Circle of the Afterlife

Druids who choose to join the circle of spirits focus their bond with nature toward the spirits of past protectors of the lands, creating ties with them, deepening the druid's affiliation with nature.

Circle Spells

Your bond with the various spirits in your world has granted you access to additional spells when you reach certain levels in this class, as shown in the Circle of Spirits spells table

Once you gain access to one of these spells, you always have it prepared, and it doesn't count against the number of spells you can prepare each day. If you gain access to a spell that doesn't appear on the Druid Spell List, the spell is nonetheless a druid spell for you. In addition to the following spells, spells of the Necromancy spell type are added to your druid spell list.

Call Spirit

At 3rd level, You can summon a primal spirit. As an action, you can expend one use of your Wild Shape feature to summon your chosen spirit, rather than assuming a beast form.

The spirit is friendly to you and your companions and obeys your commands, and can be dismissed as a bonus action.

Your spirit shares your initiative count, and can only take the dodge action on its turn. You can use your bonus action to command the spirit to take another action. That action can be one in its stat block or some other action. If you are incapacitated, the spirit can take any one of its actions, using them as best as it can to protect you.

When you call a spirit, you can choose between Wolf, Dragon, or Hummingbird. The statblocks of the spirits are listed at the end of this subclass.

Unleash Apparition

At 3rd level, you can heighten the power of your summoned spirit. Whenever you take the attack action, you may command your spirit to make one attack as part of the same action. The spirit is considered not to have the multiattack feature when attacking this way.

You can use this feature a number of times equal to your Wisdom modifier (a minimum of once). You regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest.

Enhanced Spirit

At 6th level, your summoned spirits grow more powerful, as you infuse them with more powerful druidic magic. Your summoned spirits unlock the following additional features:

Sacrificial Spirit

At 10th level, you gain the ability to sacrifice your summoned spirit to increase your own vitality. Whenever you dismiss your spirit, you may regain hit points equal to your druid level plus half of the remaining hit points your spirit had when you sacrificed it. Once you use this feature, you must finish a short or long rest to use it again.

Army of Spirits

At 14th level, your connection with the spiritual world deepens. Whenever you hit a creature with a weapon attack, you deal extra force damage equal to your wisdom modifier. Additionally, you can have up to two spirits summoned at once, which can coexist. The two spirits must be of different types, and you gain the passive bonuses from both of these spirits (Spiritual Pack Tactics, Draconic Legacy). However, you can only command one of the two spirits using your bonus action. You may use your action to command the other spirit to take an action.