A kanala uses his symbiotic creature to
activate the locus energy form

Hit Points

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

Proficiencies

• Armor: Light armor, medium armor, shields
• Weapons: Simple weapons, martial weapons
• Tools: None

• Saving Throws: Constitution, Charisma
• Skills: Choose two from Arcana, Athletics, History, Insight, Intimidation, Religion, and Sleight of Hand

Starting Equipment

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

• a martial melee weapon of your choice
• a sling and a pouch containing 20 sling bullets
• (a) studded leather armor, (b) scale mail, or (c) 40 gp
• a component pouch and an explorer’s pack

If you forgo this starting equipment, as well as the items offered by your background, you start with 5d4 × 10 gp to buy your equipment.

Gift Source

1st-level kanala feature

Kanala Spells from Other Sources

When choosing spells to add to the kanala spell list from other sources, there are a few things to keep in mind. Most importantly, every spell on the kanala spell list has a range of either Self or Touch. Most of these spells focus on applying benefits or detriments to a single creature. The last few are spells with areas of effect that deal elemental damage or apply a condition.

Replacing Bond Spells. When replacing one or more of an Empowered Bond's bond spells, any replacement spell can work as long as its relevance is justified.

Kanala Spell List

Here's the list of spells you consult when you learn a kanala spell. The list is organized by spell level, not character level.

Blank spaces are included for you to add some additional spells (see "Kanala Spells from Other Sources").

1st Level

• Color spray
• Comprehend languages
• Cure wounds
• Detect evil and good
• Detect magic
• Detect poison and disease
• Disguise self
• Expeditious retreat
• Inflict wounds
• Jump
• Longstrider
• Mage armor
• Shield
• Thunderwave
• _______________
• _______________
• _______________
• _______________

2nd Level

• Alter self
• Barkskin
• Blur
• Darkvision
• Enhance ability
• Flame blade
• Invisibility
• Lesser restoration
• Magic weapon
• Mirror image
• Misty step
• Pass without trace
• Protection from poison
• See invisibility
• Spider climb

• _______________
• _______________
• _______________
• _______________

3rd Level

• Bestow curse
• Blink
• Fear
• Protection from energy
• Remove curse
• Revivify
• Tongues
• Vampiric touch
• _______________
• _______________
• _______________

4th Level

• Death ward
• Fire shield
• Freedom of movement
• Stone shape
• Stoneskin
• _______________
• _______________
• _______________

5th Level

• Cone of cold
• Greater restoration
• Mislead
• Raise dead
• _______________
• _______________
• _______________

Kanala with a
Kanala Prosthesis

Locus Forms

2nd-level kanala feature

Your locus is more than an extension of your gift: it is a tool for solving the countless obstacles you face as an adventurer.

You know three locus forms of your choice. Your options are detailed in the "Locus Forms" section at the end of the class description, where you will also find the general rules of locus form activation. When you gain certain kanala levels, you gain additional forms of your choice, as shown in the Locus Forms Known column of the Kanala table.

Additionally, when you gain a level in this class, you can choose one of the forms you know and replace it with another form that you could learn at that level.

Empowered Bond

3rd-level kanala feature

Your relationship with your gift has matured to the point where you gain specialized benefits from it. Choose from the Bond of the Collector, the Bond of the Host, the Bond of the Lionheart, the Bond of the Savant, or the Bond of the Vessel, each detailed at the end of the main class description. Your bond grants you features at 3rd level and again at 6th, 10th, 15th, and 18th level.

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Bond Spells

Each bond has a list of associated spells. You learn these add-itional spells at the levels specified in the bond description if you don't already know them. These spells don't count against the number of kanala spells you know.

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

You can cast each of your bond spells once at their lowest level without expending a spell slot or material components. Once you cast a bond spell this way, you can't do so again until you finish a long rest; however, you can still expend a spell slot to cast the spell normally.

Ability Score Improvement

4th-level kanala feature

Foolproof Fail-Safe

6th-level Bond of the Collector feature

You've learned how to magnify the defensive ability of your locus for when you inevitably get into trouble. When you take damage, you can use your reaction to reduce all incoming damage to 0 for that single instance. If you take damage from multiple sources at once, such as a spike trap and a fireball contained in a glyph of warding, you must choose one source from among them to have its damage reduced.

Once you use this feature, you can't do so again until you finish a long rest. At 15th level, you can use this feature twice between long rests.

Combat Preparation

10th-level Bond of the Collector feature

By using your Always Prepared feature, you can now conjure magical bombs. As an action, you can throw a conjured bomb up to 60 feet, causing it to detonate on impact.

Each bomb has its own gp value and detonation effect, as shown in the Magical Bombs table. You can only have one magical bomb conjured at a time.

Magical Bombs

Bomb	Value	Detonation Effect
Black Dragon	30 gp	Each creature in a 10-foot-radius sphere centered on the detonation point must make a Dexterity saving throw against your spell save DC, taking 8d8 acid damage on a failed save or half as much on a success.
Myst	10 gp	Nonmagical flames in a 30-foot-radius sphere centered on the detonation point are extinguished, and the area becomes heavily obscured for the next 10 minutes or until a wind of moderate or greater speed disperses the mist.
Tie-Down	20 gp	A 20-foot-radius, 90-foot-high cylinder of space centered on the detonation point becomes magically-charged. The ground within this zone is difficult terrain, and the flying speed (if any) of creatures there is reduced to 10 feet. The zone returns to normal after 1 minute.

Trivial Pursuit

15th-level Bond of the Collector feature

As an action, you can try to exhaust a creature that you can see within 20 feet of you, either with your gift or your nonstop blathering. That creature must succeed on a Constitution saving throw against your spell save DC or suffer three levels of exhaustion. This feature can't cause a creature to die of exhaustion, however.

At the end of each of its turns, the creature's exhaustion level is reduced by 1 if it is conscious and not within 20 feet of you. This reduction can occur up to three times per use of this feature, or until the creature returns to the exhaustion level it had beforehand.

Once you use this feature, you can't do so again until you finish a long rest.

Peerless Preparation

18th-level Bond of the Collector feature

Though you still might not entirely understand your gift, it nevertheless comes in handy. You can now use your bonus action to conjure items with your Always Prepared feature, and your gp limit is doubled for it.

A collector sizes up
the Spike with their
relic of power.

Bond of the Host

Some gifts reveal their true nature only after building up a bit of trust. They may have their own nefarious goals and moti-vations. Even if they aren't sentient, they pose a danger to the kanala and everyone around them. Hosts must be vigilant to keep the destructive impulses of their gift in check, lest they be consumed by them entirely.

Offensive Action

6th-level Bond of the Lionheart feature

You always find a way to strike. If you take an action other than the Attack action, you can make one weapon attack as a bonus action. You can activate the locus weapon form before making this attack as part of the same bonus action.

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

Lion's Courage

10th-level Bond of the Lionheart feature

The gift you hold makes you feel completely invincible. You are immune to being frightened, and when another creature attempts to frighten you, you instead regain 2d6 hit points as the mere thought of its futile attempt emboldens you.

Power Overwhelming

15th-level Bond of the Lionheart feature

You can use your bonus action to enter an empowered state and conduct the energy of your inner power all around you. When you do, each creature you choose within 5 feet of you must succeed on a Strength saving throw against your spell save DC or be pushed 5 away from you and knocked prone.

You remain in this state for 1 minute. During that time, your weapon attacks score a critical hit on a roll of 17–20.

After you use this feature, you must finish a long rest before you can use it again. At 18th level, you can use it twice between long rests.

Pride of the Willful

18th-level Bond of the Lionheart feature

You channel the ferocity of an apex predator with every strike. Your weapon attacks now score a critical hit on a roll of 19 or 20, and when you score a critical hit on a creature, it becomes frightened of you until the end of its next turn.

Bond of the Savant

For some kanalas, the close-combat abilities of a locus come second to its other uses, such as prying into the minds of other creatures. These savants tend to be book-smart, caut-ious, and always ready with a clever contingency plan.

Bond Spells

3rd-level Bond of the Savant feature

You gain bond spells at the kanala levels listed. You can cast each of your bond spells once at their lowest level without expending a spell slot or material components. Once you do, you can't do so again until you finish a long rest.

Bond of the Savant Spells

Kanala Level	Spells
3rd	find familiar, floating disk
5th	calm emotions, detect thoughts
9th	counterspell, dispel magic
13th	arcane eye, confusion
17th	modify memory, telepathic bond

Lionheart with
Latent Energy

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Ritual Casting

3rd-level Bond of the Savant feature

You can cast a kanala spell that you know as a ritual if that spell has the ritual tag.

Magical Aptitude

3rd-level Bond of the Savant feature

You gain a single 1st-level spell slot to use as you see fit. You can expend it to cast any spell of its level or lower from any spell list, and you regain it after finishing a long rest.

Casting a spell this way does not mean you know that spell. Your locus actually produces a magical effect that imitates the spell you wished to cast, even if you already know it.

The spell slot's level increases as you gain more levels in the kanala class: it becomes 2nd-level at 6th level, 3rd-level at 10th level, 4th-level at 15th level, and 5th-level at 18th level.

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Part of Me

6th-level Bond of the Vessel feature

Elevent

Prerequisite: 7th level, locus energy form

• Activation Time: 1 action
• Range: Self (15-foot cone)
• Somatic Requirement: One hand, which must be the same hand you used to activate the locus energy form this turn
• Duration: Instantaneous

You instantly release your stored energy in a cone in front of you, deactivating the locus energy form and forcing each cre-ature within range to succeed on a Dexterity saving throw or take 3d6 damage of the chosen type. This damage increases to 4d6 when you reach your 11th level in this class.

Flare

• Activation Time: 1 bonus action
• Range: 60 feet
• Somatic Requirement: One hand
• Duration: Until deactivated

Your locus begins to shed bright light in a 20-foot radius and dim light for an additional 20 feet. When you activate this form, or as a bonus action while it is active, you can send the light to a spot that you can see within range. You can recall the light back to your hand by using a bonus action, but it is automatically recalled when it exceeds the form's range.

Guise

Prerequisite: 7th level, Charisma 13 or higher

• Activation Time: 1 action
• Range: Self
• Somatic Requirement: One hand
• Duration: 1 minute

For the duration, you have advantage on all Charisma checks directed at one creature of your choice. When the form deact-ivates, the creature must make a Wisdom saving throw. If it succeeds, it realizes that you used magic to change its mood and becomes hostile toward you. A creature prone to violence might attack you. Another creature might seek retribution in other ways (at the GM’s discretion), depending on the nature of your interaction with it.

Leash

• Activation Time: 1 bonus action
• Range: 20 feet
• Somatic Requirement: One hand
• Duration: 1 minute

While this form is active, the target of any grapple attempt you make can be a creature within the form's range, but you must still obey the other restrictions of grappling. This means that unless you have another way to grapple, you must still use one attack from your Attack action to attempt a grapple. The hand that you use to grapple a creature this way must be the same hand that you used to activate this form.

If you target a creature that is not within arm's reach, a sizable leash reaches out to it. If you succeed in grappling the creature, the leash connects it to your arm while you are more than an arm's length away from it.

While grappling a creature this way, you can use your movement to move either the creature or yourself. Your speed is not halved when doing so. For example, with a speed of 30 feet, you could grapple a creature that is 20 feet away from you, move it 15 feet closer, then walk 15 feet away from it.

Creatures can attack the leash (AC 11 + your proficiency bonus), but all damage it takes is taken by you instead. The grapple ends if the target is ever outside of the form's range.

Locus Energy

• Activation Time: 1 bonus action
• Range: Self
• Somatic Requirement: One hand, which can be shared with another form that has a duration of "until deactivated"
• Duration: 1 round

You begin stockpiling energy of one the following damage types of your choice: acid, cold, fire, lightning, necrotic, or thunder. While this form is active, your weapon attacks deal an extra 1d4 damage of the chosen type on a hit.

If the weapon is a locus weapon, all bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing damage that it deals becomes damage of the chosen type until this form is deactivated.

The form deactivates at the beginning of your next turn unless you use your bonus action to keep it active.

Locus Weapon

• Activation Time: Special, see description
• Range: Self
• Somatic Requirement: One or two hands
• Duration: Instantaneous

When you take the Attack action on your turn, you can acti-vate this form and create a locus weapon in your empty hand. You can choose the form that this melee weapon takes each time you create it (see chapter 2 for some additional weapon options). You are proficient with it and can't be disarmed of it while you wield it. If you plan to engage in two-weapon fighting, you can create two locus weapons at once, assuming you have two empty hands to work with.

If you can make multiple attacks as part of the Attack action, you can freely change the form of your locus weapon or create a new one before each attack. At the end of your turn, all of your locus weapons retract back into your locus and disappear.

Your locus can assimilate a magic melee weapon and turn it into a locus weapon by accommodating the weapon over the course of 1 hour, which can be done during a short rest. The weapon must be within your grasp during this time. After 1 hour, the weapon melds with your locus and becomes a locus weapon for you, allowing you to choose it whenever you create a locus weapon. You can’t affect an artifact weapon in this way. If the weapon is sentient, you must gain its consent before accommodating it. Sentient locus weapons share your senses and converse telepathically with you. Accommodating a weapon this way does not automatically attune you to it.

You can have up to three accommodated weapons. If you attempt to accommodate a fourth magic weapon, you must reconstitute one of the other three. That weapon appears at your feet and ceases to be one of your locus weapons. If you die, your accommodated weapons reconstitute immediately.

Mend

• Activation Time: 1 action
• Range: Touch
• Somatic Requirement: Two hands
• Duration: Instantaneous

This form repairs one break or tear in an object you touch, such as a cracked window pane or a warped pan. As long as the break or tear is no larger than 1 foot in any dimension, you mend it, leaving no trace of the former damage.

This form can physically repair a magic item or construct, but the form can’t restore magic to such an object. It can also heal constructs in the same manner as the mending spell.

Metamorphosis

Prerequisite: 14th level

• Activation Time: 1 bonus action
• Range: Self
• Somatic Requirement: One hand
• Duration: Instantaneous

You gain the ability to cast the polymorph spell this turn, targeting yourself. If the spell is cast this way, you do not need to provide material components. You must still use your action and expend a spell slot to cast the spell, as normal.

You retain your Intelligence, Wisdom, and Charisma scores once you transform. You also retain all of your skill and saving throw proficiencies, in addition to gaining those of the chosen creature. If the creature has the same proficiency as you and the bonus in its stat block is higher than yours, use the creature’s bonus instead of yours.

Additionally, your transformation does not limit your ability to use your instantaneous locus forms.

Negate

Prerequisite: 14th level

• Activation Time: 1 reaction, which you take when you fail a saving throw
• Range: Self
• Somatic Requirement: One hand
• Duration: Instantaneous

Your locus tries to counteract the magical or physical force that is overwhelming you. You gain a bonus to the triggering saving throw equal to your spellcasting ability modifier.

Practice

• Activation Time: 1 action
• Range: Self
• Somatic Requirement: One hand
• Duration: Until deactivated

You change a minor aspect of your body. Choose one of the following effects each time you activate this form:

• Your locus takes on the visage of a creature you are familiar with, becoming akin to a hand puppet.
• You groom yourself without moving a finger. For example, you could smooth your hair or adjust your undergarments.
• You alter the appearance of your eyes, teeth, or both.
• Your locus layers thinly over your skin, allowing you to form scars, tattoos, or other markings on your body.
• You begin to emit a familiar scent of your choice.

Prolong

Prerequisite: 4th level

• Activation Time: Special, see description
• Range: Self
• Somatic Requirement: One hand
• Duration: Until the end of your next short or long rest

When you cast a spell of 5th-level or lower that has a duration of 1 minute or longer, you can activate this form as part of the casting process. If you do, the spell persists until this form is deactivated instead of until it reaches its maximum duration.

This form immediately deactivates if the spell ends early. If the spell must be maintained with concentration, the Const-itution saving throws you make to keep your concentration are made with disadvantage.

Retaliate

Prerequisite: 10th level

• Activation Time: 1 reaction, which you take when you are hit by an attack from a creature
• Range: 20 feet
• Somatic Requirement: One hand
• Duration: Instantaneous

Your locus seeks out the creature that harmed you, punishing the offender even if you can't see them yourself. The creature instantly takes necrotic damage equal to 1d10 + your spellca-sting ability modifier as long as it is within the form's range.

Ruse

Prerequisite: 14th level, Intelligence 13 or higher

• Activation Time: 1 reaction, which you take when a creature within 120 feet of you notices you for the first time
• Range: 120 feet
• Somatic Requirement: One hand
• Duration: 10 minutes

You quickly attempt to fool the creature's vision, making it think as though your existence was just a trick of the light.

The creature must make an Intelligence saving throw. If it fails, you and your held equipment are considered to be invisible to that creature for as long as this form is active. The form deactivates early if the target is ever outside of the form's range or if you harm it in any way.

Splitter

Prerequisite: 7th level, locus weapon form

• Activation Time: 1 bonus action
• Range: Self
• Somatic Requirement: Two hands
• Duration: Instantaneous

You create a special locus weapon with the finesse and two-handed properties. It deals 1d4 slashing damage on a hit and counts as magical for the purpose of overcoming resistance and immunity to nonmagical attacks and damage. As with all other locus weapons, it disappears at the end of your turn.

Each time you attack with this locus weapon, you can target up to two creatures that are both within 5 feet of you. You make a separate attack roll for each target.

Track

Prerequisite: 4th level

• Activation Time: 1 reaction, which you take when a creature that you can see attempts to move behind cover, burrow underground, turn invisible, or enter the ethereal plane
• Range: 90 feet
• Somatic Requirement: One hand
• Duration: 10 minutes

You send a tiny part of your locus to a creature that is attempting to break line of sight with you. Make a ranged spell attack against the target. On a hit, the creature takes 1d4 necrotic damage, and you know its location as long as it remains within range. While this form is active, you can use your bonus action to instantly deal 1d4 necrotic damage to the creature again. The form deactivates early if the creature dies or is ever outside of the form's range.

Alternatively, you can use your action to touch a willing creature and apply the tracking effect of this form to it without making an attack or dealing damage.

Trip

• Activation Time: 1 reaction, which you take when a creature that you can see moves out of your reach
• Range: Touch
• Somatic Requirement: Two hands
• Duration: Instantaneous

Your locus grasps at the creature's limbs, forcing it to make a Strength saving throw. If it fails, the creature takes 1d12 necrotic damage and is knocked prone.

Weave

Prerequisite: 7th level

• Activation Time: 1 bonus action
• Range: Self
• Somatic Requirement: One hand
• Duration: Instantaneous

Until the end of your turn, you can move through the space of any creature, regardless of its size, without treating occupied spaces as difficult terrain. Additionally, your movement does not provoke opportunity attacks for the rest of the turn.

As normal, you can't willingly end your turn in another creature's space.