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## Erilaz (Rune Warrior)
<span style="font-variant:small-caps;">A small halfling returns to the largest library in the</span> land, and moves to the same section that she has for months. This forgotten corner of the archives is the area detailing ancient runes and their power. This is an area of magic that is not well understood, and so is being lost as more mages turn to traditional spellcasting. The halfling smiles to herself as a glowing symbol appears on her hand. She points to a silent candelabra and a small, spherical mote of flame begins gently hovering around it, giving off a soft light. She cracks the same book that she has been working on for weeks, and begins to read...

Clad in armor and brandishing a hammer glowing with ancient runes, a dwarf leads his company deeper into the lost catacombs. Every noise they hear is cause for alarm, but the dwarf steels himself against whatever dangers might come leaping from the shadows. It was stated in an ancient text that a lost power was hidden here millenia ago, and he believes that it is a rune of power. He listens for a moment, adjusts his braided beard, and signals to keep moving...

An elf living alone deep in the woods is confused as the sounds of many voices enter her field. She steps outside of her home to find dozens of people have arrived, one of them carrying a small child. The child is sick, they explain, and there is no time for anyone to help but her. With barely an acknowledgement that she understood, her hands begin to glow brightly, as she pulls out chalks, ash, and other assorted items and begins drawing a symbol on the ground. Soon, the symbol begins to glow, and a single, colorful flower sprouts from it. She plucks the flower, hurries to the child, and puts the flower in their mouth. A moment passes and, finally, the child groggily opens their eyes...

An erilaz is a mage who studies the art of ancient runes, powerful symbols which create magic from simply having their shape drawn and invoked. In ancient times, rune magic was much more prominent, but it has fallen into disuse since more modern spellcasting has come into popularity. This leaves many runes and their powers locked in ancient catacombs, forgotten libraries, and hiding on dusty bookshelves in plain sight.

### Forgotten Magic
Each rune is based on a single magical word which, when mastered, gives the invoker total power over the dominion of the rune. The **Bolt** rune, for example, gives an erilaz the ability to control lightning, allowing them to summon it, keep it at bay, or even redirect it into the path of their enemies.

These runes were created in ancient times. Rune mages of history spent years, decades, and centuries tying the innate magic of the words to the weave of magic itself. All of their hard work and sacrifice paid off, and now one only needs to draw the symbol of the rune or invoke its presence in order to benefit from its power.

### Lost Secrets
While the power of runes have been inextricably tied to their symbols, these symbols and their power fell out of prominence after a great cataclysm, with magic needing to be discovered all over again. The runes have lost none of their power, but one must seek out and discover these runes in order to understand their secrets. Expeditions to seek out new runes are difficult to form, as modern spellcasting is often seen as being just as powerful as rune magic, if not more so.

A life seeking out forgotten runes is not for most, and many will question the legitimacy of such endeavors. Runes are seen as outdated, and oddities at best. But in the hands of a true master, a rune is total supremacy over that rune's domain.

<div class='footnote'>The Erilaz (Rune Warrior)</div>

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##### <span style="display:block;margin-top:-15px;margin-bottom:-6px;font-size:140%;"> The Erilaz</span><span style="float:right;font-family:Scalysans;font-weight:bold;font-size:14px;font-variant:small-caps;">—Spell Slots per Spell Level—         </span>
|Level|Proficiency<br>Bonus|Features|Runes<br>Unlocked|Uthark<br>Flare|1st|2nd|3rd|4th|5th|6th|7th|8th|9th|
|:-:|:-:|:-|:-:|:-:|:-:|:-:|:-:|:-:|:-:|:-:|:-:|:-:|:-:|
|1st|+2|Rune Warrior, Runic|1|—|2|—|—|—|—|—|—|—|—|
|2nd|+2|Fighting Style, Uthark Flare|1|2d4|3|—|—|—|—|—|—|—|—|
|3rd|+2|Rune Lore|2|2d4|4|2|—|—|—|—|—|—|—|
|4th|+2|Ability Score Improvement|2|2d4|4|3|—|—|—|—|—|—|—|
|5th|+3|Extra Attack|3|3d4|4|3|2|—|—|—|—|—|—|
|6th|+3|Rune Lore feature|3|3d4|4|3|3|—|—|—|—|—|—|
|7th|+3|—|4|3d4|4|3|3|1|—|—|—|—|—|
|8th|+3|Ability Score Improvement|4|3d4|4|3|3|2|—|—|—|—|—|
|9th|+4|—|4|4d4|4|3|3|3|1|—|—|—|—|
|10th|+4|Rune Lore feature|4|4d4|4|3|3|3|2|—|—|—|—|
|11th|+4|—|5|4d4|4|3|3|3|2|1|—|—|—|
|12th|+4|Ability Score Improvement|5|4d4|4|3|3|3|2|1|—|—|—|
|13th|+5|—|5|5d4|4|3|3|3|2|1|1|—|—|
|14th|+5|Rune Lore feature|6|5d4|4|3|3|3|2|1|1|—|—|
|15th|+5|Ancestral Language|6|5d4|4|3|3|3|2|1|1|1|—|
|16th|+5|Ability Score Improvement|6|5d4|4|3|3|3|2|1|1|1|—|
|17th|+6|—|7|6d4|4|3|3|3|2|1|1|1|1|
|18th|+6|Master Rune|7|6d4|4|3|3|3|2|1|1|1|1|
|19th|+6|Ability Score Improvement|8|6d4|4|3|3|3|2|2|1|1|1|
|20th|+6|True Rune|8|6d4|4|3|3|3|2|2|2|1|1|

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### Creating an Erilaz
Creating an erilaz requires a character who goes off the beaten path. An erilaz should have an aptitude for investigating places that long-forgotten, finding the secrets of lost magics, and unlocking the power of runes to help in their journey. Runes require study, but they also must be sought out. Why is your character seeking runic power? Are they the appprentice of a master erilaz, and have been sent to seek some specific rune which has eluded modern study? Are you in it for yourself, looking to wield arcane power unlike that known by other spellcasters?

While it is not required to specialize in a family of runes, each has certain connotations that come with it for those erilaz who study them. Do you practice with barrow runes, those runes which hold power over death and are the most feared? Are you a wielder of branch runes, those which bring healing and life? Are you a mystic or diviner, using realm runes to read the signs of extraplanar beings? Or do you invoke wave runes, able to guide and lead journeys and expeditions?

#### Quick Build
You can make an erilaz quickly by following these suggestions. First, Intelligence should be your highest ability score, following Constitution. Second, choose the sage background. Third, choose the **Flame** rune.

## Class Features
As an erilaz, you gain the following class features.

#### Hit Points
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- **Hit Dice:** 1d8 per erilaz level
- **Hit Points at 1st Level:** 8 plus your Constitution modifier
- **Hit Points at Higher Levels:** 1d8 (or 5) + your Constitution modifier per erilaz level after 1st

#### Proficiencies
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- **Armor:** Light armor, medium armor
- **Weapons:** Simple weapons, martial weapons without the heavy or two-handed property
- **Tools:** Calligrapher's supplies

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- **Saving Throws:** Constitution, Intelligence
- **Skills:** Choose two from Acrobatics, Arcana, Athletics, History, Intimidation, Investigation, or Perception

#### Equipment
You start with the following equipment, in addition to the equipment granted by your background:
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- *(a)* leather armor or *(b)* scale mail
- *(a)* two simple weapons or *(b)* one martial weapon
- *(a)* an explorer's pack or *(b)* a scholar's pack
- A set of calligrapher's supplies

Alternately, you can purchase your own starting equipment. At 1st level, an erilaz begins with 5d4 x 10 gp.

<div class='footnote'>The Erilaz (Rune Warrior)</div>

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### Rune Warrior
You begin to unlock the mysteries of runes, special symbols which represent words of power and can bring about true magic. See the [Runes](#p6) section for the general rules of using runes and for the list of runes.

#### Unlocking Runes
At 1st level, you know one rune of your choice, which you can invoke at any time. Your rune options are detailed at the end of the class description.

When you gain certain erilaz levels, you learn additional runes of your choice, as shown in the Runes Unlocked column of the Erilaz table.

#### Invoking and Wielding Runes
When you invoke a rune that you know as a bonus action, a glowing symbol of the rune appears in your hand. One of your hands must be free to invoke a rune. You can hold items in that hand without dismissing the rune, but cannot make an attack with a weapon in that hand or the rune is instantly dismissed. Each rune has a number of powers available to you while you wield it, called gifts.

You can choose to dismiss a rune you are wielding at any time (no action required). You can invoke a maximum of two runes at once. If you summon a third rune, you must choose one of the runes you currently have invoked to dismiss.

#### Unarmed Strikes and Runes
You can roll a d4 in place of the normal damage for your unarmed strike if that hand has a rune invoked. You can use Intelligence instead of Strength for the attack and damage rolls. When you use the Attack action with a weapon with which you have proficiency (including your unarmed strike), you can make one unarmed strike as a bonus action if that hand is invoking a rune.

#### Empowering Runic Gifts
As an erilaz, you do not learn magic spells like other classes, but you do gain spell slots, which you can spend to empower your runic gifts. The Erilaz table shows how many spell slots you have to spend empowering your runic gifts. A runic gift's description will explain what enhanced effect it has when you spend a spell slot to empower it.

You regain all expended spell slots when you finish a long rest.

#### Rune Ability
Intelligence is your ability for your runes, so you use your Intelligence whenever a rune refers to your rune ability. In addition, you use your Intelligence modifier when setting the saving throw DC for a rune you wield and when making an attack roll with one.

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##### DM Tip: New Runes
The erilaz is meant to be an intelligent class, one who studies runes and learns to use their power. In this way, they are not unlike a wizard who copies spells into a book. If you so choose, you can have an erilaz find the secrets of a new rune on their adventures.

However, new runes should not be handed out lightly! Each rune has a number of abilities that might give dramatic new power to a character, and will offer many new options. New runes should be given out with great care, and very sparingly.

If you do allow an erilaz to find a new rune, they should need to spend time and money, representative of the time and effort they spend learning and knowing the rune as completely as the ones granted to them by the class. It takes 8 hours of focused study and 200 gp to learn a new rune, which is representative of the material components which must be used to learn the rune's various gifts. Once an erilaz has spent this time and money, the erilaz should be able to invoke the rune.

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### Runic
During your studies you learned Runic, the lost language of runes. You can speak the language and use it to leave messages. This language has historical roots in many other languages, so a creature which sees a Runic message and attempts to decipher it must succeed on a DC 15 Intelligence (History) check. On a failure, the creature loses its memory of having seen the message, and the message becomes invisible to the creature. Anyone who knows Runic automatically succeeds on such a check and can decipher a Runic message.

### Fighting Style
At 2nd level, you adopt a particular style of fighting as your specialty. Choose one of the following options. You can't take a Fighting Style option more than once, even if you later get to choose again.

##### Defense
While you are wearing armor, you gain a +1 bonus to AC.

##### Dueling
When you are wielding a melee weapon in one hand and no other weapons, you gain a +2 bonus to damage rolls with that weapon.

##### Rune Fist
When you make an unarmed strike with a hand in which you have a rune invoked, you can roll a d6 in place of the normal damage for your unarmed strike.

##### Versatile Rune
If you wield a weapon with the versatile property, you can make one attack on your turn with the weapon with two hands without dismissing a rune you have invoked.

<div class='footnote'>The Erilaz (Rune Warrior)</div>

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### Uthark Flare
Starting at 2nd level, you learn to empower your attacks with your runes. When you invoke a rune, it begins gathering energy. When you hit with an attack, you can choose to consume the rune, dealing additional damage. When you use this ability, the rune is dismissed.

When you summon a rune, your attack deals an amount of additional damage equal to 1d4. The type of damage is the type of damage associated with your rune.

At the beginning of your turn, if your rune has not been consumed yet, the amount of damage increases by 1d4, to a maximum of 2d4. The maximum amount of the extra damage increases as you gain levels in this class, as shown in the Uthark Flare column of the Erilaz table.

##### Keeping Track of Uthark Flare
The Uthark Flare is an ability that increases in power each round, and so it may be difficult to remember how long it has been since you invoked a rune, especially once your flare begins to get more powerful. In these cases, use a d6 as a marker! Whenever you invoke a rune, set your d6 to 1, and then at the beginning of each of your turns, increase its value by 1, to a maximum of your Uthark Flare ability. This will become second-nature, and you'll never have to guess or ask how many rounds it has been since you invoked the rune.

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### Rune Lore
When you reach 3rd level, you choose an area of folklore to be your focus. Several different areas of study have formed: Forge (<span style="font-variant:small-caps;">more to be added later</span>), all detailed at the end of the class description.

Your choice grants you features at 3rd level and again at 6th, 10th, and 14th level.

### Ability Score Improvement
When you reach 4th level, and again at 8th, 12th, 16th, and 19th level, you can increase one ability score of your choice by 2, or you can increase two ability scores of your choice by 1. As normal, you can't increase an ability score above 20 using this feature.

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

### Ancestral Language
Starting at 15th level, when you hear or see a message written in any language, it is translated into Runic in your mind and you can understand it. When you speak or write messages in Runic, you can choose to have them appear as any other languages to other creatures.

### Master Rune
At 18th level, choose a rune that you know, which becomes your master rune. Each gift from your master rune can be treated as though you spent a 1st-level spell slot when you use it. If you wish to empower it further, you must expend spell slots as normal.

### True Rune
Beginning at 20th level, whenever you are killed, your body disappears and leaves behind a small, plain stone with a rune on it. This is your true rune, a special rune which holds your essence and soul. So as other runes represent things like "flame" or "shadow," this rune represents your entire being.

As an object, the stone can be destroyed. It has an Armor Class of 10, and has 20 hit points.

So long as the stone is not destroyed, a creature that speaks Runic can hold the stone and perform a ritual over 8 hours. At the end of the ritual, you return to life as though you had completed a long rest.

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## Rune Lore
There are many different areas of study amongst rune scholars, usually referred to as lore or occasionally as *folkermimne*. While all erilaz study ancient runes, it is the *use* of those runes that tend to divide erilaz research. Ancient runes had an extraordinarily wide range of uses, and only erilaz who commit themselves to to this analysis can hope to understand its nuance.

### Forge
Erilaz who study Forge Lore usually find themselves in gravesights or on the field of some great battle, digging through the debris to find weapons and armor which still glow with a faded magic. These weapons and armor have been branded with runes, and the warrior would have been able to invoke the rune's magic while it glowed brightly from their equipment. A Forge Lore erilaz is one part mage, one part blacksmith, and one part warrior, marrying their use of runes with their ability to wield weapons to become a master of combat.

#### Rune Smith
Your study of Forge Lore has kept you in practice with the tools you will need to pursue these secrets. At 3rd level, you gain proficiency with smith's tools. If you already have proficiency with smith's tools, your proficiency bonus is doubled for any check you make to use them.

#### Weapon Master
Also at 3rd level, you can hold a weapon which lacks the two-handed property in the same hand in which you have a rune invoked without dismissing the rune.

#### Rune Branding
Starting at 6th level, you have learned to brand equipment with your runes. You can spend 1 hour with your smith's tools and a set of armor or a weapon, which you can do during a short or long rest. At the end of this time, the item is branded with a copy of a rune you know, which lasts for 24 hours, or until you dismiss the brand as an action. The effects are different depending on whether your choose to brand armor or a weapon.

***Armor.*** A set of armor branded with a rune you know has a glowing symbol of the rune emblazoned on it. Branded armor grants resistance to the type of damage associated with the rune. A creature which wears a set of armor branded with a rune is able to use any of the rune's gifts, so long as the creature is proficient with the armor.

***Weapon.*** A weapon branded with a rune you know has a glowing symbol of the rune emblazoned on it. A branded weapon can deal the type of damage associated with the rune, instead of its normal damage. A creature which wields the weapon can use any of the rune's gifts, so long as it is proficient with the weapon.

If you wield a weapon with one of your runes branded onto it, you can still make a Uthark Flare by using a bonus action to begin channeling runic power into the weapon. Only an erilaz can make a Uthark Flare with one of your branded weapons.

A branded item always counts as having the rune invoked, unless the creature wearing or wielding the item chooses to suppress or resume the rune's effects as a bonus action.

You can have one branded piece of equipment at a time. If you brand another piece of equipment, the potency of the first one is lost. The brand ends if you are not on the same plane of existence as the branded item.

#### Dual Brand
Beginning at 10th level, you can have two runes branded at once. The two runes can be branded onto any combination of weapons or armor, or you can add two brands to the same piece of equipment. This process takes the same amount of time as creating a single brand.

Additionally, when you spend this time branding runes, you can choose one of them and expend spell slots with a combined level that is equal to or less than half your erilaz level (rounded up). While the brand persists on the weapon, the creature wearing the armor or wielding the weapon can expend any of the spell slots infused into it to empower the rune's abilities.

You can expend spell slots in this way on a single rune, and regain the ability to do so when you finish a long rest.

#### Rune Forger
Starting at 14th level, you can have any number of active brands at once. Any one piece of equipment is limited to two brands at a time.

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## Runes
Runes are powerful symbols which channel magic through the very inscription of their form. Runes are studied and used to bring about different kinds of magic than spells, though there are some similarities.

### Known Runes
Before a character can use a spell, they must have the rune's form firmly fixed in their mind, or must have access to the rune in a magic item. This usually referred to as "unlocking" a rune, unlocking the runes secrets and gifts for use. The number of runes a creature can have fixed in mind at any given time depends on the character's level.

### Spell Slots
Most runic gifts can be used at any time, but a creature with access to spell slots can use them to empower runic gifts, making their effects stronger. Manipulating the rune to infuse it with even a small bit of magical energy is physically and mentally taxing, and using higher-level magics even more so. For a class that grants rune magic, the class's description includes a table showing how many spell slots of each level a character can use at each character level. For example, the 3rd-level erilaz Yip Yip has four 1st-level spell slots and two 2nd-level slots.

When a character wishes to empower a runic gift, they expend a slot that they have not yet used, effectively "filling" the rune with that amount of magical power.

Finishing a long rest restores any expended spell slots.

#### Empowering Runic Gifts
Most runic gifts do not require any investiture of a character's spell slots, and can be used at any time. If a creature with rune magic wishes to make the gift's effect stronger, it can expend a spell slot that it has when it initiates the runic gift, infusing the gift with the power of the spell slot put into it.

Many runic gifts, such as the Life rune's *bloom* or the Shadow rune's *void* have more powerful effects when a spell slot is used when initiating them, as detailed in the gift's description.

If you wish to empower a runic gift which involves a runic attack or for a creature to make a saving throw, you must choose to empower the gift before you know whether or not the attempt to use it was successful against other creatures.

### Invoking a Rune
When a character invokes a rune, the same basic rules are followed, regardless of the character's class or the rune's effects.

Each rune description begins with a block of information, including the rune's name, the damage type associated with it, and the family of runes to which it belongs. The rest of the rune's entry describes the rune's gifts.

When you invoke a rune that you know as a bonus action, a glowing symbol of the rune appears in your hand. One of your hands must be free to invoke a rune. You can hold items in that hand without dismissing the rune, but cannot make an attack with a weapon in that hand or the rune is instantly dismissed. Each rune has a number of gifts available to you while you wield it.

#### Reactions
Some runic gifts can be used as reactions. These gifts take just a moment to bring about and are used in response to some triggering event. If a gift can be used as a reaction, the gift description tells you exactly when you can do so.

#### Bonus Actions
Some runic gifts can be activated as a bonus action. You can use these gifts as part of the same bonus action you use to invoke the rune.

#### Longer Initiation Times
Some runic gifts require more time to inscribe the rune: minutes or even hours. When you use a runic gift with an initiation time longer than a single action, you must spend your action each turn inscribing the rune for the gift, and you must maintain your concentration while you do so. If your concentration is broken, the gift fails. If you use a spell slot to empower such a gift, you only spend it when you complete the inscription.

### Duration
A runic gift's duration is the length of time its magic persists. A duration can be express in rounds, minutes, hours, and so on. Some runic gifts specify that their effects last until the rune is dispelled or destroyed.

#### Instantaneous
Most runic gifts are instantaneous. The gift harms, heals, creates, or alters a creature or an object in a way that can't be dispelled, because its magic exists only for an instant.

#### Always
Most runic gifts require some type of action to activate them, and the details are given for how they work. However some runic gifts, such as the Metal rune's *shield*, simply always work. A runic gift which lists it as an Always gift means that so long as you have the rune invoked, you gain the benefits of the gift so long as you want it, although you can suppress the gift if you wish (no action required). An Always gift does not require your concentration to function, so long as you have the rune invoked.

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#### Concentration
Some runic gifts require you to maintain concentration in order to keep their magic active. If you lose concentration, the gift ends.

If a gift must be maintained with concentration, that fact appears next to the name of the gift and the description specifies how long you can concentration on it. You can end concentration at any time (no action required).

Normal activity, such as moving and attacking, doesn't interfere with concentration. The following factors can break concentration:

- **Initiating another runic gift that requires concentration.** You lose concentration on a gift if you initiate another gift that requires concentration. You can't concentrate on two gifts at once.
- **Casting a magic spell that requires concentration.** While magic spells and runic gifts are not exactly the same, they share many similar properties, including the fact that you can only concentrate on one at a time.
- **Taking damage.** Whenever you take damage while you are concentrating on a gift, you must make a Constitution saving throw to maintain your concentration. The DC equals 10 or half the damage you take, whichever number is higher. If you take damage from multiple sources, such as an arrow and a dragon's breath, you make a separate saving throw for each source of damage.
- **Being incapacitated or killed.** You lose concentration on a gift if you are incapacitated or if you die.

The DM might also decide that certain environmental phenomena, such as a wave crashing over you while you're on a storm-tossed ship, require you to succeed on a DC 10 Constitution saving throw to maintain concentration on a gift.

### Targets
A typical runic gift requires you to pick one or more targets to be affected by the rune's magic. A gift's description tells you whether the gift targets creatures, objects, or a point of origin for an area of effect (described below).

Unless a gift has a perceptible effect, a creature might not know it was targeted by a gift at all. An effect like roaring fire is obvious, but a more subtle effect, such as a subtle wind which enhances your movements, typically goes unnoticed, unless a gift says otherwise.

#### A Clear Path to the Target
To target something, you must have a clear path to it, so it can't be behind total cover.

If you place an area of effect at a point that you can't see and an obstruction, such as a wall, is between you and that point, the point of origin comes into being on the near side of that obstruction.

#### Targeting Yourself
If a runic gift targets a creature of your choice, you can choose yourself, unless the creature must be hostile or specifically a creature other than you. If you are in the area of effect of a runic gift you initiate, you can target yourself.

### Areas of Effect
Runic gifts such as the Bolt rune's Strike or the Flame rune's Jet cover an area, allowing them to affect multiple creatures at once.

These areas of effect function in the same way that they do for spells.

### Saving Throws
Many runic gifts specify that a target can make a saving throw to avoid some or all of a gift's effects. The gift specifies the ability that the target uses for the save and what happens on a success or a failure.

The DC to resist one of your runic gifts equals 8 +your proficiency bonus + your runic ability modifier + any special modifiers.

### Attack Rolls
Some runic gifts require the character invoking the rune to make an attack roll to determine whether the gift effect hits the intended target. Your attack bonus with a runic attack equals your proficiency bonus + your runic ability modifier.

Most gifts that require attack rolls involve ranged attacks. Remember that you have disadvantage on a ranged attack roll if you are within 5 feet of a hostile creature that can see you and that isn't incapacitated.

### Combining Runic Effects
The effects of different runic gifts add together while the durations of those gifts overlap. The effects of the same gift initiated multiple times don't combine, however. Instead, the most potent effect—such as the highest bonus—from those gifts applies while their durations overlap.

For example, if two erilaz use the Flame rune's Hearth to create an area of fire, a creature still only takes 1d6 fire damage for moving through a space affected by both gifts.

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>#### The Families of Runes
>Runes are based on language and symbols, and scholars have studied their history and how their magic interacts with the world. Current theories divide runes into four different families. These families are divided by the use of the runes and the connections between runic words. The families of runes help to describe them; they have no rules of their own, although some rules refer to runic families.
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>##### Barrow Runes
>Barrow runes are those which hold power over death and the afterlife. These runes draw power from mysterious sources, and are considered the most dangerous of runes, whether or not that reputation is deserved. People who use these runes might be thieves, soldiers, or assassins.
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>Branch runes are associated with the earth, healing, and life. Many of these runes find power in nature and living creatures, and people who use these runes might be menders, cultivators, or animal handlers.
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>Realm runes are associated with the heavens. These runes draw power from celestial bodies like the moon or stars. People who use these runes might be diviners, prophets, or mystics.
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>##### Wave Runes
>The wave runes are those which are associated with the sea and the sky. They draw power from the elements of the ocean and its associated forces. People who use these runes might be guides, sailors, or warriors.
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### Bolt<span style="font-family:oldrunes;float:right;">Bolt</span>
**Damage type:** Lightning<span style="float:right;">*Wave rune*</span>
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***<span style="font-size:16px;color:#002e5e;">Arc.</span>*** You can use the Attack action to make a special ranged runic attack, an arc. If you're able to make multiple attacks with the Attack action, this attack replaces one of them.

The target of your arc must be no further than 20 feet away from you. On a hit, the target takes an amount of lightning damage equal to 1d6 + your Intelligence modifier.

***Empower.*** You can expend a spell slot to arc to multiple creatures at a time. The number of targets the gift can arc to increases by 2 (a total of three targets) for a 1st-level spell slot, plus one additional target for each level higher than 1st.

A new valid target is within 20 feet of the previous target, and the two must not have total cover from one another. You must make a new runic attack roll against each target.
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***<span style="font-size:16px;color:#002e5e;">Beacon.</span>*** You can take 10 minutes to inscribe a rune onto a solid object or the ground. This rune glows with the severity of local weather. If things are peaceful, the rune gives off a gentle light. If it is storming, the rune shines brightly.

Natural lightning strikes within 1 mile are centered on the beacon until you move more than 20 feet from the rune or dismiss it as an action. The rune absorbs most of the power of these strikes, making them into nothing but mild, silent flickers.
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***<span style="font-size:16px;color:#002e5e;">Conduct.</span>*** Any time lightning damage would be dealt to a creature within 20 feet of you, you can activate this gift as a reaction to attempt to absorb its power. When you do so, the lightning damage is reduced by an amount equal to 1d6 + your Intelligence modifier. Any remaining damage is dealt to you instead of the original target.

***Empower.*** You can expend a spell slot to absorb more lightning damage, and attempt to redirect it. You reduce the lightning damage taken by an additional 2d6 for a 1st-level spell slot, plus an additional 1d6 for each level higher than 1st.

If you reduce the damage below 0, choose one target you can see within 60 feet. The target takes an amount of lightning damage equal to the amount you reduced the damage below 0.
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***<span style="font-size:16px;color:#002e5e;">Spark.</span>*** While you wield this rune, you can produce a line of electricity from yourself to a solid object or the ground as an action which does not harm creatures or equipment. The line emits bright light around itself in a 10-foot radius, plus dim light for an additional 10 feet. If you do not have a solid anchor point, the rune emits sparks which shed light in a 10-foot radius, plus dim light for an additional 10 feet.

You can also use an action to charge a creature or object within 5 feet of you with positive or negative electrical energy. This charge is not powerful enough to cause damage.
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***<span style="font-size:16px;color:#002e5e;">Strike.</span>*** You cause a bolt of lightning to strike a space of your choice within 10 feet as an action. Each creature in the space or within 5 feet of the space must succeed on a Dexterity saving throw or take 1d6 lightning damage.

***Empower.*** You can expend a spell slot to increase this gift's range and damage. The range at which you can summon the strike increases by 10 feet and the damage increases by 2d6 for a 1st-level spell slot, plus 10 feet and 1d6 for each level higher than 1st.

### Flame<span style="font-family:oldrunes;float:right;">Flame</span>
**Damage type:** Fire<span style="float:right;">*Branch rune*</span>
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***<span style="font-size:16px;color:#002e5e;">Douse.</span>*** Whenever a creature would take fire damage within 20 feet of you, you can activate this gift as a reaction to absorb the fire into it. When you do so, the fire damage is reduced by an amount equal to 1d6 + your Intelligence modifier. Any remaining damage is dealt to you instead of the original target.

***Empower.*** You can expend a spell slot to absorb larger amounts of fire. You reduce the fire damage taken by creatures within a 25-foot cube centered on yourself by an additional 2d6 for a 1st-level spell slot, plus an additional 10 feet to the cube and damage reduced by an additional 1d6 for each level higher than 1st.
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***<span style="font-size:16px;color:#002e5e;">Flicker.</span>*** While you wield this rune, you can produce a small flame in your hand as an action that harms neither you nor your equipment. The flame sheds bright light in a 10-foot radius and dim light for an additional 10 feet. The effect ends if you dismiss it as an action or if you invoke it again.

You can also use an action to create simple shapes—such as the vague form of a creature or a location—to appear in any flames within 60 feet of you and animate as you like.
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***<span style="font-size:16px;color:#002e5e;">Hearth.</span>*** You can take 10 minutes to inscribe a rune onto the ground in ash. When you do so, a fire springs to life in a 5-foot cube. This fire requires no fuel, and will continue to burn so long as you remain within 20 feet of the rune or you dismiss it as an action. A creature takes 1d6 fire damage for every 5 feet it moves through your hearth.

The fire ignites flammable objects in its area that aren't being worn or carried.

***Empower.*** You can expend a spell slot to create larger fires more quickly. The time to create the rune is reduced to an action and the amount of fire you can create is equal to a 20-foot cube for a 1st-level spell slot, plus an additional 10 feet to the cube for each level higher than 1st.
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***<span style="font-size:16px;color:#002e5e;">Ignite.</span>*** You can use the Attack action to make a special melee runic attack, an ignite. If you're able to make multiple attacks with the Attack action, this attack replaces one of them.

On a hit, the target takes an amount of fire damage equal to 1d8 + your Intelligence modifier.

***Empower.*** You can expend a spell slot to fuel the blaze. The target takes an additional 2d8 fire damage on a hit and is set on fire for a 1st-level spell slot, plus 1d8 for each level higher than 1st. The target takes the damage again at the end of each of its turns until it or another creature within 5 feet of it uses an action to put out the flames.
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***<span style="font-size:16px;color:#002e5e;">Jet.</span>*** You cause a 5-foot-wide, 10-foot-long jet of flame to roar from your palm as an action. Each creature in the area must succeed on a Dexterity saving throw or take 1d10 fire damage.

***Empower.*** You can expend a spell slot to increase this gift's range and damage. The length increases by 10 feet and the damage increases by 2d10 for a 1st-level spell slot, plus 10 feet and 1d10 for each level higher than 1st.

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### Star<span style="font-family:oldrunes;float:right;">Star</span>
**Damage type:** Radiant<span style="float:right;">*Realm rune*</span>
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***<span style="font-size:16px;color:#002e5e;">Binary.</span>*** As an action, you can summon a copy of yourself, which stands in your space. The two of you seem to slowly orbit around one another.

Each time a creature attacks you, roll a d20 to see if its hits the copy instead. Rolling 11 or higher will result in the copy getting hit instead of you. A copy's Armor Class equals 10 + your Dexterity modifier. If an attack hits a copy, the copy is destroyed. A copy can be destroyed only by an attack that hits it. It ignores all other damage and effects.

If you use this gift while you already have a binary copy invoked, any previous copies are lost. You can dismiss any copies currently invoked as an action. A creature is unaffected by this gift if it can't see, if it relies on senses other than sight, or if it can perceive illusions as false as with truesight.

***Empower.*** You can expend aone spell slot when you invoke this gift to summon more copies. You summon one additional copy for a 1st-level spell slot, plus an additional copy for each level higher than 1st. For each copy currently invoked, the number required on the d20 roll to determine if an attack hits a copy is lowered by 2.
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***<span style="font-size:16px;color:#002e5e;">Corona (Always).</span>*** This rune gives off a constant crown of heat which harms neither you nor your equipment. A creature that touches you or hits you with a melee attack while within 5 feet of you takes 1d4 fire damage.

***Empower.*** You can expend a spell slot as a bonus action to cause the corona to burn even hotter. For 1 minute, a creature that touches you or hits you with a melee attack while within 5 feet of you takes an additional 2d4 fire damage for a 1st-level spell slot, plus an additional 1d4 for each level higher than 1st.
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***<span style="font-size:16px;color:#002e5e;">Navigate.</span>*** You can spend 10 minutes inscribing a navigation rune onto a solid surface or the ground. When you finish the inscription, hundreds of tiny motes of light spring out of the rune and align themselves in the air 60 feet above you, or at the maximum distance they can reach if you are in an enclosed space. These lights remain so long as you are within 20 feet of the rune or use an action to dismiss it.

These motes of light create a duplicate of the night sky as seen when it is completely clear. This allows you to use the stars to navigate even on stormy nights or when underground.
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***<span style="font-size:16px;color:#002e5e;">Nova.</span>*** As an action, you can cause an explosion of fire in a 5-foot radius centered on your rune, which harms neither you nor your equipment. Each other creature in the area must succeed on a Constitution saving throw or take 1d8 radiant damage.

***Empower.*** You can expend a spell slot to cause a larger explosion. The radius of the nova increases by 10 feet and the damage increases by 2d6 radiant damage for a 1st-level spell slot, plus an additional 10 feet and 1d6 fire damage for each level above 1st.
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***<span style="font-size:16px;color:#002e5e;">Orbit.</span>*** As an action, you can summon a small, spherical mote of flame. This flame slowly orbits the rune, shedding bright light in a 20-foot radius and dim light for an additional 20 feet.

As an action, you can instead choose another willing creature or an object for the mote to orbit. The mote disappears if you move more than 60 feet away from it or dismiss it as an action.

## Multiclassing

##### Multiclassing Prerequisites
|Class||Ability Score Minimum|
|:-|:-:|:-|
|Erilaz||Intelligence 13|

##### Multiclassing Proficiencies
|Class||Proficiencies|
|:-|:-:|:-|
|Erilaz||Light armor, medium armor, simple weapons, calligrapher's supplies|

## Feats

### Rune Adept
*Prerequisite: Intelligence 13 or higher*

You learn a single rune, which you can invoke as a bonus action. One of your hands must be free to invoke a rune, and if you hold anything in that hand, the rune is immediately dismissed. The rune has a number of gifts available to you while you wield it. You can choose to dismiss a rune you are wielding at any time without an action.

Additionally, you gain a single 1st-level spell slot, which can only be spent to empower one of your rune's gifts. You regain this spell slot when you finish a long rest.

You can select this feat multiple times. Each time you do so, you must choose a different rune.

## Art Credits
- **Pg. 01** - [Magic Sign](https://mikrob.cgsociety.org/vckv/magic-sign) - [Mikrob](https://mikrob.cgsociety.org/)
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