Elemental Slayer

Links to Early Magic

All elemental slayers have a powerful connection to the ancient world where magic was a complete mystery. They get their magic from this connection, this could be the blood of a fiery angel who ignited the first Volcano or a cursed amulet created by the first litch.

"The Art of the Elements" allows a slayer to wield the power of an element as a weapon. The element they are able to wield depends upon their connection to the ancient world. If a slayers connection to ancient world is a shard of ice from an ancient never melting glacier then they may control the power of a blizzard for example.

By learning to wield the magic of ancient times through their connection to it, modern elemental slayers can unleash devastating attacks upon their enemies or provide vital aid to their allies.

Creating an Elemental Slayer

To create an Elemental Slayer, consult the following subsections, which give you hit points, proficiencies, and starting equipment. Then take a look at the Elemental slayer table to see which features you get at each level. The descriptions of those features appear in the "Elemental Slayer Features" section.

Archery

You gain a +2 bonus to attack rolls you make with ranged weapons.

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 you are wielding with two hands, you can re-roll 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.

Protection

When a creature you can see attacks a target other than you that is within 5 feet of you, you can use your reaction to impose disadvantage on the attack roll. You must be wielding a shield.

Two-Weapon Fighting

When you engage in two-weapon fighting, you can add your ability modifier to the damage of the second attack.

Heightened Sense

At 2nd level, your attunement to your ancient connection greatly improves one of your senses you can choose one of the following senses; Touch, Smell or Sound. You have advantage on perception and investigation checks made using this sense.

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.

If your DM allows the use of feats, you may instead take a feat.

Extra Attack

Beginning at 5th level, you can attack twice, instead of once, whenever you take the attack action on your turn.

Primordial Resolve

At 6th level, you can draw from a Primal well of willpower when you are in danger. As a reaction when you drop below one-quarter of your maximum hit points, or as a bonus action on your turn while you are below half of your hit points, you gain temporary hit points equal to your 1d6 + Elemental Slayer level for the next minute. While you have these temporary hit points you have advantage on saving throws.

Once you use this feature, you must finish a short or long rest before you can use it again. Starting at 9th level, you can use this twice before a rest.

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Improved Heightened Sense

At 6th level, your Heightened sense is enhanced further. You gain the following benefits out to a range of 10ft :

• Either blindsight if your heightened sense is smell or sound, or tremorsense if it's touch.
• Advantage on insight checks as your heightened senses allow you to read more subtle cues of those close to you

Sleet Strike

At 1st level, as an action you may spend 1 Primordial Stamina to create freezing wind and sleet in a 15ft cone from you in a direction of your choosing until the end of your next turn.

The area is heavily obscured, and exposed flames in the area are doused.

The ground in the area is covered with slick ice, making it difficult terrain. When a creature enters the area for the first time on a turn or starts its turn there, it must make a Dexterity saving throw. On a failed save, it falls prone.

If a creature is concentrating in the area, the creature must make a successful Constitution saving throw or lose concentration.

Protective Glacier

At 3rd level, you may expend 2 stamina points to protect yourself with a layer of freezing winds. For the next hour you gain 10 temporary hit points. If a creature hits you with a melee attack while you have these hitpoints the creature takes 10 cold damage.

Flash Freeze

At 3rd level whenever you land a critical hit with your elemental bombardment the area in a 30ft radius around the target of your attack becomes covered in thick snow and an icy wind for 1 minute. This area is difficult terrain for any number of creatures of your choice.

A creature you chose to be effected by this difficult terrain also takes 1d10 cold damage if they are in the area at the start of their turn, or if they enter the area for the first time on their turn.

Verglas Veil

At 7th level you can spend 5 Primordial Stamina as an action to create a 20ft wide, 40ft tall cylinder of protective wind or ice within 50ft of you for up to 1 minute or until your concentration ends (as if you were concentrating on a spell). All creatures within this area gain a +2 bonus to their armour class and critical hits count as normal hits.

Crescent Trick

At 1st level you learn the Minor Illusion cantrip using intelligence as you spellcasting modifier, if you don't already know it. Additionally;

You may cast Minor Illusion as a bonus action instead of an action.

You may spend 1 Primordial stamina to empower your illusions. For the next 10 minutes you may have an additional number of minor illusions equal to your intelligence modifier (minimum of 1) active at once.

Enchanting Ballet.

At 3rd level, when creature comes within 10ft of you, you may spend 2 Primordial Stamina to attempt to subtly enchant them as a reaction. The target must make a Wisdom saving throw. On a failed save they have disadvantage on attack rolls against you and cannot make attacks of opportunity against you until the end of their next turn.

Chains of Umi

At 3rd level whenever you land a critical hit with your elemental bombardment the target of your attack becomes entangled in a psychic web of chains. The target becomes frightened of you for for 1 round. While frightened in this way the targets speed becomes 0.

Mind Trap

At 7th level you can spend 3 Primordial Stamina to cast Calm Emotions or Enthrall using this ability. You may also spend 4 Primordial Stamina to cast Fear. Intelligence is your spellcasting modifier for spells cast in this way.

Spells cast in this way do not require the somatic or material components.

Bombardment of the Night

At 10th level, once per turn when you hit a creature with your elemental bombardment you can spend 2 Primordial Stamina to cause magical darkness to spread in up to a 5ft radius around you.

The darkness spreads around corners. A creature with darkvision can’t see through this darkness, and nonmagical light can’t illuminate it.

The darkness created does not follow you if you move. The effect ends at the start of your next turn.

Water Surface Seize

At 1st level, as an action you may spend 1 Primordial Stamina to attempt to trap a creature within 30ft of you that is huge or smaller inside a dome of water. The creature must make a Strength saving throw or become trapped inside the dome. While in the dome the target is restrained.

The dome has an AC equal to your Art DC, and has 1 Hit Point. The target is freed if the dome is reduced to 0 hit points.

Any attacks against the target, other than your own, first deal damage to the dome with any excess damage carrying over to the creature within.

Water Wheel

At 3rd level, you may spend 2 Primordial Stamina before you make an attack roll or ability check that relies on Strength or Dexterity to create a versatile wheel of water around yourself. When you do this you may add 1d6 to the roll.

Cloudburst

At 3rd level whenever you land a critical hit with your elemental bombardment, the target becomes restrained for 1 round.

Waterfall Rush

At 7th level, you can spend 3 Primordial Stamina to create Cylinder of rushing water 10ft in radius and up to 40ft tall, centered on a point you choose within 60ft of you. The rushing water lasts for 1 minute or until your concentration ends (as if you were concentrating on a spell). While in this cylinder creatures must swim instead of walking, and must make a Strength (Athletics) check in order to move against the flow of water.

A creature that is in the rushing water at the start of their turn, or moves into the rushing water for the first time on their turn must make a Strength saving throw or be pushed out of the top or bottom of the rushing water (your choice).

If the space a creature should move into is blocked by a solid object, a ceiling or a floor then the creature instead remains inside the rushing water and takes 1d8 bludgeoning damage for every 10ft they were moved.

Additionally, if a falling creature lands on the rushing water, you may choose to cushion or intensify their fall. If you cushion their fall, the damage they would take from falling is reduced by 4d8. If you intensify their fall they take an additional 4d8 bludgeoning damage from falling.

Striking Waves

At 7th level you can spend 4 Primordial Stamina to cast the Control Water Spell.

Art of the Sun

Conjuring the life giving force of the Sun itself to destroy your enemies with a storm of fire or heal your allies with the light of life.

Burning Sun

At 7th level, as an action you may use 4 Primordial Stamina to create a sphere of radiant energy in a sphere around you, lighting it up with 60ft of bright light and 60ft of dim light, which lasts for up to 10 minutes, or until you use an action to dispel it.

When you use this ability you can choose up to 3 creatures within 60ft of you restoring 1d8 + your Wisdom modifier hit points to them.

Additionally you may choose up to 3 creatures within 60ft of you to attempt to burn with this radiant light. They must make a Dexterity saving throw or take 2d8 radiant damage on a failed save or half as much on a successful save.

Parhelion Rainbow

At 7th level, as a reaction you take when a creature within 20ft of you (other than yourself) is hit with a melee weapon attack you can use 2 Primordial Stamina to surround them in a bright spiral of multicolored fire that burns the attacker. The attacker must make a Dexterity saving throw. On a failed save the attacker takes 2d10 fire damage and has disadvantage on attacks they make against the target until the end of their next turn on a failed save. On a successful save they take half as much damage and suffer no further effects.

Bombardment of Life

At 10th level, once per turn when you hit a creature who is hostile towards you with your elemental bombardment and an ally is within 10ft of you, you may deal an additional +1d4 radiant damage and heal the ally by this amount.

Sunflower Lance

At 13th level, as an action, you may spend 6 Primordial Stamina to create a 60ft line of fire or radiance in front of you.

If you choose fire then all creatures in the line must make a Dexterity saving throw. They take 6d6 fire damage on a failed save or half as much on a successful save.

If you choose radiance then all creatures within the line recover 6d6 hit points.

Halo Dragon

At 15th level, you can summon the power of radiant dragons of fire from the ancient world. Once per turn when you hit a creature with your elemental bombardment you may spend 4 Primordial Stamina to simultaneously cast Burning Hands at 1st level without the somatic components. Wisdom is your spellcasting modifier for this when you cast the spell in this way.

Alms of Life

At 18th level whenever your Elemental Arts Heal a creature (other than yourself) within 10ft of you, you gain a number of hit points equal to half the amount healed.

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Art of the Storm

The violent combination of adrenaline, willpower and primal magical rage brew within you during a battle to create a storm of thunder and lightning.ho

Static Shock

At 7th level, whenever you roll initiative you may add your Wisdom modifier to the roll. Additionally, you may spend 1 Primordial Stamina to swap your position in the initiative order with another willing creature.

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Embellish Lightning

At 7th level, you can spend 5 Primordial Stamina as an action to create a stroke of lightning forming a line 100 feet long and 5 feet wide blasts out from you in a direction you choose. Each creature in the line must make a Dexterity saving throw. A creature takes 8d6 lightning damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one. The lightning ignites flammable objects in the area that aren’t being worn or carried. Additionally you can teleport to any point along the line.

Bombardment of the Summit

At 10th level, once per turn when you hit a creature with your elemental bombardment and you have unused movement remaining you may reduce your speed to 0 until the end of your turn. For each 10ft of unused movement you had remaining your attack deals 1 extra damage up to a maximum of 5.

Destructive Discharge

At 13th level, once on your turn when you hit a creature with weapon attack you may spend 8 Primordial Stamina to discharge an overwhelming amount of lightning through them. The creature must make a Constitution saving throw. On a failed save the creature takes an additional 10d6 lightning damage and they are paralyzed until the start of your next turn. On a successful save the creature takes half as much damage and is not paralyzed.

Thunderous Strike

At 15th level, you can summon a wave of thunder to back up your attacks. Once per turn when you hit a creature with your elemental bombardment you may spend 4 Primordial Stamina to simultaneously cast Thunderwave at 1st level without the somatic components. Wisdom is your spellcasting modifier for this when you cast the spell in this way.