Path of the Aberrant Servant

Infectious Touch

Upon reaching the 5th stage of this path, your mucus begins to grow more potent. Creatures poisoned by your mucus, after one minute, become unable to breath air, and only able to breath underwater. Additionally, at this stage, creatures who have been under the effects of your Mental Enslavement for more than 24 hours gain the effects of your Mucus Secretion path feature until the charm is broken.

Servant Boon

At the 6th stage of this path, your mental servants begin to adapt alongside you. What may have once seemed like a curse may now be seen to some as a blessing. Creatures that are targeted by your Mental Enslavement feature may choose to fail the saving throw instead of resisting the effect. If a creature willingly becomes enslaved to you in this way, they gain one of the following benefits until the charm is broken, or the creature dies.

• The charmed creature may increase one of their ability scores by 2, or two of their ability scores by 1, to a maximum of 20.
• The charmed creature may gain the benefits of the Arcane Initiate feat, but be limited to choosing from the Warlock list.
• The charmed creature may gain an additional amount of maximum hit points equal to their level.
• The charmed creature may become a bound slave of the original user of the Mental Enslavement feature. The charmed creature is considered to be a familiar, and gain all of the benefits of being such from the Find Familiar spell, with the exception that the charmed creature cannot be dismissed or summoned from a pocket dimension.
• The charmed creature may gain the benefits of your Gills of the Deep One path feature.

Upon reaching the 10th stage of this path, your willing mental slaves may pick two of these boons instead of one. They may not pick the same one twice when they do this.

Innate Deepmagic

Once you've reached the 7th stage of this path, your body begins to unlock it's inner awoken potential as you begin to gain access to your innate deepmagics.

When you gain this feature, you learn 3 cantrips from the warlock spell list of your choice, and choose any one of the following spells, which you can cast once before needing to complete a short rest before doing so again: Bestow Curse, Blink, Dispel Magic, Hunger of Hadar, Nondetection, Sending, Slow, Stinking Cloud, Vampiric Touch, or Waterbreathing. Upon reaching the 11th stage of this path, you may choose an additional spell, which can be casted once, recharging on a short rest like the previous, from the following list: Cloudkill, Contact Other Plane, Dominate Person, Far Step, Mislead, Modify Memory, Telepathic Bond, or Telekinesis.

Mental Hive

Upon reaching the 8th stage of this path, your mind expands and your will expands with it. You may now have up to 3 creatures under your influence with your Mental Enslavement ability instead of your previous limit of 1.

Probing Mindsight

Once you've reached the 9th stage of this path, your Mindsight becomes stronger than ever before. You may as an action target a creature you can sense with your Mindsight, and force them to make a Wisdom saving throw, against a DC equal to 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Wisdom modifier. On a failed save, you learn the targeted creatures greatest desires.

Slaver's Lifeline

Upon reaching the 12th stage of this path, you gain the ability to tap the energy of your slaves in your times of need. As a reaction upon reaching 0 hit points, if there is a creature charmed by you with your Mental Enslavement feature within 120 feet of you, instead remain at 1 hit point, and immediately reduce a creature that is charmed by you with your Mental Enslavement feature at random within the same 120 feet to 0 hit points in your stead, regardless of how many hit points they had remaining.

In addition to this, if at any point you die, you may choose to instead of dying, regain 1 hit point and become conscious. If you do this, you must choose a creature that is willingly charmed to you that is on the same plane of existence. If there is not an applicable target, this ability does not work, and you die as normal. If there is an applicable target, that target dies in your stead as you regain the hit point.

Path of the Arcane Battery

Runic Sight

As a bonus action you can detect if anything within 100ft is magical in nature. You learn how many magic objects, magic effects or magic users there are and their general direction, but nothing else besides that.

Mana Burst

You begin to grasp control of the overflow of magic that pours forth from you. As an action, you may empty your stored magic out and have it burst forth from you as it escapes its containment. When you do so, you lose all of the spell slots stored in your battery, and every creature within 15ft of you must make a Constitution saving throw with a DC equal to your highest spellcasting DC. On a failed saving throw, creatures take 2d8 for every level of the combined level of the expended spell slots. When you do this, you take an amount of force damage equal to the number of dice rolled.

Absorb Magic

Your battery has learned to open your magical storage just long enough to intake outside magic without losing any of your contained energy. As a reaction upon coming under the effects of a spell, if the spell is of a level for which you can cast, you may absorb the spell into your battery. This completely nullifies all effects the spell would have had, and you gain a spell slot of the level the spell was casted at in your battery. When you do this, you take force damage equal to twice the casted level. Once you have used this ability, you cannot do it again until you have completed a short or long rest.

Leyline Walk

Currents of raw magic exist through the world, and now you can detect them with Runic Sight. If you detect one and as a 10 minute ritual you can teleport yourself and 6 other willing creatures through the leyline in any of the two directions up to 36 miles (3 hexes). If you use this you cannot use it again before completing a long rest.

Path of the Blood Fiend

Eternal Stratum

The Blood within you begins to beat with an otherworldly pulse, any attacks you sustain begin to fade away as your cells rapidly knit back together. At the end of your turns you heal the average of your highest hit die divided by 2. The amount healed increases to the average of your hit die, instead of average divided by two, upon reaching your 9th progression stage in this path. In addition to this, your blood itself wards off internal attacks, and because of this you become immune to poison damage and the poison condition as well as all non-magical disease.

Burden of Ancestry

As you drain the blood from your victims you begin to develop outward peculiarities, your footsteps leave behind no sound and you gain advantage on any Dexterity (Stealth) Check in relation to making sound in that way. In addition, you gain darkvision with a range of 30ft, and if you already have darkvision for some reason, this instead adds 30ft to that range. As well as this, your Bite now begins to secrete a dangerous toxin. When attacking from a hidden state you do not reveal your position if you miss. If you hit a creature that you are hidden from with your bite attack, they must make a constitution saving throw or become charmed for one hour. The DC for this save is equal to 8 + your constitution modifier + your proficiency bonus.

Crimson Sacrament

You can spend 8 hours initiating someone on the path of the Blood Fiend. They must be willing to undertake the ritual and to begin, you bite them and instead give them some drops of your own blood. The creature remains unconscious for all 8 hours as their blood undergoes the transformation.

When they wake, they are assaulted by a deep thirst and enter a trance. The creature is aware of everything that happens during the trance but has no control. The creature will try to forcefully drain the blood of anything they come across, both friend and foe, for the next hour without pause. The creature's normal self can attempt to disrupt the trance and stop their body from doing actions, such as draining from a certain someone, or pursueing courses of action, such as going into certain places. You make a wisdom saving throw to stop yourself. The DC is 10 initially and increase by one everytime you successfully deny your body from doing something.

If the creature has drank fully from 3 or more creatures they leave the trance and regain control, succeeding on their initiation and begin on the path. If they fail to meet this requirement, they stay in their trance until the requirement is met. For every hour after the first in this state, the creature gains a level of exhaustion.

Crimson Aegis

Your blood begins to defend you better than it ever has, as the mists of your Crimson Shroud thicken. While your Crimson Shroud is active, you are considered to be lightly obscured at all times. Additionally, while your Crimson Shroud is active, you become resistant to non-magical bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing damage.

Crimson Wings

Your blood consistently surprises you with its ability to manifest in new forms, and in this case, that form is large wings of congealed blood that sprout forth from your back. The base effects of your Crimson Shroud are replaced with the following, which are permanent. You gain an additional 20ft of movement speed on the ground, and gain a 50ft Fly speed. If you already have a fly speed, your fly speed instead increases by 30ft, and your previously existing wings alter similarly as the conjured wings would be.

Lifedrinker

You begin to react to the presence of blood and are consumed by it, and therefore, wish to consume it in return. When you hit a target with your bite attack, you may use your reaction to attempt to drink their blood. When you do this, the target must make a Constitution Save, with a DC of 10 or half the damage dealt by the bite, whichever is higher. On a failed save you heal the amount of damage dealt, on a pass you heal half of that.

Blood Fiend Transformation

You have cultivated the Sanguine Sutra to its peak and have finally assumed the form of what is known as a blood fiend. Your skin pales, and your teeth become fangs. Your Bite attacks damage die increases to 1d8, and the damage type becomes necrotic. As well as this, the art of the hunt flows through you. When you hit a surprised creature from hidden with a bite attack, you may add an additional 8d6 necrotic to the damage dice.

Path of the Crimson Star

Crimson Curtain

Your self created crimson light has begun to protect you, almost instinctively. Whilst you are within the crimson light created by your Crimson Veil feature, you are considered to have half cover against all creatures that are further than 5ft away from you.

Nightmare Highway

Path of the Everison

Souls of the Eladar

The Eladar, the gods of the old world. They were born from the Everison yet now only Alira remains. Although even in death, fragments of their souls remain, and you can use those to aid you in your crusade.

Soul Fragments are small crystals that orbit your body and aid you by giving you passive effects. You can absorb the crystals into your body or release them as free actions, and their passive effects will only take effect when they are out and orbiting you. If a crystal is ever 5ft away from you or more due to getting pulled forcibly or by getting stuck somewhere it will instantly get teleported to you, and they are indestructible.

When you obtain this feature you receive Alira's Soul Fragment, and there are 6 in total. The other Eladar died when they crashed into this world, and as you advance on the path you will receive their memories and wisdom, together with their Soul Fragments. You obtain another Soul Fragment of your choice when you reach stages 4, 6, 7, 9 and 10. You can’t choose the same Soul Fragment more than once.

There are 6 passive effects in total, and whenever you obtain a Soul Fragment you also obtain a passive effect. From then on and every time you finish a long rest you'll be able to choose which Soul Fragment gives you which passive effect for that day, each passive effect can only be assigned to a maximum amount of Soul Fragments at a time, if you have the same passive effect in multiple Soul Fragments their effects stack.

Everison paragon

You have brought back hope and life to an ancient force of the universe and created one of the fabled old Everison Crystals. For that the Everison blessed you with the maximum amount of its power you can hold. All of this path’s features improve:

• Everison fragment. In addition to the ones already available, you can choose one of these two other fragments to summon:

Summoning fragment. The first, third and fifth round that the shard is summoned spawns a tiny Shardling that disappears after 1 minute or when destroyed. You can give commands telepathically to the Shardlings without action required. The Shardlings have an AC of 14, 10HP, 30ft of speed and a melee spike attack with +5 to hit and reach of 5ft that deals 1d6+3 piercing damage.

Blasting fragment. A wave of force impacts all hostile creatures in the area every round, dealing 1d6 force damage.

• Souls of the Eladar. Your soul creates a Soul Fragment, which means that you now have a maximum of 7.
• Crystal blockade. The barrier can now be from 5ft to 15ft wide and it has 25AC and 15HP.
• Everison tear. If you choose Snare you can affect up to 9 squares, any affected creature will be also restrained and the damage increases to 3d6. If you choose Beacon you can throw and teleport to the spike with the same bonus action.
• Stasis repose. You can now encase up to eight willing creatures.
• Crystalite. Every time you generate Crystalite you generate two units instead of one.
• Equipment phase. The duration is now 24 hours instead of 8 and you can choose the equipment to, instead of a collar, be absorbed into a bracelet or a ring.
• Effigy of return. You can now use 24 hours for the ritual instead of 6, and if you do so you will be able to have up to 3 effigies active at once. If you create a fourth one the first you created will instantly shatter.
• Enhancement. The duration is now 10 minutes and you have the option to use 5 EC to raise the stats by 4.
• Blessing of renewal. The amount healed per turn increases to 4HP and the effect does not deactivate until the creature has taken damage 3 times or reaches max HP.
• Crystal doppelganger. The duplicate lasts for three turns and at the start of each of your turns you can choose to control the duplicate or yourself. If you choose yourself the duplicate stays completely inert where you left it.

Path of the Evo Parasite

Permanent Adaptation

Once you’ve reached your 3rd progression stage with your Evo Parasite, your body will gain the ability to retain abilities gained with your Adaptive Form. Over the course of a long rest, you may choose to permanently gain your current Adaptive Form trait, as a trait of its own. This trait cannot be changed again after this, without the use of a greater restoration spell. If a greater restoration spell is used on you at any time, it is optional if you remove any permanent adaptation you may have gained, as if your body is not actively rejecting the adaptation during the process of the spell, it won't be recognized as a ailment in need of correction. You may have up to two permanent adaptations at your 6th, and three at your 10th Evo Parasite progression stages.

Adaptive Arsenal

Upon reaching your 4th progression stage with your Evo Parasite, your natural weapon attacks made with traits gained from your Adaptive Form feature are considered to be magical for the purposes of overcoming resistances.

Situational Evolution

Your parasite has come to learn the ways that other creatures adapt, and no longer always needs to be lead by example. Once you’ve reached your 7th progression stage, you may spend five minutes forcing your body to adapt to help you in your current situation. Once this process is completed, you expend a hit dice, to gain any non combat based feature you have previously gained with your Adaptive Form feature for 10 minutes. You may do this an amount of times per day equal to your constitution modifier. Upon reaching your 11th progression stage, the time it takes to use your Situational Evolution trait is reduced to 1 minute.

Parasitic Transference

Upon reaching the 8th stage of progression, your Evo Parasite will finally begin to breed. You may, as an action against a willing or incapacitated target, produce an Evo Parasite, and transfer it to another. The process is short and excessively grueling.

A fledgeling version of the creature enters the body and begins the process to forcefully adapt the creature to future genetic imprinting. The creature makes a saving throw every 10 minutes as their body is forcefully changed against the natural state of the body.

they must also make a random saving throw from one of their six attributes by rolling a d6. After making a saving throw with an attribute, they cannot make that saving throw again and the dice is rerolled. The save DC reflects your body's innate characteristics, including your strengths and weaknesses. As such, the DC for saves is calculated as such: 10 + (your level divided by 5) - (the related attribute modifier). Positive modifiers reduce the DC, negative modifiers increase the DC. If you succeed on the saving throw, you add 2d8 to the damage taken every 10 minutes. If you fail, you add 1d8 to the damage taken every 10 minutes and incur a -2 penalty to all saving throws until the end of the process.

This process lasts an hour and if the creature has succeeded on four of the six saving throws, the parasite settles down as the host body has been successfully prepared for future changes to its genome. If the creature fails to meet this requirement, they immediately gain 3 injury levels, and roll twice on the injury tables; Once on the level 2, and once on the level 3. Then, the parasite leaves the body and the failed host is left to their fate.

Combat Evolution

Similarly to your Situational Evolution, at your 9th progression stage, you may adapt your body quickly to any given situation. You may as an action, begin focusing on your biological structure and attempting to force it into the shape you need right now. You concentrate on this focus similarly to how one would concentrate on a spell. If you manage to concentrate on it until the beginning of your next turn without being interrupted, you may temporarily gain any feature you have previously gained with your adaptive form feature for one minute. You may use this feature once, and you regain the ability to do so after completing a short or long rest.

Unnatural Adaptation

Finally, your Evo Parasite has reached its peak. Upon reaching your 12th progression stage, your body no longer needs to follow any sort of natural evolution routes, and can simply copy the abilities that it sees in action. Therefore, your Adaptive Form trait is no longer limited by creature type, or by whether or not the creature was conjured by magical means.

Path of the Fiend Forged

Path of the Primeval Warden

Armor of the Primeval

You and all allies affected by your Aura of Radiance while it’s active get +1AC.

Primeval Guard

The Primeval Magic links you to all living beings around you seamlessly, especially those ones you hold dear. As a reaction when an ally that’s within 60ft from you is going to be hit with an attack, you can teleport to their space and they are pushed 5ft back so you are between them and the enemy, then the attack hits you automatically. You may use this feature up to a number of times equal to your highest ability score modifier per short or long rest.

Legendary Trait

Your body and the Primeval Magic within you have bonded more over time. When you get this feature choose one of the following Legendary Traits, to choose a trait you must have at least 16 points in the corresponding stat. Whenever you gain a stage on this path you can choose any of your Legendary Traits and change it for another that you have access to.

• [Strength] The Demolisher - You count as one size larger when determining your carrying capacity and the weight that you can push, drag or lift, your jump height and distance are doubled, and when you deal damage to an inanimate object that damage is doubled.
• [Dexterity] The Ghost - You can disengage as a bonus action. When disengaging in this manner, you gain the ability to move through occupied spaces as though no creature was there, though you may not end your turn in the same space as another creature.
• [Constitution] The Undying - You become immune to disease and gain advantage on death saving throws as long as you have at least one failed death saving throw.
• [Intelligence] The Mind - You obtain the Message cantrip and can cast it at will, for you it does not need any components.
• [Wisdom] The Vigilant - You have advantage on perception checks that rely on sight. Additionally, you ignore the negative effects of dim light.
• [Charisma] The Trickster - As a reaction when being attacked by a creature that you can see, you gain the ability to feign fear (or show genuine fear) and attempt to dissuade the attacker from striking you. When you do this, make a deception or persuasion check contested by an insight check from the attacker. If your deception or persuasion roll was higher than the target’s insight, they must choose a new target for the attack, or cancel the attack if there are no available targets. You may use this ability once, regaining the ability to do so again upon completing a short or long rest.

Radiant Heart

Maintaining your Aura of Radiance has become second nature to you. You can add your highest ability score modifier to concentration checks for maintaining your Aura of Radiance. Additionally, the radius of your Aura of Radiance increases by 5 feet, and you gain the ability to use your Aura of Radiance an additional number of times per day equal to half of your proficiency bonus rounded up.

Primeval Sanctum

With the absorption of all this Primeval Magic you gain insight about a place that was secluded from you until now, a place that only those sufficiently linked to this ancestral substance can access. You obtain the ability to, as a 10 minute ritual, teleport yourself to the Primeval Sanctum, a place where only advanced Primeval Wardens can access and that you will learn more about when you get there. When you complete this ritual you leave behind the same trinket or crystal that you do when you enter stasis, and while in the Sanctum you can repeat the same 10 minute ritual to return where your trinket or crystal is.

Prime Enhancement

The Primeval Magic within you fills your every cell with the strength to be a better self. You can choose an additional Heroic Trait or Legendary Trait, your choice. You cannot choose the same Trait twice.

Giving

The magic link between you and your allies grows ever stronger, letting you send them part of your life energy. As an action choose an ally within 30ft of you, you take 4d8 damage and that ally regains a number of hit points equal to the damage you took.

Ever Vigilant

The magic within you fuels you more than anything ever could. You do not need to eat, drink, or sleep as long as you are not within an antimagic field.

Primeval Trait

You feel how the Primeval Magic has made you the self that you were always destined to be. When you get this feature choose one of the following Primeval Traits, to choose a trait you must have at least 16 points in the corresponding stat. Whenever you gain a stage on this path you can choose any of your Primeval Traits and change it for another that you have access to.

• [Strength] Herald of the Titans - You count as one size larger when determining your carrying capacity and the weight that you can push, drag or lift, and every time you make an attack with strength you have a bonus to the damage equal to your strength modifier. Additionally you have advantage on athletics checks.
• [Dexterity] Herald of the Wind - You can take the dash action as a bonus action. Additionally if you take the dash action on your turn you can choose any number of allies that you can see up to 60ft away from you, those allies can move an additional amount of feet on their next turn equal to your base movement speed if they so choose.
• [Constitution] Herald of the Immortals - Your hit point maximum increases by a further +1 per level. This applies retroactively, as well as to every level you take hereafter.
• [Intelligence] Herald of the Grand Council - Your intellect surges, increasing your intelligence score by 2. Additionally, any rolls for intelligence checks that are 9 or lower are treated as a 10.
• [Wisdom] Herald of the One Mother - You cannot become lost via any means, including magical and you gain a +5 bonus to perception. Additionally, as an action, you can give advantage on a skill check an ally makes with a skill you are proficient in before the start of your next turn if you can see that ally and it is within 60ft of you. You can do this a number of times equal to your wisdom modifier per long rest.
• [Charisma] Herald of Narcissus - You gain advantage on all charisma checks when interacting with creatures, as well as advantage on insight checks. Additionally, when interacting with humanoids, your charisma score is treated as being 2 points higher.

Immortal Protector

Your body and the Primeval Magic within you have become one, perfectly in sync and empowering each other more than ever before; you cannot fit any more Primeval Magic within you, and you do not need to, you’ve become Primeval. The energy that binds you to your teammates has also reached its peak, granting you undying strength to fight on. If you fall unconscious in combat or you are killed outright, you can choose to fuse yourself with an ally that’s within 120ft of you without gaining an injury. This ally gains the effects of the tenser's transformation spell. If the combat ends without the death of the one you have bound your soul to you reappear in an unoccupied 5ft space next to that ally with 1hp remaining. This ability can only be used once per long rest.

Alternatively you can activate this effect as an action. If you do so you can stay fused with the ally for up to one hour, being able to end the effect at will and returning at a 5ft space next to it with the same health that you had when you used this feature. If you use this feature as an action you will be able to do so again after a short rest instead of a long rest.

Path of the Radiant Armory

Utility

Upon gaining this feature, choose one of your two armaments. That armament gains the ability to allow the wielder to cast up to 3 levels worth of spells using your highest stat between intelligence, wisdom and charisma, for example, counterspell, or scorching ray and magic missile, chosen upon the armaments creation. Each spell can only be cast once, recharging at dawn. This choice can be changed whenever the armaments form is changed, but cannot be changed otherwise.

Quality

You can expend your own life essence to fuel your armaments. As a reaction when you are hit with an attack while wearing an armament, or you hit with an attack with one of your armaments, you may expend and roll up to one quarter of your stage in this path rounded down in hit dice, the total of this roll is either added to the attack's damage, or reduced from the damage taken.

Guidance

At this point you gain the ability to guide people towards the same divine path you're walking. To do so you must first bring into existence the same glory that let you arrive at the point you're in now: a radiant crystal. You can create a radiant crystal using a total of 15dtd that doesn't have to be consecutive and that may be also done while traveling. There can only be one radiant crystal created by you at any point, and when one is consumed you can start creating another.

Trinity

A third armament is birthed within your soul. Choose one of the following forms, or choose a weapon or armor form as used for your initial Armament. As normal, upon gaining a progression stage in this path, you may change the choice of this form. You may not have more than one of the following special forms chosen at a time.

• Wings - Your armament takes the shape of a set of wings, these appear in whatever form you wish and grant you a fly speed of 45ft, or increase your fly speed by 15ft if you already have one.
• Cloak - Your armament takes the shape of a cloak, this appears in whatever style you wish and grants you the ability to Dash, Disengage, or Hide as a Bonus Action.
• Helmet - Your armament takes the shape of a helmet. This helmet whilst worn gives you a 20ft truesight, and allows you to cast Detect Magic and See Invisibility at will.

Volatility

Your soul is a forge, and as such, you gain the ability to heat that which is around you. You may cast the spell Heat Metal as a bonus action without expending a spell slot. This can be used an amount of times per day equal to your charisma modifier to a minimum of one.

Empowerment

Your armaments improve as your soul continues to develop alongside these weapons. Your weapon now deals an additional 2d6 of the chosen damage it was made with, instead of 1d6, or, your armor now grants immunity to the damage type it would normally resist.

Protection

Your mind and soul begin to be shielded by your armaments, and because of this you gain advantage on saving throws against illusions, in addition your are immune to the frightened, and charm conditions.

Radiance

Your armory continues to improve, and at this point as reached near perfection. Armaments in armor form grant an additional +1 to armor class, and armaments in weapon form grant an additional +1 to hit and to damage rolls.

Path of the Righteous Flame

Wings of Glory

As you begin to cultivate your inner phoenix spirit, its energy begins to show even more physical form when you manifest your Mantle of Flame. Whilst your Mantle of Flame is active you gain a flying speed equal to your walking speed. If you already have a flying speed, it increases by an amount equal to your walking speed.

Trial of Fire

The phoenix inside of you has reached a stage in it's maturity where it gains the ability to reproduce. As an action, you may create a molten phoenix egg in front of you. It exists for up to an hour, and you cannot create another one of these until the first disappears. A creature may attempt to absorb this egg into themselves over the course of one minute. Every other round during the progress of this attempted absorption they must make a constitution saving throw, or take 6d8 Fire, the damage increasing by 1d8 every time it's rolled, and taking half of that damage on a successful save. The DC for this save is 13. During this time, they cannot be healed by sources that are not themselves. If a creature manages to survive this without dropping below 0 hit points, and they have not began down a second path, they may begin down the Path of the Righteous Flame. If a creature is brought to 0 hit points during this process, their body is completely reduced to ashes.

Gaze of Purity

Your eyes begin to burn with the radiant flames of the pure, and this frees your vision of any obscurities. You may expend a hit dice to roll your purification dice, and then gain truesight up to a distance equal to 10 times the number rolled for one minute.

Rite of Rebirth

The phoenix inside of you wishes to cull the impure, and cleanse those who have been corrupted by the dark. As an action, you may attempt to invoke the Rite of Rebirth upon an undead creature. Doing this costs all of your remaining hit dice, to a minimum of 12. If this minimum is not met, the ability fails. The creature must make a Charisma saving throw with a DC equal to 8 + your proficiency bonus + your charisma modifier. On a failed save, the creature begins to purify. A creature that is temporarily undead, either with a spell like Raise Dead or similar effect, is instantly destroyed. A creature that is undead semi-permanently, like a revenant, a banshee, or similar creature, is immediately destroyed, then reverted back to their once living state as per the effects of the spell True Resurrection.

Purity in Ashes

You have become one with your inner phoenix, and now regenerate your essence as one would. Once per day, when you complete a short rest, you may regain an amount of hit dice equal to one third of your level rounded up.

Path of the Steel Heart

Magneton

At 2nd stage, you gain the ability to manipulate metal in various ways. Choose a portion of non-magical metal that is not a creature, is not being carried by a creature, that you can see, and that fits within a 5-foot cube. As an action, you can manipulate it in one of the following ways.

• You cause shapes, colors, or both to appear on the metal, spelling out words, creating images, or shaping patterns. The changes last for 1 hour.
• If the metal you target is on the ground, you cause it to become difficult terrain. Alternatively, you can cause the ground to become normal terrain if it is already difficult terrain. This change lasts for 1 hour.
• You can melt any type of metal over the span of 1 minute.

If you use this ability multiple times, you can have no more than two of its effects active at a time, and you can dismiss each effect early as an action. The range of this ability Is 120 feet.

Steel Resolve

At 3rd stage, you gain a damage threshold equal to your progression stage of this path + your Constitution modifier. (Ex. You are at progression stage 5 and have a Constitution modifier of 3. You have to take more than 8 damage from any sources to take any damage.)

Signature Style

At 4th stage, your Signature Weapon becomes much more potent.

• Your Signature Weapon and unarmed strikes now count as magical for the purpose of overcoming resistance and immunity to nonmagical attacks and damage.

Additionally, during your Metallic Transformation your Signature Weapon and unarmed strikes gain these additional benefits.

• Your Signature Weapon attacks now have advantage when attacking a creature made out of, or wearing, metal.
• Your unarmed strikes may now grapple and deal damage in the same attack.

Crushing Grip

At 5th stage, your Metallic Transformation further strengthens your body.

When you activate Metallic Transformation one of your physical Ability Scores becomes 18 for the duration of the transformation. You also gain advantage on attempts to grapple a creature that is made of, or wearing, metal.

Steel Enhancement

At 6th stage, the metal coursing through your body becomes stronger and more effective.

• The damage die of your Signature Weapon becomes a 1d8
• You may now form or encoat martial weapons when you choose your Signature Weapon at the end of each long rest.

Additionally, your Metallic Transformation gains the following improvements.

• Your AC cannot be lower than 18
• You can add your Constitution Modifier to damage rolls made with your Signature Weapons or unarmed strikes
• As a bonus action, you can change the form of your Signature Weapon. At the end of your Metallic Transformation your Signature Weapon returns to the form chosen at the end of the last long rest.

Magneton Enhancement

At 7th stage, your Magneton ability gains the following benefit and additional effects.

• The area that can be effected at one time increases to a 20 ft cube
• Create Siege Ammunition: You can create ammunition for Siege weapons such as Cannons, Ballista, and any other Siege Weapons that require Ammunition to operate.
• Metallic Spikes: You cause metal around you to spike up, creating an area of difficult terrain, this difficult terrain cannot be bypassed by magical effects as long as the creature is within the 20 ft cube.
• Create Wall: You can use the metal within the area to create a wall in front of you, giving creatures behind the wall Cover (DM's Discretion if it is 1/2, 3/4, or Full Cover).

Metal Scent

At 8th stage, you are aware of the direction, type, and quantity of all metal that is within 500 feet of you.

Unyielding Form

Also at 8th stage, when you are hit by an attack during Metallic Transformation, you may use your reaction to reduce the damage of that attack by an amount equal to your path stage.

Metallic Replacement

At 9th stage, you spend 7 days and 10 units of metal to create a clone of yourself. This clone follows all the rules of the Clone spell as long as it is attuned to you. If you do die, you do not count as being the race that you were before. You now count as a Warforged, Vect or other mechanical race. You have to specify which one you are building before it is created. You can have as many clones as you want but each clone requires a separate attunement slot.

Enhanced Crushing Grip

At 10th stage, your Metallic Transformation enhances your physical capabilities to their peak level.

One of your physical abilities scores is further improved to 20, and any creatures made of, or wearing, metal have disadvantage on Athletics or Acrobatics checks to contest you grappling them for the duration of your Metallic Transformation.

Perfect Transformation

At 11th stage, the blend of metals within your body as reached a perfect state.

• The damage die of your Signature Weapon is now a 1d10

Additionally, your Metallic Transformation gains these additional benefits due to the perfect metal that you hold within.

• When activating your Metallic Transformation you gain Temporary Hit Points equal to double your stage in this path + your constitution modifier
• Your AC cannot go below 20
• As a bonus action you may make a single attack with your Signature Weapon or unarmed strike
• Your Signature Weapon gains the thrown(20/40) and returning properties.

Wrath of the Titan

At 12th stage, once per long rest, you may choose to expel your stored metal into an entirely different form. As an action, you reshape yourself into a Steel Titan for a number of hours equal to your constitution modifier.

This ability follows the same rules as the Polymorph spell, except you keep any of your ability scores that are higher than the Steel Titan's.

You revert back to your normal form once the duration ends, if your Steel Titan hit points are reduced to zero, or if you end it as a bonus action. Your Steel Titan's hit points are rolled separately for each transformation and your equipment melds into the new form.

Path of Tribulation

Chant of the Heavens

The thunder begins to head your calls, and the storms of tribulation strike down on those you deem worthy. You may spend one minute doing a chant that would call forth the fury of the gods down on that which you see fit. The target must be willing at the beginning, but becoming unwilling during the chant does not end it. This chant cannot be used on a creature that is already on the Path of Tribulation This chant takes 10 rounds, at the beginning of the second round, a bolt of lightning strikes directly down on top of the target. They must make a DC 13 constitution saving throw or take 6d6 lightning damage. Immunities are considered resistances, and resistances are null for the purposes of damage calculation. This lightning strikes at the beginning of the targets turns for the remainder of the chant, and the damage increases by 1d6 each time it strikes. 7d6 on the second strike, 8d6 on the third, etc. If the target survives this trial, they are considered to have gained the first level in the Path of Tribulation if they have not already begun a second path.

Tribulation Leap

Your pent up divine fury begins to pour out of your body. Though, this is a usual occurrence, you are slowly beginning to master controlling it. You may use your bonus action, to empower your ability to jump, replicating the effects of the jump spell, without actually being the jump spell, and without requiring concentration, as the energy bursts forth from beneath you launching you forward. When you jump while under the effects of this ability, your thunderous jumps can be heard from up to 200ft away.

Release of Tribulation

The tribulation energy inside you begins to build up, and it must be released. You may as a bonus action, imbue yourself with tribulation and fill yourself to the brim with more energy than you can normally hold. When you do this, you may choose to take as many iterations of 20d6 thunder as you'd like. If you are still conscious at the end, you gain an additional action this turn for every iteration of damage willingly taken. Immunities are considered resistances, and resistances are null for the purposes of damage calculation.

Tribulation Propellant

The tribulation energy inside you continues to build. You may as a bonus action, double your speed for the remainder of the turn. Moving whilst under these effects creates thunderous booms that can be heard from up to 200ft away.

Call of Tribulation

Finally, the divine lightning bends to your will. You may as an action conjure a storm of tribulation that begins to strike down around, as black clouds, rippling with crimson lightning begin to form above you. When you use this ability, a storm cloud appears in the shape of a Cylinder that is 20 feet tall with a 90-foot radius, centered on a point you can see 100 feet directly above you. The spell fails if you can't see a point in the air where the storm cloud could appear (for example, if you are in a room that can't accommodate the cloud).

When you call the storm, choose a point you can see within range. A bolt of crimson tribulation lightning flashes down from the cloud to that point. Each creature within 5 feet of that point must make a dexterity or constitution saving throw. A creature takes 8d6 lightning damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one. On each of your turns until the spell ends, you can use your action to call down lightning in this way again, targeting the same point or a different one.

If you are outdoors in stormy Conditions when you call this storm, the spell gives you control over the existing storm instead of creating a new one. Under such Conditions, the storms damage increases by 4d6, as it begins to boom with tribulation.

Once you use this feature it cannot be used again until you complete a short or long rest.

Path of the Loremaster

[ Guide ]

• Objective: Take 10 player characters to an island that you have been before but they haven't.
• Explanation: You can take 10 people in one go, guide your group of 5 through 2 islands, etc.

[ Books ]

• Objective: Gather different books about any permanent island (history, nature, culture…) that sum at least 9600 pages in total.
• Explanation: You only need to read them for them to count, reading a book is 1 page per minute and you can use dtd to read. At this reading pace you can read 480 pages per dtd, which means 20 dtd in total to read all the books.

[ Landmarks ]

• Objective: Visit 35 landmarks.
• Explanation: Landmarks encompass a huge variety of things, it may be from a village to a city, an important mountain, a famous forest, a suspicious well in the middle of nowhere, etc. Ask your DM at the end of the adventure how many landmarks have you visited or ask it when you visit a place. As a general rule it will be a landmark if it has a name or if the place is important for the adventure.

[ Patron ]

• Objective: Initiate 3 other PCs onto any path.
• Explanation: The most straightforward way of doing this is giving the other character a path object and them using it or using the particular initiation method of your second path. You may initiate them by bringing them to the place where you know they can get the path or by actively helping them get the path, but if you use these methods your DM has to confirm that you indeed initiated them or that they are initiated thanks to you.

Book of endless tales

A Loremaster’s Book is now linked to you. No one but you can open it or read from it, and you can dismiss it or summon it at will as a bonus action (to summon it you need to have a free hand). The book will open automatically at the page you desire, and have unlimited space for your writings. You can make an illusion of the contents of a page appear just over the page at will, in case you want to show those contents. It is possible to use this book as a spellbook or arcane focus.

Loremaster's transport

You obtain the ability to summon a vehicle of your design with a maximum size of 15ft long, 10ft wide and 15ft high. You can summon it as an action and dismiss it with a ritual that lasts 1 min, when you dismiss it all the objects that it was carrying are dismissed with it. The vehicle acts like a cart for all intents and purposes and has a speed of 60ft, it can be motorized and move on its own or have a steed that will be summoned and dismissed with the vehicle. After obtaining it, the physical aspect of the transport can be changed with a ritual that lasts 2 hours, it must not be carrying anything for this to work. The transport has 15AC and 100HP, if the transport is ever destroyed, all the objects that it was carrying fall to the ground and it cannot be summoned again until you finish a long rest. If the transport is ever damaged it can be repaired with a 1h ritual that can be done during a short rest.

Symbiosis

While traveling the islands you feel a magical connection with the land and its cultures, like it's part of your own being. The more time you spend living amongst and writing about a particular culture or tribe the easier it will be for you to live amongst them. Depending on the amount of days you stay in a town or city, you will gain increasing benefits:

1 day - As an action you can magically change your attire to one that fits the general way of dressing.
5 days - You know the general layout of the city.
7 days - You are adapted to the appropriate mannerisms and customs of the place, and because of that people are more likely to consider you a friendly acquaintance.
14 days - You perfectly know the layout of the city, including where all the shops, main attractions and services are.
21 days - You learn the main language spoken by the majority of the people.

Ephemeral room

A Loremaster can't stay in just one place, so its home must come with him/her. You obtain the ability to, through a 1min ritual, summon a magic door in midair or on a wall that leads to a pocket dimension where you have some room to live in (this will get upgraded on stages 8 and 11). This space will be built using the rules found on the City and Wild supplement, and at this stage it is considered to have 2 Building Spaces.

The Fallen's gift

The book lends you a small part of its magic. You can cast Tongues once per long rest. In addition you can cast Banishment once per long rest (twice at stage 8 and three times at stage 11), but instead of sending them to a harmless demiplane or to their home plane, you banish them into a force prison that appears in your Ephemeral room’s plane of existence. The DC for the save is 12 + half your stage in this path rounded down, and when the spell ends they return to where they were before the spell was cast. Also, you can choose to reduce the duration to 2 rounds down from 1 min to, apart from banishing the target, learn all its skills, saving throws, resistances, vulnerabilities and immunities.

Sentience

With all the knowledge and travels you experienced together, your Loremaster’s Book becomes sentient. It gains a personality of its own, this personality will be influenced by your own and by the time you spent together. It can communicate mentally with you or speak with any of the languages you know. The book is naturally connected to this universe and is considered an NPC so he can tell you some small things related to it, which it will very vaguely and instinctively know about. At 12th stage the book will always know the direction of the closest Cardinal Temple, but not its distance from you.

Favor of the mighty

As you meet spellcasters of high power through your journey you will be able to ask them to help you with your mission. To do so it has to be a 17th level caster or higher and be able to cast 9th level spells. When they accept, they will need to choose one spell of 4th level or lower that they can cast, which from then on you will be able to use once per long rest. The spellcasting stat for this spells is int, wis or cha, whatever is highest.

Path of The Forbidden Contract

Intrusive Eyes

At sixth stage, your body begins to adjust to accommodate your feywild experience better. At all times, you act as though you are under the see invisibility spell to a distance of 60ft.

Intricate Castings

At seventh stage, your boss has shared a number of useful spells with you. You may choose 3 cantrips, 5 first level spells, 3 second level spells and 1 third level spell from the wizard spell list, so long as the spell does not innately deal damage. Intelligence is your spellcasting modifier for this. You may cast these spells once each per long rest besides cantrips, which may be done at will.

Wings of the Wild

At eighth stage, you gain another adaptation from your fey Contract: a pair of sparkling fairy wings. These wings grant you an innate flying speed of 60ft and allow you to resist movement abilities, granting you advantage on saving throws to avoid being pushed.

Trick of the Trade

At ninth stage, your Boss has finished teaching you the importance of staying out of sight. You may cast invisibility on yourself at will, and greater invisibility once per long rest. As well as this, you gain proficiency in stealth and creatures have disadvantage when attempting to see you from a distance of 30ft of further if they do not have another method of seeing you (eg blindsight or tremorsense).

Secret sanctum

Through old and forbidden knowledge, you learn how to extract a small part of the Greenhouse and bring it to the material plane. You can choose to spend 10 days performing a special ritual that binds a portion of the Greenhouse to the material plane. The area is contained within a single building, which must be at least 1000 square feet (100x100) and at least 10ft tall. Upon completing the ritual, the building acts as though it is under the hallow spell, though your boss, "co-workers" and yourself are exempt from the restrictions of the area, as well as causing the area inside to be impervious to scrying and other sources of divination. Once the ritual is complete, you cannot perform it again for 30 days. You can have an unlimited number of sanctums available to you at any one time and may spend a day removing the ritual from any building you have made into a sanctum. The interior of your sanctum is influenced by your boss and is much larger on the inside than on the outside, varying from a stately mansion to a beautiful meadow.

Unnatural Beauty

At tenth stage, the bodily changes are nearly complete and as such, you have taken on a more elegant form. Your charisma score increases by 2, to a maximum of 20. Additionally, you gain advantage on persuasion and deception checks towards non-hostile creatures who are not immune to charms as your mere looks are enough to influence their opinion of you.

Door to Discovery

At eleventh stage, you finally gain the understanding necessary to move yourself between the terminal in the greenhouse and the material plane. At will, you may spend an action to cast plane shift on yourself and up to 2 willing creatures, who must hold hands in a triangle when the spell is cast. This casting does not require components and can only take you to the Greenhouse or a sanctum of your choosing. If a creature that has attempted to planeshift with you cannot enter your hallow due to a creature type restriction, it appears at the entrance to the sanctum. This ability cannot be used if you have had a hostile action taken against you or a creature you attempt to shift in the last 15 seconds or a hostile creature is within 30ft of you or a creature you attempt to shift.

My little friend

At twelfth stage, you have entered into a permanent contract with your boss. You are permanently under the effect of the ceremony spell’s wedding feature as your boss keeps a careful eye on your dealings. Additionally, you may use your action to summon your boss to assist you in combat. They act as a CR16 planetar and act friendly towards you, taking actions as they see fit, though will take orders if phrased nicely and it does not endanger them too greatly. They remain by your side until you dismiss them as an action, until they go down to 0 hitpoints, or an hour passes, whichever comes first, as they return to a Sanctum to rest themselves.

Path of Domineering

Echolocator

Prerequisite: Level 11 or Higher

You fit a small but powerful device to your ears, allowing you to echolocate. So long as you are not deafened, you gain blindsight up to 45ft away from you. Additionally, you gain proficiency in perception checks and have advantage on checks relating to hearing.

Pocket Translator

You attach a small lens to your eye which can automatically translate things that you read. You can now read all forms of written language, though it does not allow you to speak or write that language yourself. Upon choosing this mechanisation, select a language that you understand. All written language you read is translated into the selected language.

Finger Lasers

Prerequisite: 13 Intelligence

You fit a small arcane generator to the palm of your hands. These generators allow you to fire small beams of energy from your fingers as an action a number of times equal to your intelligence modifier+3 per short rest. The lasers do 3d6+int force damage as a ranged weapons attack and have a range of 60ft.

Unibeam

Prerequisite: Finger Lasers Mechanisation & Level 13

You upgrade the previous arcane generators on your palms to fire stronger energy blasts. The finger lasers can now be fired at will instead of on a number of charges. Additionally, you may overcharge the generators to fire off a single concentrated beam of energy as an action. These beams deal 12d8+int force damage in a 10x30ft line and cannot miss. Using this ability disables your finger lasers until you complete a long rest and spend the time repairing them.

Swiss Arm-y Tools

You fit a number of tools into your arms for use in crafting. Choose up to 3 tool kits you are proficient with. You are considered to always have these tools to hand and gain expertise in them while using them from this feature.

Heatseekers

Prerequisite: Level 9 or Higher

You attach a medium sized launcher to your shoulder, capable of firing heatseeking missiles. Three times per long rest, you may use this launcher to cast a non-magical version of fireball on a point of your choosing, sending a missile out to detonate on a point given.

Extra Pair of Hands

Prerequisite: 13 Strength or Higher

You attach an extra set of arms underneath your current ones, joining slightly under your armpits. This feature allows you to wield a 2 handed, heavy or versatile weapon at the same time as holding a shield. Wielding 2 shields with this feature only gives you the AC increase of a single shield.

Nano-Mirrors

Prerequisite: 9th Level & 13 Dexterity or Higher

You inject a number of nanoscopic machines into your body, which begin to lace your skin with tiny mirrors. At will, you may cast Invisibility on yourself without any components.

Telewarper

You attach an experimental teleportation device to your waist, allowing you to teleport. You may use a bonus action to teleport to an unoccupied space that you can see within 60ft of you. You may do this up to a number of times equal to your intelligence modifier (minimum of 1) per long rest.

Mobile Lab

Prerequisite: 13 Intelligence or Higher

You create a small trinket that fits in your pocket in the form of a doorway. While having it on your person you can make a magical doorway appear next to you, but you can only make it appear during short rests and during downtime. While open, this doorway connects to an extradimensional space of your design that acts as an alchemist's lab, workshop or other crafting station from the City & Wild supplement in their Basic version. You cannot take long rests inside the mobile lab, but any amount of creatures can come inside and use it with your permission. If there are any creatures inside when it closes they are automatically teleported out. At stage 8 the room that you chose improves to its Fancy version.

Mecha-Miracles

RoboBuddy

Small Construct, Unaligned

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• Armor Class 14 (Natural Armour)
• Hit Points Character Level*2
• Speed 30ft.

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STR	DEX	CON	INT	WIS	CHA
15 (+2)	10 (+0)	15 (+2)	14 (+2)	8 (-1)	3 (-4)

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• Condition Immunities Charmed, Exhaustion, Frightened, Paralyzed, Petrified, Poisoned
• Senses Passive Perception 9
• Languages That of it's Creator
• Challenge 1/4 (50 XP)

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Servos and Circuits. The Robobuddy cannot swim and will instantly drop to 0 hitpoints if fully submerged in water

Power Grip. The Robobuddy counts as 1 size larger when determining it's carry, push and drag weights.

Actions

Slam. Melee Weapon Attack: +4 to hit, reach 5ft., one target. Hit 5 (1d6 + 2)

Golem Battlesuit

Huge Construct, Unaligned

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• Armor Class 20
• Hit Points 210 (40d10+10)
• Speed 40ft.

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STR	DEX	CON	INT	WIS	CHA
27 (+8)	15 (+2)	20 (+5)	3 (-4)	11 (+0)	1 (-5)

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• Damage Immunities Fire, Poison, Psychic; Bludgeoning, Piercing, And Slashing From Nonmagical Weapons That Aren't Adamantine or Magical
• Condition Immunities Charmed, Exhaustion, Frightened, Paralyzed, Petrified, Poisoned, Restrained, Grappled
• Senses Passive Perception 10
• Languages That of it's Creator
• Challenge 16 (15000 XP)

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Titan. The Battlesuit Grants the User Advantage on Charisma Checks due to the sheer awe and might of it's structure.

Auto-pilot. When Un-manned, You may command the Battlesuit as a bonus action on your turn. Once you give the command, the Battlesuit performs the task to the best of its ability until it completes the task, then waits for your next command. If you give no command, it defends itself and those you deem friendly. If you are knocked unconscious, the Battlesuit will attempt to stabilise you to the best of it's ability, then protect you inside of it.

Multiattack. The Golem attack three times, twice with it's slam, once with it's laser, whenever it take the Attack action on it's turn.

Actions

Slam. Melee Weapon Attack: +10 to hit, reach 15ft., one target. Hit 15 (3d6+6) Bludgeoning

Laser. Ranged Weapon Attack: +10 to hit, reach 60ft., one target. Hit 31 (5d10 + 6) Fire

Path of the Last Bastion

Victory Lap

At Sixth stage, your fanfare develops into a much stronger melody. Whenever you reduce a creature to 0 hitpoints while there is at least one ally within 60ft, you gain 2d8+con temporary hitpoints and may move up to your movement speed towards a hostile target. As well as this, if there are no hostile creatures left and no unconscious allies, you regain hitpoints equal to your temporary hitpoints + your path stage. If an ally is unconscious, they may regain 1 hit point. A creature can only benefit from regaining a hit point once per short rest.

Stand Tall

At Seventh stage, you become enthralled in the idea of being an impenetrable wall. For every 2 allies within your party or 2 hostile creatures within 60ft, you gain a +1 to your AC. 1 of each does not result in an AC increase.

Roaring Tunes

At Ninth stage, your Fanfare grows in pitch, becoming ever more extravagant. Any hostile creature that enters or starts their turn within a 60ft radius of you while the fanfare is active must make a charisma saving throw against your Domino Technique DC or become frightened of your monstrous power for 1 minute, repeating the save at the end of their turn. A creature who passes the save becomes immune to the effect for 1 hour. When frightened in this way, a creature's speed is reduced to 0.

Unkillable Spirit

At Tenth stage, you refuse to stand down in even the toughest situations. When an attack would reduce you to 0 hitpoints, you may roll a constitution saving throw with a DC of 5+the damage you would take past 0. On a success, you remain standing at 1 hitpoint and your fanfare refreshes it’s duration. Every success with this feature raises the DC by 5 until you finished a long rest. Additionally, A critical hit scored against you does not double the damage dice.

Spirit of Preservation

At 11th stage, your will to perservere transfers to your allies. Any allied creature within your Fanfare gains 1/2 (rounded down) of your AC bonus from Flankless. Aditionally, you no longer have a limit on how many creatures you can target with your fanfare

Time of Triumph

At Twelfth Stage, you reach the peak of your inner flame, which bursts into a bright inferno. Your Fanfare can now be activated as a free action and used an unlimited number of times. When attacking a creature, you gain advantage on the attack if the creature can hear your fanfare, as well as attacking you with disadvantage. The advantage and disadvantage are not gained if the target is immune to the frightened condition or does not have a sense of hearing. When recovering from Unkillable Spirit, you may choose, once per long rest, to push your Fanfare to it’s very limit, gaining your max hp in THP and recovering all of your Domino technique dice. This effect lasts for 10 minutes as your heart pounds in time to the music of your Fanfare. Once the duration ends, you gain 2 levels of exhaustion.

Domino Techniques

Domino techniques are special methods developed to help deal with large crowds of foes in swift fashion, focussing on area of effect and multiple strikes. At base, the dice is a D8, but improves to a D10 and 8th stage and a D12 at 11th. All Domino techniques are non-magical and can only be improved by permanent bonuses that come directly from the weapon, such as a +1 shortsword. Spells do not apply to these attacks. The DC for these abilities is 8+str/dex mod+proficiency mod and only a single one may be used per turn.

Mighty cleave

Not content with cutting just a single foe, you wrench your blade and draw a line of blood through those in front of you. When making a melee weapon attack, you may spend 1 Domino dice to Cleave your foes. You must say whether you do this after the attack roll, but before the result is announced. If the attack hits, the attack applies to the target and 2 creatures within 5ft of them, including magic bonuses. Roll the Domino dice and add the total to the damage roll.

Wave Breaker

Even when out of reach, foes are never truly safe from the Bastion. If a creature is within 30ft of you, you may choose to spend 1 Domino dice to create a wave of energy that is sent hurtling towards the foe. The attack is a 5ftx30ft line that cuts through enemies it hits. Those caught in the way must make a dexterity saving throw against your Domino DC, taking full damage on a failure and half damage on a success. You use your melee weapon’s base damage for the attack and may roll the Domino dice to add to the damage.

Guardian Sprint

Your allies are not to be touched, and you must make them know this. You may spend 1 domino dice as a reaction to an ally being attacked within 30ft, rushing to within 5ft of them and forcing the attack to target you. This may also be used to allow an ally to automatically pass a dexterity saving throw, but forces you to fail it.

Earthshatter

Even nature itself bows to your strength. You may spend all of your Domino dice (min 2) to cast Erupting earth, using strength as your spellcasting modifier and using your Domino DC in place of a spellcasting DC. For every dice used past 2, the spell is upcast by 1 level.

Tactical Retreat

Every once in a while, it’s best to stand back and observe the situation. You may spend 1 Domino dice to disengage as a bonus action and grant the same to up to 3 allies within 10ft. You may roll the Domino dice and add ½ the result(rounded up) * 5 to your movement speed for that turn.

Brute Force

With enough force, every problem can be solved. You may spend 1 Domino dice to gain advantage on a single skill check.

Rough and Tumble

Through the worst of wounds, you carry on, for their sake.. You may spend between 1 and 4 Domino dice to gain a number of temporary hitpoints equal to the result of the Domino dice rolled + cons mod.

Singled out

Though it may be a great distance, nothing comes between you, your blade and your foe. You may spend 1 Domino Dice to dash as a bonus action.

Path of Grimhollow

Grim scythe

As a bonus action you create a ghostly scythe in an empty hand. The scythe is a simple weapon with which you are proficient with that deals 1d6 necrotic damage and has the light and versatile (1d8) properties. You can only have up to 2 scythes summoned at once and they disappear right after they leave your hand. The scythe will change form depending on if you wield it with one or two hands, and if you kill a creature with this weapon you automatically absorb its soul.

Grim blast

As an action, you shoot a projectile from an empty hand. This projectile takes a form according to your personality, it has 30/40 range and does 2d10 necrotic damage. At stage 6 the range increases to 60/80 and the damage to 3d10, and at stage 12 the range to 90/120 and the damage to 4d10. The attack roll uses the spell attack bonus you chose when you got the path. This is considered a projectile and not a spell but it does require a somantic component to make the projectile appear.

Dread aura

The horror and dread of your victims surrounds you and emanates from you. You can activate or deactivate this aura at will as a bonus action. It extends to a 10ft radius around you, causing ghostly images to swirl and wail in the area. Any creature that you want and that starts its turn inside the aura is filled with a grim feeling of dread, and if at the start of their next turn they are still inside the aura they must make a wisdom saving throw. On a success they are immune to this effect for 1 minute. On a failure they become frightened of you for 1 minute, during which they can make another wisdom saving throw at the end of each of their turns, ending the effect on a success and gaining the 1 minute immunity. At stage 7 the range becomes 20ft, and at stage 11 it becomes 30ft.

Soul anchoring

As an action you force the soul of a living being that died no more than 10 min ago to return and stay trapped over its body for 1 min. While trapped in this way the soul can be seen as an illusion of the dead being hold by chains, hands, vines or something of the sort. During this time anybody can interact with it as if it was still alive, and when the time ends the soul finally departs and you cannot use Soul Syphon nor this ability again on it.

Will of the grave

Your resolve grows as your soul does, you will not stop for anything to complete your goals. You have advantage on saving throws against fear effects and you age 1 year for each 10 that pass.

Reaper's doctrine

All the souls that you consumed fuel you, torture you and sustain you at the same time. You are now the vessel for a chaotic mess of thousands of wailing lives that are no more, of memories of the undeserving, of respite for the damned.

You can hold it no longer, you need to choose what to do about it.

When you get this feature, choose one of three doctrines used by the Hollows to adapt to all the souls within you: Lawful to slave them to your will, Neutral to work in harmony with them, or Chaotic to let them overtake you. Your choice cannot be changed in the future, and each one will give you different abilities. All three doctrines are described at the end of the path description.

Empathic touch

You've felt in your own skin the feelings and emotions of a myriad of souls, and that gave you the insight necessary to discern them in living ones. Voluntarily when you touch someone you peer into their soul, feeling their current emotional state. The target does not notice it.

Initiation

You attempt to initiate a willing creature into the path. You need to start the ritual by giving the initiate 1000 soul points, which his/her own soul will try to absorb. To absorb those souls the initiate have to make 2 intelligence saves, 2 wisdom saves and 2 charisma saves with DC10, and must pass at least three of them for the absorption to be successful.

If the absorption is not successful the souls are lost and the initiate falls unconscious for two days, and cannot try to get initiated again for a week, as his/her soul and body need to recover.

If the absorption is successful the initiate is considered to have started on this path with 0 soul points on him/her and will hear the cries and wails of the absorbed souls for 6 days, as he/she gets adapted to the new situation. The first two days he/she will suffer a random indefinite madness, which will transform into a random long-term madness the third and fourth day and into a random short-term madness the fifth and sixth day, after which the cries, wails and madness will completely fade.

Grim salvation

If you have at least 1500 soul points and you die, instead you consume 1500 soul points and return to life with 1HP. If you use this feature you cannot use it again until you complete a long rest.

Mark for consumption

As a bonus action you choose a creature within 30ft of you and focus your thirst for souls on it. From then and for up to 1 hour thereafter you deal an extra 1d6 damage to the target whenever you hit it with a weapon attack or with any type of necrotic damage, and you have advantage on the first attack roll or spell attack roll you make against it each turn. Additionally, while the effect lasts and if the target is no further than 200ft away from you you can always see it as a shimmering ghostly image of itself, even through objects, as its soul is marked as the object of your desire. When you use this feature you cannot use it again until you finish a long rest.

Underworld casting

You gain the ability to cast any spell of level 1 to 5 you have prepared with soul points instead of spell slots. The soul point cost of casting the spell is equal to 200 multiplied by the spell level.

Somber unity

You are complete, united with the myriad of souls within you, a perfect being of fateful harmony and unceasing harvest. Your own soul fused with the others have obtained enough power to grow on its own, you generate 2 soul points per hour, you do not age anymore and you can take the physical aspect that you had at any point in your life via a 10 minute ritual. Additionally, the doctrine you chose for the Reaper’s Doctrine feature improves:

Hollow spells

Amalgamation of souls

• Cost: 150 soul points
• Casting Time: 1 Action
• Range: 30 feet
• Components: V, S
• Duration: 1 minute

You create an immovable sentry (statblock in the end of the path description) in a point you can see within range. It acts just after you in the initiative, and if it kills a creature you automatically absorb its soul.

Phantasmal sentry

• Cost: 1 to 30 soul points
• Casting Time: 1 Action
• Range: 15 feet
• Components: V, S
• Duration: Special

You send a small soul wisp to any point that you can see within range to serve as a sentry. The wisp will float there for 6 seconds and then go invisible, and will stay there for a number of days equal to the amount of soul points you spent casting it. As an action, you can see through the sentry’s sight until the start of your next turn, the sentry has 60ft darkvision; during this time you are blind to your own sight. You can have up to three sentries at once, if you cast this when there’s already three sentries active, you have to first choose one that will be destroyed when you cast the fourth.

Hollow sanctuary

• Cost: 50 soul points
• Casting Time: 6 Hours
• Range: Self (See the description for area)
• Components: V, S
• Duration: Until destroyed

The Doctrines

2000 to 3999 soul points

4000 or more soul points

- Chaotic -

Soul value by CR

Path of the Shadow Monarch

Shade Storage

You can store a number of shades equal to your proficiency modifier in your own shadow, to be called out when needed. While there are 5 or more shades stored this way, you have advantage to hide in conditions of darkness and dim light. From 7th stage you can take the hide action as a bonus action, and are magically obscured from tremorsight, blindsight, and heatvision when hidden.

Dark Realm

At second stage, you can project a shadowy domain from your body as a bonus action, giving several benefits to your shades. The domain can expand up to 10 feet away from you and can be activated a number of times equal to half your stage in this path each long rest. Shades within the domain gain resistance to non-magical bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing damage, as well as temp hp equal to your level in this path. The domain lasts for a number of minutes equal to your stage in this path. This ability is upgraded at 7th and 12th stages.

Shade Lieutenants

From 3rd stage onwards, you can pick a number of shades equal to your level in this path/3 rounded down (minimum of one) and promote it. From that point on it is granted a name, and uses the Shade Lieutenant Statblock below. They gain the ability to write in any languages they know.

Lesser Dark Siphon

At fourth stage you gain an additional attempt to extract a shade from a fallen creature, this increases to two more attempts at 8th stage, and three additional attempts at stage 12 for a total of six attempts.

Fel Drain

Beginning at 5th stage you can, as an action permanently destroy a number of your shades up to your charisma modifier to regain 8 hitpoints for each shade destroyed this way. This ability can only be used once per long rest. You gain an additional use per long rest at 10th stage.

Energy Imbuement

At 6th stage you can spend an hour performing a ritual, during which you sacrifice all your shades to create a shadowfell seed that can be used to induct an individual into the Path of the Shadow Monarch. The inductee must ingest the seed. For the next six hours, once per hour, they must fight and defeat a Shade that emerges from their shadow. For every Shade they defeat, they absorb its essence and must make a DC 15 Constitution saving throw or take 2d8 necrotic damage. If at any point the inductee loses consciousness, the seed is rejected by their body and they will have to wait a week to try again.

Dark Kingdom

At 7th stage your domain expands, the effects are now granted to shades within 20 ft of you. In addition, the temp HP granted is now equal to twice your level in this path.

Greater Dark Siphon

From 8th stage you are well-versed in the extraction of shades, and therefore can add half of your proficiency modifier rounded down to the check for extracting a shade.

Shade Sacrifice

Once you reach the ninth stage in this path, your shades develop a protective instinct. In response to an attack against you, if there is a shade within 5 feet of both you and the attacker you may have the shade take the attack for you. The range increases to 10 feet at 12th stage. You can’t use this ability again until you finish a long or short rest.

Shade General

Upon reaching 10th level in this path, you gain the ability to promote one of your Shade Lieutenants to a Shade General. Their statblock becomes that of the Shade General below, and they gain the ability to speak in any languages they know. In addition, they are treated as if they are always under the effects of your Dark Kingdom or Domain of the Monarch. You may only have one General at a time.

Unlimited Shade Works

At 11th stage, you’ve become powerful enough to open a tear in reality and have built a demiplane of shadow. Shades in the demiplane that haven’t been stored have their time limit frozen until they leave the demiplane, and while within the demiplane behave in a servile manner towards the Shadow Monarch and their guests. Any non shade creatures aside from the Monarch that spend 30 consecutive days in this demiplane begin to make Constitution saving throws every 6 hours as the shadowy energy attempts to claim them for the monarch. Failing a saving throw grants a level of exhaustion. Any creatures that die within the demiplane are automatically extracted as shades as though the charisma check had been made using your modifiers and a 15 had been rolled on the die. In addition the whole demiplane counts as the Monarch domain. You can open a rift to this demiplane as a bonus action once per short or long rest, with the rift remaining open for 1 minute.

Ascension of the Monarch

At 12th level in this path, your mastery of the shadowy forces is complete, when you roll a charisma check to extract a shade the DC is now equal to 12 + half the CR of the creature. You also expand your domain further, out to 30 feet. The entire area of your domain counts as dimly lit, and your allies and shades deal 1d6 extra necrotic damage on attacks against targets in your domain that are hostile to you. You also deal an additional 2d8 necrotic damage to enemies upon a successful melee attack if they are within your domain. You and allies within your domain have advantage on death saving throws. In addition, you are immune to necrotic and poison damage and can see through magical darkness as though it were regular darkness.

Shade

Medium Undead, lawful neutral

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• Armor Class 12
• Hit Points 35(7d8)
• Speed 30ft.

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STR	DEX	CON	INT	WIS	CHA
12 (+1)	15 (+2)	10 (+0)	13 (+1)	8 (-1)	10 (+0)

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• Condition Immunities paralysed, poisoned, incapacitated
• Senses passive Perception 9, darkvision 60ft
• Languages Common, any it knew in life
• Challenge 1/2 (50 xp)

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Amorphous. The shade can move through spaces as small as 1 inch without squeezing.

Shade Stealth. In dim light or darkness the shade can take the Hide action as a bonus action.

Actions

Claw. Melee Weapon Attack: +3 to hit, reach 5ft., one target. Hit 6 (1d6 + 2) slashing damage.

Shade Lieutenant

Medium Undead, lawful neutral

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• Armor Class 15
• Hit Points 52(8d8+8)
• Speed 30ft.

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STR	DEX	CON	INT	WIS	CHA
14 (+2)	15 (+2)	12 (+1)	13 (+1)	11 (+0)	10 (+0)

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• Condition Immunities paralysed, poisoned, incapacitated, frightened
• Damage Resistances necrotic, poison
• Senses passive Perception 10, darkvision 60ft
• Languages Common, any it knew in life
• Challenge 3 (700 xp)

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Amorphous. The shade can move through spaces as small as 1 inch without squeezing.

Shade Stealth. In dim light or darkness the shade can take the Hide action as a bonus action.

Multiattack. When the Shade Lieutenant takes the Attack action, they may make two attacks, one Greatsword attack and one Shade Lash attack.

Actions

Greatsword. Melee Weapon Attack: +4 to hit, reach 5ft., one target. Hit 9 (2d6 + 2) slashing damage.

Shade Lash. Melee Weapon Attack: + 4 to hit, reach 10ft., one target. Hit 7(2d4 +2) bludgeoning damage and the affected creature must make a DC 12 strength saving throw or be pushed 5 feet away from the Shade Lieutenant.

Shade General

Medium Undead, lawful neutral

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• Armor Class 17
• Hit Points 84(12d8+24)
• Speed 30ft.

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STR	DEX	CON	INT	WIS	CHA
18 (+4)	18 (+4)	14 (+2)	13 (+1)	11 (+0)	17 (+3)

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• Condition Immunities paralysed, poisoned, incapacitated, frightened
• Senses passive Perception 10, darkvision 120ft
• Languages Common, any it knew in life
• Challenge 5 (1800 xp)

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Amorphous. The shade can move through spaces as small as 1 inch without squeezing.

Shade Stealth. In dim light or darkness the shade can take the Hide action as a bonus action.

Spellcasting. The Shade General is a 5th level spellcaster, its spellcasting ability is Charisma (Save DC 15, +7 spell attack bonus). The Shade General knows the following warlock spells and may cast 4 of the leveled spells and may not do so again until the Shadow Monarch has finished a long or short rest:

• Cantrips (at-will): Chill Touch, Minor Illusion, Poison Spray
• 1st Level: Expeditious Retreat, Hellish Rebuke, Shield
• 2nd Level: Crown of Madness, Mirror Image, Shatter
• 3rd Level: Fear, Magic Circle, Vampiric Touch

Multiattack. When the Shade General takes the Attack action, they may make three attacks, two Greatsword attacks and one Shade Lash attack.

Actions

Greatsword. Melee Weapon Attack: +8 to hit, reach 5ft., one target. Hit 11 (2d6 + 4) slashing damage.

Shade Lash. Melee Weapon Attack: + 8 to hit, reach 10ft., one target. Hit 11(2d4 + 4) bludgeoning damage and the affected creature must make a DC 16 strength saving throw or be pushed 5 feet away from the Shade General.

Rallying Cry (Recharge 5-6). All Shades within 40ft of the General heal for 10 hp and do 1d6 extra necrotic damage on their next attack. All creatures healed this way have advantage on saving throws until the beginning of the General's next turn.

Path of Divine Intervention

Skyward Respite

At 7th level, you gain access to a holy sanctum, a special place that you and up to 6 creatures can teleport to while conjoined in a circle as in the teleport spell. This place is the sanctum of your angel and, as such, the angel can be found here. Each sanctum is different and will have different utilities.

Angel's Blessing

At 8th stage, you gain a permanent flying speed of 60ft as a pair of heavenly wings, made entirely from light, sprout from your back. If you already have a flying speed, it increases by 30ft as they begin to glow and reflect the holy energy. Additionally, you gain advantage on all checks partaining to celestial beings.

Ride of the Valkyrie

At 9th stage, you gain the assistance of a celestial Familiar, which takes the appearance of a familiar of your choice (including the extended familiars list). You can communicate with and through this familiar at any distance, though may not look through its eyes. Besides this, it acts as it does in the find familiar spell, including other senses. Additionally, you may use your action to turn your familiar into a pegasus (MM p.250) or back into a familiar, though it cannot attack in either form.

Harsh Rebuke

Also at 9th stage, any feature that describes a specific creature in its effects (such as a paladin's divine smite, or a slayer weapon) also affects fiends as though they were one of the target creatures.

Rapture's Guard

At 10th stage, you may use your reaction to increase ac by wis mod until the start of your next turn, emulating the shield spell in all aspects. This reaction can be done up to twice your wisdom modifier (min of 2) per long rest. Additionally, you may use a charge of this skill to reroll a skill check after you have seen the result, but before knowing whether it is a pass or fail.

Help from Above

At 11th stage, you gain the strength to call down your angel in times of need. Once per long rest, you may use your action to summon your angel, who uses a planetar's statblock. The angel will help as best it can, but will not act if it does not like what it has been asked to do.

Divine Ascension

Upon reaching the 12th stage, you gain the divine awareness feature as found in the planetar statblock. You also gain truesight to a distance of 60ft and add half of your proficiency modifier (rounded up) to all checks made to interact with people.

Path of the Rightful Ruler

King's Construction

At fifth stage, you gain the knowledge of kings past, and are able to build your own kingdom more efficiently. Your followers can help you build structures: Each follower helping construction adds 100 GP to the pace you build per day. This means each follower adds 500 GP to the amount you build in a work week.

Throne Hall

Also at fifth stage, you gain an extradimensional space. You may enter this space by reciting an oath that takes 1 minute to say and generates a stone archway as the entrance. This space has room for a number of building spaces equal to 3/4 your stage in this path rounded down, and can appear however you want it to, with the exception that no man-made structures can be present within it that you haven't constructed. You have free reign of the weather inside of your Throne Hall, however the weather cannot damage creatures, cause environmental effects, or otherwise effect creatures in any form. You may lock the archway as an action, causing no objects or creatures to be able to travel through it. However, you may not do this while creatures other than yourself or your servants are inside of the Throne Hall.

Throne of the Ruler

At sixth stage, you gain a number of benefits while inside your Throne Hall. You gain advantage on any Charisma checks made inside, as well as on Wisdom (Insight). In addition, creatures inside the Throne Hall must make a Charisma saving throw (DC 8 + your Proficiency Modifier + your Ruler's Attribute modifier) when they attempt to harm you. If they fail, they cannot attack you.

Diplomatic Tendency

Also at sixth stage, you learn that forging alliances is one the most important facets to being a ruler. To do this you must be able to properly communicate with those you meet. You are able to cast the spell Tongues on yourself a number of times per day equal to 1/4 your stage in this path. In addition, you learn two languages of your choice.

Ritual of Kings

At seventh stage, you learn how to construct a Golden Crown and induct a creature on the Ritual of Kings. You may spend 10 dtd to make a Golden Crown, which you may give to another creature to start them on the Ritual of Kings. The creature must then start the Ritual of Kings. They fall unconscious and must fight a copy of themselves in their mind. They start the fight as if they had taken a long rest. The copy uses their statistics, but is unaligned and has no magical items. Their mind is a featureless, flat plane that takes the form of a 60 foot radius cylinder that is 120 feet high. If they knock the copy unconscious, they are initiated into the path. If the copy knocks them unconscious, they must make death saving throws as normal.

You may only have one Golden Crown made at a time, if you make another, the prior one disappears in a golden flash.

Militia

At ninth stage, your Followers become a Militia. They now use the Militiaman statblock detailed at the end of the path, after the Domains. Elsewise, they follow the rules of followers. Militiamen act on your initiative.

Defense of the Ruler

At tenth stage, when you would be hit by an attack, a Militaman within 5 feet of you can expend its reaction to cause the attack to target itself instead.

Long Live the King

At eleventh stage, you become extremely difficult to put down for good. When you would be dropped to 0 hit points, you may instead be dropped to 1 and gain Temporary HP equal to 2x your stage in this path. You may do this once, and regain the ability to do so at the end of a long rest.

Domains

Tyrant

The Tyrant crushes those who oppose them. Known for crushing insurrections, ruling with an iron fist, and putting themselves first, a Tyrant is feared by all of its subjects.

When you choose this Domain, you learn ways to command your subjects and demoralize your enemies.

Path of the Chaos Avatar

Chaos motes

The air brims with chaotic energy every time you use your spark, and you can harness that energy. Every time you use your chaos spark you obtain a number of chaos motes equal to the number rolled. If you obtain the required amount of motes for your stage, you advance to the next stage and start again from 0 motes.

Elysium and all player estates are deadzones for chaotic energy. You can use your chaos spark freely in those areas but you will not obtain motes, you can only obtain motes in adventures.

Spread the Chaos

A number of times per day equal to your proficiency modifier you can let another willing creature roll on the chaos effects table, using your bonus action and one of your chaos charges and the effects applying to them instead of you.

Controlled Chaos

Once per long rest you can choose to roll twice instead of once when rolling in the chaos effects table and choose one of the two to take effect. You can use this feature two times per long rest at 7th stage and three times per long rest at 11th stage.

Luck of the roll

Whenever you roll your chaos charges dice after a long rest you can roll twice instead of once, using the higher result.

Sacrifice of the Void

You can sacrifice magic items to feed the chaos that wrestles within you. You can only sacrifice an item if you had it at least two weeks in your possession. You obtain 5 permacharges if you sacrifice a path item or a rare magic item, 10 if you sacrifice a very rare magic item, and 20 if you sacrifice a legendary magic item. Permacharges are like normal Charges but they don't go away after a long rest.

At stage 12 you have the option to obtain minutes for your Chaos Avatar transformation instead of permacharges. You obtain 1 minute if you sacrifice a path item or a rare magic item, 5 if you sacrifice a very rare magic item, and 10 if you sacrifice a legendary magic item.

Chaos Avatar transformation

You have a pool of minutes that starts from zero when you get this feature and that you can fill up with the highest rolls of the chaos effect table. You can use this feature at will as an action if you have more than zero minutes. When you do you transform into Chaos Avatar (statblock in the end of the path description) for one minute and you remove one minute from the pool. While you are in your Chaos Avatar form you can use this feature as a free action to extend its duration. If you die in the Chaos Avatar form you revert back to your original form with the HP that you had before transforming.

As Chaos Avatar you retain all your stats, saving throws, skills, and other proficiencies. You also keep your class' and race's features. In this form your body becomes buoyant and lightweight, it keeps its shape but it's now made of pure void energy and little sparks of chaos can be seen inside, making it resemble a starry night sky.

Chaos Avatar

Large humanoid, your alignment

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• Armor Class 10 + DEX + CON
• Hit Points 1
• Speed 0ft., fly 50ft. (hover)

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STR	DEX	CON	INT	WIS	CHA
( - )	( - )	( - )	( - )	( - )	( - )

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• Damage Vulnerabilities radiant
• Damage Resistances cold, force, thunder
• Damage Immunities bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing from nonmagical attacks
• Condition Immunities petrified, poisoned, prone, exhausted
• Senses darkvision 120ft., blindsight 30ft.

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Void's carcass. When you transform into Chaos Avatar you obtain 1d200+50 temporary HP that disappear when you revert back to your original form.

Actions

Avatar blast. Choose 1d10+2 5ft squares that you can see within 2d20*5 feet of you. Creatures in those squares must make a dexterity saving throw or take 4d10 force damage, or half on a successful save. +ca blast

Chaos shield. A creature of your choice that you can see within 30ft of you obtains 3d10 temporary HP until the start of your next turn.

Bonus Actions

Avatar Spark. Roll on the Avatar Effects table seen on the Chaos Avatar Transformation feature (1d10) and apply the corresponding effect. +ca avatarspark

Path of the Voidtouched

Winds of the Void

At 3rd stage onwards, you gain the ability to channel the outer fringes of the Void Current for your own purposes, gaining the Galeblast ability.

Voidshade Form

You may use a bonus action and 1 point of Void Mana to temporarily transform along with everything you're wearing and carrying, into a shadowy beast for the duration. The transformation ends if you drop to 0 HP. While in this form, your only method of movement is a walking speed of 30 feet. You can enter and occupy the space of another creature. You have resistance to nonmagical damage, and advantage on Strength, Dexterity, and Constitution saving throws. You can pass through small holes, narrow openings, and even mere cracks, though you treat liquids as though they were solid surfaces. This ability has a duration of 1 minutes, which may be extended further by spending more points of Void Mana at a rate of one point per minute. While in the form of a void beast, you can’t talk or manipulate objects, and any objects you were carrying or holding can’t be dropped, used, or otherwise interacted with. You can’t attack or cast spells.

Greater Void Leap

At fifth stage, you are more adept in your traversal of the void-space, and can travel further than before. Every point of Void Mana spent for a Void Leap now moves you 10 feet instead.

Improved Void Charms

At 6th stage you gain the ability to forge another Void Charm, choosing from the effects below:

• Falling Star: When landing within 5ft of an enemy after a fall, you may instead choose to land upon them and have them take up to 4d6 of your fall damage instead.
• Hardiness: Upon taking this charm you gain HP equal to your character level, and upon leveling up gain an additional HP.
• Iron Roots: You are resistant to moving against your will, forced movement effects are reduced by 10ft against you.
• Snap Reaction: If you are surprised you can take a reaction at initiative count equal to your dex score.
• Void Armour: You gain a +1 to your AC.

Void Torrent

At 7th stage your Galeblast ability improves. Medium creatures are now affected without a saving throw, as well as medium and smaller creatures taking increased damage. Small or smaller creatures now take 3d6 bludgeoning damage, and medium creatures now take 2d6. Large creatures must make a saving throw to avoid being affected. Huge or larger creatures remain unaffected. The area of effect has increased to a 5*20 line instead of a 5*10 line.

Swallowed by the Void

From 8th stage you can use the void to conceal the evidence of your killings. Any creature you cause to die who is unaware of your presence at the moment of their death is consumed by the void along with any non-magic items on their person. Magic items and any held objects remain behind.

Ultimate Void Leap

Once you reach the ninth stage in this path your mastery of void travel greatly increases. Your Void Leap ability now moves you 15 feet per point of Void Mana consumed.

Superior Void Charms

Upon reaching 10th level in this path you can twist the void into a third Void Charm, choosing from the effects below:

• Bloodwasp Alchemy: Once per day, a ranged attack from a source you're not aware of is transformed into a small Bloodwasp Swarm (stats below)
• Howling Shriek: Once per day you can shriek in emulation of the unspeakable horrors lurking in the void. All non-friendly targets that can hear you must make a wisdom saving throw against a DC of 8 + your proficiency modifier + your charisma modifier or be frightened of your for 1 minute.
• Overpowering: You have advantage in strength contests against creatures the same size as you or smaller.
• Void Channel: Your Void Mana capacity increases to 6 * the stage of this path you're on.
• Void Surge: Whenever you use a Void ability, roll 1d100, and if the result is equal to your stage in this path or lower, no void mana is consumed. This ability resets on a long or short rest.

Void Shockwave

At 11th stage, your manipulation of the void winds is unparalleled, and you can use them to help you escape danger. When casting Galeblast, all creatures within 5 feet of you are affected in the same way the chosen area of effect is affected. The line area increases to 5*30 feet.

In addition you gain a mark on one of your palms that will aid in hunting the Voidborn. When a Voidborn is within 1,000 feet of you, the mark will pulse once per hour with a sense of the general direction of the Voidborn. Once per long rest you may scan the area with a radius of 10,000 feet around you, receiving a similar pulse if a Voidborn is present.

Voidborn Eminence

Upon being merged with the Void-heart, you leave mortality behind. You cease aging naturally and suffer no effects as a result of age. You gain access to the Demiplane spell, which you may cast once per day without expending a spell slot. This casting of Demiplane instead brings you to an island in the void where you can build a retreat for yourself. Your Swallowed by the Void feature now deposits all the belongings of those you kill unaware in a designated location on this island. This island has 16 building spaces, but you must manually move any required materials there yourself. In addition, once per 30 days, if you would be killed, you can instead escape into the void, arriving at your island. Your regeneration rate for Void Mana doubles.

Stat Blocks

Path of the Curse Mark

Curse of Vitality

Your curse can now aid your allies at the expense of yourself. You may cast life transference a number of times equal to your intelligence mod. You regain all uses on a long rest.

Curse of Wounding

Your curse bites back. The curse can now separate itself from your body momentarily as it latches onto a target. You can cast inflict wounds at level 3 using this ability. You can do this a number of times equal to your intelligence mod.

Curse Consumption

Whenever you absorb a curse through your curse breaker feature you are considered to have eaten for that day.

Curse of branding

Your curse mark can now completely separate from your body and latch onto someone else’s body. When you target a willing creature with this ability they must make a Constitution saving throw. On a failed save they take 10d6 necrotic damage or half as much on a successful save. If they manage to bear the brand without falling unconscious the curse burrows under the skin. For the next 4 days the original owner of the curse mark loses all abilities to curse targets through this path. Within these 4 days they must spend time with the initiative to teach them to properly bear the mark. Each day the target takes 2d6 necrotic damage. This damage increases by 2d6 until on day 4 they take 8d6 necrotic damage. Should they survive the ordeal the curse mark is branded into them. From this the original curse owner regains their curse mark and all abilities that come with this. A unique curse mark is imprinted on the target through this ordeal and they are initiated onto the path of the curse mark.

Assassin’s Curse

You may now place a curse on any edible form of food. You may affect an amount of food or drink equal to 1 days rations. When you curse food you may choose between two poisons, Truth Serum or Assassin’s Blood. The DC for the poison is equal to your curse DC. You can do this a number of times equal to your intelligence mod.

Curse of sickness

The curse knows how to leave its mark on whatever it touches. At stage 10 you may cast the contagion spell a number of times equal to your intelligence mod. Regaining all uses on a long rest.

Changeling’s Curse

Your curse mark molds your face into that of a different humanoid. You may cast alter self on yourself a number of times equal to your intelligence mod. You cannot use this feature to cover up your curse mark or alter it.

Curse of empowerment

Your curse mark knows how to curse its own host, to attack and defend. Once per long rest you may cast tenser’s transformation, with the exception that the force damage is replaced by necrotic damage. If you fail the DC 15 save you gain 2 levels of exhaustion.

Path of the Enlightment

Rhino's Hide

You have learned to lessen strikes to the body when you most need it with your heightened sense. As a reaction, you may turn a critical hit against you into normal hit and may do this a number of times equal to your Wisdom modifier (Minimum 1).

Bear's Body

You no longer need to rest as long as you use to, the energy in your body supplying you with energy to move on longer in your journey. The amount you take to long rest is halved, while you rest, you may instead meditate for the time and you are still aware of your surroundings the entire time. On a short rest, you heal double the amount you've rolled in hit dice.

The Ancient One's Teachings

You have learned how to share this blessed energy with others, inducting them onto the path to bring balance into the world. You strike the seven Chakra points within the person's body, opening their mind, body and soul to the chakra to enter in a flood of power. The creature must begin making seven DC 15 Wisdom saving throws, Taking 3d6 Force damage on a failure and nothing on a success. Once the inductee passes at least four of the seven saves, the energy becomes one with their body and they immediately are set on the path. If not, they immediately fall unconscious with one level of exhuastion and must take a long rest to remove it.

Crane's keenness

Your mind is a steel trap, perfected by the Chakra within your body to battle against the forces that wish to send the world into imbalance. You gain Immunity against saving throws to be Charmed and Frightened, as well, you may expend a hit die for every ally you wish to give Advantage too against Charmed and Frightened effects.

Swallow's Strike

Your muscles have become one with the chakra inside your body, bringing you to the peak of movement and reflexes. As well, you can now expel the Chakra out of your weapons, by expending a hit die you may now make a Ranged weapon attack up to 60 ft, on a hit, the damage does a bonus 2d6 damage. The damage is increased by a 1d6 per hit die expended, to a maximum of your Wisdom modifier.

Lion Determination

You channel your Chakra to repair the damage your body has taken, refusing to fall to the world's evil in your quest for balance. Once per day, you may reinforce your body with your Chakra, gaining a set amount of Temporary Hit Points equal to Double your Wisdom modifier on each of your turns for one minute.

Perfect Body

Your third eye has fully awoken to the enchancement of the Chakra flowing through your veins. As you reach this stage, a third eye opens up upon your forehead and with it you gain 60 ft of Truesight and Advantage on Perception and Investigation checks.

Path of Black Ice

Improved Ice Magic

Your Polar Vortex increases by 5 ft in radius. Additionally, you ignore difficult terrain created by Ice, whether magical or otherwise. This does not apply to mounts or vehicles.

Hoarfrost Shielding

You have learned to shape your skinshield more finely, to harm anyone who dares to damage it. While your Rimeskin ability is active, you can use a reaction whenever a creature hits you with a melee attack to deal 1d6 cold damage to it. The damage improves to 2d6 at 7th stage and to 3d6 at 11th stage.

Additionally, while your Rimeskin is active, you gain a +2 to your Armour Class.

Winters Heart

The ice has consumed your heart entirely; it is an amalgam of blood and ice, working in unison with the rest of your body, and marking a point of no return on this Path. When your Polar Vortex is active, hostile creatures struck by your attacks/damaging spells suffer Blood Freeze, which is represented as Negative Temporary HP equal to 1/4 of the damage dealt to that creature. While a creature suffers from Blood Freeze, they suffer from the effects of Glacial Shackles even if they are not within your Polar Vortex, and healing effects will instead target the Negative THP, reducing it by the amount rolled on the healing dice. When the Blood Freeze reaches 0, it ends.

Pierce the Heart

You have learned to replicate the very same Shard that has bestowed this power onto you; it is time to anoint another with the Heart of Black Ice. As an action, you may create a Shard of Black Ice, an eternally cold metal found in the most frigid corners of the world. You may offer this to someone to stab themselves in the heart with; when the Shard is pierced into a creatures heart, the initiation begins, lasting for 1 minute. After 2 rounds from the starting point, the creature takes 2d6 cold damage, which cannot be reduced by resistances or immunities to cold damage. Every 2 rounds afterwards, the creature takes twice that (4d6 after 4 rounds, 6d6 after 6 rounds, 8d6 after 8 rounds, 10d6 after 10 rounds). Every round, the creature must roll a constitution saving throw against a DC of 15. 1 save and 1 fail against the burst of damage reduces it by half; 2 saves reduces it to zero. A Shard of Ice can be created every 7 days, and will fade into snow after 1 hour if not used by then.

Snowstrider

The cold becomes fiercer still, and Hunters of your Frosthearted Kin, The Icebreakers have labelled you as a top priority on their hitlist; its a shame they will never catch you.

Improved Ice Magic

The radius of your Polar Vortex increases further by 5 ft, and nonmagical fiery hazards are considered extinguished in your space while your Snowstrider ability is active, reigniting when you leave that space.

Winters Guile

Set upon by scores of Cannon Fodder, sent by the Icebreakers, the Witch Hunters that hunt you down at your every step, it is time to set a trap for them and make them pay dearly. As a bonus action, you may expend a hit die to infuse a Cryoweaved Structure, within 60 ft, with Explosive Power, set to trigger on destruction or on your command. When destroyed either by having its HP reduced to zero, or being detonated as a bonus action, it deals damage equal to your Polar Vortex Damage Die within a 10 ft radius. The damage from this ability does not apply Glacial Shackles.

Arctic Bulwark

You have learned to use your Vortex to defend yourself, even when it is but a subtle aura on yourself, creating translucent shields of ice to protect yourself from harm; this increase in your power has begun to draw attention however, as your very presence lowers the ambient temperature no matter where you go, and can cause significant discomfort to any humanoid creature close to you. Passively, you have a +4 bonus to your AC at all times. When you are hit by a damaging attack or spell, you lose this AC bonus, and must last 2 rounds without getting hit before you regain this bonus.

Winters Wrath

You have harnessed your Cryoweaving to an extent when you can detonate the ice that slows your opponents, damaging them further. As a bonus action, you can detonate the ice on creatures affected by Glacial Shackles within a 30 ft radius, removing the movement debuff and dealing 1/3rd of your Polar Vortex Damage Die (2d6 cold damage). This damage does not re-apply Glacial Shackles to the affected creature.

eternal Winter

You have reached the pinnacle of your control over this mythic ice with your soul intact, and your mind your own. Your Polar Vortex can now be activated at will, the radius of Polar Vortex increases by 10 ft to a maximum of 30 ft, and you are considered to be immune to cold damage.

Path of the Forsaken

Aberrant

Forbidden Form. Your creature type is both monstrosity and aberration.

Mind Lash. Your natural weapon now does psychic damage instead of bludgeoning damage.

Slippery Skin. You have advantage on checks to initiate or escape a grapple.

Forgotten Mind. Your thoughts cannot be read by any means.

Bestial

Monster of the Woods. Your creature type is both monstrosity and beast.

Claws of the Land. Your natural weapon now does magical slashing damage instead of bludgeoning damage.

Bestial Fur. Your thick hide and warm fur gives you resistance to cold damage.

Celestial

Spawn of the Old Gods. Your creature type is both monstrosity and celestial.

Hands of Smiting. Your natural weapon now does radiant damage instead of bludgeoning damage.

Word of Healing. A number of times per day equal to your Constitution modifier, as a bonus action, you can heal yourself or a creature within 30ft for 1d6 hitpoints.

Draconic

Power of the Wyrm. Your creature type is both monstrosity and dragon.

Claws of the Sky. Your natural weapon now does magical slashing damage instead of bludgeoning damage.

Wings of the Wyrm. You have a flying speed equal to your walking speed, as monstrous wings burst out of your back.

Elemental

Primordial Warrior. Your creature type is both monstrosity and elemental.

Elemental Power. Your natural weapon now deals force damage instead of bludgeoning damage.

Armor of Elements. You can cast Absorb Elements a number of times per day equal to your constitution modifier without expending a spell slot.

Mercurial

Voice of the World. Your creature type is both monstrosity and fey.

Mercurial Lash. Your natural weapon now does poison damage instead of bludgeoning damage.

Heckling Words. When you deal damage to a creature with your natural weapon, it has disadvantage on its next attack roll against you.

Fiendish

Underworld Scion. Your creature type is both monstrosity and fiend.

Burning Core. Your natural weapon now does fire damage instead of bludgeoning damage.

Deadly Deals. You may cast Hex once per long rest without expending a spell slot. You may also cast Hellish Rebuke once per long rest without expending a spell slot.

Giantkin

Song of Old Ostoria. Your creature type is both monstrosity and giant.

Giant's Might. Your natural weapon now deals thunder damage, and has a range of 10 feet, or 15 if you chose Reach as one of its properties.

Giant Form. Your size is now Large. You follow the rules outlined in the Jotungard document.

Mutated

Elite Monstrosity. Your pure nature gives you resistance to damage from effects that only effect monstrosities, such as a monstrosity bane weapon.

Mutation. Your natural weapon now deals magical piercing damage, instead of bludgeoning.

Monstrous Nature. You have a +2 to AC when under the effects of Alter Self.

Gelatinous

Oozemind Elite. Your creature type is both monstrosity and ooze.

Psuedopod. Your natural weapon now deals acid damage instead of bludgeoning damage.

Amorphous. You can move through spaces as small as 1 inch without squeezing. When a creature hits you with a melee attack from within 5 feet, they take 1/2 your stage in this path as acid damage.

Vegetal

Druid's Friend. Your creature type is both monstrosity and plant.

Viny Grasp. Your natural weapon now deals magical bludgeoning damage. When you hit a creature with it, you can initiate a grapple, escape DC 8 + your Athletics score.

Deep Roots. When you're below 1/4 your hp and start your turn in sunlight or fresh water, you regain your Constitution modifier in HP.

Undead

Minilich. Your creature type is both monstrosity and undead.

Withering Strikes. Your natural weapon now deals necrotic damage instead of bludgeoning damage.

Stolen Vitality. Your natural weapon critically strikes on a roll of 19-20. When you critically strike with your natural weapon, gain half the damage dealt as temporary HP.

Humanity Destroyed

At 7th stage, you have rejected your humanity, and become a Forsaken Beast in your own right. You can initiate a willing creature aware of what initiation entails on the path of the Forsaken by attacking them as an action. This special attack reduces their HP to 0, and destabilizes them. They must pass their death saving throws with no outside assistance, stabilizing themselves, to gain the path of the Forsaken.

Feast of Flesh

At 8th stage, your Consumption becomes a true feast of flesh. You can Consume a creature as a bonus action. When you do so, you only regain HP equal to 1d6 + your stage in this path, and you cannot recharge any abilities by doing this.

Resurrection

At 9th level, your form runs eternal. As a ritual lasting an hour, and costing 150 GP in material components such as incense and rare herbs, you can designate a room as your resting space. When you are killed, your body melts away, leaving all your equipment behind, and 1d4 days later you reform in your resting space with all your HP, three levels of exhaustion, and no equipment. Every time you reform, you must repeat the ritual. If you do not, you may not resurrect again until you do.

Sphaera Interitus

At 10th stage, your very form brings decay upon those near you. As a bonus action, for a minute, you can activate your Sphaera Interitus - your Sphere of Decay. Any non-undead creature within 10 feet of you must make a Constitution saving throw or take a number of d6s equal to your proficiency modifier in necrotic damage at the start of their turns, or when they move into the area for the first time on a turn. An affected creature's speed is halved while in the area, regardless of whether or not they succeed on the saving throw. You may use this ability once per long rest.

Forgotten Methods

At 11th level, you've unearthed the secrets of the Forsaken before you. You know the location to the nearest Original Forsaken at all times. In addition, your skin hardens in anticipation of the coming battle. You gain a permanent +1 to AC, and your natural weapon gains +1 to hit and damage.

Ultimate Form

At 12th stage, your Consumption of an Original Forsaken has unleashed your true potential. Your natural weapon gains a permanent +2 to hit and damage, for a total of +3, and you can unleash your Ultimate Form as a bonus action for 1 minute, giving you the following effects. You can do this once, regaining the ability to do so on a long rest.

• Your Sphaera Interitus is activated.
• Each creature that can see you within 120 feet must make a Wisdom saving throw, DC equal to 8 + your Constitution modifier + your proficiency bonus. On a failure, they become frightened of you for 1 minute. They may repeat the saving throw at the end of each of their turns, ending the condition on a success.
• When you attack with your natural weapon, you may make 2 attacks if you could only make 1. This includes your bonus action attack.
• Your natural weapon deals 1d12 damage, or 1d12+1d4 with two hands if you chose versatile.
• You immediately gain the effects of Alter Self if you did not already have them.
• Your attacks critically strike on an 18-20, or a 17-20 if you are an Undead.

Original Forsaken

Large monstrosity, chaotic evil

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• Armor Class 20 (22 w/ Alter Self)
• Hit Points 250 (20d10+140)
• Speed 35ft.

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STR	DEX	CON	INT	WIS	CHA
20 (+5)	14 (+2)	24 (+7)	6 (+2)	12 (+1)	12 (+1)

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• Condition Immunities frightened, charmed, exhaustion
• Damage Resistances bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing; damage from a creature on the Path of the Forsaken
• Senses passive Perception 11
• Languages None
• Challenge 18

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Sphaera Interitus. The Original Forsaken can use Sphaera Interitus.

Ultimate Form. The Original Forsaken can use Ultimate Form.

Consumption. The Original Forsaken can use Consumption as a bonus action, receiving full benefit.

Thief of Many Forms. The Original Forsaken can cast Alter Self on itself at will.

Original Power. The Original Forsaken regains 10 HP at the start of each of its turns..

Resurrection. If it is not Consumed, the Original Forsaken regenerates within 1d10 miles of the creature that killed it at the next dawn.

Original Armor. The Original Forsaken gains +2 AC while under the effects of Alter Self.

Actions

Multiattack. The Original Forsaken makes 3 attacks, or 4 while under the effects of Ultimate Form.

Forsaken Maw. Melee Weapon Attack: +15 to hit, reach 15ft., one target. Hit 19 (1d12 + 12) bludgeoning damage plus 7 (2d6) necrotic damage.

Template: Forsaken Beast

any Beast

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• Armor Class +2
• Hit Points + 5 HD
• Speed +15 ft.

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STR	DEX	CON	INT	WIS	CHA
+4 (+2)	+2 (+1)	+6 (+3)	-2, min 1 (-1)	+0 (+0)	+0 (+0)

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• Condition Immunities frightened, charmed, exhaustion
• Senses darkvision +60 ft.
• Languages None
• Challenge +2

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Consumption. When the Forsaken Beast deals damage with a natural weapon, it heals for 1/2 the damage dealt.

Monstrous. The Forsaken Beast counts as a monstrosity, as well as a beast.

Path of the Soothing Tide

Path of the Venostorm

Custom Toxins

One of the big parts of this path are the custom toxins. They can be found listed below. Any level requirement refers to character level, as opposed to stage. Additional effects do not change when utilised this way. All poisons have a range of 5ft unless otherwise stated.

Each poison is delivered via the attack action and may only replace one attack per round.

Path of the Nightmare Hydra

Sneaky Sibilance of Scaled Sorcery

Stage	Features	Requirements to Reach
1st	Bloodline Fusion, Primordial Vitality	Absorb the bloodline of the Nightmare Hydra
2nd	Hydra Scales	Use your heightened life-force to withstand a fatal blow 3 times
3rd	Toxin Production	Neutralise 50 points of damage with your scales
4th	Minor Polycephaly	Deal 75 poison damage to enemies
5th	Nightmare Essence	Have a head manifested for a total of 30 minutes
6th	Initial Atavism	Consume hearts of hydra, snake or adjacent creatures whose CR totals 10+
7th	Primordial Adaptivity	Temper your body by taking 100 cold damage and 100 fire damage
8th	Bloodline Theurgy	Use your newfound adaptability to ignore 50 fire or cold damage
9th	Superior Polycephaly	Deal 150 poison damage to enemies
10th	Nightmare Eater	Regrow nine heads
11th	Primeval Body	Deal 100 damage through dream
12th	Atavistic Evolution	Consume hearts of hydra, snake or adjacent creatures whose CR totals 30+

Bloodline Fusion

Upon assimilating the Nine-Head Nightmare Hydra bloodline your body shifts and changes, drawing upon the powerful energy within the blood. Your eyes warp to become more snakelike, granting you thermal vision out to 30ft.

Some of the features of this path allow you to cast spell-like abilities. These spell use your Bloodline save DC and Bloodline attack modifier in lieu of a spell save DC or spell attack modifier, which can be calculated as follows:

Bloodline Save DC = 8 + your proficiency bonus +

your Constitution modifier

Bloodline attack modifier = your proficiency bonus +

your Constitution modifier

Primordial Vitality

At the first stage in this path you gain a far more resilient life force, your maximum hit points increase by an amount equal to your stage in this path. In addition, once per long rest, when you would be reduced to 0 hit points but not killed outright, you can drop to 1 hit point instead.

Hydra Scales

At the second stage of this path, you can begin to manifest the reinforced body of the Nightmare Hydra. Once per long rest, you may use this feature to shroud yourself in spectral scales; gaining temporary hit points equal to 5 times your stage on this path.

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This activates automatically if you suffer a single instance of damage that is over half your maximum hit points. The triggering damage is not reduced by these temporary hit points.

Toxin Production

At 3rd stage, you inherit a fraction of the Nightmare Hydra’s poisonous capabilities. You know the poison spray cantrip and can cast chromatic orb three times per long rest, choosing only poison as the damage type.

You also gain resistance to poison damage and can produce a vial’s worth of Hydra Blood once per long rest; making a second vial while one already exists causes the first vial to become inert.

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Doses of this poison vary in potency. It is a contact/injury poison that deals 1d6 poison damage per path stage you had when the poison was created. Any exposed to the poison other than yourself must succeed a Constitution saving throw against your bloodline save DC or take the damage and suffer the poisoned condition for 12 hours.

Nine-Head Nightmare Hydra

Gargantuan monstrosity, Same as User

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• Armor Class 21 (natural armour)
• Hit Points 315 (18d20 + 189 )
• Speed 40ft., swim 40ft.

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STR	DEX	CON	INT	WIS	CHA
27 (+8)	20 (+5)	25 (+7)	12 (+1)	17 (+3)	10 (0)

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• Saving Throws Str+14 Con+13
• Skills Perception + 15
• Damage Resistances non-magical bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing.
• Damage Immunities acid, poison
• Condition Immunities poisoned, unconscious
• Senses thermal vision 300ft., passive perception 25., any special senses user has prior to transformation.
• Languages Same as User

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• Poison Absorption. Any poison damage that would be dealt to the Nightmare Hydra is instead treated as healing.

• Hold Breath. The Nightmare Hydra can hold its breath for up to an hour.

• Dreamforce. The Nightmare Hydra never needs to sleep, and cannot be forced to by any means.

• Scaled Progenitor. Snake creatures that spend long periods of time in proximity to the Nightmare Hydra have a chance of evolving into Giant Snakes, then eventually into Hydras. This doesn't apply to Yuan-ti or Player Characters. Evolved creatures bear no malice but will not ally themselves with the Nightmare Hydra.

• Sorcerous Bite. Bite attacks count as magical for the purposes of overcoming resistance.

• Multiple Heads. The hydra has nine heads. While it has more than one head, the hydra has advantage on Saving Throws against being Blinded, Charmed, Deafened, Frightened, Stunned, and knocked Unconscious. Whenever the hydra takes 50 or more damage in a single turn, one of its heads dies. If all its heads die, the hydra dies. At the end of its turn, it grows two heads for each of its heads that died since its last turn, unless it has taken radiant damage since its last turn. The hydra regains 20 Hit Points for each head regrown in this way.

• Reactive Heads. For each pair of heads the Nightmare Hydra has, it gains an extra reaction, that can only be used for opportunity attacks.

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Actions

Multiattack. The Nightmare Hydra makes 4 bite attacks, one of which can be substituted for Nightmare Vortex if available.

Bite attack. Melee +14 to hit, 15ft range, one target. Hit 4d8+8 piercing damage.

Nightmare Vortex Recharge 10 (1d10) The Nightmare Hydra forces all hostile creatures able to see it to suffer the effects of the phantasmal killer spell. Any creatures that has taken damage from or made the save against this feature is immune for 24 hours.

Path of the Metahierophant

Theories

Each Theory has one trigger. When you activate a Trigger, you may choose one subtheory from the table below to activate.

Chariot

Trigger: Kill a creature.

Strength

Trigger: Take damage you're resistant to.

Hermit

Trigger: Have no creatures within 30 feet in combat.

Wheel of Fortune

Trigger: Roll a nat 20.

Justice

Trigger: Deal 20 or more radiant damage in a round.

Hanged Man

Trigger: Roll a nat 1.

Death

Trigger: Two creatures die within a round of each other within 120 feet of you

Temperance

Trigger: Be in a straight, connected line with at least 2 allied creatures in combat.

Devil

Trigger: Take fire damage.

Tower

Trigger: Move 20 or more feet over difficult terrain in 1 turn.

Star

Trigger: Take exactly 3 attacks in a round.

Moon

Trigger: You or an ally goes first in a round, including lair actions.

Sun

Trigger: Succed on a Persuasion check by 5 or more.

Judgement

Trigger: Deal 40 or more damage in a round.

World

Trigger: Can only be activated while you are attuned to the World Arcana through Tarot Channel.

Metatheories