to 0 hit points, you can roll a d6. If you roll a 5-6, the undead gets up with 1 hit point. If a zombie under your control is reduced to 0 hit points while in your aura, you choose whether to use the zombie's undead fortitude feature or your aura feature when determining if it gets back up from being reduced to 0 hit points.

At 18th level, the range of this aura increases to 30 feet.

Undead Resistances

At 15th level, you gain advantage on saving throws against the exhaustion and poison conditions and resistance to necrotic and poison damage. You also gain advantage on death saving throws.

Death Knight

At 20th level, you can channel the cursed magic within, embodying the death knight. As a bonus action, you gain the following benefits for 1 minute:

• You have advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical effects.

• You gain immunity to the exhaustion and poison conditions, as well as immunity to necrotic and poison damage for this transformations duration.

• Undead creatures under your command gain a bonus to their AC, attack, and damage rolls equal to your Charisma modifier (minimum of +1).

Once you use this feature, you can't do so again until you finish a long rest.