Students of faith

Legends speaks that the first scions were scholars who dedicated their time studying holy and unholy scriptures, trying to tap into the very essence of creation. After decades searching for the origin of the power of the gods, they learned how to channel that sacred power turning them into the perfect agents for their church. So many suspect that the hours spent reading and meditating is a form of praying but it really a way in which they are connect to that ancient power.

Meanwhile, others speak that the hours of study spent by scions is them trying to channel the power of celestial beings, fiends or even the fae. Whatever the reason one thing is agreed upon, only scions know the origin of their powers and even then only a few truly understand the source of their powers as some are manipulated by the leaders of their churches to do tasks not in the name of their god but for the benefit of the church.

Dreams to a greater purpose

The fact that scions tap into the very source of power wielded by the gods gives scions vision of their purpose in this life. While these visions reveal their sacred tasks by the way of dreams, they can be of many things like dark futures where evil has ravaged the world leaving it as a desert wasteland, forgotten relics that will empower their god to become the ruler of the pantheon or even a lonely tavern where the scion will find a young tavern keeper that will send him on the adventure of a lifetime.

Whatever personal objective they strive to achieve, in the end everything they do is in the name of their church and while some churches try to twist the meaning of the divine message for personal gain, the dreams always push them towards the path they must follow and so scions must try and understand their dreams to follow the message sent by their guides.

Creating a Scion

When creating a scion, think about what deity or church is the one you serve and how do you serve this order because this will help you chose a sacred task down the line.

Once this is done think about your characters motivations. What alignment do you use to fight the enemies of your church? Did your god chose you or did you study to become a scion? How was your training like? What are your dreams like, are they visions of a dark future or something to seek? What types of tasks are you sent to by your order? Did someone try to distort the meaning of your dreams to turn you into a weapon?

Hit Points

• Hit Dice: 1d10 per scion level
• Hit Points at 1st Level: 10 + your Constitution modifier
• Hit Points at Higher Levels: 1d10 (or 6) + your Constitution modifier per scion level after 1st

Proficiencies

• Armor: Light armor, medium armor and shields
• Weapons: Simple weapons, martial weapons
• Tools: None
• Saving Throws: Constitution, Intelligence
• Skills: Choose three from Acrobatics, Athletics, History, Insight, Investigation, Nature, Perception, Stealth and Religion.

Equipment

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

• (a) a martial weapon and a shield or (b) two martial weapons
• (a) a priest’s pack or (b) an dungeoneer's pack
• A holy symbol and five javelins.

Choosen Warrior

You gain two cantrips of your choice from the sorcerer spell list. They count as scion spells for you, and Intelligence is your spellcasting ability for them. Whenever you gain a level in this class, you can replace one of these cantrips with another cantrip from amongst those.

At 10th level, you can cast one of your cantrips in place of one of your attacks whenever you take the Attack action on your turn.

Unarmored Defense

While you are not wearing any armor, your Armor Class equals 10 + your Dexterity modifier + your Intelligence modifier. You can use a shield and still gain this benefit.

Planar Source

Through your rigorous study of the planes and religious texts, you have learned how to tap into one of the sources of power wielded by the gods. Choose one of the following: Good, Neutral, Evil. This choice affects other abilities in the Scion class and determines the damage type of some of your Scion abilities based on the table below.

Blind Fighting

You have blindsight with a range of 10 feet. Within that range, you can effectively see anything that isn't behind total cover, even if you're blinded or in darkness. Moreover, you can see an invisible creature within that range, unless the creature successfully hides from you.

Defense

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

Dueling

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

Interception

When a creature you can see hits a target, other than you, within 5 feet of you with an attack, you can use your reaction to reduce the damage the target takes by 1d10 + your proficiency bonus (to a minimum of 0 damage). You must be wielding a shield or a simple or martial weapon to use this reaction.

Protection

When a creature you can see attacks a target other than you that is within 5 feet of you, you can use your reaction to impose disadvantage on the attack roll. You must be wielding a shield.

Two-Weapon Fighting

When you engage in two-weapon fighting, you can add your ability modifier to the damage of the second attack.

Unarmed Fighting

Your unarmed strikes can deal bludgeoning damage equal to 1d6 + your Strength modifier on a hit. If you aren't wielding any weapons or a shield when you make the attack roll, the d6 becomes a d8.

At the start of each of your turns, you can deal 1d4 bludgeoning damage to one creature grappled by you.

Spell Slots

The Scion table shows how many spell slots you have to cast your scion spells. To cast one of your spells of 1st level or higher, you must expend a slot of the spell's level or higher. You regain all expended spell slots when you finish a long rest.

For example, if you know the 1st-level spell shield of faith and have a 1st-level and a 2nd-level spell slot available, you can cast shield of faith using either slot.

Spellcasting Ability

Intelligence is your spellcasting ability for your scion spells, since your power derives from the study of players and knowing how to use your divine power. You use your Intelligence whenever a spell refers to your spellcasting ability. In addition, you use your Intelligence modifier when setting the saving throw DC for a scion spell you cast and when making an attack roll with one.

Replacing Known Spells

Scions can decide that they can replace their known spells by spending 2 hour for each level of the spell they wish to learn, the previous spell is forgotten by them and are not able to cast it in anyway possible.

Task Spells

Each task has a list of associated spells. You gain access to these spells at the levels specified in the task description. Once you gain access to a task spell, you always have it prepared. Task spells don't count against the number of spells known and cannot be changed.

If you gain a task spell that doesn't appear on the scion spell list, the spell is nonetheless a scion spell for you.

Channel Divinity

Your task allows you to channel divine energy to fuel magical effects. Each Channel Divinity option provided by your task explains how to use it.

When you use your Channel Divinity, you choose which option to use. You must then finish a short or long rest to use your Channel Divinity again.

Some Channel Divinity effects require saving throws. When you use such an effect from this class, the DC equals your scion spell save DC.

Acolyte

Acolytes are the helping hand of the church, they are the ones you will find amongst the front lines of any sacred battlefield providing protection and medical assistance. These scions have taken the sacred task of assisting others achieve their goals by any means possible, turning them into highly valued assets.

Avenger

Avengers are the might and strength of each order, they are soldiers trained to protect that which is most holy from all the enemies. As such, Avengers are tasked to be mighty warriors and are always seen as stoic and inflexible in their objectives.

Task Spells

Bonus Proficiencies

When you choose this sacred task at 3rd level, you gain proficiency with the Sleight of Hand skill and Thieves' Tools.

Channel Divinity

You gain the following two Channel Divinity options. See the Sacred Task class feature for how Channel Divinity works.

• Shadow Dance: As a bonus action, whenever you are in dim light or darkness you can teleport to up to 30 feet to an unoccupied space you can see that is also in dim light or darkness.
• Channel Sigil: As a bonus action you may expend a use of your Channel Divinity to place your Sacred Sigil on a creature within 30 feet of you as if you had used a spell slot of half your proficiency bonus (rounded up).

Immobilizing Consumption

At 7th level, you can use your action to force a creature with a seal make a Wisdom saving throw against your spell save DC, if it fails it becomes restrained until the end of your next turn.

Blessing of Shadows

Upon attaining 15th level, you become invisible to any creature with one of your seals on it.

Shadow Form

Starting at 20th level, once per long rest you may use an action to become incorporeal for 1 minute, gaining the following abilities:

• Flying speed of 50 feet.
• All attacks against you are at disadvantage.
• Resistance against acid, cold, fire, lightning, thunder; bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing nonmagical attacks.
• You can move through other creatures and objects as if they were difficult terrain. You take 1d10 force damage if you end your turn inside an object.
• Your weapon attacks deal damage of the type of your Planar Source, and a successful attack drains 1d4 strength from the target. The target dies if this reduces its Strength to 0. Otherwise, the reduction lasts until the target finishes a short or long rest.

Task Spells

Bonus Proficiencies

When you choose this sacred task at 3rd level, you gain proficiency with the Arcana skill and Calligrapher's Supplies.

Channel Divinity

You gain the following two Channel Divinity options. See the Sacred Task class feature for how Channel Divinity works.

Aura of Self-doubt

4th-level abjuration

• Casting Time: 1 action
• Range: Self (10-foot radius)
• Components: V
• Duration: Concentration, up to 1 minute

Your very presence radiates insecurity on those that would oppose you. Each hostile creature in the aura must succeed a Charisma saving throw at the start of their turn or suffer a penalty to their attack rolls equal to your spell casting ability modifier.

Fire Whip

1st-level evocation

• Casting Time: 1 bonus action
• Range: 30-foot radius
• Components: V, S, M (the forked tongue of a serpent)
• Duration: Concentration, up to 1 minutes

You produce a whip of fire that you can use as a weapon. This whip lasts for the duration of the spell. It counts as a simple melee weapon with which you are proficient. It deals 1d10 fire damage on a hit and has the finesse, reach of 10 feet and light properties. In addition, when you hit a creature with an attack from this whip the creature must succeed a Strength saving throw or be restrained. While the creature is restrained, at the start of it's turn you deal 1d10 fire damage to the target, it can use it's action to attempt to break free by rolling a Strength saving throw. If the creature succeeds, it breaks free and it is no longer restrained, in case of a failure it can repeat the saving throw on it's next turn. You cannot attack any creature with this weapon if you have a creature restrained.

Maddening Sigil

2nd-level enchantment

• Casting Time: 1 action
• Range: 30-foot radius
• Components: V, S, M (a pouch of desecrated wood ashes)
• Duration: Concentration, up to 1 minutes

You mark a creature with a divine sigil that infects their mind with maddening images, causing them to loose control of their body and become obedient to your commands. Chose a creature you can see within range, it must succeed on a Charisma saving throw or be charmed by you for the duration. While under your sway, red sigils can be seen on the target's eyes.

The charmed target must use their action before moving on each of its turns to make a weapon attack against a creature other than itself that you command it to. The target can act normally on their turn if you choose no creature or if the target is not within range of their weapons.

On your subsequent turns, you must use your bonus action to maintain control over the target by command it to attack a target, if this is not done the spell ends. The target can make a Charisma saving throw at the end of each of their turns. On a success, the spell ends.

Mist of Damnation

5rd-level conjuration

• Casting Time: 1 action
• Range: Self (15-foot radius)
• Components: V, S, M (a piece of sulfur)
• Duration: Concentration, up to 1 minutes

You concentrate divine energy on yourself creating an area of pure negative energy on the mundane world. You conjure a 15-foot radius of mist, darkness, brimstone, and blasting heat, that resonates with echoes of damned souls, the area is centered on you and lasts in place for the duration of the spell.

Any creature, other than you, that ends their turn in the mist take 2d8 fire damage and it must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw or take an additional 2d8 psychic damage as well as gaining disadvantage on attack rolls and ability checks until the end of their next turn as the voices of the damned cloud their mind.

Mist of Sacrilege

3th-level necromancy

• Casting Time: 1 action
• Range: Self (20-foot radius)
• Components: V, S, M (a drop of fiendish blood)
• Duration: Concentration, up to 1 minute

A red mist full of negative energy surrounds you with a 20-foot radius. Until the spell ends, the mist moves with you, centered on you. If a creature (except you) starts their turn in the mist, they take 2d6 necrotic damage and you gain hit points equal to half the damage dealt.

Sigil of Judgement

1st-level enchantment

• Casting Time: 1 bonus action
• Range: 30 feet
• Components: V, S, M (a pinch of blessed salt)
• Duration: Concentration, up to 1 hour

You place a sigil on a creature that you can see within range. Until the spell ends, whenever the creature wishes to speak a lie it must first make a Charisma saving throw. On a failed save, the creature is dealt 1d6 force damage.

An affected creature is aware of the spell and can thus avoid answering questions to which it would normally respond with a lie. Such creatures can be evasive in its answers as long as it has this sigil on it.

Additionally, you can spend your bonus action to force the creature to make a Charisma saving throw. On a failed save, the creature is dealt 1d6 plus your spellcasting ability modifier force damage.

At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 2nd level or higher, the damage increases by 1d6 for each slot level above 1st.