Credits

• Designer & Writer: Silverblade (u/Silverblade1234)

• Front Cover Art By: Younghun Byun
• Back Cover Art By: Peter Lee
• Interior Art By: Abe Taraky, Bernie Kang, Boros-Szikzai, Diablo7707, Justin Kunz, Kyle Herring, Maria Trepalina, Ralph Horsley

• Based on 5th Edition Dungeons & Dragons by
  Wizards of the Coast

• Based on the Warcraft franchise by
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• Inspired by the Warcraft 5E adaptation by
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Last Updated: June 21, 2021

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Contents

• 3Character Creation

  • 3New Race: Dalaran Human
  • 3New Race: Frostborn
  • 4New Race: Worgen
  • 5New Race: Undead
  • 6New Class: Death Knight

• 13Character Options

  • 13New Languages
  • 13New Feats

• 14Spells

Introduction

This supplement to Champions of Azeroth introduces content from World of Warcraft's expansion, Wrath of the Lich King. It introduces several races you might find in Northrend, from the human citizens of Dalaran to the frost dwarves and ice trolls that call Northrend home. It also allows players and DMs to create undead versions of other races, expanding on the undead humans first presented in Champions of Azeroth.

Champions of Northrend also details the death knight class, fearsome warriors raised by the Lich King to wage war on the living. The death knight is a dark mirror of the paladin, yet has dread powers all their own. Their magic---from unleashing icy devastation to summoning hordes of shambling ghouls---is also detailed within.

Note that this death knight strongly resembles the one found in WC5E---that's because I was its primary writer! While some overlap is unavoidable, I've endeavored to remove content and ideas that solely belong to others.

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Acknowledgements

This project wouldn't be possible without the WC5E project. I have tremendous respect and gratitude for that project, as well as its creators, contributors, and community. My own Warcraft homebrew efforts began by helping out with that project, and its influence on my work is undoubtedly still apparent, even after many iterations. If you haven't checked it out yet, I highly recommend you do so!

A big thanks in particular to Auvreannia, who was a great source of inspiration, sounding board, and proofreader for my work. Thanks also to Lev and friends, who provided very detailed feedback on the final products. This project would have suffered greatly without their assistance and support.

Additional Resources

• Champions of Azeroth Changelogs
• Champions of Azeroth Project Folder

Character Creation

Champions of Northrend presents a number of new character options for the heroes of Azeroth---from human citizens of Dalaran, to the natives of icy Northrend, to the risen victims of the Scourge. Even the fearsome worgen of Grizzly Hills and beyond can be found in this section. It also includes rules for death knights, dark champions of death who have escaped the terrible will of the Lich King.

New Subraces

When the heroes of the Horde and Alliance journeyed to Northrend to wage war on the Scourge, new allies were ready to join their crusade. This section details new subraces for use with the races presented in Champions of Azeroth and other Champions supplements.

Dalaran Human

Dalaran is a small, magocratic nation founded originally as a city-state by Arathi magi near the coast of Lordamere Lake in Lordaeron. While the city proper was ruined during the Third War, it has since been rebuilt and made mboile through powerful magic. It is ruled by the Kirin Tor, an elite cadre of the most powerful wizards in the known world. While Dalaran was founded as a human kingdom, many members of other races have since come to reside in the magical city.

Dalaran Human Traits

The Dalaran Human subrace can be used with the human race found in Champions of Azeroth.

Ability Score Increase. Your Intelligence score increases by 1.

Learned. You gain proficiency in one of the following skills of your choice: Arcana, History, Nature, and Religion.

Elementary Spellcasting. You know the prestidigitation cantrip. You also choose two 1st-level mage spells with the ritual tag. You can cast these spells as rituals, or using any spell slots you have. Intelligence is your spellcasting ability for these spells

Frostborn

Despite its inhospitable nature, some races have managed to survive---even thrive---in the icy wastes of Northrend. The taunka are relatives to the tauren who have adapted to the harsh environment in Northrend, and forcibly bend nature and the elements to their will in order to survive. The frostborn dwarves reside in the Storm Peaks, having once served the titanic keeper Thorim, and have recently befriended members of the Explorers' League. And the Drakkari tribe of ice trolls have created a mighty civilization in Zul'Drak, though they now turn to desperate and dark measures to protect their home from the growing threat of the Scourge. The frostborn subrace can be used for these races, or any race especially adapted to the cold and ice.

Frostborn Traits

The frostborn subrace can be applied to any race that has a subrace, and replaces that race's existing subrace options.

Ability Score Increase. Your Constitution score increases by 1. If your race's Ability Score Increase trait gives you +2 to Constitution, you instead increase a different ability by 1.

Winter Lore. You gain proficiency with one of the following skills of your choice: Athletics, Nature, Perception, and Survival.

Tundra Walker. You have resistance to cold damage, and are naturally adapted to cold climates, as described in chapter 5 of the Dungeon Master's Guide. In addition, moving through difficult terrain related to ice, snow, or extreme cold costs you no extra movement.

Big Game Hunter. You are trained in fighting the colossal beasts and monsters of Northrend, When you damage a creature with an attack or a spell and the creature's size is larger than yours, you can cause the attack or spell to deal extra damage to the creature. The extra damage equals your level. Once you use this trait, you can't use it again until you finish a short or long rest.

Worgen

Worgen are large, lupine humanoids that walk upright, but hunt and howl as wolves, and lope on all fours to run. They primarily inhabit forests and are natural hunters. Being bitten by or drinking the blood of a worgen transmits the worgen curse and, in some cases, causes the afflicted to be transformed into one. After the transformation, those that are overcome by rage and guilt gradually lose all vestiges of their former lives and turn mindless. By controlling their emotions via medication, magic, and self-discipline, worgen may resist being overcome by their feral instincts.

Ability Score Increase. Your choice of Strength or Dexterity increases by 2.

Age. Worgen have the same lifespan as they did before their transformation.

Alignment. Worgen often retain their previous alignment (or close to it), though their barely-tamed feral instincts influence them towards chaos.

Size. While transformed, worgen are between 6 and 7 feet tall, average around 250 pounds, and are Medium size.

Speed. Your base walking speed is 30 feet. You can use Strength or Dexterity for determining how far you can jump.

Two Forms. As a bonus action, you can change between your native form and worgen form. While in worgen form, you gain several new traits, specified below.

Darkvision. While in worgen form, you can see in dim light within 60 feet of you as if it were bright light, and in darkness as if it were dim light. You can't discern color in darkness, only shades of gray.

Natural Weapons. While in worgen form, you grow deadly claws and fangs. You have a climbing speed of 20 feet. In addition, your claws and bite are natural weapons, which you can use to make unarmed strikes. You can use Strength or Dexterity for attack and damage rolls when you make a weapon attack with them, and they deal piercing or slashing damage equal to 1d4 + your ability modifier, instead of the bludgeoning damage normal for an unarmed strike.

Darkflight. While in worgen form, when you move on your turn in combat, you can double your speed until the end of the turn. Once you use this trait, you can't use it again until you move 0 feet on one of your turns.

Languages. You can speak, read, and write Common.

Subrace. Only human and night elf worgen are known to exist. Their traits are detailed below.

Undead

When the Scourge marched across Azeroth, it added to its ranks by raising many of its victims to undeath. Many are mindless husks of their former selves, some possess intelligence but are bound to the Scourge, while others have managed to free themselves from the Lich King's will. The undead subrace can be used for any intelligent creature that has been raised to undeath, whether they were animated by the Scourge or by other necromantic means.

Undead Traits

The undead subrace can be applied to any race that has a subrace, and replaces that race's existing subrace options.

Ability Score Increase. Your Constitution score increases by 1. If your race's Ability Score Increase trait gives you +2 to Constitution, you instead increase a different ability by 1.

Extended Age. You remain at the age you originally died, sustained by the dark magic that raised you. If uncared for, however, your corpse will wither and decay over time.

Darkvision. You can see in dim light within 60 feet of you as if it were bright light, and in darkness as if it were dim light. You can't discern color in darkness, only shades of gray. If you already have darkvision from your race, its range increases by 30 feet.

Undead Nature. Your type is both humanoid and undead, meaning you are affected by any features or abilities that affect either of those types. For example, you can be targeted by hold person or affected by shackle undead. You also gain the following benefits:

• You have advantage on saving throws against disease and being poisoned, and you have resistance to poison damage.
• You have advantage on death saving throws.
• You don't need to eat, drink, or breathe.
• You don't need to sleep, and magic can't put you to sleep. You can finish a long rest in 4 hours if you spend those hours in an inactive, motionless state, during which you retain consciousness.

Becoming Undead

The stories of many heroes do not end in death. No rules are provided for being raised as a sentient undead, to allow DMs the flexibility to tailor such a significant event to their own games. If you don't wish to increase character power, you can replace a character's subrace with the undead subrace. If you do wish to increase character power, you can add on the undead subrace to a character without replacing anything; in this case, the undead subrace (without its racial Ability Score Increase) is roughly equivalent to a feat in power. DMs and players should work together to determine the circumstances of the character's new unlife.

Rune Strike

Once per turn when you hit a creature with a rune weapon, you can spend a rune to deal extra damage to the target equal to your Rune Damage.

Fighting Style

At 2nd level, you adopt a style of fighting as your specialty. Choose one of the following options. You can't take a Fighting Style option more than once, even if you later get to choose again.

Command Undead

Beginning at 14th level, you can more easily exert your will over undead. You learn the spell dominate undead (found later in this supplement). You can cast it once without expending a spell slot, and regain the ability to do so when you finish a long rest.

In addition, any undead that targets you with an attack or a harmful spell must first make a Wisdom saving throw against your spell save DC. On a failed save, the creature must choose a new target or lose the attack or spell. This feature doesn't protect you from area effects, such as the explosion of a fireball. If you make an attack or cast a harmful spell that affects an undead, that creature is immune to this feature until you finish a long rest.

Superior Runeforging

At 18th level, you unlock the most powerful secrets of your rune weapons. Choose one of the enchantments below. You gain the benefits of the chosen enchantment while wielding a rune weapon. You can choose a different enchantment from this list when you finish a long rest.

Death Knight Specializations

The blessings of the Lich King are many, from unleashing the frozen heart of Northrend, to harnessing the sanguine power of blood, to spreading terrible necromantic plagues. The specialization you choose reflects your approach.

Frost Death Knight

Frost death knights are icy harbingers of doom, harnessing the strength of an avalanche and the fury of a blizzard to lay waste to their foes.

Plaguelord

Upon reaching 15th level, you have achieved mastery over your powers of pestilence and plague. You gain one of the following features, depending on your choice at 7th level.

Master of Ghouls: Unholy Pact. After you spend a rune, you add your Rune Damage to the damage of your undead minion's attacks until the end of the turn.

Outbreak: Bursting Sores. Whenever you make a successful attack with your rune weapon against a creature currently afflicted by an unholy disease, you also deal 1d8 damage to each other creature within 5 feet of it, other than yourself. This damage's type is the same as the additional damage of your Greater Runeforging enchantment.

Unholy Frenzy

At 20th level, you can use your action to incite yourself or another undead creature you can see within 60 feet into a killing frenzy. For 1 minute, the frenzied creature gains the following benefits:

• It has advantage on saving throws.
• Its movement speed is doubled.
• Once on its turn when it makes a melee weapon attack, it can make one additional melee weapon attack as part of that action.

Once you use this feature, you can't use it again until you finish a long rest.

Character Options

With the introduction of the races of Northrend and the dread champions of the Scourge, players and DMs will need new options to support their epic adventures. This chapter details new languages and feats related to Champions of Northrend content.

Feats

As detailed in chapter 6 of the Player's Handbook, feats are an optional way of enhancing your character. The following feats relate to the content of Champions of Northrend, to add to the many feats found in Champions of Azeroth and other 5E sources.

Death Knight Adept

Prerequisites: Strength 13 and Charisma 13, not a death knight

You have been touched by the icy hand of death, and gain the following benefits:

• You gain the Undead Nature racial trait of the Undead subrace. If you already have this trait, you gain immunity to disease and the poisoned condition.
• When you damage a creature with an attack or a spell, you can cause the attack or spell to deal an additional 1d8 necrotic damage to the creature. Once you use this trait, you can't use it again until you finish a short or long rest.

Death Knight Mastery

Prerequisite: Death Knight Adept feat

You have continued down the dark path of the death knight, and gain the following benefits:

• The additional necrotic damage dealt by this feature increases to 2d8.
• As a bonus action, you can gain the benefits of one of the 6th-level Runeforging enchantments listed in the death knight class description. The enchantment lasts for 10 minutes. Once you use this ability, you must finish a long rest before you can do so again.

Other Undead Feats

All characters with the undead subrace are also eligible to take the Touch of the Grave and Will of the Forsaken feats presented in Champions of Azeroth, regardless of their race.

Lifelike

Prerequisite: Undead

Whether from magic, excellent embalming, or a gentle death, your undead nature is less pronounced. Rolls made to discern your undead nature have disadvantage, and you have advantage on saving throws against effects that can affect you only because of your undead type.

In addition, choose one subrace for your race (likely your subrace before becoming undead). You gain that subrace's traits, except for its Ability Score Increase.

Scribe

You are an expert in the art of inscription, and are especially proficient with spell scrolls. You gain the following benefits:

• Increase your Intelligence, Wisdom, or Charisma score by 1, to a maximum of 20.
• You gain proficiency with calligrapher's supplies. If you are already proficient with them, you add double your proficiency bonus to checks you make with them.
• When you craft a nonmagical item using calligrapher's supplies, it requires half the amount of materials and time to craft.
• You can use a spell scroll even if its spell is not on your class's spell list, but otherwise using the normal rules for using a spell scroll. If your class doesn't allow you to cast spells, you can attempt to use a spell scroll anyway, using the normal rules for casting a spell from a scroll of a level higher than you can normally cast. In this case you choose whether to use Intelligence, Wisdom, or Charisma as your spellcasting ability.
• When you cast a spell from a spell scroll, you can use your spell save DC and spell attack bonus, instead of those provided by the spell scroll.

Spells

Champions of Northrend adds the fearsome magic of the dread death knights to the new spells introduced in Champions of Azeroth. For simplicity, this project uses spells from the 5E Player's Handbook, Xanathar's Guide to Everything, and Tasha's Cauldron of Everything. It also uses spells from the core Champions of Azeroth supplement, which are reproduced here for convenience. DMs are welcome to add additional spells, or change these spell lists altogether, at their discretion.

Army of the Dead

Huge swarm of Medium undead, neutral evil

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• Armor Class 8
• Hit Points 100
• Speed 20 ft.

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STR	DEX	CON	INT	WIS	CHA
19 (+4)	6 (-2)	16 (+3)	3 (-4)	6 (-2)	5 (-3)

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• Damage Immunities necrotic, poison
• Condition Immunities blinded, charmed, deafened, exhaustion, frightened, grappled, incapacitated, paralyzed, petrified, poisoned, prone, restrained, stunned, unconscious
• Senses darkvision 60 ft., passive perception 8
• Languages understands the languages you speak
• Challenge —          Proficiency Bonus equals your bonus

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Swarm. The army can occupy another creature's space and vice versa, and the army can move through any opening large enough for a Medium zombie. The army can't regain hit points or gain temporary hit points.

Overwhelming. Whenever a hostile creature ends its turn occupying the army's space, the army can make an immediate Slams attack against it.

Undead Fortitude. If the army takes damage, it must make a Constitution saving throw with a DC of 5 + the damage taken, unless the damage is radiant or from a critical hit. On a success, the army takes no damage instead.

Actions

Multiattack. The army can make up to three Slams attacks, and each attack must be against a different target.

Slams. Melee Weapon Attack: your spell attack modifier to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 4d6 + 4 bludgeoning damage, or 2d6 + 2 bludgeoning damage if the army has half of its hit points or fewer. If the target is Large or smaller, it is also grappled (escape DC equals your spell save DC).

Chains of Ice

1st-level evocation

• Casting Time: 1 action
• Range: 60 feet
• Components: V, S
• Duration: Concentration, up to 1 minute

You summon chains of ice to bind a creature you can see within range. Your target must succeed on a Strength saving throw or take 2d8 cold damage and be restrained by the frozen chains until the spell ends. If the target succeeds on the save, it takes half as much damage and isn't restrained.

 A creature restrained by the chains or one that can touch the creature can use its action to make a Strength check against your spell save DC. On a success, the target is freed.

At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 2nd level or higher, the damage increases by 1d6 for each slot level above 1st.

Corpse Explosion

1st-level necromancy

• Casting Time: 1 action
• Range: 60 feet
• Components: S
• Duration: Instantaneous

You gesture towards a corpse of size Small or larger you can see within range, which then explodes with necrotic energy. Each creature within 10 feet of the corpse must make a Dexterity saving throw. On a failed save, a creature takes 2d6 necrotic damage, or half as much damage on a success.

At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 2nd level or higher, for each slot level above 1st, you can target an additional corpse and the damage increases by 1d6. A creature in the area of more than one explosion is affected only once.

Death and Decay

4th-level necromancy

• Casting Time: 1 action
• Range: 60 feet
• Components: V, S
• Duration: Concentration, up to 1 minute

You reach out towards a point you can see within range, creating a 20-foot radius sphere filled with festering, necrotic energy that withers and decays everything within it. When a creature enters the blighted area for the first time on a turn or starts its turn there, it must make a Constitution saving throw. On a failed save, the creature takes 4d8 necrotic damage. In addition, until the beginning of its next turn, the creature subtracts 1d4 from all of its attack rolls and saving throws, as if under the effect of the bane spell. On a successful save, the creature takes half as much damage, and suffers no additional effects.

Undead creatures in the spell's area take no damage, and are bolstered by its necrotic power. While standing in the spell's area, undead creatures add 1d4 to their attack rolls and saving throws, as if under the effect of the spell bless.

At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 5th level or higher, the damage increases by 1d8 for each slot level above 4th.

Death Grip

1st-level evocation

• Casting Time: 1 bonus action
• Range: 30 feet
• Components: V, S
• Duration: Instantaneous

You extend grasping necrotic energy towards a Huge or smaller creature you can see that is currently at least 10 feet away from you, and within the spell's range. The creature must make a successful Strength saving throw or be moved to an unoccupied space within 5 feet of you, and your next attack roll against them this turn is made with advantage.

Deathwyrm's Fury

5th-level conjuration

• Casting Time: 1 action
• Range: Self
• Components: V, S, M (a scale from a slain dragon)
• Duration: Instantaneous

You summon a mighty undead dragon to breath destruction on your enemies. You choose where to summon an emberwyrm, frostwyrm, or vilewyrm. It appears hovering above you and unleashes its breath weapon, tainted by necrotic power, before vanishing.

The spell fails if there is insufficient room for the dragon to appear (for example, you are in a narrow tunnel). Any living dragons that witness you cast this spell will almost surely view you as a sworn enemy, if they didn't already.

Emberwyrm. The dragon exhales fire in a 60-foot cone. Each creature in that area must make a Dexterity saving throw, taking 5d8 fire damage and 5d8 necrotic damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one.

Frostwyrm. The dragon exhales an icy blast at a point within 120 feet. Each creature within 20 feet of that point must make a Dexterity saving throw, taking 5d8 cold damage and 5d8 necrotic damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one.

Vilewyrm The dragon exhales acid in a 120-foot line that is 10 feet wide. Each creature in that line must make a Dexterity saving throw, taking 5d8 acid damage and 5d8 necrotic damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one.

Dominate Undead

4th-level enchantment

• Casting Time: 1 action
• Range: 60 feet
• Components: V, S
• Duration: Concentration, up to 1 minute

You attempt to beguile an undead that you can see within range. It must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw or be charmed by you for the duration. If you or creatures that are friendly to you are fighting it, it has advantage on the saving throw. If the creature's CR is less than your level, this spell ignores any resistance or immunity to the charmed condition the creature may have.

While the undead is charmed, you have a telepathic link with it as long as the two of you are on the same plane of existence. You can use this telepathic link to issue commands to the creature while you are conscious (no action required), which it does its best to obey. You can specify a simple and general course of action, such as "Attack that creature," "Run over there," or "Fetch that object." If the creature completes the order and doesn't receive further direction from you, it defends and preserves itself to the best of its ability.

You can use your action to take total and precise control of the target. Until the end of your next turn, the creature takes only the actions you choose, and doesn't do anything that you don't allow it to do. During this time, you can also cause the creature to use a reaction, but this requires you to use your own reaction as well.

Each time the target takes damage, it makes a new Wisdom saving throw against the spell. If the saving throw succeeds, the spell ends.

 At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell with a 5th-level spell slot, the duration is concentration, up to 10 minutes. When you use a 6th-level spell slot, the duration is concentration, up to 1 hour. When you use a 7th level or higher, the duration is concentration, up to 8 hours.

Howling Blast

2nd-level evocation

• Casting Time: 1 action
• Range: 60 feet
• Components: V, S
• Duration: 1 round

An icy gale suddenly erupts around a point of your choice within range. Each creature in a 15-foot-radius sphere centered on that point must make a Constitution saving throw. A creature takes 3d8 cold damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one. A cold fog hangs in the air afterwards, making the area heavily obscured until the beginning of your next turn.

At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 3rd level or higher, the damage increases by 1d8 for each slot level above 2nd.

Icebound Fortitude

2nd-level transmutation

• Casting Time: 1 reaction, which you take when you are dealt bludgeoning, piercing, or slashing damage
• Range: Self
• Components: V, S
• Duration: 1 round

You temporarily freeze your own blood and make your skin as hard as ice. Until the start of your next turn, you have resistance to bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing damage, including against the triggering damage.