The Art of Focus

A ninja that practiced the same stunt a thousand times. A scientist that developed state-of-art innovative technology. A bard that sings the most beautiful music. That's the image of a myoshidius, a person that focused on an objective and achieved perfection.

The Myoshidius is a class that was born in the continent of Kirasu, a land of expertise and competition. All are trying to be the best at something, to a level of absolute perfection. The Myoshidius are the ones that honed their crafts to such a level, that performing the craft produces magical effects.

Creating a Myoshidius

When creating a Myoshidius, choose your main objective in life. Myoshidi tend to heavily focus on a single thing, that

they consider very important, and impacts their life and their decisions. Depending on your character's alignment, you may envision this main objective in different ways.

If your character is lawful, they may be a very disciplined and centered person, that believes this objective is the best thing to achieve in life and something they'll always aim towards, and that guides their decisions.

If your character is chaotic, this objective may represent an obsession, something that they don't necessarily believe to be the best for them, but that they aim towards simply guided by natural desires. They may rationalize it as a good thing, but in the end they are always being guided by concepts like curiosity, thirst for power or even pride.

Neutral characters can envision their objective in either form. But there's also another option to your character, that works regardless of alignment. Legend says that the origin of the Myoshidius power come from Old Gods' influences. And that allows you to make a mad character, that deals with occult and psionic powers they don't understand. Maybe their objective is a voice in their head telling them what to do.

Class Primes

The people of Kirasu grew their societies without any gods, not because of choice, but because the gods refused to contact any humanoids from any continents other than Melsport. And the Kirasunese instead created their own types of gods, called Class Primes. Becoming a Class Prime is one of the most common life-long objectives chosen by Myoshidi, and it's one of the greatest titles that anyone can have in the country.

It's already hard to reach perfection, but that's not the last possible step yet. A Myoshidius could ascend even another level, to what people would call a Class Prime. A Class Prime is a being that irradiates an aura of skill and proficiency, that grants abilities to those standing nearby. Additionally, their words carry power. They could give blessings of power just by saying to a person that they are powerful. Class Primes were considered gods by people in Kirasu, and worshipped as such.

People would often ask Primes for blessings and luck in shrines, even after the Prime's death, specially because almost no person has seen a Class Prime in the flesh. Praying in their shrines would lend you some of their knowledge and skill and professing their name in battle could turn the tides into your favor.

Skillslinger's Tattoo

Using Calligrapher's supplies, you can make a magical tattoo that enhances your skills and gives you incredible and somewhat magical abilities. You take 2 hours and 8 gp worth of fine ink to make the tattoo.

When you finish the tattoo, it gains one effect of your choice (see "Tattoo Effects" below).

Once per turn, when you make an ability check using an action or a bonus action, you can spend 1 Will point and choose one effect of a Skillslinger Tattoo you have to activate.

Beginning at 7th level, you can activate two different effects, instead of one, whenever you use this feature. The number of different effects increases to three when you reach 14th level in this c1ass and to four when you reach 20th level in this c1ass.

Upgrades

At 4th, 10th, 15th and 18th levels you choose one of the upgrades below. You can repeat upgrades.

Swift. Your walking speed increases by 1,5m (5ft.).

Alert. You add a +2 bonus to initiative.

Multitasker. Choose a skill you're proficient with. Ability checks with that skill (that would be made as an action) can also be made as a bonus action.

Tactical Warning. After you roll initiative, another creature of your choice adds a +2 bonus to their initiative.

Nug Extraction

Starting at 3rd level, you learn to extract magical energies from within yourself. You gain two actual spell slots which are always of a level equal to your Max Spell Level, and that you can use to cast any of your Spells Known using their normal casting time.

Magic Ink Mastery

At 9th level, your mastery with magical tattoos allows you to infuse a slight burst of power into your spells. Whenever you cast a spell using a Skillslinger's Tattoo, you may choose to ignore its concentration. The spell then lasts for its entire duration unless you stop it with an action.

You can use this feature once and you regain its use after a short or long rest.

Eerie Song

At 14th Level, you gain the ability to curse the targets of your spells by playing an eerie song. Whenever you cast a spell using a Monkey Tattoo and it targets a single creature, you can curse that creature for 1 minute. While cursed, the target must make a Wisdom saving throw at the start of each of its turns. If it fails, it can't target you with spells until the start of their next turn.

You can only have one creature cursed at a time, if you curse another creature, the previous curse is lifted. A Remove Curse spell also ends this curse. When this curse ends on a creature, it can't be cursed in this way again for 24 hours.

Rhythmic Magic

Also starting at 14th Level, your training with both magic and weapons improves your muscle memory, and allows you to quickly switch from one to the other. Whenever you use your action to cast a cantrip, you can make a single weapon attack as part of the same action.