Contract Holders

Spirit blades gain their power through the contracts they sign with entities who are far more powerful than they are. With each contract they sign comes a wave of different powers. Each spirit has something different to offer a spirit blade, and they must think carefully as to who they choose to make their contracts with. Little is the chance for a change in the future after making a contract with such entities. Unless both parties choose to end their obligations early, or the death of one or both of them happens.

Intertwined Fates

Both the spirit blade and the spirit they make a contract with are bound together by magic that intertwines their very beings. It is due to this powerful binding magic that the spirit blade is able to become a conduit for the many spirits they come in contact with. A blade is the perfect conduit for the spirits they bind themselves to. Usually, when one makes a contract with a spirit they will always share a complicated fate and string of events that will change them forever.

Hit Points

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

Proficiencies

• Armor: light armor, medium armor, and shields
• Weapons: simple weapons, martial weapons
• Tools: Calligrapher's supplies

• Saving Throws: Constitution, Charisma
• Skills: Choose two from: Arcana, Deception, History, Intimidation, Investigation, Persuasion, and Stealth.

Equipment

You start with the following equipment:

• (a) two shortswords or (b) one martial weapon and a shield
• (a) two daggers or (b) any simple melee weapons
• (a) leather armor or (b) scale mail
• (a) a scholar's pack or (b) an explorer's pack

Quick Build

You can make a Spirit Blade quickly by using these suggestions First, make Dexterity your highest ability score followed by your Charisma. Second, choose the Acolyte background. Third, choose the Traveler as your Spirit Bond.

The Anchor

The spirit keeps your very soul within the realm of the living. Whenever you would make a death saving throw you gain a bonus to your roll equal to your charisma modifier. If you succeed all three of your death saving throws you hop back to consciousness with one hit point instead of becoming stable.

The Guide

The spirit heralds you to provide your aid to those around you. When you take the help action to aid in a skill check you have a range of 10 feet, the creature you help gains a bonus to their roll equal to half you charisma modifier rounded down.

The Traveler

The spirit enhances your sense of wander and freedom as you traverse the world. You ignore the effects of difficult terrains from natural hazards from sources such as those of the forests, swamps, mountains, snow and the underground. And, you may add a bonus to your Wisdom (Survival) checks equal to your charisma modifier when navigating those environments.

The Warrior

The spirits enhance your physical prowess when you exert yourself. Whenever you would make a Strength (Athletics) check to grapple or shove, you can add a bonus to the roll equal to your Charisma modifier.

The Watcher

The spirits keep you company through the late hours of the night. You no longer require to sleep. You still gain the benefits of a long rest, you can spend the 8 hours doing light activity, such as reading or conversing with the spirits that gather around you. Additionally you can't be forced to sleep by any means.

Bonus Language

You learn one of the following: Celestial, Primordial, or Sylvan as a bonus language.

Spiritual Essence

You have 4 Spiritual Essence, and you gain more as you reach higher levels, as shown on the Spiritual Essence column of the Spirit Blade table. You regain all expended Spiritual Essence when you finish a long rest.

Spells Known of 2nd Level and Higher

You know two 1st-level spells of your choice from the Spirit Blade spell list. The Spells Known column of the Spirit Blade table shows when you learn more Spirit Blade spells of your choice. Each of these spells must be of a level which you can cast using spiritual essence. 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 Spirit Blade spells you know and replace it with another spell from the Spirit blade spell list, which also must be of a level for which you have spell slots.

Spiritual Essence Cost

The Spirit Blade Spiritual Essence Cost table shows how much spiritual essence you must expend to manipulate the spirits and cast spells of 1st level and higher. To cast one of these spells, you must expend a number of spiritual essence for the spell’s level or higher indicated in the table below. You regain all expended essence when you finish a long rest.

Essence Channeling Ability

Charisma is your essence channeling ability for your Spirit Blade spells. The root of your magic stems from the bonds you form with the spirits of the world around you. You use your Charisma whenever a Spirit Blade spell refers to your Essence Channeling ability. Additionally, you use your charisma modifier when setting the saving throw DC for your Spirit Blade spells that you cast and when making an attack roll with one.

Spirit Warrior

You learn two cantrips of your choice from the Warlock spell list. They count as Spirit Blade spells for you, and Charisma is your Essence Channeling ability for them. Whenever you gain a level in this class, you can replace one of these cantrips with another cantrip from the Warlock spell list.

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 or a simple or martial weapon.

Thrown Weapon Fighting

You can draw a weapon that has the thrown property as part of the attack you make with the weapon. In addition, when you hit with a ranged attack using a thrown weapon, you gain a +2 bonus to the damage roll.

Two-Weapon Expert

When you take the Attack action while engage in two-weapon fighting, you can make a single additional attack with your off-hand weapon as part of your action instead of your bonus action, adding your ability modifier to the damage of this attack.

You have a number of conduit charges as shown on the conduit charges column of the Spirit Blade table. You regain all your conduit charges when you finish a long rest.

Persistent Charges. Whenever you roll Initiative and have no more Conduit Charges left, you regain one of your charges.

Spiritual Strike. Whilst your spirit conduit is active, when you hit a creature, the additional damage you deal is now equal to two rolls of your spirit die.

True Bond. The bond with your Spirit Companion has reached its zenith. When you cast a Spirit Blade spell that targets yourself, your Spirit also gains the benefits as long as it is within 30 feet of you.

Multiclassing

Ability Score Minimum: Dexterity 13, Charisma 13

When you gain a level in a class other than your first, you gain only some of that class's starting proficiencies.

Armor: Light armor, medium armor

Weapons: Simple weapons, martial weapons

Tools: Calligrapher's supplies

The Wanderer

You've made a contract with the spirit of a lone traveling warrior, knight, samurai, or some other embodiment of martial prowess. They have imparted some of their knowledge and training. Whether it was to see their techniques be passed on through you, or to meet others in battle once again, they now travel along with you across the realms.

After you assume your avatar of battle you can't do so again until you finish a long rest.

Spirit of Trickery

3rd level Trickster feature
The trickster looks to cause mayhem and trickery wherever they go. When you activate your spirit conduit feature you gain the following benefits:

• You become semitranslucent, creatures have disadvantage on Wisdom (perception) checks to perceive you.
• You can change your spirit die damage to be psychic
• Once on each of your turns, one of your attacks with a weapon can cause you to turn invisible until the start of your next turn or until you attack, make a damage roll, or force someone to make a saving throw. At the end of your turn you may make a Dexterity (stealth) check to remain hidden. You get a bonus to your roll equal to your Charisma modifier.

Sly Companion

3rd level Trickster feature
You can conjure a fragment of the trickster's spirit you've made a contract with. As an action, you can expend a conduit charge to summon your trickster spirit. The spirit appears in an unoccupied space of your choice that you can see within 30 feet of you. The spirit is friendly to you and your companions and obeys your commands.
See this creature's game statistics in the Trickster Spirit stat block, which uses your proficiency bonus (PB) in several places. You determine the spirit's appearance.
In combat, the spirit shares your initiative count, but it takes its turn immediately after yours. It can move and use its reaction on its own, but the only action it takes is the Dodge action, unless you take a bonus action on your turn to command it to take another action. That action can be one in its stat block or some other action.

Spirit of Travel

3rd level Pathfinder feature
The Pathfinder looks to see and travel the world, and learn new things as they do. When you activate your spirit conduit feature you gain the following benefits:

• As long as you're not incapacitated creatures have disadvantage on attacks of opportunity against you.
• You can change your spirit die damage to be thunder.
• When a creature would grapple or incapacitate you, you may use your reaction to end the effect, and if the creature that caused that effect is within 10 feet of you, you may make an a melee weapon attack against them as part of that reaction. Additionally, if the attack hits, the creature must make a Constitution saving throw or they may only take an action, or move on their next turn.

Traveling Companion

3rd level Pathfinder feature
You can conjure a fragment of the pathfinder's spirit you've made a contract with. As an action, you can expend a conduit charge to summon your pathfinder spirit. The spirit appears in an unoccupied space of your choice that you can see within 30 feet of you. The spirit is friendly to you and your companions and obeys your commands.
See this creature's game statistics in the Pathfinder Spirit stat block, which uses your proficiency bonus (PB) in several places. You determine the spirit's appearance.
In combat, the spirit shares your initiative count, but it takes its turn immediately after yours. It can move and use its reaction on its own, but the only action it takes is the Dodge action, unless you take a bonus action on your turn to command it to take another action. That action can be one in its stat block or some other action. You can also sacrifice one of your attacks when you take the Attack action to command the spirit to take the Attack action. If you are incapacitated, the spirit can take any action of its choice, not just Dodge.
If the spirit has died within the last hour, you can use your action to touch it and expend 3 spiritual essence. The spirit returns to life after 1 minute with all its hit points restored.

Voyager Spirit

7th level Pathfinder feature
Your connection to the pathfinder spirit deepens as you channel their energy. Choose one of the following benefits to give the pathfinder spirit when you gain this feature (you gain an additional benefit at 15th, and 20th level):

• Amorphous Body. The spirit can move through a space as narrow as 1 inch wide without squeezing.
• Boundless Movement. The spirit gains a swimming and climbing speed equal to its walking speed. Additionally it can breath underwater.
• Pathfinder's Refuge. The spirit can create a safe space for them and their traveling companions. The spirit can cast Tiny Hut once per long rest. Additionally, you may spend 5 spiritual essence to allow it to cast it again.
• Earth and Sky (15th level). The pathfider spirit gains a flying speed equal to its movement speed and a burrow speed equal to 5 feet.
• Expeditious Escape (15th level). As a reaction to when a creature ends their movement within 5 feet of the spirit, it can move up to half of it's speed away from the triggering creature. the spirit can do so a number of times equal to your charisma modifier per long rest.

After you assume your avatar of pathfinders you can't do so again until you finish a long rest.

Spirit of Healing

3rd level Seraph feature
The Seraph looks to heal and soothe the pain of those they come across. When you activate your spirit conduit feature you gain the following benefits:

• You gain resistance to radiant or necrotic damage (you choose when you use your spirit conduit feature).
• You can change your spirit die damage to be radiant.
• Once on each of your turns, one of your weapon attacks can cause some of the seraph's power to splinter and target a creature within 30 feet of you. The target gains temporary hit points equal to the roll of your extra spirit conduit damage. The temporary hit points last for the duration of your spirit conduit, and while a creature has these temporary hit points they gain a bonus to Wisdom saving throws equal to your charisma modifier.

Celestial Companion

3rd level Seraph feature
You can conjure a fragment of the Seraph's spirit you've made a contract with. As an action, you can expend a conduit charge to summon your Seraph spirit. The spirit appears in an unoccupied space of your choice that you can see within 30 feet of you. The spirit is friendly to you and your companions and obeys your commands.
See this creature's game statistics in the Seraph Spirit stat block, which uses your proficiency bonus (PB) in several places. You determine the spirit's appearance.
In combat, the spirit shares your initiative count, but it takes its turn immediately after yours. It can move and use its reaction on its own, but the only action it takes is the Dodge action, unless you take a bonus action on your turn to command it to take another action. That action can be one in its stat block or some other action. You can also sacrifice one of your attacks when you take the Attack action to command the spirit to take the Attack action. If you are incapacitated, the spirit can take any action of its choice, not just Dodge.
If the spirit has died within the last hour, you can use your action to touch it and expend 3 spiritual essence. The spirit returns to life after 1 minute with all its hit points restored.

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Seraph Spirit

Medium Celestial, Unaligned

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• Armor Class 12 + PB (natural armor)
• Hit Points 5 + five times your spirit blade level (the spirit has a number of Hit Dice [d8s] equal to your spirit blade level)
• Speed 30 ft

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STR	DEX	CON	INT	WIS	CHA
14 (+2)	14 (+2)	12 (+1)	10 (+0)	13 (+1)	15 (+2)

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• Condition Immunities Charmed, frightened

• Senses darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 12

• Languages understands the languages you speak

• Proficiency Bonus equals your bonus

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Contractual Bond. You can add your proficiency bonus to any ability check or saving throw that the spirit makes.

Actions

Radiant Arrow. Ranged Spell Attack: your spell attack modifier to hit, reach 60 ft., one target. Hit: spirit die + 2 + PB Radiant damage.

Healing Helix You can expend a conduit charge to allow the spirit to create an area of radiant light in a 10 foot radius sphere centered at a point within 30 feet that you can see. Creatures of your choice within the light must make a Constitution saving throw against your spell save DC or take radiant damage equal to twice your extra spiritual die damage. Additionally, one creature within the light regains hit points equal to your extra spiritual die damage.

After you assume your avatar of the heavens you can't do so again until you finish a long rest.

After you assume your avatar of the Ravens you can't do so again until you finish a long rest.

Spirit of Want

3rd level Accursed feature
The accursed spirit heavily seeks what they truly desire, they will empower and protect the spirit blade in order to do so. When you activate your spirit conduit feature you gain the following benefits:

• When you take damage you can use your reaction to allow your accursed spirit to move up to their speed towards a creature and make an attack against a target within range.
• You can change your spirit die damage to be cold
• You can use your Charisma modifier, instead of Strength or Dexterity, for weapon attacks and damage rolls.

Attached Companion

3rd level Accursed feature
You can conjure a fragment of the Accursed spirit you've made a contract with. As an action, you can expend a conduit charge to summon your Accursed spirit. The spirit appears in an unoccupied space of your choice that you can see within 30 feet of you. The spirit is friendly to you and your companions and obeys your commands.
See this creature's game statistics in the Accursed Spirit stat block, which uses your proficiency bonus (PB) in several places. You determine the spirit's appearance.
In combat, the spirit shares your initiative count, but it takes its turn immediately after yours. It can move and use its reaction on its own, but the only action it takes is the Dodge action, unless you take a bonus action on your turn to command it to take another action. That action can be one in its stat block or some other action. You can also sacrifice one of your attacks when you take the Attack action to command the spirit to take the Attack action. If you are incapacitated, the spirit can take any action of its choice, not just Dodge.
If the spirit has died within the last hour, you can use your action to touch it and expend 3 spiritual essence. The spirit returns to life after 1 minute with all its hit points restored.

Lingering Spirit

7th level Accursed feature
Your connection to the Accursed spirit deepens as you channel their desires. Choose one of the following benefits to give the Accursed spirit when you gain this feature (you gain an additional benefit at 15th, and 20th level):

• Tough Hide. The spirit's AC increases by an amount equal to half your Charisma modifier rounded down.
• Brutal Finisher. When the spirit scores a critical hit it deals an additional amount of damage equal to half your level rounded down.
• Glancing Blow. Once on each of the spirits turns, when it misses with an attack, it can use it's reaction to force the target to make a Strength save or be knocked prone.

After you assume your avatar of the Accursed you can't do so again until you finish a long rest.

Talk with your Spirit

All the spirit companions do not actually know a language, they just understand the languages you speak as they are a fragment of the spirit you made a contract with that you manifest. However, should you find it more fun or thematic for the companion to be able to speak to you feel free to make that quick change as if the spirit you made a contract with was inhabiting the companion while they are summoned.

Spirit Sense

2nd level divination

• Casting Time: 1 action
• Range: Touch (a creature you've made a contract with)
• Components: V, S
• Duration: Concentration, up to 1 hour

You touch a willing creature, and establish a link between you and them. For the duration your senses are transfered to them. While within the creature you see and feel through them as if you were in your own body. As an action you can assume control of the creature and using their statistics, but you use your mental scores rather than theirs (Intelligence, Wisdom, and Charisma). you gain the benefits of any special senses possessed by that creature, though you are blinded and deafened to your own surroundings.

Transposing Strike

3rd level conjuration

• Casting Time: 1 action
• Range: 30 feet
• Components: V, S
• Duration: Instantaneous

you can choose two willing creatures you can see within range and teleport them, swapping places with each other. If you or your spirit are the target of this spell you may make a weapon attack after you teleport at a creature within your weapon's reach. On hit, your weapon deals an additional 1d8 force damage.

Dream Warden

4th level abjuration

• Casting Time: 1 minute
• Range: touch
• Components: V, S, M (a bit of sand, and sheep wool)
• Duration: 8 hours

You touch a creature and grant them a protective ward from those who would invade your dreams. Creatures that don't sleep, such as elves, can't be targeted by this spell.

for the duration, any creature who would attempt to invade your dreams or contact your through them. Such as with the Dream spell, or other similar means is blocked from doing so unless you allow them into your dream. Whilst they are within your dream you can banish them from it at any moment (no action required). Additionally, for the duration of the spell creatures can't read your thoughts or communicate telepathically with you unless you allow it.

Spiritual Vortex

5th level necromancy

• Casting Time: 1 action
• Range: 120 feet
• Components: V, S
• Duration: Instantaneous

You conjure a vortex of spiritual beings as they violently flutter in a 30-foot-radius, 60-foot-high cylinder centered on a point within range

Each creature you choose within the radius of the whirlwind must make a Constitution saving throw or take 5d6 necrotic and 5d6 cold damage on a failure and they can't regain hit points until the start of your next turn, or half as much damage and suffer no other effects.

Boundless Steps I

Prerequisite: Traveler Spirit Bond
Your long jump is up to 25 feet and your high jump is up to 15 feet, with or without a running start.

Boundless Steps II

Prerequisite: 3rd level Spirit Blade, Boundless Steps I
Creature's traveling with you ignore difficult terrain and may keep up a forced march for an additional amount of hours equal to your charisma modifier before needing to make a constitution saving throw to avoid exhaustion.

Boundless Steps III

Prerequisite: 6th level Spirit Blade, Boundless Steps II
Your steps are lighter and weightless, you can't trigger traps that would be triggered by you stepping on them. Additionally you gain proficiency in land and water vehicles as not even the seas and roads may stop your travel or deter you from reaching your destinations.

Contract of Senses

Prerequisite: 3rd level Spirit Blade,
You and another willing creature can enter into a contractual bond that you write with your calligrapher's supplies over a short or long rest. Until either party who signs the contract decides to end it. Either creature may speak through each other so long as you are within 120 feet of each other. Moreover, either party may use their action to see through each other's eyes. You may have only one such contract at a time.

Contract of Sacrifice

Prerequisite: 6th level Spirit Blade
You and another willing creature can enter into a contractual bond that you write with your calligrapher's supplies over a short or long rest. Until either party who signs the contract decides to end it. Whenever a creature in the contract takes damage, the other creature may use their reaction to spend on Hit Die to heal the damaged creature. Roll the die, add your Charisma modifier (minimum of 1), and that creature regains a number of hit points equal to the total. You may have only one such contract at a time.

Contract of Knowledge

You and another willing creature can enter into a contractual bond that you write with your calligrapher's supplies over a short or long rest. Until either party who signs the contract decides to end it. Until the contract in broken you and the other creature can exchange one of your skill proficiencies with each other. While you exchange skill proficiencies this way, you lose proficiency in the skill you let the other creature borrow, as you gain proficiency in the skill given to you. This applies to the other creature as well. You may have only one such contract at a time.

Contract of Protection

Prerequisite: 15th level Spirit Blade
You and a number of willing creatures equal to your charisma modifier enter into a contractual bond that you write with your calligrapher's supplies over a short or long rest. Until a creature who signs the contract decides to end it. As long as the creatures in the contract are within 60 feet of each other, whenever they would roll a saving throw they may use the saving throw of a creature under the contract instead of their own. You may have only one such contract at a time.

Contract of Obligation

Prerequisite: 12th level Spirit Blade
You bind a creature into a contractual bond that you write with your calligrapher's supplies over a short or long rest. Until you choose to end the contract or the creature accomplished their obligation. You may have only one such contract at a time. You choose a course of actions that the creature who signed the contract must take you can choose any course of action that a creature could realistically complete within an amount of days equal to your level in this class, short of an activity that would result in certain death. Should you write a suicidal contract, the contract has no effect. A creature does their best to pursue the course of actions you write to the best of its ability. Once they fulfill their obligation the contract ends.

Contract of Lesser Summoning

Prerequisite: 3rd level Spirit Blade
You enter into a contract with various small spirits within your realm. You learn the Flock of Familiars^LLK spell. It counts as a spirit blade spell for you, but it doesn't count against the number of spirit blade spells you know.

Contract of Greater Summoning

Prerequisite: 17th level Spirit Blade
You enter into a contract with a strong spirit you can call for. You can cast one of the following spells: Summon Fey, Summon Shadowspawn, Summon Undead, Summon Aberration, Summon Elemental, or Summon Celestial. Once summoned this way, you can't summon them again until after you finish a long rest.

Eyes of Karkos I

Prerequisite: Watcher Spirit Bond
You gain darkvision out to a range of 60 feet, if you already have darkvision your range is extended by 30 feet otherwise. Additionally you learn to read two languages of your choice.

Eyes of Karkos II

Prerequisite: 3rd level Spirit Blade, Eyes of Karkos I
Your darkvision is extended by an additional 30 feet. Additionally, once per day you can see invisible creatures and objects for 10 minutes

Eyes of Karkos III

Prerequisite: 6th level Spirit Blade, Eyes of Karkos II
You are immune to being blinded, and you can see a faint colorful aura around one of the following creatures of your choice: Aberration, Celestial, Dragon, Elemental, Fey, Fiend, or Undead when they are within your darkvision range. You may change and choose a different creature every time you gain a level in this class

V0.5

• Formating changes for the levels on the base class abilities, and general formatting .
• Spirit companions shouldn't refer to a beast anymore.
• Spirit Conduit now specifies that your AC bonus is rounded down.
• Guiding Soul III now specifies the number of creatures you select is rounded down.
• The Guide's bonus to skill checks is now equal to half your charisma modifier rounded down.
• Duplicitous Step now specifies that harming the charmed creature also ends the effect.
• Relentless Spirit no longer affects skill checks, this has been changed to attack rolls instead.
• Relentless Spirit no longer regains conduit charges in a short rest, it now regains a number of spiritual essence equal to your level.
• Added The Raven Spiritual Contract, a bond with a spirit of death and passing.

V1.0

• Added introduction page with some lore about the class
• Added The Accursed Spiritual Contract: Bind yourself to a spirit who wants nothing more than to achieve its desires.
• Added new 18th level benefit: See "True Bond".
• Removed Restorative Spirit as part of the 18th level benefits.
• Added Primordial as an option for the extra language at level 1.
• Removed Infernal as an option for the extra language at level 1.
• Added the following Spiritual Techniques: Contract of Greater Summoning, Eyes of the Veil, Spirit Speech, Soulsmith, Token of the Spirits, Spirit Curse: Haunt, Spirit Curse: Vex
• Eyes of Karkos III now correctly shows prerequisite as 6th level Spirit blade.
• Added the following spells to the Spirit Blade spell list: Bane, Bestow Curse, Illusory Script, Healing Spirit, Warding Bond, and Spirit Guardians.
• Spiritual convergence's cost is now 5 spiritual essence instead of 2.
• Warrior's charge prerequisite is now 3rd level Spirit Blade instead of 6th level and requiring the warrior spirit bond. Renamed to Trampling Charge.