Art: Vera Velichko
Class: Weaver
WIZARDS LEARN FROM KNOWLEDGE. SORCERERS have their birthright. Warlocks trade dignity for a pact, and Clerics devote themselves to another being. But us? We of the coven do not adhere to such traditions and instead we develop our connection with our ancestors, a bond with the natural cycle of life and death that only we truly can master.
-Mother of Witches
Clutching her staff in her silver hands, she steps back to feel the earth at her feet crumble by the cliffside. Her face serene, she knows her fate as the ogres make their last lunge towards her. She calls upon the afterlife, asking for their aid in her final stand.
The goliath looks at his tribekin, placing a hand on each of their shoulders, divining their destiny. His clan is strong, but the spirits never lie, and he knows the upcoming ritual will help to alleviate the burdens his tribe will face in the winter. He gazes in the distance, a figure nods, and he stares back down at the closest of his kin. This was the one.
Drawing his sword, the human dashes between his foes, slashing their clothes, striking their chests, blood pouring onto the pavement. With a flick of his wrist, his armour glows spectral blue, and his onslaught can continue into the night.
Whether calling on the spirits to guide them or sending them back to oblivion, weavers are the embodiment of the cycle of life and death. Their strength lies in their ability to walk this divide, communing with spirits and harvesting souls for their own benefit. Weavers see themselves as an extension of the natural life and death cycle. Some may see this as a privilege, where as others gain this power only to show their mastery over the world's most absolute power. No matter the situation, a weaver's control over the spiritual world and their ability to command aspects of the eternal cycle makes them revered.
Spirits? Apparitions? Sacraments? I cannot say I am well versed in such magic, but I have met those who are. The Shaman of the West has been my friend since the early days of my training, and I once even met the Mother of Witches: the first Weaver!
-Ari
The Spiritual World
The spiritual world is a part of the Weave that all beings that have since passed on must go through. It's a culmination of the realms of the multiverse, having no tangible presence in any world and instead persists as energy that fuels, guides and watches over the world. Spirits exist within this world as entities of departed creatures. Restless spirits often enter the material plane or never depart if their role in the world is not complete, and these are the spirits most adventurers would encounter. Revenants, spectres and ghosts are just some of many examples of a being like this. A weaver is able to attune themselves to detect the spirits inside their own world, and with enough practice, drain their energy as a source of power. Weavers that draw from this power do so temporarily, always releasing the spirit to the eternal void when its done.
Life, Death, Rebirth
The afterlife is a solid, representable force for a weaver. It is intrinsic to their nature, and affects their way of life dramatically. Having a spiritual connection with the occult and the absolute cycle changes the very essence of a weaver, and influences their actions, decisions, and choices in life. A constant between all weavers is their respect and admiration for the cycle of life. Living is a gift, and their spirit guide often helps to direct their abilities and growth to better respect their own role within the life and death cycle.
Some souls need guidance to continue on to the afterlife and eventually rebirth if they desire. Weavers guide this process, acting as an intermediary and a way to balance out this cycle. To help guide the souls, they harvest them from those who they defeat, performing the ancient art of the sacrament to allow them to pass onto the afterlife and gain a boon in the process. Weaponising this process is sometimes frowned upon by those who do not understand their role, and often by religious types who believe the spirits should be left to depart in any way they wish to. Regardless of the weaver, their attitudes to life, death, and eventual rebirth at their hands is rarely consistent with another of their kind.
Creating a Weaver
When creating your weaver, you must first consider your relationship with the spiritual world. How and why did you connect with the spirits? Answering this question will help to cement the powers your weaver has and their world view. Consider the details of the connection they have.
Once you've decided the nature of their spirital connection and beliefs, you can start to consider the deeper aspects of this relationship. Are they using the connection to get closer to their ancestors? Are they on a quest to save the soul of a
The cycle of life and death. I myself have been through it a few times. Word of warning: resurrection scrolls are not cheap.
-Ari
loved one? Are they purely using their powers to conquer heights the world has never seen? Why do the spirits help you? How has your upbringing influenced this connection? How would you be perceived by priests, mages, or other spellcasters? What are your ultimate goals? Do these goals have any relation to your spiritual connection? What drives you to continue as a weaver?
The sections below offer ways to add more depth and a few personal touches to your weaver.
Spirit Guide's Attitude
A weaver's relationship with their spirit guide is fundamental to their understanding of the spiritual world and how they will seek to extract knowledge from it. A spirit guide is chosen by the Weave itself, intertwining the fates of two beings to one another. While a weaver gains the greatest benefit from the relationship, a spirit guide inevitably gains something in the process too. Sometimes this is the ability to live again through their weaver's actions. For others the idea of training a pupil may be enough. The opinion a weaver holds for their spirit guide may not necessarily be the reciprocated and they can view each other with disdain.
When you determine the relationship you have with your spirit guide, consider the attitude your spirit guide has to you. Also consider how they behave towards you. Will this change throughout your adventure? Is your spirit guide your friend, or are they so disgusted with you and your actions and only working with you as that will bring the destiny you share two quicker?
| d6 | Attitude |
|---|---|
| 1 | Your spirit guide has been with you since birth, teaching you everything it knows since before you even knew you had this gift. |
| 2 | Your spirit guide resents you for ending its eternal slumber, and it only works with you to return to its rest quicker. |
| 3 | Your spirit guide seeks to teach you to be its successor, training you to be perfect, and refuses to let you be anything but that. |
| 4 | Your spirit guide wants to be worshiped by you, only working alongside you when you give them the respect they demand. |
| 5 | Your spirit guide wishes for you to complete something it did not complete in life, and is only satisfied while you are working on that goal. |
| 6 | Your spirit guide is bored with the afterlife, only spending time with you to break up the monotony of eternity. |
View on the Sacrament
The sacrament is a sacred rite that only a weaver can truly embrace. It is the process of connecting a soul with your own, embracing their every memory, every belief, every part of their personality, and ultimately everything that makes them unique. Using a sacrament will bring you closer to the spirits you use, allowing you to know them for who they truly were. This action can alter the beliefs and ideology of those who use it, for better or for worse.
How does your weaver view the sacrament? Do they revel in the knowledge that they know the spirit better than anyone? Do they lament the idea of connecting with the spirits so intimately? Consider the beliefs they have on the sacrament.
| d6 | Views |
|---|---|
| 1 | You use the sacrament to better understand yourself, connecting with the spirits to find parallels. |
| 2 | You do not care for the emotional aspect of the sacrament, instead using it purely for your own gain. |
| 3 | You seek for something everytime you perform the ritual, though you are not quite sure what. |
| 4 | Drawing upon the afterlife makes you feel powerful and you seek to gain even more power. |
| 5 | The pursuit of a specific spirit drives you, maybe searching every spirit will help you in your quest. |
| 6 | You lost your soul, the sacrament allows you to fill that void, even if it is temporary. |
Spiritual Emotions
Each weaver sees the conjuration of their spirits in a different way. Being on the border of life and death is not an easy feat, and sometimes this takes a negative toll on the weaver. A weaver might choose to only harvest souls they have had the ability to gain consent from. Some see spirits as nothing more than energy they can use to gain more power.
Does your weaver see harvesting souls as a necessary evil? Or do they refuse to entertain the idea of a moral problem? Consider the emotional attachment your weaver has to their power and whether they have a problem interrupting the cycle of life and death.
| d6 | Style |
|---|---|
| 1 | You see the afterlife as your birthright. |
| 2 | You try to seek consent from all those you use the souls from, atoning on the rare occasion when you don't. |
| 3 | You are merely helping the spirits to pass on, so they should be thanking you. |
| 4 | Using spirits is something you have learned to do, and while the ethics of it are questionable you seek to help make the act kinder. |
| 5 | You do not see an issue, after all you are just part of the natural cycle. |
| 6 | Using spirits is heartwrenching, but I don't have a choice if I am to achieve my goals. |
Weaver
| Level | Proficiency Bonus | Features | Spells Known | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st | +2 | Sacrament, Shield of Souls, Death Sight | — | — | — | — | — | |
| 2nd | +2 | Spellcasting, Arcane Essence | 2 | 2 | — | — | — | — |
| 3rd | +2 | Spirit Guide, Spiritual Awakening | 3 | 3 | — | — | — | — |
| 4th | +2 | Ability Score Improvement | 2 | 3 | 3 | — | — | — |
| 5th | +3 | Soul Strike | 4 | 4 | 2 | — | — | — |
| 6th | +3 | Spirit Guide Feature | 4 | 4 | 2 | — | — | — |
| 7th | +3 | Respite | 5 | 4 | 3 | — | — | — |
| 8th | +3 | Ability Score Improvement | 5 | 4 | 3 | — | — | — |
| 9th | +4 | Font of Death | 6 | 4 | 3 | 2 | — | — |
| 10th | +4 | Ability Score Improvement | 6 | 4 | 3 | 2 | — | — |
| 11th | +4 | Spirit Guide Feature | 7 | 4 | 3 | 3 | — | — |
| 12th | +4 | Ability Score Improvement | 7 | 4 | 3 | 3 | — | — |
| 13th | +5 | — | 8 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 1 | — |
| 14th | +5 | Vessel of Life | 8 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 1 | — |
| 15th | +5 | Gravecaller | 9 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 2 | — |
| 16th | +5 | Ability Score Improvement | 9 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 2 | — |
| 17th | +6 | — | 10 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 1 |
| 18th | +6 | Spirit Guide Feature | 10 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 1 |
| 19th | +6 | Ability Score Improvement | 11 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 |
| 20th | +6 | Samsara | 11 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 |
Quick Build
You can make a weaver quickly by following these suggestions. First, Intelligence should be your highest ability score, followed by Constitution or Wisdom. Second, choose the haunted one background.
Class Features
As a weaver, you gain the following class features.
Hit Points
- Hit Dice: 1d8 per weaver level
- Hit Points at 1st Level: 8 + your Constitution modifier
- Hit Points at Higher Levels: 1d8 (or 5) + your Constitution modifier per weaver level after 1st
Proficiencies
- Armour: Light armour
- Weapons: Simple weapons
- Tools: None
- Saving Throws: Constitution, Intelligence
- Skills: Choose two from Animal Handling, Arcana, Deception, History, Insight, Medicine, Nature, and Religion.
Starting Equipment
You start with the following equipment, in addition to the equipment granted by your background:
- (a) a quarterstaff or (b) any simple ranged weapon
- (a) two daggers or (b) any simple melee weapon
- Leather armour, a priest's pack, and a spiritual focus
Optional Rule: Multiclassing
If your group uses the optional rule on multiclassing in the Player's Handbook, you must have an Intelligence score of at least 13 to take a level in this class. You gain no additional proficiencies when you multiclass into a weaver.
Spiritual Focus
As a weaver, you have a new casting device: the spiritual focus. A spiritual focus is a worthless totem, token, or item of similar design that can coalesce spirits and energy within it. When a weaver attunes to the device, a small portion of their soul is locked within the focus, meaning only the attuned weaver can use the focus.
Death Sight
You feel an overpowering connection to the spiritual world that allows you to track the newly deceased. As an action, you can open your awareness to detect nearby corpses and spirits. For the next minute, you know the location of any corpses within 60 feet of you, provided that the creature has been dead no longer than 10 days, and you can see into the Ethereal Plane. Ethereal creatures and objects appear ghostly and translucent.
You can use this feature a number of times equal to 1 + your Intelligence modifier. When you finish a long rest, you regain all expended uses.
Sacrament
You have the ability to draw life essence from the world around you. You have a pool of Essence up to a maximum of twice your weaver level, which is used to fuel your weaver features. You can gain essence through the following ways:
- As an action, you can touch a corpse of a creature and gain some essence, provided that it has been dead no longer than 10 days. The amount you gain is equal to the creature's number of hit die. The corpse glows with ethereal energy while you use this feature.
- As a reaction, when a creature you can see is killed within 60 feet of you, you gain life essence equal the creature's number of hit die. This feature creates a visible, ethereal tether to the target as you drain the energy.
To use this feature, you must have free use of one of at least one of your hands. You cannot use this feature on a creature of CR 0, or a creature that does not have hit die. Once a corpse has been targeted by this feature, they cannot be targeted again unless they return to life.
Essence lasts until you finish a short or long rest.
Shield of Souls
As a bonus action, you can touch a creature and expend a number of essence up to your Intelligence modifier (minimum 1), to grant 1d6 temporary hit points to that creature for every essence expended. Temporary hit points gained this way last for 1 minute.
Spellcasting
By 2nd level, you have learned to channel magical energy through your experience and study with the weave. See chapter 10 of the Player's Handbook for the general rules of spellcasting and chapter 8 of the Complete Guide to Sanctum for the weaver spell list.
Spell Slots
The Weaver table shows how many spell slots you have to cast your weaver spells of 1st level and higher. To cast one of these spells, you must expend a slot of the spell's level or higher. You regain all expended slots when you finish a long rest. For example, if you know the 1st-level spell Bless and have a 1st-level and a 2nd-level spell slot available, you can cast Bless using either slot.
Spells Known of 1st Level and Higher
You know two 1st-level spells of your choice from the weaver spell list. The Spells Known column of the Weaver table shows when you learn more weaver spells of your choice. Each of these spells must be of a level for which you have spell slots. For instance, when you reach 5th level in this class, you can learn one new spell of 1st or 2nd level.
Additionally, when you gain a level in this class, you can choose one of the weaver spells you know and replace it with another spell from the weaver spell list, which also must be of a level for which you have spell slots.
Spellcasting Ability
Intelligence is your spellcasting ability for your weaver spells. The power of your spells comes from your experimentation and conceptual understanding of the spiritual world. You use your Intelligence whenever a weaver spell refers to your spellcasting ability. In addition, you use your Intelligence modifier when setting the saving throw DC for a weaver spell you cast and when making an attack roll with one.
Spell save DC
Spell attack modifier = your proficiency bonus +
Ritual Casting
You can cast any weaver spell you know as a ritual if that spell has the ritual tag.
Spellcasting Focus
You must use a spiritual focus as a spellcasting focus for your weaver spells. You can take an hour to turn an arcane focus into a spiritual focus.
Variant: Wisdom
Some applications of this class fit better with Wisdom as the spellcasting ability. Change all elements of this class that reference Intelligence to Wisdom, and change the saving throws you become proficient in to Wisdom and Intelligence.
Arcane Essence
Beginning at 2nd level, as an action, you can expend a spell slot to gain essence equal to four times the level of the spell slot that was expended.
Spirit Guide
When you reach 3rd level, your supernatural abilities allow you to connect to a spiritual guide. Up to this time, your spirit guide had yet to reveal themselves to you, instead choosing to direct you from a distance. Now you choose the one of the following guides: Archmage, King, and Scoundrel, all detailed at the end of the class description.
Your choice grants you features at 3rd level and again at 6th, 10th, and 18th level. Those features include spirit spells and a unique use for your essence.
Spirit Guide's Role with the Weaver
Spirit Guide's fill a similar role to that of a Patron to their Warlocks. While they don't grant their powers to their weavers directly, they instead help to educate them on using their supernatural powers. A spirit guide can be as active or as passive as the DM wants, but it can prove to be a useful tool to inspire roleplaying and help to solidify their character within the world.
As a weaver, you should carefully consider the relationship you have with your spirit guide. Does your spirit guide hope to bolster your skills for their personal gain, or another reason? Do you know who your spirit guide was in life?
Spiritual Awakening
When you reach 3rd level, you have studied enough about how spirits work to channel their energy through your being. You can only be possessed if you are willing.
Rules on Possession
Possession is not one of the listed conditions in the Dungeon Master's Guide, however a few creatures in the published material use it. Ghost is a prime example with their Possession feature. The Dungeon Master has the final say on what constitutes as a possession, but as a guideline it is an effect when a creature or similar being inhabits the body of another and takes control over that form.
Ability Score Improvement
When you reach 4th level, and again at 8th, 10th, 12th, 16th, and 19th level, you can increase one ability score of your choice by 2, or you can increase two ability scores of your choice by 1. As normal, you can't increase an ability score above 20 using this feature.
Soul Strike
Starting at 5th level, when you make a weapon attack, or a spell attack that targets a single creature, you can expend two essence to gain advantage on the attack roll.
Respite
At 7th level, death doesn't take you and your allies easily. Creatures of your choice within 60 feet of you make death saving throws with advantage. Likewise, creatures have advantage on Wisdom (Medicine) checks to stabilise a dying creature. You must be conscious to grant this bonus.
Font of Death
Beginning at 9th level, you regain all of your expended uses of your Death Sight feature when you finish a short or long rest.
Vessel of Life
By 14th level, you have a greater control over essence you collect. Essence you obtain lasts until you finish a long rest.
Gravecaller
At 15th level, when a creature that you can see (other than yourself) becomes stable within 60 feet of you, you can use your reaction and expend an essence to cause the target to regain hit points equal to your Intelligence modifier (minimum 1).
Samsara
You have mastered the cycle when you reach 20th level. When you are reduced to 0 hit points but not killed outright while you have essence, you can expend all your essence and gain hit points equal to the number of essence expended.
Once you use this feature, you can't use it again until you finish a short or long rest.
Spirit Guides
At 3rd level, a weaver gains the Spirit Guide feature. The following options are available to a weaver: Archmage, King, and Scoundrel.
A spirit guide is a spiritual being that a weaver learns from. Their unending knowledge and wisdom helps to guide them in their actions and their situations. Unlike clerics, warlocks, and other adventurers who often have little contact with the source of their power, a weaver's spirit guide exists solely for them, and is often communicating with them during their downtime. Weavers take great pride in their spirit guides, and they strive to represent their teacher the best way they can.
Archmage
Archmagi are the pinnacle of mortal magical power, commanding extreme and often unparalleled mastery over the craft. The spirit of one of the great Archmagi lives on through you, and you seek to learn from their experience and unmatched study. The nature of your Archmage guide may be a specific wizard, one who lived and breathed in a time before you. Maybe your guide is nothing more than an embodiment of your will to better understand the arcane force within the universe.
Regardless of who they are, the Archmage spirit guide will teach and guide you down the coveted arcane path, and train you into a masterful spellcaster that few will match.
Archmage Features
| Weaver Level | Feature |
|---|---|
| 3rd | Expanded Spells, Bonus Cantrips, Incantation, Arcane Solution |
| 6th | Magical Recovery |
| 11th | Spiritual Essence |
| 18th | Magical Gift |
Expanded Spells
When you reach 3rd level, you learn an additional spell when you reach certain levels in this class, as shown in the Archmage Spells table. The spell counts as a weaver spell for you, but it doesn't count against the number of weaver spells you know.
Archmage Spells
| Weaver Level |
Spells |
|---|---|
| 3rd | magic missile |
| 5rd | arcane lock |
| 9th | tiny servant |
| 13th | arcane eye |
| 17th | teleportation circle |
Bonus Cantrips
At 3rd level, you learn the three cantrips of your choice from the Wizard spell list. Intelligence is your spellcasting ability for these cantrips.
The Archmage Cantrips
The three subclasses presented in this book cover the three major archetypes: mage, thief, and warrior. Each class has a way to make up for lack of damage being built in, with the other two subclasses gaining that benefit at 6th level. The Archmage instead gains access to cantrips, which have a damage step increase at certain levels as its damage bonus. Consider choosing a damage cantrip with your choices.
Art: KalaNemi
Incantation
Beginning at 3rd level, as a bonus action, you can spend six essence to gain resistance to one damage type of your choice: acid, cold, fire, lightning, poison, or thunder. This resistance lasts for 1 minute.
The maximum number of incantations you can have active at a time is equal to your proficiency bonus.
Arcane Solution
At 3rd level, when you expend a spell slot to gain essence, you gain additional essence equal to the your Intelligence modifier (minimum 1).
Magical Recovery
When you reach 6th level, you can regain a small amount of magical energy by meditating with the spirits. Once per day when you finish a short rest, you can choose expended spell slots to recover. The spell slots can have a combined level that is equal to or less than half your Weaver level (rounded up).
Spiritual Reservoir
By 11th level, the maximum number of essence you can have at any given time is increased by your Intelligence modifier (minimum 1).
Magical Gift
When you reach 18th level, your spirit guide has blessed you with the strongest of magical knowledge. As an action, you can expend a spell slot and target one spellcaster within 60 feet. The target regains any number of used spell slots up to a combined level equal to the level of the spell slot you expended.
Once you use this feature, you can't use it again until you finish a long rest.
King
The King is a powerful spirit guide. Ruled by their desire to become stronger, a weaver who takes the time to master the teachings of the King will command a dominating presence and voice on the battlefield. Weavers of this discipline are extremely devout warriors, combining their supernatural abilities with their martial prowess for a deadly combination. Your king may be a forgotten one, lost to time after a millenia of fallen kingdoms. Maybe your guide is a renowned leader, known to legend as a powerful entity.
In any case, the King spirit guide will train you in martial skills and tactics, taking you down the path of domination.
King Features
| Weaver Level |
Feature |
|---|---|
| 3rd | Expanded Spell List, Bonus Proficiencies, King's Challenge, Spectral Warfare |
| 6th | Extra Attack |
| 11th | Improved Critical |
| 18th | Spirit of War |
Expanded Spells
When you reach 3rd level, you learn an additional spell when you reach certain levels in this class, as shown in the King Spells table. The spell counts as a weaver spell for you, but it doesn't count against the number of weaver spells you know.
King Spells
| Weaver Level |
Spells |
|---|---|
| 3rd | shield |
| 5rd | magic weapon |
| 9th | elemental weapon |
| 13th | banishment |
| 17th | steel wind strike |
Bonus Proficiencies
When you choose this spirit guide at 3rd level, you gain proficiency in martial weapons, medium armour, and shields.
King's Challenge
Starting at 3rd level, your spirit guide has given you knowledge on how to better defend yourself. As a bonus action, you can expend an essence and target a creature within 30 feet. The target must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw against your weaver spell save DC or have disadvantage on attack rolls against creatures other than you. At the end of each of the target's turns, it can repeat the saving throw, ending the effect on itself on a success.
Spectral Warfare
Beginning at 3rd level, you learn to weave essence as you fight. When you land a critical hit on a creature, you gain an essence.
Extra Attack
At 6th level, you can Attack twice, instead of once, whenever you take the Attack action on your turn.
Improved Critical
Starting at 11th level, your weapon attacks score a critical hit on a roll of 19 or 20.
Spirits of War
When you reach 18th level, you can temporarily rip the boundaries between the ethereal and material plane, drawing power from the spirits of those around you. As an action, you can expend all your essence and begin to sap the life from those around you. Any creature that moves within 15 feet of you for the first time on their turn or ends their turn there takes 5d8 necrotic damage. In addition, when a creature takes damage from this feature you gain an essence.
Once you use this feature, you can't use it again until you finish a long rest.
Scoundrel
The one that listens to those who skulks in the shadows follows the path of the Scoundrel. A trickster of sorts, the Scoundrel teaches their weavers how to use the shadows to their advantage and manipulate the battle from a hidden position. Weavers of this discipline embrace the darkness and their unnatural abilities, combining their abilities to strike fear where they go. The Scoundrel you follow may be an infamous assassin, or a highly regarded thief. Maybe your guide is a charlatan who seeks revenge through you.
Regardless, the Scoundrel spirit guide will hone your sneaking skills and your connection with the shadows.
Scoundrel Features
| Weaver Level |
Feature |
|---|---|
| 3rd | Expanded Spell List, Bonus Proficiencies, Covert, Fade |
| 6th | Spectre of the Dying |
| 11th | Ghostly Escape |
| 18th | Spirit Stride |
Expanded Spells
When you reach 3rd level, you learn an additional spell when you reach certain levels in this class, as shown in the Scoundrel Spells table. The spell counts as a weaver spell for you, but it doesn't count against the number of weaver spells you know.
Scoundrel Spells
| Weaver Level |
Spells |
|---|---|
| 3rd | disguise self |
| 5rd | invisibility |
| 9th | nondetection |
| 13th | greater invisibility |
| 17th | mislead |
Bonus Proficiencies
When you choose this spirit guide at 3rd level, you gain proficiency in thieves tools, and your Proficiency Bonus is doubled for any ability check you make with it.
Covert
At 3rd level, you no longer create a visual effect when you use your Sacrament feature. In addition, when you roll initiative you gain a number of essence equal to half your Intelligence modifier (minimum 1).
Fade
When you reach 3rd level, you can use essence to temporarily step to a new location. As a bonus action, you can expend an essence and teleport up to 20 feet to an unoccupied space that you can see. You can choose to expend additional essence to increase this distance by an additional 10 feet for each essence you use.
Spectre of the Dying
Beginning at 6th level, when you use your reaction to gain essence through your Sacrament feature, you can choose to target one creature within 30 feet of you. That creature must succeed an Intelligence saving throw or take psychic damage equal to four times the number of essence you gained.
Ghostly Escape
At 11th level, when you use your Fade feature, your movement does not provoke opportunity attacks until the beginning of your next turn.
Spirit Stride
Upon reaching 18th level, you can channel the spirits to temporarily step into the ethereal plane. As an action, you become under the effects of the etherealness spell. At the start of your next turn, if you are on the Ethereal Plane, you return to an unoccupied space of your choice that you can see within 10 feet of the space you vanished from. If no unoccupied space is available within that range, you appear in the nearest unoccupied space (chosen at random if more than one space is equally near). While in the Ethereal Plane, you can use your Sacrament feature as if you were in your current plane of existence. This feature lasts for 1 minute or until you end it as a bonus action.
Once you use this feature, you can't use it again until you finish a long rest.
Weaver Spell List
Any non-published spells are appended to this document.
1st Level
Absorb elements (abjuration)
Alarm (ritual) (conjuration)
Bane (enchantment)
Barrier* (abjuration)
Bind weapon* (ritual) (enchantment)
Cause fear (necromancy)
Charm person (enchantment)
Comprehend languages (ritual) (divination)
Command (enchantment)
Create or destroy water (transmutation)
Cure wounds (evocation)
Detect magic (ritual) (divination)
Detect evil and good (divination)
Detect poison and disease (ritual) (divination)
Ethereal rupture (necromancy)
Expeditious retreat (transmutation)
False life (necromancy)
Feather fall (transmutation)
Find familiar (ritual) (conjuration)
Hex (enchantment)
Identify (divination)
Mage armor (abjuration)
Purify food and drink (ritual) (transmutation)
Sleep (enchantment)
2nd Level
Aid (abjuration)
Arishka's erasure* (necromancy)
Augury (divination)
Blur (illusion)
Calm emotions (enchantment)
Darkvision (transmutation)
Detect thoughts (divination)
Enthrall (enchantment)
Gentle repose (ritual) (necromancy)
Healing spirit (conjuration)
Hold person (enchantment)
Lesser restoration (abjuration)
Levitate (transmutation)
Misty step (conjuration)
Phantasmal force (illusion)
See invisibility (divination)
Silence (ritual) (illusion)
Suggestion (enchantment)
3rd Level
Arishka's curse (necromancy)
Bestow curse (necromancy)
Blink (transmutation)
Clairvoyance (divination)
Convalescence (evocation)
Fear (illusion)
Life transference (necromancy)
Phantom steed (ritual) (illusion)
Protection from energy (abjuration)
Remove curse (abjuration)
Speak with dead (necromancy)
Spirit guardians (conjuration)
Vampiric touch (necromancy)
4th Level
Bone shield* (necromancy)
Charm monster (enchantment)
Compulsion (enchantment)
Death ward (abjuration)
Dimension door (conjuration)
Divination (divination)
Elemental bane (transmutation)
Freedom of movement (transmutation)
Locate creature (divination)
Oxygenate* (ritual) (transmutation)
5th Level
Contact other plane (ritual) (divination)
Far step (conjuration)
Geas (enchantment)
Mass cure wounds (evocation)
Raise dead (necromancy)
Totems of the fallen* (conjuration)
Wall of force (evocation)
New Spells
Arishka's Curse
3rd-level necromancy
- Casting Time: 1 action
- Range: 120 feet
- Components: V, S
- Duration: Concentration, up to 1 hour
- Spell Lists: Sorcerer, Warlock, Weaver
You place a randomised curse on a creature that you can see within range. Roll a d6 and assign a number to each of the six ability scores (1 is Strength, 2 is Dexterity, 3 is Constitution, 4 is Intelligence, 5 is Wisdom, 6 is Charisma). The target has disadvantage on any ability checks or saving throws using the rolled ability score.
If the target drops to 0 hit points before this spell ends, you can use a bonus action on a subsequent turn of yours to curse a new creature.
A remove curse cast on the target ends this spell early.
At Higher Levels: When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 5th or higher, you can roll an additional d6 for every two spell levels above 3rd, choosing between the results.
Arishka's Erasure
2nd-level necromancy
- Casting Time: 1 action
- Range: Touch
- Components: S, M (A fragment of a shield)
- Duration: Instantaneous
- Spell Lists: Bard, Cleric, Druid, Paladin, Ranger, Sorcerer, Warlock, Weaver, Wizard
You reach out and touch a creature with dark magic. The target must succeed a Constitution saving throw or have their temporary hit points reduced to 0.
Barrier
1st-level abjuration
- Casting Time: 1 action
- Range: 30 feet
- Components: V, S
- Duration: Instantaneous
- Spell Lists: Cleric, Weaver
A wave of energy washes over you and those who you choose within range. You have a pool of 8 temporary hit points, divided as you choose among any number of creatures that you can see within range. This spell has no effect on undead or constructs.
At Higher Levels: When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 2nd level or higher, the pool of temporary hit points increases by 8 for every level above 1st.
Bind Weapon
1st-level enchantment (ritual)
- Casting Time: 1 hour
- Range: Touch
- Components: S, M (a weapon in which to bind)
- Duration: Until dispelled
- Spell Lists: Bard, Cleric, Paladin, Ranger, Weaver, Wizard
You touch a weapon and bind it to your service. When a creature other than yourself attempts to pick up your weapon, they must succeed a Wisdom saving throw or take 5d10 psychic damage and be forced to drop the weapon. On a success, nothing happens. You can only have a single weapon bound this way, and binding another weapon through this spell destroys your bind to your previous weapon.
Bone Shield
4th-level necromancy
- Casting Time: 1 action
- Range: Self
- Components: V, S, M (a bone)
- Duration: Concentration, up to 1 minute
- Spell Lists: Weaver
You call upon the power of death to protect you. You gain 40 temporary hit points, plus an additional 10 temporary hit points for every corpse of a CR 1/8 or higher creature within 60 feet of you. The temporary hit points are lost when the spell ends.
Convalescence
3rd-level evocation
- Casting Time: 1 action
- Range: Self (30 foot cone)
- Components: V, S
- Duration: Instantaneous
- Spell Lists: Bard, Cleric, Paladin, Weaver
Celestial light flows from your hand, restoring those in front of you. Each creature in a 30-foot cone regains a number of hit points equal to 3d6 + your spellcasting ability modifier. This spell has no effect on undead or constructs.
At Higher Levels: When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 4th level or higher, the healing increases by 1d6 for each slot level above 3rd.
Ethereal Rupture
1st-level necromancy
- Casting Time: 1 reaction, which you take when a creature in range has been reduced to 0 hitpoints
- Range: 60 feet
- Components: V, S
- Duration: Instantaneous
- Spell Lists: Cleric, Weaver, Wizard
When a creature is reduced to 0 hit points within range, you can forcibly rip open the ethereal veil as their soul begins to depart. Each creature within 10 feet of the target must succeed a Constitution saving throw, taking 3d8 force damage on a success and half as much on a failure.
At Higher Levels: When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 2nd level or higher, the damage increases by 1d8 for each slot level above 2nd.
Oxygenate
4th-level transmutation (ritual)
- Casting Time: 1 action
- Range: 60 feet
- Components: V, S, M (A short reed or piece of straw)
- Duration: 1 hour
- Spell Lists: Druid, Ranger, Sorcerer, Weaver, Wizard
You conjure a 30 foot sphere at a point you can see within range. The sphere has a soft, hazy look to it. The sphere is filled with pure, clean air which suppresses water or unclean air from entering the sphere. Any overpowering stench becomes much more manageable for creatures inside the sphere, regardless of whether the source of the smell is outside or inside the sphere. Any spell or magical effect of 4th level or lower that creates a toxic cloud or similar magic cannot enter the sphere. The sphere does not penetrate full cover.
You can choose to concentrate on this spell to pause its duration until you choose to stop concentrating, or to move the sphere at a speed of 30 feet to another location.
At Higher Levels: When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 5th level or higher, the sphere resists magic of an additional level higher for each spell level above 4th.
Totems of the Fallen
5th-level conjuration
- Casting Time: 1 action
- Range: 60 feet
- Components: V, S, M (A short reed or piece of straw)
- Duration: Concentration, up to 1 minute
- Spell Lists: Weaver
You call to the spiritual world and manifest ghostly totems at up to 5 corpses you can see within range. These totems are ethereal in their appearance and occupy the space of the corpse they are created in. A creature that moves within 15 feet of a totem for the first time on their turn must succeed an Intelligence saving throw or take 3d6 psychic damage. If this damage reduces a creature to 0 hit points, an additional totem is created at their corpse.
The space the totem occupies is considered difficult terrain for the duration.