Occultists

Seekers of Knowledge

Occultists uncover old rites and rituals to pursue some sort of esoteric goal. That might mean that they are trying to find ways to become something different. Many occultists find themselves uncovering ways of transforming themselves leading them to pursue vampirism, or lycanthropy. Others might use their knowledge of the occult to hunt those beasts and monstrosities to rid the world of their kind. Whatever the goal, Occultists always find a way to gain the knowledge they require

Ritualists

Occultists have at their disposal an arsenal of rituals they have discovered through their studies, and they keep within a special tome. They find versatile and unique rituals to perform alongside participants who might be willing. Uncover truths, aid your allies, bolster your defenses, and add more rituals to your tome as they grow in power.

Cursed Bearers

When an Occultist finds a pursuit they wish to follow there is no path they are not willing to walk. they will take on any curse that will help them become or learn what they want. Some may think them to be evil, and some may very well be that way, but most Occultists trend towards keeping their knowledge to themselves, and only use it when it's required.

Creating an Occultist

When creating an Occultist consider the nature of your studies, and what drove you to seek your pursuit. Was your family killed by a vampire or their spawn and drove you to become the very thing that hurt you to kill them? Did you have a fascination with lycanthropy and want to take on the curse to join or lead your pack? Did you witness atrocities done by all manner of beasts and monsters and have devoted yourself to hunting them down? Regardless of the catalyst that set your path, you now gather rites and rituals to aid your choice.

"Curse here, Curse there. Curse for he and she, why care? A bottomless curse, a bottomless sea, source of all greatness, all things that be. Listen for the baneful chants. Weep with them, as one in trance. And weep with us, oh, weep with us..."

Hit Points

• Hit Dice: 1d8 per Occultist level
• Hit Points at 1st Level: 8 + Constitution
• Hit Points at Higher Levels: 1d8 (or 5) + your Constitution modifier per Occultist level after 1st

Proficiencies

• Armor: light armor, medium armor, shields
• Weapons: simple weapons, martial weapons
• Tools: none

• Saving Throws: Wisdom, Intelligence
• Skills: Choose three from: Arcana, History, Insight, Investigation, Medicine, Nature, Religion, and Survival

Equipment

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

• (a) scale mail or (b) leather armor
• (a) a martial weapon and a shield or (b) two simple weapons
• (a) a shortbow and quiver of 20 arrows or (b) 5 javelins
• (a) a scholar's pack or (b) an explorer's pack
• Tome of Rituals

Esoteric Ritual

At 1st level you learn two Esoteric Rituals that represent some of the studies you have undertaken as you dabble into occult knowledge Each time you gain a level in this class you can learn one additional Esoteric Ritual to add to your Tome of Rituals.
You might find other rituals to add to your Tome of Rituals during your adventures. Perhaps you've found another occultist's tome, or a ritual scroll. When such an oppurtunity presents itself you can copy over the rituals of a level in which you can perform into your own tome.
When you find a ritual of 1st level or higher, you can add it to your tome of rituals by spending 1 hour and 25 gp per the level of the ritual you wish to copy over. When you copy over a ritual from a ritual scroll, you must succeed on a skill check using the related ritual skill with a DC equal to 10 + the ritual's level. If the check succeeds the ritual is copied over into your tome. The scroll is destroyed during this process regardless if you succeed or fail.

Fighting Style

Also at 1st level, you adopt a particular style of fighting as your specialty. Choose one of the following options. You can't take the same Fighting Style option more than once, even if you get to choose again.

Student of the hunt

2nd level Hunting feature You gain proficiency in the acrobatics, and survival skills. Additionally when you use your Examine Foe on an Aberration, or Monstrosity you learn four types of information instead of two.

Slayer's Mark

2nd level Hunting feauture
Your hunt has begun, there are beasts that need slaying. You can use a bonus action to mark a creature you can see as your quarry, this mark provides you mystical abilities for 10 minutes, until you slay the target, or you mark another creature with this ability:

• Once per turn, you can deal an extra 1d6 damage to the marked creature. The damage increases by 1d6 when you reach 4th level (2d6), 6th level (3d6), 10th level (4d6), 14th level (4d6), and 20th level (5d6) in this class.
• You have advantage on Wisdom (Perception) and Wisdom (Survival) checks you make to spot or track the target.

You can use your mark a number of times equal to your proficiency bonus, and you regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest. Additionally, you may spend 2 focus to use this feature again when you have no uses left.

Strange Instincts

6th level Hunting feature
Your hunting instincts improve your ability in battle. Additionally, you can now dash and disengage as a bonus action. Your Slayer's Mark gains the following benefits:

• You can target two creatures with your mark
• On your following turn after the subject of your mark damages you, the first attack you make against your mark allows you to regain a number of hit points equal to half the damage you deal to the target.
• Your attacks against your mark score a critical hit on a roll of 19 or 20.

The Good Hunt

10th level Hunting feature
Over a long rest you prepare for your hunt. You are able to prepare a number of special vials of healing potions that you can drink as a bonus action. They heal you for 1d10 + your level in this class. You prepare a number of potions equal to your Intelligence modifier. You may prepare additional potions by expending 2 focus per vial. The vials lose their potency after 8 hours.
If a creature other than you consumes one of these potions they regain 1d10 hit points + half your level in this class rounded down.

Hunter's Advance

14th level Hunting feature
Your prey can't escape you, as you are relentless in their execution. Once on a turn, after you take the dash action you may make a weapon attack at a creature within range as part of the same action. Additionally, your Slayer's Mark gains the following benefits:

• Your attacks against your mark cannot suffer from disadvantage as long as you're within 30 feet of the target.
• You can deal your Slayer's Mark extra damge a second time in the same turn, but you must target a different target for each attack.

Inheritor of the Hunt

20th level Hunting feature
You've reached the apex of the hunt. Abominations cower before your blade and you stand stall against them. Your Slayer's Mark gain the following benefits:

• Your attacks against your mark score a critical on a roll of 18 to 20.
• The mystical power of your Slayer's Mark worms itself into the essence of the creatures you target. As an action, you can expend 5 focus to violently end the mark on one creature. The target must make a Constitution saving throw. On a failure, the target takes the maximum amount of damage from your Slayer's Mark + your level in this class. A creature below 100 hit point when they fail the safe is reduced to 0 hit points instead. On a success, they take half the damage and suffer no other effects.

Student of Shapechangers

2nd level Lycanthropy feature
You gain proficiency in either athletics or acrobatics skills, and proficiency in the perception skill. Additionally when you use your Examine Foe on a Beast, or Shapechanger you learn four types of information instead of two.

Hybrid Form

2nd level Lycanthropy feature
As you begin your pursuit for lycanthropy, your first decision is to choose which path you must travel down as there are many kinds of lycanthropes. As you take their curse within you through rituals and rites you've uncovered.
You can channel the curse as a bonus action to shift into a hybrid form for 10 minutes which gives you the following benefits while you are in that form:

• You have resistance to bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing damage from attacks that aren't silvered
• While you are not wearing any armor, your Armor Class equals 10 + your Dexterity modifier + your Constitution modifier. You can use a shield and still gain this benefit.

Additionally, you gain a special benefit depending on the type of Lycanthrope you become, which you choose when you gain this feature:
Werebear. When you take damage, you can use your reaction to roll a d10. Add your Constitution modifier to the number rolled and reduce the damage by that total.
Wererat. When a creature misses you with an attack within 20 feet of you, you can use your reaction to move to an unoccupied space within 5 feet of them and make a melee weapon attack against the creature.
Wereraven. You can accurately mimic sounds you have heard before, including voices. A creature that hears the sounds you make can tell they are imitations only with a successful Wisdom (Insight) check against you focus DC. Additionally, creatures have disadvantage on opportunity attack rolls against you.
Weretiger. If you move 10 feet towards a creature and then hit it with a weapon attack on the same turn, that target must succeed on a Strength saving throw or be knocked prone. If the target is knocked prone you can make one additional weapon attack against it as a bonus action.
Werewolf. As a bonus action, you can let out an ear piercing howl. Creatures of your choice within 30 feet of you that can hear you must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw or become incapacitated until the end of your next turn.

You can use your Lycan action a number of times equal to your Intelligence modifier if the form you choose has one.

You can transform an amount of times equal to your proficiency bonus, and regain all expended uses after you finish a long rest. Additionally, you may spend 2 focus to use this feature again when you have no uses left.

Moon Touched

6th level Lycanthrope feature
Your hybrid form is empowered as you find your curse grow stronger within you. It gains the following benefits:

• You gain a +1 bonus to AC while you aren't wearing armor. This bonus increases at 14th level (+2), and at 20th level (+3) in this class. You can use a shield and still gain this benefit.
• Once on a turn, when you hit a creature with half or less of its hit points your attack deals an additional amount of damage equal to 1d6 + half your Occultist level.

The Midnight Hunt

10th level Lycanthrope feature
Over a long rest you can choose a number of creatures equal to your intelligence modifier to become part of your pack. While they are in your pack they gain the following benefits:

• Immediately after you take the Dash action, one creature in your pack within 60 feet of you can use its reaction to move up to its speed.
• When you roll initiative you and creatures of your pack gain temporary hit points equal to your level. While you are in your Hybrid Form, as a bonus action you can expend 2 focus to give a creature in your pack these temporary hit points again.

Beast Shapes

14th level Lycanthrope feature
You can now Wildshape into one of the following beasts depending on the Lycanthrope you are:
Werebear. Brown Bear, Cave Bear, Polar Bear.
Wererat. Rat, Giant Rat
Wereraven. Raven, Giant Raven
Weretiger. Cat, Tiger, Saber Toothed Tiger
Werewolf. Dire Wolf. Wolf, Wild Dog

When you Wildshape into your beast form your new form has a number of temporary hit points equal to half your total hit points. You can Wildshape this way once per long rest. You can stay in your beast shapes for a number of hours equal to half your Occultist level. Alternatively, you may expend 2 focus to Wildshape again.

Moonborn

20th level Lycanthrope feature
You've reached the apex of your Lycanthropy. Your transformation ends only when you choose to end it or you die. It gains the following benefits:

• You have immunity to bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing from nonmagical attacks that aren't silvered
• When you take the attack action you can make a special third attack, if this attack hits make another attack roll at a -2 penalty to your roll, than if that attack hits make another attack with a cumulative -2 (-4). You can repeat these attacks until you miss. Additionally, You gain a number of temporary hit points equal to the target's number of Hit Dice if they reach 0 from this attack. Once you use this attack you can't do so again until you take a long rest, or expend 5 focust to do so again.

Necromancer Magic

2nd level Necromancer feature
You gain access to a small pool of spells fueled by your focus and Intelligence is your spellcasting ability modifier for them. You learn the Toll the Dead^XGE cantrip.
You also learn an additional spell of 1st level or higher when you reach certain levels in this class, as shown in the Necromancer Spells table.

Student of Undeath

2nd level Necromancer feature
You gain proficiency in the Arcana and Medicine skills. Additionally when you use your Examine Foe on an Undead you learn four types of information instead of two.

Undead Sentinels

2nd level Necromancer feature
As an action you conjure a small group of undead sentinels to your side to aid you in battle for 1 hour. These undead creatures are represented by a number of hit points equal to twice your Occultist level + your Intelligence modifier. Whenever you take damage, the undead sentinels take the damage instead. If this damage reduces the sentinels to 0 hit points, you take any remaining damage.
While the undead sentinels are around you gain the following benefits:
Necrobolt. As a bonus action one of your undead sentinels hurls a bolt of necrotic energy at a creature within 120 feet of you. You make a ranged attack, On a hit, the attack deals necrotic damage equal to 1d8 + your Intelligence modifier.
Undead Grasp. The undead sentinels defend an area within 15 feet of you. When a creature enters that area for the first time on a turn or starts its turn inside, you can use your reaction to force that creature to make a Strength saving throw or become restrained on a failure. A creature restrained this way can repeat this safe at the end of their turn breaking free on a success.

You can call on your undead sentinels a number of times equal to your proficiency bonus, and regain all expended uses after you finish a long rest. Additionally, you may spend 2 focus to use this feature again when you have no uses left.

Deathly Strikes

6th level Necromancer feature
Your attacks are fueled by undeath. When you hit a creature with an attack, you can expend 1 to 5 focus, and the target makes a Constitution saving throw. On a failure, they take 1d6 necrotic damage per focus spent, and you or your undead sentinels heal an amount of hit points equal to half of the damage rolled. On a success the target takes half as much damage and no hit points are gained.

Supplies of the trade

10th level Necromancer feature
You can empower your undead sentinels by providing materials that are used in their ritual. The sentinels gain a benefit depending on the materials you use:
Corpse. When the hit points of your undead sentinels reaches 0. You can make an Intelligence saving throw with a DC of 5 + the damage taken, unless the damage is radiant or from a critical hit. On a success, the sentinels drops to 1 hit point instead.
Skeleton. A creature restrained by your undead grasp takes 1d6 bludgeoning damage when they fail the saving throw and again at the end of each of their turns while they are restrained. Additionally, they cannot restore hit points until the start of the next turn when they take this damage.

The corpse or skeleton used as part of summoning your undead sentinels must be of a small or larger creature to have an effect.

Undead General

14th level Necromancer feature
You gain resistance to necrotic damage, and your undead sentinels become immune to necrotic damage. Additionally, when you summon your undead sentinels you can choose one of the following options to enhance them:
Deathlocks. Creatures of your choice within 5 feet of the target hit by your necrobolts must make a Dexterity saving throw or take necrotic damage equal to your intelligence modifier on a failure. On a success they take no damage.
Field of the Dead. The area your undead grasps covers increases to 60 feet. And you can target a number of creatures equal to your Intelligence modifer when you take your reaction to restrain them.

Proto Phylactery

20th level Necromancer feature
You have tethered your mortal soul to an object of great significance. Over a long rest you can set a tiny object worth at least 1000 gp to become your phylactery. While you and the phylactery are in the same realm of existence you gain the following benefits:

• You become proficient in constitution saving throws
• You are immune to poison damage & poisoned condition
• undead creatures you create have an additional amount of hit points equal to twice your level
• You can cast create undead and finger of death once per long rest.

If you die while your phylactery is in the same plane of existence your soul instead travels to the phylactery's location where your body reforms in 1d4 days. After you have died this way you can't reform again for 7 days.

Student of Blood

2nd level Vampirism feature
You gain proficiency in the Deception and Stealth skills. Additionally when you use your Examine Foe on a Humanoid you learn four types of information instead of two.

Sanguine Child

2nd level Vampirism feature
You've started the rites to transform yourself into a vampire, as such you gain the following benefits:

• You gain a climb speed equal to your walking speed, and you can move up, down, and across vertical surfaces and upside down along ceilings while leaving your hands free.
• You gain fangs which can be used as a natural weapon. They count as a simple weapon with the finesse trait. It deals 1d6 piercing damage on a hit. The damage of your fangs increases when you reach 6th level (1d8), 10th level (1d10), and 14th level (1d12) in this class.
• Once on each of your turns, one of your attacks with your bite can captivate a creature. you can force it to make a Wisdom saving throw, and if the saving throw fails, the target is charmed by you until the end of your next turn. While charmed this way the target has their speed reduced to 0 as they are enthralled by you.

You can charm a creature an amount of times equal to your proficiency bonus, and regain all expended uses after you finish a long rest. Additionally, you may spend 2 focus to use this feature again when you have no uses left.

Blood Bound

6th level Vampirism feature
Your transition into a vampire continues. You detect as undead, and you gain further benefits from your pursuit:

• You gain resistance to necrotic damage.
• Your attacks deal an extra 1d6 necrotic damage.
• Your bite counts as magical for the purpose of overcoming resistance and immunity to nonmagical attacks and damage.
• When you successfully charm a creature with your bite, as a reaction you can expend 2 focus and force the creature to move up to its speed and make an attack at a creature of your choice within range. If the creature the target hits is friendly to them, it can repeat the saving throw to end the charm effect.

Misty Escape

10th level Vampirism feature
When you would be reduced to 0 hit points you instead turn into a blood red cloud of mist instead of falling unconscious, provided that you aren't in sunlight. When you transform you can immediately teleport to an unoccupied space you can see within 60 feet of you.

On your turn you can expend 1 to 5 focus to heal an amount of hit points equal to 1d8 per focus spent as an action. While you are in your blood mist form taking damage causes death saving throw failures as normal, and three death saving throw failures can still kill you.

Once you use this feature, you can't do so again until you take a long rest, or if your bite brings a creature to 0 hit points. Alternatively, you may expend 5 focus to use the feature again when you have no more uses left.

Daywalker's Charm

14th level Vampirism feature
You've matured into your vampiric form, and have transition into a powerful daywalker. You gain the following benefits from your pursuit:

• Your attacks now deal an extra 1d8 necrotic damage.
• When a creature starts their turn within 15 feet of you, you can use your reaction and they must make a Wisdom saving throw or become charmed by you for 8 hours on a failure. On a success they suffer no other effects and are immune to this charm for 24 hours. While charmed by you this way they consider you as a trusted friend to be heeded and protected. You can charm a creature this way a number of times equal to your proficiency bonus, and regain all expeneded uses after you finish a long rest. Additionally, you may expend 3 focus to do so again when you have no uses left of this feature.

Vampire Lord

20th level Vampirism feature
A true vampiric being who commands the night and has conquered the sun. You no longer age and can't be magically aged. Additionally, you gain the following abilities as you ascend into your true form:

• As a bonus action you can spend 5 focus and partially turn your body into a blood mist and gain a fly speed equal to your movement speed for 10 minutes. While you are in this form you gain resistance to bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing damage
• You gain a number of temporary hit points equal to your Intelligence modifer at the start of your turns. You don't gain these temporary hi points if you've taken radiant damage on the previous turn.

1st level rituals

Ritual of Corpse Light

2nd level Religion ritual

• Ritual Time: 10 minutes
• Participants: Self
• Duration: 8 hours

A pale green light is conjured in an empty lantern that you carry with you. The lantern casts bright light in a 60-foot cone and dim light for an additional 60 feet. When any undead enters the light of the lantern it turns red alerting you to their presence. The light turns red even if the undead creature is disguised by an illusion or is invisible. Once you use this ritual you can't do so again until you finish a long rest.

Ritual of Cleansing

2nd level Nature ritual

• Ritual Time: 10 minutes
• Participants: Self
• Duration: 1 hour

During this ritual, you tap into the primal nature of the world around you. You conjure a 5-foot cube of elemental air, water, and fire. For the duration, any object placed inside is cleaned of any soil or other matter and dried. A tiny earth elemental folds any clothes and organizes any other object within the cube. Once you use this ritual you can't do so again until you finish a long rest.

Ritual of Devotion

2nd level Religion ritual

• Ritual Time: 10 minutes
• Participants: 2-6
• Duration: 8 hour

You and the participants expend some time devoting prayer to a specific deity who you revere and are faithful to. Your faith empowers you depending on a Religion check you make.

For the duration, you gain a bonus to save against the charmed or frightened conditions. The first time you save against one of those conditions the ritual ends. Once you use this ritual you can't do so again until you finish a long rest.

Ritual of Equivalent Exchange

2nd level Arcana ritual

• Ritual Time: 1 minute
• Participants: Self
• Duration: Instantaneous

You prepare a small coffer where you place gemstones, coins, or other valuable objects. At the end of the ritual the items placed within the container are transformed to their value in gold coins. You can exchange silver, copper, and electrum to the nearest gold amount. Gemstones into their nearest gold amount, valuable art objects, and others into gold. But, the ritual has no effect on magic items and weapons and armor. Once you use this ritual you can't do so again until you finish a long rest.

Ritual of Exhuming

2nd level Arcana ritual

• Ritual Time: 1 minute
• Participants: Self
• Duration: Instantaneous

You craft an occult circle around a grave in order to enact the ritual. You exhume the corpse of a creature within a specific area determined by an arcana check you make. Once you use this ritual you can't do so again until you finish a long rest.

Ritual of Enhanced Vessel

2nd level Arcana ritual

• Ritual Time: 10 minutes
• Participants: Self
• Duration: 24 hours

You enchant a vehicle you touch within 5 feet of you. Vehicles have their mph speed increase by an amount depending on an arcana check you make at the end of the ritual. Any vehicle that is pulled by a beast or other such creature has the creatures speed increase while they are pulling the vehicle. Once you use this ritual you can't do so again until you finish a long rest.

Ritual of Binding Steed

3rd level Nature ritual

• Ritual Time: 1 Hour
• Participants: Self
• Duration: Permanent

You perform a binding ritual on a Large Beast of CR 1/2 or lower that lacks a fly speed, in which at the end of it you make a nature check, contested by an insight check from the beast. On a success, the steed becomes bound to you. A magical brand appears on the beast. They gain a bonus to their AC equal to half your Intelligence modifier, and they gain a number of extra hit points equal to your occultist level. Additionally, you know the steeds location as long as it's within 1 mile of you. You can't have more than one beast bound to you this way, and if you use this ritual on another beast the initial ritual ends. Once you use this ritual you can't do so again until you finish a long rest.

Ritual of Extract Essence

3rd level Arcana ritual

• Ritual Time: 8 hours
• Participants: 2
• Duration: 8 hours

You target one Unconscious creature within 5 feet of you. They must make a Wisdom saving throw or fall under a charm for the casting time of the ritual on a failure. On a success, the target is alerted of your attempt to charm it, and if it was asleep they immediately wake up. At the end of the ritual you gain the following benefits for the duration:

• You gain a number of temporary hit points equal to the number of hit dice of the target.
• You gain advantage on a skill check of your choice the target was proficient in, if any.
• you gain the benefits of a long rest.

The target gains a level of exhaustion, and is not aware that it was charmed. Once you use this ritual you can't do so again until you finish a long rest.

Ritual of Hunter's Pursuit

3rd level Nature ritual

• Ritual Time: 1 minute
• Participants: Self
• Duration: 1 hour

You target a creature you have seen before, they make a Wisdom saving throw or their travel speed is reduced by half for the duration. If you have a body part, lock of hair, saliva, or another similar object of the target they have disadvantage on their Wisdom saving throw. Once you use this ritual you can't do so again until you finish a long rest.

Ritual of Kindling

3rd level Medicine ritual

• Ritual Time: 10 minutes
• Participants: 2
• Duration: Instantaneous

You aid a desperate soul and kindle their spirit through a ritual to soothe them on their journey. At the end of the ritual, you can end one of the following conditions on the target: Disease, poison, or madness. Additionally, you fill the creature with determination ending the frightened condition. Once you use this ritual you can't do so again until you finish a long rest.

Ritual of Prophecy

3rd level Religion ritual

• Ritual Time: 10 minutes
• Participants: Self
• Duration: 1 hour

You spend your time during this ritual reading your future and finding possibilities through various acts such as: throwing bones, reading cards, following your constellation, or another similar act. When you conclude the ritual make a religion check to determine the size of the die for this ritual which you roll immediately as you finish the ritual. For the duration, You can add or subtract from the result of any attack roll, saving throw, or ability check made by you or a creature you can see. You can do this before or after you know whether a roll succeeds or fails. . Once you use this ritual you can't do so again until you finish a long rest.

Ritual of Polymelia

3rd level Arcana ritual

• Ritual Time: 10 minutes
• Participants: Self
• Duration: 24 hours

At the end of the ritual you grow two secondary arms below your primary pair of arms. The secondary arms can manipulate an object, open or close a door or container, pick up or set down an object, or wield a weapon that has the light property. Additionally, while you have these arms, the time it takes to scribe new rituals into your tome is halved. If you perform this ritual on yourself over the period of a year it becomes permanent. Once the ritual becomes permanent this ritual no longer has an effect on you. Once you use this ritual you can't do so again until you finish a long rest.

Ritual of Corpse Bombs

4th level Arcana ritual

• Ritual Time: 10 minutes
• Participants: Self
• Duration: Until dispelled or triggered

You spend the ritual inscribing a rune upon a corpse or a medium undead creature with materials such as incense and rare herbs worth at least 200 gp that the ritual consumes. This rune is an explosive rune that explodes in a 20-foot-radius sphere centered on the corpse it was inscribed on. Each creature in the area must make a Dexterity saving throw. A creature takes 6d8 necrotic damage on a failed saving throw , or half as much damage on a successful one.

The explosion can be triggered in a couple of different ways. You may decide on a trigger when the rune is placed on a corpse, such as when a creature comes into touch with the corpse or when a creature comes within a certain distance, or moving the corpse a certain distance. You may set a phrase or word that would allow a creature that knows this to bypass the rune and avoid triggering it. You may even set specific creatures that will not trigger the rune.

If the rune is placed on a medium undead, you may instead either use your action to trigger the rune placed on them, or you may use your reaction when the undead creature reaches 0 hit points and you are within 60 feet of it to trigger the rune. Regardless of where you place the rune, once it is triggered the ritual ends. Once you use this ritual you can't do so again until you finish a long rest.

Ritual of Ghastly Guardians

4th level Arcana ritual

• Ritual Time: 1 minute
• Participants: 1-4
• Duration: 8 hours

You and the participants of the ritual summon tiny undead spirits who patrol a 15-foot radius area centered on an unoccupied space within 5 feet of you. A spirit appears for each participant. For the duration, when a creature hostile to you or a participant, enters the space the spirits are patrolling for the first time on a turn they must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw. The creature becomes frightened until the end of their next turn on a failure. When the spirits forces a saving throw one of them vanishes with a loud whail that can be heard within 500 feet. Once you use this ritual you can't do so again until you finish a long rest.

Ritual of Haven

4th level Arcana ritual

• Ritual Time: 10 minutes
• Participants: Self
• Duration: 24 hours

You conjure a two story house made of brick, stone, wood, or other similar material. The house can appear as you'd like in shape so long as it is structurally sound, and would be able to stand. Each floor of the house is 10 feet tall, and has an area of 200 square feet. There is a staircase that connects the lower floor to the one above, and a hatch that connects the second floor to the roof. Each floor can accommodate two of the following floor plans:

• A bedroom with a bed, nightstand, and a lit hearth
• A study with desks, books, bookshelves, parchments, ink, and ink pens
• A kitchen with cook's utensils, tables, chairs, fireplace or a cauldron.
• A Travel room, filled with a large table with Cartographer's Tools, and a globe of the world
• An apothecary's room with desks, chairs, shelves, and alchemist's supplies or materials from a herbalism kit.
• A lounge with couches, armchairs, side tables and footstools
• A bathroom with a tub filled with hot water, pleasant steam, towels, soaps and natural scented oils.
• An empty room.

The inside of the house is always comfortable and dry, regardless of the weather outside. Any equipment or furnishings conjured with the house dissipate into smoke if removed from it. At the end of the ritual's duration, all creatures and objects within the house that were not created by the ritual appear safely outside on the ground, and all traces of the house and its furnishings disappear. Additionally, you may spend 5 Insight to create a third floor when you perform the ritual. Once you use this ritual you can't do so again until you finish a long rest.

If you perform this ritual in the same location and with the same configurations every day for one year it becomes permanent if you offer a gem worth 500 gp as a material for the ritual.

Ritual of Bolstering Defense

5th level Arcana ritual

• Ritual Time: 10 minutes
• Participants: Self
• Duration: Until dispelled

When you complete the ritual you touch one object and make it sturdier. For the duration that objects AC can't less than 18. Additionally, make an arcana check, the objects hit points are increased by an amount equal to twice that result. If you target a wall with this ritual it only affects a 10-foot-by-10-foot section of that wall. An object targeted by this ritual multiple times is only affected by the best result of a ritual. Once you use this ritual you can't do so again until you finish a long rest.

Ritual of the Blood Moon

5th level Arcana ritual

• Ritual Time: 1 hour
• Participants: 12
• Duration: 24 hours

This ritual must be performed under the light of a full moon.
You perform this ritual with 11 other participants who are willing. When the ritual ends each creature spills their blood and makes a sacrificial offering of a creature of at least cr 1/2. After an orb of crimson is conjured and rises up to 120 feet. The orb radiates a cool red light, it causes an area within 10 miles of the orb to become night even if it is daytime. This night remains until the duration ends, or you use the ritual again to end the night. You can use the ritual again to extend the time the night remains, and if you spend 1 year performing the ritual it becomes permanent. Undead creatures under the crimson light have advantage on saving throws against any effect that turns undead. Once you use this ritual you can't do so again until you finish a long rest.

Ritual of Cursed Gifts

5th level Arcana ritual

• Ritual Time: 10 minutes
• Participants: Self
• Duration: 24 hours

You curse an amulet or similar object to be worn by a creature. The amulet detects as magical to spells such as detect magic, and an identify spell reveals the curse of the amulet. When a creature first wears the amulet they must make a Wisdom saving throw. On a failure the creature can't remove the cursed amulet willingly. While the creature wears the amulet the curse you place upon it extends to them. The wearer has disadvantage on Wisdom saving throws. Additionally you may choose one of the following effects to apply with the cursed amulet:

• The wearer must make a Charisma saving throw before it makes an attack or targets a creature with a harmful spell. On a failure, the wearer wastes their turn doing nothing.
• The wearer becomes hideous and gains abhorrent features. You may decide what kind of features the wearer gains, or you may choose to let those features reflect the wearer's greatest fears. Hostile creatures that start their turn within 60 feet that can see the wearer must make a Wisdom saving throw. On a failure, they spend their turn moving as far away from the wearer as possible.
• The wearer is blinded and incapacitated, its speed drops to 0, and they fall prone. They are still conscious and aware of their surroundings, however they cannot speak. When the wearer takes damage they may make a Charisma saving throw to break the curse.

A remove curse spell ends these effects. At the DM's discretion, you may choose an alternative curse effect, but it should be no more powerful than those described above. The DM has final say on such a curse's effect. Once you use this ritual you can't do so again until you finish a long rest.

Ritual of Fiendish connection

5th level Arcana ritual

• Ritual Time: 10 minutes
• Participants: Self
• Duration: Instantaneous

You must hold a contract with a fiend in order to use this ritual.
At the end of this ritual you conjure a small part of the hells to you that appears as either a small wooden booth or some sort of stand. Sitting behind it a small devilish puppet awaits to exchange communication.
You contact the fiend whom you hold a contract with, they answer up to three of your questions to the best of their knowledge. They might offer a cryptic answer or simply reply with a yes or no. At the end of your third question the fiend might offer a simple contract for you to sign at your DM's discretion, this could involve something to further the contract you already have with this fiend or a new one all together. Once you use this ritual you can't do so again until you finish a long rest.

Ritual of Healing

5th level Medicine ritual

• Ritual Time: 1 hour
• Participants: 2-6
• Duration: Instantaneous

When you complete the ritual, you and the participants remain still while performing the ritual and regain 1d8 + your intelligence modifier of hit points for every 10 minutes you spend focusing on the ritual. Additionally, at the end of the performing the ritual you and the participants of the ritual lose one level of exhaustion, and gain 4d10 temporary hit points. Once you use this ritual you can't do so again until you finish a long rest.

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