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Sorcerer
Golden eyes flashing, a human stretches out her hand and unleashes the dragonfire that burns in her veins. As an inferno rages around her foes, leathery wings spread from her back and she takes to the air.
Long hair whipped by a conjured wind, a half-elf spreads his arms wide and throws his head back. Lifting him momentarily off the ground, a wave of magic surges up in him, through him, and out from him in a mighty blast of lightning.
Crouching behind a stalagmite, a halfling points a finger at a charging troglodyte. A blast of fire springs from her finger to strike the creature. She ducks back behind the rock formation with a grin, unaware that her wild magic has turned her skin bright blue.
Sorcerers carry a magical birthright conferred upon them by an exotic bloodline, some otherworldly influence, or exposure to unknown cosmic forces. One can't study sorcery as one learns a language, any more than one can learn to live a legendary life. No one chooses sorcery; the power chooses the sorcerer.
Innate Magic
Magic is a part of every sorcerer, suffusing body, mind, and spirit with a latent power that waits to be tapped. Some sorcerers wield magic that springs from an ancient bloodline infused with the magic of dragons. Others carry a raw, uncontrolled magic within them, a chaotic storm that manifests in unexpected ways.
The appearance of sorcerous powers is wildly unpredictable. Some draconic bloodlines produce exactly one sorcerer in every generation, but in other lines of descent every individual is a sorcerer. Most of the time, the talents of sorcery appear as apparant flukes. Some sorcerers can't name the origin of their power, wile others trace it to strange events in their own lives. The touch of a demon, the blessing of a dryad at a baby's birth, or a taste of the water from a mysterious spring might spark the gift of sorcery. So too might the gift of a deity of magic, exposure to the elemental forces of the Inner Planes or the maddening chaos of Limbo, or a glimpse into the inner workings of reality.
Sorcerers have no use for the spellbooks and ancient tomes of magic lore that wizards rely on, nor do they rely on a patron to grant their spells as warlocks do. By learning to harness and channel their own inborn magic, they can discover new and staggering ways to unleash their power.
Unexplained Powers
Sorcerers are rare in the world, and it's unusual to find a sorcerer who is not involved in the adventuring life in some way. People with magical power seething in their veins soon discover that the power doesn't like to stay quiet. A sorcerer's magic wants to be wielded, and it has a tendency to spill out in unpredictable ways if it isn't called on.
Creating a Sorcerer
Sorcerers often have obscure or quixotic motivations driving them to adventure. The most important question to consider when creating your sorcerer is the origin of your power. As a starting character, you'll choose an origin that ties to an array of varied species - but the exact source of your power is up to you to decide. Is it a family curse, passed down to you from distant ancestors? Or did some extraordinary event leave you blessed with innate magic but perhaps scarred as well?
How do you feel about the power coursing through you? Do you embrace it and master it, or revel in its unpredictable nature? Did you seek it out, or did it find you? Did you have the option to refuse it, and do you wish you had? Perhaps you feel like you've been given this power for a lofty purpose, or you might decide that the power gives you the right to do what you want, to take what you want from others. Maybe your power links you to a powerful individual in the world—the fey creature that blessed you at birth, the dragon who put a drop of its blood into your veins, the lich who created you as an experiment, or the deity who chose you to carry this gift.
Quick Build
You can make a sorcerer quickly by following these suggestions. First, Charisma should be your highest ability score, followed by Constitution. Second, choose the entertainer background. Third, choose the fire bolt, message, prestidigitation, and shocking grasp cantrips, along with the 1st-level spells shield and burning hands.
Optional Rule: Multiclassing
If your group uses the optional rule on multiclassing in the Player's Handbook, here's what you need to know if you choose the sorcerer as one of your classes.
Ability Score Minimum. As a multiclass character, you must have at least a 13 in Charisma to take a level in this class, or to take a level in another class if you are a sorcerer.
Sorcery. If you have both the Spellcasting class feature and the Sorcery class feature from the Sorcerer class, you can use the sorcery points you gain from the Sorcery feature to cast spells you know or have prepared from classes with the Spellcasting class feature, and you can use the spell slots you gain from the Spellcasting class feature to cast sorcery spells you know.
Sorcerer
Level | Proficiency Bonus | Features | Cantrips Known | Spells Known | Sorcery Points | Spell Limit | Expressions Known |
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1st | +2 | Sorcery, Sorcerous Origin | 4 | 2 | 4 | 1st | — |
2nd | +2 | Mystical Expressions, Spell Catalyst | 4 | 3 | 6 | 1st | 2 |
3rd | +2 | Sorcerous Recovery | 4 | 4 | 14 | 2nd | 3 |
4th | +2 | Ability Score Improvement | 5 | 5 | 17 | 2nd | 3 |
5th | +3 | — | 5 | 6 | 27 | 3rd | 4 |
6th | +3 | Sorcerous Origin feature | 5 | 7 | 32 | 3rd | 4 |
7th | +3 | — | 5 | 8 | 38 | 4th | 4 |
8th | +3 | Ability Score Improvement | 5 | 9 | 44 | 4th | 4 |
9th | +4 | — | 5 | 10 | 57 | 5th | 4 |
10th | +4 | Font of Magic | 6 | 10 | 64 | 5th | 6 |
11th | +4 | Sorcerous Arcanum (6th level) | 6 | 11 | 64 | 5th | 6 |
12th | +4 | Ability Score Improvement | 6 | 11 | 66 | 5th | 6 |
13th | +5 | Sorcerous Arcanum (7th level) | 6 | 12 | 66 | 5th | 7 |
14th | +5 | Sorcerous Origin feature | 6 | 12 | 68 | 5th | 7 |
15th | +5 | Sorcerous Arcanum (8th level) | 6 | 13 | 68 | 5th | 7 |
16th | +5 | Ability Score Improvement | 6 | 13 | 70 | 5th | 7 |
17th | +6 | Sorcerous Arcanum (9th level) | 6 | 14 | 70 | 5th | 7 |
18th | +6 | Sorcerous Origin feature | 6 | 14 | 72 | 5th | 8 |
19th | +6 | Ability Score Improvement | 6 | 15 | 73 | 5th | 8 |
20th | +6 | Sorcerous Actualization | 6 | 15 | 75 | 5th | 8 |
Class Features
As a sorcerer, you gain the following class features.
Hit Points
Hit Dice: 1d6 per sorcerer level
Hit Points at 1st Level: 6 + your Constitution modifier
Hit Points at Higher Levels: 1d6 (or 4) + your Constitution modifier per sorcerer level after 1st.
Proficiencies
Armor: None
Weapons: Simple weapons
Tools: None
Saving Throws: Constitution, Charisma
Skills: Choose two from Arcana, Deception, Insight,
Intimidation, Persuasion, and Religion
Equipment
You start with the following equipment, in addition to the equipment granted by your background:
- (a) a light crossbow and 20 bolts or (b) any simple weapon
- (a) a dungeoneer's pack or (b) an explorer's pack
- Two daggers
Spellcasting
An event in your past, or in the life of a parent or ancestor, left an indelible mark on you, infusing you with arcane magic. This font of magic, whatever its origin, fuels your spells. See chapter 10 for the general rules of spellcasting and chapter 11 for the sorcerer spell list.
Cantrips
At 1st level, you know four cantrips of your choice from the sorcerer spell list. You learn additional sorcerer cantrips of your choice at higher levels, as shown in the Cantrips Known column of the Sorcerer table.
Sorcery Points
The Sorcerer table shows how many sorcery points you have to cast your Spells of 1st-level and higher. To cast one of these sorcerer spells, you must expend the amount of sorcery points indicated in the table below. You regain all expended sorcery points when you finish a long rest.
For example, as a 3rd level sorcerer, you can cast the spell burning hands at 2nd-level by spending 3 sorcery points.
Sorcery Point Cost
Spell Level | Point Cost |
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Cantrip | 0 |
1st | 2 |
2nd | 3 |
Spell Level | Point Cost |
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3rd | 5 |
4th | 6 |
5th | 7 |
Spell Limit
Your sorcerer level limits the potency of spells that you can cast. This is reflected in the Spell Limit column of the Sorcerer Table. For example, as a 5th-level sorcerer, you are limited to casting spells of 3rd-level or lower.
Spells Known of
1st Level and Higher
You know two 1st-level spells of your choice from the sorcerer spell list.
The Spells Known column of the Sorcerer table shows when you learn more sorcerer spells of your choice. Each of these spells must be of a level for which you have spell slots. For instance, when you reach 3rd level in this class, you can learn one new spell of 1st or 2nd level.
Additionally, when you gain a level in this class, you can choose one of the sorcerer spells you know and replace it with another spell from the sorcerer spell list, which also must be of a level for which you have spell slots.
Sorcerous Versatility
When you finish a long rest, you may replace one of your known sorcerer spells (including cantrips) with another spell from the sorcerer spell list. The new spell must be of the same spell level as the spell you replace.
Spellcasting Ability
Charimsa is your spellcasting ability for your sorcerer spells, since the power of your magic relies on your ability to project your will into the world. 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 sorcerer spell you cast and when making an attack roll with one.
Spell Save DC
Spell attack modifier
Self Focus
When you cast spells that require a material component, you can ignore that component unless it has a value, such as the specially marked sticks, bones, or similar tokens worth at least 25 gp for the augury spell, in which case the components are required.
Sorcerous Origin
Choose a sorcerous origin, which describes the source of your innate magical power. There are too many to upkeep this list, and they're all linked at the end of the class description.
Your choice grants you features when you choose it at 1st level and again at 6th, 14th, and 18th level.
Origin Spells
Your sorcerous origin defines your power. At 1st, 3rd, 5th, 7th and 9th levels, you learn additional spells as shown on the Origin Spells feature. The spell counts as a sorcerer spell for you, but it doesn't count against the number of sorcerer spells you know.
Mystical Expressions
Your innate spark of magic allows you to produce wondrous effects. At 2nd level, you learn the Sorcerous Fortitude expression, and two other Mystical Expressions of your choice from the list at the end of this class description. You gain additional Expressions at higher levels, as shown in the Expressions Known column of the Sorcerer table.
Origin Expression
You gain access to one unique expression from your Sorcerous Origin. Add this to your list known of expressions. You can use your origin expression even if you have already used a different expression during the casting of the spell.
Spell Catalyst
At 2nd level, as your control over your innate magic grows, you can function as an arcane focus. You can allow a creature touching you to use you as an arcane focus for spells they cast until the end of your next turn.
When a creature casts a spell while using you as an arcane focus, you can use your reaction and spend 2 sorcery points to influence the spell in one of the following ways. You must use this reaction before the spell's effects activate.
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Guided Spell. You add half your proficiency bonus (rounded down) to the attack or damage roll of the spell.
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Strengthened Spell. You add half your proficiency bonus (rounded down) to the spell save DC or damage roll of the spell.
At 6th level, you gain the ability to directly shape the magical energies around you. When a creature casts a spell while using you as an arcane focus, you can use your reaction to affect the spell with a Expression you know, spending sorcery points as per normal.
Sorcerous Recovery
Your sorcerous body feeds on magic, turning the raw energies of the world into powerful sorcery. At 3rd level, your innate connection to magic allows you to regain some of your arcane energy when resting.
At the end of a short rest you can recover sorcery points equal to your sorcerer level. Once you use this ability you must complete a long rest before you can use it again
Ability Score Improvement
When you reach 4th level, and again at 8th, 12th, 16th, and 19th level, you can increase one ability score of your choice by 2, or you can increase two ability scores of your choice by 1. As normal, you can't increase an ability score above 20 using this feature.
Font of Magic
Beginning at 10th level, you can draw on your innate arcane power to cast spells currently unknown to you. Once per long rest, you can cast one spell of your choice from the sorcerer spell list, equal to your Spell Limit or lower. You must expend Sorcery Points as normal to cast this spell. You can apply any Mystical Expression you know to the spell as normal.
Sorcerous Arcanum
At 11th level, your innate sorcerous power manifests as a Sorcerous Arcanum, a powerful arcane spell. Choose one 6th-level spell from the sorcerer spell list as this arcanum. It does not count against your number of Spells Known.
You can cast your arcanum spell once, without expending sorcery points, and you regain all uses of your Sorcerous Arcanum when you finish a long rest.
At higher levels, you gain more spells that can be cast in this way: one 7th-level spell at 13th level, one 8th-level spell at 15th level, and one 9th-level spell at 17th level.
When you cast your Sorcerous Arcanum spells you can apply a Expression you know to the spell as long as the spell is eligible. At the end of a long rest you can replace one of your Sorcerous Arcanum spells with a spell of the same level from the sorcerer spell list.
Sorcerous Actualization
At 20th level, your ability to freely manipulate magic goes unparalleled. You gain the following benefits:
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You regain 10 expended sorcery points whenever you finish a short rest.
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Your Expression options all have their sorcery point cost reduced by 1 (to a minimum of 1).
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You can apply any number of Expression options to a spell, as long as you have the sorcery points to do so.
Mystical Expressions
Listed below are the Expression available to a sorcerer. When you gain a level in this class, you can choose one of the mystical expressions you know and replace it with another of your choice that you meet the prerequisites for.
You can only apply one expression to each spell you cast, unless the expression itself says otherwise.
Arcane Tenacity
When you are forced to make a Constitution saving throw to maintain concentration on a spell, you can use your reaction to expend 3 sorcery points and add your Charisma modifier (minimum of 1) to the result of the saving throw.
Careful Spell
When you cast a spell that forces other creatures to make a saving throw, you can protect some of those creatures from the spell's full force. To do so, you spend 1 sorcery point and choose a number of those creatures up to your Charisma modifier (minimum of one creature). A chosen creature automatically succeeds on its saving throws against the spell on each turn. Chosen creatures take no damage if they would take half.
Immutable Will
Your innate arcane will makes you more resistant to effects that would debilitate others. When you fail an Intelligence, Wisdom, or Charisma saving throw, you can use your reaction to spend 3 sorcery points to re-roll. You must use the new d20 roll, potentially turning it into a success.
Magical Guidance
You can tap into your arcane spark to try and turn failure into success. When you fail an ability check, you can use your reaction to spend 2 sorcery points to re-roll the d20. You must use the new d20 roll, potentially turning it into a success.
Measured Spell
When you reduce a creature to 0 hit points with a spell, you can spend 1 sorcery point to knock the creature out, rendering it unconscious, rather than deal a killing blow.
Shaped Spell
When you cast a spell with a range that affects an area, you can change the area's shape in one of the following ways (rounding down to the nearest 5 when needed):
- If the spell's range is a line, you can change it to a cone of one quarter of the range or a single target spell with twice the range.
- If the spell's range is a cone, you can change it to a 5-foot- wide line with double range.
- If the spell's range is a cube, you can change it to a 5-foot- wide line with range of twice the size of the cube.
- If the spell's range is a sphere, you can change its area to a cylinder of half radius and double height or a 5-foot-wide line with range equal to twice the radius.
- If the spell's range is a cylinder, you can change its area to a sphere of the same radius or a 5-foot-wide line with range equal to twice the radius.
You can use Shaped Spell even if you have already used a different Expression option during the casting of the spell.
Maximized Spell
When you cast a sorcerer spell of 1st level or higher that deals damage, you can spend 3 sorcery points to deal maximum damage with the spell to one affected target of your choice.
Seeking Spell
When you make an attack roll for a spell and miss, you can spend 2 sorcery points to re-roll the d20. You must use the new d20 roll, potentially turning it into a hit.
You can use Seeking Spell if you have already used a different expression ability during the casting of the spell.
Contingent Spell
When you cast a spell of 5th level or lower, you may spend 3 sorcery points to delay the spell, casting it when certain circumstances have been met. These circumstances are designated when you cast the spell and cannot be changed afterwards. The spell’s energy fades after 8 hours if it has not been triggered.
Unerring Spell
When you cast a spell that requires an attack roll or a Dexterity saving throw, you can spend 1 sorcery point to ignore the effects of half and three-quarters cover.
Potent Spell
When one or more creatures would take no damage following a successful saving throw against a spell you cast either as part of the spell's effect, a feature, or some other effect other than having immunity to all of the spell's damage types, you can spend sorcery points equal to the spell's level to deal half the spell's damage to one of those creatures (1 sorcery point if the spell is a cantrip). The creature suffers no additional effect from the spell.
Incantated Spell
When you cast a spell with the ritual tag, you can spend 1 sorcery point to cast the spell as a ritual.
Brutal Spell
When you cast a spell that requires an attack roll or affects a weapon, you may spend 2 sorcery points. If you do, the spell scores a critical hit on a 19 or 20. You can use Brutal Spell even if you have already used a different Expression option during the casting of the spell.
Stable Spell
When a spell you cast would affected by counterspell or dispel magic, you may spend 2 sorcery points as a reaction to impose disadvantage on the check made by those spells. If your spell would be countered or dispelled without a roll, you instead force the roll to occur.
You may use this Expression option even if you have used another on the same spell.
Distant Spell
When you cast a spell that has a range of 5 feet or greater, you can spend 1 sorcery point to double the range of the spell.
When you cast a spell that has a range of touch or self, you can spend 1 sorcery point to make the range of the spell 30 feet.
Empowered Spell
When you roll damage for a spell, you can spend 1 sorcery point to reroll a number of the damage die up to your Charisma modifier (minimum of 1). You can choose the higher of the rolls.
You can use Empowered Spell even if you have already used a different Expression option during the casting of the spell.
Enduring Spell
When you cast a spell, you can spend 2 sorcery points to reinforce it. The first time you fail a saving throw to keep your concentration on the spell, you do not lose concentration.
Extended Spell
When you cast a spell that has a duration of 1 minute, you can spend 2 sorcery points to change the duration to 10 minutes.
When you cast a spell that has a duration of 10 minutes, you can spend 2 sorcery points to change the duration to 1 hour.
When you cast a spell that has a duration of 1 hour, you can spend 2 sorcery points to change the duration to 8 hours.
Heightened Spell
When you cast a spell that forces a creature to make a saving throw to resist its effects, you can spend 2 sorcery points to give one target of the spell disadvantage on its first saving throw made against the spell.
Piercing Sorcery
When you deal damage with a sorcerer spell or sorcerer class feature, you can spend 1 sorcery point to ignore resistance to the damage dealt.
You can use Piercing Sorcery even if you have already used a different Expression option during the casting of the spell.
Quickened Spell
When you cast a spell that has a casting time of 1 action, you can spend 3 sorcery points to change the casting time to 1 bonus action for this casting.
Subtle Spell
When you cast a spell, you can spend 1 sorcery point to cast it without any somatic or verbal components.
Twinned Spell
When you cast a spell that targets only one creature and doesn't have a range of self, you can spend a number of sorcery points equal to the spell's level to target a second creature in range with the same spell (1 sorcery point if the spell is a cantrip).
To be eligible, a spell must be incapable of targeting more than one creature at the spell's current level. For example, magic missile and scorching ray aren't eligible, but ray of frost and chromatic orb are.
Dynamic Presence
Your power manifests through your personality. You gain proficiency in either Deception, Intimidation, or Persuasion. If you are already proficient in that skill, you gain proficiency in another skill of your choice from the sorcerer skill list. Whenever you make an ability check with that skill, you can spend 1 sorcery point to grant yourself advantage on the roll.
You can select this manifestation more than once, but you must select a different skill proficiency each time.
Imbuing Touch
As a bonus action, you can touch one non-magical weapon and spend 1 sorcery point to imbue it with magic for 1 minute. For the duration, the weapon is considered magical for the purpose of overcoming immunity and resistance to non-magical attacks. The weapon does not count as magical for the purposes of spells such as magic weapon, or elemental weapon.
Sorcerous Fortitude
As an action, you can spend any number of sorcery points to reinforce your defences. Roll a d6 for each point expended. You gain a number of temporary hit points equal to the result.
Adjacent Spell
When you cast a spell that requires you to make a ranged spell attack while there is an enemy creature within 5 feet of you, you can spend 1 additional sorcery point to make your ranged spell attack without disadvantage.
Empowered Cantrip
When you cast a sorcerer cantrip you can expend 1 sorcery point to increase the power of that cantrip. For example, if you are a 1st level sorcerer, you can expend 1 sorcery point to cast firebolt as if you were a 5th level sorcerer.
Misdirected Spell
When you cast a spell that originates from you, you can expend 3 additional sorcery points to cause the spell to appear as if it had originated from a point of your choice within 30 feet of you that you can see.
Sorcerous Origins
Draconic Bloodline
Your innate magic comes from draconic magic that was mingled with your blood or that of your ancestors. Most often, sorcerers with this origin trace their descent back to a mighty sorcerer of ancient times who made a bargain with a dragon or who might even have claimed a dragon parent. Some of these bloodlines are well established in the world, but most are obscure. Any given sorcerer could be the first of a new bloodline, as a result of a pact or some other exceptional circumstance.
Draconic Origin Spells
When you gain origin spells at the levels noted in the Draconic Origin Spells table, you gain the Bloodline Spell, and the spell associated with your Draconic Ancestry.
Whenever you gain a sorcerer level, you can replace one spell from this feature with another spell of the same level. The new spell must be an enchantment or evocation spell from the sorcerer, warlock, or wizard spell list.
Sorcerer Level | All Bloodlines | Black/Copper | White/Silver |
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1st | command | caustic brew | frost fingers |
3rd | dragon's breath | acid arrow | snowball swarm |
5th | fear | slow | sleet storm |
7th | elemental bane | vitriolic sphere | ice storm |
9th | dominate person | insect plague | cone of cold |
Sorcerer Level | Red/Gold/Brass | Blue/Bronze | Green |
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1st | burning hands | thunderwave | ray of sickness |
3rd | scorching ray | shatter | suggestion |
5th | fireball | lightning bolt | stinking cloud |
7th | fire shield (fire) | storm sphere | dominate beast |
9th | immolation | control winds | cloudkill |
Origin Expression
Draconic Spell. When you cast a spell that deals the type of damage associated with your draconic ancestry feature, you may spend 1 sorcery point. If the spell affects an area or multiple targets, you must spend 1 sorcery point for each target you wish to affect.
After a target takes damage from the spell, they become immersed in magical energy and take 1d8 damage each round of the same damage type. An affected creature can spend an action and all of their movement to end this effect.
Draconic Resilience
As magic flows through your body, it causes physical traits of your dragon ancestors to emerge. At 1st level, your hit point maximum increases by 1 and increases by 1 again whenever you gain a level in this class.
Additionally, parts of your skin are covered by a thin sheen of dragon-like scales. When you aren't wearing armor, your AC equals 13 + your Dexterity modifier.
Dragon Ancestor
At 1st level, you choose one type of dragon as your ancestor. The damage type associated with each dragon is used by features you gain later.
Draconic Ancestry
Dragon | Damage Type |
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Black | Acid |
Blue | Lightning |
Brass | Fire |
Bronze | Lightning |
Copper | Acid |
Gold | Fire |
Green | Poison |
Red | Fire |
Silver | Cold |
White | Cold |
You can speak, read, and write Draconic. Additionally, whenever you make a Charisma check when interacting with dragons, your proficiency bonus is doubled if it applies to the check.
Elemental Affinity
Starting at 6th level, each time you deal the damage type associated with your draconic ancestry with a spell, you may add your Charisma modifier (minimum of 1) to one damage roll of the spell.
In addition, you gain the Elemental Spell expression, and it doesn't count against your number of Expression Known. You can apply Elemental Spell to a sorcerer spell at no additional cost, as long as you change the damage type of the spell to the type associated with your draconic ancestry.
Dragon Wings
At 14th level, you gain the ability to sprout a pair of dragon wings from your back, gaining a flying speed equal to your current speed. You can create these wings as a bonus action on your turn. They last until you dismiss them as a bonus action on your turn.
You can't manifest your wings while wearing armor unless the armor is made to accommodate them, and clothing not made to accommodate your wings might be destroyed when you manifest them.
Draconic Presence
At 18th level, you can exude the fearsome power of a true dragon. As an action, you can spend 5 sorcery points to emanate an aura of awe or fear (your choice) in a 60-foot radius. For 1 minute, hostile creatures that start their turn within the aura must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw or be charmed (awe) or frightened (fear) until the aura ends. On a success, creatures are immune to this aura for 24 hours.
Additionally, you gain immunity to the damage type associated with your draconic ancestor.
Raw Magic
You are capable of tapping directly into the source of arcane magic. Your magic is unfiltered, powerful, and hard to control, capable of both increased power and unpredictable side effects. You might have been born with this innate capability, or perhaps an encounter with powerful magic has imbued you with these chaotic abilities.
Raw Origin Spells
Whenever you gain a sorcerer level, you can replace one spell you gained from this feature with another spell of the same level. The new spell must be an evocation or transmutation spell from the sorcerer, warlock, or wizard spell list.
Sorcerer Level | Spells |
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1st | chaos bolt, sleep |
3rd | enlarge/reduce, misty step |
5th | blink, hypnotic pattern |
7th | confusion, polymorph |
9th | animate objects, wall of force |
Origin Expression
Chaotic Spell. When you cast a spell of 1st level or higher, you may spend between 1-3 sorcery points and immediately roll on the Wild Magic Surge table that many times.
Raw Magic
Starting when you choose this origin at 1st level, your spellcasting can unleash surges of untamed magic. Immediately after you cast a sorcerer spell of 1st-level or higher, roll a d10. If you roll a number equal to, or lower than, level of the spell you cast, roll on the Wild Magic Surge table to create a random magical effect.
If a Wild Magic effect is a spell, it's too wild to be affected by Expression. If it normally requires concentration, it doesn't require concentration in this case; the spell lasts for its full duration.
Magical Interference
Starting at 1st level, whenever a creature other than yourself within 30 feet of you casts a spell of 1st level or higher, you can use your reaction to force them to roll on the Wild Magic table, causing a random side magical effect.
Twisted Fate
At 6th level, when a creature you can see makes an attack roll or saving throw, you can use your reaction to spend 1 sorcery point to apply a bonus or penalty of 1d6 to the roll (your choice). You can do so after the creature rolls, but before any effects of the roll occur. If that creature then makes an attack roll or saving throw within one minute, it applies a bonus or penalty of 1d6 to the roll. If you applied a penalty, it gains a bonus, and vice versa.
Surge Control
At 14th level, you gain a measure of control over your raw magic surges. Whenever you roll on the Wild Magic table, you can reroll the die. You may use either roll. Additionally, when you are imperiled, the magic within you can lash out; immediately after you take damage or fail a saving throw, you can use your reaction to roll on the Wild Magic table and immediately produce the effect rolled. This effect replaces your current Wild Magic effect.
Unlimited Power
Beginning at 18th level, you are able to directly overcharge your spells at cost to your own well-being. When you roll damage for a sorcerer spell of 1st level or higher, you may spend a number of hit dice up to your Charisma modifier. You and any targets of the spell take force damage equal to the total rolled. You can use this feature only once per turn.
Godtouched
The gods are beings of immense power, but yet, they are distant, refraining from directly meddling in the affairs of mortals. Instead, they invest mortal agents with their powers to carry out their will upon the material plane. A Godtouched is one such agent, imbued with divine power by the gods to complete a specific quest. You might have been godtouched at birth, or through some divine revelation later in life. Your magic is divine, your very being carrying a spark of the gods’ own power within it. Unlike other agents of the gods, you require no faith and no ritual to channel their might.
The gods have vested you with a purpose, a fate, a destiny to fulfill. It may be a legendary prophecy, or an enigmatic quest that you yourself do not know the extent of. You may receive celestial visions or messages concerning your destiny, and dark forces are almost assuredly working to stop it.
Godtouched Origin Spells
At 1st level, choose a cleric domain. You cannot change this choice later. These domain spells become your origin spells, and you gain them at the listed levels.
Orign Expression
Restorative Spell. When you cast a spell that targets a single creature, you can spend 2 sorcery points to end either one disease or one condition affecting it. The condition can be blinded, deafened, paralyzed, or poisoned.
Divine Soul
Your link to the divine allows you to learn spells from the cleric class. When your Spellcasting feature lets you learn or replace a sorcerer cantrip or a sorcerer spell of 1st level or higher, you can choose the new spell from the cleric spell list or the sorcerer spell list. You must otherwise obey all the restrictions for selecting the spell, and it becomes a sorcerer spell for you.
In addition, Whenever you gain a sorcerer level, you can replace one spell from your Godtouched Origin Spells list with another spell of the same level. The new spell can be any spell of your choice from the cleric spell list.
Finally, you can speak Celestial, and you are able to use a holy symbol as your spellcasting focus.
Favored Destiny
At 1st level, your destiny is ordained by celestial powers, and fate itself can be bent to serve it. Work with your DM to determine what your divine destiny is, and how much you know about it. You have advantage on Intelligence and Wisdom checks to recall information or discover insights about your destiny.
If you fail an ability check, saving throw, or attack roll, you can roll 2d6 and add it to the total, possibly changing the outcome. Once you use this feature, you can't use it again until you finish a short or long rest.
Channel Divinity
Beginning at 6th level, you are able to channel divine energy to fuel magical effects. Each Channel Divinity option listed below explains how to use it. When you use your Channel Divinity, you choose which option to use. You must finish a short or long rest to use your Channel Divinity again.
Some Channel Divinity effects require saving throws. When you use such an effect from this class, the DC equals your sorcerer spell save DC.
Blessing of Life. When you use a spell of 1st level or higher to restore hit points to a creature, you can cause the creature to regain additional hitpoints equal to 1d10 + the spell's level, using your Channel Divinity.
Blinding Rebuke. When you are damaged by a creature within 60 feet of you that you can see, you can use your Channel Divinity as a reaction to cause a blinding flash of light to erupt in front of the target. The target must succeed on a Constitution saving throw or be blinded until the end of its next turn.
Empowered Radiance. When you roll damage for a spell, you can use your Channel Divinity to deal additional radiant damage equal to the spell’s level + your Charisma modifier to each creature damaged by the spell.
Seraphic Form
At 14th level, your divine essence causes you to undergo a physical transformation. Your appearance takes on an otherworldly aspect, simultaneously beautiful, kind, and imposing. You gain proficiency with Intimidation and Persuasion, and your proficiency bonus is doubled for ability checks that use them.
Additionally, you are able to briefly conjure spectral wings to bear you aloft. As a bonus action you can conjure these wings, granting you a flying speed of 30 feet until the end of your turn. Whenever you fall, you descend 60 feet per round until you land, which you do safely. You choose the appearance of the wings, such as angelic or bat-like.
Martyrdom
Starting at 18th level, you are a divine beacon even in the darkest of times. When you are reduced to 0 hitpoints, a burst of divine energy is released from your body, affecting all creatures within 60 feet of you. Hostile creatures within the radius must succeed on a Charisma saving throw against your sorcerer spell save DC. A target takes 8d6 radiant damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one. Friendly creatures within the radius gain 8d6 temporary hitpoints. Once you have used this feature, you can't do so again until you finish a long rest.
Arcane Scion
You are the descendant of an arcanist of great renown, a specialist in one of the eight schools of magic, whose mastery was so complete that their very blood was imbued by magic. Whether this ancestor was many generations past, or your own parent, their arcane mastery has again manifested in you, giving you an innate access to magic that others would have to study and learn. You have a particular affinity for your ancestor's favorite school of magic, and are able to wield it to great effect.
Arcane Scion Origin Spells
At 1st level, and again when you reach 3rd, 5th, 7th, and 9th level in this class, choose two spells from your ancestor's school of magic. These spells can be from any spell list. A spell you choose must be 1st-level or higher, and of a level you can cast, as shown on the Sorcerer table. The chosen spells count as your origin spells for this sorcerous origin.
Origin Expression
Resistant Spell. When you cast a sorcerer spell, you can spend 1 sorcery point to focus your will. When you do, you have advantage on all saving throws against spells and magical effects until the end of your next turn.
Arcane Intuition
At 1st level, choose one type of school of magic that was your ancestor's special focus. When your Spellcasting feature lets you learn a sorcerer cantrip or a sorcerer spell, you can choose the new spell from the bard, artificer, or wizard spell list if it is from your ancestor's school of magic.
In addition, you learn a cantrip and one 1st-level spell from the bard, artificer, or wizard spell lists in that school of magic. The cantrip and spell are always sorcerer spells for you, but they don't count against your number of sorcerer spells or cantrips known. If you later replace the spell, you must replace it with a spell from the bard, artificer, or wizard spell lists in your ancestor's school of magic.
Ancestral Knowledge
You inherited more than just an instinct for magic from your ancestor. At 1st level, choose Arcana, History, Investigation, or Religion. You gain proficiency in that skill. If you already have proficiency with your chosen skill, you add double your proficiency bonus to checks you make with the skill. You use Charisma as the ability for your chosen skill.
Sorcerous Consumption
At 6th level, you learn how to consume and repurpose magical energies for your own usage. When you take damage from a spell, or successfully end a spell (via means such as counterspell or dispel magic) cast by another creature or object, you can use your reaction to regain a number of expended sorcery points equal to the level of that spell.
You can do this twice per short or long rest.
At 9th level, you can do this three times per short or long rest.
In addition, you have resistance to damage dealt by spells and other magical effects.
Spell-tinkering Savant
At 14th level, your study into the ways of magic allows you to alter the effects of a spell from your ancestor's school of magic beyond the capabilities of most spellcasters. When you cast a spell from your ancestor's school of magic, you may apply one of the following effects. You may do this a number of times equal to half your Charisma Modifier (rounded down, min 1). You may only use one of these effects per spell, per turn. You regain all expended uses after finishing a long rest.
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If you cast a spell that requires concentration, you can spend 2 sorcery points to gain advantage on concentration saving throws for that spell. If you already have advantage, you can instead reroll one of the d20s, taking the higher result.
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If the spell has a range of self, you can spend 4 sorcery points to target a number of willing creatures up to your charisma modifier (minimum of one), within 30 feet. You can only use this option on spells of 5th-level and lower.
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If you cast a spell that deals damage, you may change all damage dealt by the spell to force damage.
Boundless Intuition
Starting at 14th level, your ancestor's influence has allowed you to learn spells normally unavailable to those of your ilk. When your Spellcasting feature allows you to learn a cantrip or a spell of 1st level or higher, you may learn a Spell from your ancestor's school. This spell can be from any class's spell list.
Spell Master's Legacy
At 18th level, the innate influence of your ancestor grants you their own power, the ability to cast one of your ancestor’s signature spells.
Choose a spell of 1st or 2nd-level in your ancestor’s school of magic that you know. You can cast that spell at will as if expending a 2nd-level spell slot. If you want to cast the spell at a higher level, you must expend a spell slot as normal.
By spending 8 hours in self reflection, you can exchange the spell you chose for a different spell of 1st or 2nd-level in your ancestor's school of magic that you know.
Stoneblood
You are a stoneblood sorcerer, a mortal who has been imbued with a mote of pure elemental earth. You are suffused with the stalwart power of pure stone, making you as immovable and unyielding as the mountains. Were you gifted this power by an ancient earth elemental, barter for it with the greedy Dao, or are you descended from one of the original Dwarven fathers, molded from the bedrock of the world itself?
The earthen power within drives you to remain steadfast in your decisions, unyielding in your beliefs, and subtly drives you to hoard the fruits of the earth; precious gems and alloys.
Stoneblood Spells
Whenever you gain a level in this class, you can replace one spell from this feature with another spell of the same level, that only deals bludgeoning damage, from any spell list.
Sorcerer Level | Spells |
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1st | earth tremor, heavy blow |
3rd | earthen grasp, earth ripple |
5th | erupting earth, meld into stone |
7th | resilient sphere, stoneskin |
9th | wall of stone, xorn movement |
Origin Expression
Crushing Spell. When you cast a sorcerer spell that affects a hostile creature, you can spend 1 sorcery point to enforce the crushing weight earth. The target must make a Strength saving throw against your spell save DC, or be restrained until the start of their next turn.
Heart of Stone
You can draw upon the earthen magic within you to envelop your physical form in elemental stone. Starting at 1st level, you can use a bonus action on your turn to take on an earthen elemental form, granting you the following benefits:
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You gain temporary hit points equal to your sorcerer level.
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If you are not wearing armor or wielding a shield, your armor class is equal to 13 + your Constitution modifier.
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You use your Constitution modifier, in place of Strength, for the attack and damage rolls of your unarmed strikes.
This form lasts for 1 minute, unless you end it as a bonus action or you fall unconscious. You can transform a number of times equal to your Charisma modifier (minimum of once), and you regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest.
Your power allows you to speak, read, and write Terran, the language of the Elemental Plane of Earth. Knowing Terran allows you to communicate with creatures that speak Primordial and its dialects: Aquan, Auran, and Ignan.
Earthen Armament
As a descendant of the Dao you have inherited their ability to manipulate the earth and stone to defend yourself. Starting at 1st level, you can use a bonus action to plunge your arm into any earth or stone and draw material from the Plane of Earth to create a weapon known as an earthen armament. This weapon has both the heavy and versatile (1d12) properties, and you are considered proficient with it. When you attack with your earthen armament you can use your Constitution modifier, in place of Strength, for attack and damage rolls, and it deals 1d10 bludgeoning, piercing, or slashing damage on hit (you choose when you create the armament).
Your earthen armament lasts for one minute, or until you let go of it, at which point it dissipates into fine dirt or stone.
Crushing Blows
You can empower your strikes with the power of pure rock. Starting at 6th level, when you hit with an unarmed strike or melee weapon attack, you can expend sorcery points to deal additional magical bludgeoning damage to the target.
This damage is 2d6 for 2 sorcery points, plus 1d6 for each additional sorcery point you expend, to a maximum of 6d6.
In addition, attacks you make with your earthen armament count as magical for the sake of overcoming resistances.
Extra Attack
Starting at 6th level, you can attack twice, instead of once, whenever you take the Attack action. Moreover, you can cast one of your sorcerer cantrips in place of one of those attacks.
Aegis of Stone
Your connection to the elemental magic of earth allows you to extend its resolute protection to yourself and allied creatures. Beginning at 14th level, you can expend 3 sorcery points as a bonus action to grant an aegis of protective earth magic to yourself or one creature you touch. The stone aegis grants the creature resistance to nonmagical bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing damage for 1 minute.
When a creature hits a protected target, other then you, with a melee attack, you can use your reaction to teleport to an unoccupied space within 5 feet of the attacker and make one melee weapon attack against them. You can teleport in this way only if you and the attacker are on the same surface.
If you use this ability to grant a protective aegis to another creature, the effect immediately ends for the first creature.
Primordial Bulwark
You have mastered the elemental earth that dwells deep within your soul, causing you to become more elemental then mortal. Upon reaching 18th level, you no longer need to eat, drink, or sleep, and you gain resistance to all bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing damage.
In addition, you can have up to three creatures of your choice under the effects of your Aegis of Stone at one time.
Stone Forming
transmutation cantrip
- Classes: Druid, Sorcerer
- Casting Time: 1 bonus action
- Range: Touch
- Components: V, S
- Duration: Instantaneous.
You touch a stone surface or the ground, and call forth stone that shapes itself to your command. You can make any roughly shaped item from the stone, including functional simple or martial melee weapons. You are proficient with these weapons. Items crumble to pebbles after 1 minute.
Heavy Blow
1st-level transmutation
- Classes: Druid, Sorcerer, Wizard
- Casting Time: 1 bonus action
- Range: Self
- Components: V
- Duration: Concentration, up to 1 minute.
You impart great heft to a weapon you are holding. The first time you hit with a melee weapon attack with that weapon during the spell's duration, your blow strikes with great force, and the attack deals an extra 2d6 bludgeoning damage to the target and must succeed a Constitution saving throw, or become stunned until the start of its next turn.
At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 2nd level or higher, the extra damage increases by 1d6 for each slot level above 2nd. When cast with a spell slot of 4th level or higher, a target that fails the constitution saving throw is stunned until the end of its next turn.
Earth Ripple
2nd-level transmutation
- Classes: Druid, Sorcerer, Wizard
- Casting Time: 1 action
- Range: 60 feet
- Components: V, S, M (a cracked pebble)
- Duration: Instantaneous.
You cause the earth to deform and ripple, a target creature must make a Dexterity saving throw or suffer one of the following effects of your choice:
- It is pulled into the earth, taking 1d6 bludgeoning damage and have their movement speed reduced to zero until it or another creature spends an action to dig them free.
- It is slammed in a direction of your choice, taking 2d8 bludgeoning damage, being moved 5 feet, and knocked prone.
- It is impaled by a spike of rock, taking 4d8 piercing damage.
Orbital Stones
4th-level transmutation
- Classes: Druid, Sorcerer, Warlock
- Casting Time: 1 action
- Range: Self
- Components: V, S
- Duration: Concentration, Up to 1 Minute.
You lift three small to medium rocks or similar objects from within 10 feet of you, causing them defy to gravity and slowly circle you. While all three are in orbit around you, you have total cover against ranged attacks. While two are in orbit, you have three quarters cover, and while only one remains, you have half cover. The spell ends when none of them are orbiting you.
As a bonus action while at least one object remains in orbit, you can magically fling it at target within 60 feet. Make a ranged spell attack roll. On hit, the target takes 2d12 bludgeoning damage and is knocked 5 feet directly away from you.
Xorn Movement
5th-level transmutation
- Classes: Druid, Sorcerer, Wizard
- Casting Time: 1 action
- Range: Touch
- Components: V, S, M (a scale from a xorn's hide)
- Duration: Concentration, up to 1 minute
You or a creature you touch can travel through the earth itself without leaving any mark of passage. The target gains a burrow speed equal to its walking speed. In addition, when burrowing through nonmagical, unworked earth and stone, the target leaves its hands free and doesn't disturb the material it moves through. The recipient can extend the magical aura of this spell to bring any object or creature it is carrying or grappling as it burrows. The target enjoys no special protections from this effect except for the cover of the stone or earth around it.
If this spell or its effects end on the target or any other object or creature placed within stone or earth by means of this spell, you or any such object or creature are expelled from the earth, moving at 60 feet per round toward the nearest open space large enough to fit into comfortably and taking 6d6 bludgeoning damage upon exiting into that space.
Entomb
6th-level transmutation
- Classes: Druid, Sorcerer, Wizard
- Casting Time: 1 action
- Range: 90 feet
- Components: V, S, M (a chip of granite)
- Duration: 8 hours
You cause slabs of rock to burst out of the ground or another stone surface to form a 10-foot cube within range. When the cube forms, a creature inside must succeed on a Dexterity saving throw or be trapped in the stone tomb. The tomb is airtight, with enough air for a single Medium or Small creature to breathe for 8 hours. Divide the time evenly between the number of creatures trapped within. A Large creature counts as four Medium creatures. If the creature is still trapped inside when the air runs out, it begins to suffocate.
The tomb has an AC 18 and 50 hit points. It is resistant to fire, cold, lightning, bludgeoning, and slashing damage, is immune to poison and psychic damage, and is vulnerable to thunder damage. When reduced to 0 hit points, the tomb crumbles into harmless powder.
Fault Line
6th-level transmutation
- Classes: Druid, Sorcerer, Wizard
- Casting Time: 1 action
- Range: Self
- Components: V, S
- Duration: 1 minute
This spell thrusts the ground sharply upward along a 60-foot line that you designate. All spaces affected by the spell become difficult terrain. In addition, all creatures in an affected space are knocked prone and take 10d6 bludgeoning damage. Creatures that make a successful Dexterity saving throw take half damage and are not knocked prone. This spell doesn't damage permanent structures.
Greater Stone Shape
7th-level transmutation
- Classes: Druid, Sorcerer, Wizard
- Casting Time: 1 action
- Range: 30 feet
- Components: V, S, M (soft clay, which must be worked into roughly the desired shape of the object)
- Duration: Instantaneous
This spell functions like stone shape, but you may shape a stone object of Huge size or smaller. The stone object you touch can be up to 15 feet in any dimension. You can also mold intricate detail into your creation, such as a stone set of double doors carved with intricate designs and up to four hinges.
Storm Sorcery
Within you dwells a mote of pure elemental air, granting you an innate power over gentle breeze and raging storm. Was this power bestowed upon you at birth by a noble Djinni, did your parents make a deal with a powerful air elemental, or were you born in the eye of a great storm?
Whatever the origin of your affinity for the skies, the primal storm within you drives you from whimsical and calm, to wild and violent with little warning. Do you embrace the call of the winds, wandering from land to land, or do you seek to control the raging storm that fuels your innate arcane power?
Storm Origin Spells
Whenever you gain a level in this class, you can replace one spell from this feature with another spell of the same level, that deals only lighting damage, or only thunder damage, from any class's spell list.
Sorcerer Level | Spells |
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1st | feather fall, thunderwave |
3rd | shatter, warding wind |
5th | call lightning, wind wall |
7th | storm sphere, summon elemental (air) |
9th | arcane hand, control winds |
Origin Expression
Tempestous Spell. When you cast a spell that deals damage, you can spend 1 sorcery point to change the damage dealt into lightning or thunder damage (your choice). When you do so, one target of the spell must make a Constitution saving throw. On a failed save, they are restrained until the start of their next turn.
Heart of the Storm
Drawing upon the tempestuous magic within you allows you to take flight, if only briefly. Starting at 1st level, when you cast a spell of 1st-level or higher you gain a temporary flying speed equal to your remaining movement speed, that lasts until the end of your current turn. If you end your movement in the air you fall to the ground. While using this feature, your flight does not provoke opportunity attacks.
Your power allows you to speak, read, and write Auran, the language of the Elemental Plane of Air. Knowing Auran allows you to communicate with creatures that speak Primordial and its dialects: Aquan, Ignan, and Terran.
Eye of the Storm
Your control over your inner storm has grown. Upon reaching 6th level, you are resistant to lightning and thunder damage.
In addition, each time you cast a spell of 1st-level or higher that deals lightning or thunder damage, you can cause stormy magic to erupt from you, and force creatures of your choice within 15 feet to make a Dexterity Saving throw. On a failed save, they take 2d6 lighting or thunder damage (your choice).
When you use this feature, you can expend additional sorcery points as a free action to increase the damage dealt. For each additional sorcery point, you deal an additional 1d6 lightning or thunder damage, to a maximum of 6d6 damage.
Storm Guide
Your affinity for the winds allows you to exert control over the weather around you. Starting at 6th level, you can control existing weather conditions in the following ways:
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If it is raining, as an action, you can stop the rain from falling in a 20-foot radius sphere centered on you. You can end this effect as a bonus action on your turn.
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If it is windy, as a bonus action, you can change the direction the wind blows within a 100-foot radius sphere centered on you. The wind blows in the direction you choose until the end of your next turn.
Windcaller
Beginning at 14th level, your power over the wind allows you to fly. You gain a flying speed equal to your movement speed.
In addition, you can expend 9 sorcery points to cast the wind walk spell, which counts as a sorcerer spell for you.
Primordial Soul
The storm within you has made you more elemental than mortal. Starting at 18th level, you do not need to eat, drink, or sleep, and you are immune to lightning and thunder damage.
In addition, when you take damage from a creature within 60 feet that you can see, you can use your reaction to rebuke them with elemental air. The attacking creature must make a Dexterity saving throw, and on a failed save they take lighting or thunder damage (your choice) equal to your sorcerer level.
Wintry Ascendant
An old legend speaks of an ancient queen so hard-hearted and cold that her very heart turned to ice, her touch was frigid, and her mind as unstoppable as a glacier. Her beautiful and terrible power has come to fruition within you. Perhaps you came in contact with a magical relic from the deep north that once belonged to her, or you are a long forsaken descendant of this old monarch. Will you one day take up the throne of the old queen? Or does it mean nothing to you, and you'll forge your own path of ambition?
Regardless of your destiny, wintry ascendants are cold in both soul and body. Consider how this has been beneficial or detrimental to your relationships in the past and how it may yet affect you. It could lead to having stilted relations with others, or pragmatic, business-like ones.
Wintry Origin Spells
Whenever you gain a sorcerer level, you can replace one spell you gained from this feature with another spell of the same level. The new spell must be an evocation or abjuration spell from the sorcerer, druid, or wizard spell list
Sorcerer Level | Spells |
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1st | armor of agathys, ice knife |
3rd | ice shield, snilloc's snowball swarm |
5th | pillars of winter, freeze |
7th | crown of ice, ice storm |
9th | cone of cold, mass freeze |
Origin Expression
Frigid Spell. When you cast a spell that deals cold damage, you can spend 1 sorcery point to reduce one target's speed to zero until the start of your next turn.
Tundra Soul
Your icy soul grants you aptitude in all forms of cryomancy. When your Spellcasting feature lets you learn or replace a sorcerer cantrip or a sorcerer spell of 1st level or higher, you can choose the new spell from any spell list if the chosen spell deals cold damage. You must otherwise obey all the restrictions for selecting the spell, and it becomes a sorcerer spell for you. Spells that don’t deal cold damage must still be chosen from the sorcerer spell list, as normal.
Covenant with Ice
Beginning at 1st level, you can shape ice as an action up to 30 feet away from you.
You can shape the ice around you, either creating ice from your hand, which can pour out as much as a 15 foot cube, or freezing up to a 15 foot cube of water. You can shape it or any other ice up to that size in any manner you choose and can move it within range as part of the same action. You can raise or lower it, though it must still touch the ground. It can be up to 15 feet in any dimension, but you can't shape it to trap a creature.
You can shape the ice to harm a creature. Make a spell attack against a target in range. Shards, tendrils, or spears race towards it. On a hit, the creature takes 2d6 cold damage and their speed is reduced by half until the end of their next turn. The damage increases to 4d6 at 5th level, 6d6 at 11th, and 8d6 at 17th. The ice can also freeze an object that isn't being worn or carried, can shatter nonmagical metals, and can crack stone.
You have a number of uses of this ability equal to twice your Charisma modifier (minimum of 2) and regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest.
Cutting Northern Wind
At 6th level, you can emanate a wind whirling with snow. You can release or suppress this wind as a bonus action. When released, the area 15 feet around you is difficult terrain for all creatures except those of your choice, who, along with you, gain resistance to cold damage while in the radius. The wind moves with you, centered on you. At 18th level, the range increases to 30 feet.
Sorcerous Blizzard
Starting at 6th level, when you or a willing creature casts a spell within your Cutting Northern Wind that deals a damage type other than cold, you can change it to cold damage with 1 sorcery point.
When you or a willing creature within your Cutting Northern Wind deals cold damage to creature with a spell of 1st level or higher, your Cutting Northern Wind expands by 15 feet until the start of your next turn. At 18th level, it expands by 30 feet.
Permafrost
At 14th level, you gain immunity to cold damage, cold damage you deal ignores resistance, and as a reaction when you or a creature within your Cutting Northern Wind are hit by an attack or fail a Dexterity saving throw, you can reduce the damage taken by half your sorcerer level + your Charisma modifier (minimum of 1).
Snow Castle
Beginning at 14th level, over the course of one minute, you can choose an area of ice no larger than 150 feet on a side within 600 feet of you, or you can freeze an area of water of that size. You can reshape the ice in the area in any manner you choose. You can raise or lower the ice's elevation, create or fill in a trench, erect or flatten a wall, or form a pillar. The extent of any such changes can't exceed half the area's largest dimension. For example, if you affect a 150 foot square, you can create a pillar up to 75 feet high, raise or lower the square's elevation by up to 75 feet, and so on. You can't shape the ice to damage a creature in the area, but you can shape it to trap them. Each 5 foot section of the ice has an AC and hitpoints equal to your sorcerer level.
Additionally, you can designate one structure of your choice that you have created and shaped with this feature as your Snow Castle. Doing so makes the surrounding landscape in a 10 mile radius change to winter over the course of one month, and your Cutting Northern Wind extends to the entire 10 mile radius of the Snow Castle. You can't designate a structure as your Snow Castle again for 7 days, and once you do, the previous one melts.
Winter's Regal Armor
Starting at 18th level, you have gained a frozen heart and can don the attire of a winter monarch. You can spend 5 sorcery points as an action to don Winter's Regal Armor. Its appearance is up to you, it replaces or goes over your present clothes, and only you can wear it. For 1 minute or until you lose your concentration (as if you were concentrating on a spell), you gain the following benefits:
- You have resistance to all damage.
- Creatures who deal damage to you with a melee attack take your sorcerer level in cold damage.
- Cold damage you deal treats immunity as resistance.
- Creatures you kill with cold damage become petrified and stand as statues or shatter (your choice). They can only be returned to life by true resurrection and if you die.
Once you use this feature, you can't do so again until you finish a long rest.
Pillars of Winter
3rd-level transmutation
- Classes: Druid
- Casting Time: 1 action
- Range: 120 feet
- Components: V, S
- Duration: Concentration, up to 10 minutes
You cause moisture in the air to condense into up to 2 icy pillars within range, or 3 if you are in a snowstorm. Each pillar is a cylinder that has a diameter of 5 feet and a height of up to 15 feet, and they conjured floating 15 feet above the ground.
At the start of your next turn, the pillars fall to the ground. If a pillar falls onto a Medium or smaller creature, it must make a Dexterity saving throw. On a failure, it takes 2d6 cold and 2d6 bludgeoning damage and is restrained, pinched between the pillar and the ground. On a success, the creature takes half as much damage and must move 5 feet in any horizontal direction or fail the save automatically. A restrained creature who could move 5 feet can make a Strength or Dexterity check (their choice) as an action against your spell save DC. On a success, the creature is no longer restrained and must move from under the pillar.
Once the pillars fall, you can use your bonus action to cause one or more of the pillars to shatter. Each creature within 5 feet of the shattered pillar must make a Dexterity saving throw, taking 2d6 cold and 2d6 bludgeoning damage on a failed save, or half as much on a success. After the damage is dealt, a creature restrained by the pillar is no longer restrained.
If you maintain your concentration on this spell for its full duration, the pillars become permanent and can't be dispelled. Otherwise, they fade when the spell ends.
At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 4th level or higher, you create one additional pillar for every spell slot above 3rd.
Ice Shield
2nd-level abjuration
- Classes: Druid, Sorcerer
- Casting Time: 1 reaction, which you take when you fail a Dexterity or Constitution saving throw that deals damage
- Range: Self
- Components: V, S
- Duration: 1 round
A shield of ice coalesces to protect you from oncoming danger. Until the start of your next turn, you gain 2d6+6 temporary hitpoints, which can be lost by the triggering effect.
Freeze
3rd level evocation
- Classes: Druid, Sorcerer
- Casting Time: 1 action
- Range: Touch
- Components: V, S
- Duration: Concentration, up to 1 minute
You grasp the flesh or armaments of a creature and disperse their heat to the air, freezing them. They must make a Constitution saving throw. On a failure, they are paralyzed. At the end of its next turn, it must make another Constitution saving throw, and it does so with advantage if it is Large or bigger. The spell ends on a success, but on a failure, they are petrified, turned to ice. The creature can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on a success.
If the spell lasts for its entire duration and the creature failed every save, it is permanently turned to ice.
Mass Freeze
5th-level evocation
- Classes: Druid, Sorcerer
- Casting Time: 1 action
- Range: 60 feet
- Components: V, S
- Duration: Concentration, up to 1 minute
You choose up to 6 creatures within range who must each make a Constitution saving throw. On a failure, they are paralyzed. At the end of their next turn, they must make another Constitution saving throw, and they do so with advantage if they are Large or bigger. The spell ends on a success, but on a failure, they are petrified, turned to ice. The creatures can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of their turns, ending the effect on a success.
If the spell lasts for its entire duration for a creature that failed every save, it is permanently turned to ice.
Crown of Ice
4th level abjuration
- Classes: None
- Casting Time: 1 bonus action
- Range: Self
- Components: S
- Duration: Concentration, up to 1 hour
You don a crown of ice, marking your connection to an ancient ice monarch. Until the spell ends, any creature who targets you with an attack or a harmful spell must first make a Constitution saving throw. On a failed save, their speed is reduced to 0 and they become prone before they make their attack or cast the spell, and you gain advantage on any saving throw you must make against the attack or spell. Once a creature succeeds on the saving throw against this spell, they are immune to it for its duration.
Abyssal Legacy
The Infinite Layers of the Abyss are realms of chaos and evil incarnate, every layer populated by demons - horrifying extensions of the plane's power that exist only to kill and destroy, and each one more hostile and violent than the last. Your innate magic stems from the chaotic, churning energies of this plane, a terrible force that grants you great capacity for destruction and corruption. Some sorcerers of this origin can trace their powers back to extensive exposure to Abyssal corruption, or perhaps due to influence on their lineage from demonic forces, while others may have wrested their capabilities from a subdued demon in a dark ritual, tearing away its power and infusing it into themselves.
No matter the method of acquisition, those who wield the powers of Abyss tread a dangerous path, for their very blood yearns to be used in pursuit of devastation. A strong will is required to keep these compulsions in check, and those who succumb to them can be just as cruel and malevolent as a demon - or worse.
Abyssal Origin Spells
Whenever you gain a sorcerer level, you can replace one spell you gained from this feature with another spell of the same level. The new spell must be an evocation or transmutation spell from the sorcerer, warlock, or wizard spell list
Sorcerer Level | Spells |
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1st | chaos bolt, inflict wounds |
3rd | scorching ray, sunder |
5th | fireball, summon lesser demons |
7th | disintegrate, summon greater demon |
9th | dominate person, destructive wave |
Origin Expression
Wrathful Spell. When you deal damage with a spell, you can spend 1 sorcery point to force one target to make a Charisma saving throw. The target takes additional damage equal to your sorcerer level plus your Charisma modifier on a failed save, or half as much on a successful one.
Unholy Bearing
At 1st level, the tongue of demons comes as naturally to you as breathing. You can speak, read and write Abyssal, and have proficiency with Intimidation. Additionally, when you cast a sorcerer cantrip, increase its damage die by one step, to a maximum of d12. (Die progression is as follows: d4 → d6 → d8 → d10 → d12)
Dark Reconstitution
Also at 1st level, you take on the unnatural resilience of a demon, allowing you to shrug off blows that would fell lesser mortals. Your hit point maximum increases by 2, and increases by 2 again whenever you gain a level in this class.
Additionally, when you take damage, you can use your reaction to halve the damage taken. Afterwards, you gain temporary hit points equal to your Charisma modifier + your sorcerer level (minimum of 1). Once you use this feature, you can't use it again until you finish a short or long rest.
Unhallowed Ground
At 6th level, you can infuse abyssal power into your destructive spells, leaving chaotic energy in their wake. When you cast a spell of 1st level or higher that deals damage and has an area of effect, you can spend 1 sorcery point to fill its area of effect with chaotic energy. The energy is difficult terrain, and at the start of your next turn it explodes, dealing force damage equal to half your sorcerer level (rounded down) + your Charisma modifier to any creatures within it. The chaotic energy then disappears.
Obliterate
Also at 6th level, your power can eliminate any obstacle in your path, living or otherwise. Sorcerer spells you cast deal double damage to objects and structures, and if a sorcerer spell would deal no damage to a target as a result of a successful saving throw, or a missed attack roll, it deals half damage instead.
Demonic Assimilation
At 14th level, the vile corruption that flows in your veins grants you abilities common to the greatest of demons. You gain immunity to poison damage and the poisoned condition, as well as resistance to two damage types from the following list: acid, cold, fire or lightning damage. You can change the damage types you have resistance to at the end of a short or long rest. Additionally, as an action, you can speak a word of power and magically teleport up to 80 feet to an unoccupied space you can see.
Reality Breach
At 18th level, you have attained true mastery over your demonic blood and can rend wide reality itself, creating a gateway to the chaotic and destructive forces of the Abyss. As an action, you can spend 8 sorcery points to tear open an abyssal breach in an unoccupied space within 60 feet of you, which persists for 1 hour or until you lose your concentration (as if you were concentrating on a spell). Each creature of your choice within 30 feet of the breach as it opens must make a Constitution saving throw, taking 16d12 force damage on a failed save or half as much on a successful one. A chosen creature must also make this saving throw whenever it comes within 30 feet of the breach or starts its turn there.
Additionally, if you expend 7 sorcery points when tearing open the breach, you can cast summon greater demon. Demons summoned by this spell are fiercely loyal to you, obey your every command, are treated as allies, and have a bonus to their hit points equal to your sorcerer level.
If you maintain concentration on the breach for its whole duration, it stabilizes, no longer dealing damage and becoming dormant for 1 month, when it can be closed if you use your action to do so. After 1 month, it becomes a 10 feet tall, 10 feet wide stable portal, serving as a gateway between a random layer of the Abyss (determined by the DM) and the plane on which this feature was originally used. The presence of such a breach is anathema to natural life, killing and withering all plants within a mile radius. The breach remains until you die or if it is forcibly closed by the will of a demon lord of enough power (DM discretion).
Additional Spells
Sunder
2nd-level necromancy
- Casting Time: 1 action
- Range: Self (30-foot line)
- Components: V, S, M (a piece of broken stone)
- Duration: Instantaneous
You send out a blast of dark chaos energy in a line 30 feet long and 5 feet wide in a direction you choose. Each creature in the line must make a Constitution saving throw. A creature takes 2d4 necrotic damage and 2d4 force damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one. Any objects or structures in the path of the spell takes twice as much damage.
At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 3rd level or higher, the necrotic and force damage each increase by 1d4 for each slot level above 2nd.
Shadow Magic
You are a creature of shadow, for your innate magic comes from the Shadowfell itself. You might trace your lineage to an entity from that place, or perhaps you were exposed to its fell energy and transformed by it.
The power of shadow magic casts a strange pall over your physical presence. The spark of life that sustains you is muffled, as if it struggles to remain viable against the dark energy that imbues your soul. At your option, you can pick from or roll on the Shadow Sorcerer Quirks table to create a quirk for your character.
Shadow Origin Spells
Whenever you gain a sorcerer level, you can replace one spell you gained from this feature with another spell of the same level. The new spell must be an illusion or necromancy spell from the sorcerer, warlock, or wizard spell list.
Sorcerer Level | Spells |
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1st | arms of hadar, inflict pain |
3rd | aura of shade, clinging shadows |
5th | hunger of hadar, flicker |
7th | shadow of moil, rend shadows |
9th | negative energy flood, shadow stride |
Origin Expression
Tenebrous Spell. When you cast a spell that targets an area, you may spend 2 sorcery points to cause magical darkness to cover the area until the end of your next turn.
Eyes of the Dark
Starting at 1st level, you can see perfectly in darkness, out to a range of 120 feet. If you possess darkvision, this range is increased by the range of your darkvision. Additionally, as a bonus action, you can spend 1 sorcery point to be able to see normally in magical darkness for 1 hour.
When you reach 3rd level in this class, you learn the darkness spell, which doesn't count against your number of sorcerer spells known.
Strength of the Grave
Starting at 1st level, your existence in a twilight state between life and death makes you difficult to defeat. When damage reduces you to 0 hit points, you can make a Charisma saving throw (DC 5 + the damage taken). On a success, you instead drop to 1 hit point. You can't use this feature if you are reduced to 0 hit points by radiant damage or by a critical hit.
After the saving throw succeeds, you can't use this feature again until you finish a long rest.
Beast of Ill Omen
You can call forth a creature of darkness. As a bonus action, you can spend 5 sorcery points to summon a hound of ill omen to target one creature you can see within 120 feet of you. It uses the dire wolf’s statistics from the Monster Manual, with the following changes:
- The beast is size Medium, and counts as a monstrosity.
- It appears with a number of temporary hit points equal to half your sorcerer level.
- It can move through other creatures and objects as if they were difficult terrain. The beast takes 5 - force damage if it ends its turn inside an object.
- At the start of its turn, the beast automatically knows its target’s location. If the target was hidden, it is no longer hidden from the hound.
The hound appears in an unoccupied space of your choice within 30 feet of the target. It shares your initiative and takes its turn immediately after you. On its turn, it can move only toward, and make attacks against its target. Additionally, while the hound is within 5 feet of the target, they have disadvantage on saving throws against any spell you cast. The hound disappears if it is reduced to 0 hit points, if its target is reduced to 0 hit points, or after 5 minutes.
Shadow Walk
At 14th level, you gain the ability to step from one shadow into another. When you are in dim light or darkness, as a bonus action, you can magically teleport up to 120 feet to an unoccupied space you can see that is also in dim light or darkness.
Umbral Form
Starting at 18th level, you can spend 6 sorcery points as a bonus action to magically transform yourself into a shadowy form. In this form, you have resistance to all damage except force and radiant damage, and you can move through other creatures and objects as if they were difficult terrain. You take 5 force damage if you end your turn inside an object.
You remain in this form for 1 minute. It ends early if you are incapacitated, if you die, or if you dismiss it as a bonus action.
Inflict Pain
1st-level necromancy
- Casting Time: 1 action
- Range: Touch
- Components: V, S
- Duration: Instantaneous
You touch a creature, inflicting them with negative energy and racking them with excruciating pain. The target must succeed on a Constitution saving throw or take 1d10 necrotic damage and become incapacitated with pain until the start of your next turn.
At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 2nd level or higher, the damage increases by 1d10 for each slot level above 1st.
Aura of Shade
2nd-level illusion
- Casting Time: 1 action
- Range: 90 feet
- Components: V, S, M (a deep black stone)
- Duration: 1 minute
You create a 15-foot radius sphere of shadow magic centered on a point within range. The area appears to be wreathed in swirling shadows and darkness, and is easily identifiable when it is in an area of bright or dim light. The sphere spreads around corners, and each creature that ends their turn within the area becomes invisible. This invisibility ends for a creature if they attack, cast a spell, or leave the area. Anything they are wearing or carrying is also invisible as long as they are.
Clinging Shadows
2nd-level transmutation
- Casting Time: 1 action
- Range: 30 feet
- Components: V, S, M (bat fur)
- Duration: Concentration, up to 1 minute
You choose an area of dim light or darkness that you can see within range and that fits within a 20-foot cube. Each creature within the area must succeed on Strength saving throw or be restrained by shadows until the spell ends. A creature restrained by the shadows can use its action to make a Strength check against your spell save DC. On a success, it frees itself.
Until the spell ends, you can use an action on each of your turns to cause a tendril of shadow to reach out and grab a creature within 15 feet of the area. The creature must repeat the saving throw. On a failed save, the creature is pulled into the area and becomes restrained.
If the area becomes bathed in bright light, the spell has no effect until the bright light fades.
Flicker
3rd-level transmutation
- Casting Time: 1 action
- Range: Self
- Components: V, S, M (displacer beast fur)
- Duration: Concentration, up to 1 minute
Your body begins to flicker in and out of existence as shadow magic envelops you. For the duration of the spell, you can use your bonus action to teleport 5 feet. Additionally, when you are targeted by an attack you can use your reaction to attempt to teleport out of harm's way. Roll a d20. On a roll of 11 or higher, the attack automatically misses, and you teleport 5 feet. Otherwise, the attack is made as normal and you teleport 5 feet shortly after.
Rend Shadows
4th-level necromancy
- Casting Time: 1 action
- Range: 60 feet
- Components: V, S
- Duration: Concentration, up to 1 minute
Choose up to 4 creatures within range. Each creature has their shadow forcibly ripped from their body, conjuring a Shadow (Monster Manual pg. 269) in an unoccupied space next to them. As long as the shadow is separate from their body, they do not cast a shadow. A shadow created through this spell reforms with its host when it drops to 0 hit points or when the spell ends, and it disappears if its host dies. If its host dies, a new shadow does not rise from the corpse.
The shadows seek only to attack the creature they were separated from, and disappear when that creature is killed. Roll initiative for the shadows as a group, which has its own turns. They spend their turns attacking their host, without any thought for strategy or tactics.
The DM has the creature's statistics.
At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using certain higher level spell slots, you can target more creatures: twice as many with a 6th-level slot and three times as many with an 8th-level slot.
Shadow Stride
5th-level conjuration
- Casting Time: 1 bonus action
- Range: Self
- Components: V, S
- Duration: Concentration, up to 1 hour
You gain the ability to blink from one shadow to another. When you are in dim light or darkness, you can use 5 feet of movement to teleport up to 30 feet to an unoccupied space you can see that is also in dim light or darkness.
You can use this teleportation ability twice per round for the duration.
Heroic Ancestry
Your innate magic comes from your connection to an ancient hero—an ancestor of yours that defeated mighty foes and reached the peak of physical ability. In the years beyond their death, your ancestor’s deeds have been immortalized by history, and their bloodline has been blessed by the gods. Through your blessed blood, you can channel the abilities of your ancestor, mimicking their unmatched strength and prowess. Most of these bloodlines are well-established, and deeply connected to the bloodlines of nobility and royalty. Some of these bloodlines have been obscured by time, however, and many sorcerers of this origin have no knowledge of their history. Not all members of a heroic bloodline awaken this magic, so it can remain hidden for generations and slowly forgotten before suddenly re-emerging.
Oftentimes, these bloodlines are plagued with conflict. The enemies of your ancestor might become your enemies, as they seek revenge for the deeds of the past or recognize you as a threat to their continued existence. Entire organizations or even entire nations might seek your death, and you might find ancient, powerful monsters as your foes. However, you might also find friends due to your lineage. Creatures or societies that knew your ancestor might be willing to offer you assistance as repayment for the great deeds your ancestor did for them.
Heroic Origin Spells
Whenever you gain a sorcerer level, you can replace one spell you gained from this feature with another spell of the same level from the gish spell list.
Sorcerer Level | Spells |
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1st | heroism, defiant smiteCOFSA |
3rd | enhance ability, branding smite |
5th | almighty assault,COFSA crusader's mantle |
7th | death ward, staggering smite |
9th | holy weapon, steel-wind strike |
Origin Expression
Favored Weapon Spell. When you cast a spell that affects a weapon or requires a weapon attack roll, you can spend 1 sorcery point to roll 2d4 and add the result to either the weapon's next attack or damage roll.
Hero's Training
You have inherited your ancestor’s skills with weaponry. At 1st level, you gain proficiency with shields, all martial melee weapons and one skill of your choice. Your AC equals 12 + your Charisma modifier if it isn’t already higher. You can use a shield and still gain this benefit.
Additionally, you can use any weapon you hold as a spellcasting focus for your sorcerer spells, and any weapon you wield does not count as magical for the purposes of spells such as magic weapon, or elemental weapon.
Ancestral Avatar
Also at 1st level, you can call upon the strength of your ancestor to aid you. Whenever you roll initiative, or as a bonus action, you can temporarily augment your musculature and harden your body against attack. You gain 3 temporary hit points per sorcerer level, and for 1 minute, you gain the following additional benefits:
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You can use your Charisma for anything that would normally require Strength. This includes, but is not limited to: Strength-based attacks, carrying capacity, Strength (Athletics) checks, and other Strength-based checks or saves.
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As a bonus action, you can attempt to shove or grapple a creature within 5 feet of you.
You can use this feature twice per short or long rest.
Ancestral Champion
By 6th level, your connection with your ancestor has improved. The AC granted by your Hero's Training feature is improved to 13 + your Charisma modifier, and you add your charisma modifier to the amount of temporary hit points you gain from your Ancestral Avatar feature. Also, if you don’t have a use of Ancestral Avatar remaining, you can spend 3 sorcery points as an alternative requirement for activating the feature.
Extra Attack
Starting at 6th level, you can attack twice, instead of once, whenever you take the Attack action. Moreover, you can cast one of your sorcerer cantrips in place of one of those attacks.
Inspiring Presence
At 14th level, you become an inspiring beacon like your ancestor before you. Friendly creatures within 30 feet of you are immune to the frightened condition. Additionally, whenever a friendly creature other than you within 40 feet of you misses with an attack, you can use your reaction to roll a d6 and add the result to its attack roll, potentially causing the attack to hit. When you use this reaction, you can spend up to 4 sorcery points to empower it. For every sorcery point you spend, you roll an additional d6.
Hero of Legend
By 18th level, you have reached your full potential, and can become just as much of a heroic figure as your ancestor. When you activate your Ancestral Avatar feature, you can spend additional sorcery points to further improve the feature. For every 2 sorcery points you spend, you can gain one of the following benefits for the duration of the feature:
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The number of temporary hit points gained from your Ancestral Avatar feature is doubled.
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You deal an additional 1d8 damage with weapon attacks affected by your Ancestral Avatar feature.
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You gain resistance to bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing damage.
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You have advantage on all rolls affected by your Ancestral Avatar feature.
Additionally, when you die, you are revived next dawn at the last location you finished a long rest, as if true resurrection had been cast on you. You possess all the equipment you wore or carried at the time of your death, even if your body was destroyed by disintegration or similar effects; equipment taken from your body after death reappears with you, vanishing from its current location. Once you are resurrected by this feature, you cannot be resurrected by it again until 7 days have passed.
Gish Spell list
Cantrips (0 Level)
- arcane strike
- booming blade
- distortion blade
- echoing strike
- green-flame blade
- flashburst blade
- lustre-strike blade
- mage hand
- prestidigitation
- shocking grasp
- siphoning blade
- rimeshard blade
- vexatious blade
- voltaic blade
1st Level
- absorb elements
- black lotus assault
- compelled duel
- courageous rebuttal
- defiant smite
- frigid wrath
- grasp of the specter
- heart sunder
- hellish rebuke
- inflict wounds
- malice of arachia
- masterful focus
- meteor strike
- searing smite
- shield
- shield of faith
- slashing step
- starlight shroud
- storm of arrows
- thunderous smite
- wrathful smite
- zephyr strike
2nd Level
- branding smite
- dissociative edge
- hold person
- magic weapon
- misty step
- focus fire
- polyphemus’ might
- shadow blade
- sporecaller's smite
- strikethrough
3rd Level
- almighty assault
- blinding smite
- conjure barrage
- crusader's mantle
- eldritch blow
- elemental weapon
- haste
- irreversible smite
- phantom steed
- protection from energy
- spirit shroud
- thunder step
- vaporous smite
4th Level
- dark empowerment
- flashing blades
- freedom of movement
- furtive armory
- lathander's blessing
- staggering smite
- stoneskin
5th Level
- angelic rebuke
- armor of bones
- banishing smite
- destructive wave
- far step
- fell onslaught
- hold monster
- punishing smite
- steel-wind strike
- swift quiver
- vengeance of talos
6th Level
- grimlore's aphotic armor
- tenser's transformation
- zariel's memento
7th Level
- diamondblade
Arcane Strike
Evocation cantrip
- Casting Time: 1 action
- Range: 10 feet
- Components: V, M (a weapon)
- Duration: Instantaneous
As part of the action used to cast this spell, you must make a melee attack with a weapon against one creature within the spell's range, otherwise the spell fails. On a hit, the target suffers the attack's normal effects, and you choose acid, cold, fire, or lightning. The target takes an extra 1d8 damage of the chosen type.
This spell's damage increases by 1d8 when you reach 5th level (2d8), 11th level (3d8), and 17th level (4d8).
Distortion Blade
Evocation cantrip
- Casting Time: 1 action
- Range: 10 feet
- Components: V, M (a weapon)
- Duration: 1 round
As part of the action used to cast this spell, you must make a melee attack with a weapon against one creature within the spell's range, otherwise the spell fails. On a hit, the target suffers the attack's normal effects, and you distort their past and current movement slightly, teleporting them to a different space within range.
At 5th level, the melee attack deals an extra 1d8 force damage to the target. This extra damage increases to 2d8 at 11th level, and 3d8 at 17th level.
Echoing Strike
Evocation cantrip
- Casting Time: 1 action
- Range: 10 feet
- Components: V, M (a weapon)
- Duration: 1 round
As part of the action used to cast this spell, you must make a melee attack with a weapon against one creature within the spell's range, otherwise the spell fails. On a hit, the target suffers the attack's normal effects, and a faint spectral echo of your weapon appears hovering over its head. If you hit the target with an weapon attack before the end of your next turn, it immediately takes 1d4 force damage, and the spell ends.
This spell's damage increases by 1d4 when you reach 5th level (2d4), 11th level (3d4), and 17th level (4d4).
Flashburst Blade
Evocation cantrip
- Casting Time: 1 action
- Range: 10 feet
- Components: V, M (a weapon)
- Duration: 1 round
As part of the action used to cast this spell, you must make a melee attack with a weapon against one creature within the spell's range, otherwise the spell fails. On a hit, the target suffers the attack's normal effects, and is blinded until the start of your next turn.
This spell's damage increases when you reach higher levels. At 5th level, the melee attack deals an extra 1d8 radiant damage to the target. The damage rolls increase by 1d8 at 11th level and 17th level.
Lustre-strike Blade
Evocation cantrip
- Casting Time: 1 action
- Range: 10 feet
- Components: V, M (a weapon)
- Duration: 1 round
As part of the action used to cast this spell, you must make a melee attack with a weapon against one creature within the spell's range, otherwise the spell fails. On a hit, the target suffers the attack's normal effects, takes an additional 1d8 radiant damage, and has disadvantage on Dexterity (Stealth) checks and can't benefit from being invisible until the start of your next turn.
This spell's damage increases by 1d8 when you reach 5th level (2d8), 11th level (3d8), and 17th level (4d8).
Siphoning Strike
Necromancy cantrip
- Casting Time: 1 action
- Range: 10 feet
- Components: V, M (a weapon)
- Duration: 1 round
As part of the action used to cast this spell, you must make a melee attack with a weapon against one creature within the spell's range, otherwise the spell fails. The attack deals necrotic damage. On a hit, the target suffers the attack's normal effects and it can't regain hit points until the start of your next turn.
This spell's damage increases when you reach higher levels. At 5th level, the melee attack deals an extra 1d8 necrotic damage to the target. The damage roll increases by 1d8 at 11th level and 17th level.
Rimeshard Blade
Evocation cantrip
- Casting Time: 1 action
- Range: 10 feet
- Components: V, M (a weapon)
- Duration: 1 round
As part of the action used to cast this spell, you must make a melee attack with a weapon against one creature within the spells range, otherwise the spell fails. On a hit, the target suffers the attack's normal effects, and is wreathed in frost until the start of your next turn, halving the target's speed. On its turn, the target may use its action to cause the spell to end. When the spell ends, the target immediately takes 1d6 cold damage.
This spell's damage increases when you reach higher levels. At 5th level, the melee attack deals an extra 1d6 cold damage to the target, and the damage the target takes when the spell ends increases to 2d6. Both damage rolls increase by 1d6 at 11th level and 17th level.
Vexatious Blade
Enchantment cantrip
- Casting Time: 1 action
- Range: 10 feet
- Components: V, M (a weapon)
- Duration: 1 round
As part of the action used to cast this spell, you must make a melee attack with a weapon against one creature within the spell's range, otherwise the spell fails. On a hit, the target suffers the attack's normal effects, and their mind is shrouded in dark intent until the start of your next turn. If the target doesn't target you with an attack or spell before then, they take 1d8 psychic damage.
This spell's damage increases when you reach higher levels. At 5th level, the melee attack deals an extra 1d8 psychic damage to the target, and the damage the target takes for not targeting you increases to 2d8. Both damage rolls increase by 1d8 at 11th level and 17th level.
Voltaic Blade
Evocation cantrip
- Casting Time: 1 action
- Range: 10 feet
- Components: V, M (a weapon)
- Duration: 1 round
As part of the action used to cast this spell, you must make a melee attack with a weapon against one creature within the spell's range, otherwise the spell fails. On a hit, the target suffers the attack's normal effects, and it becomes sheathed in crackling energy until the start of your next turn. If the target willingly takes a reaction before then, it immediately takes 1d8 lighting damage, and the spell ends.
This spell's damage increases when you reach higher levels. At 5th level, the melee attack deals an extra 1d8 thunder damage to the target, and the damage the target takes for taking reactions increases to 2d8. Both damage rolls increase by 1d8 at 11th level and 17th level.
Black Lotus Assault
1st-level illusion
- Casting Time: 1 free action, while taking the Attack action
- Range: Self
- Components: V, S, M (a melee weapon)
- Duration: 1 minute.
The first time you take the Attack action during your turn, you can cast this spell to summon a swirl of black lotus petals to surround your weapon, distracting your foes and enabling you to strike with great power. Each successful hit you make with this weapon before the spell ends, the target must make a Wisdom saving throw or have a new effect apply. Once you've made three weapon attacks, the spell ends.
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1st Hit. If the target fails their saving throw, their movement speed is halved until the end of their next turn.
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2nd Hit. If the target fails their saving throw, they take 1d6 psychic damage and cannot take reactions until after the end of your next turn.
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3rd Hit. If the target fails their saving throw, they take 2d6 psychic damage and cannot take bonus actions during their next turn.
At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 2nd level or higher, the psychic damage of the 2nd hit increases by 1d6 per spell slot level above 1st.
Courageous Rebuttal
1st-level abjuration
- Casting Time: 1 reaction, which you take when a creature makes a melee attack against you
- Range: 10 feet
- Components: S, M (a weapon)
- Duration: Instantaneous
As part of the reaction used to cast this spell, you use a weapon to make a melee weapon attack against the creature that attacked you, after the outcome of their attack is decided. If you hit, the target suffers the weapon’s normal damage, and you gain half the damage dealt in temporary hitpoints that last for up to 1 minute.
Defiant Smite
1st-level abjuration
- Casting Time: 1 bonus action
- Range: Self
- Components: V
- Duration: Concentration, up to 1 minute
The first time you hit with a melee weapon attack during this spell's duration, wrathful energy rushes through your weapon. The attack deals an extra 1d6 force damage to the target. Additionally, if the target is a creature, its ability to attack is hindered. Until the spell ends, the creature must make a Charisma saving throw at the start of each of its turns. If it fails, the first time it hits with an attack before the end of its turn, it is knocked prone.
At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 2nd level or higher, the force damage increases by 1d6 per spell slot level above 1st.
Grasp of the Specter
1st-level conjuration
- Casting Time: 1 action
- Range: Self
- Components: V, S
- Duration: Concentration, up to 1 minute
The weapons in your hands glow with an ethereal light, which persist briefly even when they leave your hands. At the end of your turn, you can choose for any weapons you have thrown in the last turn to teleport to your hands or back onto your person.
If you hit with a weapon it instead stays transfixed in the target until the end of your next turn. You can use your action to wrench all such weapons back, dealing 2d8 force damage for each weapon.
At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 3rd level or higher, the damage increases by 1d8 for each slot level above second.
Heart Sunder
1st-level necromancy
- Casting Time: 1 bonus action
- Range: Touch
- Components: S
- Duration: Instantaneous
You cause a melee weapon you are holding to thirst for blood, opening a creature’s weaknesses. The first attack you make with that weapon on this turn adds 1d6 to the attack roll. On a hit, the target suffers the attack’s normal effects and the next weapon damage rolled against the target is automatically maximized.
Malice of Arachia
1st-level enchantment
- Casting Time: 1 action
- Range: Touch
- Components: V, S, M (a weapon)
- Duration: 1 hour
You coat a weapon in a deadly enchanted venom. The first time this weapon inflicts damage to a creature, the venom enters the target's veins, cursing them with terrible hallucinations and compulsions. The cursed target must make a Constitution saving throw at the start of each of its turns for one minute. Each time it fails, choose a creature within 5 feet of it that you can see. The cursed target uses its reaction to make a single melee weapon attack targeting the creature. Once it lands a successful attack caused by this effect, the effect ends. A creature that is immune to the poisoned condition is immune to this effect.
At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a slot of 2nd level or higher, the effect on the cursed target lasts for one additional successful hit using its reaction per slot level above 1st.
Masterful Focus
1st-level enchantment
- Casting Time: 1 action
- Range: Self
- Components: V
- Duration: Concentration, up to 10 minutes
You whisper a word and weave magic over your own mind, heightening your senses and reflexes. Until the spell ends, your attacks can result in critical hits more easily. Whenever the result of the d20 roll is 18-20, you critically hit. If you've made an attack with disadvantage and one of the results was in this range, you can ignore the disadvantage and critically hit regardless. Once you've critically hit, the spell ends at the end of the current turn.
At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a slot of 2nd level or higher, the range you can critically hit within expands by 1 (17-20, 16-20, and so on) per slot level above 1st.
Meteor Strike
1st-level evocation
- Casting Time: 1 bonus action
- Range: Self
- Components: V
- Duration: Concentration, up to 1 minute
The next time you hit a creature with a weapon attack during the spell's duration, your weapon strikes with the momentum of a meteor. The attack deals an extra 1d6 fire damage, and the target must succeed on a Strength saving throw or be knocked prone or pushed 5 feet away from you (your choice). A Large or larger creature has advantage on this saving throw.
At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 2nd level or higher, the extra damage increases by 1d6 for each slot level above 1st.
Frigid Wrath
1st-level evocation
- Casting Time: 1 bonus action
- Range: Self
- Components: V
- Duration: Instantaneous
Until the start of your next turn, your attacks send out a wave of piercing cold. Immediately after you make a melee weapon attack every creature in a 15 ft cone centered on you must make a Constitution saving throw or take 2d4 cold damage.
At Higher Levels: When you cast this spell using a spell lot of 2nd level or higher the cold damage increases by 1d4 for each spell slot level above 1st.
Slashing Step
1st-level transmutation
- Casting Time: 1 action
- Range: Self
- Components: V, S
- Duration: Instantaneous
As part of the action used to cast this spell, you must use the Dash action. When doing so, you enter a semi-incorporeal state and move with increased grace, allowing you to move without provoking an attack of opportunity.
Additionally, you may make a single melee attack against any creature that is within 5 feet of your chosen path, doing your normal attack damage on a hit.
At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 2nd level or higher, you can target one additional creature for every two slot levels above 1st.
Starlight Shroud
1st-level abjuration
- Casting Time: 1 action
- Range: Self
- Components: V, S
- Duration: 10 minutes
Ghostly starlight surrounds your body, casting bright light in a 10-foot radius and dim light for an additional 10 feet. The first time you take damage after casting this spell, the starlight explodes outward and the spell ends. Each creature within 10 feet of you, other than you, must make a Dexterity saving throw, taking 2d10 radiant damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one.
At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 2nd level or higher, the damage increases by 1d10 for each slot level above 1st.
Storm of Arrows
1st-level conjuration
- Casting Time: 1 action
- Range: 60 feet
- Components: V, S, M (a feather)
- Duration: Instantaneous
You chant a minor incantation, brushing the arrows in your quiver with a feather. Upon finishing the casting, spectral duplicates of your arrows appear at a point in the sky you can see with in range, forming a 10-foot radius cylinder up to 40 feet tall. Each creature in the cylinder must make a Dexterity saving throw. A creature takes 3d6 piercing damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one.
At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 2nd level or higher, the damage increases by 1d6 for each spell slot level above 1st.
Disassociative Edge
2nd-level transmutation
- Casting Time: 1 bonus action
- Range: Self (30-foot line)
- Components: V, S, M (any melee weapon)
- Duration: Instantaneous
When you cast this spell, your weapon hums with violent energy. The first time you could make a melee weapon attack before the end of your current turn, you can launch a scything blade of force from your weapon instead.
Each creature within a line 5 feet wide and 30 feet long must make a Dexterity saving throw, starting from the creature closest to you. The first creature that fails takes 2d8 force damage and suffers damage and effects as though you had hit them with a successful attack using that weapon.
At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 3rd level or higher, the force damage increases by 1d8 per slot level above 2nd.
Focus Fire
2nd-level enchantment
- Casting Time: 1 bonus action
- Range: 60 feet
- Components: V, S
- Duration: Concentration, up to 1 minute
You choose a creature you can see within range, and conjure a mark on it. Until the spell ends, whenever another creature makes a weapon attack against it, you can use your reaction to make a weapon attack against it if it's within your attack range.
Additionally, if you make a weapon attack against the marked creature on your turn and miss, you can make an additional weapon attack against it as a bonus action.
Polyphemus’ Might
2nd-level enchantment
- Casting Time: 1 bonus action
- Range: 30 feet
- Components: S, M (a giant eye)
- Duration: Concentration, up to 1 minute
You imbue one creature of your choice within range a shadow of giant’s might. The target gains a number of d4s equal to your level in temporary hitpoints, and while those hitpoints last, they have advantage on saving throws against being charmed or frightened, and roll damage dice twice for melee attacks, choosing the higher result.
Sporecaller's Smite
2nd-level evocation
- Casting Time: 1 bonus action
- Range: Self
- Components: V
- Duration: Concentration, up to 1 minute
The next time you hit a creature with a melee weapon attack during this spell's duration, your weapon is followed by a trail of spores, and the attack deals an extra 2d6 poison damage to the target. Additionally, the target must succeed on a Constitution saving throw or be stunned until the start of your next turn as pacifying spores enter their body.
At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 2nd level or higher, the extra damage increases by 1d6 for each slot level above 1st.
Strikethrough
2nd-level Conjuration
- Casting Time: 1 bonus action
- Range: self
- Components: V, S
- Duration: Concentration, up to 1 minute.
Until the spell ends, when you make a melee attack on a target, your attack deals an additional 1d8 force damage. Additionally, on a hit, you can teleport to an unoccupied space within 5 feet of your target. This effect only occurs on the first attack against the target during that turn.
If you teleport at least 10 feet, you discombobulate the target, who isn't able to make an opportunity attack against you until the start of its next turn.
Almighty Assault
3rd-level evocation
- Casting Time: 1 action
- Range: 10 feet
- Components: V, M (any weapon)
- Duration: Instantaneous
As part of the action used to cast this spell, you must make a melee weapon attack against one creature or location within the spell's range. Depending on the damage type the weapon deals, the spell has a different area of effect:
- Slashing. A crescent of energy races from the attack, and each creature in a 20-foot cone in the direction of the target must make a Dexterity saving throw.
- Piercing. A pure beam of energy streams from the attack, and each creature in a 60-foot line, 5 foot wide line must make a Dexterity saving throw.
- Bludgeoning. Explosive energy emanates from the attack, and each creature other than you within 10 feet of the target must make a Strength saving throw.
Creatures that fail their saving throw take 2d10 radiant damage, are pushed 10 feet back, and fall prone. A creature that was hit by your attack has disadvantage on the saving throw.
At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 4th level or higher, the radiant damage increases by 1d10 per slot level above 3rd.
Irreversible Smite
3rd-level necromancy
- Casting Time: 1 bonus action
- Range: Self
- Components: V
- Duration: Concentration, up to 1 minute
The first time you hit with a melee weapon attack during this spell's duration, cruel shadows creep down your weapon and into your target's wounds. The attack deals an extra 3d6 necrotic damage to the target. Additionally, if the target is a creature, its flesh festers and refuses to repair. Until the spell ends, the target cannot regain hit points.
At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 4th level or higher, the necrotic damage increases by 1d6 per spell slot level above 3rd.
Eldritch Blow
3rd-level evocation
- Casting Time: 1 bonus action
- Range: Touch
- Components: V, M (a weapon)
- Duration: 1 minute
As part of the action to cast this spell, you grasp a weapon. For the duration of the spell, the weapon deals an additional 2d6 force damage.
At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 4th-level or higher, the damage dealt increases by 1d6 for each slot level higher than 3rd.
Spirit Shroud
3rd-level necromancy
- Casting Time: 1 bonus action
- Range: Self
- Components: V
- Duration: Concentration, up to 1 minute
You call forth spirits of the dead, which flit around you for the spell's duration. The spirits are intangible and invulnerable, and they are good or evil (your choice).
Until the spell ends, any attack you make deals 1d8 extra damage when you hit a creature within 10 feet of you. This damage is radiant if the spirits are good and necrotic if they are evil. Any creature that takes this damage can't regain hit points until the start of your next turn.
In addition, any creature of your choice that you can see that starts its turn within 10 feet of you has its speed reduced by 10 feet until the start of your next turn.
At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 4th level or higher, the extra damage increases by 1d8 for each slot level above 3rd.
Vaporous Smite
3rd-level evocation
- Casting Time: 1 bonus action
- Range: Self
- Components: V
- Duration: Concentration, up to 1 minute
The next time you hit a creature with a melee weapon attack during this spell's duration, your weapon flares with a misty white shroud and the attack deals an extra 3d8 radiant damage to the target. Immediately after the attack, your form turns into a gaseous vapor and you are able to travel up to 15 feet without provoking attacks of opportunity. You return to your normal form at the end of your turn.
Dark Empowerment
4th-level transmutation
- Casting Time: 1 action
- Range: Self
- Components: V, S
- Duration: Concentration, up to 1 minute
You channel dark energy into your body, distorting your form and making you fearsome to behold. Your size increases to Large if it is smaller, and your equipment grows to suit your expanded form. If there is insufficient space, you grow as large as you safely can. While in this form, your weapon attacks inflict an additional 1d12 damage of their normal type, and you gain temporary hit points equal to twice your spellcasting modifier at the start of each of your turns that last for the duration of the spell
Flashing Blade
4th-level necromancy
- Casting Time: 1 action
- Range: self
- Components: S, M (a sheathed melee weapon)
- Duration: Concentration, up to 1 minute
Whenever you make an attack on your turn, you can draw the weapon you use to cast this spell and move up to 15 feet without provoking opportunity attacks prior to the attack. Immediately after that attack, you return to your original position and sheathe your weapon.
Additionally, when a creature moves into or within a 15 foot radius of you, you can have it take 2d8 slashing damage for every 5 feet it travels.
At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 5th level or higher, the damage of the spell increases by 1d8 for each slot level above the fifth.
Furtive Armory
4th-level conjuration
- Casting Time: 1 action
- Range: Touch
- Components: V, S, M (An exquisite weapon rack, 10 feet wide by 6 feet tall, constructed from rare materials worth at least 6,000 gp, and a Tiny replica made from the same materials worth at least 60 gp)
- Duration: Instantaneous
You hide a weapon rack, and all its contents, on the Ethereal Plane. You must touch the rack and the miniature replica that serves as a material component for the spell. The weapon rack can hold 15 pieces of adventuring gear, weapons or armor. While the weapon rack remains on the Ethereal Plane, you can use an action and touch the replica to recall the rack. It appears in an unoccupied space on the ground within 10 feet of you. You can send the weapon rack back to the Ethereal Plane by using an action and touching both the rack and the replica.
After 60 days, there is a cumulative 5 percent chance per day that the spell's effect ends. This effect ends if you cast this spell again, if the smaller replica rack is destroyed, or if you choose to end the spell as an action. If the spell ends and the larger weapon rack is on the Ethereal Plane, it is irretrievably lost.
Lathander's Blessing
4th-level abjuration
- Casting Time: 1 action
- Range: Self
- Components: V, S
- Duration: 1 minute
You invoke the blessing of Lathander, god of birth and renewal, to aid you in your quest by protecting you against being slain by your foes. For the duration, if a single attack would knock you unconscious or kill you outright, you are instead lowered to 1 hit point and may roll 4d6 and receive that many temporary hit points.
Angelic Rebuke
5th-level evocation
- Casting Time: 1 reaction, which you take in response to being damaged by a creature within 60 feet of you that you can see.
- Range: 60 feet
- Components: V
- Duration: Instantaneous
With a word, you invoke the searing radiance of the higher planes to strike down your attacker. The creature must make a Charisma saving throw. If they fail, they are blinded until the start of your next turn and take 5d10 radiant damage. If they succeed, they take half as much damage and are not blinded.
Armor of Bones
5th-level conjuration
- Casting Time: 1 action
- Range: 60 feet
- Components: V, S, M (a pinch of bone dust)
- Duration: Concentration, up to 1 minute
You encase the armor of a willing creature that you can see within range in solid bone. While not impervious to degradation, this bone armor will grant the target a +3 bonus to AC for the duration.
Additionally, every time a creature within 5 feet lands a successful attack against the target, the attacker takes 3d6 piercing damage as bone shrapnel chips off and strikes the assailant.
Fell Onslaught
5th-level evocation
- Casting Time: 1 free action, while taking the Attack action
- Range: Self
- Components: V, S, M (a martial melee weapon)
- Duration: 1 minute
The first time you take the Attack action during your turn, you can cast this spell to make your weapon glow with eldritch power and cleave the fabric of reality with every swing. The first time you hit during this turn, your attack inflicts an additional 2d10 force damage, and the target becomes afflicted by a malignant curse. Until the spell ends, whenever you take the Attack action, you can choose to attack the cursed creature regardless of distance or obstacles, and these attacks deal an additional 1d10 force damage, ignore cover, and cannot suffer disadvantage.
Punishing Smite
5th-level evocation
- Casting Time: 1 bonus action
- Range: Self
- Components: V
- Duration: Concentration, up to 1 minute
The first time you hit with a melee weapon attack during this spell’s duration, radiant fire and chilling shadow pours forth from opposite sides of your weapon. The attack deals an extra 2d10 necrotic damage and 2d10 radiant damage to the target. Additionally, if the target is a creature, a terrible judgment descends upon them, leaving them vulnerable to attack. Whenever the target takes damage from an attack before the spell ends, they take an additional 1d10 force damage.
Vengeance of Talos
5th-level evocation
- Casting Time: 1 action
- Range: 5 feet
- Components: V, S, M (a weapon)
- Duration: Instantaneous
You channel the rage of Talos, god of storms, to strike down a foe where it stands. Make a melee attack with a weapon. On hit, the target suffers the attack's normal effects plus 6d8 lightning damage and becomes stunned until the start of its next turn. Additionally, every creature of Large size or smaller other than yourself within 20 feet of the target must make a Dexterity saving throw or be knocked prone, regardless of whether the initial attack was successful.
At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 6th level or higher, the damage increases by 1d8 for each slot level above 5th.
Grimlore's Aphotic Armor
6th-level necromancy
- Casting Time: 1 action
- Range: Self
- Components: V, S
- Duration: 1 hour
You pull forth shadows that reside in the deepest corners of the realm, forming a shroud of darkness around yourself. Upon casting this spell, you gain 3d12 + 12 temporary hit points. Additionally, while you have these hit points, you to become heavily obscured to others. If you take damage from any source, your attacker must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw or become frightened of you until the end of its next turn.
Zariel's Memento
6th-level evocation
- Casting Time: 1 action
- Range: 10 feet
- Components: V, S, M (a weapon)
- Duration: Instantaneous
You lash out at a creature, searing its flesh with the spiteful fires that burn in Avernus. As part of the action used to cast this spell, you must make a melee attack with a weapon against one creature within the spells range, otherwise the spell fails. On a hit, the target suffers the attack's normal effects, suffers 10d12 fire damage, and it is branded with the mark of Zariel for 1 minute. While branded, each time the creature takes critical damage from an attack, the critical damage is doubled.
Diamondblade
7th-level transmutation
- Casting Time: 1 action
- Range: Touch
- Components: V, S, M (a diamond worth at least 100 gp)
- Duration: Concentration, up to 1 minute
One bladed weapon you touch becomes incredibly sharp. You may then use the weapon or give it to someone else; you are considered to have proficiency with it.
The sword grants +3 to hit and damage. If you score a critical hit with this weapon, you inflict an additional 4d10 slashing damage and an additional 1d10 damage on each of the target's next 3 turns, due to excessive bleeding.
Fey Magic
Every so often, a mortal catches the attention of a powerful lord or lady of the Fey. Often the object of affection or the offspring of this relationship is gifted arcane power beyond that of most mortal beings. However, these infatuations are often short-lived, and the mortals are left to learn to use their power with little supervision or instruction. Weather you were born of such a relationship, grew up near a Crossroads, or were chosen by a powerful Fey creature, you have been blessed with the changing and chaotic power of the Feywild.
Fey Origin Spells
Your link to the Feywild grants you an affinity with charms. When you learn a new spell, you can choose from the bard, druid or the sorcerer spell list. You must obey all other restrictions for selecting the spell, and it becomes a sorcerer spell for you.
You learn certain spells at the sorcerer levels noted in the Fey Magic table. They count as sorcerer spells for you, but don't count against your number of Spells Known.
Whenever you gain a level, you can replace one spell from this feature with another spell of your choice of the same level from the bard or druid spell list.
Sorcerer Level | Spells |
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1st | charm person, faerie fire |
3rd | calm emotions, enthrall |
5th | blink, enemies abound |
7th | confusion, dominate beast |
9th | dominate person, seeming |
Origin Expression
Fey Spell. When you deal damage with a spell, you can spend 1 sorcery point to force one target to make a Charisma saving throw. On a failed save, they are charmed until the start of your next turn.
Heart Sight
The feywild is a realm of extreme emotions, of great ecstasy and deep melancholy. At 1st level, your fey influence imparts some of these highs and lows onto your own psyche, and causes you to be acutely aware of the emotions of the creatures around you. You gain proficiency in Insight, and you have advantage on Insight checks to determine the emotional state of other creatures. You also can't be put to sleep by magic, and are immune to the effects of the calm emotions spell.
Additionally, you can speak, read, and write Sylvan.
Seasonal Attunement
Beginning at 6th level, you can align yourself with one of the four seasons, like the denizens of the Feywild. At the end of a long rest, choose one of the four seasons, gaining the benefits from the Seasonal Attunement table. Each season grants you a damage resistance and advantage on certain rolls.
Season | Resistance | Rolling with Advantage |
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Spring | Lightning | Hit Dice |
Summer | Fire | Initiative |
Autumn | Poison | Concentration check |
Winter | Cold | Death Saving throws |
Nature's Armor
At 6th level, you can use a bonus action to make thorny vines cover your skin. The vines last for 1 hour. While this feature is active, your AC can’t be less than 16, regardless of what kind of armor you wear, and creatures that hit you with melee attacks take piercing damage equal to half your sorcerer level (minimum 1). This damage counts as magical for the purpose of overcoming resistance and immunity to nonmagical attacks and damage. You must finish a short or long rest before you can use this feature again.
Gateway Magic
Your magic allows you briefly slip between the Feywild and the material plane. Starting at 14th level, immediately after casting a spell of 1st-level or higher, can choose to teleport to an unoccupied space within 30 feet that you can see.
When you use this feature to teleport, you can expend sorcery points to increase the range. For each sorcery point you expend, you can teleport an additional 10 feet.
Evoke Feywild
Starting 18th level, your mere presence can warp the world around you into something resembling the feywild. You are immune to being charmed and frightened, and as an action, you can cause the following effects in a 60-foot radius around you for 10 minutes:
- The terrain in the area is reshaped as if effected by the mirage arcane spell. As a bonus action, you can modify one aspect of the illusion, such as changing the types and locations of trees in the area.
- You can use 5 feet of movement to enter a tree within the area, moving from inside it to another tree of your choice within the area. You appear in a spot of your choice within 5 feet of the destination tree, using another 5 feet of movement. If you have no movement left, you appear within 5 feet of the tree you entered.
- When a creature starts their turn in the area, it must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw against your sorcerer spell save DC or be charmed by you until the start of their next turn. Once you use this feature, you can't do so again until you finish a long rest.
Ocean Heritage
Within you dwells a drop of pure elemental water, connecting you to the deep oceans, babbling brooks, and frigid waters of frozen lakes. How did you gain this power over the elemental waters? Did you inexplicably survive a shipwreck, awakening in the debt of a noble Marid, or did you drink from a stream flowing from the plane of water, awakening your power?
The lapping of waves, the spray of sea foam on the wind, the ocean depths, all of these call to you. Do you embody the life-giving properties of the gentle rain, or do you wield the overwhelming destruction of the great waves and floods?
Ocean Origin Spells
Whenever you gain a sorcerer level, you can replace one spell you gained from this feature with another spell of the same level. The new spell must be an conjuration or transmutation spell from the sorcerer, druid, or wizard spell list.
Sorcerer Level | Spell |
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1st | create or destroy water, ocean pulse |
3rd | geyser, moonbeam |
5th | tidal wave, watery tentacle |
7th | control water, depthsurge |
9th | maelstrom, red tide |
Origin Expression
Tidal Spell. When you deal damage with a spell, you can spend 1 sorcery point to force one target to make a Strength saving throw. On a failed save, they are pushed back 20 feet and are knocked prone.
Soul of the Sea
Starting at 1st level, your Marid heritage fundamentally alters the nature of your body. You gain the following abilities:
- You can breathe both air and water.
- You have Darkvision out to a radius of 60 feet.
- You gain a swim speed equal to your movement speed.
- You are resistant to cold damage.
Your blood is infused with the magic of elemental water. You can speak, read, and write Primordial. This allows you to understand and be understood by those that speak it's dialects: Aquan, Auran, Ignan, and Terran.
Watery Curse
Your watery spells carry a frozen curse. Starting at 1st level, when you deal cold damage to a creature, you can spend 2 additional sorcery points to cover one target of the spell in frost, reducing its speed by a number of feet equal to five times your Charisma modifier (minimum of 5 feet).
This reduction lasts until the start of your next turn, unless a creature uses an action to scrape the frost off the target.
Watery Resilience
Beginning at 6th level, when you are hit with an attack, you can use your reaction to shift into a watery form, gaining resistance to any bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing damage the attack dealt, and immediately moving up to your full movement speed without provoking opportunity attacks.
You can use this reaction a number of times equal to your Charisma modifier (minimum of once), and you regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest.
Shifting Form
The elemental water within allows you to move like flowing water. Starting at 14th level, you gain the following benefits:
- You are resistant to damage from opportunity attacks.
- You can move through enemy creature's spaces, but you cannot end your turn in an enemy creature's space.
- You can squeeze through gaps as narrow as 1 inch.
- You can take the Dash action as a bonus action on your turn while you are using your swimming speed.
Primordial Waters
Upon reaching 18th level, your body is permanently altered by the elemental water within you. You no longer need to eat, drink, or sleep, and you are immune to cold damage.
In addition, as long as you are not incapacitated, when you are hit by an attack that is a critical hit, you can absorb the blow like a liquid, turning the critical hit into a normal hit.
Additional Spells
The following spells are additional spells for the Ocean Heritage Sorcerer, and are a part of their Origin Spells list.
Geyser
2nd-level enchantment
- Casting Time: 1 action
- Range: 120 feet
- Components: V, S
- Duration: Instantaneous
Choose a point on the ground within range. A geyser with a base of 5 feet by 5 feet and a height of 10 feet erupts from this point. If a creature sized Large or smaller is on top of this point, it must make a Dexterity saving throw. If it succeeds, the creature moves to the closest avaiable space of its choice not occupied by the geyser. If the creature fails this saving throw, however, it takes 3d6 bludgeoning damage, is rendered prone, and is carried to the top of the geyser.
The geyser clocks line of sight, and creatures within or at the top of the geyser are both swimming and in difficult terrain. The geyser lasts until the end of your next turn, at which point it recedes into the earth. Any creatures still atop or within the geyser when this happens immediately begin falling, and take damage from this fall as normal.
At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 3rd level or higher, the damage done by this spell increases by 1d6 and the height of the geyser increases by up to 10feet, for each slot level above 2nd.
Ocean Pulse
1st-level conjuration
- Casting Time: 1 action
- Range: 60 feet
- Components: S, M (a seashell)
- Duration: Instantaneous
You attempt to hit a creature within range with a blast of salty water, making a ranged spell attack against it. On a hit, the target takes 2d6 bludgeoning damage and must make a Strength saving throw. On a failed save, the target is knocked prone.
At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 2nd level or higher, the damage increases by 1d6 for each slot level above 1st.
Watery Tentacle
3rd-level conjuration
- Casting Time: 1 action
- Range: 30 feet
- Components: S, M (a water source, such as a vial of water)
- Duration: Concentration, up to 1 minute
You create a watery tentacle at a point you choose within range on top of solid ground or a body of water. This tentacle is size medium, has an AC of 13 and 30 hit points, has resistance to fire damage and to piercing, slashing, and bludgeoning damage from non-magical sources, and is vulnerable to cold damage. The tentacle uses your spellcasting ability score and modifier in place of its Strength score and modifier, but otherwise uses your statistics for determining its saving throws. This tentacle disappears when it drops to 0 hit points, or when the spell ends.
When you first cast this spell, you can cause the ten-tacle to make a melee spell attack with your statistics against a creature within 10 feet of it. On a hit, the target takes bludgeoning damage equal to 3d6 + your spellcasting ability modifier. As a bonus action on your turn, you can command the tentacle to move up to 15 feet and repeat the attack against a creature within 10 feet of it. If the tentacle's attack hits, you may direct it to grapple a target instead of dealing damage. If it does, any attempts to escape the grapple are made against your spellcasting ability modifier plus your proficiency bonus.
You may also use an action on your turn to direct the tentacle to act in accordance to your somatic gestures, performing functions such as lifting objects or moving up to 15 feet, but the tentacle will not attack unless you command it to do so with a bonus action, as above.
At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 4th level or higher, the hit points of the tentacle increase by 10 and the damage of spell's attack increases by 1d6 for each slot level above 3rd.
Depthsurge
4th-level enchantment
- Casting Time: 1 action
- Range: 120 feet
- Components: V, M (a shattered vial of water)
- Duration: Instantaneous
You conjure a powerful explosion of water, scattering creatures affected by it. Choose a point within range. Creatures within a 10-foot radius sphere centered on that point must make a Strength saving throw. If a creature fails this saving throw, it takes 4d10 bludgeoning damage, and is knocked 15 feet away from the center of this explosion, and is rendered prone. A creature that succeeds on this saving throw takes half damage and is subject to no other effects from this spell.
At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 5th level or higher, the damage done by this spell increases by 1d10 and the distance pushed increases by 5 feet, for each slot level above 4th.
Red Tide
5th-level conjuration
- Casting Time: 1 action
- Range: 120 feet
- Components: S, M (a pinch of brine)
- Duration: Instantaneous
Choose a point within range that is either or or within a body of water, or on solid ground. A torrent of frothing red water issues forth, mercilessly battering all creatures within a 5 foot tall, 20 foot radius cylinder centered on that point. Creatures within this area must make a Constitution saving throw, taking 2d10 bludgeoning and 2d10 acid damage if they fail this save, and half that amount if they succeed. A creature that fails this saving throw is also poisoned until the end of your next turn.
At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 6th level or higher, the bludgeoning damage or the acid damage (your choice) increases by 1d10 for each slot level above 5th.
Aqua Blast
6th-level conjuration
- Casting Time: 1 action
- Range: Self (120-foot line)
- Components: S, M (a piece of coral)
- Duration: Instantaneous
A blast of gushing water pulled from the depths of the elemental plane of water shoots from you hands in a line 120 feet long and 5 feet wide out from you in a direction you choose. Each creature in the line must make a Strength saving throw. On a failed save, a creature takes 6d12 bludgeoning damage and is pushed 30 feet directly away from you. On a successful save, a creature takes half as much damage and is only pushed 15 feet directly away from you.
At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 7th level or higher, the initial damage increases by 1d12 for each slot level above 6th.
Flametouched
Whether you stole your power from a noble Efreeti lord, were gifted it by an ancient dragon, or were born near a rift to the elemental plane of fire, you now bear within you an ember of pure elemental flame. This mote of fire fuels your burning soul, allowing you to perform wondrous feats of fire magic.
How does the ember within effect your decision making? Are you passionate and rash, letting your emotions guide you? Or, do you resist, seeking calm mastery of your power?
Flametouched Origin Spells
Whenever you gain a level in this class, you can replace one spell from this feature with another spell of the same level, that deals only fire damage, from any class's spell list.
Sorcerer Level | Spells |
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1st | burning hands, flaming bolts |
3rd | scorching ray, ignite |
5th | fireball, melf's minute meteors |
7th | ashen pack, wall of fire |
9th | immolation, ruin |
Origin Expression
Flaring Spell. When casting a spell that deals fire damage, you can spend 2 sorcery points to cause creatures that were hit by, or failed the save against the spell to make a Constitution saving throw. Those who fail the save are blinded until the end of their next turn.
Burning Soul
At 1st level, you gain the ability to subtly control heat and fire around you.
You can use your action to dramatically increase the temperature in a 20-foot radius sphere centered on you. The heat is enough to make creatures sweat and liquid simmer. During this effect, light flames dance across your body, and your eyes shed dim light in a 10 foot radius. You may end this effect as a bonus action.
Additionally, you can speak, read and write Ignan. You also learn the produce flame and fire bolt cantrips, which doesn't count against your number of cantrips known.
Fire in the Blood
At 6th level, you gain resistance to fire damage. Additionally, when you strike down a creature with flame, you can cause fire to erupt forth from their ruin. As a reaction, when you reduce a small or larger creature to 0 hit points with a spell that deals fire damage, you force creatures of your choice within 10 feet of the slain creature to make Dexterity saving throw. On a failed save, creatures take fire damage based on the size of the slain creature, as indicated in the table below. On a successful save, creatures take half as much fire damage.
Size | Damage |
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Tiny | 1 |
Small | 1d4 |
Medium | 2d6 |
Size | Damage |
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Large | 3d8 |
Huge | 4d10 |
Gargantuan | 5d12 |
You can use this feature a number of times equal to your Charisma modifier (minimum of once), and you regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest.
Fleeting Flames
At 6th level, your magic begins to rekindle your spirit. When you cast a spell of 1st level or higher, your speed increases by 10 feet until the end of the turn. This speed bonus is increased to 20 feet at 14th level, and 30 feet at 18th level.
Kindle the Flame
You are restored by the elemental flame you wield. Beginning at 14th level, when you cast a spell of 1st-level or higher that deals fire damage, you can choose to immediately gain temporary hit points equal to the level at which the spell was cast + your Charisma modifier (minimum of 1 hit point).
Temporary hit points you gain from this ability replace any temporary hit points you may already have, and last until the end of your next long rest.
Fireborn
You have mastered the ember of elemental fire that burns within your soul, causing you to become more elemental then mortal. Upon reaching 18th level, you no longer need to eat, drink, or sleep, you are immune to fire damage, and fire damage that you deal ignores resistance, and treats immunity to fire damage as resistance.
In addition, when you take damage from a creature within 60 feet that you can see, you can use your reaction to rebuke them with elemental flame. The attacking creature must make a Dexterity saving throw, and on a failed save they take fire damage equal to your sorcerer level.
New Spells
Flaming Bolts
1st-level evocation
- Casting Time: 1 action
- Range: 120 feet
- Components: V, S
- Duration: Instantaneous
You create three bolts of fire that you direct at one or more creatures you can see within range. Each bolt hits automatically and does 1d6 fire damage. The bolts all strike simultaneously.
At Higher Levels. For each spell slot used higher than 1st level, you create one additional bolt.
Classes Sorcerer, Wizard, Warlock
Ignite
2nd-level evocation
- Casting Time: 1 action
- Range: 60 feet
- Components: V, S
- Duration: Instantaneous
You send a blast of corsucating flame at one creature you can see. Make a ranged spell attack; if it hits, the creature takes 4d6 fire damage and catches fire. At the end of each of its turns, it takes 2d6 fire damage. A burning creature or an adjacent ally can spend an action to extinguish the fire.
At Higher Levels. For each spell slot used higher than 2nd level, the initial damage increases by 1d6.
Classes Sorcerer, Wizard, Warlock
Ashen Pack
4th-level conjuration
- Casting Time: 1 action
- Range: Self
- Components: V, S
- Duration: Concentration, up to 10 minutes
With a gesture, you summon three flaming wolves made from ash and metal into your space. When you cast this spell, and as an action on each of your turns while it is in effect, you can choose a point within 60 feet of you. When you do, one of the flaming wolves rushes to the target point, and then seeks out the nearest creature within 30 feet of it, making a melee spell attack using your spell attack modifier. If the attack hits, the target takes 4d10 fire damage and must make a Strength saving throw. If the target fails, they are knocked prone. The flaming wolf then immediately returns to your space, coiling around your feet. The wolves have an AC equal to your spell save DC. If a flaming wolf is struck by a weapon or spell attack or is prevented from returning to your space after making an attack, it vanishes. The spell ends when all three wolves are lost, or you lose concentration.
At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 5th level or higher, the fire damage of the wolf's attack increases by 1d10 per spell slot level above 4th.
Classes Druid, Sorcerer, Wizard, Warlock
Ruin
5th-level evocation
- Casting Time: 1 action
- Range: 60 feet
- Components: V, S
- Duration: Concentration, up to 1 minute
You create a maelstrom of fire and brimstone in a 20-foot-radius sphere at a point you can see within range. When a creature enters the area for the first time on a turn or starts its turn there, it must make a Constitution saving throw. On a failed save, the creature takes 5d8 fire damage or half as much on a success. Constructs and structures automatically fail the save and the spell deals maximum damage.
At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 6th level or higher, the damage increases by 1d8 for each slot level above 5th.
Classes Wizard, Warlock
Aberrant Mind
An alien influence has wrapped its tendrils around you, warping you in both body and mind. Perhaps a psychic splinter lodged in your psyche after you suffered domination by an aboleth. Maybe you were born somewhere tainted by the Far Realm, a planar blot that changed you forever. Or perhaps mind flayers kidnapped you, subjecting you to the nightmarish process of ceremorphosis—but the transformation failed and left you altered.
Aberrant Mind Origin Spells
Whenever you gain a sorcerer level, you can replace one spell you gained from this feature with another spell of the same level. The new spell must be an divination or enchantment spell from the sorcerer, warlock, or wizard spell list.
Sorcerer Level | Spells |
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1st | arms of Hadar, dissonant whispers, mind sliver |
3rd | calm emotions, detect thoughts |
5th | hunger of Hadar, sending |
7th | Evard's black tentacles, summon aberration |
9th | Rary's telepathic bond, telekinesis |
Origin Expression
Painful Spell. When you cast a spell that deals damage, you can spend 1 sorcery point to force one creature affected by it to make an Intelligence saving throw. On a failed save, the first time it makes an attack roll or saving throw before the end of your next turn, it must roll a d6 and subtract the number rolled from the roll.
Telepathic Speech
You can form a telepathic connection between your mind and the mind of another. As a bonus action, choose one creature you can see within 30 feet of you. You and the chosen creature can speak telepathically with each other while the two of you are within a number of miles of each other equal to your Charisma modifier (minimum of 1 mile). To understand each other, you each must speak mentally in a language the other knows.
The telepathic connection lasts for a number of minutes equal to your sorcerer level. It ends early if you are incapacitated or die or if you use this ability to form a connection with a different creature.
Additionally, you can speak, read and write Deep Speech.
Psychic Defenses
At 6th level, you gain resistance to psychic damage, and you have advantage on saving throws against being charmed or frightened.
Psionic Sorcery
Beginning at 6th level, when you cast any spell of 1st-level or higher form your Origin Spells feature, you can expend 1 additional sorcery point to cast the spell without requiring any verbal or somatic components, and it requires no material components, unless they are consumed by the spell.
Revelation in Flesh
At 14th level, you can unleash the aberrant truth hidden within yourself. As a bonus action, you can expend 2 or more sorcery points to magically transform your body for 10 minutes. For each 2 sorcery points you expend, you gain one of the following benefits of your choice, the effects of which last until the transformation ends:
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You can see any invisible creature within 60 feet of you, provided it isn't behind total cover. Your eyes also turn black or become writhing sensory tendrils.
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You gain a flying speed equal to your walking speed, and you can hover. As you fly, your skin glistens with mucus or shines with an otherworldly light.
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You gain a swimming speed equal to twice your walking speed, and you can breathe underwater. Moreover, gills grow from your neck or fan out from behind your ears, your fingers become webbed, or you grow writhing cilia that extend through your clothing.
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Your body, along with any equipment you are wearing or carrying, becomes slimy and pliable. You can move through any space as narrow as 1 inch without squeezing, and you can spend 5 feet of movement to escape from nonmagical restraints or being grappled.
Warping Implosion
At 18th level, you can unleash your aberrant power as a space-warping anomaly. As an action, you can teleport to an unoccupied space you can see within 120 feet of you. Immediately after you disappear, each creature within 30 feet of the space you left must make a Strength saving throw. On a failed save, a creature takes 3d10 force damage and is pulled straight toward the space you left, ending in an unoccupied space as close to your former space as possible. On a successful save, the creature takes half as much damage and isn't pulled.
Once you use this feature, you can't use it again until you finish a long rest, unless you expend 7 sorcery points.
Startouched (Luxonborn)
By either an ancient ritual, or a birthright passed down through generations, you are able to use magic that reflects the power of stars. This magic, both old and powerful, can shape worlds or destroy them, and lets you shine the light from above down onto those who would face you.
Startouched Origin Spells
Whenever you gain a sorcerer level, you can replace one spell you gained from this feature with another spell of the same level. The new spell must be an conjuration or evocation spell from the sorcerer, druid, or wizard spell list.
Sorcerer Level | Spells |
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1st | guiding bolt, faerie fire |
3rd | starlight spear, fortune's favor |
5th | daylight, dawn nova |
7th | field of stars, spear of the luxon |
9th | falling star, wall of light |
Origin Expression
Stellar Spell. When you deal damage with a spell, you can spend 1 sorcery point to limn one target in stellar radiance. Until the end of your next turn, attacks roll against this creature can't have disadvantage, and the creature has disadvantage on Dexterity (Stealth) checks and can't benefit from being invisible.
Flickering Starlight
Starting when you choose this origin at 1st level, the power of starlight is ingrained into your magic, and you shine as it does. Whenever you cast a sorcerer spell of 1st level or higher, a small mote of starlight begins orbiting you in your space, which lasts for 10 minutes. You can have a maximum number of motes equal to your sorcerer level (minimum 1). While you have at least one mote orbiting you, you shed bright light in a 10 foot radius, and dim light for an additional 10 feet. Whenever you are hit by an attack or you fail a saving throw, you can expend a mote you have orbiting you as a reaction and roll a d4, and add the number rolled to your AC against that attack or that saving throw.
Guiding Light
Also at 1st level, your attunement to the stars grants you magic, and allows you to find your way. You learn the shooting star cantrip, which doesn't count against the number of cantrips you know.
Additionally, while you can see the night sky, you gain advantage on Wisdom (Survival) checks to navigate, and you always know which way is north.
Brilliant Radiance
At 6th level, your cosmic magic allows you to manipulate your other spells. Whenever you cast a spell that deals damage, you can substitute one of the damage types it deals with radiant damage for that casting of the spell.
Gleaming Defence
Also at 6th level, when you expend a mote to roll a d4 when you're hit by an attack or fail a saving throw, you can spend 1 sorcery point to expend an additional mote and roll another d4, adding it to your AC or saving throw. Once you do so, you can't do so again until the start of your next turn.
Additionally, you have resistance to radiant and fire damage.
Swirling Cosmos
At 14th level, the motes that orbit you become blinding lights. While you have at least one mote orbiting you, hostile creatures that start their turn within 10 feet of you must make a Constitution saving throw against your spell save DC or become blinded until the start of its next turn.
Volley of Starlight
At 18th level, you can cause your motes to strike a nearby target. As an action on your turn, you can send your motes streaking towards creatures within 120 feet of you, spending 1 sorcery points per mote. Each mote hits a creature of your choice that you can see within range. A mote deals 3d12 radiant damage to its target. The motes all strike simultaneously and you can direct them to hit one creature or several.
You also gain immunity to radiant and fire damage.
Shooting Star
Evocation cantrip
- Casting Time: 1 action
- Range: 60 feet
- Components: S
- Duration: 1 round
When you cast this spell, choose a point you can see within range, which begins to glow with a radiant light. A mote of starlight crashes down on that point. Each creature within 5 feet of that point must make a Dexterity saving throw. On a failed save, a creature takes 1d10 radiant damage.
The spell's damage increases by 1d10 when you reach 5th level (2d10), 11th level (3d10), and 17th level (4d10).
Twinkle
Evocation cantrip
- Casting Time: 1 action
- Range: 10 feet
- Components: V, S
- Duration: Instantaneous
You create or manipulate lights you can see within range and that fit within a 5-foot cube:
- You create a small burst of light, providing bright light in a 5-foot radius and dim light for an additional 5 feet until the start of your next turn.
- You cause a non magical light to dim until the start of your next turn. An object that usually casts dim light no longer casts light, and an object that casts bright light now casts dim light.
- You change the color of a light for 1 minute.
If you cast this spell multiple times, you can have up to three non-instantaneous effects created by it active at a time, and you can dismiss such an effect as an action.
Classes: Bard, Cleric, Druid, Sorcerer, Wizard
Starlight Spear
2nd-level conjuration
- Casting Time: 1 bonus action
- Range: Self
- Components: V, S
- Duration: Concentration, up to 1 minute
You weave threads of starlight together to create a spear of solidified light in your hand. This magic spear lasts until the spell ends. It counts as a simple melee weapon with which you are proficient. It uses your Dexterity or spellcasting ability modifier. It deals 2d12 radiant damage on a hit and has the reach and thrown (20/60 ft.) properties. In addition, if you move at least 20 feet straight toward a target, your next attack with this weapon deals an additional 1d12 radiant damage on a hit.
If you drop the weapon or throw it, it dissipates at the end of the turn. Thereafter, while the spell persists, you can use a bonus action to cause the spear to reappear in your hand.
At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a 3rd- or 4th-level spell slot, the damage increases to 3d12. When you cast it using a 5th- or 6th-level spell slot, the damage increases to 4d12. When you cast it using a spell slot of 7th level or higher, the damage increases to 5d12.
Classes: Cleric, Paladin, Sorcerer, Wizard
Dawn Nova
3rd-level evocation
- Casting Time: 1 action
- Range: 150 ft
- Components: V, S, M (a shard of sunstone)
- Duration: Instantaneous
A bright streak flashes from your two fingers to a point you choose within range and then erupts with a chiming crash into an explosion of consecrated light. Each creature in a 20-foot-radius sphere centered on that point must make a Constitution saving throw. A target takes 6d6 radiant damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one. If aberrations or undead are in the blast zone, they take an additional 3d6 radiant damage, regardless if they succeed the save.
The light spreads around corners. It leaves behind a dim glow of sunlight in the area of effect for 1 minute.
At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 4th level or higher, the damage increases by 1d6 for each slot level above 3rd. If a spell slot of 5th level or above is used, the 3d6 damage to aberrations and undead becomes 6d6.
Field of Stars
4th-level conjuration
- Casting Time: 1 action
- Range: 60 feet
- Components: V, S
- Duration: 1 minute
You conjure into existence four motes of starlight, each in an unoccupied space you can see within range. Each mote provides dim light in a 5-foot radius and lasts for the duration or until it explodes.
When a creature moves within 5 feet of a mote or moves away from a mote within 5 feet of it, the mote explodes. Each creature within 5 feet of the mote must make a Dexterity saving throw. A creature takes 2d6 radiant damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one.
At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 5th level or higher, you create one additional mote for each slot level above 4th.
Classes: Bard, Druid, Ranger
Falling Star
5th-level evocation
- Casting Time: 1 action
- Range: 600 feet
- Components: V, S
- Duration: Instantaneous
You create a fraction of the celestial power of a star above a point within range and cause it descend, crashing into the ground in a 40-foot radius. All creatures within the area must make a Constitution saving throw. If they fail, they take 6d6 radiant damage, or half as much damage if they succeed. This spell creates bright light that shines in a 100-foot radius until the end of your next turn, and this light counts as natural sunlight.
At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 6th level or higher, the radiant damage increases by 1d6 per spell slot level above 5th.
Classes: Cleric, Paladin, Sorcerer, Wizard
Spear of the Luxon
4th-level evocation
- Casting Time: 1 action
- Range: 120 feet
- Components: V, S
- Duration: Instantaneous
A bolt of light streaks from your hand to a creature you can see. Make a ranged spell attack against that creature. If you hit, the creature takes 5d8 radiant damage and must make a Constitution saving throw. If the saving throw fails, the creature is blinded. A blinded creature can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns; a successful save ends the blindness.
At Higher Levels. For each spell slot used higher than 4th level, the spell does an additional 1d8 damage.
Classes: Sorcerer, Wizard
Clockwork Soul
The cosmic force of order has suffused you with magic. That power arises from Mechanus or a realm like it-a plane of existence shaped entirely by clockwork efficiency. You, or someone from your lineage, might have become entangled in the machinations of the modrons, the orderly beings who inhabit Mechanus. Perhaps your ancestor even took part in the Great Modron March. Whatever its origin within you, the power of order can seem strange to others, but for you, it is part of a vast and glorious system.
Clockwork Magic Origin Spells
Whenever you gain a sorcerer level, you can replace one spell you gained from this feature with another spell of the same level. The new spell must be an abjuration or a transmutation spell from the sorcerer, warlock, or wizard spell list.
Sorcerer Level | Spells |
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1st | alarm, protection from evil and good |
3rd | aid, lesser restoration |
5th | dispel magic, protection from energy |
7th | freedom of movement, summon construct |
9th | greater restoration, wall of force |
Origin Expression
Ordered Spell. When you cast a sorcerer spell with the ritual tag, you can spend 1 sorcery point to cast the spell as a ritual.
Restore Balance
At 1st level, your connection to the plane of absolute order allows you to equalize chaotic moments. When a creature you can see within 60 feet of you is about to roll a d20 with advantage or disadvantage, you can use your reaction to prevent the roll from being affected by advantage and disadvantage.
You can use this feature a number of times equal to your proficiency bonus, and you regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest.
Bastion of Law
Beginning at 6th level, you can tap into the grand equation of existence to imbue a creature with a shimmering shield of order. As an action, you can expend 1 to 7 sorcery points to create a magical ward around yourself or another creature you can see within 30 feet. The ward lasts until you finish a long rest or until you use this feature again.
The ward is represented by a number of d6's equal to the number of sorcery points spent to create it. When the warded creature takes damage, it can expend a number of those dice, roll them, and reduce the damage taken by the number rolled.
Trance of Order
At 14th level, you gain the ability to align your consciousness to the endless calculations of Mechanus. As a bonus action, you can enter this state for 1 minute. For the duration, attack rolls against you can't benefit from advantage, and whenever you make an attack roll, an ability check, or a saving throw, you can treat a roll of 9 or lower on the d20 as a 10.
Once you use this bonus action, you can't use it again until you finish a long rest, unless you expend 7 sorcery points
Clockwork Cavalcade
At 18th level, you summon spirits of order to expunge disorder around you. As an action, you summon the spirits in a 30-foot cube originating from you. The spirits look like modrons or other constructs of your choice. The spirits are intangible and invulnerable, and they create the following effects within the cube before vanishing:
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The spirits restore up to 100 hit points, divided as you choose among any number of creatures of your choice in the cube.
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Any damaged objects entirely in the cube are repaired instantly.
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Every spell of 6th level or lower ends on creatures and objects of your choice in the cube.
Once you use this action, you can't use it again until you finish a long rest, unless you spend 7 sorcery points to use it again.
Fiendspawn
Most mortals who wield the powers of the hells do so under strict contracts with devils and Archdevils. However, some cultists and other mortals draw upon more chaotic infernal power become Fiendspawn. Though not always evil, Fiendspawn fueled by the chaotic and dangerous magic of the Abyss.
How did you come to be the bearer of this hellish power? Were your parents cultists that dedicated you at birth, or did you acquire this sinister power through your own choices?
Fiendspawn Origin Spells
Whenever you gain a level, you can replace one spell from this feature with another conjuration or evocation spell of the same level from the sorcerer, warlock, or wizard spell list
Sorcerer Level | Spells |
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1st | hellish rebuke, wrathful smite |
3rd | enlarge/reduce, scorching ray |
5th | bestow curse, blinding smite |
7th | shadow of moil, staggering smite |
9th | cloudkill, insect plague |
Origin Expression
Demonic Spell. When you deal damage to a target during your Demonic Form feature, you can spend 1 sorcery point to exert your devilish will. The target must make a Charisma saving throw against your sorcerer spell save DC, or be charmed or frightened by you.
Demonic Form
When you choose this origin at 1st level, you gain the ability to undergo a transformation, unleashing the demonic power within you. As a bonus action, you can take on a demonic form. While in this form, you retain your game statistics, but your body becomes demonic in appearance. While in your demonic form you gain the following benefits:
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Your hands become natural weapons that deal 1d10 slashing damage on hit, and you use your Charisma, in place of Strength, for the attack and damage rolls.
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If you are not wearing armor, you gain a bonus to your AC equal to your Charisma modifier (minimum of 1).
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As a bonus action, you can grant yourself temporary hit points equal to your Charisma modifier (minimum of 1).
This form lasts for 1 minute, unless you are incapacitated, or you end it as a bonus action. You can transform a number of times equal to your Charisma modifier (minimum of once), and regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest.
Extra Attack
Starting at 6th level, you can attack twice, instead of once, when you take the Attack action on your turn. Moreover, you can cast one of your cantrips in place of one of those attacks.
Infernal Strikes
Also starting at 6th level, your natural weapon attacks while in your demonic form count as magical for the purposes of overcoming resistances and immunity.
Fiendish Resistance
Beginning at 14th level, your hellish power can shield you from harm. As a reaction, when you take damage while in your demonic form, you can expend sorcery points to reduce the incoming damage. For each sorcery point you expend as part of this reaction, you reduce the incoming damage by 2.
Archdemonic Form
You have mastered the fiendish power that dwells within you. Starting at 18th level, your demonic form lasts until you choose to end it. Also, while in your demonic form, you gain the following additional benefits:
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You can take the Dash action as a bonus action.
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You are immune to bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing damage from non-magical attacks.
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When you hit a creature with a natural weapon attack it takes an additional 1d8 magical slashing damage.
Changelog
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Changed Sorcery points progression
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Font of magic revised
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Changed Metamagic Progression
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Added Sorcerous Recovery
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Spells known increased to 21
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Proficiency in all simple weapons
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Sorcerer counts as their own arcane focus, and can function as an arcane focus
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Font of Magic feature gains additional features.
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Added new Origins, origin metamagics, and origin spells.
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Sorcerer Capstone Revised
Credits
- Written by drogn#0797
- Benjamin Huffman's / Sterling Vermin's Sorcerer, Revised.
- The Tweaked Sorcerer, by SwordMeow
- /u/SargeBriar
- /u/NotTheSmooze
- Blazing Dawn Player's Companion by /u/Jonoman3000
- /u/Rain-Junkie. More of their work can be found here.
- The Sorcerer, Revamped by Lanavis
- Metabot's Manual of Magical Maneuvers
- All of the Lights in the Sky are Stars by /u/aeyana
- Grimlore's Grimoire, by Grim Press, Trevor Armstrong
- Compendium of Forgotten Secrets: Awakening, by William King (/u/GenuineBelieverer)
- Codex of Waves, by Walrock Homebrew
- Made using GMBinder.
Image Credits
- Front Cover Image: Tiefling Aberrant Mind Sorcerer, by OhHeyItsKaylaK
- Back Cover Image: Anne's Great Sorcery, by Shadowverse
- Ice Queen by Coliandre
- Stormcaller by Shazileh7
- Unknown by Zandraart
- Eclipse by Florent Llamas
- Kelp Forest by visualkid-n
- Mid Ocean by visualkid-n
Disclaimer
This is all personal work I do for myself and my players - these are not meant to be published, or used for monetary gain - Everything is for the tables I play and DM at.
Magic In
the Blood...
A complete revision and rebalance of the Sorcerer class for Dungeons and Dragons, Fifth Edition. With new features and metamagics, as well as completely original subclasses, this rework revitalizes the Sorcerer class, fixing its many design flaws, while still maintaining its flavour and the design goals associated with the fifth iteration of the world's greatest roleplaying game.