Quick build

You can make an assimilator quickly by following these suggestions. First, Intelligence should be your highest ability score, followed by Wisdom or Constitution. Second, choose the Far Traveler background. Third, select Arcana and Perception for your skill profiencies. Fourth, choose the Create Bonfire, Guidance, and Frostbite cantrips, along with the following 1st-level spells for your diviner stone: Mage Armor, Find Familiar, Longstrider, Expeditious Retreat, Magic Missile, and Snare.

Hit Points

• Hit Dice: 1d6 per assimilator level
• Hit Points at 1st Level: 6 + your Constitution modifier
• Hit Points at Higher Levels: 1d6 (or 4) + your Constitution modifier per assimilator level after 1st

Proficiencies

• Armor: None
• Weapons: None
• Tools: None

• Saving Throws: Intelligence, Wisdom
• Skills: Choose two from Arcana, History, Insight, Investigation, and Perception

Equipment

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

• (a) a scholar’s pack or (b) an explorer’s pack
• A diviner stone (attuned)

Cantrips

At 1st level, you know three Cantrips of your choice from the assimilator spell list. You do not learn additional cantrips as you gain levels, only learning them through the use of features of this class.

Diviner Memory

At 1st level, you have learned six 1st-level spells of your choice from the assimilator spell list. You store these and all spells you learn within your diviner stone by undertaking a ritual of your class. Unlike your wizard cousins, you do not gain spells upon gaining a level.

Preparing and Casting Spells

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

You prepare the list of assimilator spells that are available for you to cast. To do so, choose a number of assimilator spells in your diviner stone equal to your Intelligence modifier + your assimilator level (minimum of one spell). The spells must be of a level for which you have spell slots.

For example, as a 3rd-level assimilator, you have four 1st-level and two 2nd-level spell slots. With an Intelligence of 18, your list of prepared spells can include seven spells of 1st or 2nd Level, in any combination, chosen from your diviner stone. If you prepare the 1st-level spell Magic Missile, for example, you can cast it using a 1st or 2nd-level slot. Casting the spell doesn't remove it from your list of prepared spells.

Spellcasting Ability

Intelligence is your spellcasting ability for your assimilator spells, since you learn your spells through deciphering the methods others use to cast them. You use your Intelligence whenever a spell refers to your spellcasting ability. In addition, you use your Intelligence modifier when setting the saving throw DC for an assimilator spell you cast and when making an attack roll with one.

Unique Spellcasting Focus

You must use your diviner stone as a spellcasting focus.

Unique Ritual Casting

You can cast any spell as a ritual without preparing it if that spell has the ritual tag and you have stored the spell. Because rituals require additional knowledge and preparation to cast, you must successfully use Spell Sight on the ritual spell a number of times equal to 4 plus the spell base level minus your proficiency bonus (minimum 1) to learn how to perform the ritual properly. The table below provides a tiered reference for number of Spell Sight attempts by spell level.

Diviner Stone

Your diviner stone is the source of your magic. You must attune to your diviner stone by performing an 8-hour ritual while focusing on the stone. This attunement does not count towards the three item limit for attuning to magical items. If the stone is removed from your possession for 4 hours, this attunement breaks and you must perform the ritual again before utilizing its power.

Losing Attunement. For the stone to be considered removed from your possession, it must be taken by an unfriendly creature (such as town guards, pirates, monsters, etc.) or remain at least 100 feet from you for the duration. Actions which do not result in losing attunement include allowing an ally to carry the stone, storing the stone in a haversack or similar item, or leaving the stone with your supplies while sleeping.

Replacing the Stone. A diviner stone can be replaced by performing an 8-hour ritual visualizing the ether around you, threading it into a ball around any small, roughly spherical object. The ritual requires 100 GP worth of gemstones which are consumed by the ritual, whose essence bind the threads of magic in place. One of the gems used to satisfy the cost of the ritual can be used as the small object required to perform the ritual if desired. While performing the ritual, the strands of magic become visible around you, shedding dim light for 5 feet.

Because attunement with the original stone was lost, your spell memory has weakened. To recall leveled spells and restore them to your new diviner stone, you must either witness the spell being cast again using Spell Sight, or you must spend 30 minutes per spell level recalling how the spell is cast, translating that knowledge into your new diviner stone to pull the memory from its core. Once complete, the spell is restored and available for spell preparation on completion of your next long rest. This process consumes your attention, leaving you unable to perform many actions including speaking or normally perceiving your surroundings. You can walk while doing so, and may interrupt this process for no more than one (1) minute at a time without starting over for a given spell.

The Stone's Appearance. During any ritual related to the stone (creation, attunement, or spell storage), you may change the appearance of the stone to any shape, colors, and surface appearance, in a roughly spherical volume the size of a medium humanoid's fist (or smaller/larger per your DM). For example, the diviner stone could be transformed to look like a fist-sized cube of green granite, or a perfect sphere of translucent glass.

The Stone's AC. The stone has an AC of 20, auto-succeeds Int/Wis/Cha saves, and you must make a dex save to move your stone if it would be affected by a Str/Dex/Con save. Attacks against the stone are made at disadvantage and the stone is resistant to all damage types. The Stone has 10 + your character level hit points.

Level 2 - Specialization

You choose an Assimilation Specialization: the Divination Specialist, the Pantomath Specialist, the Feral Specialist, the Material Specialist, the Theological Specialist, or the Weaver Specialist, all detailed at the end of the class description.

Your choice grants you features at 2nd level and again at 6th, 10th, and 14th level.

Level 3, 7, 11, 16 - Diviner Stone Extension

You have attuned deeper to your diviner stone. As a bonus action, you can see through it until the start of your next turn. During this time, you are blind with regard to your own senses. If your character has darkvision, it does not extend through the stone. While looking through your diviner stone, you can cast spells through it. You can use the ability to connect to your diviner stone while it is within 30' of you, increasing by 30' at levels 7, 11, and 16.

Finally, you can move your diviner stone up to 30' with a thought (no action), the stone hovering where it was commanded. Note, if your diviner stone is not within 5' of you, you cannot cast with it without first using a bonus action to see through it.

At 11th level, your diviner stone provides darkvision when using it for sight, and you can enter it's vision without using a bonus action.

At 16th level, your diviner stone becomes a third eye, no longer blinding you while using it for vision.

Level 4, 8, 12, 16, 19 - 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.

Level 7, 13 - Ether Backlash

You can turn some of the energy of an attack around on your foe. When you see a damaging spell being cast, you may use your reaction to feed back some of the energy of the spell being cast into the caster. The caster must make an Intelligence saving throw against your spell DC or the caster takes damage of the type caused by the spell being cast, equal to your proficiency bonus plus your Intelligence modifier. The damage you receive is reduced by the same amount.

At 13th, a successful save results in normal damage and a failed save results in double the damage.

Level 9 - Divination Expert

You gain the ability to cast known Divination spells at one spell slot lower for the same effects, where 1st-level Divination spells can be cast as cantrips.

Level 10, 17 - Preemptive Spell Shield

You learn to protect your allies against spells in your arsenal. Whenever you or a friendly creature you can see must make a saving throw against a spell you see being cast that you know, all affected creatures of your choice gain a bonus to the saving throw equal to your Intelligence modifier (with a minimum bonus of +1).

At 17th level, you are no longer required to know the spell being cast. In addition, you may consume charges of Spell Sight to add an equivalent bonus to the spell shield (1 charge consumed = +1 to roll).

• Female assimilator 2: Yongjae Choi - Magic the Gathering, WotC
• Divination Specialist: Jason Felix - Magic the Gathering (WotC)
• Pantomath Specialist: Yongjae Choi - Magic the Gathering (WotC)
• Feral Specialist: Oheekolts (https://www.artstation.com/oheekolts)
• Material Specialist: Daniel Ljunggren - Magic the Gathering, WotC
• Theological Specialist: shehree (https://www.instagram.com/shehree_/?igshid=1o3kwws0xt3ky)
• Weaver Specialist: liamllivan (https://www.liamllivan.top/ProductDetail.aspx?iid=140714065&pr=28.96)

Divination Specialist

Specializing in divination allows the assimilator to delve deeper into the immersion of the visual. Your knowledge of spells used to peer into the universe expands faster and without bound. Your mind becomes directly accessible, allowing you to pluck information from your subconscious with ease.

Level 14 - Divination Empowered Spell Sight

By 14th level, you no longer need to have a Divination spell prepared to cast it, as they become solidified in your memory. In addition, you gain advantage when using Spell Sight to learn Divination spells, and no longer suffer increased DCs when analyzing Divination spells of a spell slot higher than you currently have access to or Divination spells not on the assimilator spell list.

Pantomath Specialist

Your drive to learn spells consumes you as you search tirelessly for new spells. While you may adventure with a party with some common goal, your true focus is on learning spells, and your allies's usefulness vanishes if their pursuits do not help you achieve that goal.

Level 14 - No Spell Unseen

You can react to nearly any spell cast. You gain two (2) additional reactions which can be used for your Spell Sight only. If all three (3) reactions are used in a round, you may not use your Action on your next turn.

In addition, your fervor for learning has peaked, allowing you to recognize the patterns of all spellcasting classes. All spells of level 7 and lower from any spell list are added to the assimilator spell list for you.

Material Specialist

You focus your search for magical understanding into the magics of enchanted items.

Level 10+ - Magical Mundanity

You can tap into the ether of magic items to hinder their effects as they are being activated. As a reaction, you can use Spell Sight and consume charges per the Sight Cost minus 1 in the feature table based on the magic item rarity. The DC is shown in the feature table. On success, you strip away the magic of the target item until the start of your next turn. You must roll at disadvantage if attempting to use this feature on a magic item beyond your level, per the table.

For magical weapons that deal additional damage on hit, the effect is considered activated upon hit.

If a magical item is somehow tied to the user in a magical way (such as an assimilator's diviner stone or a symbiotic item such as the Living Gloves), the user makes a Wisdom saving throw against your spell DC. On success, the Spell Sight charges are consumed and the magic item remains magical. On failure, the magic item is made mundane as described by this feature. This feature does not cause magic items to become unattuned.

Attunement?

Attunement balancing is difficult for the Material Specialist. In general, a legendary item or artifact that requires attunement is "worth" more in terms of attunement value than an uncommon item that requires attunement. The following rules can be used to aid a DM in balancing the combinational ability of the Material Specialist, but the DM's discretion should be used in the end.

Magic items that require attunement are given point values per the table below:

When the abilities of magic items are combined into a single item, the attunement points should be added together. When they reach 5 points or higher, that item has reached the maximum magic it can hold in the meta-mechanic of attunement.

Remembering that a magic item can have multiple effects, but the Assimilator may only learn one effect, it is important that a single (potentially weaker) effect learned from a legendary item, for example, should not be considered 4 attunement points. The DM should decide the amount of points an effect is worth.

Example: Winged Boots can be imbued with the ability to jump from the Boots of Striding and Springing, which is an uncommon effect. Winged Boots are themselves uncommon (which, sidenote, is insane), so the resulting Winged Boots of Springing would have 2 total attunement points. The remaining feature of the Boots of Striding and Springing, the the prevention of speed reduction, is a common ability, so the final Winged Boots of Striding and Springing would also be 2 points.

Level 2 - Divine Casting

Starting at 2nd level when you choose this specialization, the spells on the divine spell list are added to the assimilator spell list for you, such that you no longer learn spells from those lists at higher DC.

Level 6 - Divine Sense

Starting at 6th level, you gain proficiency in Religion. In addition, you develop a sense for those servants of the class chosen when taking this specialization. Any creature of the chosen class or any worshipper of a divine related to the chosen class gain an aura around them, visible to you. For example, a Paladin of Devotion may have a golden shimmer suspended in a column around their person, or a Vampire servant of Asmodeus may leave a trail of black, boiling, aetheric sludge wherever they step.

Level 10 - Divine Mastery

By 10th level, your courting of the divine extends beyond spells. You can use your Spell Sight to learn the class feature of a divine magic caster. You can use your Spell Sight to learn how to Channel Divinity or perform Eldritch Invocations, or perform magical Druidic or Ranger abilities.

DC. The DC uses the level at which the ability is learned or improved instead of the spell level normally used when using Spell Sight. In other words, the DC is equal to 10 plus the unlock level of the class feature. For example, if a theological specialized assimilator witnessed a Warlock use their Ascendant Step feature to cast the Levitate spell, the assimilator can attempt to gain access to Ascendant Step. The DC for this would be 10 (flat DC) + 9 (the invocation unlock level) for a final DC of 19.

Divine Will. You recreate these abilities mostly via magical facsimiles of the light or dark provisions used by the original creature, though these abilities cannot be completely mimicked without tapping into the power of the divinity granting the power.

When using one of these abilities, you must make a saving throw with DC of 20 minus your assimilator level, of type determined by the DM to reflect the nature of the divine force causing the effect. On failure, you gain a brand somewhere on your body representing the divinity whose power you are tapping into. For each brand gained in this way, you gain 1 point of exhaustion. One brand disappears per long rest, or Remove Curse or Greater Restoration spell cast on you.

Level 14 - Brazen Defiance

Starting at 14th level, your boldness reaches unreasonable heights. You gain the spell Commune which you always have prepared, and it does not count towards the number of spells you may prepare. When using this spell, your communion reaches out to the divine closest to your description for who you wish to commune with. If you are branded via the use of the Divine Mastery ability, you can direct your Commune spell directly to the divine of that brand.

In addition, you gain protection against the divine you've stolen from. You gain advantage on saving throws performed against attacks from any acolytes of these divinities.

Divine Enemy

DMs are encouraged to exploit the audacity of characters who take this specialization, sending their agents after the character to exact justice in whatever form appropriate. Alternatively, theological assimilators may enter a kind of pact with these divines, forming a bond similar to that of a Cleric or Warlock.

Weaver Specialist

Your grasp of the weave defines your spellcasting prowess. You see the threads, the patterns, the bindings: all that combine to form the fabric of destructive power that you command without thought.

High Sight

Divination cantrip

• Casting Time: 1 Action
• Range: Self
• Components: S
• Duration: Concentration, up to 1 minute
• Classes: Bard, Cleric, Druid, Paladin, Ranger, Wizard

You channel your vision directly above you to a range of 60 feet. The spell's range is limited to the ceiling if the spell is cast indoors, and the ceiling is made of a solid other than glass. For the duration, you can see through the point and may rotate your vision in all directions. As a bonus action, you may transfer your sight between your own and the spell. You may move any distance from the spell as long as you maintain concentration and remain on the same plane as the spell. The spell does not provide darkvision from the vision point, even if the caster has dark vision.

You may recast the spell before it expires to maintain the spell from the same location, even if you have moved out from under the location it was originally cast.

Quickvision

Divination cantrip

• Casting Time: 1 Bonus Action
• Range: 30 feet
• Components: V
• Duration: 1 Round
• Classes: Bard, Ranger, Sorcerer, Wizard

You instill the magic of divination foresight into a creature you can see within range. For the duration, the creature sees incoming danger in slow motion; the creature has advantage on Dexterity saving throws and attacks made against them are made at disadvantage.

See Tell

Divination cantrip

• Casting Time: 1 Bonus Action
• Range: 10 feet
• Components: S
• Duration: 1 minute
• Classes: Bard, Sorcerer, Wizard

Your trace a sigil in the air which constructs a screen visible only to you, between you and the target creature you are observing. The next Wisdom (Insight) check you make on the target is made at advantage.

True Strike+

Divination cantrip

• Casting Time: 1 Action
• Range: Self
• Components: S
• Duration: Concentration, up to 1 minute
• Classes: Bard, Sorcerer, Warlock, Wizard

You lift your weapon of choice and zero your focus. Your magic grants you a brief insight into the most effective use of your weapon. The next attack you make is a guaranteed critical hit.

Tracker's Compass

1st-level divination

• Casting Time: 1 Action
• Range: Touch
• Components: V S M (a silver coin tied to an arrow or bolt)
• Duration: Until dispelled
• Classes: Bard, Druid, Ranger, Sorcerer, Wizard

You imbue an object with a unique magical signature, allowing you to track it across vast distances. Until dispelled, an object imbued by this spell can be tracked by you using an arcane compass, as long as you remain on the same plane as the tracked object. If you lift your palm upward and speak the spell's incantation, a small, ethereal arrow appears above your palm, and a small, ethereal recreation of the item appears above the arrow. These conjurations are visible to you and any creature within 5 feet of you. The arrow points directly in the 3-dimensional direction of the marked object. On your palm, an ethereal number is printed indicating the distance to the object, indicating miles, feet, or inches depending on the appropriate distance scale. If you attempt to use the compass while on a different plane from the marked object, a spherical cloud of arcane energy appears which fails to form into the object and arrow, and no number is displayed.

When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 2nd level or higher, you may mark an additional object. If this spell is cast at the level already used to mark an object or multiple objects (using a higher slot), the mark dissipates from the first object(s). For example, if this spell is cast at 1st, 2nd, and 4th level, then the caster may mark 1, 2, and 4 objects (for a total of 7) simultaneously. Using each spell slot, 1 through 9, would allow a total of 45 objects to be marked.

You can wave your hand left or right through the arcane object or arrow to cycle to a different object, when multiple objects have been marked by this spell.

Mote of Secret Seeing

1st-level divination

• Casting Time: 1 Action
• Range: 5 feet
• Components: V S M (a silver needle)
• Duration: Concentration, up to 1 minute
• Classes: Bard, Ranger, Sorcerer, Wizard

You thread the needle through the air to weave a small mote of divination energy, directing it towards a point within range. The point may be on the other side of a wall, door, or any other solid obstacle, so long as there is a narrow crack to thread the mote. The mote is invisible to naked eye, but is visible to those with True Sight. You have 5 seconds to place the spell and the direction it is facing before it locks in place, and the spell's 1 minute duration begins. For the duration, including while casting and positioning the mote, you can see through that point with a field of view as if your eyes were locked in that place. As a bonus action, you may transfer your sight between your own and the spell.

When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 2nd level or higher, the spell's range increases by 5 feet and the positioning duration increases by 5 seconds for each slot level above 1st.

Gouge

1st-level divination

• Casting Time: 1 Action
• Range: 30 feet
• Components: V S M (a voodoo doll with eyes, and two needles)
• Duration: Concentration, up to 1 minute
• Classes: Bard, Sorcerer, Wizard

You psychically pierce the eyes of one creature you can see within range. The target must make a Wisdom saving throw, taking 1d6 psychic damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one. On a failed save, the target becomes blinded for the duration of the spell while you remain in contact with the doll used to cast the spell. At the end of each of its turns, the target can make another Wisdom saving throw. On a success, the spell ends on the target.

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.

Tangles of Constitution

2nd-level divination

• Casting Time: 1 Action
• Range: 30 feet
• Components: V S M (a small chunk of preserved meat)
• Duration: Instantaneous
• Classes: Bard, Ranger, Sorcerer, Wizard

You visualize the tangles of aether which thread together the constitution of a target creature, identifying the weak points in its armor. Your critical hit range increases by 1 against that target creature only (not other individuals of the same creature type, if any). You may share this information to grant this benefit to allies.

Throughsight

2nd-level divination

• Casting Time: 1 Action
• Range: 1 foot
• Components: V M (a handful of gold dust)
• Duration: 1 Minute
• Classes: Bard, Sorcerer, Wizard

Tossing the gold dust into the eyes of a target creature, you speak the spell incantation to grant the creature the ability to see through matter. This vision has a radius of 5 feet. To the target, solid objects within that radius appear transparent and don't prevent light from passing through them. The vision can penetrate 1 foot of stone, 1 inch of Common metal, or up to 3 feet of wood or dirt. Thicker substances block the vision, as does a thin sheet of lead or any kind of magical barrier conjured to defeat divination magic.

When the spell expires, the gold dust used to cast the spell drips out of the target's eyes as golden tears, accumulating and solidifying into a small golden ball the size of a small marble.

When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 2nd level or higher, the spell's vision radius increases by 5 feet for each slot level above 2nd.

Insight of the Medicus

2nd-level divination

• Casting Time: 1 Action
• Range: 5 feet
• Components: S
• Duration: 1 Minute
• Classes: Bard, Cleric, Druid, Paladin, Ranger, Sorcerer, Wizard

You wave your hands over a target creature's body, causing wounds on the creature to elevate visually as enlarged aetheric holograms. For the duration, the next Wisdom (Medicine) check made while inspecting the target is made at advantage (including when attempting to stabilize a creature), and any healing spell used on the target adds one (1) of the healing die used by the spell to the Healing gained by that spell.

Dark Sight Ward

4th-level abjuration (ritual)

• Casting Time: Up to 1 minute
• Range: 5 feet
• Components: V S M (a pair of shaded lenses)
• Duration: Until Dispelled
• Classes: Bard, Sorcerer, Wizard

You trace sigils in the air using a shaded lenses in both hands, within a doorway, window, archway, etc. You may enchant up to 50 square feet of space per casting, so long as the motions occur within the casting time window. An invisible field stretches across whatever gateway you enchant which strips the innate or enchanted ability to see in the dark, of any creature that passes through it. While the field persists until dispelled, the darkvision or devil's sight is lost for an hour, and cannot be restored by recasting the Darkvision spell during that time. This does not affect other senses used to see, such as tremorsense or the additional effects of truesight.

When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 5th level or higher, the spell's square feet double, the duration of the darkvision removal effect doubles, and the casting time doubles for each slot level above 4th.

Identify Curse

4th-level divination (ritual)

• Casting Time: 1 minute
• Range: Near Touch
• Target: One object that you must hold your hands above throughout the casting of the spell
• Components: V S M (A black pearl worth at least 100 gp and an raven feather)
• Duration: Instantaneous
• Classes: Bard, Cleric, Paladin, Ranger, Wizard

You choose one object that you must hold your hands above throughout the casting of the spell. If it is a cursed object, you learn the effects of the curse and how they affect a person cursed by the object. If you instead hold your hands above a creature throughout the casting, you learn what curses, if any, are currently affecting it. You do not learn how to remove the curse from the object or creature, if a specific ritual would allow its removal.

Greater Detect Magic

5th-level divination (ritual)

• Casting Time: 1 Action
• Range: Self
• Components: V S M (a magical item of any rarity, which the spell consumes)
• Duration: Concentration, up to 10 minutes
• Classes: Bard, Cleric, Druid, Paladin, Ranger, Sorcerer, Wizard

For the duration, you sense the presence of magic around you. If you sense magic in this way, you can use your action to focus on a source of magic in the area, which creates a faint aura. In addition, you learn its school of magic, if any.

The spell, a more powerful version than it's 1st-level basic form, can penetrate nearly all barriers, blocked only by thick masses which attenuate the magic (see the table below). The sensation gained by this spell presents as an intense wave of energy around you, giving you a general sense of direction and intensity, at differing levels for differing confluences of sensed magic. When you use your action to see the aura, you focus on a single manifestation of magic that you have sensed, causing that area to emananate an aura. Distant auras illuminate the sky above the magical source as if you are viewing the faint lights emanated by a large town at night.

In addition to the initial action to select one group of sensed magic to visualize, you can take additional actions to tighten the signal of the magic you focus on. To do so, you make a concentration check each time the spell is condensed, with DC equal to 10 + the number of times it has previously been condensed. On success, the aura tightens around the source (though it remains visible in the air above it). On failure, you lose concentration and the spell ends.

When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 6th level or higher, the spell's range and barrier penetration increase per the table below.

See Death

5th-level divination

• Casting Time: 1 Action
• Range: Touch
• Components: S M (a drop of blood, which the spell consumes)
• Duration: 1+ rounds
• Classes: Sorcerer, Warlock, Wizard

You place a drop of blood in the palm of your hand and place your palm on the ground to summon visions of death. You see a phantom recreation of the last 6 seconds leading to the death of a creature that has died in this location in the last month. The phantom repeats the last 6 seconds of its death as long as your palm is held to the ground.

Recreate Scene

6th-level divination (ritual)

• Casting Time: 1 Action
• Range: 15 feet
• Components: V S M (a wooden looking glass and a bronze tuning fork which the spell does not consume, and diamond dust worth 100 GP and gemstone dust of desired colors worth 10 GP per color, both of which the spell consumes)
• Duration: 10 minutes
• Classes: Bard, Paladin, Ranger, Sorcerer, Wizard

You invoke the residual threads of magic left behind by past events, ensorcelling the diamond and gemstone dust used in casting this spell to resonate with those threads, recreating those events. For the duration, you can see still or dynamic recreations of events that have occurred within the last 8 hours, per your will, to a radius of 10 feet from the point the spell was cast. You know the general time that the visualization occurred, and may rewind or fast forward the events at will. As an action before the spell expires, you may move the center of the spell radius up to another 15 feet, to follow a scene formed by the spell.

If only diamond dust is used to cast this spell, the recreations appear as a diamond colored mist-like recreation of the events, with whatever color would be cast by ambient light against the diamond haze. If gemstone dust is used, any colors from the scene corresponding to a colored gemstone dust will be recreated accurately. To obtain a perfect visual, the spell requires red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, black, and diamond colored dust.

If a looking glass is used in the casting of the spell, the caster may use it to seek out greater details. To review intricate details of a scene, such as printed text on a page, the contents within a crate (which the spell can pierce while using the looking glass), or objects hidden in shadows that would have gone unscene during the event, the caster can peer through the looking glass and make an investigation check with DC set by the DM. Objects in the scene cannot otherwise be interacted with, e.g. a bottom of a page lying on the ground is not visible unless the earth is excavated beneath the page and the investigator positions themselves below where the page lies.

If a tuning fork is used in the casting of the spell, sounds present during the event can be heard by the caster while holding the tuning fork within the radius of the spell.

If a creature contacts you within the spell radius, you can allow them to see the visualizations as well while they remain in contact with you.

When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 7th level or higher, the spell's radius and duration doubles for each slot level above 6th.

Greater Identify Curse

6th-level divination (ritual)

• Casting Time: 1 minute
• Range: Near Touch
• Target: One object that you must hold your hands above throughout the casting of the spell
• Components: V S M (the skull of a raven, a chunk of sulfur, and a vial of blood which the spell consumes)
• Duration: Instantaneous
• Classes: Bard, Cleric, Paladin, Ranger, Wizard

You choose one object that you must hold your hands above throughout the casting of the spell. If it is a cursed object, you learn the effects of the curse and how they affect a person cursed by the object. If you instead hold your hands above a creature throughout the casting, you learn what curses, if any, are currently affecting it. You learn the name of the creature which placed the curse on the object or creature, and a general sense of their direction and distance from you at that moment. You learn the exact ritual required to remove the curse from the object or creature.

Mass Defeat Illusion

6th-level divination (ritual)

• Casting Time: 1 minute
• Range: Touch
• Components: V M (a dragon scale)
• Duration: 1 minute
• Classes: Bard, Sorcerer, Wizard

You bury the dragon scale in the ground and place your palm on the disturbed dirt above where the scale lies, speaking the incantation as you do. A blast of ethereal magical energy rapidly ripples outward from that point to a radius of 1 mile, in all directions spherically. For the duration, anyone you choose within the radius can see through any illusion spell cast at a level equal to or less than the level this spell was cast. You can speak to your "choice" in a broad sense, saying "all creatures," "all allies," etc. to endow these effects as desired. Those affected who see through an illusion due to this spell's effects recognize that they were being tricked by an illusion and now see the truth (i.e., they understand that the effect of this spell is not an illusion itself).

When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 7th level or higher, the spell defeats illusions of the equivalent spell level or lower.

Death Omen

6th-level divination

• Casting Time: 1 Action
• Range: 5 feet
• Components: V S M (a handful of dark colored powder)
• Duration: Instantaneous
• Classes: Bard, Sorcerer, Warlock, Wizard

You throw the powder into the eyes of a target creature, and show them a vision of their death. The creature must make a Wisdom saving throw. On failure, the creature takes 5d10 psychic damage and becomes frightened of all creatures or spaces near that resemble where their killer could come from (DM chooses). The target dies if the damage reduces its hit points to 0. On success, the creature takes half damage and shakes off the fear.

See Magic Door

6th-level divination (ritual)

• Casting Time: 1 action
• Range: Self
• Components: V S M (a jeweled mirror worth 50 GP)
• Duration: 1 minute
• Classes: Bard, Sorcerer, Wizard

For the duration, your sight is enhanced to see magical doors at any range (appearing per their appropriate size). These doors include any which would typically be hidden due to a spell concealing them, or which are removed from existence as a part of the spell. For example, a wizard may cast a spell such as Widogast's Nascent Nein-Sided Tower, which creates a doorway that vanishes when the caster seals it from the inside. This spell allows you to see the doorway at the place it was cast, allowing you to open the door and enter. Other examples of spells and magical effects which this spell interacts with include:

• Rope Trick - allows you to see the doorway created by the rope trick spell, allowing you to pass through it if you can reach it
• Bag of Holding - allows you to see a portal into the pocket space which holds the items within the bag of holding
• Arcane Gate - allows you to see the invisible side of the gate and pass through it to the other gate, from the other side
• Leomund's Tiny Hut - allows you to see a passable archway in the dome, which allows you to pass through the barrier unobstructed
• Arcane Lock - allows you to see the window/door/etc. as a magically locked passage, and allows you to open it as if it were not locked

Seek Sigil Sequence

7th-level divination (ritual)

• Casting Time: 1 action
• Range: Self
• Components: V S
• Duration: Instantaneous
• Classes: Bard, Sorcerer, Wizard

You focus your mind on a location on the same plane of existence as you, searching for a set of teleportation sigils in the area. If a set exists in a 2 mile radius of the initial point of focus, your mind travels to them. If there is more than one set, you may choose which manifestation of divination magic you direct your attention to. When your mind arrives, you can see the sigil sequence which inscribes the magic by which one may transport themselves when creating a teleportation circle. When the spell ends and until the next dawn, you retain in your mind the image of the sigil sequence, which you may recreate as a part of a Teleportation Circle spell, or which you may transcribe onto a spellscroll for later use. It requires 1 hour of time to copy the sigil sequence onto a scroll, and 50 GP of magical ink and paper.

Distant Futures, Distant Pasts

9th-level divination

• Casting Time: 1 minute
• Range: Self
• Components: V S M (two charged palantirs)
• Duration: Concentration, until interrupted
• Classes: Sorcerer, Wizard

To begin the ritual, you sit on the ground, legs crossed, and close your eyes. You focus your mind on the palantirs, which begin to rapidly rotate around you as you levitate a foot off the ground. The palantirs rotate faster and faster until their energy releases and forms a sphere of divination energy around you. The palantirs come to a rest floating in front of and behind you.

Your mind races rapidly into the heavens, staring down upon a fabric of events, past, present, and future, that have occurred on the plane of existence upon which this ritual is performed. You see yourself in the present, focusing on the ritual, with those nearby acting in real time. You peer behind you, following the palantir that came to a rest at your back, as it weaves around events of the past. You peer ahead, following the forward palantir as it forces its way through the tempest of time which acts against the will of the caster attempting to know the unknowable.

While in this ritual, you may peer into the past with great clarity, choosing a time and place to uncover its secrets. It takes time to travel your mind into the past, though there is no force stopping you from doing so. When you have reached the event of interest, your control is supreme. You can absorb the event at a high level, watching great battles from high above or you may see the small details, watching an assassin inject a poison through a needle into their victim. Sounds, colors, and smells breathe into your mind as you study the past. When satisfied with the knowledge you have gained, you may move farther into the past, closer to the present, or move towards the future.

The future is less forgiving, as the god of time feels unease at a mortal learning their secrets. A powerful storm forces your movement forward to a crawl. Roll 1d20. The DC for this roll is set by your DM, but becomes higher the farther into the future you wish to see, with DCs as low as 1, or as high as 20. Should you succeed, your mind comes to rest in that time until you move once more, to which you must now sort for the desired path. Tell your DM which future events you would like to gain insight into. Your mind is drawn to those events, though there are infinitely many. Roll 1d100. Your DM determines which futures you envision based on the roll. The roll can be done multiple times to see multiple futures, though each future plays out in real time, sustaining the ritual for longer and longer. You see major events, which are unaffected by minor drifts of fate. These futures are set in stone. Should you see a future by using this spell, the use of this spell was a part of the timeline that led to that future, including your actions as a result of that knowledge. You recall the fates which lead in certain directions when those things occur, allowing you to follow the path that leads to that future, or diverge from it intentionally. (I.e., defeating an enemy in battle will lead to the same future whether you land or miss a blow at some point during the fight. The future is not so easily swayed; the beat of a butterflies wings is infinitesimal compared to the will of the god of time.)

For every hour spent in this ritual, you gain 1 point of exhaustion. When you end the spell, or when it is interrupted, your mind returns to your body as you slowly return to the ground. The palantirs become discharged when the spell ends, only becoming recharged by various arcane means (as defined by your DM).