Human kingdoms have existed for thousand of years, and humans themselves for thousands more. Their short lives in comparison to dwarves and elves pushes them to achieve as much as they can in the years they are given. Their valor, optimism, and stubbornness have led them to build some of the greatest kingdoms on Azeroth, some of which still stand a millennium later. Whatever have pushed them down, it has only strengthened the bond between those that still stand.

A Broad Spectrum

With their penchant for migration and conquest, humans are more physically diverse than any other race. There is no typical human. An individual can stand from 5 feet to a little over 6 feet tall and weigh from 125 to 250 pounds. Human skin shades range from nearly black to very pale, and hair colors from black to blond (curly, kinky, or straight); males might sport facial hair that is sparse or thick. Humans reach adulthood in their late teens and rarely live even a single century.

Variety in All Things

Humans are the most adaptable and ambitious people among Azeroth's races. They have widely varying tastes, morals, and customs in the many different kingdoms where they have settled. When they settle though, they stay: they build cities to last for the ages, and great kingdoms that can persist for long centuries. An individual human might have a relatively short life span, but a human nation or culture preserves traditions with origins far beyond the reach of any single human's memory. They live fully in the present but also plan for the future, striving to leave a lasting legacy.

Proudly Standing

Despite what atrocities have happened to them, humans remain hardy and brave, thoroughly committed to building strong societies, reinforcing their kingdoms, and reclaiming lost nations. Years of war have tempered their resolve, and they are more determined than ever before. Their value of virtue, honor and courage shine their ranks.

Faithful

Among all human nations, the holy light is a central part of civilized society. By most it is considered the only religion and a staple of worship, respect, and honor. The religion is widely worshiped throughout Azeroth, yet humans were the first to utilize its powers in an offensive manner with the creation of paladins. Throughout their kingdoms, churches of the holy light can be found, an organization dedicated to creating a world of honor, and justice.

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Dalaran

Dalaranians are slender, fair-skinned folk with brown hair that ranges from blond to almost black. Most are of moderate height and have blue or green eyes. But these traits are hardly universal. Humans of Dalaran come from far and wide across the Eastern Kingdoms to study or seek refuge within the floating city.

Dalaranian Names: Dalaranians have no names specific
    to them, the ethnicity of their people vary beyond mere
    humans and names are used from a variety of races.

Gilneas

Gilneans are tall, fair to amber-skinned folk with blue or steely gray eyes. Most have hair ranging from wine-red or light brown to raven-black.

Gilnean Names: (Male) Blake, Chris, Fenegan, Gerard,
    James, Sean, Sebastian, Vincent; (female) Amelia,
    Ashley, Celestine, Loren, Mary, Melinda, Mia, Tess;
    (surnames) Broderick, Cleese, Crowly, Godfrey, Walden

Kul Tiras

Native to the Kul Tiran isles, tirasians are generally tall and muscular, with fair to amber skin similar to that of gilneans, brown to black hair, and light colored eyes.

Lordaeron

Widespread along the Eastern Kingdoms northern realm, Lordaeronians are of medium height and slender built, with pale skin. Their hair and eye color varies widely, but silver or light colored hair and blue eyes are common.

Lordaeronian Names: (Male) Alexi, Aurius, Gannon,
    Menard, Norwyn, Othmar, Urias, Wallace; (female)
    Arenya, Diahann, Ellaine, Illucia, Jandice, Lydie, Malina,
    Merla; (surnames) Barton, Camden, Godwin, Hayden

Stormwind

Found within the southern region of the Eastern King-doms, Stormwindians are of moderate height and build, with skin hues ranging from tawny to fair. Their hair varies widely from blonde to brown, as does their eyes, though brown is most common.

Stormwindian Names: (Male) Ander, Dungar, Harlan,
    Jesper, Jocryn, Maginor, Osric, Renato; (female) Dalga,
    Einris, Ilsa, Jalane, Karrina, Laurena, Maris, Sarisse;
    (surnames) Ayrole, Bolero, Cordell, Leifeld, Stanford

Stromgarde

Shorter in build than most other humans, Stromics have generally pale skin contrasted by brown or black hair, and dark colored eyes.

Stromic Names: (Male) Adrien, Emmir, Galen, Ganar,
    Thoras, Tyrreth, Urnor, Wyenas; (female) Amina, Céline,
    Clarisse, Ella, Emeline, Iris, Mara, Marine; (surnames)
    Brewston, Farthing, Gilbreath, Swale, Tubal

Human Traits

It's hard to make generalizations about humans, no matter where you were born your character has these traits.

Ability Score Increase. One ability score of your choice increases by 2, and another increases by 1. Or three ability scores of your choice increase by 1.

Age. Humans reach adulthood in their late teens and live less than a century.

Alignment. Humans tend toward no particular alignment. The best and the worst are found among them.

Size. Humans vary widely in height and build, from barely 5 feet to well over 6 feet tall, averaging at 170 pounds. Your size is Medium.

Speed. Your base walking speed is 30 feet.

Diplomacy. You gain proficiency in the Persuasion skill.

Versatility. You gain proficiency in one skill and one tool of your choice.

The Human Spirit. When you would fail an attack roll, ability check, or saving throw, you can re-roll with advant-
age. Once you use this ability, you can’t use it again until you finish a short rest or after failing an attack roll, ability check, or saving throw with a natural 1 on the d20.

Languages. You can speak, read, and write Common and one extra language of your choice.

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Their kingdom rich in ancient grandeur, halls carved into the roots of mountains, the echoing of picks and hammers in deep mines and roaring forges, a commitment to clan and tradition, these common threads unite all dwarves. Within the mountains of Khaz Modan, they continue their ancient ways, extending the depth of their halls, and con-structing marvels of architecture,

A Reclaimed Legacy

The undiscovered fragments of their past have led the dwarves on an unprecedented exodus of of exploration to seek out their origins. Seeking out their origins, the dwarves have dispatched prospectors across all of Lordaeron in order to seek out signs of the Titans, the supposed creators of the dwarves. The dwarves have embraced the idea that it is their purpose to search the world for more signs of proof of their heritage. Dwarven outposts exist in the most desolate of places on Azeroth.

Here, the dwarves spend their time seeking out the secrets of ancient times, or simply use their outposts as staging grounds for expeditions to clear out their enemies so that they may continue their quest.

Short and Stout

Bold and hardy, dwarves are known as skilled warriors, miners, and workers of stone and metal. Though they stand well under 5 feet tall, dwarves are so broad and compact that they can weigh as much as a human standing nearly two feet taller. Their courage and endurance are also easily a match for any of the larger folk.

Dwarves skin ranges from deep brown to a paler hue tinged with red, but the most common shades are light brown or deep tan, like certain tones of earth. With their dark iron kin having notably darker skin of gray to coal-black. Their hair, worn long but in simple styles, is usually black, gray, or brown, though wildhammer dwarves often have red hair. Male dwarves value their beards highly and groom them carefully.

Innovative

Dwarves are a proud, stern and determined people with streaks of kindness hidden under the gruff exteriors of their sturdy frames. Their love for battle, invention and exploration impels them ever forward to discover and unearth the mysteries of their heritage, educating them further about those who first created the dwarven race.

Only recently have the dwarves discovered the legacy of their ancient progenitors, the Titans. As the dwarves begin to delve deeper into the mysteries of their past, they also begin to uncover deeper enigmas.

Still, they keep to the forges and workshops, ever inno-vating and creating new and more effective ways of warfare. Steam powered technology and firearms originate from dwarven inventiveness and creativity. The stout race is renowned for its skills at battle and also as cunning engineers and crafters.

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Names

Dwarves typically have names reflecting the sturdy nature of their past. Many also have surnames that were earned by a member of the family in service during a quest or in a particular moment of notoriety or infamy that has now become part of a family legacy.

Male Names: Barab, Aradun, Thorin, Magni, Garrim,

Wendel, Thurimar, Irmirn, Bhaduk, Gengur
Female Names: Chise, Helge, Ferya, Furga, Krona, Imli,

Gwamde, Illia, Somdunn, Thanmu, Eniss, Nanla
Clan Names: Thunderforge, Bronzebeard, Thornsteel,

Hammergrim, Chunderstout, Broadmail, Madpride

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Dwarf Traits

Your Dwarf character has an assortment of inborn abilities, part and parcel to Dwarven nature.

Ability Score Increase. Your Constitution score increases by 2.

Age. Dwarves mature at the same rate as humans, but they're considered young until they reach the age of 40. On average, they live about 320 years.

Alignment. Most dwarves are lawful, believing firmly in the benefits of a well-ordered society. They tend toward good as well, with a strong sense of fair play and a belief that all deserve to share in the benefits of a just order.

Size. Dwarves stand between 4 and 5 feet tall and average about 150 pounds. Your size is Medium.

Speed. Your base walking speed is 25 feet. Your speed is not reduced by wearing heavy armor.

Darkvision. Accustomed to life underground, you have superior vision in dark and dim conditions. 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.

Dwarven Resilience. You have advantage on saving throws against poison, and you have resistance against poison damage.

    Languages. You can speak, read, and write Common and Dwarven. Dwarven is full of hard consonants and guttural sounds, and those characteristics spill over into whatever other language a dwarf might speak.

Subrace. Ancient divides among dwarves have resulted in three main subraces: dark iron, ironforge, and wild-hammer dwarves. Choose one of these subraces.

Dark Iron Dwarf

Dark iron dwarves are cunning and nimble in comparison to the rest of their kin, preferring a less straight on approach to combat, and the use of darker magics. They commonly have dark grey to coal black skin, with red glowing eyes, and fiery red or black hair.

Ability Score Increase. Your Intelligence increases by 1.

Fireblood. You can cast the lesser restoration spell on yourself once with this trait, and you regain the ability to cast it this way when you finish a long rest. At 9th level you can cast greater restoration instead.

Forged in Flames. You have resistance to fire damage.

Superior Darkvision. Your darkvision has a radius
of 120 feet

Masters of the Forge. You gain proficiency with blacksmith tools, or expertise if you were already proficient.

Ironforge Dwarf

Ironforge dwarves are hardy and strong, the most military organized of the dwarven kin, being keen combatants, both in close quarters or from a distance, living in the snowy mountains of Dun Morogh, They tend to have lighter colorations than the rest of their kin.

Ability Score Increase. Your Strength increases by 1.

Dwarven Toughness. Your hit point maximum increases by 1, and it increases by 1 every time you gain a level.

Ironforge Training. You have proficiency with light armor, and the battleaxe, heavy crossbow, and firearm.

Stoneform. You can use your reaction upon being hit by a melee weapon attack to give yourself resistance towards bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing damage until the start of your next turn. You must then finish a short or long rest to use this feature again.

Wildhammer Dwarf

Wildhammer dwarves are untamed in comparison, they live further north in the Eastern Kingdoms, minding their own business and shamanistic ways. They are taller and slenderer than other dwarves, with tanned skin, and often wearing tribal tattoos.

Ability Score Increase. Your Wisdom increases by 1.

Brave Beyond Reason. You have advantage on saving throws against being frightened.

Gryphon Rider. You gain proficiency with the Animal Handling skill, and have advantage on Wisdom (animal handling) checks made towards gryphons.

Masters of the Aerie. You learn the gust cantrip and can cast it at will. At 5th level you learn gust of wind and can cast it once per day. Constitution is you spellcasting ability for this spell if you do not already have one.

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Graceful Nature

Imposing in stature, night elves stand as one of the highest race of elves and on Azeroth, with their muscular bodies and slender builds, and long narrow ears. Their skin range in hues of blue, from a light blue sky to the deep blue of the water. With hair varying from a lush green, to blue, to dark purple. It is customary among night elves to paint tattoos across their faces, generally depicting an animal or leaf like design, often done as a rite of passage to adulthood.

Their eyes shine with a dim golden or silver glow, since the Sundering the golden glow has become ever more common amongst the night elves, a sign of their connection to nature and druidsm. Night elves who's eyes shine silver have left their kins ways for the arcane, and is seen as an outcast by most night elves.

Belief in the Ancients

Night elves have made close ties to the ancients beings of Azeroth. They have a strong connection to the goddess Elune and have built temples and organizations in her name to carry on her message. The sisters of Elune have long since been the leaders of the night elven military, and official head of their civilization as a whole.

Although Elune stands above all else, the night elves also carry a deep respect and gratitude to the ancient guardians of Azeroth, also know as wild gods, many of whom have not been seen since the blessing of nordrassil. Was it not for their aid during the War of the Ancients, the night elves would have perished from the surface of Azeroth.

A Timeless Perspective

Night Elves can live to become thousands of years of age, giving them a broad perspective on events that might trouble the shorter-lived races more deeply. They are often more amused than excited, and more likely to be curious than greedy. They tend to remain aloof and unfazed by petty happenstance. When pursuing a goal, whether adven-turing on a mission or learning a new skill or art, elves can be focused and relentless. They are slow to make friends and enemies, and even slower to forget them.

Like the branches of a young tree, elves are flexible in the face of danger. They trust in diplomacy and compro-mise to resolve differences before they escalate to violence. They have been known to retreat from intrusions into their woodland homes, confident that they can simply wait the invaders out. But when the need arises, elves reveal a stern martial side, demonstrating skill with sword, bow, strategy, and the foces of nature.

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Night Elf Names

Kaldorei names commonly have a hidden meaning or a meaning in Darnassian, and their surnames aren family names, derived from personal feats of the night elves ancestors, yet some amongst night elves take new family names showing their own achievements.

Male Names: Alegorn, Daros, Eiron, Mathrengyl, Mardant,
    Gasul, Lanoth, Khardona, Andissiel, Sillarn
Female Names: Astaia, Saelienne, Jeen'ra, Lelanai, Keina,
    Alathea, Lotherias, Cordessa, Aquinne
Family Names: Moonlance, Shadewhisper, Nightrunner,
    Bearwalker, Briarbow, Moonblade, Proudstrider

Night Elf Traits

Your night elf character has a variety of natural abilities, the result of thousands of years of elven refinement.

Ability Score Increase. Your Dexterity or Wisdom score increases by 2, and your Intelligence score increases by 1.

Age. Night elves reach physical maturity at the pace of humans, but the night elven understanding of adulthood goes beyond physical growth. Night elves typically claim adulthood and an adult name around the age of 100, and can live to become thousands of years old.

Alignment. Night elves live in close ties with the natural world, they have an unprecedented connection to nature and protect it fiercely, pulling many night elves towards good. They love freedom and variety, making most lean toward the gentler aspects of chaos as well.

Size. Night elves are between 7 and 8 feet tall and weigh between 210 and 250 pounds. Your size is medium.

Speed. Your base walking speed is 35 feet.

Darkvision. Accustomed to twilit forests and the night sky, you have superior vision in dark and dim conditions. 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.

Nature Resistance. Night Elves have resistance to Poison damage.

Wispsoul. When you are reduced to 0 hit points, you immediately gain 1 successful death saving throw. Additionally, when you succeed on your third death saving throw you regain 1 hit point.

Shadowmeld. When in an area of dim or dark light, you can use a bonus action to become invisible until you move or take an action or reaction. You must complete a short rest to use this feature again.

Kaldorei Weapon Training. You are proficient in longbows, kaldorei moonglaives, and kaldorei moon swords.

Languages. You can speak, read, and write Common and Darnassian. Darnassian is fluid, with subtle intonations and intricate grammar. Its literature is rich and varied, and their songs and poems are famous among other races.

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Gnomes are a diminutive, wiry race of tinkers who live underground. In the Second War, they built vehicles and gadgets for the Alliance, submarines and flying machines, to combat the Horde. They are great mechanics and inventors, and are renowned for their knowledge and eccentric natures. The gnomes had a city, Gnomeregan, built into Ironforge Mountain. But invading troggs destroyed it and slaughtered its citizens.

Many survivors moved into Khaz Modan and now live with the Dun Morogh dwarves, and a few traveled with their dwarven friends to Kalimdor.

The gnomes are still reeling from the destruction of their home city and are loath to leave the safety of the dwarven tunnels. Most gnomes on Kalimdor remain secluded in Bael Modan.

Cheerful Expression

Even after the decimation of their race and the destruction of their city, gnomes are an amiable and kind hearted lot. They make and keep friends easily; others find disliking a gnome to be difficult. A gnome's energy and enthusiasm for living shines through every inch of his or her tiny body. Gnomes average slightly over 3 feet tall and weigh 40 to 45 pounds. Their tan or brown faces are usually adorned with broad smiles (beneath their prodigious noses), and their bright eyes shine with excitement. Their fair hair has a tendency to stick out in every direction, as if expressing the gnome's insatiable interest in everything around.

A gnome's personality is writ large in his or her appearance. A male gnome's beard, in contrast to his wild hair, is kept carefully trimmed but often styled into curious forks or neat points. A gnome's clothing, though usually made in modest earth tones, is elaborately decorated with embroidery, embossing, or gleaming jewels.

Exceptional Tinkers

Gnomes tend to design complicated devices that are relatively safe. Gnomes are in many ways commensurate organizers: a gnome can spend as much time organizing and planning a project as they do actually working on it. If the design fails, they try to learn why, and fix it if they can.

If they meet with success, they will continue to tinker with it and improve the design, often for years afterward. Thus, many gnomish designs feature a high degree of complexity and a low chance of failure, the exceptions being those that dabble with chaos energy — but even then, they take steps to ensure the worst that could happen is a brief, non-fatal failure.

While a goblin would scream and flee at the mere thought of a cost overrun, a gnome simply shrugs and presses on. If a project fails to work correctly the first time, a gnome will continue to tinker with it, while a goblin would usually give up and move to something else. Thus, gnomish items have very low failure rates compared to goblin items.

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Names

Gnome parents name their children at birth. Gnomes have family names that represent an honored ancestor’s achievements, but they only keep these names until some time in their 30s. Gnome society expects them to have made their own achievements by then, and thus the gnome invents a new name that represents their own accomplish-ments. This name then takes the place of his family name.

Male Names: Grobnick, Kazbo, Hagin, Snoonose, Mikosh,

Kebos, Otlak, Ciklin, Therlick, Finlis, Iklirn
Female Names: Beggra, Nefti, Sorassa, Gamash, Biskil,

Munkull, Inku, Fixi, Mekin, Mitkla, Dapeek
Family Names: Spinpistol, Airslicer, Bombtosser,

Greatgear, Togglefield, Luyckbreak, Stormhammer

Gnome Traits

Your gnome character has certain abilities, learned through generations of gnomes.

Ability Score Increase. Your Intelligence increases by 2, and one other score of your choice by 1.

Age. Gnomes mature at the same rate humans do, and most are expected to settle down into an adult life by around age 40. They can live 350 to almost 500 years.

Alignment. Gnomes are good-hearted, and even the tricksters amongst them are more playful than vicious. Those of evil alignment are often the result of madness. An innovative idea that consumed them.

Size. Gnomes are between 3 and 4 feet and generally compactly built. Your size is Small.

Speed. Your base walking speed is 25 feet.

Darkvision. Accustomed to life underground, you have superior vision in dark and dim conditions. 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.

Subrace. Two subraces of gnome exist: Gnomeregan Gnomes, and Mechagnomes. Choose one of them for your character.

Gnomeregan Gnomes

Though small in stature, the gnomes of Khaz Modan have used their great intellect to secure a place in history. Indeed, their subterranean kingdom, Gnomeregan, was once a marvel of steam-driven technology. Even so, due to a massive trogg invasion, the city was lost. Now its builders are vagabonds in the dwarven lands, aiding their allies as best they can.

Escape Artist. You can move through the space of any creature that is of a size larger than yours. You may also have advantage on ability checks and saving throws to escape from being grappled or the restrained condition.

Expansive Mind. You gain proficiency in an intelligence skill of your choice, and expertise in an intelligence skill you are proficient in.

Arcane Resistance. You have advantage on Intelligence and Wisdom saving throws versus spells.

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Mechagnomes

We mechagnomes spent years in isolation, tirelessly enhancing our bodies and minds. But this relentless quest for perfection nearly brought us to ruin. Now we realize that balance is the key to happiness. We can improve ourselves without losing our individuality in the process.

— Prince Erazmin  

Emergency Failsafe After you are brought to 0 hitpoints, you may activate your failsafe as a reaction. You may spend a number of hit die up to your proficiency bonus to immediately restore the normal amount of health. You may only use this feature once per encounter.

Hyper-Organic Light Originator You learn the minor illusion cantrip, and at 3rd level you may cast mirror image once per long rest.

Mastercraft You are always considered to be carrying, and proficient with, every artisan tool.

Maintenance Mode Rather than sleep, you must spend 3 hours performing routine maintenance during a long rest to gain its benefits, during which you have disadvantage on Wisdom (Perception) checks. Additionally, if your long rest would be interrupted, you only need to complete the long rest instead of restarting it.

Exodar Draenei

As an exodar draenei, you have a natural connection with the Naaru, strengthening your bond to the light. You've fled your planet of Argus from the Burning Legions crusade, forced into exile, for centuries you fled its legions before crash landing on the planet of Azeroth in the Exodar.

Ability Score Increase. Your Strength increases by 1.

Gemcutting. You are proficient with the jeweler's tools.

Gift of the Naaru. As a bonus action, you can target an adjacent ally and cause it to regain a number of hit points equal to your level + proficiency, they gain the same amount again at the start of their turn. Once you use this trait, you can’t use it again until you finish a short or long rest.

Heroic Presence. You can cast heroism and divine favor with this trait, using Wisdom as your spellcasting ability for them. Once you cast either spell, you can’t cast them again with this trait until you finish a short or long rest.

Lightforged Draenei

As a lightforged draenei, you've commited yourself to a crusade against the burning legion, infusing your body with the holy light. After the legions defeat on Outland, you've traveled to the planet of Azeroth to lend your aid to its residents against the eternal Burning Legion.

Ability Score Increase. Your Charisma increases by 1.

Forged of Light. You gain proficiency with artisan's tools (smith's tools) and you gain the Defense Fighting Style, increasing your AC by 1 when wearing armor.

Holy Resistance You have resistance to radiant damage.

Light's Judgment: You know the light cantrip. When you reach 3rd level, you can cast the guiding bolt spell once per long rest. When you reach 5th level, you can cast the branding smite spell once per long rest. Wisdom is your spellcasting ability for these spells and they are cast at a spell level equal to half your character level rounded up.

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Worgens are vicious humanoid wolves, a curse thrown upon them by careless druids mingling in powers that were beyond them. The druids turned into the first worgen, feral and uncontrollable, they were sealed away for countless years when night elves realized that their bite was able to transfer the curse to others.

When the forsaken sieged the kingdom of Gilneas, the worgens were released from their imprisonment to fight the undead. The feral worgens were effective, but did not differentiate undead from human. The feral worgens never entered Gilneas, but the humans did. Spreading the curse through the kingdom like wildfire. Realizing their mistake, the night elves came to gilneas rescue to offer their aid, they evacuated as many people as they could, and sailed them to their homeland in Teldrassil. There, night elven druids taught the gilnean people how to control the feral curse that lingered in their veins. Some gilneas were so fascinated by the elves magic and connection to druidism, that they were taught their ways.

Fierce and Vicious

With their massive shapes of a cross between a human and wolf, and the razor sharp claws, worgens appear like evil of a children's tale to those unaware of their existence. They loom over the heads of humans, ranging well over 6 feet to just under 8 feet. Their furry bodies often make them seem much larger than they are, yet with their massive bodies they weigh between 220 to 310 pounds. Males and females are about the same height and build, with the only distinct difference being a males mane.

Worgen fur varies widely in coloration, with shades of black, gray, and brown being the most common amongst the worgen kin, even if the worgen had light colorations in skin or hair as a human. Worgen eyes vary like humans, from a light blue to a deep brown.

More than just Ferocious

With their wild appearance it is easy to think of a worgen as a vicious beast. Yet most still carries the properties they had in their human life. The curse will always linger in their blood, giving many worgen's a shorter temper than they might've had before. Yet they carry the same compas-sion and determination as humans do, pushing themselves forward to achieve ever greater things for themselves, their newfound kin and that of the human.

Affiliation

Worgens are still humans at their cores, they began the Alliance and it could not exist without them. Besides the respect given to all affiliated races, the gilnean humans carry a great gratitude for night elves. Their curse may be the result of rogue night elven druids, but without their aid the worgens would still be feral and hostile to all.

Although no one trusts or likes the forsaken, the gilnean hatred of the undead goes deeper than most. The forsaken are the cause of their kingdoms demise, a fact the worgens have and will not forget.

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Worgen Traits

The worgen curse has transformed your body into that of a worgen, giving you the following traits.

Ability Score Increase. Your Strength increases by 2, and your Dexterity increases by 1.

Age. Worgen age like humans, but even though their bodies continue to age, they never feel the strain of old age, and continue to fight as if they were a young human.

Alignment. Worgen tend to become chaotic, while originating from humans, the infection of their blood with the wolves has made them more unpredictable.

Size. Like humans, they vary widely in height and build, most standing well over 6 feet tall, and weigh around 250 pounds. Your size is Medium.

Speed. Your base walking speed is 30 feet

Darkvision. Accustomed to the black nights, you have superior vision in dark and dim conditions. 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.

Hunter's Lore. You gain proficiency with one of the following skills of your choice: Animal Handling, Nature, Perception, Stealth, or Survival.

Languages. You can speak, read, and write Common and one extra language of your choice. Humans typically learn the languages of other peoples they deal with, including obscure dialects.

Two Forms. Using 1 minute, you can transform yourself into a human. While human, you appear as you did before getting affected by the worgen curse. You always appear as the same human when you transform. You can transform back into a worgen as a free action on your turn.

As a human, you loose all worgen form traits. If you make an attack, cast a spell that affects an enemy creature, or try to use an ability only available in worgen form, you imme-diately revert into your worgen form.

    Speed. You base walking speed is 35 feet, and you have a climbing speed of 20 feet.

Bite. Your fanged maw is a natural weapon, which you can use to make unarmed strikes. If you hit with it, you deal piercing damage equal to 1d6 + your Strength modifier.

Running Wild. You can reveal your true form. As a bonus action, you gain the benefits of a Dash and Disengage action this turn, and your speed increases by 10 feet for 1 minute. You can't use this trait again until you finish a short or long rest.

Pick up the Scent. You have advantage on Wisdom (Perception) checks that rely on smell.

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Infused by the void itself, the Ren'dorei -- children of the void -- are a group of blood elves exiled from their home-land of Quel'Thalas. Cast out for their teachings at the hand of the elven magister Umbric, the elves have embr-aced their newfound powers, though the inner turmoil it has caused may well follow them through their lives as they fight to maintain control over it.

Shaped by the Void

While they are of the same blood as their elven siblings, void elves are best recognized for their pale or vibrant, blue-tinged skin and eyes. As well as the deep shades of blue and purple in their shadow-infused hair.

For some void elves, their dark powers can be seen manifesting in their hair, leaving the tips shimmering with void energy.

Most who have tried to harness the corruptive powers of the void have fallen into madness. Among mortals, former ranger-general Alleria Windrunner stands as the first to properly wield it -- the elf now using her powers to guide her elven kin alongside the magister Umbric.

The void elves aim, above all, to use their dangerous powers to defend both the Alliance and Azeroth itself. In doing so, they seek to prove wrong any who would doubt or judge their abilities.

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Introduction

When the orcs were freed from the Burning Legion, they experienced a spiritual revolution as the unnatural bloodlust left their bodies, connecting them with states of heart and mind that were common to their ancestors. This new generation of orcs for the most part followed Thrall as he forged to reform the Horde through shamanism and tribal tradition.

Though prone to fits of rage in warfare, orcs tend to display a curious feral grace that can rival even the finest fencing of an elven noble. The orcs of today continue to stand in drastic contrast to those that were enslaved by the Burning Legion, who embodied a bestial and diabolical force which was barely being controlled by warlock magic.

Mindful Race

To orcs, prowess in battle bestows great personal honor on an individual. This notion of honor pervades every echelon of orcish culture, and the loss or gain of honor has equal consequence to all orcs regardless of their stature in society.

Even the naming of orcs is temporary until they have performed rites of passage; only when orcs bring honor to themselves and thus to their clan do elders grant them adult names based upon their deeds. Orcs may appear quick to anger but they are tempered by the wisdom of the shamans, who are revered across Horde society.

While many in the Alliance still perceive the orcs as brutish or even mindless, they have forged a complex culture embracing many occupations and many different races. No doubt Thrall's leadership aided in bringing this about, yet it is apparent that the Alliance has underestimated the orcs' ability to construct a society that is highly influential in world affairs.

Spiritual

As far back as orcish history has been recorded, shaman have been mentioned, and learning to speak with the elemental spirits of Draenor was a pivotal achievement in destiny for the orc clans. The first orcs to learn the ways of shamanism hailed from the Shadowmoon clan, but many clans claim the mythical "First Shaman" arose from their ranks, even though the truth is that no one is sure of his or her allegiance.

Several orc shaman worship or at least acknowledge the Earth Mother, the benevolent creator deity primarily worshipped by the tauren.

Frightful Appearance

Orc males are massive and brutish looking creatures. Weighing in at 250 to 300 pounds and standing from 6 to 7 feet in height, they are not a small race. Even orc women tend to be only a half-foot or so shorter than most males, having broad shoulders and muscular, powerful bodies.

Orcs tend to have bristly hair and beards, often black or brown in color. Their skin ranges from a light green to a dark drab olive. Eyes range in color from a fierce red to a pale blue. Orcs have broad, flat noses, tusk-like teeth jutting from their lower and sometimes upper jaws, and large, pointed ears. They favor clothes of hide, and armor and arm themselves with a variety of gear.

Affiliation

Thrall formed the Horde with determination and sheer will, and created an alliance of races that has shaken the foundations of the world to its core. Having destroyed the legacy of Grom Hellscream by bringing the orcs out of the depths of demon worship and servitude to unseen powers.

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Orc Traits

Ability Score Increase. Your Strength increases or your Constitution increases by 1.

Age. Orcs mature a little faster than humans, reaching adulthood around age 14. They age noticeably faster and rarely live longer than 75 years.

Alignment. Orcs might not have an innate tendency toward evil, but many end up there. Evil or not, many orcs lean toward a chaotic alignment.

Size. Orcs are muscularly built, only just towering above humans, with a height of 6 to 7 feet. Your size is Medium.

Speed. Your base walking speed is 30 feet.

Darkvision. Thanks to your blood, you have superior vision in dark and dim conditions. 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.

Hardiness. When you are reduced to 0 hit points but not killed, you can drop to 1 hit point instead. You must then finish a long rest to use this feature again.

Languages. You are fluent in Common and Orcish.

Blood Fury. As a bonus action, you can fly into a Blood Fury, which lasts for a number of rounds equal to your proficiency bonus. Once during your turn you may deal extra damage to the target of an attack or spell equal to half your level, but the first source of damage you take each round deals the same amount. You regain the use of Blood Fury after a long rest.

Orc Clan. Orcs come from many clans, these clans have been put into three categories: Hunter, Mystic, and Warrior clans. Choose one of these clans.

Hunter Clans

Some orc clans, prefer a more stealth approach to things, hiding and waiting for the perfect time to ambush, such clans include The Shattered Hand, and Bleeding Hollow. Two large orc clans, that go in for a much more stealthy approach to things.

Ability Score Increase. Your Dexterity increases by 2.

Agility. Your reflexes and agility allow you to move with a burst of speed. 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.

Ambusher. You gain proficiency in the Stealth skill.

Mystic Clans

Not many orc clans go in for the use of magic, and those that do are usually more secretive than the rest. Generally less keen on working with other clans are spend their time as a nomadic folk rather than settling in a certain area. Such clans include The Shadowmoon, and Stormreaver.

Ability Score Increase. Increase your Wisdom by 2.

Ancestral Call. You can cast the augury spell once with this trait, requiring no material components, and you regain the ability to cast it this way when you finish a long rest. Wisdom is your spellcasting ability for this spell.

Mystic Lore. You learn one Shaman cantrip of your choice.

Warrior Clans

Most known orc clans go for the brute forced approach, entering combat gladly with raised weapons, hammering down everything in their way. Some of the larger clans include Warsong, Burning Blade, and the Frostwolves.

Ability Score Increase. Your Strength increases by 1, and your Constitution increases by 1.

Powerful Build. You count as one size larger when determining your carrying capacity and weight you can push, drag, or lift.

Savage Attacks. When you roll a 1 on a damage die for an attack you make with a melee weapon, you can reroll the die and must use the new roll, even if it's another 1.

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Introduction

The plains of Kalimdor have long been a home to these gargantuan nomads. The tauren are a race of spiritual shamans, hunters, and fighters, who long ago developed a complex culture and system of living without the aid of stonework, steel or conquest. This is not to say that the tauren are a race of pacifists, when they are angered they are capable of retaliating with swift and decisive brutality.

The tauren are a noble race that embrace the natural world. They have shed their nomadic roots and united in their ancestral lands. Their race may be one of spirituality, reverence for nature, and respect for elders, but it also possesses powerful warriors that willingly fight when the situation demands it. Although strong and capable warriors when roused in battle, most tauren reserve combat for when all other options are exhausted.

They prefer course of wise discussion and careful rumination before embarking on any great endeavor, and they have great respect for the wise, spiritual and elderly among their people. The tauren are not wrathful by nature, but sometimes a thirst for justice causes them to take up arms in anger.

Peaceful Race

Tauren have no love for bloodshed, as their deep spiritual beliefs do not have a place for warfare. The elders of a tribe solve most issues, or two tauren might resolve a conflict with a ritual challenge resembling a duel.

Having become members of the Horde, the introspective race has been involved in more and more conflict, creating a demand for tauren warriors and healers. Many must spend time putting great thought into the actions they perform on the field of battle. Taking another life, whether it is man or beast, is an act filled with great significance and responsibility to the tauren.

Majestic Appearance

Tauren are large, and muscular with bull-like heads. Males average 7 1/2 feet tall and 400 pounds, while females are usually a bit shorter and lighter. Tauren are mostly muscle, having incredibly developed physiques and brawny frames most suitable for combat. Soft, downy fur covers the tauren body, with manes growing along head and neck, the lengths of the arms, and the shins.

Coloration can range from solid black to blond and even to white, or mottled pelts with a range of spots and different colors. Horns are most prominent on males, although all tauren have horns.

Affiliation

Tauren are members of the horde. When they first encountered the orcs, the tauren recognized them as spiritual brethrens. No other race shared such a similar outlook on the world, and the shamans of both races met frequently to discuss the matters of the spirit world. The tauren allied with the orcs out of a shared vision, one of a collective of allies keeping each other well guarded.

While the tauren see the orcs and trolls as friends to welcome, they rarely trust the forsaken with more than a nod and a place to set their withered feet, and give blood elves the same treatment, the taint of magic still lingering on the blood elven spirit is a poisonous air to the tauren, a stench of the soul that they cannot tolerate for long.

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    Subrace. Two subraces of tauren exist: highmountain tauren, and mulgore tauren. Choose one of them for your character.

Languages. You can speak, read, and write Common and Taur-ahe. Taur-ahe is a harsh, and low sounding language, without a proper alphabet, their written language is made of elaborate pictograms and pictoforms.

Mulgore Tauren

The tauren of Mulgore are a peaceful and honorable people, that nonetheless are fierce fighters when roused. Hunting and shamanism are held in high regard in their culture, as is their worship of the Earth Mother and respect for the land and nature.

Ability Score Increase. Your Strength increases by 2.

Endurance. Your hit point maximum increases by 1, and it increases by 1 every time you gain a level.

War Stomp. You can cast the earth tremor once with this trait by stomping your hoof into the ground, but the casting time becomes one bonus action. You regain the ability to do so when you finish a long rest. Constitution is your spellcasting ability for this spell.

Cultivation. You are proficient with Herbalism Kits.

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Introduction

The jungle trolls are sometimes referred to as Gurubashi trolls, after the ancient empire of the same name. Their capital, Zul'Gurub, is located in Stranglethorn Vale, along with many smaller towns, cities, and villages, many of which are in a state of ruin or disrepair. The largest jungle troll settlement outside Stranglethorn is Sen'jin Village founded by the Darkspear tribe, who had been displaced from their exile on the Broken Isles and Echo Isles.

Forest trolls hold all other races in contempt — especially blood elves, whom they consider the despoilers of their ancient homeland. They will only work with others if it means the elimination of an even more hated enemy. Forest troll culture is tribal and primitive. Though not as violent as their ice troll cousins, forest trolls nonetheless have a fearsome reputation in battle.

Ice trolls are a subspecies of troll that lives in cold climates. They have angular features, bright blue eyes, and mottled blue-white skin covered in hides and pelts. This troll has blue-white skin under grayish leather armor, and he sports a red mohawk.

Ice trolls are generally evil and like most trolls, they are fierce protectors of their homes and may attack travelers to gain weapons, materials, clothing and food. They practice cannibalism and sometimes eat their slain enemies raw.

Cannibalists and Voodooism

Cannibalism was a relatively common practice amongst trolls, although through the decades, and with their integration into the horde, their cannibalism had been frowned upon by most, and has since been made a forbidding practice by the horde, some still practice it, but non do so openly.

    Not all trolls practice voodoo, but it is widespread. It was given to the trolls by their worshiped gods the Loa, and the exact emergence of voodoo among the trolls is unknown, for most tribes that possess such knowledge are unwilling to share it with outsiders.

Tall and Muscular

Trolls are often tall, lanky, and muscular. They have both elven and orcish characteristics with their fierce fangs and long ears. Their long arms, strong legs and quick reflexes make them adept hunters.

Trolls have only two fingers and a thumb on their hands, and they have only two toes on each foot. Some trolls have a toenail on their heels, and they do not wear standard shoes or boots due to their unusual foot shape and comfort in wading barefooted within different terrains.

Affiliation

Trolls are steadfast members of the horde. Though they practice voodoo and many retain their savage natures, they are respected within the horde by the orcs. They feel a great debt to them, and their time fighting alongside the tauren has made them friends of these creatures as well. They are suspicious of the forsaken, but so is everyone else.

The troll tribes doesn’t really hate the Alliance races, but their loyalty to the Horde and their bloodthirstiness makes the Alliance a great target. However, their respect for the Warchief prevents them from waging a private war against Theramore.

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Amani Troll

As a forest troll, you have a keen sense of the natural world, a cunning for warfare, and a hatred of men and elves. Their skin is often a lush green, with a moss like substance grow-ing on its surface. The forest trolls of Azeroth once ruled an empire that has been brought to its knees by an alliance of human and high elves, liberating the region of Lordaeron.

Ability Score Increase. Your Constitution score increases by 1, and your Dexterity score increases by 1.

Mask of the Wild. You have advantage on Stealth checks when lightly obscured by plants, or other types of foliage.

Wilderness Knowledge. You gain proficiency with two of the following skills of your choice: Animal Handling, Nature, Perception, Stealth, and Survival.

    They openly practice cannibalism, making them disliked by members of the Horde. These trolls view other races as beneath them, but will not hesitate to ally them-selves with them if it means their survival.

Drakkari Troll

As an ice troll, you're strong and hardy, accustomed to cold climates. You rise above other troll subspecies, and tend toward lighter coloration. The ice trolls hail from the frigid regions of Dun Morogh and Northrend.

Ability Score Increase. Your Strength increases by 2.

Frostworn Skin. You have resistance to cold damage.

Powerful Build. You count as one size larger when determining your carrying capacity and the weight you can push, drag, or lift.

Tundra Walker. You can move across difficult terrain made of ice or snow without expending extra movement.

Affiliation. Independent. Ice trolls are steadfastly loyal to themselves above all others, their harsh society and brutal way of life makes them notorious amongst the Horde. They disobey their demand of ending their ways of cannibalism, making them uncommon members of the horde.

Darkspear Troll

As a jungle troll, you have a knowledge of voodoo, a ferocity unmatched by your kin, and a uniformed tribal society. You stand shorter than any other troll specie, and tend to have skin of purple or gray colorations. The jungle trolls of Stranglethorn are by many considered the most brutal of all troll races, yet the ones that have joined the Horde have been forced to leave much of their brutality behind.

Ability Score Increase. Your Wisdom score increases by 2.

Gurubashi Weapon Training. You have proficiency with the hand axe, javelin, and spear.

Beast Slaying. You have advantage on Wisdom ability checks against beasts.

Voodoo Shuffle. You ignore non-magical difficult terrain, and your base walking speed increases to 35 feet.

Zandalari Troll

As a zandalari troll, you have a unparalleled connection to the loas, a strong intuition, and ancient traditions to uphold. Unlike most trolls, you stand upright, and tend toward a gray stone like complexion. The zandalari trolls are the pinnacle of all troll society, their temple city on Zandalar sits as a union for all trolls to converge to for meetings.

Ability Score Increase. Your Charisma score increases by 2.

Ancient lore. You gain proficiency in the History skill.

Loa's Embrace. You know the guidance cantrip. When you reach 3rd level, you can cast the guiding hand spell once per long rest. When you reach 5th level, you can also cast the enhance ability spell once per long rest. Wisdom is your spellcasting ability for these spells. When you cast this version of guiding hand, the hand appears as a tiny animal, representing a specific loa.

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Introduction

Slaves of the jungle trolls on their home isle, forced to mine kaja'mite ore out of the volcanic bowels of Mount Kajaro. The ore had an unexpected effect on the goblins, granting them cunning intelligence. They began to rebel in secret, engineering artifacts, and brewing alchemical substances to successfully overthrow their oppressors and claim Kezan their homeland.

Their prior prison become an expanding empire in the mines they had dugged. To their dismay, the effects of the kaja'mite ore wore off, and their increased intelligence waned, as the ore itself became scarce and dwindled. Their brilliant engineering dwindled in ingenuity, looking haphazardly put together. Their remaining craftiness and greed soon took its place, lifting the race to preeminence as masters of mercantilism. Great fortunes were amassed, and the isle became a hub for goblin traders.

Technology

Goblins love of mechanics often places them into direct competition with gnomes who enjoy similar devices. The competition between goblins and gnomes seems to be friendly. Whether clockwork shredders that allow a single goblin to do as much harvesting as 10 field hands or zeppelin-like airships that can ferry troops over otherwise impassable terrain, the goblins' inventions have become legendary. Such technological ingenuity is as central to the goblins' rise among the races as any trading prowess.

Even with the malfunctions and explosions that occur, goblin technology is proving to be of a quality that rivals the dwarves and their firearms.

    While other races often try to build reliable machines that would stay for generations, goblins aim for devices of marginally bearable reliability that should only last long enough to make it's construction justified. Weird as it is, this approach allows them to build more machines, or to build a more complex and powerful machine using the same time and resources.

Born Traders

Goblins have taken to the role of merchants, and it's hard to travel for more than a week or two without stumbling across a goblin shop of some size. Goblin shops can be found nearly anywhere on Azeroth, seemingly regardless of whether or not there are towns nearby and heedless of dangers such as the Scourge. The goblins will sell anything to anyone, at only slightly inflated prices.

Though many shops remain independent, a growing number of them have signs declaring that they are owned and operated by the Venture Company, which the proprietors claim is headquartered in a faraway city ruled by goblins where the streets are paved with gold.

The goblins are also legendary for the sheer variety of trade in which they are willing to indulge and for their tenacity in bargaining.

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Goblin Traits

Your gnome character has certain abilities, learned through generations of gnomes.

Ability Score Increase. Your Intelligence increases by 1, and your Charisma or Dexterity score increases by 2.

Age. Goblins mature slightly slower than humans, reach-ing adulthood in their early 20, and die within a century.

Alignment. Most goblins tend to be chaotic to a certain degree, even when lawful, they have a spark of chaoticness in them that they cannot get rid off.

Size. Goblins are between 3 and 4 feet and somewhat slender. Your size is Small.

Speed. Your base walking speed is 25 feet.

    Darkvision. Goblins naturally have superior vision in dark and dim conditions. 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.

Best Deals Anywhere. You have advantage on any ability check made to appraise the price of an item.

Goblin Engineering. You are proficient with the artisan's tools (tinker's tools). You may also use one of the following abilities once between short rests.

• Rocket Jump. This explosive container can be strapped to a person's belt or boot. As a bonus action, you may ignite your rocket pack, launching you 20 feet in a direction of your choice. For example, a creature can choose to launch 15 feet into the air, 5 feet forward, this action does not provoke opportunity attacks.
• Rocket Blast. A crude rocket fixed with flash powder.
  As a bonus action, you can choose a creature within 30 feet. They must succeed a DC 15 Dexterity saving throw, or take 1d12 times your proficiency bonus in fire damage and be blinded for one round. Targets take half damage and are not blinded on a successful save.

Living Through Chemistry. You gain proficiency with the artisan's tool (alchemist's supplies).

Mechanical Familiarity. You are proficient in firearms.

Time is Money. As a bonus action you can shout at an ally and command them to move. That creature can use it's reaction to move up to its speed. You can't use this feature again until you finish a short or long rest.

Languages. You can speak, read, and write Common, Goblin and one language of your choice. Goblins are traders, and trade with every race willing to buy from them, picking up languages as they go.

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Nightborne Names

Nightborne names resemble that of night elves, and would appear Darnassian in script to an inexperienced eye. Yet the nightbornes language have changed from their ancient tongue, as has their names. The nightbornes still follow the Kaldorei naming traditions.

Male Names: Absolon, Astoril, Oculeth, Lespin, Silgryn,
    Almon, Ailen, Vanthir, Sylverin, Rosaine, Thorendis
Female Names: Valtrois, Iadreth, Anastae, Ly'leth, Theryn,
    Ambrena, Anaryys, Naran, Ke'lorin, Arluelle, Noressa
Surnames Names: Luneastre, Astravar, Swiftmeadow,
    Moonblade, Silverleaf

Nightborne Traits

Ability Score Increase. Your Dexterity score increases by 1, and your Intelligence score increases by 2.

Age. Although nightborne elves reach physical maturity at about the same age as humans, their understanding of adulthood goes beyond physical growth to encompass worldly experience. Nightborne typically claims adulthood and an adult name around the age of 100 and can live to become several thousand years old. Sustained by the Night-well, many have lived since the War of the Ancient.

Alignment. Order and structure are key to nightborne. Their society believes that reputation and status are of the utmost concern, and that mortality and principles of right and wrong are viewed too often in that light. Giving most nightborne a lawful alignment.

Size. Nightborne are around 7 feet tall and weigh between 180 and 240 pounds. Your size is medium.

Speed. Your base walking speed is 30 feet.

Darkvision. Accustomed to twilit forests and the night sky, you have superior vision in dark and dim conditions. 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.

Ancient History. You gain proficiency in the History skill and Calligrapher's Supplies.

Mental Warding. You have advantage on all Intelligence, Wisdom, and Charisma saving throws against magic.

Superior Darkvision. Your darkvision has a
radius of 120 feet.

Arcane Pulse. As a bonus action, you can emit an Arcane Pulse that alters the time lines around you. All enemies within 15ft are slowed, reducing their movement speed by 15 feet until the end of their next turn. You must complete a long rest to use this ability again.

Languages. You can speak, read, and write Common and Shalassian. Shalassian, like Thalassian, originates from the Darnassian language. Its dialect has been scrutinized through the ages, making it nearly impossible for members outside of the Nightborne to read or write.

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The pandaren have long been a mystery to other races of Azeroth, their history stretching back thousands of years, to before the raise of the kaldorei. Denizens of a wondrous and fertile land, the pandaren were slaves to the ancient titan-forged mogu. Through tenacity, diplomacy, and a unique form of unarmed combat, they staged a successful revolution that deposed the mogu, and established the foundation of the pandaren empire that would prosper for thousands of years.

As the sundering took place, Pandaria was shrouded in a magical mist that would last for thousand of years. As the years came to an end, the mist around Pandaria unveiled. Drawing the attention of both factions, wishing to claim this 'unexplored' land, and learn of what lied on its surface.

Harmony in All Things

Pandarens are slow to anger, they prefer a measured solution to problems. It takes a great deal to wound up a pandaren. On their homeland Pandaria, negative emotions are harnessed, and take physical form to wreak havoc on the isle. Pandarens emphasize and cultivate a quiet life of inner harmony and focus. Conflicts, no matter how bitter, are quickly forgotten over cold drinks once the matter is resolved.

A Spiritual Race

Pandaren have a fierce and deep belief in the connection of the material and spiritual world. In many ways their faith mirrors the ancient beliefs of night elves, and beliefs of the tribal races of Kalimdor.

Like the races of Kalimdor, the pandaren follow a shamanistic faith, they worship the Earth Mother and give passage to their dead. They are a society that reacts, rather than being the ones to act first. Many pandarens claim to be the water that flows around a rock -- it never pushes the rocks out of its way, but merely goes around it. This stands as the core of their society, a simple means of everyday life. If they set their mind to a task and fail, then they believe they went about it the wrong way, and try again.

Covered in Fur

Covered in colorful fur from head to toe, pandaren appear like massive humanoid bears towering above the heads of most of Azeroth's inhabitants. They stand far over the head of humans, ranging from just under 7 feet to a few inches short of 8 feet. Pandarens are naturally curvy, only made larger in size by their thick fur, weighing between 310 to 440 pounds. Males stand slightly taller than females, and males are often much heavier than females.

Pandaren colorations varies widely, from a dark brown to a golden yellow, one thing that is consistent throughout all pandarens are their white markings, all pandarens have these upon their face, and many also have patches of white on their paws of torso. Pandarens don't have hair, but many stylize their fur on top of their head, letting it grow longer to resemble hair.

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Pandaren Traits

Your pandaren character has certain traits deriving from their ancient heritage.

Ability Score Increase. Your Wisdom score increases by 1, and your Charisma score increases by 2.

Age. Pandaren age much like humans, reaching adult-hood in their late teens, and generally die before they reach their first century.

Alignment. Pandaren are a peaceful race, and for most parts tend to their own, making many pandarens neutral or good aligned. Finding an evil aligned pandaren is unusual.

Size. Most pandaren stands just short of 7 feet tall and average about 260 pounds, you will never find a pandaren who is 'slim'. Your size is medium.

Speed. Your base walking speed is 30 feet.

Gourmand. You gain proficiency with the artisan's tool (cook's utensils) and (brewer's supplies).

Bouncy. You don't count your first 20 feet of fall damage.

Inner Peace. You are proficient in Wisdom saving throws, or one of your choice if already proficient.

Pandaren Weapon Training. You have proficiency with the club, quarterstaff, and spear.

Quaking Palm. As a bonus action, you may make an Iron Palm strike against an adjacent enemy. The target they must make a DC 15 Constitution save or be incapacitated until the end of your next turn. You must complete a long rest to use this feature again.

Languages. You can speak, read, and write, Common and Mogu. Mogu is the language of Pandaria, forced upon the inhabitants of Pandaria by the mogu empire. It is a strange and unfamiliar language to the rest of Azeroth, with a multitude of words meaning one common thing.

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Clutching an engraved staff stitched with leaves, a night elf summons the powers of elune, calling down raw blue energy of the moon upon a terrible foe, smashing upon its body and encasing it hole for a brief moment.

Crouching out of sight on a low hanging tree branch, in the form of a large feral tiger, a worgen scouts out from his hiding stop towards the constructions of Zul'Gurub. Watching every move of the jungle trolls patrolling.

Holding near her sickle and staff, a young tauren druid is making beautiful ritual, making tiny seeds sprinkle into a perfect circle of faintly glowing green lights, healing an endured ally to the best of her capabilities.

Rushing forward towards his companions aid, rumbling the ground as his body transforms into a giant bear creature with tusks, an experienced troll runs to his allies aid, blocking a fatal blow with its fur.

Creating a Druid

When making a druid, consider why your character has such a close bond with nature. Perhaps your character was raised by a druid after being abandoned in the depths of a forest. Perhaps your character had a dramatic encounter with the spirits of nature, coming face to face with a giant eagle or dire wolf and surviving the experience.

Nature's Power

Druids harness the vast powers of nature to preserve balance and protect life. With experience, druids can unleash nature’s raw energy against their enemies, raining celestial fury on them from a great distance, binding them with enchanted vines, or ensnaring them in unrelenting cyclones. Druids can also direct this power to heal wounds and restore life to fallen allies.

They are deeply in tune with the animal spirits of Azeroth. As master shapeshifters, druids can take on the forms of a variety of beasts, morphing into a bear, cat, creatures of water, and creatures of air with ease. This flexibility allows them to fill different roles during their adventures, tearing enemies to shreds one minute and surveying the battlefield from the sky the next. These keepers of the natural order are among the most versatile heroes in Azeroth, and they must be prepared to adjust to new challenges on a moment’s notice.

Protectors of Balance

Guardians of nature who seek to preserve balance and protect life, Druids have unmatched versatility on the field of battle. This is in part because druidism is much more than a fighting discipline.

It’s a way of life steeped in traditions so ancient that even the origin of their kind is preserved largely in mythology.

Druids harness nature’s raw energy for an incredible breadth of offensive and defensive abilities, as well as to restore life to the wounded. Through communion with nature and the demigod Cenarius, Lord of the Forest, Druids are supernaturally endowed with the gift of shapeshifting, allowing them to take the form of all manner of nature’s creature and access powers distinct and diverse.

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Spellcasting

Drawing on the divine essence of nature itself, you can cast spells to shape that essence to your will. See chapter 10 of the Player's Handbook for the general rules of spellcasting and chapter 6 of this book for the druid spell list.

Cantrips

At 1st level, you know three cantrips of your choice from the druid spell list. You learn additional druid cantrips of your choice at higher levels, as shown in the Cantrips Known column of the Druid table.

Preparing and Casting Spells

The Druid table shows how many spell slots you have to cast your spells of 1st level and higher. To cast a druid spell, you must expend a slot of the spell's level or higher. You re-gain all expended spell slots when you finish a long rest.

You prepare the list of druid spells that are available for you to cast, choosing from the druid spell list. When you do so, choose a number of druid spells equal to your Wisdom modifier + your druid level, or + half your druid level for Feral and Guardiian (minimum of one spell). The spells must be of a level for which you have spell slots.

For example, if you are a 3rd-level druid, you have four 1st-level and two 2nd-level spell slots. With a Wisdom of 16, your list of prepared spells can include six spells of 1st or 2nd level, in any combination. If you prepare the 1st-level spell cure wounds, you can cast it using a 1st-level or 2nd-level slot. Casting the spell doesn't remove it from your list of prepared spells.

You can also change your list of prepared spells when you finish a long rest. Preparing a new list of druid spells requires time spent in prayer and meditation: at least 1 minute per spell level for each spell on your list.

Spellcasting Ability

Wisdom is your spellcasting ability for your druid spells, since your magic draws upon your devotion and attune-ment to nature. You use your Wisdom whenever a spell refers to your spellcasting ability. In addition, you use your Wisdom modifier when setting the saving throw DC for a druid spell you cast and when making an attack with one.

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

Spell attack modifier = your proficiency bonus +
your Wisdom modifier

Ritual Casting

You can cast a druid spell as a ritual if that spell has the ritual tag and you have the spell prepared.

Spellcasting Focus

You can use a druidic focus as a spellcasting focus for your druid spells.

Druid Paths

At 2nd level, you choose to identify with a druidic path: Balance, Feral, Guardian, or Restoration, all detailed at the end of the class description. Your choice grants you featur-es at 2nd level and again at 4th, 8th, 10th, and 14th level.

Path Spells

Some paths have a list of spells that you gain at the druid levels noted in the path description. Once you gain a path spell, you always have it prepared, and it doesn't count against the number of spells you can prepare each day.

Shapeshifting

Starting at 2nd level, you can use your action to magically assume the shape of specific animals. There is no limitation to how often you are able to shapeshift into a shape that you know.

Your druid level determines the shapes you can trans-form into, as shown in the Shapeshifts table. At 2nd level, for example, you can assume the shape of a large feral cat, or a thick furred bear. Each shapeshift and its benefits are described in Appendix A at the end of this book.

Shapeshifts

Level		Shapeshift Forms
2nd		Cat, Bear, Moonkin, Treant
6th		Travel, Aquatic
9th		Flight, Travel (Improved)

You can stay shapeshifted for as long as you wish. You can revert to your normal form by using a bonus action on your turn. You automatically revert if you fall unconscious, drop to 0 hit points, or die.

While you are transformed, the following rules apply:

• Your retain your game statistics, alignment, and person-ality. You also retain all of your skill and saving throw proficiencies, in addition to gaining those of the shape.
• Shapeshifting does not change your hit points, and any damage taken whilst in a shapeshift carries over to your humanoid form upon reverting back.
• You can't cast spells unless they state otherwise, and your ability to speak or take any action that requires hands is limited to the capabil-ities of your shapeshift. Transforming doesn't break your concentration on a spell you've already cast, however, or prevent you from taking actions that are part of a spell you've already cast.
• You retain the benefit of any features from your class, race, or other source and can use them if the shapeshift is physically capable of doing so.
• Your gear melds into your new form, so long as you are proficient with it, it retains al magical bonuses and effects but no other mundane features or traits.

Affinity

Also at 3nd level, you are able to transfer part of your druidic magic into your shapeshifts, harnessing their true potential. Your access to this magic is represented by affinities and are fueled by affinity points. Your druid level determines the number of points you have, as shown in the Affinity Points column of the druid table. For Balance druids these points are called Astral Power, for Feral they are called Energy, Guardians have Rage, and Restoration Druids have Seeds of Life.

Some affinities require you to spend these points to fuel various affinity features, some are passive and always active. You start knowing 1 affinity of your choice and 1 determined by your Druidic Path, and learn another at 5th, 7th, 11th, and 15th level. Unless marked as at will, that ability is not usable again until you complete a short rest.

Any time you gain a Druid level, you may exchange one Affinity you know for a new one.

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Soul of the Forest

At 20th level, your connection with nature has grown to an incredible level, deepening beasts respect for you, and mak-ing you able to conjure a gateway to the Emerald Dream.

Using 10 minutes in an area of unspoiled nature, you can conjure a gateway to the Emerald Dream, the entrance shimmers faintly and is 5 feet wide and 10 feet tall. You and any creature you designate when conjuring the gateway can enter into the Emerald Dream for as long as the gate-way remains open. You can open and close the gateway if you are within 30 feet of it. While closed, the gateway on Azeroth crumbles and is effectively invisible. The gateway remains conjured for 24 hours, at which point it crumbles entire and cannot be conjured again for 7 days.

Additionally, beasts and plants of the wilds can sense your connection to nature, giving you advantage on all skill and ability checks made to communicate with them and you no longer age with the passing of time.

Finally, you regain your Incarnation on a short rest.

Druid Paths

Although all druids have a deep love for nature and wilder­ness, some druids have a deeper love for their animal shapeshifts, preferring that form over their humanoid one. Some have a deep love for the goddess Elune, others wish to preserving life. Druids fall into four categories: Balance, Feral, Guardian, or Restoration druids.

Path of Balance

Druids on the path of balance leverage the sacred powers of the moon, the sun, and the stars, accessing a mixture of arcane and nature powers to aid in the fight against the imbalance that threatens the natural order of all things.

Path of Balance Spells

Druid Level		Spells
3rd		✦ Starsurge, moonbeam
5th		plant growth, ✦ New Moon
7th		grasping vine, ✦ starfall
9th		commune with nature, wrath of nature

Eclipse

Beginning at 2nd level, your spell attack rolls with damaging cantrips have advantage, and enemies have disadvantage on saving throws against them so long as they are not a repeat of the last cantrip you cast this encounter.

Shooting Stars

Also at 2nd level, Elune's wrath rains down upon your foes, patient but fierce. At Initiative count 20 of each round, a smoldering star falls upon an enemy you can see within 120 feet, dealing your Wisdom modifier in force damage.

Umbral Intesity

Beginning at 4th level, when you cast a spell of 1st level or higher that deals radiant or force damage you gain the following benefits. You can only receive the benefits of this feature once per minute.

• Your next ✦ Solar Wrath cast with advantage on the attack roll, adds your Wisdom modifier to the damage.
• Your next ✦ Lunar Strike cast with disadvantage on it's saving throw, targets up to 3 creatures within 10 feet of a point within range and a succesful save only reduces the damage taken by half.

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Moonkin Aura

Upon reaching 6th level you become a beacon of lunar inspiration to those who fight at your side. Allies within 100 feet of you benefit from Elune's Guidance (Appendix A) so long as you are in your Moonkin shapeshift form, and you may re-roll spell damage results of 1 or 2.

Incarnation: Chosen of Elune

At 8th level, you have been chosen by Elune and can let her powers flow through you, taking on an appearance as you choose. For examples, the colors and stars of elune might move across your skin, your moonkin shape might shine with a dim blue glow, or you might have a crescent moon floating above your head

As a bonus action you can assume your incarnation and let the powers of the goddess flow through you, entering Moonkin form if not already. Until the end of your next turn, you gain the following benefits.

• You can choose to ignore the once per minute restriction of Umbral Intensity, or to have the restriction reset after Incarnation ends.
• You cast a free moonbeam spell at your highest spell level, lasting until the end of your next turn.
• Your shooting stars also fall at initiative count 10 for the next minute.

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

Cosmic Rapidity

From 10th level onward, your mastery of the moon and stars approaches it's apex. When you gain Umbral Intensity, you can cast a Druid cantrip as a bonus action once within the next minute.

Owlkin Frenzy

At 14th level onward, the bloodline of the owlkin that runs through your form lets loose it's fury. When you are the victim of a critical hit or an attack would deal more than twice your druid level in damage you may cast a druid cantrip as a reaction against the triggering enemy. You may also trigger owlkin frenzy when an enemy misses you with an attack by spending 1 astral power.

You must complete a long rest to use this feature again.

Path of Restoration

Druids of the restoration path builds a stronger bond with things that grow than the rest of their kin, gaining inspiration from the flower’s bloom, the seeds sprout, the mushroom’s spores, and the tree’s growth.

Path of Restoration Spells

Druid Level		Spells
3rd		✦ barkskin, ✦ rejuvination
5th		✦ nourish, revivify
7th		✦ Ursol's Vortex, guardian of nature
9th		greater restoration, ✦ Wild Growth

Swiftmend

When you choose this path at 2nd level, you gain the blessings of Elune, making you a font of energy that offers respite from injuries. You have a pool of energy represented by a number of d4s equal to your druid level.

As a bonus action when you cast a spell that would restore hit points, you can choose one target and spend a number of those dice equal to half your druid level or less. Roll the spent dice and add them to the number of hit points restored. You may chose to use this feature after rolling the initial hit points. You may also use this feature as a reaction when a spell you are concentrating on restores hit points to a target on their turn.

You regain all expended dice when you finish a long rest.

Germination

Also at 2nd level, your periodic healing spells flourish under your mending guidance. You may concentrate on 2 spells so long as ✦ Rejuvination is one of them. Both spells end if your concentration is lost.

Additionally, your Regrowth (Cure Wounds) has a range of 30ft instead of touch.

Harmony

Beginning at 4th level, when you restore hit points on your turn to a creature who is under the effects of a spell you are concentrating on, you may increase the size of any dice you roll by one. This does not effect the concentrated spell.

Gift of the Life-Binder

6th level reveals the sagacity of the titan Eonar, as it flows through you. When your ✦ Rejuvination healing would bring a target to it's maximum hit points, you may use your reaction to change targets to a new friendly creature within range, keeping it's remaining duration.

Incarnation: Tree of Life

At 8th level, you can draw strength from the world trees of Azeroth, taking on the tranquil shape of a tree of life.

You can assume your tree form, an incarnate tree of life, any time you cast a spell that restores hit points. Until the end of your next turn, you gain the following benefits.

• Your size becomes Large, unless you were larger.
• When you restore hit points with a spell or Swiftmend to a target, another creature of your choice within 60 feet of you regains hit points equal to half that amount.
• Any ✦ Rejuvination spell you cast or that is active increases it's die size to d8s.

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

Tranquility

Starting at 10th level, you can become as calm as spring, soothing your allies. As an action, you evoke a healing energy that restores a number of hit points equal to your Druid level + Wisdom modifier to all allies within 60 feet.

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

Ysera's Gift

Upon reaching 14th level, you are bestowed with the Mother of Dreams' most potent blessing. At the start of you may heal yourself for one Swiftmend die, which is not spent. If you are at full health you may instead target an ally within 60 feet.

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Frenzied Regeneration

Prerequisite: 5th level, Path of Guardian

You may spend 2 rage and a bonus action while in bear form, to cast Regrowth (Cure Wounds) at the highest level known without spending a spell slot targeting yourself. This healing occurs again at the start of your next turn at one spell level lower.

Lifebloom

Prerequisite: 5th level, Path of Restoration

When you would lose concentration on a spell that restores hit points to a creature you may spend living seeds up to your highest level of spell slot, one such creature blooms with a swelling of healing life. They regain hit points equal to a regrowth (cure wounds) cast at a spell level equal to the points spent.

Predatory Swiftness (At Will)

Prerequisite: 5th level, Path of Feral

You can use your Mark of Ashamane feature, casting the chosen spell as a bonus action when you critically strike with a melee attack or reduce an enemy to 0 hit points. This does not count against your uses per day.

Feline Momentum

Prerequisite: 5th level

While shapeshifted as a cat, you can move along vertical surfaces on your turn without falling during the move. You fall if you end your turn on a vertical surface.

Dash (At will)

While in cat form, you can take the dash or disengage actions as a bonus action while in Cat form.

Nature's Focus

Prerequisite: Path of Restoration or Balance

You may spend an affinity point to re-roll a failed concentration check.

Innervate

Prerequisite: 5th level

You may spend 2 affinity points upon completing a short rest to grant an ally within 30 feet mana equal to your Druid level. This may not restore more than half a targets mana rounded up.

Growl (At will)

While shapeshifted in bear form, you can expend 1 rage and a bonus action to Taunt a target within 30 feet until the end of it's turn next. You may also use Growl as a reaction for 2 rage when you are in an enemies reach or range and they target an ally who is within 30 feet of you with an attack.

Leader of the Pack (At will)

Prerequisite: Path of Feral or guardian

You may spend 1 energy / rage as a reaction when an friendly creature within 120 feet rolls a 19 on an attack roll, the attack becomes a critical hit.

Nature's Balance (At will)

Prerequisite: Path of Balance, 7th level

You constantly receive a small trickle of astral power from the moon and stars above. When roll initiative you regain 1 astral power.

Mangle (At will)

Prerequisite: Path of Feral or Guardian

After you take the Attack action while shapeshifted, you can spend 1 rage or energy to make an attack as a bonus action with an attack you did not already use this round.

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Quick Build

You can make a hunter quickly by following these sugges-tions. First, make Dexterity your highest ability score, followed by Wisdom. (Some hunters who focus on melee fighting make Strength higher than Dexterity.)

Class Features

As a hunter, you gain the following class features.

Equipment

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

• (a) scale mail or (b) leather armor
• (a) two short swords or (b) two simple melee weapons
• (a) a dungeoneer's pack or (b) an explorer's pack
• (a) a longbow and a quiver of 20 arrows or (b) A musket and 20 bullets

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Beast Master

Among the most gifted hunters, there are those who have from birth felt a profound bond with the creatures of the wild. These beast masters are drawn to the perilous primal world, invigorated by its dangerous and untamed nature. Primitive landscape becomes home. Ferocious predator becomes kin.

Animal Handler

Starting at 3rd level, your way with beasts are unmatched, granting you the following benefits

• You may chose an additional talent for your pet.
• You may Help your pet as a bonus action so long as they can see and hear you.
• Your pet may add your Proficiency bonus to damage rolls it makes with it's attacks.

Kindred Spirits

At 5th level You and your animal companion form a more potent fighting team. When you hit a creature with a weapon attack on your turn, if your companion is within range, it can use its reaction to make a melee attack against the same target.

Bestial Wrath

At 7th level, your can endow your animal companion with the fury of the Ancients. Until the end of your next turn, your pet gains the following benefits:

• It makes an extra attack when it takes the Attack action.
• It has resistance to non-magical slashing piercing and bludgeoning damage.
• Your Kill Command technique costs 0 focus.

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

Spirit Bond

At 9th level, the bond you share with your companions strengthens, unlocking a deepened connection between you both. When you spend a focus die your pet regains hit points equal to 1 + your Wisdom modifier.

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Command Pet

At 15th level, you can spend a bonus action and a focus die to command your pet to perform a powerful ability of it's bestial family, depending on your selected Dire Beast.

Cunning: Master's Call - An friendly creature within 30 feet of your pet that is suffering from an ongoing negative effect or condition may immediately attempt a saving throw against that effect and add your Focus Die to the result, if they succeed they may spend their reaction to make an attack or move up to their speed without provoking attacks of opportunity.

Ferocity: Primal Rage - Until the beginning of your next turn, all friendly creatures within 60 feet of your pet may roll one of your focus die (only 1 die is expended) and add it to any attack or damage rolls they make.

Tenacity: Survival of the Fittest - Your pet let's out a goading roar granting them resistance to all damage. All enemies within 15 feet are taunted by your pet. This effect ends at the start of your next turn.

Once you use this feature you must complete a long rest before you can use it again.

Survival

All hunters feel a calling to the wild, but some serve as a reflection of its brutality. To them, the hunt is defined by unrelenting ferocity. Weapons of great range are thrown away for close-quarters combat.

Born to be Wild

When you chose this specialization at 3rd level, your years spent in the wildest portions of Azeroth accumulate in the following benefits.

• You gain proficiency in the Survival Skill or Expertise if you were already proficient.
• You learn how to cast pass without trace one per day.
• You treat all melee weapons as Finesse, if they already have Finesse you instead treat them as Light.

Survivalist's Cunning

Also at 3rd level, you have learned how to create a variety of explosive devices and cunning traps for use in combat. At the end of each long rest, choose two Survival Gear options from the list at the end of this specialization. You can use each option twice, and regain all uses when you complete a long rest. Your trap and bomb damage is always a number of d8s equal to your proficiency bonus.

Bombs are thrown in place of one attack when taking the Attack action, and deal their damage to all creatures within 5 feet of a point you choose within 30 feet.

Traps are deployed as a bonus action in an adjacent square are considered Hidden if they are deployed at least 15 feet from an enemy, and enemies have disadvantage on passive perception against your Hunter DC to spot them. Traps are triggered when an enemy moves into the chosen square. If a trap is left untriggered, you may spend an action to disarm and reclaim it.

You can choose an additional Survival Gear option each rest at 7th level and 15th level.

Coordinated Assault

At 5th level you and your pet have mastered working in unison. As long as you are wielding a melee weapon and your pet is within 5 feet of your target, you may make an extra attack when you take the Attack action.

Aspect of the Eagle

Upon reaching 7th level you learn the secret technique know as Aspect of the Eagle. You can activate this feature and gain it's benefits until the end of your next turn.

• Your Mongoose Bite increases your reach by 25 feet and is not limited to your first attack per turn.
• Melee attacks against non-adjacent foes have advantage.
• Your speed increases by 15 feet

You must complete a long rest to use this feature again.

Natural Mending

At 9th level, when you spend a focus die you gain temporary hit points equal to the amount rolled plus your Wisdom modifier.

Guerilla Tactics

Beginning at 11th level, your survival gear has increased effectiveness. You gain the following benefits:

• The range of your bombs increases to 60 feet, and effect all creatures within 10 feet of a point within range.
• Your traps now trigger when an enemy moves into an adjacent square.

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Survival Gear

These ingenious contraptions, designed for the skilled Survivalist, offer tactical advantages in the heat of battle. Whether you seek to ensnare your prey, disrupt the enemy's advance, or simply revel in the chaos of explosive artistry, your arsenal beckons.

Explosive Trap: When triggered this trap explodes in a powerful and volatile blast. Any creature within 15 feet must make a Dexterity saving throw or take your trap damage as fire damage. Any Creature adjacent to the bomb makes the save with disadvantage and also takes your trap damage in thunder damage and is knocked directly away 15 feet. A successful save reduces any damage taken by half and is not knocked back.

Freezing Trap; When triggered, this trap rapidly freezes the air around it to sub-zero temperatures. The triggering creature must make a Constitution saving throw. On a failed save they take cold bomb damage and are then petrified for 1 minute or until they take any further damage. A successful save reduces the damage taken by half and they are not petrified. At the end of each of it's turns a petrified creature can repeat the saving throw, ending it on a success.

Tar Trap: Foes unfortunate enough to activate this trap are covered in a corrosive tar-like sticky substance, bogging down and impeding any movement or actions. The triggering creature takes acid trap damage, being reduced by half on a successful Dexterity saving throw for the following effect. All squares within 10 feet are covered with the substance for 1 minute, turning it into difficult terrain for the duration. Each creature standing in its area must succeed on a Dexterity saving throw or fall prone. A creature that enters the area or ends its turn there must also succeed on a Dexterity saving throw or fall prone.

Flash Bomb; You throw a bomb laced with luminous blasting powder. All affected creatures must make a Constitution saving throw or take radiant bomb damage and be blinded until the end of it's next turn. A successful save reduces the damage by half no blinded condition.

Icy Bomb: When you throw this frigid explosive, it shatters upon impact and shards of ice splinter all nearby creatures and make the ground slick. Affected creatures must make a Dexterity saving throw or take piercing and cold (your choice) bomb damage and fall prone. A successful save reduces the damage by half and creatures do not fall prone.

Virulent Bomb: A vile concoction of poisons and afflictions course through the payload of this bomb. Each creature within the detonation must make a Constitution saving throw or take poison bomb damage, taking only half as much on a successful save. For the next minute a thick cloud of toxins lingers in affected squares and any squares adjacent to them. Enemies who enter this area or end their turn within must repeat the save above, gaining the Poisoned condition on a failure in addition to the damage.

Steel Trap: A creature who triggers this brutal trap has it's steel jaws clamp down on bite deep into their flesh. They must attempt a Dexterity saving throw or take bludgeoning and piercing (your choice) trap damage and become restrained for 1 minute. On a successful save the damage taken is halved and they suffer no additional effects. A restrained creature can use its action to try to escape. To do so, it must succeed on a Strength (Athletics) or Dexterity (Acrobatics) check.

Wildfire Bomb: This highly unstable charge detonates with fulminating power and covers foes in a sticky napalm like substance. Affected creatures must attempt a Dexterity saving throw or take fire bomb damage plus your wisdom modifier immediately and again at the start of it's turn. A successful save reduced the initial damage by half and they are not set ablaze.

Pheromone Bomb: Formulated with the most potent odors and essence known, this vial explodes on impact showering foes with an assaulting bouquet. Affected creatures take psychic bomb damage or half as much with a Wisdom saving throw. Creatures who fail are also subject to maddening hallucinations until the end of your next turn giving advantage on any attack rolls against them.

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Dead Eye

When you chose this specialization at 3rd level, you gain proficiency in the Perception Skill or Expertise if you were already proficient. You also learn how to cast the ✦ eyes of the eagle cantrip.

Lone Wolf

Also at 3rd level, while you have no pet active, you gain the following benefits.

• Your Hunter's Mark die size is increased by one step.
• You may add your Strength modifier to damage rolls with bows, and your Intelligence modifier to damage rolls with loading weapons.
• When you have advantage on a ranged attack roll and both d20 would have resulted in a success, you may add a focus die to the damage.

Double Tap

At 5th level, you add the extra attack feature to your Lone Wolf abilities. This allows you to make 1 additional attack when you take the Attack action.

Trueshot

Upon reaching 7th level your ranged weapon has become an extension of yourself as much as an arm or leg. As a bonus action you may gain the following benefits for a number of rounds equal to your proficiency bonus.

• You have advantage on ranged attack rolls, and you may re-roll one of the dice on attack rolls.
• The first focus technique you use each turn is free

Once you use this feature you must complete a long rest before using it again.

Exhilaration

At 9th level you have learned how to mend your wounds with great skill and care. As an action or in place of one of your attacks, you may spend up to your proficiency bonus in hit die to recover hit points. These hit die are consumed upon use, as if taking a short rest. You may use this ability once before needing to complete a long rest.

Area Denial

Starting at 11th level, you are able to unleash a hail of arrows, bolts, or bullets on crowds of enemies. You learn one of the following abilites which you can use by spending 2 focus dice and your action. All effected creatures must make a Dexterity saving throw against your Focus Technique DC, taking your weapons damage + 1 focus die on a failure and half as much on a success.

Volley. You can use your action to unleash a showering blanket of projectiles against any number of creatures within 10 feet of a point you can see within your range.

Barrage. You can use your action to belch forward a torrent of shots against all creatures within a 30-ft cone.

Rapid Fire

At 15th level your alacrity with a weapon is legendary, allowing you to salvo your foes with projectiles at great pace. Your Double Tap feature grants you another attack, for a total of 2 extra attacks.

Focus Techniques

The following section contains available choices for your Focus Hunter ability. You must meet the prerequisites at the time you select a given technique, if it has any.

Hunter Spells

Spellcasting

As a student of arcane, you own a spellbook with spells that show the glimmerings of your true power. See chapter 10 of Player's Handbook for the general rules of spellcasting and related section of this book for the mage spell list.

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.

Alter Time

Upon reaching 7th level, you can bend the temporal strands that surround you, snapshotting different timelines for later use. When you roll initiative you may note your position and health. At the end of the first round (initiative count 0) you may, as a reaction snap back to the previous reality you noted at the start of combat, returning to the same position and hit points total.

Barrier of the Archmage

From 11th level onward, your Barrier of the Magister is empowered depending on your choice of study.

• Arcane: When targeted by a spell while active, you may gain arcane charges as though you had cast a spell of the same level.

• Fire: When your barrier is reduced to 0 hit points, you may cast hellish rebuke at the triggering creature at your highest spell level, even if it isn't prepared.

• Frost: When your barrier is reduced to 0 hit points, a free ✦ frost nova is cast automatically at the highest level spell slot you can cast..

Temporal Anomaly

From 15th level onward, you learn to dilate the very flow of time around you. When you cast haste with yourself as the target you may spend the additional action to cast a Mage cantrip instead of it's normal uses for the duration. You can not use haste in this way again until you complete a long rest.

Student of the Mind

At 18th level, you have achieved such mastery over certain spells that you can cast them at will. Choose a 1st-level mage spell and a 2nd-level mage spell that are in your spell­book. You can cast those spells at their lowest level without expending mana when you have them prepared. If you want to cast either spell at a higher level, you must expend a spell slot as normal.

You can spend 8 hours in study, and change one or both of the spells you chose for different spells of the same level.

Master of the Mind

When you reach 20th level, you gain mastery over
two powerful spells and can cast them with little effort.
Choose two 3rd-level mage spells in your spellbook as your signature spells. You always have these spells prepared, they don't count against the number of spells you have prepared, and you can cast each of them once at 3rd level without expending mana. When you do so, you can't do so again until you finish a short or long rest.

If you want to cast either spell at a higher level, you must expend a mana as normal.

Magical Studies

Mages are spellcasters who favor magics involving the cardinal elements of the universe. Students gifted with a keen intellect and unwavering discipline may walk the path of the mage. The magic available to mages is both great and dangerous, and thus is revealed only to the most devoted practitioners.

Study of Arcane

Mages of the arcane are diviners of secrets, balancing the ebb and flow of incredible mystic energies. These practi-tioners push their magical knowledge to its very limits. Those who master this craft are capable of releasing a barrage of unrelenting power upon their enemies.

Student of the Arcane

At 2nd level, your studies into the Arcane Arts lead to you make new discoveries about the universe daily. You gain the Following benefits.

• You gain proficiency in the Arcana skill or Expertise if you were already proficient.
• You learn ✦Arcane Blast as a bonus cantrip
• When you use your Evocate feature, you restore extra mana equal to your proficiency bonus.

Amplification

4th level bring with it the ability to magnify your power with every successive cast. When you spend arcane charges, each missile increases the die size of your next arcane blast, as if the spell itself had been cast.

Clearcasting

Beginning at 6th level, weaving the mana of your spells can spark a juncture of efficacy. Any time you spend mana a hostile spell, roll a d20. If the result of the die plus your proficiency bonus equals or exceeds 20 you gain the following effect.

Once during the next minute you may heighten a spell one level at no additional mana cost, or cast a 1st level spell for zero mana. You may cast above your usual known spell level for this spell.

Arcane Power

From 8th level onward, you can conjure a swelling of raw primal power to enhance your spells until the end of your next turn. As part of any spell casting, you gain the following benefits.

• Your may re-roll a number of spell damage dice up to your Intelligence Modifier.
• Your spells heighten by one level as if Clearcasting.

You must complete a long rest before using this feature again.

Presence of Mind

When you reach 10th level, you may consume 1 charge from your Mana Crystal to greatly accelerate casting for the round, granting you the benefits of the quickened metamagic feat for the turn.

Arcane Brilliance

Upon reaching 14th level, few on Azeroth rival your otherworldy cunning and acumen. You learn Arcane Intellect as a bonus Incater's Trick (see end of chapter), if you already knew this trick or learn it at a later level, you instead increase your Intelligence score by 2, and increase your maximum Intelligence by 2.

Study of Fire

While any worthy mage is an unparalleled expert in the use of magic and heavily dedicated to their craft, those who master the forces of fire tend to be a little more audacious than their peers. These mages take pride, even pleasure in igniting their enemies in wild bursts of flame.

Student of Fire

At 2nd level, your desire for knowledge burns intensely. Some may see you as teetering on the edge of madness, but that's exactly where you must reside to burn brightest. The following features become available to you.

• Your spell attack rolls that deal fire damage critically strike on a natural 19 or 20, and any time an enemy rolls a natural 1 or 2 on a saving throw against a spell that deals fire damage you may also treat the damage roll as a critical strike.
• You gain proficiency in Investigation, or expertise if already proficient.
• You gain Firebolt as a bonus cantrip.

Ignite

Additionally at 2nd level, your fire spells continue to smolder your enemies even after you cast them. When you deal damage with a critical strike on a spell that deals fire damage, including those as a result of Student of Fire, you cause the target to erupt in flames. The target takes 1d4 times your proficiency bonus in fire damage at the start of it's turn until it takes an action to extinguish the flames.

If an enemy suffering from your Ignite dies, it erupts in a fiery death. You may transfer the Ignite effect to an enemy within 10 feet.

Combustion

Beginning at 8th level, you can ignite the embers that smolder within you, releasing a torrent of flames. As a bonus action, you wreathe yourself in swirling fire. Until the end of your next turn, you gain the following benefits:

• You shed bright light in a 30 foot radius.
• Your first spell attack roll each turn is always considered a critical strike, so long as it would hit normally.
• When you roll Ignite damage, that damage is also dealt to any enemy within 10 feet of the victim.

You must complete a long rest before using this feature again.

Pyromaniac

When you reach 10th level, you can manipulate your fire spells to reach incredible temperatures and incinerate your foes. You may spend 2 charges of your mana Crystal after you roll damage with a fire spell to treat a number of dice up to your Intelligence modifier as if they rolled the highest result.

Sun King's Blessing

At 14th level Your Student of Fire feature now treats any spell attack roll of 18 or higher, and any saving throw of 3 or lower as a critical strike.

Study of Frost

Frost mages stand apart from their colleagues, in that their chosen school of magic focuses on maintaining supreme control over the capabilities of their enemies. Mages who command frost perform chilling displays on the battlefield, rendering foes immobile as they bombard them with ice.

Student of Frost

At 2nd level, your attunement to the primal elements of water and and ice have hardened your resolve. Some mistake your cold determination for a calous disregard for other, but your capability to protect your allies surpasses even the greatest amongst your peers. You gain the following benefits.

• You learn how to summon a Water Elemental as a ritual (See Appendix D) taking 10 minutes. The elemental is under your command as long as it lives and you may only have one active at a time. The elemental acts on your initiative either directly before or after your turn. At 11th level you may summon a Greater Water Elemental instead. Your ✦Frostbolt (Ray of Frost) heals your elemental when targeted instead of dealing damage.
• You gain Proficiency in Nature, or expertise if you were already proficient
• You learn ✦Frostbolt (Ray of Frost) as a bonus cantrip

Permafrost

Also at 2nd level, the cold spells you wield are so frigid they permeate even the thickest of protection, making your targets further susceptible to cold damage. Any spell you cast of 1st level or higher that successfully deals cold damage also slows affected enemies movement speed by 10 feet until the end of your next turn. If a Spell would already reduce the movement of a target or they are already suffering from Permafrost, that target also loses it's reaction and subtracts an additional 10 feet of speed.

Shatter

Once per turn at 4th level, when you target an ememy affected by Permafrost with a cantrip that deals cold damage, or that is restrained or incapacitated by one of your spells, that cantrip shatters. A shattered cantrip has advantage on the attack roll or imposes disadvantage on it's saving throw, it's damage dice increase one size and you add your intelligence modifier to the damage.

Fingers of Frost

From 6th level onward, the primal savagery of ice is always at your fingertips. You may spend 1 mana crystal when you would cast a cold damage cantrip to give it the benefits of Shatter.

• You and your Elemental have advantage on attack rolls.
• Your Water Elemental's bolt attacks inflict Permafrost.
• Your Mage cantrips and your elemental's Bolt deal an extra die of damage, or two if you would have succeeded on both d20 rolls.

You must complete a long rest to use this feature again.

Splitting ice

When you reach 10th level, you can cause your frost spells to fracture, ravaging multiple enemies at once. You may use twinned metamagic for cold damage spells, spending 1 charge from your mana crystal per spell level (Cantrips costing 1 charge)

Cold Snap

At 14th level, your Icy Veins feature now recharges after completing a short or long rest.

Incanter's Tricks

The following section details option you may select when you gain a new Incater's Trick. You must meet any prerequisites in order to select a given option. Unless otherwise specified you may only use one Incanter's trick per spell casting.

Portal Training

Required: 5th level

You may cast Teleport as a ritual by spending 2 charges from your Mana crystal, but only to designated Major Cities (Or GMs discretion for campaign central locales). You may select up to 2 cities upon selecting this Trick, and may learn more by spending an hour during a long rest in a new city to memorize the ley lines needed.

Shimmer

Required: Blink (Misty Step)

You may change Blink (Misty Step) cast time to a reaction by spending 1 charge from your Mana Crystal.

Conjure Refreshments

When you take a short rest, you may spend a charge from you Mana Crystal to conjure refreshments for your party. When you do, any ally who spends Hit Dice to recover health gains extra hit points equal to your intelligence modifier per Hit Die spent. Each ally may only gain this bonus to a number of Hit Dice equal to your proficiency bonus.

Reverberation

Required: 13th level

When you cast a spell, you may spend a number of charges equal to half the level of the spell used (rounded up). If you do, you create an echo of the spell. You can cast the same spell of the same effective spell slot again using your reaction before your next turn without expending a spell slot, but the spell echo uses only half the original spell’s damage dice (rounded up). You may choose new targets for the spell echo.

Precision

You may spend 1 charge from your mana crystal to allow your spells to ignore resistance to one type of damage for 1 minute.

The Flow of Chi

Monks make careful study of the magical energy they call chi. The pandaren word for 'spirit', they use the energy of their inner spirit, that flows through every living body. Monks harness this power within themselves to create magical effects and exceed their bodies' physical capabili-ties. Using this energy, monks channel uncanny speed and strength into their unarmed strikes, as they gain experi-ence, their training and their mastery of chi gives them more power over their bodies and the bodies of their foes.

Training and Asceticism

Small walled cloisters dot the world, tiny refuges from the flow of ordinary life, where time seems to stand still. The monks who live there seek personal perfection through contemplation and rigorous training. Many entered the monastery as children, sent to live there when their parents died, when food couldn't be found to support them, or in return for some kindness that the monks had performed for their families.

Some monks live entirely apart from the surrounding population, secluded from anything that might impede their spiritual progress. Others are sworn to isolation, emerging only to serve as spies or assassins at the command of their leader, a noble patron, or other mortal or divine power.

The majority of monks don't shun their neighbors, making frequent visits to nearby towns or villages and exchanging their service for food and other goods. As versatile warriors, monks often end up protecting their neighbors from monsters or tyrants.

For a monk, becoming an adventurer means leaving a structured, communal lifes to become a wanderer. This can be a harsh transition, and monks don't undertake it lightly.

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Elusive Dance

You can spend 1 chi points to take the Dodge action as a bonus action on your turn.

Windwalking

You can spend 1 chi point to take the Disengage or Dash action as a bonus action on your turn, and your jump distance is doubled for the turn.

Unarmored Movement

Starting at 2nd level, your speed increases by 10 feet while you are not wearing armor or wielding a shield. This bonus increases when you reach certain monk levels, as shown in the Monk table.

At 10th level, you gain the ability to move along vertical surfaces and across liquids on your turn without falling during the move.

Roll

At 3rd level, you are able to tumble across the battlefield when you are not wearing armor or wielding a shield. During your movement, you can tumble 10 feet in a straight line without expending any speed, giving opportunity attacks against you disadvantage. You may move through spaces occupied by enemies when using this feature.

Once you use this feature, you can't use it again until you move 0 feet on one of your turns. At 6th level your roll is enhanced depending on your specialization.

Celerity (Brewmaster) When an ally within 10 feet of you is hit by an attack from a creature you can see, you may roll as a reaction. If you end adjacent to the ally you may have the attacker re-roll the attack unless they make you the new target instead.

Tiger's Lust (Mistweaver) When an ally within 30 feet begins to move, as a reaction you can imbue them with alacrity. The ally increases their speed by 15 feet and ignores difficult terrain until the end of their turn.

Chi Torpedo (Windwalker) Your Roll transforms into a Chi Torpedo, with a violent spin you propel yourself through the air. Your roll no longer provokes attacks of opportunity and you may travel 20 feet.

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.

Extra Attack

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

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Celestial Invocation

Starting at 7th level, you may manifest an avatar of a celestial as a bonus action on your turn. The avatar is incorporeal and shares your space, following you for it's duration, lasting until the end of your next turn.

Invoke Niuzao, the Black Ox: During your turn, Niuzao stomps a target within your reach (As Keg Smash) as a free action, and the Black Ox purifies your stagger damage at the start of your turn, granting you immunity to psychic damage. Lastly he allows you to stagger 1 extra attack per round as a reaction.

Quick Sip

At 9th level, you have mastered blending liquid consumption with the fluidity of your martial arts. You may make one free Martial Arts attack any time you consume an Elusive Brew.

Keg Smash

Beginning at 11th level, you can surprise your foes with a cask of ale, splintering and showering them with high proof alcohol. When you take the attack action you may exchange one of your attacks and spend 1 chi, a target within reach and any foe within 5 feet of them must make a Constitution Saving throw or take damage equal to your Martial Arts die + Dexterity Modifier and have disadvantage on Dexterity Saving Throws until the end of your next turn. On a succe-
ss targets takes half as much damage and no disadvantage.

Shuffle

At 15th level, your flowing combat style affords you even more protection against your foes. You may now stagger any damaging effect, not just damage from attacks.

Elusive Brews

The elusive brews are presented in alphabetical order. If a brew requires a level, you must be that level in this class to learn the brew.

When you gain a level in this class, you can choose one of the brews you know and replace it with another brew that you could learn at that level

Your elusive brews all require a bonus action and chi points to be used unless specified otherwise. To use any of your known brews, you must have a flask of drinkable liquid on you as all brews require you to channel chi into some liquid as you drink it.

Black Ox Brew. You can spend 1 chi point to give yourself advantage on the next melee attack you make this turn, on a success the enemy is Taunted until the start of your next turn.

Blackout Brew (11th level Required). You can spend 3 chi points to gain the effects of the blur spell for 1 minute.

Breath of Fire. You can spend 1 chi points to exhale fire in a 15-foot cone. Each creature in the area must make a Dexterity saving throw, taking fire damage equal to your Martial Arts die on a failed save, or half as much damage on a success. If the target has disadvantage on the saving throw they are lit on fire, taking your martial arts die in fire damage again at the start of your turn.

Celestial Brew. When you take the attack action you can spend 1 chi point to gain the strength of Xuen, until the end of your next turn, your melee attacks and Keg Smash deal extra thunder damage equal to your Wisdom modifier.

Fortifying Brew. (5th level Required) You can spend 2 chi point to gain temporary hit points equal to twice your Monk level + your Wisdom modifier.

Invigorating Brew (11th level Required). You can spend 4 chi points to gain the effects of the haste spell.

Ironskin Brew (5th level required). You can spend 2 chi points as a reaction, for the next minute your stagger feature effects all attacks made against you. You take damage at the start of your turn equal to 1 Martial Arts die for each attack that hits you during the round.

Nimble Brew (5th level Required). You can spend 2 chi points to gain the effects of the freedom of movement and longstrider spells for 1 minute.

Purifying Brew. (17th level Required). You can spend 5 chi points to cast greater restoration on yourself.

Fists of Fury

Starting when you choose this tradition at 3rd level, you can accelerate your attacks by infusing your body with Chi. You may spend 1 Chi when you take the Attack action to make 2 Martial Arts attacks as a bonus action.

Ways of the Wind

Also at 3rd level, you have improved your chi abilities through intense training, granting the following benefits.

• Tiger Palm When you use Windwalking, the next successful melee weapon attack you make before the end of your next turn against an enemy you did not start the turn adjacent to deals additional damage equal to your Martial Arts die, and your target must make a successful Strength saving throw or be knocked prone.
• Unpredictable Strikes When you make an attack of opportunity, you may spend 1 Chi to use your Fists of Fury feature.
• Reflexes of Xuen You become proficient in athletics, or expertise if already proficient, and you may use your dexterity modifier in place of Strength. You also add your proficiency bonus to initiative checks.

Combo Strikes

At 5th level, you can chain your strikes into devastating combos. When you succeed with a melee attack against a target you have already hit this turn, it gains a bonus to damage equal to the number of successful attacks against it this turn including the triggering attack.

Celestial Invocation

Upon reaching 7th level, you may manifest an avatar of a celestial as a bonus action on your turn. The avatar is incorporeal and shares your space, following you for it's duration, lasting until the end of your next turn.

Invoke Xuen, the White Tiger: The White Tiger mauls your foes with thunder and lightning charged attacks.

• When you use Fists of Fury, Xuen makes the extra martial arts attack against your target, allowing you to use this feature for no chi cost.
• You may add your wisdom modifier as lightning damage to your Martial Arts attacks.

You must complete a long rest before using this feature again.

Touch of Karma

At 9th level, you can harness the cyclical loop of Karma to return harm your enemies would inflict upon you. As a reaction to an enemy damaging you, you may spend 2 Chi to mark them with a Touch of Karma. Until the end of the turn you gain resistance to all damage (Including the triggering effect) and the enemy you selected takes half the damage you do after resistance.

Spinning Crane Kick

At 11th level, when you use your Fists of Fury, you may forgo one bonus attack. Compare the result of one attack this turn against the AC of each enemy adjacent to you, applying damage to any successes normally.

Touch of Death

From 15th level and beyond, you gain the ability to kill with just a touch. When you hit a creature with an Unarmed Strike, you can spend 3 chi points to exploit the enemies greatest weakness and attempt to kill them outright. When you use this feature, the creature must make a Constitution saving throw. If it fails and has less Hit Points than you, it dies. If it succeeds or has more Hit Points than you, it takes 10d10 necrotic damage.

Playing so closely with death has it's dangers, and you must complete a long rest before using this feature again.

Lay on Hands

Your blessed touch can heal wounds. You have a pool of healing power that replenishes when you take a long rest. With that pool, you can restore a total number of hit points equal to your paladin level x 5,

As an action, you can touch a creature and draw power from the pool to restore a number of hit points to that creature, up to the maximum remaining in your pool.

Alternatively, you can expend 5 hit points from your pool of healing to cure the target of one disease or neutralize one poison affecting it.

Your specialization choice at 3rd level also gives you a unique way to spend your pool of healing energy.