Chapter 3: The Erilaz (Rune Master)

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 are 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? Or did you accidentally stumble upon a forgotten rune which awakened a magic and curiosity inside of you?

While it is not required to specialize in a family of runes, each family 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 through the harshest elements?

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, battleaxes, shortswords, rapiers, longswords, scimitars, warhammers
• Tools: Calligrapher's supplies

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• Saving Throws: Dexterity, Intelligence
• Skills: Choose two from Arcana, Athletics, History, Intimidation, Investigation, Perception, or Survival

Equipment

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

• (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 dagger and 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.

Chapter 3 | The Erilaz (Rune Master)

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, and if you hold anything in that hand, the rune is instantly dismissed. Each rune has two powers available to you while you invoke it, called gifts, as well as a list of spells that you can cast.

You can invoke a maximum of two runes at once. You can dismiss a rune you are invoking at any time (no action required). If you are incapacitated or knocked unconscious, your runes are dismissed. You can continue to concentrate on a spell cast from a rune even if the rune is dismissed.

Casting Rune Spells

The Erilaz table shows how many spell slots you have to cast spells of 1st level and higher. While you have a rune invoked (described above), you can cast any spells from the rune's list which are of a level for which you have spell slots. To cast a spell, you must expend a slot of the spell's level or higher. You regain all expended spell slots when you finish a long rest.

You cannot cast a rune spell on the same turn in which you invoke the rune.

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, and 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.

Rune Ability

Your rune ability applies both to runic gifts as well as being used as your spellcasting ability for any spells on a rune's list. 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 or its spells and when making an attack roll with them.

Mystic Spells

Artistry Lore

Erilaz who study Artistry Lore come in many different kinds. Some work in cities, tattooing tourists but keeping the special ones for those who can pay a higher price. Others might be part of tribal warrior castes, inscribing powerful magical symbols onto their bodies. Erilaz who study artistry are typically covered in tattoos themselves, but only those versed in rune magic can recognize the tattoos for what they really are.

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.

Rune Branding

Starting at 3rd level, you have learned to brand equipment with your runes. You can spend 10 minutes 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 8 hours, or until you dismiss the brand as an action. If you are able to use a full forge to do your work, the rune instead lasts for 24 hours or until you dismiss the brand as an action.

You can have a number of active brands equal to your Intelligence modifier. If you brand an item that puts you over the limit, you must choose a previously branded item to lose its power. The rune fades from that item and disappears. Any one weapon or suit of armor can have a single rune branded to it at a time.

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.

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.

At the beginning of your turn, if you are wearing a set of armor and wielding a weapon, both of which have one of your runes branded to them, you can invoke both runes as part of the same bonus action. You are still limited to invoking two runes at a time, but can invoke runes directly from your weapons and armor instead of needing to have a hand free to invoke them.

Mobile Forge

Beginning at 6th level, you can spend 10 minutes inscribing arcane symbols and runes onto the ground in a 20-foot cube around yourself. At the end of this time, a fully-functioning forge springs into existence. This forge is tailor-made to your current needs, and has all of the items and equipment you need to do your work. The forge can be entirely enclosed by walls or partially open, and can have a roof with a chimney, a hearth or a kiln, and other similar pieces of equipment.

The forge disappears immediately if you move more than 20 feet from it or dismiss it as an action. Any items or equipment which did not originate in the forge (such as items or equipment which may have been left on tables) drop to the ground in the space in which it was left. Any item or piece of equipment originating from the forge which is moved more than 20 feet from the forge immediately returns to its proper place, and disappears when the forge does.

Latent Power

Starting at 10th level, when you spend time branding runes, you can infuse the item with a number of spell slots which have a combined level that is equal to or less than half your erilaz level (rounded up), and none of the slots can be 6th level or higher. For the next 24 hours, you can expend any of the spell slots infused into the item to cast rune spells.

Once you use this ability, you can't use it again until you finish a long rest.

Secrets Unlocked

Beginning at 14th level, the runes on items you brand using a forge last indefinitely, or until you dismiss them as an action. The number of active brands you can have increases to double your Intelligence modifier.

Runes

Runes are powerful symbols which channel magic through the very inscription of their form. Magic can be cast by those who have unlocked the secrets of the rune.

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.

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, and if you hold anything in that hand, the rune is instantly dismissed. Each rune has two powers available to you while you invoke it, called gifts, as well as a list of spells that you can cast by spending spell slots.

You can dismiss a rune you are invoking at any time (no action required). If you are incapacitated or knocked unconscious, any runes you have invoked are dismissed. You can invoke a maximum of two runes at once. If you invoke a third rune, you must choose one of the runes you currently have invoked to dismiss. You can continue to concentrate on a spell cast from your rune even if the rune is dismissed.

 

Spell Slots

When a rune is invoked, a number of spells and abilities become available to the invoker. The spells on a rune's list are cast normally, but a character can only cast a rune's spell if they currently have the rune invoked. A creature cannot cast a rune spell on the same turn in which a rune is invoked.

Runes

Runic Gift: Doom

When you hit with an attack, you can choose to expend one of your Hit Dice. Roll the Hit Die but do not add your Constitution modifier to the roll. The target takes an amount of additional necrotic damage equal to the number you rolled.

Runic Gift: Repose

You can use an action to cause one of the following effects within 20 feet of you.

• You can make flowers wilt, food to spoil, and other, similar effects.
• You cause a pungent smell of decay to emanate from the space.
• A living creature with 0 hit points which is stable immediately fails two death saving throws.
• Choose one creature within range. The target must make a Wisdom saving throw. On a failed save, the target subtracts 1d4 from the next ability check or saving throw it makes within the next minute or until your concentration ends (as if concentrating on a spell).

Runic Gift: Bear

As an action, you can cause one of the following effects.

• Choose an area of earth or stone that you can see within 60 feet and which fits in a 5-foot cube. You cause the earth to animate as you wish. You can form the earth or stone into simple shapes and move it up to 20 feet in any direction (this movement does not cause damage).
• You gain tremorsense to a range of 60 feet until the end of your next turn.
• You cause a 5-foot cube of earth within 60 feet to become difficult or normal terrain. A creature standing in the area when you initiate this effect must succeed on a Strength saving throw or be restrained by the earth for 1 minute or until your concentration ends (as if concentrating on a spell). A creature restrained in this way can use its action to make a Strength check against your rune save DC. On a success, it frees itself.

Runic Gift: Tiger

You can use the Attack action to make a melee rune attack, a tiger claw. If you're able to make multiple attacks with the Attack action, this attack replaces one of them.

On a hit, the target takes 1d6 acid damage and is pushed 10 feet away from you.

Runic Gift: Companion

As an action, you can cause one of the following effects within 60 feet of you.

• You point your finger, and a symbol or rune appears projected at the spot where you point. This symbol can be any shape or color you desire, and you can alter its size, from a Tiny pinpoint of light to a Large projection. This symbol gives off dim light within a 5-foot radius.
• You create a natural sound which originates from a point of your choice within range, such as the call of a songbird or the growl of a predator.
• Choose a beast that you can see within range with an Intelligence of 1. This beast must not be hostile towards you, and must be able to see or hear you. The target must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw or be charmed by you for 24 hours or until you use this ability again. If you give the beast a task to perform, it will do so to the best of its ability. If you or one of your companions harms the target, the effect ends.

Runic Gift: Pounce

If you move at least 20 feet straight toward a creature and hit it with a melee attack on the same turn, that target must succeed on a Strength saving throw or be knocked prone. If the target is prone, you can make one melee weapon attack against it as a bonus action, which deals an additional 1d4 poison damage on a hit.

Runic Gift: Flicker

Choose a nonmagical flame that you can see within 60 feet and which fits in a 5-foot cube. As an action, you can cause one of the following effects.

• You instantly extinguish the flames within the cube.
• You double or halve the area of bright light and dim light cast by the flame, change its color, or both. The change lasts for 1 hour.
• You cause simple shapes to appear within the flames and animate as you like. These shapes last for 1 hour.

Additionally, you can cause a flame to appear in your hand, which 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 initiate it again.

You can attack with the flame, although doing so ends the effect. When you create this flame, or as an action on a later turn, you can hurl the flame at a point you can see within 60 feet. Any creature within a 5-foot radius of that point must succeed on a Dexterity saving throw or take 1d6 fire damage.

Runic Gift: Ignite

You can use the Attack action to make a melee rune 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 1d6 fire damage, and is set on fire until the end of its next turn. The target takes another 1d6 fire damage at the end of its next turn unless the target or another creature within 5 feet of it uses an action to put out the flames.

If you make a successful ignite against a target which is already on fire, the target takes 2d6 fire damage at the end of its next turn unless the flames are put out.

Runic Gift: Chill

You can use an action to cause one of the following effects inside of a 5-foot cube within 20 feet of you.

• You cause ice or snow in the area to animate at your whim. You can form the ice or snow into simple shapes and move it up to 20 feet in any direction (this movement does not cause damage).
• You can solidify snow into solid ice, or turn ice into fluffy snowflakes.
• You chill or warm nonliving material for 1 hour.
• You unfreeze water, or freeze water so long as no creatures are in it.

Runic Gift: Snap

You can use the Attack action to make a ranged rune attack, a snap. If you're able to make multiple attacks with the Attack action, this attack replaces one of them.

Choose a target within 20 feet of you that you can see. On a hit, the target takes 1d6 cold damage, and its speed is reduced by 10 feet until the end of your next turn.

Runic Gift: Love

You can use an action to cause one of the following effects within 20 feet of you.

• A living creature with 0 hit points becomes stable.
• A willing creature has resistance to bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing damage dealt by weapon attacks until the end of your next turn.
• You create a flame from your heart which streaks toward a willing creature within range and strikes them. The creature gains a number of temporary hit points equal to your rune ability modifier. Your flame can only be granted to one creature at a time, and if you use it on a second creature, any remaining temporary hit points the first target have are lost.

Runic Gift: Support

You can use an action and touch a creature which is diseased or has one of the following conditions: blinded, deafened, paralyzed, or poisoned. The creature you touch loses the effect, and you take it on. You cannot use this ability if you already have the effect. The length of time the effect would last is transferred to you.

Runic Gift: Migraine

As an action, you can target one creature within 20 feet and flood its mind with pain. The target must make a Constitution saving throw, taking 1d10 psychic damage and gaining sunlight sensitivity until the end of your next turn on a failed save, or taking half as much damage and not gaining sunlight sensitivity on a successful one. While in bright light, a creature with sunlight sensitivity has disadvantage on attack rolls as well as on Perception checks that rely on sight.

Runic Gift: See

As an action, you can cause one of the following effects.

• You create a small mark within 20 feet which is no larger than 1 foot in any dimension that appears on an object or a willing creature for up to 1 hour.
• You can target a willing creature within 20 feet of you that you can see. The creature must have an Intelligence of at least 3, and you must share a language with the creature. You can send a message of 25 words or less into the target's mind. The target can then silently respond with a message of 25 words or less, which you hear in your mind.
• You can manipulate an object within 20 feet of you as though you were adjacent to it. You can open an unlocked door or container, stow or retrieve an item from an open container, pour the contents out of a vial, carry an object anywhere within range, or other, similar actions. You cannot use this ability to attack, activate magic items, or carry more than 10 pounds.

Runic Gift: Crescent

You can use the Attack action to make a melee rune attack, a crescent. If you're able to make multiple attacks with the Attack action, this attack replaces one of them.

On a hit, the target takes 1d6 radiant damage. If you hit the first target, you can choose another target which is within 5 feet of the first target and make a rune attack against it as well. On a hit, the second target takes 1d6 radiant damage. A target that is in moonlight takes additional radiant damage equal to your rune ability modifier (minimum 1).

Runic Gift: Full

As an action, you can cause one of the following effects.

• You create a harmless sensory effect that shows the current phase of the moon, or some other known astronomical phenomenon (such as how long remains until the passing of a known comet).
• You touch an object that is no larger than 10 feet in any dimension. The object sheds moonlight in a 30-foot radius (this moonlight is dim light). Completely covering the object with something opaque blocks the light. This effect lasts until you initiate it again or choose to end it as an action.
      If you target an object held or worn by a hostile creature, it must succeed on a Dexterity saving throw to avoid the effect.
• Choose a willing creature within 20 feet of you to guide with the moon's embrace. The target can add 1d4 to the next attack roll or saving throw it makes before the end of your next turn. If the creature is in moonlight, it instead adds 2d4.

Runic Gift: Shade

You can use the Attack action to make a ranged rune attack, a shade. If you're able to make multiple attacks with the Attack action, this attack replaces one of them.

Choose a target within 20 feet of you that you can see. Your shadow moves to be adjacent to the target and attacks its shadow. On a hit, the target takes 1d6 necrotic damage and your shadow latches onto the target. As long as your shadow is latched to the target, the target cannot hide from you through any means.

Runic Gift: Umbra

When you invoke the Shadow rune, your shadow becomes more aggressive, and is not directly connected to you. As an action, you can move your shadow up to 20 feet from you and cause one of the following effects. If you are ever more than 20 feet from your shadow, it immediately returns to you.

• Your shadow can manipulate an object, open an unlocked door or container, stow or retrieve an item from an open container, pour the contents out of a vial, or other, similar actions. Your shadow can't attack, activate magic items, or carry more than 10 pounds.
• Your shadow causes flames which fit inside of a 5-foot cube to flicker, dim, or be snuffed out.
• Your shadow changes its shape, and can become the shadow of another creature or even of a location or an object.
• Your shadow jumps into the shadow of another creature and rises up, mimicking an attack. The target must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw or become frightened of its own shadow until the end of your next turn.

Runic Gift: Banish

When you make a melee attack as part of the Attack action, you can choose to attack the target's soul. You do not need to roll to hit the target. The target takes 1d4 psychic damage.

Runic Gift: Spirit

As an action, you can cause one of the following effects.

• You can speak telepathically to a creature or creatures that you can see within 60 feet of you. A creature understands you only if the two of you share a language.
• Each creature you can see emits a softly-glowing aura that only you can see until the end of your next turn. The colors of these auras correspond to a creature's current mood.
• You become aware of the location of every living creature within 20 feet of you until the end of your next turn. You can sense a creature even if it is hidden or invisible, so long as it is on the same plane of existence as you.

Runic Gift: Bend

When you make an attack as part of the Attack action, you can warp the space between the target and yourself. Your weapon gain an additional 5 feet of reach for that attack.

Runic Gift: Void

As an action, you can cause one of the following effects.

• You touch one object that weighs 5 pounds or less which is not being worn or carried. Until the end of your next turn, the object acts as though it is unaffected by gravity, floating through the air. You can throw the object as part of the same action, which allows it to fly in a perfectly straight line in any direction.
• Gravity loses its hold on you, and you begin to rise vertically until the end of your next turn. You can move up or down at a rate of 5 feet each round, to a maximum of 20 feet. If you do not take this action while floating, you fall at the end of that turn.
      You can move only by pushing or pulling against a fixed object or surface within reach (such as a wall or ceiling), which allows you to move as if you were climbing.
• You designate a 5-foot cube within 60 feet of you as an action. The area you designate is magically darkened and silenced until the end of your next turn. No light or sound can be created within or pass through the area. Any creature or object entirely inside the area is immune to thunder damage, blinded, and deafened. Casting a spell that includes a verbal component is impossible there.

Runic Gift: Corona

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 for the first time on a turn takes 1d6 radiant damage.

Runic Gift: Fusion

When you invoke the Star rune, a Tiny spherical star appears which hovers within 5 feet of you, slowly orbiting you. This star sheds bright light in a 10-foot radius, and dim light for an additional 10 feet. As an action, you can move the star up to 60 feet and cause one of the following effects. If the star is ever more than 60 feet from you, it disappears from where it was and reappears within 5 feet of you. If the star is consumed or dies, you can summon a new one as an action.

• You can designate an object or willing creature within range. The star will slowly orbit the target.
• The star collapses into a minute singularity which lasts until the end of your next turn. Objects within 10 feet of the star which are not being worn or carried are pulled into the star's space. Creatures within 10 feet of the star when it collapses must succeed on a Strength saving throw or have their speed reduced to 0 until the end of your next turn. This action consumes the star.
• The star explodes in a flash of brilliant light. Any creature within 10 feet of the star must make a Constitution saving throw, becoming blinded on a failed save until the end of your next turn. This action consumes the star.

Runic Gift: Boom

You can use the Attack action to make a ranged rune attack, a boom. If you're able to make multiple attacks with the Attack action, this attack replaces one of them.

Choose a target within 20 feet of you that you can see. On a hit, the target takes 1d6 thunder damage and is deafened until the end of your next turn.

Runic Gift: Forecast

When you invoke the Storm rune, a Tiny cloud appears which hovers within 5 feet of you. As an action, you can move the cloud up to 60 feet and cause one of the following effects. If the cloud is ever more than 60 feet from you, it disappears from where it was and reappears within 5 feet of you.

• You cause the cloud to be white and fluffy, dark and stormy, or anything in between. If you do not choose, the cloud will reflect the current weather.
• The cloud creates a harmless sensory effect which predicts what the weather will be in your current location for the next 24 hours. This effect persists until the end of your next turn.
• You cause the cloud to begin gentle raining or snowing, or blowing a breeze. These effects do not cause damage, but can be used to do things like extinguish small fires or other harmless effects like fluttering leaves. The effect persists until the end of your next turn.

Runic Gift: Burn

You can use the Attack action to make a ranged rune attack, a burn. If you're able to make multiple attacks with the Attack action, this attack replaces one of them.

Choose a target within 20 feet of you that you can see. On a hit, the target takes 1d6 acid damage. At the end of its next turn, it takes an additional 1d6 acid damage.

Runic Gift: Brimstone

As an action, you can cause one of the following effects in a 5-foot cube within 60 feet of you.

• You cause a distinct and pungent odor to appear in the space for 1 hour.
• Plants in the space wither and die.
• You create a toxic cleaning solution which coats the area for 1 hour. Objects and surfaces in the area are cleaned and any rust in the area disappears. A creature which begins its turn in the area must succeed on a Constitution saving throw or be poisoned until the end of your next turn.

Runic Gift: Accelerate

The world around you seems to move more slowly when you have this rune invoked. You can take the Dash, Disengage, or Search actions as a bonus action on your turn.

Additionally, when you perform a mundane task during restful time such as reading a book or cooking a meal, you can accomplish it in half the time it would normally take. This does not hasten travel or the time it takes to complete a rest.

Runic Gift: Horologist

As an action, you can cause one of the following effects.

• You create a harmless sensory effect to appear on the rune which gives the exact current time. You can instead have the rune show how long it has been since or how long remains until certain fixed points in a day such as noon, midnight, sunrise, or sunset. This effect persists until the end of your next turn.
• You choose a point in time in the future to mark and choose an audible or mental alarm. When the moment arrives, your rune flashes and makes a noise of your choice, or you hear a noise in your mind. If you do not have the Time rune invoked when the moment would arrive, it automatically invokes in a free hand to alert you. If you do not have a hand free, you miss the alarm.
• You touch a single object which has a tear or break in it which is less than 1 foot in every dimension. You reverse time for the object until a time before the tear or break occurred, and the object is rendered whole. This process does not restore magic to an object.

Runic Gift: Bubble

Choose an area of water that you can see within 60 feet and which fits in a 5-foot cube. As an action, you can cause one of the following effects.

• You can move the water up to 20 feet (this movement does not cause damage).
• You can animate or shape the water as you wish, and change its color or opacity. This change lasts for 1 hour.
• You can create a bubble of air in the water, and can move this bubble up to 20 feet. This bubble lasts until your concentration ends (as if concentrating on a spell), and draws oxygen from the water surrounding it so it does not run out of air.
      When you create a bubble of air, you can spend 10 minutes inscribing a special bubble rune onto the ground while inside of the bubble. Until you move more than 20 feet from the rune or dismiss it as an action, the bubble continues to keep water out.

Runic Gift: Whip

You can use the Attack action to make a ranged rune attack, a water whip. If you're able to make multiple attacks with the Attack action, this attack replaces one of them.

Choose a target within 20 feet of you that you can see. On a hit, the target takes 1d8 cold damage and is pushed 5 feet in a direction of your choice.

Runic Gift: Mistral

As an action, you can cause one of the following effects within 60 feet of you.

• You cause a harmless sensory effect using air such as causing leaves to rustle or shutters to blow open.
• You create a small blast of air capable of moving one object that weighs no more than 5 pounds. The object is blown 10 feet in a direction of your choice. If the object reaches your space, you can catch it if you have a hand free. If the object is being held by another creature, that creature must succeed on a Strength saving throw or lose the item.
• You choose a point you can see within range and cause a 10-foot cone gust of strong wind to burst in any direction from that point until the end of your next turn. Each creature in the area must succeed on a Strength saving throw or be pushed 10 feet away from the point and knocked prone. Until the start of your next turn, any creature in the area must spend 2 feet of movement for every 1 foot it moves when moving closer to the point. The gust disperses gas or vapor, and it extinguishes unprotected flames. Protected flames have a 50 percent chance of being extinguished.

Runic Gift: Williwaw

You can use the Attack action to make a melee rune attack, a williwaw. If you're able to make multiple attacks with the Attack action, this attack replaces one of them.

On a hit, the target takes 1d6 thunder damage and cannot make opportunity attacks against you for the rest of your turn.

Runic Gift: Green

As an action, you can cause one of the following effects in a 5-foot cube within 60 feet of you.

• You cause a plant you can see to move or conform to your wishes, bending or contorting to the shape you desire. This movement does not harm the plant.
• You can change a plant's color and smell to make it more desirable or repulsive to other creatures.
• You cause plants to become difficult or normal terrain. If no plants exist there, you can cause them to bloom and become the type of terrain you desire.

Runic Gift: Sting

When you make an attack as part of the Attack action, you can cause poisonous thorns to sprout on your weapon. If the attack is successful, the target takes an additional 1d4 poison damage.

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5th Level

Acid Rain

7th-level conjuration

• Initiation Time: 1 action
• Range: 150 feet
• Components: V, S, M (a pinch of sulfur)
• Duration: Concentration, up to 1 minute
• Class: Druid, Sorcerer, Warlock, Wizard

A sickly-looking cloud forms above an area you choose within range, raining down acid in a 30-foot radius. Until the spell ends, you can use your action to move the cloud up to 30 feet in any direction.

Whenever a creature enters the spell's area for the first time on a turn or starts its turn there, it must make a Constitution saving throw, taking 8d8 acid damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one.

Charged Bolt

7th-level evocation

• Initiation Time: 1 action
• Range: Self (120-foot line)
• Components: V, S, M (a magnetized metal rod)
• Duration: Concentration, up to 1 minute
• Class: Druid, Sorcerer, Wizard

You hold your fingers together, and a flash of sparking electricity begins to form. When the spell ends, either because your concentration is broken or because you decide to end it, a 120-foot line, 5-foot wide bolt of lightning strikes in a direction you choose. Each creature in the area must make a Dexterity saving throw. A creature takes lightning damage equal to the total accumulated damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one.

The spell's base damage is 10d6. If at the end of your turn the bolt has not yet struck, the damage increases by 1d6.

At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 8th level or higher, the base damage increases by 1d6 for each slot level above 7th.

Drown

7th-level conjuration

• Initiation Time: 1 action
• Range: 30 feet
• Components: V, S, M (a seashell)
• Duration: Concentration, up to 1 minute
• Class: Warlock, Wizard

You target a creature within range, which must make a Constitution saving throw. On a failed save, the creature's lungs immediately begin to fill with water. For the duration, the target can't breath or speak, its speed is halved, and it can't use reactions.

In addition, at the start of its turn, a target must make another Constitution saving throw. On a failed save, the creature spends its action that turn coughing and choking. Creatures that don't need to breathe automatically succeed on this saving throw.

After failing three of these saving throws, the target is immediately reduced to 0 hit points and is dying, and the spell ends. After succeeding on three of these saving throws, the creature recovers from the condition, violently expelling the water from its lungs, and the spell ends.

Fault Line

7th-level evocation

• Initiation Time: 1 action
• Range: 150 feet
• Components: V, S
• Duration: Instantaneous
• Class: Druid, Sorcerer, Wizard

A violent fault in the earth appears in a location you choose within range. The area of the fault consists of up to ten 10-foot squares, which you can arrange as you wish. Each square must have at least one face adjacent to the face of another square. Each creature in the area must make a Constitution saving throw. It takes 7d10 bludgeoning damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one.

Shambling Guardian

7th-level transmutation

• Initiation Time: 1 action
• Range: 90 feet
• Components: V, S
• Duration: Concentration, up to 1 hour
• Class: Druid, Wizard

You summon a shambling mound, which appears in an unoccupied space that you can see within range. The mound disappears when it drops to 0 hit points or when the spell ends.

The mound is friendly to you and your companions for the duration. Roll initiative for the mound, which has its own turns. It obeys any verbal commands that you issue to it (no action required by you), as long as they don't force the mound to do significant harm to the local flora and fauna. If you don't issue any commands to the mound, it defends itself from hostile creatures but otherwise takes no actions.

The DM has the mound's statistics.

Aerobatics

8th-level transmutation

• Initiation Time: 1 action
• Range: 30 feet
• *Components: V, S, M (a feather)
• Duration: 1 hour
• Class: Druid, Sorcerer, Wayfarer, Wizard

You and up to 10 willing creatures you can see within range gain a flying speed of 100 feet for the duration. Each affected creature does not provoke opportunity attacks while it is affected by this spell.

If a creature is flying when the spell ends, the creature descends 60 feet per round for 1 minute until it lands, which it does safely. If it can't land after 1 minute, the creature falls the remaining distance.

Cryofreeze

8th-level evocation

• Initiation Time: 1 reaction, which you take in response to a creature within 30 feet of you being reduced to 0 hit points
• Range: 30 feet
• Components: V, S
• Duration: 7 days
• Class: Cleric, Druid, Wizard

The target is stabilized, petrified, and becomes a solid piece of ice. While in this form, the ice shields the target from harm. The target gains 100 temporary hit points. If the target restores any hit points, the spell ends.

If the target has any missing limbs when you cast this spell, or if the target has any of its limbs broken off while frozen, ice forms over the area and regrows the limb in 24 hours.

Forest Shapes

8th-level transmutation

• Initiation Time: 1 action
• Range: 30 feet
• Components: V, S
• Duration: Concentration, up to 24 hours
• Class: Druid

Your magic turns others into plant creatures. Choose up to 10 willing creatures that you can see within range. You transform each target into the form of a shambling mound.

The transformation lasts for the duration for each target, or until the target drops to 0 hit points or dies. A target's game statistics are replaced by the statistics of the mound, though the target retains its alignment and Intelligence, Wisdom, and Charisma scores. The target assumes the hit points of its new form, and when it reverts to its normal form, it returns to the number of hit points it had before it transformed. If it reverts as a result of dropping to 0 hit points, any excess damage carries over to its normal form. As long as the excess damage doesn't reduce the creature's normal form to 0 hit points, it isn't knocked unconscious. The creature is limited in the actions it can perform by the nature of its new form, and it can't speak or cast spells.

The target's gear melds into the new form. The target can't activate, wield, or otherwise benefit from any of its equipment.

The DM has the mound's statistics.

Healing Infusion

8th-level evocation

• Initiation Time: 1 action
• Range: Touch
• Components: V, S, M (a butterfly's wing)
• Duration: Concentration, up to 1 hour
• Class: Cleric

You touch a creature and infuse it with supernatural healing. The target regains 10 hit points. For the duration of the spell, if the target is below half of its maximum hit points at the start of its turn, it regains 10 hit points.

If the target takes necrotic damage, the spell doesn't function at the start of its next turn. The target dies only if it starts its turn with 0 hit points and does not regenerate.

Blizzard

9th-level conjuration

• Initiation Time: 1 action
• Range: Sight
• Components: V, S
• Duration: Concentration, up to 1 minute
• Class: Druid

This spell freezes the air centered on a point you can see and spreads in a 360-foot-radius sphere. The area is heavily obscured and difficult terrain for all creatures except you. Unprotected flames are automatically extinguished, and protected flames flicker wildly and have a 50 percent chance of going out.

When another creature enters the spell's area for the first time on a turn or starts its turn there, it is engulfed by the blizzard, and it must make a Constitution saving throw. It takes 8d8 cold damage and gains a level of exhaustion on a failed save, or takes half as much damage and is not exhausted on a successful save. Any levels of exhaustion caused by this spell go away when the spell ends.

Fall of Shadow

9th-level divination

• Initiation Time: 1 action
• Range: Self (90-foot-radius sphere)
• Components: V, S
• Duration: Concentration, up to 1 hour
• Class: Warlock

This spell summons the Shadowfell to collide with the Material Plane in a 90-foot-radius sphere which remains centered on you. The area is magical darkness and spreads around corners. Creatures of your choice when you cast the spell can see through the darkness as though it was not there. Otherwise, creatures with darkvision can't see through this darkness, and nonmagical light can't illuminate it.

You gain the following benefits.

• Your movement is unaffected by difficult terrain, and spells and magical effects can't reduce your speed or cause you to be grappled, paralyzed, or restrained.
• You can use a bonus action to teleport to any unoccupied space within range of the spell.
• When make a successful weapon attack against a creature, you deal an additional 4d6 necrotic damage on a hit.

Flash Flood

9th-level conjuration

• Initiation Time: 1 action
• Range: Sight
• Components: V, S
• Duration: Concentration, up to 10 minutes
• Class: Druid

Water rapidly fills a 300-foot cube centered on a point you choose within range. The water is magically contained within the cube. Creatures of your choice are unaffected by the water, and can move and act as they normally could. This includes making weapon and spell attacks, or taking any other action which might normally be hindered by water.

In addition, creatures of your choice in the area do not need to spend any extra movement or make skill checks to move through this water, and can move in any direction through it.

When the spell ends, the water is no longer contained in the cube and immediately floods the surrounding area, extinguishing all normal flames within 900 feet of it before vanishing.