Stygian

With flaring red eyes, a human drips blood from her
fingernails as a fireball turns the enemy mind flayers
to cinders and their burning heals her allies.

Limping from a near death injury, a half-orc labeled a
heretic reverberates a wave of shattering sound augmented
by a sacrifice of their own life energy. Those calling them a heretic soon drop to the ground.

Enshrouded in darkness, a nimble elf dances around blinded foes on the battlefield and hears a cry from one of his allies. He reaches out and magically takes her wound on his own body, carrying the weight of the axe that struck her.

Stygians are empowered by their worship of vampiric gods. Some worship one specific goddess or venerate a pantheon, some devote themselves to a particular aspect of a many-faced god. Their talents cannot be read in a book and are not given to them as some gift, but earned with the blood, sweat and tears of the faithful - whether they're called heretics or not.

Hit Points

• Hit Dice: 1d10 per stygian level
• Hit Points at 1st Level: 10 + your Constitution modifier
• Hit Points at Higher Levels: 1d10 (or 6) + your
  Constitution modifier per stygian level after 1st

Proficiencies

• Armor: light armor, medium armor
• Weapons: None
• Tools: None

• Saving Throws: Wisdom, Charisma
• Skills: Choose two from Arcana, Deception, History, Insight, Medicine, Nature, Perception, and Religion

Equipment

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

• (a) a cloak worth 10 gp or (b) a cloak worth 50 gp
• (a) two daggers or (b) a shortbow
• (a) a priest's pack or (b) a dungeoneer's pack
• a quarterstaff

Cult Cloak

Starting at 1st level, you are well versed in the ways of hidden power. When you wear your cloak worth 10 gp or the cloak worth 50 gp, they give you AC as if they were leather armor or scale mail respectively. You can fashion other cult cloaks that give you AC equal to other armors you are proficient in, or modify an existing cloak (even if it's magical), spending a number of gold equal to or more than the armor's cost.

Cantrips

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

Spell Slots

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

You know four 1st-level spells of your choice from the stygian spell list. The Spells Known column of the Stygian table shows when you learn more stygian spells of your choice. Each of these spells must be of a level for which you have spell slots.

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

Spellcasting Ability

Wisdom is the spellcasting ability for your stygian spells. Your power comes from attunement to the vampire gods. You use your Wisdom whenever a dancer spell refers to your spellcasting ability. In addition, you use your Wisdom modifier when setting the saving throw DC for a stygian spell you cast and when making an attack roll with one.

Cantrips of Blood

You cannot use both features below on the same cantrip until you reach 10th level as a stygian.

Wound. When you deal damage with a cantrip, you can lose a number of hitpoints equal to your cantrips known on the Stygian table and add it to the cantrip's damage.

Chase. When you cast a cantrip, you can lose a number of hitpoints equal to your cantrips known on the Stygian table and increase the range by 5 feet times your hitpoints spent.

Spells of Blood

You cannot use both features below on the same spell until you reach 10th level as a stygian.

Spire. When you deal damage with a spell of 1st-level or higher, you can lose a number of hitpoints equal to your spells known on the Stygian table and add it to that damage.

Chalice. When you deal damage with a spell of 1st-level or higher, you can lose a number of hitpoints equal to your spells known on the Stygian table. For that amount you can heal a number of creatures you can see equal to your Wisdom modifier. You cannot heal yourself with Chalice.

You can't reduce this hitpoint loss in any way.

Partition Spells

Each partition has a list of spells - its partition spells - that you gain immediately or at the stygian levels noted in the partition description. Once you gain a partition spell, you always know it, and it doesn't count against the number of spells you know. A partition spell is always a stygian spell for you.

Partition of the Heart

You are the understudy to the vampire god's disciples, and you know you are to supercede them to fulfill your sanguine life.

Partition of the Flame Spells

Hand Over Flame

Beginning at 3rd level, you know the produce flame cantrip. When you hurl the flame, it requires a Constitution saving throw for you (instead of making a ranged attack), you can hurl it at a creature within 60 feet of you, and you can add your Constitution modifier to the damage roll.

Light the Way

Also at 3rd level, you can set your entire body on fire when you cast produce flame. Any creature that starts its turn next to you while you are entirely on fire takes half the damage from your produce flame as if they had failed the save. If you end your turn without spending your entire movespeed, you also take half the damage as if you had failed the save. Taking this damage never requires a concentration saving throw from you.

You can set yourself entirely on fire a number of times equal to your Wisdom modifier, and can douse yourself any time on your turn. You regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest.

Flames Take Me

At 6th level, you are immune to the fire damage of your own spells of 1st level or higher and have resistance to fire damage.

Candlecrown

Starting at 14th level, while you are entirely on fire, you can spend any amount of movespeed to teleport adjacent to a fire you can see on your turn, including from your spells.

Divine Flicker

At 18th level, you can achieve a divine flicker of the eternal flame. As an action, you can gain temporary hitpoints equal to your hitpoint maximum.

Once you take this action, you can't take it again until you finish a long rest.

Partition of the Soil Spells

Hand Over Soil

Beginning at 3rd level, you know the mold earth cantrip. When you cast it, you can manipulate it instantaneously to target a creature within 60 feet. The target must succeed on a Constitution saving throw or take 1d8 bludgeoning damage, and you can add your Constitution modifier to the damage roll.

The cantrip's damage increases to 2d8 at 5th level, 3d8 at 11th, and 4d8 at 17th.

Clear the Path

Also at 3rd level, you can use the earth to clear the path in front of you as an action. The ground in 15-foot wide line stretching 45 feet out from you becomes simple terrain if it was difficult, and any creature within the line must make a Strength saving throw or be pushed to the closest side outside of the line.

You can clear the path a number of times equal to your Wisdom modifier. You regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest.

Resilient Earth

At 6th level, you gain proficiency in Constitution saving throws.

Traverse the Ground

Starting at 14th level, you gain a burrowing speed of 30 feet. You can burrow through dirt and sand, but not stone or other solid foundations.

Decompose

At 18th level, you gain the power of decay and renewal. As an action you can consume and decompose a Medium, Large, or Huge corpse, and you regain any number of your hitpoints.

Once you take this action, you can't take it again until you finish a long rest.

Partition of the Waves Spells

Partition of the Gold Spells

Partition of the Wode Spells

Below is the spell list for you to choose your stygian spells from. Stygian gains all spells from the Dark Arts Player's Companion on its spell list. A spell marked with * is contained in this document, and a spell marked with + is contained in meow magic.