Copy of - Cultivator 2

<div class='cover-header'>Cultivator v2.1</div>

<div class='cover-footer'>A cultivation and Xianxia fantasy based class By Fiddle and SpareProperty</div>

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# Cultivator
A dwarf flexes his fingers as the newest weapon disappears inside his core. Delighted by the prospect of mastering these new arms, he summons the weapon to his hands as he rises to charge his sparring partner. The hammer connects, knocking the opponent back and off balance, only to be instantly assaulted by the blades that replace the hammer in a flash.

While her enemies pour into the room to surround her, the elf calmly prepares her next move with energy crackling between her hands. When the moment is right, she vanishes in a burst of lightning. Her befuddled foes don’t realize that she’s now standing in the entrance behind them until she unleashed waves of electricity back into the chamber.

An orc drops from the roof, rolling with the fall to come back up running. Heading towards his companions, he can see they are blissfully unaware of the sorcerer preparing something devastating behind them. He throws his shield at the sorcerer and connects, buying him more time to arrive behind his party to generate a large shield of light and part the sea of fire that spews forth from the caster.

Cultivators are those who would learn powerful techniques to further their strength. They see every fight as an opportunity to grow, and every enemy is a treasure trove of experience waiting to be plundered. A cultivator often seeks physical perfection in themselves and their techniques.

### A Foundation of Ki
Ki is a fundamental force that resides in all living and non-living things. Cultivators have learned ways to gather this power and accumulate it in an internal reservoir that they call their ‘foundation’. Drawing from this Ki reserve, they can perform secret techniques to create supernatural effects.

These techniques may have been passed on to a cultivator by an instructor or they may have learned it from an ancient manual. In rare cases, they might have even created one by themselves. Acquiring their technique is a significant event for a cultivator, as they will most likely be drawn to honing and perfecting it for the rest of their lives.

### Pursuit of Perfection

Cultivators strive to grow their foundation to the highest peaks and to break through barriers in their cultivation as quickly as possible. This pursuit drives them towards combat, as the knowledge and experience gained in battle is crucial for their progress. Their single-minded pursuits cause many cultivators to live on their own, eschewing the crowds and comforts of city life. At the same time, cultivators readily join adventuring groups to meet their needs for combat, wealth and materials – all in service of further honing their craft.

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##### Cultivator
| Level | Proficiency Bonus | Features | Ki Pool |
|:---:|:---:|:---|:---:|
| 1st | +2 | Cultivator's Aura, Ki, Unarmored Defense | 1 |
| 2nd | +2 | Fighting Style | 2 |
| 3rd | +2  | Techniques, Technique Feature | 3 |
| 4th | +2  | Ability Score Increase | 4 |
| 5th | +3  | Extra Attack, Breakthrough | 5 |
| 6th | +3  | Aura Infusion | 6 |
| 7th | +3  | Technique Feature | 7 |
| 8th | +3  | Ability Score Increase | 8 |
| 9th | +4  | Of Sound Mind and Body | 9 |
| 10th | +4  | Auric Influence | 10 |
| 11th | +4  | Technique Feature | 11 |
| 12th | +4  | Ability Score Increase | 12 |
| 13th | +5  | Reforged Body | 13 |
| 14th | +5 | Aura Mastery | 14 |
| 15th | +5 | Technique Feature | 15 |
| 16th | +5 | Ability Score Increase | 16 |
| 17th | +6  | Cultivation Assault | 17 |
| 18th | +6  | Accelerated Infusion | 18 |
| 19th | +6  | Ability Score Increase | 19 |
| 20th | +6 | Ki Incarnate | 20 |

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### Creating a Cultivator
When creating a cultivator think about your characters background and their motivation. Becoming a cultivator is a path that takes dedication. Why is your character so dedicated to growing stronger? An unfortunate event? A role model? How did your character begin to learn their respective technique? Were they taught at a dojo with others, or under a master alone? It could even be as simple as a manuscript found in ruins.

What your cultivator is searching for, whether it be looming near or in the far future, can be important. Simple or not, something drives a cultivator to continue on their painful and arduous journey.

#### Quick Build
You can make a cultivator quickly by following these suggestions. First, make Strength or Dexterity your highest ability score, depending on your choice of weapon, followed by Intelligence. Second, choose the Far Traveler Background.

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## Class Features
As a cultivator, you gain the following class features
#### Hit Points
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- **Hit Dice:** 1d8 per cultivator level
- **Hit Points at 1st Level:** 8 + your Constitution modifier
- **Hit Points at Higher Levels:** 1d8 (or 5) + your Constitution modifier per cultivator level after 1st

#### Proficiencies
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- **Armor:** Light armor, medium armor, shields
- **Weapons:** Simple weapons, martial weapons
- **Tools:** Calligrapher's Supplies

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- **Saving Throws:** Intelligence, Constitution
- **Skills:** Choose three skills from Acrobatics, Athletics, Deception, History, Intimidation, Sleight of Hand, Stealth, Survival

#### Equipment
You start with the following equipment, in addition to the equipment granted by your background:
- *(a)*  a martial weapon and a Shield or *(b)* two Martial Weapons
- *(a)* a Longbow and 20 arrows or *(b)* two handaxes
- *(a)* a scholar's pack or *(b)* an explorer’s pack
> ##### (DM Note) Why not Wisdom?
> This question has two answers actually. First, this class being so close to monk I wanted to distance it a bit. B, anyone who's read a lot of cultivation fantasy is aware of how different cultivating is in each universe. While Wisdom would definitely fit in a lot of them I particularly enjoy the idea of knowledge based cultivation.  That is not to say that you can't switch the Intelligence based stuff to Wisdom or even Strength. It's your world, have at it.

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### Cultivator's Aura
Your intense training and tempering of your body has left you with the ability to physically exude your skill and power, allowing you to coerce or even physically affect others. As long as you have at least 1 ki point remaining your aura is active with a range of 10 feet, and has the following abilities:

* You may make Charisma based skill checks using your Intelligence modifier.
* Enemies that make a saving throw while in your aura do so at a penalty equal to half your Intelligence modifier rounded down.
* Your movement speed increases by 5 feet.

You may dismiss and reactivate your aura as a bonus action, and it is automatically dismissed once you become unconscious.

### Ki
Your cultivation has begun to afford you to access to the condensed form of pure energy. Your access to this energy is represented by your ki pool. Your cultivator level determines the amount of ki you have, as shown in the Ki Pool column of the cultivator table. You may not have more ki than this maximum amount.

You can spend these points to fuel various techniques, stance abilities, and features. You start knowing three such features: Empowered Body, Relentless Pursuit, Spring Attack.

When you spend ki, that ki is unavailable until you finish a short or long rest, at the end of which you condense more ki, refilling your core.

Some of your technique and stance features require your target to make a saving throw to resist the feature’s effects. The saving throw DC is calculated as follows:

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#### Empowered Body
You may spend 1 ki point to add your proficiency bonus to any Dexterity or Strength based skill check. If you are already proficient in the skill, then you instead double your proficiency bonus.
#### Relentless Pursuit
When an enemy adjacent to you would attempt to move, you may, as a reaction, spend 1 ki point to move up to your movement speed following that enemy.
#### Spring Attack
Whenever you take the dash action you may spend 1 ki point to make an attack as a bonus action.
### Unarmored Defense
While you are not wearing any armor, your Armor⁠ Class equals 10 + your Dexterity modifier + your Intelligence modifier. You can use a Shield and still gain this benefit.

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### Fighting Style
At 2nd level, you adopt a particular style of fighting as your specialty. Choose a Fighting Style from the list of optional features. You can't take the same Fighting Style option more than once, even if you get to choose again.

#### Archery
You gain a +2 bonus to attack rolls you make with ranged weapons.
#### Close Quarters Shooter
When making a ranged attack while you are within 5 feet of a hostile creature, you do not have disadvantage on the attack roll. Your ranged attacks ignore half cover and three-quarters cover against targets within 30 feet of you. You have a +1 bonus to attack rolls on ranged attacks.
#### Defense
While you are wearing armor, you gain a +1 bonus to AC.

#### Dueling
When you are wielding a melee weapon in one hand and no other weapons, you gain a +2 bonus to damage rolls with that weapon.

#### Great Weapon Fighting
When you roll a 1 or 2 on a damage die for an attack you make with a melee weapon that you are wielding with two hands, you can reroll the die and must use the new roll, even if the new roll is a 1 or a 2. The weapon must have the two-handed or versatile property for you to gain this benefit.

#### Interception
When a creature you can see hits a target that is within 5 feet of you with an attack, you can use your reaction to reduce the damage the target takes by 1d10 + your proficiency bonus (to a minimum of 0 damage). You must be wielding a shield or a simple or martial weapon to use this reaction.

#### Thrown Weapon Fighting
You can draw a weapon that has the thrown property as part of the attack you make with the weapon.
In addition, when you hit with a ranged attack using a thrown weapon, you gain a +1 bonus to the damage roll.
#### Two-Weapon Fighting
When you engage in two-weapon fighting, you can add your ability modifier to the damage of the second attack.

#### Unarmed Fighting
Your unarmed strikes can deal bludgeoning damage equal to 1d6 + your Strength modifier. If you strike with two free hands, the d6 becomes a d8.
When you successfully start a grapple, you can deal 1d4 bludgeoning damage to the grappled creature. Until the grapple ends, you can also deal this damage to the creature whenever you hit it with a melee attack.

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### Techniques
You begin to devote your life to cultivating and perfecting one of many techniques. Choose a technique detailed at the end of the class description. Your choice grants you features at 3rd Level and again at 6th, 10th, and 14th levels.

### Extra Attack
Beginning at 5th Level, you can Attack twice, instead of once, whenever you take the Attack action on Your Turn.

### Breakthrough
At 5th level, you progress to the next step in your cultivation, strengthening certain aspects of your body.  When you gain this feature you may choose one of two options:
* Your Speed increases by 5 feet.
* Your hit point maximum increases by 5.

You may choose either of these options again at 10th, 15th, and 20th level.

### Aura Infusion
Upon reaching 6th level, you harness the beneficial aspects of your aura to accelerate your body's natural healing. As a bonus action you may spend 1 ki point to heal yourself for 2d4. You may instead use an action and 2 ki points to touch and heal another creature for 2d4.

You can use this ability a number of times equal to your Intelligence modifier (minimum once).

### Of Sound Mind and Body
At 9th level, your mastery over ki allows you to better safeguard yourself mentally and physically. When you are subjected to a spell or effect that allows you to make a Constitution or Intelligence saving throw to take only half damage, you may spend 1 ki point to instead take no damage if you succeed on the saving throw.

You do not gain the benefit of this ability when you are unconscious.

### Auric Influence
Beginning at 10th level, your aura control has become subtle enough to continually influence those you would interact with. You may choose one additional Charisma based skill to gain proficiency in.

Additionally, whenever you make a Charisma based skill check, you can spend 1 ki point to reroll it and take the second result.

### Reforged Body
When you reach 13th level, you begin to integrate materials into your cultivation to reforge your body, tempering it with the elements. You gain resistance to one damage type of your choice.

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### Aura Mastery
At 14th level, you become adept at manipulating your aura to gain a multitude of information from it, affect a larger area, or focus its effects on a single enemy. As an action you may extend the range of your aura to 30 feet until the end of your next turn. While the range is extended you are aware of any creatures, living or otherwise, within your aura.
This ability does not tell you their location, only that they are within your aura.

You may choose to instead, as an action, focus your aura on one creature to enhance its effect. You may choose only one target for your Culitvator's Aura ability within 30 feet and spend 1 ki point, the saving throw penalty increases by 1 and you have a bonus to your attacks to hit that creature equal to the total penalty. This ability lasts for a minute and can only be used once per long rest.

### Cultivation Assault
Upon reaching 17th level, you learned to assail an enemy's core using your cultivation technique to damage and/or shatter it. 
As long as you have at least 1 ki point, when you damage a creature with an attack, you can cause that attack to deal extra damage equal to half your Cultivator level. You may use this ability a number of times per long rest equal to your Intelligence modifier (minimum once).

### Accelerated Infusion
At 18th level, the speed at which your aura heals you and others has increased. Your Aura Infusion healing increases to 2d8 and you may touch other creatures as a bonus action to heal them.

### Ki Incarnate
Beginning at 20th level, you are ki made flesh. You may use ki features despite having no ki. Whenever you do so, take 1d4 unavoidable force damage per ki point you avoided spending.

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## Techniques

### Iaijutsu
A master of the Iaijutsu technique spends their training time drawing and sheathing their weapon. These cultivators are able to instantly draw their weapons to deliver punishing attacks or devastating counterattacks. A truly focused Iaijutsu user can become a wall of blades, cutting down any and all attacks.
#### Flash Draw
While assuming either of your stances you may draw and sheathe one weapon as part of any and every attack you make. This weapon must deal slashing damage, and cannot have the heavy property. Enemies can also provoke opportunity attacks from you even if you haven't drawn this weapon.

#### Iai Dice
You gain a die that is used with your stances and features called the Iai die. It begins as a 1d4 but increases with your level as shown below. Features that use this die can only be used with weapons that fit the prerequisites of Flash Draw.
| Level  | Die |
|:---:|:-----------:|
|  3  | 1d4 |
|  5  | 1d6 |
|  9  | 1d8 |
|  11  | 2d6 |
|  13  | 2d8 |
|  17  | 3d6 |

#### Stances
Starting at 3rd level, your technique allows you access to knowledge on how to use ki internally for defensive abilities and externally for offensive ones.

You can choose the external or internal stance before you roll for initiative, unless surprised. Otherwise, entering or switching between stances is a bonus action.  Unless otherwise noted, you can only use the abilities and benefits granted by each stance while you're in it.

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You are unable to use stances while you are incapacitated. If you are incapacitated while in a stance, you may regain either stance as a bonus action.

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**Internal Stance**
* If you have not moved since the beginning of your last turn, then as your turn begins, you may spend 1 ki point to gain blindsight and reach equal to your aura range until you move or are moved.

* You may take the dodge action as a bonus action as long as you have not moved and will not move this turn.

* As you take the attack action, you may spend 1 ki point to gain a bonus to AC and saves equal to half your proficiency bonus rounded up, but you take an equal penalty to your attack rolls. This bonus and penalty lasts until the beginning of your next turn.

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**External Stance**

* You can spend 1 ki point to gain advantage on initiative when rolling initiative.

* When in this stance, your AC is decreased by half your proficiency bonus, however, you add your Iai die to your weapon damage rolls.

* If you would attack a creature that has not yet acted in combat you instead add your Iai die twice to the damage rolls.

#### Iai-goshi 
Upon reaching 7th level, you master the first position of of this technique; using a single strike to fell an army. Twice per short rest you may, as an action, make a single melee attack roll that would hit every enemy within your reach.

#### Tachi-ai
When you reach 11th level, your practice has allowed you to master the next stance of this technique, capitalizing on your enemies mistakes. While in internal stance, enemies provoke opportunity attacks when they would leave any square in your reach.

Additionally, you add your Iai die to your weapon damage rolls for attacks made as reactions. While in external stance you would instead add your Iai damage die twice.

#### Kennokabe
At 15th level, you have developed a skill that epitomizes the perfect defense and offense. You may spend 1 ki point to gain and take a reaction anytime one would be triggered. You may do this a number of times per long rest equal to your Intelligence modifier.

Additionally, when you are about to take damage from a spell, melee, or ranged attack roll, you may make a weapon attack as a reaction. If you are in external stance, this attack is always made at disadvantage. If you roll higher than the attack roll you may roll your weapon damage adding your Iai dice, and subtract that from the damage you would take. If the damage is negated, you can redirect the attack back to its source, forcing your attacker to target itself with its attack using your attack roll.

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### Falling Phoenix
Cultivators learning the Falling Phoenix technique have a predilection for fire. Some particularly enjoy raining it from the heavens, and seize on any chance to do so.

#### Conjured Phoenix
Beginning at 3rd level, you are able to conjure a small, ever burning replica of this techniques namesake. You gain the cantrip Create Bonfire, and add your Intelligence modifier to the damage dealt by it. You add double your Intelligence modifier at level 5 and triple at level 11.

#### Stances
Starting at 3rd level, your technique allows you access to knowledge on how to use ki internally for defensive abilities and externally for offensive ones.

You can choose the external or internal stance before you roll for  initiative, unless surprised. Otherwise, entering or switching  between stances is a bonus action.  Unless otherwise noted, you can only use the abilities and benefits granted by each stance while you're in it.

You are unable to use stances while you are incapacitated. If you are incapacitated while in a stance, you may regain either stance as a bonus action.

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**Internal Stance:**
* You gain resistance to fire damage as long as you are in this stance.

* You may spend 1 ki point per creature as a reaction to give those creatures within your aura fire resistance as long as they remain within your aura and you remain in this stance.
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**External Stance:**
* You take unavoidable fire damage equal to your proficiency bonus every turn whenever you would enter this stance, or if you start or end your turn in this stance. You only take this damage once per turn.

* When you would deal fire damage with a cultivator ability or feature you double the number of dice you roll. E.g. Create bonfire would deal 2d8 at 3rd level instead of 1d8.

#### Phoenix Fall
Starting at 7th level, you learn to rain a flock of phoenixes on a flock of foes. You may cast Burning Hands using 3 ki points.

#### Phoenix's Vestment
Upon reaching 11th level, you gain resistance to fire damage. Whenever you are in your internal stance you instead gain immunity to fire damage.

Additionally, your abilities ignore fire resistance, and treat fire immunity as fire resistance.

#### Winged Wildfire
At 11th level, your control over fire lends you potent and notable aspects of the phoenix. While in your external stance you gain fiery wings and a fly speed of 60 feet.

While in internal stance you may spend 1 ki point to cast Feather Fall a number of times per day equal to your Intelligence modifier.

#### Phoenix Arisen
Beginning at 15th level, you begin to personify every aspect of the powerful phoenix. When an attack would reduce you to 0 hit points, you may instead be reduced to 1 hit point and 0 ki remaining, and the attacker takes 2d8 + 1d8 fire damage per ki point you had left before you were reduced to 0. You also fall out of your current stance.

Once you use this feature, you cannot use it again until you take a long rest. The damage you deal increases to 2d10 +1d10 per ki point fire damage at level 17. This damage is not affected by the external stance.

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### Flash Wind
Masters of this technique use the wind to devastating effect. They're are often some of the fastest fighters on the battlefield, and practitioners can even augment themselves and the area around them using powerful winds generated or controlled by ki.

#### Windborne Fury
Starting at 3rd level, your mastery of air grants you a surprising celerity. When two weapon fighting, you may make your extra attack with the offhand weapon as part of the attack action instead of as a bonus action.

#### Stances
Starting at 3rd level, your technique allows you access to knowledge on how to use ki internally for defensive abilities and externally for offensive ones.

You can choose the external or internal stance before you roll for  initiative, unless surprised. Otherwise, entering or switching  between stances is a bonus action.  Unless otherwise noted, you can only use the abilities and benefits granted by each stance while you're in it.

You are unable to use stances while you are incapacitated. If you are incapacitated while in a stance, you may regain either stance as a bonus action

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**Internal Stance:**
* Your movement and the movement speed of all allies within your aura is increased by 10 ft. This increases to 20ft at level 10. Allies moving through your aura gain half of this bonus upon leaving until the end of the turn.

* You may use Dexterity and Acrobatics for high jumping and long jumping, and you no longer need a running start.
* You may spend 1 ki point to dash as a bonus action. When doing so, your movement does not provoke opportunity attacks.

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**External Stance:**

You may spend 1 ki point to activate one of the listed effects as a bonus action:
* **Wind Ward** All enemies within your aura must make a Strength saving throw. On a failure, they take 1d6 bludgeoning damage and are pushed out of your aura. They take half damage and are not pushed on a success. This damage is increased to 2d6 at level 10.

* **Airbind** Choose an enemy within your aura. They must make a Strength saving throw. They take 2d6 bludgeoning damage and their movement is reduced to 0 on a failure until the end of their turn. On a success, they take half damage and take no reduction to their movement. This damage is increased to 4d6 at level 10.

* **Storm Pulse** Choose an enemy within 30 ft. They must make a Strength saving throw or be pushed 20 ft directly away from you.

Enemies not completely in your aura, such as huge sized creatures, have advantage on saves against these effects.

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#### Summer Storm
Beginning at 7th level, you become the wind itself. As a reaction, whenever an enemy ends their turn, you may take an extra turn. During this turn, your movement does not provoke attacks of opportunity, and your movement speed is doubled.

Additonally, a warding breeze guards you, blowing away any mist or gases such as Stinking Cloud or Fog Cloud. At the end of this turn, you take 1 level of exhaustion. Once you have used this feature, you may not do so again until you take a long rest.

#### Tailwind
At 11th level, you leverage the forces generated by your aura to propel yourself through the skies. You gain a fly and hover speed equal to your movement speed when in internal stance.

#### Living Winds
Upon reaching 15th level, you may instantly call upon the destructive power of a storm. You may spend 5 ki points to cast Whirlwind. You may spend an additional 2 ki points to become immune to the effects of the spell. You may use this ability once per long rest.

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### Aura Master
This technique allows cultivators an extraordinary control over the space and creatures inside their aura.
#### Stances
Starting at 3rd level, your technique allows you access to knowledge on how to use ki internally for defensive abilities and externally for offensive ones.

You can choose the external or internal stance before you roll for initiative, unless surprised. Otherwise, entering or switching  between stances is a bonus action.  Unless otherwise noted, you can only use the abilities and benefits granted by each stance while you're in it.

You are unable to use stances while you are incapacitated. If you are incapacitated while in a stance, you may regain either stance as a bonus action

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**Internal Stance**
* All attacks made by creatures other than you from within your aura do less damage equal to your proficiency bonus.

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**External Stance**
* All attacks made by creatures other than you from within your aura do additional damage of the same type equal to your proficiency bonus.

#### Auric Finesse
Beginning at 3rd level, your aura usage has become fine tuned enough to last beyond exhaustion. You may keep your aura going while at 0 ki points for a number of rounds per day equal to your proficiency bonus x 3. These rounds do not need to be consecutive, however, it takes a bonus action to dismiss your aura.

As a bonus action, you may spend 1 ki point per ally to exclude them from your external or internal stance ability until the end of their next turn.

#### Magnetic Terrain
Also at 3rd level, you learn to crash your aura against your foes mental defenses, stopping them in their tracks. You may spend 1 ki point as a bonus action to alter your aura with the following effects until the end of your next turn:

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* When in external stance, all creatures attempting to enter your aura must succeed on an Intelligence saving throw, or be unable to enter until the end of your next turn.

* When in internal stance, all creatures attempting to exit your aura must succeed on an Intelligence saving throw, or be unable to exit until the end of your next turn.

This feature has no effect while you are moving.

#### Aura Shriek
At 7th level, you are able to send a discordant chorus of thought and emotion through yourself and out your aura. As an action, you may spend 2 ki points to cause your aura to attack all creatures inside it. You cast Tasha's Mind Whip on everyone in your aura, including yourself. You automatically pass this save.

Any creature damaged by this ability that is concentrating on a spell makes their concentration check with disadvantage. On a successful save, creatures take half damage and gain no disadvantage. The damage of this spell increases to 4d6 at 12th level and 5d6 at 17th.

#### Finger on the Scales
Starting at 11th level, your control over your aura and anything in it begins to peak. Allies have advantage on Intelligence saving throws while in your aura.

While in internal stance, you may spend 1 ki point per ally in your aura, as a reaction, to give them advantage on any saving throw imposed by a spell.

While you are in external stance, attacks cannot be made at disadvantage within your aura.

#### Dominion
Upon reaching 15th level, you have gained complete control over the reality inside your aura. You take less damage from all sources equal to your proficiency bonus while you are not incapacitated. Furthermore, when you hit with a weapon attack, you do additional weapon damage equal to your proficiency bonus.

Additionally, you can activate your Aura Mastery ability as a bonus action a number of times per day equal to your Intelligence modifier.

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### Ki Fortress
Ki Fortress adepts are taught that the best offense is the most perfect defense. They learn that the shield should be the first weapon you grab, not the sword. Disciples of the technique strive to become and impenetrable wall between their allies and those who would do harm.

#### Ki Shields
Upon reaching 3rd level, you begin to steer your cultivation towards the arts of shield usage and creation. Shields are now a d6 light versatile (d8) weapon for you.  Magic shields that have bonuses to AC also apply the same bonuses to any attack and damage rolls you make with those shields.

Furthermore, you gain the ability to cast spells, using your shield as a magical foci. You now know the cantrips Blade Ward and True Strike, and you may target any number of creatures within your aura whenever you cast them.

Lastly, you may spend 1 ki point and cast the 1st level spells from the list below using Intelligence as your spellcasting modifier. You may cast 2nd level spells from the list below using 2 ki points at 9th level, 3rd level spells using 3 ki points at 13th level, and 4th level spells using 4 ki points at 19th level. You may cast any spell from the list below as a bonus action.

When you gain the ability to cast higher level spells, you may spend 1 ki point per spell level to cast lower level spells at your highest level.

| Spell Level  | Spells |
|:---:|:-----------:|
|  1  | Shield, Shield of Faith, Tenser's Floating Disk |
|  2  | Immovable Object, Warding Bond, Warding Wind |
|  3  | Intellect Fortress, Spirit Guardian, Wall of Sand |
|  4  | Fire Shield, Stoneskin, Wall of Fire |

#### Shield Legerdemain
Beginning at 3rd level, you master the ability to harden sections of your aura, granting protection to yourself or those around you. You may cast Shield as a reaction when an ally within your aura is about to be hit by an attack. When you cast the spell in such a way, you may target the ally with the spell.

#### Force Shields
At 7th level, your mastery has extended to physical shields as well as metaphysical. You may make a thrown weapon attack with a shield, with a range of 30/90 using Strength for attack and damage rolls. You do not benefit from the AC bonuses on the shield while it is not on your person, and the shield returns to your hand at the end of your turn.

Additionally, you may apply the bonuses to AC granted by a single shield on your person to your saves.

#### Last Bastion
Upon reaching 11th level, saving your allies has become your prerogative. You may use a bonus action to brace yourself. Until the end of your next turn, your movement speed becomes 0, you act as three-quarters cover for creatures medium size or smaller in a 15 foot cone behind you, and you gain a +2 to your AC and saving throws.

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#### Destructive Shielding
Starting at 15th level, your shield usage has reached a deadly efficiency. When you hit an enemy with an attack using a shield, you may use up to 3 ki points to do an extra 1d10 damage, plus 1d10 per ki point used after the 1st. Additionally, when you land a critical hit on an enemy, you may do an extra attack as part of that attack action.

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### Taiji

Known as the technique that pursues the oneness of everything. The ultimate whole of every state. Taiji disciples practice balancing opposing forces to achieve perfect harmony with the universe. These disciples, while seemingly docile in their slow and inexorable practice of forms, use their mastery of these skills to leverage opposing forces with dangerous effect.

#### Stances
Starting at 3rd level, your technique allows you access to knowledge on how to use ki internally for defensive abilities and externally for offensive ones.

You can choose the external or internal stance before you roll for  initiative, unless surprised. Otherwise, entering or switching  between stances is a bonus action.  Unless otherwise noted, you can only use the abilities and benefits granted by each stance while you're in it.

You are unable to use stances while you are incapacitated. If you are incapacitated while in a stance, you may regain either stance as a bonus action

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**Internal Stance**
*  You gain the ability to cast absorb elements while in this stance. You may do so once per short rest. You gain a second use at level 10.

*  When you would take fire or cold damage from a spell, attack, or ability, you may, as a reaction, reduce this damage by 1d10 + Intelligence modifier. When you do so, you regain a number of ki points equal to half your proficiency bonus rounded down. If you reduce the damage taken to 0, you regain 1 extra ki point.

*  All allies within your aura gain advantage on saves from spells dealing fire or cold damage.

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**External Stance**

You lose 1 ki point whenever you begin or end a turn in this stance (max 1 per turn). You may end this stance at the beginning of your turn before spending a ki point.

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**While in this stance:**

* You may use your Intelligence modifier for unarmed attack rolls.
* You add your Intelligence modifier as additional damage for unarmed attack rolls.

* Your attacks within your aura ignore half and three-quarters cover.

* The range of your attacks increase to the range of your aura.

* Your attacks may use fire or cold damage instead of their original damage type.

At 6th level, all your weapon attacks while in this stance do an extra 1d4 fire or cold damage. This increases to 1d6 at 12th level.

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#### Duality
Upon reaching 7th level, you grow your knowledge of the whole of life's many aspects, allowing you to harness the world's numerous dualities. All stance abilities referring to fire and cold damage may now be changed to poison and acid, or lightning and thunder damage. At 10th level, all stance abilities referring to fire and cold damage may now also be changed to radiant and necrotic, or psychic and force damage.

You can only choose one set at a time and you may choose a different set after a short or long rest.

#### Elemental Hurricane
At 7th level, you may become one with the elements. Once per long rest, as a bonus action, you may benefit from the effects of both stances without losing ki points for one minute. However, you gain vulnerability to your chosen elements for the duration.

#### Balance in Nature
Beginning at 11th level, you are able to enact your will upon elemental forces around you. You can cast Absorb Elements when an ally would take elemental damage. When you cast the spell in this way, the effects of absorb elements apply to all creatures within your aura range.

Furthermore, you may make an extra unarmed attack as a bonus action, as long as you have spent a minimum of 1 ki point this turn.

#### Wuji
Starting at 15th level, you have reached the pinnacle of balance and control. While in external stance, your attacks ignore your chosen elements damage resistances, and you treat those same immunities as resistances.

While in internal stance, as a reaction, if a saving throw would have an ally take half damage on a pass, you may spend 1 ki point per ally in your aura to instead have them take no damage on a success. You may use this ability a number of times per day equal to your Intelligence modifier.

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### Ki Caster
Ki casting users are most known for their inexhaustible ammunition, ranged, and close quarters combat prowess. Another notable feature is their Ki Construct technique. Arrows made from their ambient auras that host a slew of versatile abilities. These constructs leave the cultivator with the ability to be adaptable to many situations.

#### Aura Cast
Starting at 3rd level, you learn to utilize your aura to create physical ammunition. As a part of each of your attacks, you may summon an arrow to attack with. This arrow is magical for the purposes of overcoming resistances, deals 2d4 force damage regardless of how you attack with it. This arrow requires a ranged 2-handed weapon to shoot. The arrow’s damage die increases to 2d6 at level 10. The arrow dematerialises upon hitting or missing a target, and making one when another exists causes the older one to disappear, unless stated otherwise.

Additionally, when you ready an attack, the arrow does an extra 1d10 damage. The arrow is lost if it is not shot by the end of your next turn, and the extra damage is wasted.

#### Constructs
Beginning at 3rd level, you are able to apply aura configurations to your arrows when you create them.

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When you make a ranged attack roll against an enemy using your aura cast feature, you may infuse your attack with additional spiritual energy. You gain additional abilities called Constructs, which may be applied to ranged attacks.

Once a turn, when you make a ranged attack roll against an enemy, you may spend 1 ki point to infuse the attack with a construct. At 9th level, you may spend 2 ki points to apply 2 constructs to a single attack, and at 17th level you may spend 3 ki points to apply 3 constructs to a single attack.

You know 3 constructs at 3rd level from the list at the end of this subclass, and learn one more at 9th and 17th level.

#### Point-Blank Shot
At 7th level, you learn how to make arrows even more lethal in close quarters. Once per short rest, you may make a ranged attack roll with a range of 5 feet. On a hit, the attack is considered a critical hit.

This critical does not double the damage from Constructs. At 17th level, you may add double your Intelligence modifier to the damage roll.

#### Sharp Shooting
Beginning at 11th level, your skill and talent at shooting lends you a deadly accuracy. You may use your Intelligence modifier for attack and damage rolls. If you do so while attacking without using a construct, you regain 1 ki point on a d20 roll of 15 or higher.

Additionally, while attacking with your Intelligence modifier, you may double that modifier for damage. You can use this a number of times equal per day equal to your Intelligence modifier.

#### Suppressing Fire
Starting at 15th level, you've become a spell caster's bane. As a reaction, when an enemy within your weapon's range casts a spell, you may make a ranged attack roll against them. This attack cannot be made at advantage. If the attack hits, you do no damage, but the enemy must make a concentration save as if it were concentrating on a spell with a DC equal to your cultivator save DC. On a fail, the spell fails, and the slot is wasted. You may do this twice per long rest.

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#### Constructs

**Echo Arrow**

If you hit an enemy with this arrow then you may choose another enemy in range. If the chosen enemy or the original target takes damage before the beginning of your next turn, the other takes additional damage equal to your arrow damage die. 
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**Fester Shot**

When you damage an enemy with a ranged attack, you reduce that enemy’s max hit points by the same amount. This effect ends after a long rest. At 10th level, this attack deals an additional 1d4 necrotic damage at the beginning of each of the enemy's turns and reduces their max hit points by the same amount. This additional damage bypasses immunity and resistances and ends if the enemy has not been hit by one of your arrows for 1 round.

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**Brake Arrow**

When an enemy is hit by this arrow their movement speed is reduced by 15 feet. This effect stacks and goes away at the end of its next turn. At 10th level, if the target fails a Dexterity save, the affected enemy may not move using legendary actions.
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**Mesmer Arrow**

If this arrow hits a creature then the target makes a Wisdom saving throw or is charmed by you until the start of your next turn. You may choose to have this arrow deal no damage. A creature who succeeds on this check is immune to this effect for 24 hours.
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**Cannon Cast**

When this arrow strikes a creature or surface, the target and enemies within 10ft take an additional 1d6 force damage and are knocked prone. A successful Strength saving throw negates the prone condition. This arrow deals double damage to structures. At 10th level this damage increases to 2d6.

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##### 9th level Constructs

**Drill Tip**

This arrow can be shot through stone or wood no thicker than 5 feet. Additionally, when shot directly at a creature, this arrow can pierce a number of added targets equal to your Intelligence modifier. Each additional target must be directly behind the first. When shot this way, each enemy hit takes an additional 1d6 damage.

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**Aura Burst**

If an enemy hit by this arrow is in your aura they take an additional 3d6 weapon damage.

##### 17th level Constructs

**Aura Suspension**

When you fire this shot you may instead have it hang within your aura. At the beginning of each of your turns this arrow will automatically fire at the closest enemy. Each shot takes the same amount of ki and has the same constructs as the first shot. You may end this ability as a bonus action.

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**Named Arrow**

You may take a penalty to your attack roll to target specific body parts with this shot.
* **Torso** -2 penalty to push the target back 10 feet.
* **Legs** -3 penalty to reduce targets movement speed to 0 until the end of their next turn. A successful Dexterity save reduces this to half their movement speed.
* **Arms** -4 penalty to give the target disadvantage on all attacks for 1 minute. They make a Constitution save at the end of each turn to end this effect.
* **Head** -5 penalty and a Constitution save to stun the target for 2 turns. The target may make another Constitution save at the end of each turn to end this effect.

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### Soul Arms
This technique is taught to those who excel and meditative introspection. This is due to the required ability to find a soul space with which to house the weapons that will become your soul arms. The users of this technique will find themselves turned into whirlwinds of blades, storms of strikes, and never without a weapon.

#### Armory
When you choose this technique at 3rd level, you gain a soul space with which to house your chosen weapons, and the ability to substitute them in battle instantly. You may choose up to 3 magical or non-magical weapons. You become attuned to these weapons over a long rest, but they don't count against your total three attunement slots, magical or otherwise.

You can summon a weapon by taking either stance. Ending or switching stances makes the current weapon disappear and conjures the next if you take another stance. Your conjured weapons disappear if they are more than 5 feet away from you for 1 minute or more. They also disappear if you dismiss these weapons (no action required), or if you die.

You can attune to magic and non magical weapons by meditating while you hold the weapon. You must meditate this way over the course of a long rest. You can then dismiss the weapon, shunting it into a space formed in your core, and it appears whenever you take your stance thereafter. The weapons appear at your feet if you die, meditate over a different weapon that would replace one, or if you use a long rest to end the attunment. The weapon appears at your feet if it is in your space when the bond breaks.

Additionally, you can use your Intelligence modifier for attack and damage rolls with melded weapons. However, you attack with disadvantage for any unattuned weapons.

#### Weapon Forms
Also at 3rd level, your weapon mastery has granted you additional abilities with any Armory weapons. When you would take a stance with one of your attuned weapons you gain additional abilities called Forms. You may choose a Form to take, dependent on the weapon properties, whenever you would swap to, from, or attack with a weapon. You can only use one Form at a time, even if the weapon you use would have multiple properties.

The weapon Forms are detailed at the end of this technique.

#### Stances
Starting at 3rd level, your technique allows you access to knowledge on how to use ki internally for defensive abilities and externally for offensive ones.

You can choose the external or internal stance before you roll for  initiative, unless surprised. Otherwise, entering or switching  between stances is a bonus action.  Unless otherwise noted, you can only use the abilities and benefits granted by each stance while you're in it.

You are unable to use stances while you are incapacitated. If you are incapacitated while in a stance, you may regain either stance as a bonus action

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**Internal Stance**
* As you attack, you may swap to any attuned weapon and use its weak Form.
* You may spend 1 ki point as a bonus action to add an additional 1d4 weapon damage to your attacks for each time you've swapped your weapon this turn.

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**External Stance**
* You may use the weak and strong properties of your chosen Form for Armory weapons while in this stance.

#### Style Master
Upon reaching 7th level, you master appropriate styles for your melded weapons. You choose two additional fighting styles. Whenever you would summon or swap a weapon, you may also swap fighting styles.

Additionally, Whenever you reach a level in this class that grants the Ability Score Improvement feature, you can replace a fighting style you know with another fighting style available.

#### Barrage
Beginning at 11th level, your strikes have begun speeding up, becoming swifter the more you attack. You may spend 4 ki points to attack as a bonus action. This cost is reduced by 1 ki for each time you've attacked and/or swapped weapons this turn to a minimum of 1 ki point.

#### Master of Many Forms
At 15th level, your mastery of the Forms has become less intent and more instinct. If a weapon you would use has multiple properties, you may use every Form it would have.

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##### Weapon Forms

**Finesse**
* **Weak** - As you attack, you can ignore the AC bonuses that would be granted by shields.
* **Strong** - The next attack you would make after a successful attack with this weapon has a bonus to damage equal to your proficiency bonus.

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**Heavy**
* **Weak** - Whenever you would deal damage with a heavy weapon, you may move the target 5 feet in any direction.

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* **Strong** - If you successfully hit a creature you've already hit this turn, you may force it to make a Strength saving throw or be pushed back 5 feet x your proficiency bonus. A creature that hits an obstacle before moving the full distance takes an additional 1d6 for every 5 feet they did not move.

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**Light**
* **Weak** - If you hit two or more times with a light weapon, your AC increases by 1 until the end of your next turn.
* **Weak** - You may summon an additional light weapon or a non magical copy as you swap to this weapon.
* **Strong** - When wielding a weapon in your off-hand, you may make your additional two-weapon fighting attack as part of your attack action instead of as a bonus action.
* **Strong** - Each successful attack with a light weapon increases your movement speed by 5 feet until the end of the turn.

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**Ranged**
* **Weak** - Being prone does not impose disadvantage on your attacks.
* **Weak** - When you would summon a ranged weapon, you may summon it loaded with non-magical ammunition. It must still be reloaded manually should you continue using it.
* **Strong** - If you are prone, you may, as a bonus action, add an additional die of the same type to your ranged weapon damage.

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**Reach**
* **Weak** - As you damage a creature with this weapon, you may use your reaction to have that creature make a Strength saving throw or fall prone.
* **Strong** - As an action, you may make an attack on every enemy within your reach.

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**Thrown**
* **Weak** - You may recall this thrown weapon as a part of any attack roll.
* **Weak** - Your long range is increased by a number of feet equal to your Intelligence score.
* **Strong** - If the target of your attack is within normal range then you may add your Intelligence modifier to damage twice instead of once.

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**Two-Handed**
* **Weak** - When you damage a prone creature with this weapon, add an additional weapon die to the damage.
* **Strong** - As you attack, you may give yourself a penalty to your attack roll up to your proficiency bonus in increments of 1. For each point of penalty, your attack damage increases by 2.

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**Versatile**
* **Weak** - If you hit a creature that has already been hit this turn then that creature can not take reactions until the end of its next turn.
* **Strong** - When you would miss an attack, you may spend 1 ki point to roll again. If you hit then you deal an additional weapon die of damage.

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### Dark Thralls
The Dark Thralls technique was created by a cultivator who used the ki in her body to control the shadows of others. Her prowess was such that affected enemies often found themselves savaged by their own shades. Users of this technique fit well into support and offensive roles, using controlled shadows as effectively as any weapon.

#### Subjugate
At 3rd level when you take this subclass, you gain the ability to control the shadows of those you touch. As an action, you may mark one ally or one enemy for one minute. Enemies, and unwilling allies, must make a Dexterity saving throw or become marked for the duration.

You may mark one ally and one enemy without spending ki. You can mark additional creatures by spending 1 ki point when you would take the action to do so.

#### Stances
Starting at 3rd level, your technique allows you access to knowledge on how to use ki internally for defensive abilities and externally for offensive ones.

You can choose the external or internal stance before you roll for initiative, unless surprised. Otherwise, entering or switching  between stances is a bonus action.  Unless otherwise noted, you can only use the abilities and benefits granted by each stance while you're in it.

You are unable to use stances while you are incapacitated. If you are incapacitated while in a stance, you may regain either stance as a bonus action

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**Internal Stance**
* You may use the help action for a marked ally within 30 feet.
* As an action, you may spend 1 ki point to swap places with a marked ally within 30 feet.
* You may spend an additional ki point to do either of these stance abilities as a reaction when a marked ally would attack or be attacked.

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**External Stance**
* Marked enemies take an extra 1d4 necrotic damage from you and marked allies. This increases to 1d6 at 10th level.
* If an enemy would miss you or a marked ally within 30 feet, you may spend 1 ki point as a reaction for your next attack or your allies to gain advantage against that creature. You choose upon taking the reaction.
* As long as there is a marked ally in your aura you and marked allies gain +1 AC. This becomes +2 at 10th level.

#### Umbral Slide
Beginning at 7th level, you can use the dark to slide along the ground like a living shadow. As part of your movement, you may move up to your movement speed as a shadow on a surface. You may move horizontally or vertically, but if your movement ends on a wall then you fall to the ground. This movement does not provoke opportunity attacks.

In bright light you move at half speed; in dim light or darkness you gain 10 feet of additional movement as a shadow.

#### Eclipse
Upon reaching 7th level, you are adept at cloaking yourself in your own shadow. You can spend 1 ki point to use the hide action as a bonus action. If you have a marked ally in your aura you can hide without cover.

#### Shade Mastery
Starting at 11th level, subjugated shadows respond to your whims with terrifying strength. As an action, you can spend 2 ki points and cause a marked enemy in your aura to make a Wisdom saving throw. On a failure they have their shadow torn into and are dealt 4d6 necrotic damage or half of that on a successful save. This damage can not be resisted and you can only use this ability on the same creature once per day.

Additionally, you may mark creatures as you attack. You can choose to have these attacks deal no damage.

#### Swarm
At 15th level, you can command all controlled shadows to tear others limb from limb. When you would use your Shade Mastery feature, that creature instead takes 4d6 necrotic damage on a failed save per marked creature within your aura.

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### Spirit Pack
Most cultivators of the Spirit Pack technique find themselves learning it more out of necessity than anything else. More often than not, users are already calling to the spirits of those who were important to them, with the spirits of guardians, siblings, friends, and more answering the call. Spirit Pack users are a force to be reckoned with because they never fight alone.

#### Spirit Animals
Starting at 3rd level when you choose this subclass, you gain two spiritual companions. These spirits can be either existing beasts, or ones summoned to you through a special ritual during a long rest, but upon becoming your companions, gain a magical bond with you that grants them special powers. Your spirits can have the general appearance of any beast, but their stats are determined by the stat block below and the traits selected.

Your spirits share the same health pool, but count as different targets in regards to single target and area effects.

While in or out of a single stance only one spirit is summoned. Switching spirits is done whenever you would switch stances. You roll initiative for your spirits, following the normal rules stated below.
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> ## Spirit Companion
>*Medium beast, unaligned*
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> - **Armor Class** 10 + its Dexterity + its Proficiency. 
> - **Hit Points** 5 + ([Beast's Constitution Modifier + 5] * Cultivator Level)
> - **Speed** 30ft.
>
>|STR|DEX|CON|INT|WIS|CHA|
>|:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:|
>|14 (+2)|14 (+2)|14 (+2)|4 (-3)|10 (+0)|6 (-2)|
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> - **Skills** Athletics +4 (Proficiency), Perception +2 (Proficiency)
> - **Senses** passive perception 12
> - **Languages** Understands cultivator’s languages, but cannot speak
> ### Actions
> ***Attack.*** *Natural Weapon:* +4(Strength + Proficiency) to hit, reach 5ft., one target. *Hit* 1d8 + 2 (Strength)
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You can add two of the following traits to the stat block, you may pick a separate two traits for each spirit:

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**Amphibious**

Your Companion gains a swimming speed equal to its movement speed, and the ability to breathe underwater.

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**Blindsight**

Your Companion gains a Blindsight of 10 feet.

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**Tunneling**

Your Companion gains a burrowing speed equal to half its movement speed. It can choose to leave a tunnel behind when it burrows or not.

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**Flying:** *Prerequisite: selected beasts appearance must have have wings.*

Your Companion's size is Small, and it gains a flying speed equal to its movement speed.

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**Keen Senses:**

Your companions can add twice their proficiency in the Perception skill.

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**Pack Tactics:**

Your Companions have advantage on an Attack roll against a creature if at least one of your Companion's allies is within 5 feet of the creature and the ally isn't Incapacitated.

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**Quick**

Your companions are particularly swift, their movement speed becomes 40 feet.

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**Sneaky**

Your companions gain proficiency in the Stealth and Deception skills.

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**Simian Nature**

Your companions gain a climbing speed equal to their movement speed, proficiency with throwing rocks (ranged weapon, 1d4 bludgeoning damage, thrown(20/60), and the ability to hold small items.

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**Spiderclimb**

Your companions can climb difficult surfaces, including upside down on ceilings, without needing to make ability checks, and ignores movement restrictions caused by webbing.

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**Venomous:**

Your beasts' attacks deal an additional 1d4 poison damage.

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You also add an additional two points to the spirits Strength, Dexterity, or Constitution score. Whenever you gain the Ability Score Improvement class feature, your companion’s abilities also improve. Your companions can increase one ability score of your choice by 2, or it can increase two ability scores of your choice by 1. As normal, your companions can’t increase an ability score above 20 using this feature (your Companions have a maximum ability score of 20 for Strength, Dexterity, or Con, and 10 for Intelligence, Wisdom, or Charisma). You must choose the same ability score improvements for both companions.

The spirits obey your commands as best as they can. They take their turn on their initiative, but they don't take an action unless you command them to. On their turn, you can command (no action required) the spirits to move and to take the Attack, Dash, Disengage, Dodge, or Help action.

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Your spirits regain 6 + their constitution modifier hit points every time you expend a hit die, and regain all their health at the end of a long rest. If you are incapacitated, they retreat to the space they reside in until you would take a stance again. If you don't issue a command, they take the Dodge action.

If your Companions die, they can be revived by recalling their spirits, causing them to reform at the end of a long rest at full health.

#### Stances
Starting at 3rd level, your technique allows you access to knowledge on how to use ki internally for defensive abilities and externally for offensive ones.

You can choose the external or internal stance before you roll for initiative, unless surprised. Otherwise, entering or switching  between stances is a bonus action.  Unless otherwise noted, you can only use the abilities and benefits granted by each stance while you're in it.

You are unable to use stances while you are incapacitated. If you are incapacitated while in a stance, you may regain either stance as a bonus action

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**Internal Stance**
* You can use your reaction to have your spirit use the Help action.

* When you are the target of an attack you may, as a reaction, spend 1 ki point to swap places with your spirit. The attack is made against the spirit in your place.

* As long as your is in your aura you add +1 to both your ACs. This increases to +2 at 10th level.

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**External Stance**
* Once per round, if your spirit is within 10 feet of someone who successfully attacks a creature adjacent to the spirit, your companion can use their reaction to attack that same enemy.

* As an action, you may have your spirit pounce an enemy. It can move up to twice its movement speed (minimum 10 feet) and make one attack at advantage. The next attack made on your spirit has advantage.

* Whenever your spirit makes a successful attack with advantage, the target of the attack must make a Strength saving throw DC 8 + Proficiency Bonus or be knocked prone.

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#### Shared Natures
Beginning at 7th level, your spirits can start to express their nature while manifested. Their natural attacks are now considered magical for the purpose of overcoming resistance and immunity to nonmagical attacks and damage.

Also, you may spend 1 ki point to communicate with your spirit telepathically as long as it's within 100 feet of you.

Additionally, as an action, you can see through your companion’s eyes and hear what it hears until the start of your next turn, gaining the benefits of any special senses that the companion has. During this time, you are deaf and blind with regard to your own senses. This ability lasts for a number of minutes equal to your level.

#### Infused Spirits
Upon reaching 11th level, you learn to strengthen your spirits with an influx of ki. As an action, you may spend 3 ki points to have your spirit's size double in all dimensions, and its weight to multiply by eight. This growth increases their size categories by one—from Medium to Large, for example. If there isn’t enough room for the spirits to double their size, they attain the maximum possible size in the space available. This ability lasts for one minute.

Additionally, until this ability ends, they also have advantage on Strength checks and Strength saving throws and their natural weapon also deals an additional 1d4 damage.

#### A Pack as One
At 15th level, your unity has reached new spiritual heights. As a bonus action, you may spend 5 ki points to fuse your two spirits with yourself. You gain a number of temporary hit points equal to half your spirits current hit points and your AC increases by 2. Your attacks deal an additional 1d6 damage, and you gain up to any two traits from your spirits. This ability lasts for one minute or until your temporary hit points are depleted.

If you revert as a result of dropping to 0 temporary hit points remaining, any excess damage carries over to your normal form and you are separated from your spirits who begin making death saves on their next turn.

While this ability is active you may also activate your Infused Spirits ability targeting yourself, but no stance abilities can be used in this form passive or otherwise.

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### Fulminis Soul
Cultivators of this technique have chosen the path of channeled lightning. Able to flicker to and fro, these cultivators manipulate and embody the deadlier qualities of the bolts they frequently employ.

#### Lightning Strikes
At 3rd level when you take this subclass, you leverage the forces generated from your lightning fast strikes to fuel your abilities. When you successfully hit an enemy, and your previous attack was successful, you gain a spark. You can have a maximum number of sparks equal to your proficiency bonus, losing all sparks gained beyond this number, and you lose all sparks when you spend a minute without gaining or losing any sparks.

When an ability requires you to spend ki points, you may instead spend a spark instead of 1 ki point. If an ability’s ki cost exceeds the number of sparks, you must pay the remaining value in ki.

Additionally, you may use your ki points or sparks for the following abilities:

* Once per turn, you may spend 2 ki points and 10 feet of your movement to teleport 10 feet without using an action.

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* You may spend 2 ki points to increase your attack range by 5 feet until the end of your next turn, to a maximum of 10 feet.

#### Stances
Starting at 3rd level, your technique allows you access to knowledge on how to use ki internally for defensive abilities and externally for offensive ones.

You can choose the external or internal stance before you roll for initiative, unless surprised. Otherwise, entering or switching  between stances is a bonus action.  Unless otherwise noted, you can only use the abilities and benefits granted by each stance while you're in it.

You are unable to use stances while you are incapacitated. If you are incapacitated while in a stance, you may regain either stance as a bonus action.

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**Internal Stance**
* Once per turn, as you make an attack roll, you may instead roll twice and make two attacks. Each attack does half damage rounded down. 
* When you make an attack with disadvantage, you may spend 2 ki points to ignore the disadvantage.
* Whenever you would gain a spark, you may deal additional lightning damage equal to your proficiency bonus to the attacked enemy.

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**External Stance**
*  When you take the attack action, you may instead spend a bonus action and 3 ki points to blast lightning out of your hands. All creatures in a 20 foot cone, 10 foot sphere centered on yourself or 40 foot line (player’s choice) originating from your position must make a Dexterity saving throw. They take 4d8 lightning damage on a fail, or half that on a success. This damage increases by 1d8 at 7th, 11th and 15th level.

#### Conductive
Beginning at 7th level, your body has become extremely efficient at sending lightning through it. While in internal stance, when you land a consecutive hit and have already gained sparks this turn, you gain 2 sparks instead of one.

Additionally, when you gain a spark, you may immediately spend it to deal 1 lightning damage, heal 1 hit point, and gain an extra 5 feet of movement until the start of your next turn. This movement gain can stack.

#### Fulminant
Upon reaching 11th level, your teleportations begin discharging electricity, damaging nearby foes. While in external stance you may attack as a bonus action, and when you spend ki or sparks to teleport, you may deal 2d4 lightning damage as part of that teleport to enemies within 10 feet of your destination.

#### Return Stroke
At 15th level, as you spill with electrified energy, you finally begin to strike like lightning. When you start your turn in external stance, with the maximum number of sparks, you may spend 2 sparks to make additional attacks as part of the attack action. You may do this repeatedly within the same turn, as long as you have more than 0 sparks.

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## Multiclassing
Should you want to multiclass into Cultivator, the prerequisites
and proficiencies are listed below:

<font color="black">* **Prerequisite**: 13 Intelligence and 13 Strength or Dexterity
* **Proficiencies gained**: Light armor, Shields, Simple weapons, Martial weapons </font>

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