Hit Points

• Hit Dice: 1d8 per demonologist level
• Hit Points at 1st Level: 8 + your Constitution modifier
• Hit Points at Higher Levels: 1d8 (or 5) + your Constitution modifier per demonologist level after 1st

Proficiencies

• Armor: Light armor, medium armor, shields
• Weapons: Simple weapons
• Tools: None

• Saving Throws: Constitution, Intelligence
• Skills: Choose two from Arcana, Religion, Investigation, Perception, Survival, Insight, Deception, or Intimidation

Equipment

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

• (a) a light crossbow and 20 bolts or (b) any simple weapon
• (a) a scholar's pack or (b) a dungeoneer's pack
• (a) An arcane focus or (b) a component pouch
• Leather armor, any simple weapon, and two daggers

Cantrips Known

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

Spell Slots

The Demonologist table shows how many spell slots you have to cast your 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 Burning Hands and have a 1st-level and a 2nd-level spell slot available, you can cast Burning Hands using either slot.

Spells Known of 1st Level and Higher

You know two 1st-level spells of your choice from the demonologist spell list.

The Spells Known column of the Demonologist table shows when you learn more demonologist spells of your choice. Each of these spells must be of a level for which you have spell slots. For instance, when you reach 5th level in this class, you can learn one new spell of 1st or 2nd level.

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

Spellcasting Ability

Intelligence is your spellcasting ability for your demonologist spells, as your spells are drawn from your research on demons and their magic. You use your Intelligence whenever a spell refers to your spellcasting ability. In addition, you use your Intelligence modifier when setting the saving throw DC for a demonologist spell you cast and when making an attack roll with one.

Sect of Binding Features

Hell's Chains

When you choose this sect at 3rd level, your Demonic Brand feature improves.

Any creature branded by you has their movement speed halved for the duration of the brand.

Bound Demon

Also at 3rd level, you have bound a lesser demon to your will. You can summon it as a bonus action, causing it to appear in an unoccupied space of your choice within 30 feet of you.

The demon is friendly to you and your companions, and it obeys your commands. See its game statistics in the accompanying demon Companion stat block, which uses your proficiency bonus (PB) in several places.

In combat, the demon shares your initiative count, but it takes its turn immediately after yours. It can move and use its reaction on its own, but the only action it takes on its turn is the Dodge action, unless you take a bonus action on your turn to command it to take another action. That action can be one in its stat block or some other action. If you are incapacitated, the demon can take any action of its choice, not just Dodge. You can command your bound demon with the same bonus action to take to use your Demonic Brand feature.

The demon remains until it is reduced to 0 hit points, until you use this feature to summon the demon again, or until you die. Anything the demon was wearing or carrying is left behind when the demon vanishes.

Once you summon the demon, you can’t do so again until you finish a long rest, unless you expend a spell slot of 1st level or higher to summon it.

Bind Evil

At 5th level, you can bind your most wicked foes. You learn the Hold Person spell, which does not count against the number of spells you know. When you cast this spell, you can choose either a humanoid or a fiend as the target.

When you reach 17th level, you also learn the Hold Monster spell, which likewise does not count against the number of spells you know.

Dark Evolution

At 9th level, your demon grows in power. Your bound demon gains one of the following benefits of your choice.

• Flight. Your bound demon grows wings, granting it a fly speed of 30 feet.
• Shapechange. Your bound demon can take the Shapechange action, allowing it to assume the form of any Medium humanoid or to revert back to its original form.

At 17th level, you can choose to grant your demon one of the above benefits or one of the following benefits.

• Resilient. Your bound demon becomes immune to fire damage, and becomes resistant to bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing damage.
• Vehement. Your bound demon's Fiery Claw and Hell's Flame attacks have their damage die increased by two sizes (such as a d6 to a d10 or a d8 to a d12).

Fight Fire with Fire

At 13th level, your demon serves your ends, even against its own kind. Your bound demon benefits from your Hellfire feature, and when it hits a creature branded by you with an attack, that creature takes the brand's damage. A creature can still only take your brand damage once per round.

Sect of Devastation Features

Flames of Fury

When you choose this sect at 3rd level, your Demonic Brand feature improves.

You roll d6's for your brand damage, instead of d4's.

Wreak Havoc

Also at 3rd level, you can invoke your brand with spells of great destruction. When a branded creature fails a saving throw against a demonologist spell you cast that deals damage, they take the brand's damage. A creature can still only take your brand damage once per round.

Chaotic Blaze

At 5th level, you can summon flames around yourself or your foes. Whenever you cast a demonologist spell of 1st-level or higher that deals damage, you can choose yourself or one of the targets of the spell. Every creature within 5 feet of the chosen creature then takes fire damage equal to twice the level of the spell, not including the chosen creature.

You can only use this feature once per round, even if you cast multiple spells in a round.

Ruinous

At 9th level, your spells are particularly destructive. When you cast a demonologist spell that deals damage, you can add your Intelligence modifier to one of the damage rolls.

Rampant Destruction

At 13th level, you can create multiple brands at once. When you use your Demonic Brand feature, you can create any number of brands instead of one. You must expend a spell slot for each brand you create, and each creature can still only carry one of your brands at a time.

Apocalypse

At 17th level, your destruction knows no bounds. When you roll dice to deal damage with a demonologist spell or demonologist feature, you can choose to instead choose the maximum value for each die (for example, 5d6 becomes 30).

You can use this feature a number of times equal to your Intelligence modifier, and you regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest.

Sect of Hatred Features

Animosity

When you choose this sect at 3rd level, your Demonic Brand feature improves.

When you use your Demonic Brand feature, you can make a weapon attack as part of that bonus action. Alternatively, when you take the Attack action, you can use your Demonc Brand feature as part of that action.

Hunter's Hatred

Also at 3rd level, you have picked up the techniques to fight demons head on. You gain the following benefits.

• You gain proficiency in martial weapons.
• Your movement speed increases by 10 feet.
• You can give yourself a bonus to your initiative rolls equal to your Intelligence modifier.

Extra Attack

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

Demon Blades

At 9th level, you can infuse your weapons with demonic power. When you finish a long rest, you can touch one or two weapons with which you are proficient and infuse them with demonic energy. The chosen weapons become magical for the purposes of overcoming resistance to nonmagical attacks and damage, and when you hit a creature with them, they deal an additional 1d6 fire damage.

This persists until you use this feature again to choose new weapons to gain this benefit.

Unending Pursuit

At 13th level, you are so determined to hunt your prey that you would pursue them to the ends of the planes. As a bonus action, you can teleport to an unoccupied space adjacent to a creature branded by you, so long as that creature is within a number of feet equal to 10 + 10 x the level of spell slot expended to create that brand.

Slayer of Legions

At 17th level, you are capable of destroying entire demonic legions in the blink of an eye. You learn the Steel Wind Strike spell, which does not count against the number of spells you know. For you, this spell deals fire damage instead of force damage, and you can use a ranged weapon as the material component.

You can cast this spell once without expending a spell slot. Once you do so, you cannot do so again until you finish a long rest; however, you can still cast the spell using spell slots as normal.

Sect of Inquisition Features

Infernal Inquiry

When you choose this sect at 3rd level, your Demonic Brand feature improves.

When a creature within 30 feet of you makes an attack against a creature branded by you, you can use your reaction to grant the attacker advantage on the triggering attack roll.

Scholar of Hell

Also at 3rd level, you have spent more time studying demons than most. When you make a check that could benefit from your Demonology feature, instead of making the check with advantage, you can choose to automatically succeed. You can do this a number of times equal to your Intelligence modifier, and regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest.

You also learn the Detect Magic spell, which does not count against the number of spells you know, and can cast it at will, without expending a spell slot.

Fiery Interdiction

At 5th level, you can punish your foes for daring to attack your allies. When a creature that you can see within 30 feet of you makes an attack roll, you can force that creature to make a Constitution saving throw against your demonologist spell save DC. On a failed save, you impose disadvantage on the triggering attack roll, and the target takes fire damage equal to your demonologist level.

You have a number of uses of this feature equal to your Intelligence modifier, and regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest.

Reveal Power

At 9th level, you are an expert at revealing deception. You can now use your Reveal Deceit feature as a bonus action.

Additionally, you can also reveal the power of your foes. When you use Reveal Deceit, choose one creature within the effect's radius. You learn one of the following characteristics of that creature (you choose which).

• The creature's current and maximum hit points
• The creature Armor Class
• All of the creature's saving throw proficiencies
• All of the creature's skill proficiencies
• All of the creature's damage resistances and immunities
• All of the creature's condition immunities

Alternatively, instead of learning one of the above characteristics, you can choose to grant a creature within the effect's radius advantage on their next attack roll against the chosen creature.

Interrogate

At 13th level, the strikes of your allies can invoke your brand. When you use your Infernal Inquiry feature to grant advantage on an attack roll against a branded target and the attack hits, the branded creature takes the brand's damage. A creature can still only take your brand damage once per round.

Judge and Jury

At 17th level, nothing goes unnoticed by you. Once per round, you can use the reaction granted by your Infernal Inquiry feature or your Fiery Interdiction feature without using your reaction. You cannot take more than one reaction during a single turn using this feature.

Sect of Metamorphosis Features

Revel in Pain

When you choose this sect at 3rd level, your Demonic Brand feature improves.

Once per turn when you deal your brand damage, you gain temporary hit points equal to the damage dealt.

Demonic Transformation

Also at 3rd level, you can partially transform into a demon. If you have at least one brand active, you take on a more demonic appearance, gaining the following benefits.

• Your skin hardens, granting you an AC of 13 + your Intelligence modifier. You only gain this benefit if you are not wearing armor or wielding a shield.

• You gain an unarmed strike that deals 1d8 bludgeoning, piercing, or slashing damage (you choose which). It uses your Intelligence modifier for the attack and damage rolls. You decide what form it takes: sharp claws, large horns, a barbed tail, or another demonic feature of your choice.

Extra Attack

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

Wicked Wings

At 9th level, you can sprout demonic wings. While under the effects of your Demonic Transformation feature, you have a flight speed of 30 feet.

Demon Blood

At 13th level, demonic blood flows through you, protecting you from your foes. When a branded creature hits you with an attack, you can use your reaction to gain a bonus to your AC against the triggering attack, potentially causing it to miss. The bonus to your AC is equal to the level of spell slot expended to create that creature's brand.

If you use this reaction and the attack misses, the attacker takes the brand's damage. A creature can still only take your brand damage once per round.

Devil's Defiance

At 17th level, your refusal to die rivals that of the devils of Hell. When you are reduced to 0 hit points, you can choose to expend a demonologist spell slot. You immediately regain 10 hit points per level of the spell slot, and every creature of your choice within 30 feet of you takes 5 fire damage per level of the spell slot.

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

Sect of Purification Features

Brand of Sanctity

When you choose this sect at 3rd level, your Demonic Brand feature improves.

Your brand damage is radiant, instead of fire. Additionally, when you place a brand on a creature, you can choose to purify it. When you place a purified brand on a creature, that creature regains hit points equal to the brand's damage. When a creature with a purified brand takes damage, you can use your reaction to invoke the brand, restoring hit points to that creature equal to the brand's damage.

Sacred Magic

Also at 3rd level, you learn to wield the magic of the gods. When your Spellcasting feature lets you learn a demonologist cantrip or a demonologist spell of 1st level or higher, you can choose the new spell from the cleric spell list or the demonologist spell list. You must otherwise obey all the restrictions for selecting the spell, and it becomes a demonologist spell for you.

Additionally, whenever you cast a demonologist spell that deals fire damage, you can choose for that casting of the spell to deal radiant damage instead. Radiant damage benefits from your Hellfire feature as if it were fire damage.

Aura of Restoration

At 5th level, you can exude an aura of cleansing magic. You learn the Lesser Restoration spell, which does not count against the number of spells you know.

When you reach 17th level, you also learn the Greater Restoration spell, which likewise does not count against the number of spells you know.

When you cast either of the spells granted by this feature, you can choose to turn it into an aura, allowing it to affect each creature of your choice within 10 feet of you. Once you do this, you can't do so again until you finish a long rest.

Purge Deceit

At 9th level, you can eradicate deceptive magic. When you use your Reveal Deceit feature, you can choose to expend 2 uses to purge deceit. Instead of the normal effects of Reveal Deceit, you gain the following benefits.

• You immediately dispel every illusion within the effect's radius.
• You reveal every invisible creature within the effect's radius, making them visible.
• You close any portal to the Lower Planes within the effect's radius.
• You force every creature within the effect's radius to revert to its normal form if it was shapeshifted.

When you purge deceit, you can also expend 2 uses of your Eradicate Demon feature. When you do, every demon within the effect's radius with a CR at or below the threshold is destroyed as per that feature.

Once you purge deceit, you cannot do so again until you finish a long rest.

Divine Decree

At 13th level, you can invoke your brands through sheer will. As a bonus action, you can choose one creature within 30 feet of you branded by you. Roll the brand's damage; the creature takes radiant damage equal to the result, or regains hit points equal to the result if the brand was purified.

Heaven's Assent

At 17th level, you are backed by the righteous will of the heavens. When you would normally roll one or more dice to restore hit points with a spell, you instead use the highest number possible for each die. For example, instead of restoring 5d4 hit points to a creature, you restore 20.

Your purified brands benefit from this feature, but only when you use a reaction to invoke them, not when you use your bonus action to do so as per your Divine Decree feature.