Class Features

As a zealot, you gain the following class features

Vampiric Embrace

You have a pool of vampiric dice which allow you to transfer life force from yourself to an ally or to drain the life of a foe. These dice are represented by d10s and you have an amount equal to your proficiency bonus. As an action, you can touch a creature and draw upon any number of dice from the pool.

If the target is willing, you lose hit points equal to the total result and the creature regains that many hit points.

If the target is unwilling, you force them to make a Constitution saving throw of which the DC is 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Charisma modifier. On a failed save, they take necrotic damage equal to the vampiric dice result and you regain hit points equal to damage taken. On a successful save, the target suffers no effects and your vampiric dice are not expended.

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

Pact Magic

At 2nd level, the magic bestowed upon you by your dark will have given you facility with spells akin to a warlock.

Aura of Terror

Beginning at 6th level, whenever a hostile creature within 10 feet of you must make a saving throw, the creature suffers a penalty to the saving throw equal to your Charisma modifier (with a minimum penalty of -1). You stop granting this penalty while you're incapacitated.

Agent of Treachery

Beginning at 10th level, if you would ever become frightened, you become empowered for 1 minute instead, rolling a d4 and adding the number rolled to attacks and saving throws you make for the duration.

Dreadful Strikes

At 11th level, you are so suffused with zealous might that all your melee weapon strikes carry withering power with them. Whenever you hit a creature with a melee weapon, the creature takes an extra 1d6 necrotic damage.

Snuff Hope

At 14th level, while you're holding a runic weapon, you can use your reaction to attempt to interrupt the casting of a spell from a creature you can see within 60 feet of you.

If the creature is casting a spell of 3rd level or lower, its spell fails and has no effect. If it is casting a spell of 4th level or higher, make an ability check using your Charisma. The DC equals 10 + the spell’s level. On a success, the creature’s spell fails and has no effect.

You can use this feature once per long rest unless you expend a spell slot to use it again.

Aura Improvement

At 18th level, the range of your auras increase to 30 feet.

Dogmatic Rite

Becoming a zealot involves taking vows that commit the zealot to the cause of chaos, an active path of undying zeal. The final rite, taken when he or she reaches 3rd level, is the culmination of all the zealot’s training.

Some characters with this class don’t consider themselves true zealots until they have reached 3rd level and completed this rite. For others, the actual swearing of the rite is a formality, an official stamp on what has always been true in the zealot’s vile and wretched heart.

Rite of Death

The Rite of Death originates from a zealot's twisted idea of the cycle, corrupted by their fanaticism for the pale horseman. Zealots of this rite often warp the common understanding of life and its substance, acting as necromancers and reapers.

Deathspeaker

Beginning at 7th level, as an action, you can cast speak with dead using this feature without a spell slot or material components by expending one vampiric die.

Ossuary

Beginning at 7th level, you learn to further harness the power of unlife, allowing you to forcibly employ the servitude of an undead thrall.

As a bonus action, you can cast animate dead using this feature and can target the bones or corpse of a beast, in addition to humanoids. The creature you make is always under your command, not requiring the use of your bonus action to control it during its turn. You regain the use of this feature if the creature you make would die or when you finish a long rest. You can only control one creature at a time and control over the thrall can't be taken away from you.

The creature you make gains temporary hit points equal to twice your Charisma modifier when its made and each time you short rest. The creature gains a bonus to their AC, attack rolls, and damage rolls equal to your proficiency bonus.

Flesh Sculptor

Beginning at 15th level, when you use your Ossuary feature, you can target the bones or corpse of a Large creature to create a grave titan or create three in any combination of skeletons and zombies, based on the remains.

The grave titan's game statistics are shown in the accompanying stat block, which uses your proficiency bonus (PB) in several places.

Aspect of Death

At 20th level, you can seize a trace of vitality from a parting soul and use it to mend the living. When an enemy dies within your Aura of Terror, you or one creature of your choice that is within your aura regains hit points equal to the enemy’s number of Hit Dice. You can use this feature only if you aren’t incapacitated. Once you use it, you can’t do so again until the start of your next turn.

Rite of Famine

The Rite of Famine originates from imperial authorities utilizing zealots to control harvests, corrupted by their fanaticism for the black horseman. Zealots of this rite often seek to dominate others through attrition, acting as jailers and tyrants.

Rite of Famine Spells

You gain rite spells at the zealot levels listed.

Rite of Famine Invocation

Your interest in the machinations of control warps you into a cold-hearted manipulator, granting the following invocation:

Bonus Proficiencies

You gain proficiency in Intimidation and Nature. If you're proficient with one, you gain expertise in it instead.

Wilting Crown

Beginning at 3rd level, as a bonus action, you can expend a vampiric die to target an amount of creatures you can see within 30 feet equal to your Charisma modifier, marking each of them a crown of spectral, decaying flowers that appear around the their head. A mark can be shattered (no action), causing it to disappear but provides additional effects.

When a marked creature would take any damage, you can shatter it to amplify or reduce the damage by one roll of your vampiric die + your Charisma modifier.

Alternatively, you can shatter any creature's mark to grant them an amount of temporary hit points equal to one roll of your vampiric die + your Charisma modifier.

Grim Harvest

Beginning at 7th level, you can expend one vampiric die to regain one expended zealot spell slot (no action).

Domination

Beginning at 7th level, you can cast command using this feature by expending one zealot spell slot. When you do so, on a failed save, the target suffers a penalty to their AC equal to your Charisma modifier for the spell's duration.

Crown of Weakness

Beginning at 15th level, your Wilting Crowns start to radiate enfeebling energy, causing any attack rolls against a marked friendly creature to be made with Disadvantage and any attack rolls against a marked hostile creature to be made with Advantage.

Aspect of Famine

Beginning at 20th level, whenever any creature tries to attack you for the first time on a turn, you can force the attacker to make a Charisma saving throw against your spell save DC. On a failed save, it can’t attack you on this turn, and it must choose a new target for its attack or the attack is wasted. On a successful save, it can attack you on this turn, but it has disadvantage on any saving throw it makes against your spells or effects on your next turn.

You can use this feature only once per round.

Rite of War

The Rite of War originates from zealots who seek the thrill of battle, corrupted by their fanaticism for the red horseman. Zealots of this rite often seek to punish those who oppose them, acting as generals and soldiers.

Zealot Eldritch Invocations

In the process of your zealous devotion, you have unearthed Eldritch Invocations, fragments of forsaken knowledge that imbue you with an abiding magical ability.

If an eldritch invocation has prerequisites, you must meet them to learn it. You can learn the invocation at the same time that you meet its prerequisites. A level prerequisite refers to your level in this class. You can only have one Fighting Style at a time.

Zealot Spell List

Anti-Magic Armor

1st-level abjuration

• Casting Time: 1 reaction, which you take when you would be forced to make a saving throw against a spell's effect
• Range: Self
• Components: V
• Duration: Instantaneous

The spell dampens the incoming effects, allowing you to make the saving throw with Advantage. If you already have Advantage on the save, you can reroll one of the dice once.

Anti-Magic Zone

4th-level abjuration

• Casting Time: 1 action
• Range: Self (10-foot-radius hemisphere)
• Components: V, S, M (a fistful of dirt)
• Duration: Concentration, up to 1 minute

A 10-foot-radius immobile dome of force springs into existence around and above you and remains stationary for the duration. The spell ends if you leave its area.

The dome dampens the incoming effects, allowing creatures inside to make saving throws against spell effects with Advantage. If they already have Advantage on the save, they can reroll one of the dice once.

Aura of Hate

3rd-level evocation

• Casting Time: 1 action
• Range: Self (30-foot-radius)
• Components: V
• Duration: Concentration, up to 1 minute

Hateful energy radiates from you in an aura with a 30-foot radius, awakening bloodthirst in friendly creatures. Until the spell ends, the aura moves with you, centered on you. While in the aura, each non-hostile creature in the aura (including you) deals an extra 1d4 necrotic damage when it hits with a weapon attack.

At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 4th level or higher, the damage increases by 1d4 for each slot level above 3rd.

Circle of Strength

5th-level evocation

• Casting Time: 1 action
• Range: Self (30-foot-radius)
• Components: V
• Duration: Concentration, up to 1 minute

Dark energy radiates from you, distorting and diffusing magical energy within 30 feet of you. Until the spell ends, the sphere moves with you, centered on you. For the duration, each friendly creature in the area (including you) has advantage on attack rolls.

Additionally, each affected creature can score a critical hit on a roll of 19 or 20.

Death Defiance

4th-level abjuration

• Casting Time: 1 reaction, which you take when you or a creature you can see within range suffers a critical hit
• Range: 30 feet
• Components: V, S
• Duration: Instantaneous

The hit turns into a normal hit and any effects triggered by a critical hit are canceled.

Deathly Grip

3rd-level evocation

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

You harness the energy that surrounds and binds all matter, manifesting a shadowy hand that lashes out at your command toward a creature within range. Make a melee spell attack against the target. If the attack hits, the creature takes 2d8 necrotic damage, and if the creature is Large or smaller, you pull the creature up to 15 feet closer to you.

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

Shush

2nd-level illusion

• Casting Time: 1 action
• Range: 30 feet
• Components: V, S
• Duration: 1 minute

You bring a finger to your lips as you attempt to envelope a creature you can see within range in silencing energy. The creature must succeed on a Charisma saving throw or become enveloped for the duration. An enveloped creature is immune to thunder damage, has Advantage on Stealth checks, and creates no sounds. Casting a spell that includes a verbal component is impossible.

At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 3rd level or higher, you can target one additional creature for each slot level above 4th.

Unholy Weapon

5th-level necromancy

• Casting Time: 1 action
• Range: 30 feet
• Components: V, S
• Duration: 1 hour

You imbue a weapon you touch with unholy power. For the duration, weapon attacks made with it deal an extra 3d10 necrotic on a hit and you regain hit points equal to half the total damage dealt. If the weapon isn’t already a magic weapon, it becomes one for the duration.

If you cast this spell again on a different weapon, the spell's effects vanish from the previous weapon.

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