The Seeker

Divine Guidance

To be a seeker is to be on a mission given out by a higher being. Maybe an angel appears in visions or the seeker is able to hear the whispers of a Prince of Hell, seekers follow a divine path. Although a seeker’s mission varies, most commonly they are looking for someone, a person of importance to their deity such as a prophet, muse, or even an avatar of another god. Unlike a paladin or cleric who may follow the tenets of a god and lead others in that religion, a seeker is given guidance by their deity. Through study of subtle signs and interpretation of omens and symbols that most would miss, a seeker’s path is laid before them. The tasks that seekers are given may be devoid of how to complete them, thus a seeker must be adept at gathering intelligence. Seekers care not where their information comes from, whether guidance gifted by the divine, the knowledge still held by the dead, or simply by charming those that would otherwise hoard secrets; by any means will they uncover the path laid before them.

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Cantrips

At 1st level, you know two cantrips of your choice from the seeker spell list. At higher levels, you learn additional seeker cantrips of your choice, as shown in the Cantrips Known column of the Seeker table.

Preparing and Casting Spells

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

You prepare a list of spells at the end of each long rest from the seeker spell list. When you do so, choose a number of spells equal to your Intelligence modifier + half your seeker level, rounded down (minimum of one spell). The spells must be of a level for which you are able to cast. These spells count as Seeker spells for purposes of spellcasting and Rites.

You can change your list of prepared spells when you finish a long rest. Preparing a new list of seeker spells requires time spent in studying omens from the divine and interpreting the meaning of these signs: at least 1 minute per spell level for each spell on your list.

Spellcasting Ability

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

Spell save DC = 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Intelligence modifier

Spell attack modifier = your proficiency bonus + your Intelligence modifier

Ritual spells

You can cast any seeker spell you prepare as a ritual if that spell has the ritual tag.

Spellcasting Focus

You can use a divine focus as a spellcasting focus for your seeker spells. This divine focus can be your fortune telling device.

Rites

For any seeker spell prepared of 5th level and below, you are able to cast those spells as a Rite instead of using a spell slot. The cast time for these spells follows the format of rituals and equals the standard casting time plus 10 minutes. Rites may also be used to cast unprepared spells with the ritual tag or a casting time of 1 minute or longer by spending the amount of Rites needed to cast that level of spell and adding 10 minutes to the casting time. You regain all expended Rites when you finish a long rest.

Spells cast using a Rite have an associated cost depending on what spell is being cast, as seen in the table below.

Maven Spells

Each Mavenhood has a list of spells, its Maven spells, that you gain at the Seeker levels noted in the Maven description. Once you gain a Maven spell, you always have it prepared, and it doesn't count against the number of spells you can prepare each day. If you have a Maven spell that doesn't appear on the Seeker spell list, the spell is nonetheless a Seeker spell for you.

Maven of the Bitter Heart

Most often mistaken for witches, due to their penchant for curses and animal companions. Seekers within this Mavenhood use their summoned companions to predict the future such as by staring into their eyes or listening to the chirps and chitterings.

Brightened Spirit Spells

When choosing this Mavenhood, you gain access to spells that bring the light to those around you, be them friend or foe. At 1st, 3rd, 5th, 7th, and 9th level you always prepare the following spells.

Bonus Proficiencies

When you choose this Mavenhood at 1st level, you gain proficiency in medium armor. Additionally, you gain proficiency in the Medicine and Religion skills. Choose one of these two skills, you add double your proficiency bonus to checks you make with it. At 6th level, you can choose a second skill that you are proficient with to add double your proficiency bonus to checks you make with it.

Spirit of Holy Light

At 3rd level, you are blessed with a beneficent spirit from your patron. When casting healing spirit, either with a spell slot and using a Rite or by casting the spell as a Rite, healing spirit changes, as below:

• The spirit appears in a form you choose that represents your deity.
• This spell doesn’t require concentration; it ends either after a minute has passed since casting it, when you choose (as a free action), or you fall unconscious.
• When you cast this spell, choose either a skill or a save, when you heal someone with this spell, the healed target has advantage on that skill or save you chose until the spirit heals another target or the spell ends.
• Hostile creatures within a 10 foot radius of the Spirit cannot benefit from advantage on attacks or ability checks.

Blind Faith

Also at 3rd level, once per short rest, you may choose to reroll any 1 rolled once per use of Sixth Sense. When you reroll, you may also choose to create a burst of light that blinds foes within 10 feet who fail a Constitution saving throw against your spell save DC until the end of your Sixth Sense.

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Burning Tongue Spells

When choosing this Maven, you gain access to spells to stop your foes and find the truth between the lies. At 1st, 3rd, 5th, 7th, and 9th level you always prepare the following spells.

Bonus Proficiencies

When you choose this Mavenhood at 1st level, you gain proficiency with martial weapons and medium armor. Additionally, you gain proficiency in the Insight and Intimidation skills. At 6th level, choose one of these skills, you add double your proficiency bonus to checks you make with it.

Blessed Bond

At 3rd level, you become adept at finding the truths within the lies and seeing what makes your enemies tic. By using a bonus action, you can magically mark a sentient creature you can see within 60 feet, gaining insight into their mind. The target makes a Wisdom saving throw with a DC equal to your spell save DC. A creature can willingly choose to fail this save. On a successful save, you discern that this magic failed but the target is unaware of the attempt. On a failed save, for the next 10 minutes you gain the following bonuses against this target:

• You know what the creature is known as commonly, such as how the creature would introduce themselves to a friendly acquaintance.
• You know their exact location. If the creature travels to a different plane, you know which plane they went to.
• You have advantage on Insight checks against the target.
• Once before the end of this effect, if the creature is brought to 0 hit points, you can use your reaction to have your deity stabilize the creature. Instead of dying, the creature is at 1 hit point and paralyzed until the end of your next turn. After stabilizing a creature in this way, you have advantage on Charisma ability checks against the creature until they have taken a rest.

You can use this feature a number of times equal to your Intelligence modifier (minimum of once), and you regain all expended uses of it when you finish a long rest.

Know Thy Enemy

At 10th level, you can prepare a target for how best to deal with a type of foe. By spending a Rite and using an action, touch a target and pick one type of creature: Aberrations, Celestials, Dragons, Elementals, Fey, Fiends, Humanoid, or Undead. For 1 minute, any attacks on the target of this feature by creatures of the chosen type have disadvantage. The target also can't be charmed, frightened, or possessed by them. If the target is already charmed, frightened, or possessed by such a creature, the target has advantage on any new saving throw against the relevant effect. If you use this feature while it is active, the first casting of this effect stops.

Holy Hand, Divine Voice

When you reach 14th level, you become an instrument of your divine patron, their will carried out through your hands. After finishing a long rest, choose a damage type: radiant, necrotic, cold, fire, lighting, or poison. The damage type you choose should reflect an aspect of your patron. When you deal damage to a creature, add your Intelligence modifier to the damage of the chosen type. If you are attacking your Blessed Bond target, you may change all of your weapon damage to the chosen type of damage.

Additionally, you learn the cantrip friends which does not count against your cantrip total. When friends ends, the target does not realize they have been ensorcelled by this cantrip.

Endless Dreams Spells

When choosing this Mavenhood, you gain access to spells that allow you to share the slumbering world with others. At 1st, 3rd, 5th, 7th, and 9th level you always prepare the following spells.

Visions From Beyond

When you choose this Mavenhood at 1st level, after finishing a long rest, choose a skill to become proficient with and a skill you are proficient in to add double your proficiency bonus to checks you make with it.

Additionally, when you take a long rest, you must spend at least six hours in a dreaming but motionless state, rather than sleeping. In this state, you appear asleep, but it doesn’t render you unconscious, and you can see and hear as normal.

Prophetic Dreams

At 3rd level, your dreams become prophetic and seep into those around you. When you finish a long rest, choose a number of creatures within sight that dream, including yourself, equal to half your seeker level; those creatures may roll a d20 and record the number rolled. Before rolling any attack roll, saving throw, or ability check, that creature can choose to use the prophetic roll once instead of making that roll.

Sweet Repose

Bringing others to the dream world is part of your craft. Also at 3rd level, when casting the spell sleep and rolling dice, you may use d12s instead of d8s. If those affected by your sleep are not woken early from their magical slumber, they view you neutrally if they were hostile.

You may spend a Rite when casting sleep to either target one specific creature with the spell or make the spell last for 10 minutes instead of 1 minute.

Lucid Dreamer

Your dreams seep into the waking world. At 10th level, you may split your mind into two, your dreaming mind and your waking mind. By spending 2 Rites while concentrating on a divination spell, you may have your dreaming mind continue to concentrate on that spell while your waking mind may concentrate on an additional spell. When the GM requires you to make a check to maintain concentration, must make a Constitution saving throw for each spell separately. You may end concentration with either your dreaming or waking mind and continue concentrating on the other spell at any time.

Sleep Tight

Also at 10th level, you may cast tiny hut without using a spell slot once per long rest. When cast this way, each creature within the spell's dome is under the effects of the nondetection spell and does not suffer from nightmares.

Synchronicity and Coincidence

At 14th level, you truly see how your dreams line up with your waking life, you change your ways to better fit what the future holds. After finishing a long rest and preparing your spells, you may prepare any spell from any spell list. The spell you choose must be of a level you can cast, as shown on the seeker table, or a cantrip. The chosen spell counts as a seeker spell for you but doesn’t count against the number of seeker spells you may prepare.

Additionally, after casting a divination spell of 1st level or higher, roll a d6. If you roll less than your proficiency bonus, add that number to the DC of the next spell you cast. If the next spell cast does not use a spell DC, then this feature is bonus is wasted.

Lurking Hand Spells

When choosing this Mavenhood, you gain access to spells that help you move without being sensed and strike hard when needed. At 1st, 3rd, 5th, 7th, and 9th level you always prepare the following spells.

Bonus Proficiencies

When you choose this Mavenhood at 1st level, you gain proficiency in Sleight of Hand and Stealth. Choose one of these two skills, you add double your proficiency bonus to checks you make with it. At 6th level, you can choose a second skill that you are proficient with to add double your proficiency bonus to checks you make with it.

Hard Lurker

At 3rd level, your premonitions help you move quicker in danger. Add your proficiency bonus to your initiative roll.

Additionally, you can gain a blessing of invisibility from your deity briefly. After using the Hide action, you may become invisible. Your invisibility ends at the start of your next turn, cast a spell, or make an attack. You may use this ability a number of times per long rest equal to your Intelligence modifier.

You may empower this ability by spending a Rite to have the invisibility last until the end instead of the start of your next turn. While empowered in this way, you move at your normal walking speed.

Quickened Hand

Starting at 10th level, magic comes even quicker to your fingertips. When you cast a concentration spell that uses a bonus action, you can instead use your reaction to cast that spell. When you use this feature, unless the components for casting the spell were associated with a consumed cost, the components are now just somatic. You can use this feature a number of times per long rest equal to your Intelligence modifier.

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Roaming Steps Spells

When choosing this Mavenhood, you gain access to spells that help you travel your path and get there safely. At 1st, 3rd, 5th, 7th, and 9th level you always prepare the following spells.

Bonus Proficiencies

When you choose this Mavenhood at 1st level, you gain proficiency navigator's tools as well as in Perception and Survival. Choose one of these two skills, you add double your proficiency bonus to checks you make with it. At 6th level, you can choose a second skill that you are proficient with to add double your proficiency bonus to checks you make with it.

Transporter

At 3rd level, you are able to move yourself and your allies quickly through danger. You have advantage on ability checks related to navigating and traveling to a distant destination.

Additionally, movement across shorter distances becomes your forte. As a bonus action, you can teleport 10 times your proficiency bonus feet away or teleport a creature 5 times your proficiency bonus feet to a location you can see; if the creature you are teleporting is unwilling, they must make a Charisma save against your spell DC to avoid being teleported. You can use this feature a number of times per long rest equal to your Intelligence modifier.

Safe Haven

When you reach 10th level, you are able to find a safe haven no matter where you go. By using a Rite and your reaction on your turn, you can instantly return to where you started your turn as long as you are still on the same plane of existence. After you have returned to that starting position, your movement drops to 0 and you have resistance to damage until the start of your next turn.

Also at 10th level, your uses of Transporter resets after a short or long rest.

Going The Distance

At 14th level, by expending a Rite and meditating for 10 minutes, you are able to cast either find the path, teleport, or phase shift once. For the purposes of spellcasting, you do not need the material components for using this feature.

Rotting Voice Spells

When choosing this Mavenhood, you gain access to spells that help you control your foes and enlist new friends. At 1st, 3rd, 5th, 7th, and 9th level you always prepare the following spells.

Bonus Proficiencies

When you choose this Mavenhood at 1st level, you gain proficiency in two of the following skills: Deception, Intimidation, Performance, or Persuasion. Choose one of these two skills, you add double your proficiency bonus to checks you make with it. At 6th level, you can choose a second skill that you are proficient with to add double your proficiency bonus to checks you make with it.

The Right Words

At 3rd level, you are blessed with just enough foreknowledge to understand the right thing to say and how to act in any social setting. Once per turn you may use one of these Right Words. When you use this feature a number of times equal to your proficiency bonus, you may not use this feature again until you either finish a long rest or by spending a Rite.

Thoughtful Words Instead of using your Charisma modifier, you may use your Intelligence modifier for a Charisma ability check or save.

Whispered Words When casting an Enchantment, Illusion, or Necromancy spell that has a verbal component, if you do so, the spell doesn’t require verbal, somatic, or material components that lack a gold cost.

Piercing Words When forcing a creature to make an Intelligence, Wisdom, or Charisma saving throw, if they would normally roll with advantage, instead that creature rolls that save without advantage.

Turn of Phrase

By 10th level, you've learned to undo your gaffes and blunders. When you cast a spell with a spell slot that fails due to the target being immune to the effect, you may use your reaction and a Rite to not expend that spell slot.

Additionally, once per short rest, you may use your reaction to skillfully reshape the memories of listeners in your immediate area, so that each creature of your choice within 5 feet of you forgets everything you said within the last 6 seconds.

Hypnotic Whispers

At 14th level, your voice vibrates with magic. Pick one creature that is rolling to save against a spell you cast, you may use a Rite increase your spell save DC by half your proficiency bonus against that creature. You can choose to use this feature only before the DM determines whether the spell succeeds or fails.

False Prophet

Your words can carry weight to those susceptible enough to your fraudulent ways. You can even be so convincing that fate itself twists to meet your false prophecies.

• You gain proficiency in the Deception skill. If you are already proficient in the skill, you add double your proficiency bonus to checks you make with it.
• You learn the cantrip thaumaturgy and can cast it without using components.
• As an action, choose one creature who can hear you and prophesize either good or bad fortunes. Make a Charisma (Deception) check contested by the target's Wisdom (Insight) check. You make your roll with disadvantage if the target does not understand the language you speak your fortune in. If your check succeeds, your target is convinced by your words and treats the next 1 that they roll as a 20 if you predicted good fortunes or the next 20 that they roll as a 1 if you predicted bad fortune. Whether or not the target is convinced, once you use this feature, you cannot use this again until you finish a short or long rest.

Oracle

You see brief glimpses of what is to come and how to twist fate.

• When you finish a long rest, roll a d20 and record the number rolled. You can replace any attack roll, saving throw, or ability check made by you or a creature that you can see with the foretold roll; you must choose to do so before the roll and must wait until the end of your next long rest to roll a new foretelling roll.

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Change Log

• For all versions: many small tweaks for the sake of keeping the theme, flavor, and usability of this class unique and playable. For versions marked #.#.1, the updates are almost purely grammatical or clarifications.

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