Introduction

Hello Everybody! This compendium, "A Series of Stars," is the culmination of nearly 3 years of homebrewing and playtesting a set of stellar and cosmic creations. Over the course of your jaunt through the following 80+ pages, you'll explore an entire starscape of playtested, balanced, and diverse goodies for D&D 5e. These include 8 options for existing races along with 2 new base races, a subclass for for all existing classes (with the exception of Artificer), 36 magic items, 38 monsters, and the updated Astromancer class.

While all pieces of this compendium are valued and fun, the aforementioned Astromancer is a particular labor of love, comprising of an arcane full-caster class chassis, 7 subclasses, 15 unique spells, a This is Your Life, and 10 of those 36 magic items as class-specific items. We've had dozens of unique playtesters and hundreds of experiences from people playing this class for campaigns and one shots and we couldn't be more excited about all of the responses we've gotten and where the class has ended up.

Everything in the next few dozen pages helps to round out D&D 5e's somewhat sobering lack of cosmic themed content thus far. While Tasha's and now Spelljammer have helped to address the issue, we hope that this compendium will assist in rounding out this domain in a way you'll use and appreciate, too!

    Happy Starfaring! - DianaDM

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Comet Dwarf

Originally a series of outcast clans rejected by their homeworld kin for a dangerously unending curiosity, these dwarfs have traveled to the depths of space in search of a welcoming home. After finding unclaimed land upon the mineral-rich masses which hurtle through the cosmos, these descendants of previously castaway wanderers have recently begun to interact with their former worlds after centuries. They trade magical items and are led by magocratic clan kings who seek to expand their reputations and treasuries.

Dwarf Traits

Your dwarf character has an assortment of inborn abilities, part and parcel of 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 50. On average, they live about 350 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 everyone deserves 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.

    Dwarven Combat Training. You have proficiency with the battleaxe, handaxe, light hammer, and warhammer.

Tool Proficiency. You gain proficiency withthe artisan’s tools of your choice: smith’s tools, brewer’s supplies, or mason’s tools.

Stonecunning. Whenever you make an Intelligence (History) check related to the origin of stonework, you are considered proficient in the History skill and add double your proficiency bonus to the check, instead of your normal proficiency bonus.

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

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Comet

    Ability Score Increase. Your Intelligence score         increases by 1.

Unending Breath. Your nativity to the vacuum of space allows you to hold your breath indefinitely while you’re not incapacitated.

Meteoric Strike. When you damage a creature with an attack or a spell, you can cause the attack or spell to deal extra damage to the creature. The extra damage equals half your level (rounded up).

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

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Cosmic Aasimar

As an aasimar with cosmic ancestry, you may trace your lineage to a celestial that serves a deity who rules over fate or heavenly bodies. Descendants of these beings are often noted for their gracefully ethereal beauty and ability to quickly win over new friends in their travels. They tend to be renowned for recounting strange and astounding stories, garnered from their predecessors' eons among the stars.

Aasimar Traits

Your aasimar character has the following racial traits.

Ability Score Increase. Your Charisma score increases   by 2.

Age. Aasimar mature at the same rate as humans, but they can live up to 160 years.

Alignment. Imbued with celestial power, most aasimar are good. Outcast aasimar are most often neutral or even evil.

Size. Aasimar have the same range of height and weight as humans. Your size is Medium.

Speed. Your base walking speed is 30 feet.

Darkvision. Blessed with a radiant soul, your vision can easily cut through darkness. 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.

Celestial Resistance. You have resistance to necrotic damage and radiant damage.

Healing Hands. As an action, you can touch a creature and cause it to regain a number of hit points equal to your level. Once you use this trait, you can't use it again until you finish a long rest.

Light Bearer. You know the light cantrip. Charisma is your spellcasting ability for it.

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

Cosmic

    Ability Score Increase. Your Dexterity score increases   by 1.

Scintillating Stardust. Starting at 3rd level, you can use your action to unleash the divine energy within yourself, giving your eyes a kaleidoscopic glint and emitting a shroud of shining stardust in the area around you.
      Your transformation lasts for 1 minute or until you end it as a bonus action. The instant you transform, creatures of your choice within 20 feet of you that can see you must each succeed on a Wisdom saving throw (DC 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Charisma modifier) or become charmed by you until the end of your next turn. While charmed by this trait the creature has a speed of 0. The effect ends for an affected creature if it takes any damage.
      In addition, once on each of your turns, you can deal extra radiant damage to one target when you deal damage to it with an attack or a spell. The extra radiant damage equals your level.

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

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Dragonborn Traits

Your draconic heritage manifests in a variety of traits you share with other dragonborn.

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

Age. Young dragonborn grow quickly. They walk hours after hatching, attain the size and development of a 10-year-old human child by the age of 3, and reach adulthood by 15. They live to be around 80.

Alignment. Dragonborn tend towards extremes, picking a side in the cosmic struggle, whilst most are good, those who choose evil can be great villains.

Size. Dragonborn are taller and heavier than humans, standing well over 6 feet tall and averaging almost 250 pounds. Your size is Medium.

Speed. Your base walking speed is 30 feet.

Languages. Dragonborn can speak, read, and write Common and one other language of your choice.

Farsoul

    Farsoul Ancestry. You have a magical affinity connected to a farsoul dragon ancestor, choose which dragon you are connected to from the table below. This also determines the damage type for your other traits:

Dragon	Damage Type
Astral	Psychic
Moon	Cold
Radiant	Radiant
Sun	Fire
Void	Force

Breath Weapon. When you take the Attack action on your turn, you can replace one of the attacks with an exhalation of destructive magical energy in a 30 ft. line that is 5 ft. wide. Every creature in this area must make a Dexterity saving throw, the DC equal to 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Constitution modifier. On a failed save a creature takes 1d10 damage of the type associated with your Farsoul Ancestry or half as much damage on successful save.

The damage increases to 2d10 at 5th level, 3d10 at 11th level, and 4d10 at 17th level. You can use this ability a number of times equal to your proficiency bonus per long rest.

Draconic Resistance. You have resistance to the damage type associated with your Farsoul Ancestry.

Farsoul Aura. Starting at 5th level, you can use your action to create a 10-foot radius aura that is centered on you for 1 minute. Each non-hostile creature in the aura has resistance to the damage type associated with your Farsoul Ancestry.

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

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Gnome Traits

Your gnome character has certain characteristics in common with all other gnomes.

Ability Score Increase. Your Intelligence score increases by 2.

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 most often good. Those who tend toward law are sages, engineers, researchers, scholars, investigators, or inventors. Those who tend toward chaos are minstrels, tricksters, wanderers, or fanciful jewelers. Gnomes are good-hearted, and even the tricksters among them are more playful than vicious.

Size. Gnomes are between 3 and 4 feet tall and average about 40 pounds. 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.

Gnome Cunning. You have advantage on all Intelligence, Wisdom, and Charisma saving throws against magic.

Languages. You can speak, read, and write Common and Gnomish. The Gnomish language, which uses the Dwarvish script, is renowned for its technical treatises and its catalogs of knowledge about the natural world.

Light

    Ability Score Increase. Your Wisdom score increases     by 1.

Stellar Sight. You have advantage on Intelligence (Investigation) and Wisdom (Perception) ability checks that you make to determine if something is a visual illusion.

Light Step. As a bonus action, you can teleport up to 20 feet from your position to an unoccupied space you can see.

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

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Genasi Traits

Your genasi character has certain characteristics in common with all other genasi.

Ability Score Increase. Your Constitution score increases by 2.

Age. Genasi mature at about the same rate as humans and reach adulthood in their late teens. They live somewhat longer than humans do, up to 120 years.

Alignment. Independent and self-reliant, genasi tend toward a neutral alignment.

Size. Genasi are as varied as their mortal parents but are generally built like humans, standing anywhere from 5 feet to over 6 feet tall. Your size is Medium.

Speed. Your base walking speed is 30 feet.

Languages. You can speak, read, and write Common and Primordial. Primordial is a guttural language, filled with harsh syllables and hard consonants.

Moon

    Ability Score Increase. Your Charisma score increases   by 1.

Superior Darkvision. Accustomed to pale lunar light, you have superior vision in dark and dim conditions. You can see in dim light within 120 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.

Lightened Gravity. Your base walking speed increases     to 35 feet.

Memory of the Moon. You know the dancing lights cantrip. When you reach 3rd level, you can cast the jump spell once with this trait and regain the ability to do so when you finish a long rest. When you reach 5th level, you can cast the moonbeam spell once with this trait and regain the ability to do so when you finish a long rest. Constitution is your spellcasting ability for these spells.

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Cosmically Imbued

The starborn are a somewhat physically imposing people, commonly standing taller than 6 feet, but less dense than would be expected for creatures of their dimensions. They largely resemble humans with fine features for most of their lives, though often with airy mantles of stardust surrounding them, widely varying in substance and size.

These beings have become intrinsically magical over hundreds of years, resulting from their exposure to the Astral Plane and frequent cosmic jaunts. In late maturity, starborn become less capable of keeping the magical energy they embody contained within their forms, their hair turning to a floating pale gossamer and their bodies emitting a heavier shroud of hovering dust and spectral starlight.

Ever Seeking, Ever Lasting

Starborn society places a high value on exploration and ensuring that their ancestors' legacy is eternally honored. Elders within starborn communities teach that their ancestors live on in spiritual forms in order to protect future generations, but only as long as their scions continue to view new lands, meet unfamiliar people, and gather fresh perspectives.

Core to this ancient belief, starborn consider that the greater the distance they explore makes their travels more valuable to their ancestors. Attempting to honor this practice, these people have committed their culture to a nomadic society; one focused on an ever-shifting diaspora across the worlds and planes.

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Halfling Traits

Your halfling character has a number of traits in common with all other halflings.

Ability Score Increase. Your Dexterity score increases    by 2.

Age. A halfling reaches adulthood at the age of 20 and generally lives into the middle of his or her second century.

Alignment. Most halflings are lawful good. As a rule, they are good-hearted and kind, hate to see others in pain, and have no tolerance for oppression. They are also very orderly and traditional, leaning heavily on the support of their community and the comfort of their old ways.

Size. Halflings average about 3 feet tall and weigh about 40 pounds. Your size is Small.

Speed. Your base walking speed is 25 feet.

Lucky. When you roll a 1 on an attack roll, ability check, or saving throw, you can reroll the die and must use the new roll.

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

Halfling Nimbleness. You can move through the space of any creature that is of a size larger than yours.

Starheart

    Ability Score Increase. Your Wisdom score increases     by 1.

Guiding Light. You know the dancing lights cantrip. Wisdom is your spellcasting modifier for it. Whenever you cast dancing lights and combine the four lights into a vaguely humanoid form, you can choose for the form to point toward true north, providing you with directional knowledge.

Glimmerborn. Starting at 3rd level, when you are attacked by a creature within 30 ft. of you that you can see, you can use your reaction to impose disadvantage on the attack roll, causing light to flare around the attacker before it hits or misses. An attacker that can't be blinded is immune to this trait.

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

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Tiefling Traits

Tieflings share certain racial traits as a result of their infernal descent.

Ability Score Increase. Your Charisma score increases   by 2.

Age. Tieflings mature at the same rate as humans but live a few years longer.

Alignment. Tieflings might not have an innate tendency toward evil, twilight tieflings least of all, but many of them end up there. Evil or not, an independent nature inclines many tieflings toward a chaotic alignment.

Size. Tieflings are about the same size and build as humans. Your size is Medium.

Speed. Your base walking speed is 30 feet.

Darkvision. Thanks to your infernal heritage, 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.

Hellish Resistance. You have resistance to fire damage.

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

Twilight

    Ability Score Increase. Your Wisdom score increases      by 1.

Legacy of Twilight. You know the guidance cantrip. When you reach 3rd level, you can cast the bless spell once with this trait and regain the ability to do so when you finish a long rest. When you reach 5th level, you can cast the enhance ability spell once with this trait and regain the ability to do so when you finish a long rest. Charisma is your spellcasting ability for these spells.

Additional Language. You can speak, read, and write Celestial.

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Elf Traits

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

Ability Score Increase. Your Dexterity score increases     by 2.

Age. Although elves reach physical maturity at about the same age as humans, the elven understanding of adulthood goes beyond physical growth to encompass worldly experience. An elf typically claims adulthood and an adult name around the age of 100 and can live to be 750 years old.

Alignment. Elves love freedom, variety, and self expression, so they lean strongly toward the gentler aspects of chaos. They value and protect others' freedom as well as their own, and they are more often good than not.

    Size. Elves range from under 5 to over 6 feet tall and have slender builds. 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.

Keen Senses. You have proficiency in the Perception skill.

Fey Ancestry. You have advantage on saving throws against being charmed, and magic can’t put you to sleep.

Languages: You can speak, read, and write Common and Elvish. Elvish is fluid, with subtle intonations and intricate grammar. Elven literature is rich and varied, and their songs and poems are famous among Other Races. Many bards learn their language so they can add Elvish ballads to their repertoires.

Void

    Ability Score Increase. Your Intelligence score increases by 1.

Certainty of Space. You have advantage on saving throws against spells and other effects that magically move you from your space against your will.

Whispering Dark. You can speak telepathically to any creature within 30 feet of you. The creature understands you only if the two of you share a language. You can speak telepathically in this way to one creature at a time.

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Shaped by the Void

Xel'na are creatures that originate from many races, places, and creeds, yet all share a single terrifying attribute; corruption by the great and terrible void beyond all things. The void, which seeks to undo creation in its entirety and return all matter and energy to desolate nothingness, has a distorting effect on life. It twists it into warped facsimiles of existence that it can attempt to manipulate further.

Contact with the void can happen through a variety of circumstances. Individuals may be tempted to broker pacts with its harbingers and be altered evermore from their accords, rifts in reality might appear and doom individuals that meander too closely to them, or perhaps even an infectious and parasitic plague might spawn and change the beings who are afflicted by it. Regardless of how one has been contaminated by the void, all are near-irreparably altered by this aberrant and all-consuming force.

Varying Corruption

How a creature changes as a result of their contact with the void can vary widely. Some individuals manifest changes that affect their minds, granting them a measure of psionic abilities, while others might have a bodily infestation, acting as a host to a creature or creatures of uncreation which shape their physical form into something greater than typical mortality could provide. However, the type of alteration that an individual undergoes is largely irrelevant to how it acts, as most afflicted beings will be subtly or overtly manipulated by the dark beyond, inclining a xel'na to commit acts in service of the void's unquenchable desire for obliteration.

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Consumed

    Ability Score Increase. Your Dexterity score increases   by 1.

Parasitic Carapace. Your body has melded with a being from the void, granting you the following benefits:

• You don't need to breathe.
• You are immune to disease.
• Your base AC is 13 + your Dexterity modifier.
• Your darkvision has a range of 120 feet, instead of 60.

Void Claws. Your unarmed strikes are finesse weapons and deal 1d4 slashing damage on a hit. The damage die for your unarmed strikes changes as you gain levels, increasing to 1d6 at 5th level, 1d8 at 11th level, and 1d10 at 17th level.

Voidmind

    Ability Score Increase. Your Charisma score increases   by 1.

Psychic Resistance. You have resistance to psychic damage.

Psionic Spells. When you reach 3rd level, you can cast the cause fear spell once with this trait and regain the ability to do so when you finish a long rest. When you reach 5th level, you can cast the mind spike spell once with this trait and regain the ability to do so when you finish a long rest. You do not need verbal or somatic components for these spells. Constitution is your spellcasting ability for these spells.

Whispering Dark. You can speak telepathically to any creature within 30 feet of you. The creature understands you only if the two of you share a language. You can speak telepathically in this way to one creature at a time.

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Barbarian:                                        Path of of the Moon-Touched

Though perhaps not as renowned as were-creatures for being entities altered by lunar forces, moon-touched are known as ferocious berserkers whose minds have been addled under the unyielding, yet pale and entrancing light of the moon.

Moon-touched develop their affliction in varied ways, such as undergoing barbaric lunar rituals or becoming cursed by fey powers. These lunacy-driven warriors are often pushed into rages that involve unpredictably violent bouts; wildly swinging their weapons at nearby targets and unable to tell friend from foe.

Waxing Relentlessness

At 14th level, when you drop to 0 hit points and use your Relentless Rage feature for the first time after finishing a long rest, you automatically drop to 1 hit point without needing to make a saving throw. The DC will start at 10 for the next saving throw you make for Relentless Rage.

You also gain a number of temporary hit points equal to your level whenever you benefit from this feature or succeed the on saving throw from your Relentless Rage feature.

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Bard: College of Gravitas

Bards belonging to the college of gravitas have great mastery in conveying intensity, majesty, and dignity through their performances. They sway audiences with their melodies, movements, and intonation, causing onlookers to become susceptible to their words and gravitational magic.

These bards, though often solemn in nature as their craft demands, work well with any companions they accrue. They use their allies' positions around them to act as spatial conduits for their spells, while simultaneously disabling or propelling nearby foes around them.

Solemnity

Upon reaching 14th level, you can use your mastery of dramatic performance to cause creatures to stand in awe at your grandeur. As a bonus action, you can expend a use of your Bardic Inspiration to don an aura of magisterial power for 1 minute. As part of this bonus action and as a bonus action while this effect is active, you can force a creature within 60 feet of you to make a Wisdom saving throw against your bard spell save DC or have its speed become 0 and be unable to attack until the end of its next turn.

Once you use this feature, you can't use it again until you finish your next short or long rest.

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Void Domain Spells

Dark Certitude

At 1st level, you can't be moved from your space by magic, unless you want to be. You can spend 1 minute to share this effect with a creature of your choice within 10 feet of you for 8 hours. Once you share this effect, you can't do so again until you finish a long rest.

Embrace of the Beyond

Also at 1st level, you can use your reaction when a creature ends its turn within 5 feet of you or an allied creature within 60 feet of you, forcing it to make a Strength saving throw against your cleric spell save DC. If it fails, its speed becomes 0 until the end of its next turn as tenebrous tendrils grasp it.

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

Channel Divinity: Null Space

Starting at 2nd level, you can use your Channel Divinity to create a field of magical incomprehensibility.

As an action, you present your holy symbol and a sphere of alien energy emanates from your space. This sphere has a 40-foot radius and lasts for 1 minute. A creature in this area that attempts to cast a spell must make a Wisdom saving throw against your cleric spell save DC or lose the spell.

Class features, such as spell slots, are not expended from failing this saving throw, but the action, bonus action, or reaction used for the spell is lost. You can choose creatures within 60 feet of you that you can see that are immune to this feature as part of the action you take to create this effect.

Malleable Positionality

At 6th level, you can use your action to target two creatures of your choice within 60 feet of you and immediately teleport each one to the space that the other occupies. An unwilling creature must make a Wisdom saving throw against your cleric spell save DC to resist this effect. If a target succeeds this saving throw, the effect fails for both creatures.

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

Potent Spellcasting

At 8th level, you add your Wisdom modifier to the damage you deal with any cleric cantrip.

Voidbringer

Upon reaching 17th level, your worship grants you the ultimate favor which a great being of the void will impart upon a mortal:

• When you finish a long rest, you choose between force damage, necrotic damage, or psychic damage. You gain resistance to that damage type until you choose a different one with this feature.
• A creature affected by your Embrace of the Beyond feature has disadvantage on Intelligence, Wisdom, and Charisma saving throws against your cleric features and spells, as the grasping tendrils that you summon distract and slow their mind.

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Natural Disorder

Starting at 2nd level, your attunement to the unpredictability of the universe causes chaotic energy to surge around you. When you use your Wild Shape feature, you can choose to roll on the Natural Disorder table.

Natural Disorder

d20	Effect
1-2	The CR of this Wild Shape transformation is limited to a maximum of CR 1/4.
3	Your size decreases by one size category for this Wild Shape transformation.
4	You cannot gain temporary hit points or regain hit points until the end of your next turn.
5	The next successful melee attack you make within 1 minute forces the target to make a Constitution saving throw against your druid spell save DC or be blinded until the end of its next turn.
6	You cast darkness centered on yourself, which does not require concentration and lasts for its full duration, unless you end it as an action.
7	You make no noise for 1 minute.
8	Your Wild Shape creatures have starry skin and black and purple hues until you finish a long rest.
9	Roll a d20. On a roll of 1-10, your speed decreases by 10 feet for 1 hour in both your Wild Shape transformation and your own form. On a roll of 11-20, it increases by 10 feet for this duration, instead.
10	You regain your lowest-level expended spell slot, up to a maximum of a 5th level spell slot.
11	Plants within 20 feet of you immediately decay.
12	A creature that you hit with an attack while in this Wild Shape subtracts a 1d4 from the next saving throw it makes before the end of your next turn.
13	You can cast cantrips while in this Wild Shape and can perform their verbal and somatic components.
14	Black vines burst from the ground, forcing a creature of your choice within 60 feet of you to make a Strength saving throw against your druid spell save DC or be restrained until the end of your next turn.
15	You cast vortex warp on a randomly determined creature within range.
16	You shout at random intervals for the next hour.
17	You cast chaos bolt.
18	You teleport up to 20 feet to an unoccupied space of your choice that you can see.
19-20	The CR of this Wild Shape transformation is increased by one Max CR as indicated on the Beast Shapes table. If you are level 8 or above, the CR of this Wild Shape transformation is CR 2.

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Chaotic Nature

Also at 2nd level, your understanding of the wild forces of the cosmos allows you to tap into other forms of untamed magic. When you prepare spells using your druid Spellcasting feature, you can prepare a number of additional spells equal to your proficiency bonus from the Sorcerer spell list. You must otherwise obey all the restrictions for selecting the spell, and it becomes a druid spell for you.

Decaying Cosmos

At 6th level, your abilities inflict a debilitating sense of finality upon your enemies. When a creature fails a saving throw against a spell that you cast or you make an attack against a creature and score a critical hit on the attack roll, the target can only regain hit points equal to half the amount they normally would from spells and other magical effects until the start of your next turn.

Disgregation

At 10th level, you can harness the chaotic energy held within your body and force it to briefly dissipate and reform. As a bonus action, you can teleport up to 20 feet to an unoccupied space that you can see. When you use this feature, you also gain temporary hit points equal to your half your druid level.

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

Inevitable Equilibrium

Upon reaching 14th level, you hone your ability to wield entropic disarray in more precise ways. When you roll on the Natural Disorder table, you can choose to roll twice and use both rolls or to use your choice of either roll.

Once you use this feature, you can't do so again until you finish a short or long rest.

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Rift Steps

Starting at 3rd level, you can use a bonus action to immediately teleport up to a number of feet equal to your speed to an unoccupied space that you can see. If you move 0 feet from the space you teleport to by the end of your turn, you can teleport back to the space you originated from (no action required). You also deal an additional 1d6 force damage on the first successful attack you make against a creature until the end of your turn after using this effect.

You can use this feature a number of times equal to your proficiency bonus. You regain any expended uses of this feature when you finish a short or long rest.

Ablative Inertia

Also at 3rd level, each hostile creature that starts its turn within 10 feet of you must make a Wisdom saving throw against a DC equal to 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Constitution modifier or have their speed reduced by 10 feet until the end of their turn. If at least one creature fails this saving throw, your speed is increased by 10 feet until the end of your next turn.

Sever Potential

At 7th level, a creature that fails the saving throw against your Ablative Inertia feature has disadvantage on the first attack roll they make until the end of their turn.

Warp Pulse

Beginning at 10th level, you can create a minor gravitational disturbance in the area around you. You can use an action to force each creature within 10 feet of you to make a Strength saving throw against a DC equal to 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Constitution modifier or be moved up to 10 feet toward or away from you (your choice) and fall prone.

You can use this feature once, after which you can't use it again until you finish a short or long rest.

Rift Strikes

At 15th level, you deal an additional 1d6 force damage on the first successful attack you make against a creature after using your Rift Steps feature until the end of your turn.

Further Beyond

Upon reaching 18th level, you can use an action to become an embodiment of cosmic force for 1 minute, strengthening many of the features from this subclass. While in this form, you can teleport up to double your speed with your Rift Steps feature, failing the saving throw from your Ablative Inertia feature slows a creature by up to 20 feet, while also giving you up to 20 feet of speed, and your Sever Potential feature causes a creature that fails the saving throw against your Ablative Inertia feature to also only roll the damage dice once if they score a critical hit until the end of their turn.

You can use this feature once, after which you can't use it again until you finish a long rest.

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Phasing Stances

Starting at 3rd level, your monastic tradition teaches you to quickly shift your attacks and tactics in combat by taking different stances that embody the lunar phases. At the start of each of your turns while in combat you move from one stance to the next in the following order; New Moon, Quarter Moon, Full Moon, Quarter Moon, and back to New Moon, repeating the cycle. You gain the effects associated with each phase while in its stance, detailed below:

• New Moon. At the end of your turn, you, along with anything you are wearing or carrying, are invisible until you attack, cast a spell, or until the end of your next turn.
• Quarter Moon. Once per turn, you can teleport up to 10 feet to a currently unoccupied space that you can see immediately after hit you a creature with an attack.
• Full Moon. You shed bright light in a 5-foot radius and dim light for an additional 5 feet. When you make an unarmed strike, you can project the attack as moonbeams, making a ranged weapon attack at a range of up to 30 feet and changing the damage type of the attack to radiant. Starting when you hit 5th level in this class, you can use your Stunning Strikes feature with these ranged attacks.

Crescent Kick

At 6th level, when you attack a creature within 5 feet of you with an unarmed strike and deal damage, you can expend 1 ki point to deal damage equal to the damage dealt to a different creature of your choice within 5 feet of you.

Effulgent Ward

At 11th level, you can create a shield of pale moonlight that absorbs incoming magical damage. As a reaction when you are hit by a spell attack or make a saving throw against a damaging spell, you can spend 1 ki point to absorb up to 2d6 damage from the attack or spell.

You can increase the amount of damage the shield absorbs by spending ki points. Each additional point you spend, up to a maximum of 3, increases the amount absorbed by 1d6.

Eclipsing Stances

Upon reaching 17th level, your skill to smoothly weave your way through lunar stances has reached its apex. At the start of your turn, you can spend 3 ki points to gain the effects of any stance from your Phasing Stances feature you are not currently in. You also now gain additional effects for each stance, detailed below:

• New Moon. You no longer lose the invisibility you gain from this phase when you attack or cast a spell.
• Quarter Moon. The range at which you can teleport with the effect from this phase increases to 30 feet.
• Full Moon. When you hit a creature with an unarmed strike in this phase, the creature also sheds bright light in a 5-foot radius and dim light for an additional 5 feet. Additionally, you score a critical hit on a roll of 19 or 20 when making a ranged weapon attack with your unarmed strikes in this phase.

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Tenets of the Night

Paladins that follow the Oath of the Night are varied, yet all who observe this path adhere to these tenets.

Attentiveness. Beings of the night are often masked by its gloom. Be ever vigilant to notice these dangers.

Fidelity. Faith is the only force that can grant you the power to consistently face the tribulations of the dark.

Resolution. Hone your mind and blade to endure any challenges you confront.

Subtlety. Adapt to the dark environment around you and stalk your targets with furtive guile.

Channel Divinity

When you take this oath at 3rd level, you gain the following two Channel Divinity options.

Dread Stalker. You can use your Channel Divinity to become a deadly force in darkness. As an action, you gain vision that allows you to see normally in darkness, both magical and nonmagical, to a distance of 60 feet for 1 minute. Additionally while this effect is active, if you damage a creature with an attack while in an area of dim light or darkness, you can add an amount of damage equal to half your proficiency bonus (rounded up).

Light Amidst the Darkness. You can use your Channel Divinity to ward against forthcoming magical harm. As an action, you can create a number of spectral motes equal to your Charisma modifier (minimum of 1) around you for up to 10 minutes. Whenever you or a creature within 10 feet of you makes a saving throw against a spell or other magical effect that you can see, you can use a reaction to expend one of these motes and add a 1d4 to the saving throw, which increases to 2d4 at 15th level.

Aura of Night

At 7th level, you are able to wrap yourself and your allies within twilight gloom. Wisdom (Perception) checks made to see you or friendly creatures within 10 feet of you are made with disadvantage.

At 18th level, the range of this aura increases to 30 feet.

Shadowy Reproach

Starting at 15th level, your attunement to the deep dark and shadow of night inspires fear among those who would dare to hinder you. Whenever a creature attempts to grapple or incapacitate you they must make a Wisdom saving throw against your paladin spell save DC or become frightened of you for up to 1 minute. The frightened creature can repeat this saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on itself on a success.

Nocturnal Exemplar

Upon reaching 20th level, as a bonus action, you become a living symbol of the night, gaining the following benefits for 1 minute:

• You can't be frightened and magic can't put you to sleep.
• You gain truesight out to a range of 60 feet.
• You can use a bonus action to teleport up to 60 feet from your space to an unoccupied space you can see that is in dim light or darkness.

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

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Sun Striker Magic

At 3rd level, you learn an additional spell when you reach certain levels in this class, as shown in the Sun Striker Spells table. The spell counts as a ranger spell for you, but it doesn’t count against the number of ranger spells you know.

Radiant Font

At 3rd level, you possess a cache of brilliant energy within yourself. This is represented by your Solar Might dice, which are each a d6. You have a number of these dice equal to your proficiency bonus + your Wisdom modifier (minimum of 1), and are used in various ways, which are detailed below:

• Lightbringer. You can expend 1 of your Solar Might dice and cast one of the following cantrips: dancing lights, light, or sacred flame.
• Touch of the Dawn. When a creature within 60 feet of you regains hit points from a spell, you can use your reaction to expend 1 of your Solar Might dice, rolling it and adding an amount of hit points equal to the number rolled + your Wisdom modifier (minimum of 1) to the hit points that the creature regains.
• Striking Zenith. Once on each of your turns, immediately after you hit a creature with a melee or ranged weapon attack, you can expend 1 of your Solar Might dice, rolling it and dealing fire or radiant damage (your choice) to the target equal to the number rolled.

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

Illumination

Starting at 7th level, your alignment with the relentless ferocity of the sun allows you to regain up to half your Solar Might dice (rounded up) when you finish a short rest.

Once you regain Solar Might dice in this way, you can't do so again until you finish a long rest.

Solar Mastery

At 11th level, you gain additional ways in which you can use your Solar Might dice, detailed below:

• Solar Rays. Once on each of your turns, when you take the Attack action, you can expend up to 2 Solar Might dice, making a number of additional attacks equal to the number of Solar Might dice you expend. These attacks deal fire or radiant damage (your choice), instead of the damage type they normally would.
• Sun Spot. Once on each of your turns, immediately after you hit a target within 30 feet of you with a melee or ranged weapon attack, you can expend 1 of your Solar Might dice, forcing the target to make a Constitution saving throw against your ranger spell save DC or become blinded until the start of your next turn.

Brilliant Weaponry

Upon reaching 15th level, all weapons that you wield are considered magical, you create ammo when attacking with a ranged weapon, and your weapons are a spellcasting focus for your ranger spells. You can also use a bonus action to cause your weapons to shed bright light in a 5-foot radius and dim light for an additional 10 feet until you use this feature again or the weapon is more than 5 feet away from you.

Additionally, you no longer expend your Solar Might dice to use Striking Zenith from your Radiant Font feature.

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Astral Steps

Starting at 3rd level when you choose this archetype, you learn to manipulate the scintillatingly magical nature of stardust in order to shift your position in advantageous ways. As a bonus action, you can create a Tiny beacon of intangible and spectral stardust that lasts for up to 1 hour that only you can carry or place. As part of this bonus action or as a subsequent bonus action before the beacon disappears, you can place the beacon in an unoccupied space of your choice within 5 feet of you.

As part of an action or bonus action you take to Dash, you are able to teleport up to 60 feet from your position to the space that a beacon was placed. If the beacon's space is occupied when you try to teleport, this effect fails and nothing happens. Once you teleport to a beacon, it disappears.

You can create a number of beacons equal to your proficiency bonus + your Intelligence modifier (minimum of 1) and regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest.

Asterism

Also at 3rd level, you can detect the presence of nearby stardust. As an action, you can subtly sprinkle a pinch of stardust on a creature or object of your choice within 5 feet of you that remains on this creature or object for a number of hours equal to your proficiency bonus. You can sense the distance and direction of this creature or object, as long as they are within 500 feet of you.

Fade Away

At 9th level, you become invisible immediately after you teleport with your Astral Steps feature until the end of your next turn. This invisibility ends early if you attack or cast a spell.

Blinding Dust

Beginning at 13th level, your skill in utilizing stardust allows you to use it more offensively. You can use an action to cause a beacon that you create to explode, causing a burst of stardust to fill a 20-foot radius area. Each creature in that area other than you must make a Constitution saving throw against a DC equal to 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Intelligence modifier or be blinded for up to 1 minute. A creature can remake the saving throw at the end of each of their turns, ending the effect on itself on a success.

Starforged

At 17th level, you have begun to fully master how to wield stardust to harm and hide. You gain the following benefits:

• You can teleport up to 300 feet from your position with your Astral Steps feature.
• Your Fade Away feature now causes you to become invisible for up to 1 minute. The invisibility still ends early if you attack or cast a spell.

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Sorcerer: Gravity Soul

Gravity soul sorcerers are those who might descend from creatures that reside in the outer cosmos or have been intrinsically altered in some way by forces beyond the world. These arcane casters develop an innate talent for quite literally bending the world around them to their whims.

Wielding powerful magic to influence gravity, these sorcerers excel in manipulating the battlefield. They control the positions of their enemies to make them vulnerable, while also protecting themselves and their allies from harm.

Center of Gravity

At 18th level, you gain the reverse gravity spell, if you do not already know it, can cast it once without expending a spell slot, and can choose to be immune to the spell's effect when you cast it. This spell does not count against your number of Spells Known.

Once you cast reverse gravity in this way, you can’t do so again until you finish a long rest, though you can still cast it normally using an available spell slot.

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Expanded Spell List

The Constellation lets you choose from an expanded list of spells when you learn a warlock spell. The following spells are added to the warlock spell list for you.

Guiding Stars

Starting at 1st level, your ability to trace patterns in the sky allows you to easily follow the positions of beings around you. As a bonus action, you can choose a number of creatures equal to your proficiency bonus within 60 feet of you that you can see and mark them with spectral starlight for up to 10 minutes. You have advantage on Wisdom (Perception) checks you make to find a creature that you select for the duration. You also gain advantage on the first attack roll you make against each creature that is affected by this feature.

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

Cosmic Demesne

Also at 1st level, your versatility emulates the various cosmic patterns. Whenever you finish a long rest you can select one skill that you are not proficient in and add your proficiency bonus to it until you pick a new one with this feature.

Starfield

At 6th level, you can use your action to create a number of radiant beacons equal to your Charisma modifier (minimum of 1) in spaces of your choice within 120 feet of you. Each beacon is intangible, sheds dim light in a 5-foot radius, and lasts for up to 1 minute. You can use a bonus action to move one of these beacons up to 30 feet from its space.

Whenever you deal damage to a single creature within 120 feet of you with a cantrip, you can choose for a beacon to refract the cantrip's energy and erupt with stellar force. When a beacon erupts, it is expended and forces all creatures within 5 feet of the beacon, other than the creature you damaged with the cantrip, to make a Dexterity saving throw against your warlock spell save DC. A creature takes radiant damage equal to half the damage you dealt with the cantrip on a failed saving throw, or quarter as much on a successful one. You can only expend a beacon in this way once per turn.

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

Incarnation of Constellations

At 10th level, your ability to channel cosmic patterns grows, allowing you to add double your proficiency bonus to the skill that you choose with your Cosmic Demesne feature. You can also select one other creature within 60 feet of you when you finish a long rest and allow them to add their proficiency bonus to the same skill. If the creature is already proficient in that skill, this feature has no effect for that creature.

Organize Asterisms

Upon reaching 14th level, when you use your Guiding Stars feature, an affected creature now also sheds dim light in a 5-foot radius. You can use a bonus action to select a creature affected in this way and immediately teleport it to an unoccupied space within 60 feet of you. An unwilling creature must make a Wisdom saving throw against your warlock spell save DC to resist this effect. Once a creature has been teleported with this feature, they cannot be teleported in this way again until you finish a short or long rest.

Plasma Blade

Prerequisite: 9th level, Pact of the Blade feature

When you make an attack against an object or structure with your pact weapon, you deal double damage. In addition, when you expend a spell slot from your Pact Magic feature, the next attack roll you make with your pact weapon within 1 minute deals an additional 1d8 fire or radiant damage (your choice).

Starscribe

Prerequisite: Pact of the Tome feature

You write the names, designs, lore, and attributes of various constellations into your Book of Shadows. You can read from this tome whenever you take a short or long rest, allowing you to add your proficiency bonus to one skill that you are not proficient in until you chose a new one with this invocation.

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Luminous Savant

Starting at 2nd level, you learn one of your choice of the following cantrips: dancing lights, light, minor illusion, sacred flame, or thaumaturgy.

Your choice counts as an wizard cantrip for you, but it doesn’t count against your number of cantrips known.

Wondrous Veil

Also at 2nd level, your chosen expertise in magic surrounds you with a mantle of fortifying power, which may be used in multiple ways, detailed below:

• Ephemeral Veil. As a bonus action, you can force a creature of your choice within 60 feet of you that you can see to make a Wisdom saving throw against your wizard spell save DC or be unable to make attack rolls against you until the end of your next turn.
• Resilient Veil. As a bonus action, you can give a creature of your choice within 60 feet of you that you can see temporary hit points equal to half your wizard level + your Intelligence modifier (minimum of 1).

You can use this feature twice. You regain any expended uses when you finish a long rest. Additionally, when you use your Arcane Recovery feature, you can also regain one use of this feature.

Scintillating Wizardry

At 6th level, your spells emulate the ever-shifting patterns of the auroras. When you cast a spell and the spell deals cold, fire, lightning, or radiant damage, you can substitute that damage type with one other type from that list.

Ionization

At 10th level, the fundamental nature that forms the auroras gives you greater understanding of your abilities and surrounding space. When you use your Wondrous Veil feature, you can cause one of the following effects:

• Positivity. You immediately teleport to an unoccupied space adjacent to a creature of your choice within 60 feet of you that you can see.
• Negativity. A creature of your choice within 60 feet of you that you can see immediately teleports to an unoccupied space adjacent to you. An unwilling creature must make a Wisdom saving throw against your wizard spell save DC to resist this effect.

Curtain of Lights

Upon reaching 14th level, when you use your Wondrous Veil feature, you now create a 10-foot tall intangible curtain of light in an area you choose within 120 feet, which lasts until the end of your next turn. The area of the curtain consists of up to a number of spaces equal to your wizard level, which you can arrange as you wish. Each space must have at least one face adjacent to the face of another.

The curtain sheds bright light in a 5-foot radius and dim light for an additional 10 feet. When you or an allied creature starts its turn in an area of bright light created by this effect, they gain one of the following effects, depending on the effect of your Wondrous Veil feature, detailed below:

• Ephemeral Veil. The creature gains resistance to the damage of the first attack against it until the start of its next turn.
• Resilient Veil. The creature regains a number of hit points equal to half your wizard level.

You also gain one additional use of your Wondrous Veil feature, which you regain when you finish a long rest.

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Wielding the Cosmos

Enraptured by the grand cosmic forces that dictate even fate itself, astromancers wield the might of celestial bodies to break their foes and unlock secrets within the great dark beyond. Drawing on the enormous energy given off by stars and other universal entities, astromancers gain access to powerful arcane magic. These wise sages are capable of weaving moonlight and starlight in order to hinder their foes, support companions, and manipulate the battlefield.

Astromancy is an elegant and expansive, yet difficult art. The power that comes with revealing the workings of the universe and bridging the distance between arcane and divine serves as a lure; one that is particularly attractive to the most flexible adepts seeking inspiration or raw might.

Adaptability and perceptiveness are the signs of a truly masterful astromancer. Each discipline, whether focusing on the moon, stars, sun, or otherwise favors those who are capable of evaluating a situation and using their abilities to the utmost for decisive action.

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Quick Build

You can make an astromancer quickly by following these suggestions. First, Wisdom should be your highest ability score, followed by Constitution or Dexterity. Second, choose the hermit or sage background.

Hit Points

• Hit Dice: 1d6 per astromancer level
• Hit Points at 1st Level: 6 + your Constitution modifier
• Hit Points at Higher Levels: 1d6 (or 4) + your Constitution modifier per astromancer level after 1st

Proficiencies

• Armor: None
• Weapons: Daggers, light crossbows, quarterstaves, slings
• Tools: Navigator's tools

• Saving Throws: Intelligence, Wisdom
• Skills: Choose two from Arcana, Insight, Nature, Perception, Religion, and Survival

Equipment

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

• (a) a quarterstaff or (b) a light crossbow with 20 light bolts
• (a) component pouch or (b) an arcane focus
• (a) an explorer's pack or (b) a scholar's pack

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Cantrips

You know three cantrips of your choice from the astromancer spell list. You learn additional astromancer cantrips of your choice at higher levels, as shown in the Cantrips Known column of the Astromancer table.

Spell Slots

The Astromancer table shows how many spell slots you have to cast your astromancer spells of 1st level and higher. To cast one of these spells, you must expend a slot of the spell’s level or higher. You regain all expended spell slots when you finish a long rest.

For example, if you know the 1st-level spell Chromatic Orb and have a 1st-level and a 2nd-level spell slot available, you can cast Chromatic Orb using either slot.

Spells Known of 1st Level and Higher

You know four 1st-level spells of your choice from the astromancer spell list.

The Spells Known column of the Astromancer table shows when you learn more astromancer spells of your choice. Each of these spells must be of a level for which you have spell slots, as shown on the table. For instance, when you reach 3rd level in this class, you can learn one new spell of 1st or 2nd level.

Additionally, both when you finish a long rest or you level in this class, you can choose one of the astromancer spells you know and replace it with another spell from the astromancer spell list, which also must be of a level for which you have spell slots.

Spellcasting Ability

Wisdom is your spellcasting ability for your astromancer spells. Your magic comes from the grand latent energies of the universe around you, your potential to understand their nature, and your capacity to connect your will to these forces. 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 an astromancer spell you cast and when making an attack roll 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 any astromancer spell you know as a ritual if that spell has the ritual tag.

Spellcasting Focus

You can use an arcane focus for your astromancer spells.

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Starmote

At 1st level, your understanding and connection to the skies grants you a small fragment of their grandeur. As an action, you can create a Starmote for a creature within 60 feet of you, which sheds dim light in a 30-foot radius. The mote and this light are only visible to the creature.

The Starmote is always centered on the creature and lasts until you dismiss it as an action. The creature can also use its bonus action to expend their mote, causing their next successful attack against a target within 1 minute to bathe it in stellar radiance. Their target sheds bright light in a 5-foot radius and dim light for an additional 10 feet until the end of their next turn.

You can only have one Starmote active on a creature at a time. However, you can summon additional Starmotes to be simultaneously active for multiple targets at later levels, as indicated in the Active Starmotes column of the Astromancer table. If you summon a Starmote beyond your maximum, you select which currently active Starmote to replace.

Areas of light created by this feature are magical, but other effects of magical light or darkness, such as the effects of the light or darkness spells, that overlap these areas will take priority over this feature for as long as they remain.

Cosmic Discipline

When you reach 2nd level, you commit yourself to a particular discipline within astromancy, each focusing on different types of celestial bodies and traditions. Choose between the Discipline of Horizons, Discipline of Moons, Discipline of Relativity, Discipline of Stars, Discipline of the Sun, Discipline of the Void, and Discipline of the World, each of which is detailed at the end of the class description.

Your choice grants you features at 2nd level and again at 6th, 10th, and 14th level.

Speed of Light

Starting at 3rd level, your skill in manipulating starlight allows you to infuse your allies with minor boons to their movement. Your Starmote feature now increases the speed of a creature that currently possesses it by 5 feet. This increases to 10 feet at 7th level and 15 feet at 17th level in this class.

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Transitional Vigil

At 2nd level, your steadfast watch over the twilight cycle grants you a rigid focus while out of combat. You can no longer be surprised while conscious.

Daybreak

Also at 2nd level, when a creature that possesses one of your Starmotes expends it with a bonus action, they deal an extra 1d4 radiant damage on their next successful attack against a target within 1 minute. The creature which expends the mote also gains temporary hit points equal to the amount of additional radiant damage done for up to 1 minute.

The amount of extra damage increases to 2d4 at 6th level, 3d4 at 10th level, and 4d4 at 14th level in this class.

Temper of Twilight

At 6th level, your adherence to the march of fate allows you to resist those that fight against it. You have advantage on saving throws against being charmed or frightened.

You can also use your action to expend an active Starmote on a creature that you can see within 60 feet of you to end an effect causing them to be charmed or frightened.

Penumbral Shift

At 10th level, your expertise in the inevitable and interrelated nature of dawn and dusk grants you greater insight into your Starmote. Whenever you finish a long rest you select one of the following options for your Starmote:

• Dawn Mote: The bright light from your Starmote feature is considered sunlight. Additionally, when an ally that possesses one of your Starmotes within 120 feet of you is reduced to 0 hit points, but not killed outright, you can use your reaction for the creature to drop to 1 hit point instead. Once you use this feature, you can't use it again until you finish a long rest.
• Dusk Mote: You can use your bonus action to select a creature that you can see within 60 feet of you that possesses one of your Starmotes. The target and anything they are wearing or carrying becomes invisible until the end of their next turn, as the darkness of gloam wraps around their form. Once you use this feature, you can't use it again until you finish a long rest.

When you use an effect granted to you by your Penumbral Shift feature, your Starmote immediately converts into its opposite Penumbral Shift option until you finish a long rest, allowing you to use the effects from that form.

Predestination

Upon 14th level in this class, you condemn your foes to meet their impending final fates. Whenever a creature deals damage to a target with your Daybreak feature, the creature that takes damage can not regain hit points until the end of their next turn.

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Lunar Attunement

Starting at 2nd level, you learn one of your choice of the following cantrips: dancing lights, friends, or minor illusion.

Your choice counts as an astromancer cantrip for you, but it doesn’t count against your number of cantrips known.

Wax and Wane

Also at 2nd level when you choose this discipline, you learn to subtly affect the light around you. Using your bonus action, you can impose dim light in a 10-foot radius sphere centered on a point of your choice within 60 feet of you. The sphere disappears after 1 minute or you dismiss it as an action.

Whenever you create this effect of ambient moonlight, you also select a phase that the area embodies for its duration from the following options:

• New Moon: The gloom and gravitational pull of this area grasp at those that attempt to move through it, reducing the speed of each creature that starts their turn in the area by 10 feet until the end of their turn.
• Quarter Moon: A creature that possesses one of your Starmotes adds a 1d4 to its saving throws and their attacks count as magical for the purpose of overcoming resistance and immunity to nonmagical attacks and damage while in the area.
• Full Moon: The illumination of this phase causes the dim light in the targeted 10-foot radius area to become bright light, as well as shed further dim light for a 10-foot radius.

Multiple effects created by this feature can overlap. The light created by this feature is considered magical under the same conditions as your Starmote feature, but your Starmote's bright light effect takes priority over this effect for as long as it remains. If any effect obscures this feature's light, the other effects of this feature still remain in the area.

You can use this feature a number of times equal to your Wisdom modifier (a minimum of once). You regain any expended uses when you finish a long rest.

Pale Light

At 6th level, you channel the pure and unyielding light of the moon to both hinder and reveal. The dim light from your Starmote feature now extends to 120 feet for you and to 60 feet for other creatures. The bright light from your Starmote feature also reverts a shapechanger to its original form and prevents it from assuming a different form for the duration.

Phase Lock

Upon reaching 10th level, your study of the lunar phases allows you to manipulate your skills more effectively. As an action, you can choose to flare one sphere created by your Wax and Wane feature, ending its current effect, but enacting one of the following results depending on the area's phase:

• New Moon: Each creature within the area that does not possess one of your Starmotes must make a Dexterity saving throw against your astromancer spell save DC or be further slowed by the tenebrous pull of the sphere, reducing their speed to 0. At the end of each of its turns a creature makes a Dexterity saving throw to escape the effect. On a success, this effect ends for that creature.
• Quarter Moon: You teleport one willing creature that you see from its space within this sphere to any unoccupied space in an area of Wax and Wane that you can see, including a space within this fading Wax and Wane effect.
• Full Moon: A creature that possess one of your Starmotes within the sphere's bright or dim light immediately gains temporary hit points equal to half your astromancer level.

Invoke Eclipse

At 14th level in this class, you can align yourself with a forthcoming eclipse, taking on a form of astronomical power. Once per long rest, using your action, you can undergo a transformation gaining the following benefits for 1 minute:

• You gain resistance against the damage of spells.
• Enemies that rely on sight within 30 feet of you make attack rolls against you with disadvantage.
• You gain the moonbeam spell, if you do not already have it, and can cast it once using your bonus action without expending a spell slot. When cast using a bonus action with this feature, the spell's effect can also be moved using a bonus action.

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Compressed Continuum

At 2nd level, your skill in manipulating the passage of time allows you to shorten the amount of it you need to rest. It now only takes you 4 hours to receive the benefits of finishing a long rest.

Localize Density

Also at 2nd level, you learn to use your Starmote feature to encumber the movement of nearby creatures. A creature hostile to you that starts its turn within 5 feet of a creature that possesses one of your Starmotes has its speed reduced by 5 feet until the start of its next turn. The amount of speed reduced by this effect increases to 10 feet at 7th level and 15 feet at 17th level in this class.

You can also use a bonus action to cause a Starmote within 60 feet of you to pulse with disruptive gravitational force in a 5-foot radius, causing each creature hostile to you in the area to make a Wisdom saving throw against your astromancer spell save DC or be unable to use reactions until the start of your next turn.

You can use this feature in this way a number of times equal to your Wisdom modifier (minimum of once). You regain any expended uses when you finish a long rest.

Gravity Font

Starting at 6th level, you can use an action to create a 20-foot radius aura of fluctuating gravity that is centered on you for 1 minute. When a creature that possesses one of your Starmotes starts their turn in this area, the speed that the creature gains from your Speed of Light feature is doubled until the end of their turn. Additionally, a creature in this area that fails its saving throw against your Localize Density feature also falls prone.

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

Temporal Dilation

At 10th level, you learn the haste and slow spells, if you do not already know them, and can cast one of these spells once without expending a spell slot. The spells do not count against your number of Spells Known.

Once you cast haste or slow in this way, you can’t do so again until you finish a long rest, though you can still cast either of the spells normally using an available spell slot.

Delay Destiny

At 14th level, you can splinter fate for a short period to use a reaction when a creature that possesses one of your Starmotes within 120 feet of you takes damage from an attack or fails a saving throw. When you use this reaction, you cause the creature to not yet take damage from the attack or not yet be affected by failing the saving throw, and instead be affected by the triggering event at either the start or end of any creature's turn in the initiative order, which you choose at the point that these occur (no additional reaction required).

The creature is affected by the triggering event in one round from when the event occurs if you do not choose a point during the initiative order before that. If this reaction is trigged by a creature that fails a saving throw from an effect or spell that requires concentration, the spell still requires concentration from when it is cast.

You can use this feature twice, after which you can't use it again until you finish a long rest.

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Cosmic Storytelling

At 2nd level, you become proficient in your choice of one of the following skills: Arcana, History, Religion, or Survival.

Star Reader

Also at 2nd level, you are prepared with minor insights into coming events and can shift a situation to better your group's fortunes. When an enemy attacks a creature that possesses one of your Starmotes within 60 feet of you with advantage, you can use your reaction to prevent the roll from benefiting from advantage. You can also expend the Starmote on the creature as part of this reaction to give them advantage on the next attack they make until the end of their next turn.

You can use this feature a number of times equal to your Wisdom modifier (a minimum of once). You regain any expended uses when you finish a long rest.

Stellar Embodiment

Beginning at 6th level, your study of the stars allows you to further tap into latent energies beyond the world. Whenever you finish a long rest, you choose two of the following options and gain access to their effects. You lose the effects of any option you currently have whenever you a finish a long rest.

• The Tree: You gain temporary hit points equal to half your astromancer level, as well as resistance to the damage of the first successful attack against you.
• The Lantern: You gain the light cantrip, if you do not already have it, and can cast it at a distance of 30 feet. You also have advantage on initiative checks.
• The Hand: You select one of your skill proficiencies. Your proficiency bonus is doubled for any ability check you make that uses this proficiency.
• The Lovers: You can cast charm person once at 1st level using your astromancer spell save DC, without requiring any verbal or somatic components, and without expending a spell slot. The target does not become aware of the charm at the end of a failed save. You cast charm person with this feature at 2nd level upon 14th level in this class.
• The Scales: You can cast either bane or bless once at 1st level using your astromancer spell save DC and without expending a spell slot. You cast bane or bless with this feature at 2nd level upon 14th level in this class.
• The Maw of Stars: You can cast dissonant whispers once at 1st level using your astromancer spell save DC and without expending a spell slot. The target of this spell must use both its reaction as well as half of its speed at the beginning of its next turn to move away from you on a failed save. You cast dissonant whispers with this feature at 2nd level upon 14th level in this class.

Diviner's Boon

Starting at 10th level, when you use your Star Reader feature to prevent an attack roll from benefiting from advantage, you also prevent the target of the feature from benefiting from advantage on any attack roll until the end of their turn.

Additionally, when you use your Star Reader feature to expend a Starmote and give a target advantage on their next attack roll, the target also gains advantage on the next saving throw they make until the end of their next turn.

Stellar Mastery

At 14th level, you have expanded your knowledge surrounding the workings of the universe such that you have learned to access the powers of more complicated cosmic relationships. You now choose three effects for your Stellar Embodiment feature and can pick your choices for this feature from the following options:

• Alignment: You learn one of your choice of commune, dream, legend lore, scrying, telepathic bond, or teleportation circle and can cast your selection using an astromancer spell slot. The spell learned from this feature does not count against your number of Spells Known and can be cast without using components.
• Conjunction/Opposition: Once, as a bonus action, you can designate two creatures that you can see within 60 feet of you, forcing them to make a Strength saving throw against your astromancer spell save DC or each move up to 30 feet towards or away from each other in a straight line. If a target of this ability strikes a solid object or creature, the target takes 1d8 bludgeoning damage for every 5 feet it moved. If hitting a creature, the other creature must succeed a Dexterity saving throw against your astromancer spell save DC, taking the same amount of damage on a failure and half as much on a success. Creatures with a size above Large have advantage on the initial saving throw against this effect.

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Firebrand

Starting at 2nd level, your innate connection to the fierce power of the sun begins to fuel your capacity in battle:

• While you possess one of your Starmotes you gain a barrier of heat that pushes back against unwanted attacks and strengthens your own swings. These solar winds change your AC to equal 13 + your Dexterity modifier when you are not wearing armor and you gain proficiency with short swords and scimitars.
• If you are proficient with a simple or martial melee weapon, you can use it as your spellcasting focus for astromancer spells.
• When you deal damage to a creature with a melee weapon attack, you can choose to mark a solar brand on to the enemy for up to 1 minute. This brand will erupt if the branded creature takes fire or radiant damage after the damage that applied it, dealing an additional 1d6 fire or radiant damage (your choice). Once the brand deals damage, it is expended and disappears.
      Only one brand can be applied per attack, but a creature can have up to two brands on them at a time. The brand's damage improves when you reach 14th level in this class, increasing to 2d6 fire or radiant damage.
      You can use this feature a number of times equal to your Wisdom modifier (a minimum of once). You regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest.

Extra Attack

Upon reaching 6th level, you can attack twice, instead of once, when taking the Attack action on your turn.

Radiance

Also at 6th level, you regain your Firebrand feature's uses when you finish a short rest.

Mirage

At 10th level, your mastery over luminosity allows you to distract enemies with skillfully woven light. When a creature that you can see within 30 feet of you makes an attack roll against you, you can use your reaction to immediately become invisible, create an illusory duplicate of yourself in your space, and move up to half your speed. This duplicate and invisibility last until the end of your next turn, but the invisibility ends if you attack or cast a spell.

If you take the Attack action while the duplicate is present, you can make your attacks from either your own or your duplicate's position. Your duplicate uses your bonus to hit and damage, any damage it deals is considered fire or radiant damage (your choice), and its attacks are capable of applying your Firebrand marks.

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

Solar Flare

At 14th level, when you mark a creature with your Firebrand feature you can force the target to make a Constitution saving throw against your astromancer saving throw DC or be blinded until the end of their next turn. While blinded in this way, a creature is unable to make attacks of opportunity.

You must possess one of your Starmotes for this effect to occur. A creature that saves against this effect is not blinded and is immune to the effect for 24 hours.

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Distant Whispers

At 2nd level, you intuitively learn an exotic language of your choice. At 6th, 10th, and 14th levels in this class, you learn an additional exotic language of your choice.

Empty Space

Also at 2nd level, as part of the action or bonus action used to cast a spell on your turn, you can instantly teleport up to 10 feet to a currently unoccupied space that you can see. When using this feature, you can expend one of your choice of currently active Starmotes to teleport up to 30 feet from your space, instead.

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

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Dark Expansion

Beginning at 6th level, you can use this feature when casting a spell using a 1st or 2nd level spell slot and gain the benefits of casting the spell using one level higher of a spell slot.

For example, if you use this feature while casting the cause fear spell at 2nd level, you can frighten up to three targets, rather than two, as detailed in the cause fear spell effect for higher level casting.

The highest level spell slot that you can affect with this feature increases to 3rd level when you reach 7th level in this class and to 4th level when you reach 9th level in this class.

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

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Response From Beyond

Starting at 10th level, your calls to the distant void of stars have gifted you with ephemeral wardens, brought to this world to obey your will. Using your bonus action, you can summon two Shades from Beyond (pg. 36) in unoccupied spaces adjacent to you.

When the Shades from Beyond are summoned they can be issued commands and must be given any additional commands as subsequent bonus actions to move or attack. These creatures only understand commands given by you. These creatures will remain in your service for 10 minutes, until they die, you dismiss the entities as a bonus action, or you become incapacitated, after which they disappear.

Additionally, when you use this feature you regain up to two expended uses of your Empty Space feature.

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

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Encroaching Night

Upon reaching 14th level, you can exercise your growing control over the vacuous nothing of space to empower your shadowy minions. Whenever you expend a Starmote with your Empty Space feature, you can now teleport up to 60 feet to an unoccupied space that you can see or to swap places with one of your Shades from Beyond within 120 feet.

If you have your Shades from Beyond summoned when you use your Empty Space feature, each one can make an attack against a target within their melee attack range as a reaction immediately before or after you teleport (your choice), adding an amount of force or psychic damage (your choice) equal to your Wisdom modifier (minimum of +1), as well as gain temporary hit points equal to their damage done.

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Discipline of the World

While astromancers focus the majority of their efforts on the celestial bodies beyond the world, there are those who recognize that the planet itself is part of the great design. Some have also discovered that the world is in dire need of protection from forces beyond this plane and pale that would seek to do it harm. Drawing on the knowledge of the cosmos to protect against these assailants, those within this discipline seek to guard the lands on which they reside for the benefit of all.

Dustmote

Starting at 14th level, when you expend a Starmote on a target with your Star Shield feature, you can choose for your target to gain a lingering mote of coalesced stardust for up to 1 hour. While a creature possesses this Dustmote, they have resistance to one damage type of your choice other than bludgeoning, piercing, or slashing damage that you select when the Dustmote is created, as the scintillating particles ward away harm.

A creature that possesses a Dustmote can also choose to expend it as an action, causing its stardust to burst forth and forcing all other creatures within a 10-foot radius sphere centered on the creature to make a Constitution saving throw against your astromancer spell save DC. On a failed save, a creature is blinded for 1 minute. At the end of each of its turns, an affected creature can make a Constitution saving throw. On a success, the effect ends.

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

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Astral Jaunt

5th level conjuration

• Casting Time: 1 action
• Range: 120 feet
• Components: V, S, M (a piece of whalebone scrimshaw)
• Duration: Instantaneous

You thin the dimensional veil between your location and the Astral Plane, allowing you to teleport to an unoccupied space that you can see within range. Immediately after you teleport, a sliver of gossamer cloud lacerates the area between your previous space and your new one. Each creature in a 5-foot wide line between these two spaces must make a Dexterity saving throw or take 6d8 force damage and be unable to magically move from their space until the end of their next turn. On a successful save, a creature takes half as much damage and is not prevented from magical movement.

At Higher Levels: When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 6th level or higher, the damage increases by 1d8 for each slot above 5th.

Bow Shock

4th level evocation

• Casting Time: 1 reaction, which you take when an ally hits with an attack against a target within range
• Range: 60 feet
• Components: V, S
• Duration: Instantaneous

When an ally hits a creature that you can see within range with a melee or ranged weapon attack, you add an additional 3d8 force damage to the attack's damage roll. Each creature in a 15-foot cone on the opposite side of the target from the triggering attack must make a Dexterity saving throw or take the same amount of additional force damage as the target, or half as much on a success.

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

Comet Tail

3rd level evocation

• Casting Time: 1 action
• Range: Touch
• Components: V, S
• Duration: 1 minute

Touch a willing creature to imbue them with a burning aura. For the duration, the target's speed increases by 10 feet. Additionally, as the target moves they leave behind a wall of burning gas as wide and tall as the target in the spaces they travel through, which lasts until the start of their next turn.

Any creature other than you or the target that enters or starts their turn within a 5-foot radius of the tail must make a Dexterity saving throw or take 2d8 fire damage, or half as much on a success.

At Higher Levels: When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 4th level or higher, the speed increases by 5 feet and the damage increases by 1d8 for every two slots above 3rd.

Consuming Void

Necromancy cantrip

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

You devour a portion of a creature's potential energy, warding yourself with a measure of their essence. A target that you can see within range must make a Constitution saving throw or take 1d6 necrotic damage. You immediately gain temporary hit points equal to the amount of damage dealt until the start of your next turn.

The spell’s damage increases by 1d6 when you reach 5th level (2d6), 11th level (3d6), and 17th level (4d6).

Detect Rift

3rd level divination (ritual)

• Casting Time: 1 minute
• Range: Self
• Components: V, S, M (a compass made of gold)
• Duration: 1 hour

You meditate for a moment, heightening your sensitivity to breaches in the fabric of the universe. You gain the ability to sense the location of all planar portals within 1 mile of you for the duration of the spell.

You know how far away and what direction any portals are in, as well as have advantage on ability checks to dispel or counter planar travel (as in counterspell and dispel magic when used on blink or gate) for the duration of the spell.

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Supernova

7th level evocation

• Casting Time: 1 action
• Range: 300 feet
• Components: V, S, M (a clear glass marble)
• Duration: Instantaneous

You summon the ferocious explosion of power unleashed by a dying star in a 20-foot radius sphere centered on a point you choose within range. Each creature within this area must make a Dexterity saving throw or take 8d6 fire damage on a failed save or half as much on a success.

The explosion you summon then increases beyond your control, dealing an additional 8d6 fire damage within a 40-foot radius sphere centered on the same point at the start of your next turn and requiring another Dexterity saving throw for creatures in the area, dealing half damage on a success.

At Higher Levels: When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 8th level or higher, the initial radius increases by 10-feet and the secondary radius increases by 20-feet for each slot level above 7th. The damage of each explosion also increases by 1d6 for each slot above 7th.

Wall of Dusk

5th level illusion

• Casting Time: 1 action
• Range: 120 feet
• Components: V, S, M (a small bottle of ash)
• Duration: Concentration, up to 10 minutes

A wall of shadowy gloom appears at a point you choose within range. The wall appears in any orientation you select: horizontally, vertically, or diagonally. It can be free floating, or it can rest on a solid surface. The wall can be up to 60 feet long, 10 feet high, and 5 feet thick. The tenebrous wisps that constitute the wall block line of sight, but creatures and objects can pass through it.

Creatures of your choice that pass through the wall become invisible until the spell ends, as shadows coalesce around them. Anything the target is wearing or carrying is invisible as long as it is on the target’s person. The spell also ends for a target that attacks or casts a spell.

Each time a creature gains invisibility from this effect, reduce the length of the wall by 10 feet. If the wall’s length drops to 0 feet in this way, creatures that are invisible from this effect remain so while you maintain concentration on this spell or until one of the other conditions to end it is met.

At Higher Levels: When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 6th level or higher, you can increase the length of the wall by 10 feet for each slot level above 5th.

Multiclassing

Multiclassing Proficiencies

Class	Proficiencies Gained
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Call of Power

The majority of astromancers experience some sort of event or come from a long tradition of practitioners that led them to adopt their craft and ability to tap into cosmic energy. These callings may be quite distinct, varying between small and large influences in the life course of these powerful casters.

Bond to the Beyond

Most people understand the world through their lived experiences and require proof to add new information to their perspective. Astromancy conflicts with this expectation, being a set of disciplines which are focused specifically on things which occur beyond the horizons of the world.

Consider how you might relate to your power. Is it something you came to believe in later in life? Have you held a fascination with light and stars from childhood? Perhaps you desired power anywhere you could find it?

Inspiration for Adventure

Why have you ventured forth from your hermitage or observatory? Do you believe that a great calamity may soon befall the world and that you have the vision to stop it? Maybe you have been sequestered, requiring exploration for a perspective that cannot be granted by simple study.

Gaining a full understanding of the universe is a nearly futile effort, but gathering experience from around the world and planes may prove to be the most fruitful endeavor for this goal. Think about what prompted you to set out on your current adventure and how this may affect your viewpoint.

Inspiration for Adventure

d6	Inspiration
1	Whispers from the cosmos tempt you to seek danger.
2	A deity of the night sky has given you a sacred charge.
3	You aim to enact your own view of order in the world.
4	Your reading of the stars indicates a great change that will soon befall the world.
5	You have a burning desire to slaughter your enemies.
6	You yearn for vision only attainable from exploration.

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Amulet of Astral Adepts

Wondrous Item, rare (requires attunement by an astromancer)

This small pendant is comprised of a ring of plated gold inset with a bright gem, glittering with gossamer strands of the astral sea encased inside. This amulet helps you connect more closely to those around you by drawing on the psionic qualities of the Astral Plane. You can speak telepathically to any creature that possesses one of your Starmotes within 120 feet of you. The creature understands you only if the two of you share a language. You can speak telepathically in this way to one creature at a time.

Auroralight Robes

Wondrous Item, uncommon (requires attunement by an astromancer)

These robes seem white, but are woven of all colors, and if the wearer moves they shimmer and change hue so that the eye is bewildered. These robes increase the range of dim light shed by your Starmote feature by 30 feet.

Codex of Cosmic Mechanics

Wondrous Item, very rare (requires attunement by an astromancer)

This thick tome is bound in dark leather, densely incribed with diagrams that describe advanced celestial circumstances and relationships. The book has 4 charges, and it regains ld4 expended charges daily at dawn. You can use the charges in the following ways while holding it:

• You can expend 2 of its charges to cast arcane gate, recall positionality, or reselect space, using your spell save DC.
• When you give a creature a Starmote, you can expend 1 charge to cause them to gain blindsight out to a range of 30 feet for 1 minute.
• When a creature that possesses one of your Starmotes is hit by an attack, you can use your reaction to expend 1 charge to teleport the creature up to 10 feet to an unoccupied space you can see. If the new position of the creature is out of range of the attack, it misses.

Cradle of Stars

Wondrous Item, rare (requires attunement by an astromancer)

This diadem of bright gold is inset with brilliant opals, each of which seems to possess clouds of multicolored and shimmering dust within. While wearing this crown, you can use your action to choose three 15-foot cubes centered on points you can see within 120 feet of you and force each creature these areas to make a DC 15 Dexterity saving throw. Creatures take 4d4 radiant damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one. You can expend your choice of currently active Starmotes to increase this damage by 1d4 radiant damage for each Starmote chosen.

A creature in more than one area of this effect is affected by all areas, but only makes a single saving throw. Once used, this item can't be used in this way again until the next dawn.

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Mantle of Eternal Continuum

Wondrous Item, legendary (requires attunement by an astromancer)

This cloak of pure white and golden threading seems to glimmer with indiscernible patterns as you will them to occur. A powerful feeling to disassociate from your body fills your mind whenever you lose focus while wearing this.

You gain these benefits while wearing this mantle:

• If you are not wearing armor, your base Armor Class is 15 + your Dexterity modifier.
• You can summon or dismiss Starmotes as a bonus action.
• You gain advantage on death saving throws and regain 1 hit point on a roll of 19 or 20.
• You can cast the astral projection spell at will, targeting only yourself, and your astral cord cannot be cut unless you want it to be. Additionally, dispel magic will not dispel this effect, unless you want it to.

Moonstone Amulet

Wondrous Item, uncommon (requires attunement by an astromancer)

While wearing this amulet of lunar rock enmeshed within a set of silver bands, you have darkvision out to a range of 120 feet, as long as you have one of your Starmotes active on yourself. You also always know the time of night or day, as well as the position and phase of the moon while you are wearing this pendant.

Ring of Star Signs

Ring, very rare (requires attunement by an astromancer)

This ring has a mercurial form, constantly shifting the designs of constellations that decorate the band of metal. Every day at dawn you roll a d8 to determine what boon the ring provides. You lose any boons you currently have whenever you receive a new boon. When found, it provides one of the d8 options that is chosen by the DM.

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Magic Items

Bead of Horrific Beings

Wondrous Item, uncommon

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This small bead of obsidian contains a captured entity from the very edge of existence. When you use an action to break the bead, a Star Spawn Aberrant Spirit is summoned as if you had cast the summon aberration spell, and the bead's magic is lost.

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Dormant

While the Shiftingsky Spire is in a dormant state, the staff has 8 charges and regains 4 (1d4+2) charges daily at dawn. While holding the staff, you can expend 1 or more of its charges to cast the following spells from it, using your spell save DC: relativity (1 charge), lunacy (2 charges), or skywrite (2 charges).

Additionally, while holding this staff, you can use an action to expend 1 charge and create a Lesser Starmote for a creature within 60 feet of you. This Lesser Starmote sheds dim light in a 30-foot radius and lasts for up to 8 hours. The mote and this light are only visible to the creature. This Lesser Starmote disappears if you create another one.

Awakened

When the Shiftingsky Spire reaches an awakened state, you gain the following benefits:

• The staff has 12 charges and regains 5 (1d6+2) expended charges daily at dawn.
• You can also spend charges to cast the following spells from the staff: vortex warp (2 charges) or detect rift          (2 charges).
• You have a +1 to spell attack rolls and your spell save DC increases by 1.

Exalted

When the Shiftingsky Spire reaches an exalted state, you gain the following benefits:

• The staff has 20 charges and regains 6 (1d8+2) expended charges daily at dawn.
• You can also spend charges to cast the following spells from the staff: recall positionality (6 charges), reselect space (6 charges), or crown of stars (7 charges).
• As a bonus action, you can create a minor gravitational warp in your local area. You can choose one creature that you can see within 30 feet of you and the target must succeed on a Strength saving throw against your spell save DC or be moved 10 feet toward or away from you.

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Warp Focus

Wondrous Item, uncommon

This arcane focus is a small amethyst orb imbued with minor gravitational magic. As a bonus action, you can try to move one creature you can see within 30 feet of you. When you do so, the target must succeed on a DC 12 Strength saving throw or be moved 5 feet toward or away from you.

Worldwarder's Wraps

Wondrous Item, rare (requires attunement)

These brown and black leather gloves constantly trickle with dust, which gives off the impression that they are quite dirty at all times. While wearing these gloves, you become aware of the true nature of any aberration, celestial, fey, or fiend by sensing what type of creature it is upon touching them.

Additionally, you can cast banishment (spell save 15). These gloves can't be used in this way again until the next dawn.

Zenith Blade

Weapon (any sword), very rare (requires attunement)

This flaming blade embodies the relentless ferocity of the sun at its apex, only ceasing its flaming brilliance while inside a sheath. When you hit with an attack using this blade, the target takes an additional 1d8 fire damage.

Additionally, you can wield the intense gravitational pull of the sun when striking with this blade. Once per turn when you hit a creature with an attack, you cause them to lose half their speed until the end of their next turn. If you make an opportunity attack against a creature affected in this way, you have advantage on the attack.

Wanderlight Lantern

Wondrous Item, rare (requires attunement)

This lantern shines with concentrated luminosity from the stars, which can light the way for you even in the darkest of times. While holding this item, you can use a bonus action to lift the lantern and cause it to shed bright light in a 10-foot radius and dim light for an additional 10 around you for up to 1 hour. The bright light ends any area of magical darkness that it touches. This lantern can't be used in this way again until the next dawn.

While the lantern is shining light in this way, you can use a subsequent bonus action to cause the lantern to swing in a direction, showing you which way is true north.

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Astral Dragon

Majestic, powerful, dignified, and beautiful. Astral dragons are a breed of exceedingly magical dragons that are native to the Astral Plane. These dragons possess many unique qualities that result in them being some of the greatest of dragons, such as their eggs strangely growing to become their lairs, their rumored circumvention of bans on magic above 9th level, or their wingless, yet graceful ability to fly through the gossamer starscape of the astral sea.

Astral Travelers. While astral dragons are native to the Astral Plane and spend the majority their time there, they have the innate ability to travel to any plane they wish. They must do this in order to age, as they are unable to do so while in the astral sea. These beings do not travel without caution, however, as they are in danger of contracting a disease, known as astrolomitis, whenever they move to a foreign plane. This causes these dragons to violently rampage across wherever they are stranded, until they can be put down or somehow find their way back to their home.

    Singularly Non-Psionic. Paradoxical to the extreme, these creatures that epitomize the realm of psionics have no such powers, themselves. Although these dragons can grow to be immensely powerful spellcasters, their breath and bites inflict psychic damage, and they can naturally sense when psionic abilities being used for several miles around them, they cannot actually use psionics to cast spells or affect others. This limitation, however, does not prevent these beings from becoming some of the greatest powers in both the Astral Plane and the multiverse beyond.

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Cosmicborn Chimera

An avatar of unbridled fury and ego, this monstrosity stalks the highest peaks and skies of the night. Jealous of the Demogorgon's original and gruesome design for chimeras, other princes of the Abyss sought to band together in a rare period of partnership to surpass the Prince of Demons' prototype. Taking advantage of a moment of stellar alignment, these entities corrupted cosmic energy, perverting chimeras to be greater and more terrible than ever before.

Distorted Grace. These creations no longer possess the natural grandeur belonging to the beings and forces from which they originate. An overwhelming ego from the dragon's head compels the chimera to gather hoards and command the subservience of lesser beings, while the lion and goat heads drive this abomination to challenge any creatures which dare enter the territories to which it lays claim. Infused and empowered by powerful magic, these traits are only accentuated; providing the chimera with incredible confidence and strength.

Champions of Evil. Contrary to their relatively tame ancestors, these beings have transcended the tendency to be subjugated by mortal hands. Those who attempt to do so have a propensity to end up punctured, torn, and disintegrated in equal measure before the chimera's heavenly, yet terrifying visage.

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Duskova

Twilight, the inevitable transition which brings the night and represents the finality of cosmic order, is often met with trepidation and fear. Duskova are the angelic beings which seek to preserve this sliver of the universal design, often believed to help deities ensure the cyclical coming of the moon, stars, and natural end of mortal life.

Angels of Death. These celestial beings are less bound to ideals of good than many angels, instead seeking to maintain cosmic law with divine conviction. They condemn those who attempt to abrogate the plans of predestination and escape their unavoidable end through means of lichdom or otherwise. In the eyes of the duskova, death is not an end to escape, but rather a natural transition that all mortal beings must endure.

Ushers of Dusk and Destiny. Though known to serve gods that rule over the night sky, duskova will more often hold positions under deities of fate and death. While their angelic parallels, the emerossi, are agents of the dawn and wield the rising light of day, duskova take advantage of twilight gloom and rapidly sundering strikes to harm those that would dare challenge order.

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Duskova

Medium celestial, lawful neutral

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• Armor Class 18 (natural armor)
• Hit Points 173 (23d8 + 69)
• Speed 30 ft., fly 90 ft.

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STR	DEX	CON	INT	WIS	CHA
17 (+3)	23 (+6)	16 (+3)	15 (+2)	18 (+4)	22 (+6)

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• Saving Throws Con +8, Wis +9, Cha +11
• Skills Insight +9, Perception +9
• Damage Resistances necrotic, radiant; bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing from nonmagical attacks
• Condition Immunities charmed, exhaustion, frightened
• Senses truesight 120 ft., passive Perception 19
• Languages all, telepathy 120 ft.
• Challenge 15 (13,000 XP)

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Angelic Weapons. The duskova's weapon attacks are magical. When the duskova hits with any weapon, the weapon deals an extra 18 (4d8) radiant damage (included in the attack).

Falling Sun. Creatures that start their turn within 10 feet of the duskova must make a DC 17 Constitution saving throw or be unable to regain hit points until the start of their next turn. If a creature is prevented from regaining hit points from a spell in this way, the duskova regains hit points equal to the amount of healing prevented.

Fatalism. Whenever the duskova reduces a target to 0 hit points, the target has disadvantage on death saving throws until it dies or regains consciousness.

Magic Resistance. The duskova has advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical effects.

Actions

Multiattack. The duskova uses Inevitable Dusk if it can. It then makes three attacks with its Duskblade.

Duskblade. Melee Weapon Attack: +11 to hit, reach 5ft., one creature. Hit: 10 (1d8 + 6) slashing damage plus 18 (4d8) radiant damage.

Inevitable Dusk (Recharge 6). The duskova summons the gloom of dusk in 20-foot radius of the duskova. Other creatures in this area must make a DC 17 Constitution saving throw or become blinded for 1 minute. A creature can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on itself on a success.

Shadow Step. The duskova magically teleports, along with any equipment it is wearing or carrying, up to 90 feet to an unoccupied space that it can see in an area of dim light or darkness.

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Emerossi

Medium celestial, lawful good

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• Armor Class 17 (natural armor)
• Hit Points 157 (21d8 + 63)
• Speed 30 ft., fly 90 ft.

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STR	DEX	CON	INT	WIS	CHA
17 (+3)	21 (+5)	16 (+3)	16 (+3)	21 (+5)	22 (+6)

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• Saving Throws Con +8, Wis +10, Cha +11
• Skills Insight +10, Perception +10
• Damage Resistances fire, radiant; bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing from nonmagical attacks
• Condition Immunities charmed, frightened
• Senses truesight 120 ft., passive Perception 19
• Languages all, telepathy 120 ft.
• Challenge 15 (13,000 XP)

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Spellcasting. The emerossi is a 10th-level spellcaster. Its spellcasting ability is Wisdom (spell save DC 18, +10 to hit with spell attacks). The emerossi has the following cleric spells prepared:

Cantrips (at will): guidance, sacred flame, thaumaturgy, word of radiance                                1st level (4 slots): command, faerie fire                2nd level (3 slots): blindness/deafness, scorching ray, spiritual weapon                                                 3rd level (3 slots): daylight, remove curse             4th level (3 slots): guardian of faith, wall of fire    5th level (2 slots): dawn, flame strike, holy weapon

Inexorable Conviction. The emerossi can maintain concentration on up to two spells at the same time.

Rising Sun. The emerossi regains 10 hit points at the start of its turn if it has at least 1 hit point and isn’t in an area of magical darkness.

Magic Resistance. The emerossi has advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical effects.

Actions

Multiattack. The emerossi uses Inevitable Dawn if it can. It then makes two attacks with its Dawn Stave.

Dawn Stave. Melee Weapon Attack: +10 to hit, reach 5ft., one creature. Hit: 9 (1d8 + 5) bludgeoning damage plus 9 (2d8) fire damage.

Inevitable Dawn (Recharge 5-6). The emerossi summons the light of dawn in 20-foot radius of the emerossi. Other creatures in this area must make a DC 18 Constitution saving throw or take 28 (8d6) radiant damage and become blinded until the end of its next turn. A creature that succeeds on this save takes half damage and is not blinded.

Light Step. The emerossi magically teleports, along with any equipment it is wearing or carrying, up to 60 feet to an unoccupied space that it can see.

Emerossi

Emerossi are the angelic keepers of the dawnward horizon. These celestial beings are thought to ensure that the sun will rise each morning, adhering to the eternal and inevitable cycles of twilight and fate.

Ushers of Dawn and Fate. These beings often serve as retainers for deities which rule over the sun, but are also faithful towards gods of destiny, knowing that their everlasting duty to the rising of dawn is a reflection of predestination and cosmic order. Even among other celestial beings, the emerossi are known as eternally and intensely committed to their heavenly cause. Any attempts to disturb the cycle of destiny are met with ferocious retaliation.

Light-bound. As opposed to their angelic relatives, the duskova, that unerringly ensure the coming of death and dusk, these beings wield fire and light to fulfill their commitment toward keeping the plans of providence intact. When sent to battle upon material worlds or defending their native Upper Planes from the influence of evil, they are known to act in tandem with both solars and planetars, commanding powerful divine magic to protect their allies and strike down foes.

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K'va, The Void Binder

Nothingness. Oblivion. Nonbeing. Void. These are the primal forces that K'va, the Void Binder epitomizes. An entity that champions the dark and corruptive power of unreality, it travels to the farthest corners of creation to enforce its indomitable and undecipherable will upon existence.

Astronomical Terror. This creature is a nightmare of cosmic scale, one that annihilates mortality and matter alike in its eternal vision to return all things to the great dark beyond. K'va is the final harbinger for one of the ancient and powerful entities of the void, heralding their coming with demonstrations of terror. While other creatures native to the void will often infest the universe alone or in brief alliances, all of these beings that inhabit a world will rally beneath K'va's command when it arrives.

Living Void. K'va does not require air, food, drink, or sleep.

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Moonrock Golem

Wrought and chiseled from rare lunar rock, these golems are seemingly bulky, but surprisingly lightweight creations. When an elemental spirit is bound to these forms, they take on unique properties and emit a soft radiance in a small area around them.

Only the most eccentric and influential mages are capable of creating these beings. The moon rocks they are fashioned from are exceedingly uncommon and must either be harvested from dangerous trips to their lunar source or collected from the exceptionally rare traders that travel between worlds. This material is valued for its paradoxical low weight and high durability, as well as its ease to enchant compared to the more difficult substances to turn in to golems, such as clay and stone.

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Rift Whale

These massive, yet graceful creatures are perhaps the most revered entities that a far-faring explorer might come across while delving into the great dark or astral sea. Although not a necessarily good-aligned creature, the respect and awe that they have garnered is well deserved, as there is a history of rift whales assisting astral or space-faring ships that have found themselves distressed. Explorers should be warned, however, as these creature can quickly turn violent if there is any sign of aggression toward them.

Non-Material Mammals. The origin of the rift whales is unknown, yet it is obvious that they are an inehrently magical breed of creatures. They survive and thrive by traveling through brief portals they create between the Material Plane and the astral sea. Observers of these majestic beasts have proposed that although they prefer to spend their time in the astral sea, they must return to the depths of space in order to, somehow, paradoxically breathe.

Ecology of the Expanse. These mighty entities feed on stardust whenever they dive into the Astral Plane, converting it into energy. Rarely, rift whales will also travel to planets in order to feed on the creatures that fly amongst the atmosphere. These beings do have to exercise caution, however, as they can sometimes be found as prey; locked in fights with dangerous shoals of colossal space squid.

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Colossal Space Squid

Huge aberration, unaligned

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• Armor Class 17 (natural armor)
• Hit Points 196 (18d12 + 72)
• Speed 0 ft. fly 60 ft. (hover)

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STR	DEX	CON	INT	WIS	CHA
23 (+6)	15 (+2)	18 (+4)	4 (-3)	16 (+3)	12 (+1)

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• Skills Athletics +10, Perception +7
• Senses darkvision 120 ft., passive Perception 17
• Condition Immunities prone
• Challenge 11 (7,200 XP)

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Spatial Surge. The space squid can use a bonus action to move up to half its flying speed. The space squid's speed is not halved if it is grappling a creature with its tentacles while moving in this way.

Vacuous Breath. The squid does not need to breathe.

Actions

Multiattack. The space squid makes two attacks: one with its tentacles and one with its constrict.

Tentacles. Melee Weapon Attack: +10 to hit, reach 20 ft., one target. Hit: 20 (4d6 + 6) bludgeoning damage. If the target is a creature, it is grappled (escape DC 18). Until this grapple ends the target is restrained. The squid has two tentacles, which can each grapple one creature at a time.

Constrict. Melee Weapon Attack: +10 to hit, reach 20 ft., one target that is grappled by the space squid. Hit: 24 (4d8 + 6) bludgeoning damage.

Reactions

Cloud of Nightink. When the space squid is hit by an attack or spell from a creature within 20 feet of it, the squid can release dark ink in a 20-foot radius area around it. This area lasts until the start of the space squid's next turn. Each creature that starts its turn in the area must make a DC 16 Constitution saving throw or be blinded until the end of their turn. All magical effects in the area are also ended.

Star Charger

Huge celestial, lawful good

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• Armor Class 19 (natural armor)
• Hit Points 262 (21d12 + 126)
• Speed 60 ft.

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STR	DEX	CON	INT	WIS	CHA
25 (+7)	18 (+4)	22 (+6)	16 (+3)	19 (+4)	22 (+6)

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• Saving Throws Con +12, Wis +10, Cha +12
• Damage Resistances cold, radiant; bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing from nonmagical attacks
• Condition Immunities charmed, exhaustion, frightened
• Senses truesight 120 ft., passive Perception 12
• Languages Celestial, Common
• Challenge 17 (18,000 XP)

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Magic Resistance. The star charger has advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical effects.

Magic Weapons. The star charger's weapon attacks are magical.

Constellation Incarnate. The star charger regains 20 hit points at the start of its turn if it has at least 1 hit point and isn’t in an area of magical darkness.

Actions

Multiattack. The charger makes three attacks: one with its hooves and two with its cosmic halberd.

Hooves. Melee Weapon Attack: +13 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 18 (2d10 + 7) bludgeoning damage. If the target is a creature, it must succeed on a DC 21 Strength saving throw or be knocked prone.

Cosmic Halberd. Melee Weapon Attack: +13 to hit, reach 10 ft., one target. Hit: 23 (3d10 + 7) slashing damage plus 4 (1d8) radiant damage.

Celestial Stampede (Recharge 5-6). The star charger creatures a nebula of radiant force surrounding it and gains a flying speed of 120 ft. until the end of its next turn. It then moves up to 120 ft. in a straight line. Each creature in a 20-foot radius of the star charger while it moves must make a DC 21 Dexterity saving throw or take 27 (6d8) bludgeoning damage and 27 (6d8) radiant damage and be knocked prone. A creature which succeeds on the saving throw takes half as much damage and is not knocked prone.

Starshard

Starshards are minor celestial spirits that embody the luminous essence of the sun and stars. Often mistaken and mistrusted as fey entities which seek to lure wayward individuals into traps, these jovial orbs of light instead tend to help any mortals they come across find their way to safety. Excelling at manipulating radiance and resistant to being brought to ground by those that bring them harm, these small spirits can prove to be a formidable foe, but perhaps a compelling companion.

Amiable Orbs. These heavenly beings are friendly, but quickly defensive at the first instance of violence directed toward them. At times they are not at risk, they often collect in small groups to bob and dance under starlit nights. While interacting with mortals they tend to be heard though liltingly musical tones, rather than typical language, though those that speak Celestial or Common find themselves able to understand their meaning nonetheless. These beings are symbiotically energized by playing and communicating with others, harmlessly feeding from the joy that they create.

Brilliant Boons. Occasionally gifted by good-aligned patrons to their petitioners, these radiant motes act as excellent familiars for warlocks who seek to spread the glory of their masters. Those who are provided with these invaluable allies have found great use in their naturally perceptive nature, as well as considerable utility in a starshard's mastery over bending light. A weak gravitational field also surrounds these creatures, allowing them to carry a slight amount of weight within their ambit.

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Starweave Spider

Large monstrosity, chaotic evil

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• Armor Class 17 (natural armor)
• Hit Points 144 (17d10 + 51)
• Speed 40 ft., climb 40 ft.

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STR	DEX	CON	INT	WIS	CHA
14 (+2)	21 (+5)	16 (+3)	4 (-3)	14 (+2)	16 (+3)

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• Skills Stealth +9
• Damage Resistances cold, force, poison, radiant
• Senses darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 12
• Challenge 9 (5,000 XP)

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Light Weaver. The spider's webs are nearly invisible, requiring a DC 15 Intelligence (Investigation) check to notice them. Web-filled areas are considered difficult terrain. Each 10-foot cube of webs has AC 10, 15 hit points, resistance to radiant damage, vulnerability to fire damage, and immunity to bludgeoning, piercing, and psychic damage.                  When a creature other than the spider enters a webbed area or starts its turn there, it must succeed on a DC 15 Dexterity saving throw or take 9 (2d8) radiant damage and become restrained by the webs. A restrained creature can use an action to make a DC 15 Strength (Athletics) or Dexterity (Acrobatics) check, escaping the webs on a success.

Spider Climb. The spider can climb difficult surfaces, including upside down on ceilings, without needing to make an ability check.

Web Walker. The spider ignores movement restrictions caused by webbing.

Actions

Multiattack. The spider can use its Glimmereyes and makes two attacks with its Bright Bite.

Bright Bite. Melee Weapon Attack: +9 to hit, reach 5 ft., one creature. Hit: 15 (3d6 + 5) piercing damage plus 7 (2d6) radiant damage.

Glimmereyes. The spider targets one creature that it can see within 30 feet. If the target can see the spider, it must succeed on a DC 15 Wisdom saving throw or become charmed by the spider. While charmed in this way, a creature has disadvantage on ability checks to escape the spider's webbing. The target repeats the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on itself on a success.

Raveling Radiance (1/Day). The spider emits all of its harvested starlight in a 30-foot cone. The entire area becomes webbed and each creature in that area must make a DC 15 Dexterity saving throw, taking 36 (8d8) radiant damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one.

Sunfall Phoenix

Large elemental, chaotic evil

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• Armor Class 14
• Hit Points 103 (12d10 + 36)
• Speed 30 ft., fly 40 ft.

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STR	DEX	CON	INT	WIS	CHA
10 (+0)	19 (+4)	16 (+3)	2 (-4)	13 (+1)	16 (+3)

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• Skills Acrobatics +7, Perception +4
• Damage Resistances necrotic
• Damage Immunities fire
• Senses darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 14
• Challenge 7 (2,900 XP)

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Twilight Rise. When the phoenix falls to 0 hit points, it immediately regains a number of hit points equal to half its maximum hit points. The phoenix can only benefit from this trait once every 24 hours.

Fiery Fall. When the phoenix falls to 0 hit points, it explodes. Each creature within 30-feet of it must make a DC 14 Dexterity saving throw, taking 7 (2d6) fire damage and 7 (2d6) necrotic damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one. The fire ignites flammable objects in the area that aren't worn or carried.

Flyby. The phoenix doesn't provoke opportunity attacks when it flies out of an enemy's reach.

Feeble Illumination. The phoenix sheds dim light in a 30-foot radius.

Actions

Multiattack. The phoenix makes two attacks with its torrid talons.

Torrid Talons. Melee Weapon Attack: +7 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 11 (2d6 + 4) piercing damage plus 3 (1d6) fire damage.

Sunfallen Screech (1/Day). The phoenix releases an accursed screech in the area, forcing each creature in a 20-foot area around it to make a DC 14 Constitution saving throw or take 14 (4d6) fire damage plus 14 (4d6) necrotic damage and be unable to regain hit points for up to 1 minute. A creature that succeeds the saving throw takes half damage and can regain hit points. A creature can remake the saving throw at the end of each of their turns, ending the effect on itself on a success.