Divine Curse

Although the gods work through many agents, perhaps none is more mysterious than the oracle. These divine vessels are granted power without their choice, selected by providence to wield powers that even they do not fully understand. This power comes at a cost, however, and their body and spirit are irreparably cursed. Unlike a cleric, who draws magic through devotion to a deity, oracles garner strength and power from many sources, namely those patron deities who support their ideals. Instead of worshiping a single source, oracles tend to venerate all of the gods that share their beliefs. While some see the powers of the oracle as a gift, others view them as a curse, changing the life of the chosen in unforeseen ways.

Mystery Seekers

Oracles are a rare sight in civilized society as their curse and strange powers make it difficult to live an ordinary life. At best, oracles are revered as blessed individuals, looked
up to for their divine abilities. At worst, they are feared
and cast out by those who don't trust their cursed
state.

Oracles do not usually associate with any one
church or temple, instead preferring to strike out on
their own, or with a small group of like-minded
individuals. They typically use their spells and
revelations to further their understanding of their
mystery, be it through fighting mighty battles, tending
to the poor and sick, or uncovering lost lore. In an adventuring party, oracles provide a powerful
connection to a variety of divine sources to
support their allies and afflict their foes.

Creating an Oracle

To create an oracle, look at your choices in the Oracle Curses section and consider the relationship between your curse and your magical abilities. Does same power that fuels your spells also overwhelm and debilitate your physical body? Or instead, perhaps you are under obligation to a divine being or pantheon of beings and they maintain the curse to exert some control?

Determine your mystery and why you are pursuing that particular knowledge. Does it relate to your curse or do you have some other personal stake in acquiring that knowledge? Or maybe you have always been infatuated with your chosen mystery independent of becoming an oracle?

Lastly, determine why you have chosen the life of an adventurer? Will it get you closer to your goal of obtaining knowledge about your mystery? Were you ostracized by your homeland and forced to follow a transient life? Or did you find it difficult to keep your magic dormant and needed an outlet for your divine power?

Quick Build

You can make an oracle quickly by following these suggestions. First, Charisma should be your highest ability score, followed by Constitution. Second, choose the acolyte background and the clouded curse. Third, choose the guidance, light, and toll the dead cantrips,
along with the 1st-level spells bless and
detect magic.

Class Features

As an Oracle, you gain the following class features:

Spell Slots

The Oracle table shows how many
spell slots you have to cast your spells of 1st
level and higher. To cast one of these Oracle 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.

Spells Known of 1st Level or Higher

You know two 1st-level spells of your choice from the oracle spell list. The Spells Known column of the Oracle table shows when you learn more oracle spells of your choice from this feature. Each of these spells must be of a level for which you have spell slots on the oracle table.

Additionally, when you gain a level in this class, you can choose one of the oracle spells you know from this feature and replace it with another spell from the oracle spell list. The new spell must also be of a level for which you have spell slots on the Oracle table.

Spellcasting Ability

Charisma is your spellcasting ability for your oracle spells. You use your charisma whenever a spell refers to your spellcasting ability. In addition, you use your charisma modifier when setting the saving throw DC for an oracle spell you cast and when making an attack roll with one.

Accursed

You are cursed such that magic seems to distort around you and cause frequent mishaps.

• Beginning at 1st level, once per short rest, you may choose to roll a saving throw against a spell with advantage.
• At 3rd level, you add hex to your known spells.
• At 10th level, you add bestow curse to your known spells.
• Beginning at 17th level, once per long rest, when you fail a saving throw against a magical spell or effect, you may choose to succeed instead.

Blackened

Your hands and forearms are shriveled and blackened, as if you had plunged your arms into a blazing fire, and your thin, papery skin is sensitive to the touch.

• At 3rd level, you add flaming sphere to your known spells.

• At 10th level, you add fireball to your known spells.

• At 17th level, you add fire storm
       to your known spells.

Clouded

Your eyes are clouded as if you had severe cataracts. You struggle to see fine details.

• At 1st level, you gain darkvision to a range of 60 feet (if you already have darkvision, its range extends by 30 feet).
• At 3rd level, your darkvision extends by 30 feet.
• At 10th level, you gain blindsight out to 15 feet.
• At 17th level, your blindsight becomes true sight.

Consumed

Your connection to the Abyss and the demons that call it home has left you diminished but still able to scorn many mortal frailties.

• Beginning at 1st level, once per long rest, when you become incapacitated, you may choose to have advantage on death saving throws for one minute.
• Beginning at 3rd level, you have advantage on checks and saving throws to resist poison or disease.
• Beginning at 10th level, you can go without food or water for a number of days equal to your oracle level before suffering any negative effects.
• Beginning at 17th level, each time a creature within 30 feet takes damage, you gain 1 temporary hit point. These can be added to themselves but disappear after 1 hour. You can have a number of temporary hit points from this feature equal to your charisma modifier.

Deaf

Your sense of hearing is dull, forcing you to rely on other senses.

• Beginning at 1st level, when you cast a spell, you do so without any verbal components it normally requires.

• Beginning at 3rd level, you have advantage on perception checks that do not rely on hearing.

• At 10th level, you gain tremorsense out to 20 feet.

• At 17th level, you gain tremorsense out to 40 feet.

Deep One

                                The lure of the ocean tugs at your soul.

• At 1st level, you gain a swim speed equal to your land speed, and if you already have a swim speed, you increase it by 10 feet.

• At 3rd level, you gain a +1 bonus to AC as your skin thickens with aquatic scales.

• Beginning at 10th level, you have advantage on attacks rolls and enemies have disadvantage on saving throws
  against your spells and abilities while in
    rain or underwater.

• Beginning at 17th level, you gain the benefits of the freedom of movement spell while underwater, and you can breathe underwater.

Oracle Mysteries

Oracles grow their divine power as they uncover deeper knowledge about a chosen mystery. This mystery can represent dedication to one ideal, devotion to deities that support your mystery, or a natural calling to champion a cause.

Ancestor Mystery

Oracles that pursue an ancestor mystery develop a close connection to ancestral spirits. These benevolent spirits assist the oracle in a variety of ways including granting advice or protecting them from harm.

Ancestor Mystery Spells

Oracle Level	Spells
2nd	Unseen Servant, Heroism
3rd	Spiritual Weapon, Augury
5th	Spirit Guardians, Speak with Dead
7th	Guardian of Faith, Divination
9th	Telekinesis, Commune

Ancestral Weapon

                         At 2nd level, you learn the cantrip green-flame
                           blade or booming blade (your choice). In
                             addition, you learn to summon a melee
                             weapon from your ancestral history without
                           using an action. This weapon deals 1d8
                        bludgeoning, piercing, or slashing damage (your
                     choice) and has a 5 foot range. You may use your
                 charisma modifier on attack and damage rolls with
             the weapon, and you are considered proficient with it.

       You can summon your weapon a number of times per
        day equal to your charisma modifier. The weapon
       disappears after 1 minute, after 1 round if it leaves your
       grasp, or when you dismiss it as a bonus action.

Sacred Council

        Beginning at 6th level, as an action, you can call upon
          your ancestors to provide council. This advice grants
           you advantage on your next ability check within one
           minute. You can use this ability a number of times per
         long rest equal to your charisma modifier.

Warrior Spirit

At 10th level, you have developed a close relationship with a warrior ancestor whom you can summon to subtly guide and protect you in combat, granting you the following benefits:

• Once per short rest, when you fail a saving throw, you can choose to reroll and take the new result.
• Once per long rest, as a bonus action, you can call the warrior ancestor to protect you. For the next minute, attacks targeting you have disadvantage.

Spirit Walk

Beginning at 14th level, once per long rest, as an action, you can become incorporeal and invisible. While in this form, you can move in any direction, pass through solid objects, and are resistant to nonmagical damage, but cannot perform actions, bonus actions, or reactions. You remain in this form for up to one minute or until you use your action to end the effect.

Blood of Heroes

Beginning at 18th level, the spirits of your ancestors surround you, assisting in every strike and spell against your foes. You gain a bonus to damage rolls equal to your charisma modifier. In addition, creatures within five feet have disadvantage on saving throws to resist your spells.

Dragon Mystery Spells

Draconic Resistance

Beginning at 2nd level, like the great dragons, you are not easily harmed or injured. You gain resistance to a chosen damage type (either acid, cold, fire, lightning, or poison). In addition, you have advantage on constitution saving throws against magic.

Dragon Senses

At 6th level, your senses take on a keen draconic edge. You gain darkvision with a range of 60 feet (or increase the range of your darkvision by 30 feet). In addition, you have advantage
            on perception checks involving sight.

Imbued Magic

At 10th level, the primal power of dragonkind seethes within you imbuing your magic with destructive or protective draconic energy. When you cast a non-cantrip spell, you may choose one of the two following options:

• You deal damage equal to half your oracle level (rounded down) plus your charisma modifier to one creature of your choice that is hit by the spell or in its area of effect. The damage is the type chosen for the "draconic resistance" feature.
• Choose one creature of your choice that is targeted by the spell or in its area of effect. That creature gains temporary hit points equal to half your oracle level (rounded down) plus your charisma modifier.

Dragon Wings

Beginning at 14th level, like the great dragons, you can take to the skies and terrorize opponents from above. As a bonus action, you can manifest leathery dragon wings that grant you a flying speed equal to your current speed. They last until you dismiss them as a bonus action.

Draconic Presence

Beginning at 18th level, those who would oppose are struck with terror at your draconic majesty. Once per long rest, as a bonus action, you can exude an aura of awe or fear (your choice) to a distance of 60 feet. For 1 minute or until you lose your concentration (as if you were casting a concentration
                   spell), each hostile creature that starts its turn in
                        this aura must succeed on a Wisdom saving
                                    throw or be charmed (if you chose awe)
                                            or frightened (if you chose fear)
                                                                         until the aura ends.

Life Mystery

Oracles that pursue the mysteries of life itself gain the power to heal and restore themselves and allies. They become so attuned with the essence of life they can detect the presence of living creatures, prevent disease, and direct the flow of damage and healing in combat.

Health Bond

Beginning at 2nd level, as a bonus action, you may create a bond between yourself and another willing creature. At the start of your turn, if the bonded creature has taken damage since the beginning of your last turn, it heals an amount of hit points equal to half the damage taken. You then take necrotic damage equal to half the amount of hit points healed, which ignores resistance or immunity.

You may have one bond active at a time. This bond continues until you or the bonded creature are reduced to 0 hit points or you choose to end it (requires no action).

Purifying Aura

   Beginning at 6th level, allied creatures (including yourself) within 20 feet of you have advantage on saving throws to resist disease or poison.

Life Given and Taken

At 10th level, you learn to draw the life energy out of your foes and into your allies. When you heal a creature through a spell or the health bond feature, you also deal necrotic damage equal to half your oracle level (rounded down) plus your charisma modifier to all creatures of your choice within 5 feet of the healed target.

Lifesense

Beginning at 14th level, you notice and locate living and undead creatures within 30 feet, as if you had blindsense. You can distinguish which creatures are living or undead.

Healing Spirit

Beginning at 18th level, once per long rest, when you cast a spell that requires an action, you may become a beacon of pure healing energy. Once per round, while in this form, a creature that begins its turn within 5 feet of you or moves to within 5 feet of you automatically heals a number of hit points equal to 1d12 plus your charisma modifier, without requiring an action. When a creature is healed this way, you also heal the same number of hit points.

You may choose not to heal a creature, and you choose which creature (if any) is healed if there are multiple applicable targets at one time. You remain in this form for 1 minute, until you are incapacitated, or until you use a bonus action to end the effect.

Solar Mystery Spells

Blistered Caress

At 2nd level, you learn to channel the hostile, unforgiving heat of the sun into your magic. You learn the cantrip fire bolt, which does not count against your oracle cantrips known.

In addition, spells you cast of 1st level or higher deal additional fire damage equal to your charisma modifier to creatures of your choice affected by the spell.

Sungazer

Beginning at 6th level, you can study the sun and gaze upon any place light touches. Once per short rest, you may cast the spell clairvoyance, but only for visual observation and you can only place your sensor in places currently being touched by bright light.

At 10th level, you may use the spell scrying to observe a creature or location touched by bright light instead.

If a spell cast with this feature fails due to the target not being in bright light, your use of this ability is not expended.

Starlight Agility

                 Beginning at 10th level, you effortlessly weave
                      and dodge like light from a flickering flame. If
                       you move at least 15 feet in a straight line
                      during your turn, creatures have disadvantage on
                      attack rolls against you until the beginning of
                       your next turn.

Sun Stride

                          Beginning at 14th level, you can travel
                          between areas of bright light, granting you the
                                 following benefits:

• As a bonus action, you may teleport to a location with bright light, bringing along objects or a willing creature (following the requirements of the dimension door spell). You can sun stride a number of feet per long rest equal to 20 times your charisma score (not modifier).

• You gain the ability to sense locations of bright light within 100 feet.

Luminous Form

                                              Beginning at 18th level, once per
                                             long rest, you can transform your
                                             body into violently churning light as
                                            a bonus action, granting you the
                                             effects of the spell blur and causing
                                           your body to shed bright light for a
                                              range of 30 feet and dim light an
                                                   additional 30 feet.

                                                    Creatures that end their turn
                                                   within 10 feet of your luminous
                                                  form must make a constitution
                                               saving throw against your spell
                                                 save DC or be blinded for 1d4
                                             rounds. This form lasts for one
                                           minute or until you end it as a bonus
                                           action or fall unconscious.

Lunar Mystery

Individuals whose mysterious, divine powers are intimately linked to the moon, dreams, and madness, lunar oracles find inspiration and insight in lunar light.

Lunar Mystery Spells

Oracle Level	Spells
2nd	Sleep, Hideous Laughter
3rd	Moonbeam, Augury
5th	Enemies Abound, Crown of Madness
7th	Confusion, Divination
9th	Dream, Commune

Touch of Mania

                              Beginning at 2nd level, through subtle
                             enchantment, your spells seem particularly
                             effective to your allies but only in their mind.
                             Once per round, when you cast a spell, you
                               may choose a creature that was targeted by
                                 the spell or in its area of effect. That
                                  creature gains a number of temporary
                                  hitpoints equal to twice the spell's level. If
                               the spell deals damage, the temporary hit
                             points are applied after the damage is taken.
                             These temporary hit points expire after 1
                           minute.

                     Only one creature may benefit from these
                        temporary hit points at a time. If you grant
                        temporary hit points to a second creature, the
                         first loses theirs.

Nocturnal Companion

                                   At 6th level, you gain the service of a
                                   faithful animal of the night. As an action,
                                 you can cast the spell find familiar without
                              material components to summon this
                            companion, which takes the form of a
                          nocturnal animal (your choice upon casting),
                         has the stats of a creature of your choice in the
                       find familiar spell, and is fey.

                 As an action, when your familiar is in dim light or
                       darkness, you can cause it to become invisible.
                     The invisibility lasts until the familiar enters an
                     area of bright light. Your familiar has proficiency
                    in stealth checks and uses your charisma modifier
                   for them in place of dexterity.

Moonlight Mantle

         Beginning at 10th level, like the moon itself, you
       illusively reflect light to illude your foes. Once per short
     rest, as a bonus action, you can cause the effects of the mirror image spell on a willing creature that you can see, without expending a spell slot or requiring concentration.

Moonlit Script

Beginning at 14th level, during each long rest, while you sleep or trance, your hands produce mysterious writing that pertains to the future. This takes the form of a divination spell with two available questions. Both questions are asked before an answer to either has been received.

Lunacy

Beginning at 18th level, your spells carry with them the taint of madness. Once per round, when you cast a non-cantrip spell, you may choose one creature that was hit by the spell or in its area of effect to make a wisdom saving throw against your spell save DC. If a creature fails a saving throw to resist the spell, it automatically fails this wisdom saving throw.

On a failed save, that creature suffers the effects of the confusion spell and may attempt a wisdom saving throw at the end of each of its turns to end the effect. On a successful save to resist or end the effect, the creature is immune to this ability for 24 hours.

Bone Mystery Spells

Undead Servant

At 2nd level, you animate a humanoid corpse with undeath to serve you. This servant grows in power as you do. If your servant dies, you can spend your downtime during a long rest to reanimate it. Your servant is dismissed if you die.

Your undead servant uses the stat block on this page, which uses your proficiency bonus (PB) in several places.

In combat, the undead servant shares your initiative count, but it takes its turn immediately after yours. Unless commanded otherwise, the servant approaches and attacks the nearest hostile creature that it has a clear path to (if two or more enemies are an equal distance away, you choose which your servant approaches).

You may use your bonus action to mentally command the servant to perform a different simple task, such as attacking a different target, taking the dodge action, dashing in a certain direction, or following you or another creature.

Voice of the Grave

Beginning at 6th level, once per long rest, you can use your action to cast the spell Speak With Dead without expending a spell slot. When cast this way, you may ask a number of questions equal to your charisma modifier.

Armor of Bones

Beginning at 10th level, you can use the bones of a dead medium or larger creature to conjure bone armor onto your body as an action. Bone armor has the same characteristics as scale mail, but counts as light armor for the purposes of proficiency, does not give disadvantage to stealth checks, and weighs 15 pounds. When removed, this armor falls apart into the original set of bones used in its creation.

Lifesense

Beginning at 14th level, you notice and locate living and undead creatures within 30 feet, as if you had blindsense. You can distinguish which creatures are living or undead.

Champion of the Undead

Beginning at 18th level, you can have two undead servants animated at a time. The servants continue to take their turn immediately following yours and you choose which servant acts first. When you use your bonus action to mentally command them, you can give each separate commands.

In addition, creatures can be frightened by
your undead servants' touch of death
attack even if they are
immune to the
frightened
condition.

Winter Mystery Spells

Snow Flurry

At 2nd level, your learn to manipulate cold and snow. You learn the cantrip ray of frost, which does not count against your oracle cantrips known.

In addition, once per round, when you target a creature with a spell, you may choose to create a flurry of snow around them that lasts until the beginning of your next turn. Creatures affected by the snow flurry are lightly obscured, and ranged attacks against those
creatures are made with
disadvantage.

Commune with Winter

At 6th level, you learn to draw knowledge and insight from snowfall and ice. Once per long rest, in icy or snowy terrain, you may cast the spell commune with nature as an action without expending a spell slot. You may alternatively perform this feature in other terrain types, but you only learn one fact of your choice from those listed in the spell.

Icy Armor

Beginning at 10th level, you can freeze water around yourself to gain a layer of icy protection. Once per long rest, as an action, you can summon this ice armor which can be worn on top of regular armor and lasts for 1 hour. While wearing the armor, you gain a +2 bonus to AC and resistance to fire damage.

If you take at least 20 points of fire damage at one time (before resistance), the armor melts and must be recreated to receive its benefits again. You still have resistance to the instance of fire damage that melted it.

Blizzard Soul

At 14th level, you become one with cold and winter, granting you the following benefits:

• Both magical and nonmagical fog, clouds, sleet, rain, snow, etc. do not obscure or block your sight.
• You gain resistance to cold damage.
• You do not suffer any negative effects caused by a cold environment.

Freezing Magic

At 18th level, your wintry magic becomes extremely cold and
  debilitating. When a creature fails a saving throw against
  one of your spells that deals cold damage, it automatically
    suffers the effects of the slow spell until the beginning of
        your next turn.

          Similarly, when you hit a creature with a spell that
                  deals cold damage, that creature must make a
                       constitution saving throw against your spell
                               save DC. On a failure, the creature
                                                   experiences the same slowing
                                                      effects until the beginning of
                                                              your next turn.