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<div class='cover-header'>Blood Hunter 2024</div>

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# Blood Hunter 2024

Marred but resolute, his grimacing face dripping with sweat, a half-orc reddens a finger in the blood of his own wounds, then draws a glowing ruby glyph in the air between him and the bloody behemoth facing him. He grips the weightless sigil, twisting it to unleash streams of dark energy that curse the blood of the monster’s own veins to even the odds.

A mysterious half-elf swathed in a worn cloak and rugged leather armor carefully investigates the site of a roadway massacre, her eyes flashing with recognition as she meditates on the remnants of the grisly scene. Suddenly, she jumps to her feet, certain in the knowledge of what creature was responsible, where it can be found—and how little time she has before it kills again.

Stepping into lightless chambers filled with ancient dust and lingering whispers, the halfling picks up the warning of imminent danger from the scraping of bone and claw on nearby stone. She winces as she runs her blade across her palm, the steel transmuting blood and essence into glowing runes of powerful magic, eager to brand and burn the flesh of her enemies.

Blood hunters are clever warriors driven by an unending determination to destroy evils old and new. Armed with rites of secretive blood magic and a willingness to sacrifice their own vitality and humanity for their cause, they protect the realms from the shadows—even as they remain ever vigilant against being drawn to the darkness that consumes the monsters they hunt.

## Sacrifice to Preserve Life
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Far from the judging eyes of society, blood hunters have mastered the secretive techniques of hemocraft, finding blood magic’s esoteric nature effective against evils that resist divine rebuke or arcane bindings. Through careful study and practice, blood hunters hone the rites of hemocraft into unique combat techniques, forfeiting a portion of their own health to call blood curses down upon their enemies or summon the elements to aid their strikes. Willing to suffer whatever it takes to achieve victory, these adept warriors have forged themselves into a potent force dedicated to protecting the innocent.

## Personality of Class

Whether driven by the wish to make a difference, the need to take vengeance, or the hope of finding a place to belong in an uncaring world, every blood hunter has their own reasons for undertaking the ritual of the Hunter’s Bane that starts them on this path. In joining an order of blood hunters, one also joins a family bound by service to each other and a common cause. For many, this might be the only family they have left—or have ever known—making the kinship felt between blood hunters an all-but-unbreakable bond.

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Outside the camaraderie of their orders, however, the life of a blood hunter is not an easy one. The ritual of the Hunter’s Bane can leave a character visibly changed, and prone to unsettling the people around them. Likewise, witnessing hemocraft can invoke superstitious fears from even the most learned scholars. While some cultures have come to accept the good deeds of many blood hunter orders, many blood hunters hide their calling unless absolutely necessary. They feel more comfortable in the wilds and wastes of the world, or drift through the outskirts of society, protecting the poor and defenseless from dark intention and the corrupting touch of fiends.

In choosing this path, every blood hunter irrevocably gives a part of themself to their cause—physically, emotionally, and sometimes morally. Each order of blood hunters practices its own ideals and methods, often employing techniques with dark origins that test the strength and will of those who employ them. Many wrestle with the fear of losing this struggle. And so a life of discipline and vigilance drives a blood hunter’s travels as they wander the countryside, in search of like-minded adventurers and whispers of dark deeds afoot.

### Creating a Blood Hunter
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As you create your blood hunter character, think about why you were driven to this lifestyle—and why you strive to give up everything to dwell in the darkness with the evils you hunt. Do you seek a sense of purpose and security, which you found among the order that has taken you in? Have you always carried a seed of darkness within you, so that you look for compatriots who can watch over and prevent you from succumbing to it? Were you once a holy warrior who strayed from your faith and was cast out, even as you yearn to give yourself over to the cause of protecting the innocent?

What is your relationship with the powers of hemocraft and the abilities it promises? Do you respect and fear the ancient power that surges through your veins, embracing your gifts and using them freely? Are you worried that this power will eventually turn you into one of the monsters you hunt? Or has your study instilled you with the confident clarity that makes you certain you can control these gifts for the greater good?

As well, what made you leave the comfort of your order to strike out on your own? Do you intend to return, or have you decided you have more to learn in the world? What strengths or assets do you seek in other adventurers that can help you meet your goals?

Though most blood hunters follow a path of good or neutrality in their pursuits, some have fallen to the dark, seductive side of hemocraft. These blood hunters use their abilities for selfish and evil purposes, often leading to their expulsion from the orders that trained them.

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### Quick Build

You can make a blood hunter quickly by following these suggestions. First, put your highest ability score in Strength or Dexterity, depending on whether you want to focus on melee weapons or on archery (or finesse weapons). Your next-highest score should be Intelligence, if you plan to focus on the potency of blood curses and mystical power, or Constitution, if you want to have additional hit points to empower your abilities through sacrifice. Second, choose the soldier or wayfearer background.

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 ##### Variant Hemocraft Ability Score 
 As a blood hunter, you use your Intelligence modifier for some of your class and subclass features. However, with your DM’s permission, you can choose to instead use your Wisdom modifier for all your blood hunter features that use your Intelligence modifier by default.

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#### Multiclassing and the Blood Hunter

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- If your group uses the multiclassing rules in the Player’s 
- Handbook, here’s what you need to know if you choose 
- Blood Hunter  as one of your Classes.
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- ***Ability Score Minimum.*** As a multiclass character, you must have at least a Strength score or Dexterity score of 13 and an Intelligence score of 13 to take a level in this class, or to take a level in another class if you are already a blood hunter.
- ***Proficiencies Gained.***  If blood hunter isn’t your initial class, you gain the following proficiencies when you take your first level as a blood hunter: light armor, medium armor, shields, simple weapons, martial weapons, and alchemist’s supplies.
- ***Multiclassing with Warlock.***  If your blood hunter is part of the Order of the Profane Soul and also has warlock levels, add one-third of your blood hunter levels (rounded down) to your warlock level and consult the warlock progression table in the Player’s Handbook for total spell slots, cantrips known, and spell slot level. You should consider aligning your Otherworldly Patron feature between both classes, but your DM might allow you to have two different patrons at their discretion.

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##### Blood Hunter 2024

| Level | Proficiency Bonus | Features | Hemocraft die| | Blood Curses |
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| 1st  | +2 | Hunter's Bane, Blood Maledict, Weapon Mastery | d4 || 2 |
| 2nd  | +2 | Fighting Style, Crimson Rite| d4 | | 2 |
| 3rd  | +2 | Blood Hunter Order| d4 |  | 2|
| 4th  | +2 | Ability Score Improvement | d4 | | 2 |
| 5th  | +3 | Extra Attack,  | d6 | | 2|
| 6th  | +3 | Brand of Castigation| d6 |  | 3 |
| 7th  | +3 | Blood Hunter Order feature, Crimson Rite improvement  | d6 | | 3 |
| 8th  | +3 | Ability Score Improvement | d6 |  |3 |
| 9th  | +4 | Grim Psychometry | d6 |  | 3 |
| 10th | +4 | Hardened Soul | d6 |  | 4 |
| 11th | +4 | Blood Hunter Order feature | d8 |  | 4 |
| 12th | +4 | Ability Score Increase | d8 | | 4 |
| 13th | +5 | Brand of Tethering| d8 |  | 5 |
| 14th | +5 | Dark Augmentation | d8 |  | 5 |
| 15th | +5 |Blood Hunter Order feature| d8 | | 5 |
| 16th | +5 | Ability Score Improvement | d8| | 5 |
| 17th | +6 | Arterial Flow | d10 | | 5 |
| 18th | +6 | Blood Hunter Order feature| d10| | 6 |
| 19th | +6 | Epic Boon | d10 |  | 6 |
| 20th | +6 | Sanguine Mastery  | d10 |  | 6 |

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##### Core Blood Hunter Traits
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| **Primary Ability** | Dexterity and Intelligence or Wisdom                                                                                |
| **Hit Point Die**   | D10 per Blood Hunter level                                                                                    | 
| **Saving Throw Proficiencies**  |  Dexterity  and Intelligence                                                                        | 
| **Skill Proficiencies** | Choose 3: Acrobatics, Arcana, Athletics, Investigation , History, Insight, Investigation, Religion, and Survival 
| **Weapon Proficiencies**| Simple and Martial weapons                                                                              |  
| **Armor Training**      | Light and Medium armor and Shields   
| **Tool   Proficiencies**      | Alchemist’s supplies | 
| **Starting Equipment**  | Choose A or B: (A) Studded Leather Armor, 2 Shortsword, Longbow, 20 Arrows, Quiver, Alchemist's supplies , Explorer's Pack, and 8 GP; or (B) 160 GP                 |

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### Blood Hunter Class Features:
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- As a Blood Hunter, you gain the following Class Features
- when you reach the specified levels in this Class. These 
- features are listed on the Blood Hunter table.
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##### 1st level: Hunter’s Bane

At 1st level, you have survived the Hunter’s Bane—a dangerous, long-guarded ritual that alters your life’s blood, forever binding you to the darkness and honing your senses against it. You have advantage on Wisdom (Survival) checks to track fey, fiends, or undead, as well as on Intelligence checks to recall information about such creatures.

The Hunter’s Bane also empowers your body to control and shape hemocraft magic, using your own blood and life essence to fuel your abilities. Some of your features require your target to make a saving throw to resist the feature’s effects. The saving throw DC is calculated as follows:

Hemocraft save DC = 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Hemocraft modifier
(your choice between Intelligence or Wisdom)

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##### 1st level: Blood Curse
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Also at 1st level, you gain the ability to channel—or sometimes sacrifice—a part of your vital essence to curse and manipulate creatures through hemocraft magic. You know one blood curse of your choice, detailed in the “Blood Curses” section at the end of the class description. You learn one additional blood curse of your choice at 6th, 10th, 14th, and 18th level. Each time you learn a new blood curse, you can also choose one of the blood curses you know and replace it with another blood curse.
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Each time you use your Blood Maledict feature, you choose which curse to invoke from the curses you know. While invoking a blood curse, but before it affects the target, you can choose to amplify the curse by taking necrotic damage equal to one roll of your hemocraft die. This damage can’t be reduced in any way. An amplified curse gains an additional effect, noted in the curse’s description. Creatures that do not have blood are immune to blood curses unless you have amplified the curse.
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You can use this feature, a number time equal to your profiency bonus and you must finish a short or long rest to regain all uses.

##### 1st level: Weapon Mastery
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Your training with weapons allows you to use the mastery properties of two kinds of weapons of your choice with which you have proficiency, such as Longbows and Shortswords.

##### 2nd level: Fighting Style

You gain a Fighting Style feat of your choice. Instead of choosing one of those feats, you can choose the option below.

**Occult Warrior.** You learn two Warlock cantrips of your choice. Blade Ward and Eldritch Blast are recommended. The chosen cantrips count as Blood Hunter spells for you, and Hemocraft modifier is your spellcasting ability for them. <div style='margin-top:10px;'></div>
Whenever you gain a Blood Hunter level, you can replace one of these cantrips with another Warlock cantrip.

##### 2nd level: Crimson Rite
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Also at 2nd level, you learn to invoke a rite of hemocraft that infuses your weapon strikes with elemental energy. As a bonus action, you can activate any rite you know on one weapon you’re holding. The effect of the rite lasts until you finish a short or long rest. When you activate a rite, you take necrotic damage equal to one roll of your hemocraft die. This damage can’t be reduced in any way.
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While the rite is in effect, attacks you make with this weapon are magical, and deal extra damage equal to your hemocraft die of the type determined by the chosen rite. A weapon can hold only one active rite at a time. Other creatures can’t gain the benefit of your rite.
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You choose one rite from the crimson rites below when you first gain this feature. You learn an additional crimson rite at 7th level, and again at 14th level.
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**Rite of the Flame.** The extra damage dealt by your rite is fire damage.

**Rite of the Frozen.** The extra damage dealt by your rite is cold damage.

**Rite of the Storm.** The extra damage dealt by your rite is lightning damage.

**Rite of the Dead.** The extra damage dealt by your rite is necrotic damage. (Prerequisite: 14th level)

**Rite of the Oracle.** The extra damage dealt by your rite is psychic damage. (Prerequisite: 14th level)

**Rite of the Roar.** The extra damage dealt by your rite is thunder damage. (Prerequisite: 14th level)

##### 3nd level:Blood Hunter Order
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At 3rd level, you commit to an order of blood hunters whose philosophy will guide you throughout your life: the Order of the Ghostslayer, the Order of the Lycan, the Order of the Mutant,the Order of the Profane Soul, Order of the Exorcist, Order of the Hound, Order of the Reaper or Order of the Vampire each of which is detailed at the end of the class description. Your choice grants you features at 7th level and again at 11th, 15th, and 18th level.

##### 4th level: Ability Score Improvement
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- You gain the Ability Score Improvement feat or another 
- feat of your choice for which you qualify. As shown on the 
- Barbarian table, you gain this feature again at levels 8 , 12 , 
- 16 and 19.

##### 5th level: Extra Attack
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- You can attack twice, instead of once, whenever you take
- the <u>Attack</u> action on your turn.
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##### 6th level: Brand of Castigation
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At 6th level, when you damage a creature with a weapon for which you have an active crimson rite, you can channel hemocraft magic to sear an arcane brand into that creature (no action required). You always know the direction to the branded creature as long as it’s on the same plane as you. Further, each time the branded creature deals damage to you or a creature you can see within 5 feet of you, the branded creature takes psychic damage equal to your Hemocraft modifier (minimum of 1).
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Your brand lasts until you dismiss it or until you use this feature to apply a brand to another creature. Your brand can be dispelled with dispel magic, and is treated as a spell with a level equal to half your blood hunter level (maximum 9th level).
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Once you use this feature, you can’t use it again until you finish a short or long rest.

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##### 9th level: Grim Psychometry
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When you reach 9th level, you gain a supernatural talent for discerning the secrets surrounding mysterious relics or places touched by evil. Whenever you make an Intelligence (History) check to recall information about the sinister or tragic history of an object you are touching or your current location, you have advantage on the check.
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##### 10th level: Hardened Soul
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When you reach 10th level, you are immune to charmed and frightened conditions.

##### 13th level: Brand of Tethering
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Starting at 13th level, the psychic damage from your Brand of Castigation increases to twice your Hemocraft modifier (minimum of 2). 
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Additionally, a branded creature can’t take the Dash action, and if it attempts to teleport or to leave its current plane by any means, it takes 4d6 psychic damage and must make a Wisdom saving throw. On a failure, the attempt to teleport or leave the plane fails.

##### 14th level: Dark Augmentation
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Starting at 14th level, the magic of hemocraft suffuses your body to permanently reinforce your resilience. 
Your speed increases by 5 feet, and you have a bonus to Strength, Dexterity, and Constitution saving throws equal to your Hemocraft modifier (minimum of +1).

##### 17th level: Arterial Flow
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When you roll initiative and have no use of your blood curse left. You regain 2 uses of your Blood Maledict Feature.

##### 19th level: Epic Boon
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You gain an Epic boon feat (see PHB 2024 chapter 5) another feat of your choice for which you qualify. Boon of Recovery is recommanded.

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##### 20th level: Sanguine Mastery 
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Sanguine Mastery
Upon reaching 20th level, your mastery of blood magic reaches its height, mitigating your sacrifice and empowering your expertise. Once per turn, whenever a blood hunter feature requires you to roll a hemocraft die, you can reroll the die and use either roll.
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Additionally, whenever you score a critical hit with a weapon for which you have an active crimson rite, you regain one expended use of your Blood Maledict feature and you roll an additionnal Hemocraft die for your rite.
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#### Blood Hunter Subclasses
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- The Blood Hunter subclass is a specialization that grants you special abilities at certain levels, as specified in the subclass. You can choose the Order of the Ghostslayer, the Order of the Lycan, the Order of the Mutant, the the Order of the Profane Soul, The Order of the Exorcist,The Order of the Hound, The Order of the Reaper, The Order of the Vampire, The Order of the Scale or the Order of Titan.
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### Order of Ghostslayer
The Order of the Ghostslayer is the oldest of the blood hunter orders, its members having originally rediscovered the secrets of hemocraft and refined them for combat against the scourge of undeath. Ghostslayers seek out and study the moment of death, obsessing over the mystery of the transition from life, and the unholy power that can cause the dead to rise once more. These zealous blood hunters make it their life’s work to destroy the scourge of undeath wherever it is found, tuning their abilities to engage undead creatures and those who manipulate the necromancy that creates them.

##### 3rd level: Rite of the Dawn

When you join this order at 3rd level, you learn the Rite of the Dawn as part of your Crimson Rite feature. When you activate the Rite of the Dawn, the extra damage dealt by your rite is radiant damage. Additionally, while that rite is active on your weapon, you gain the following benefits:
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Your weapon sheds bright light out to a range of 20 feet.
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You have resistance to necrotic damage.
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When you hit an undead creature with a weapon for which the Rite of the Dawn is active, you roll an additional hemocraft die when determining the extra damage from the rite.

##### 3rd level: Curse Specialist
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Starting at 3rd level, you learn to master blood curses. You gain an additional use of your Blood Maledict feature. In addition, your blood curses can target any creature, whether it has blood or not.

##### 7thlevel: Aether Walk
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Upon reaching 7th level, at the start of your turn, you can magically step into the veil between the planes as long as you aren’t incapacitated. You can move through other creatures and objects as if they were difficult terrain, as well as see and affect creatures and objects on the Ethereal Plane. You take 1d10 force damage if you end your turn inside an object.
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This feature lasts for a number of rounds equal to your Hemocraft modifier (minimum of 1 round). If you are inside an object when it ends, you are immediately shunted to the nearest unoccupied space and you take force damage equal to twice the number of feet you moved.
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Once you use this feature, you must finish a short or long rest before you can use it again. You can use Aether Walk twice between rests starting at 15th level.

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##### 11th level: Blood Curse of the Exorcist
At 11th level, you hone your hemocraft to tear corruption from the minds and bodies of your allies—and to punish those responsible for it. <div style='margin-top:10px;'></div>
You gain the Blood Curse of the Exorcist for your Blood Maledict feature. This doesn’t count against your number of blood curses known.

##### 15th level: Brand of Sundering
Starting at 15th level, your Brand of Castigation exposes a fragment of your foe’s essence, leaving them vulnerable to your Crimson Rite feature. Whenever you hit a creature with a weapon for which you have an active crimson rite, you roll an additional hemocraft die when determining the extra damage from the rite. <div style='margin-top:10px;'></div>Additionally, if a branded creature has the Incorporeal Movement trait or a similar feature, it can’t move through creatures or objects while branded.

##### 18th level: Rite Revival
Upon reaching 18th level, you learn to protect your fading life by reabsorbing the energy you feed to your weapons. If you have one or more crimson rites active and you are reduced to 0 hit points but don’t die outright, you can choose to have all your active crimson rites end and drop to 1 hit point instead.

### Order of Lycan

The ancient curse of lycanthropy is feared by nearly all peoples and cultures, passed through blood and seeding a host with the savage strength and hunger for violence of a wicked beast. The Order of the Lycan is a proud group of blood hunters who undergo “the Taming”—the ceremonial infliction of lycanthropy by a senior member of the order, for those who do not already carry the curse before seeking this path.  <div style='margin-top:10px;'></div> These hunters then use the magic of their blood to harness the power of the monster they harbor, without losing themselves to it. Using intense will and secret blood magic rituals, members of the Order of the Lycan learn to control and unleash their hybrid forms for short periods of time. <div style='margin-top:10px;'></div> Enhanced physical prowess, unnatural resilience, and razor-sharp claws make these warriors a terrible foe to any evil that crosses their path. Yet no training is perfect, and without care and complete focus, even the greatest of blood hunters can temporarily lose themselves to their own hunger.

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##### The Burden of Lycanthropy

Those inducted into the Order of the Lycan choose this path with conviction, understanding the terrible weight it imposes on them and the challenges it brings. Where most afflicted by the curse of lycanthropy grow wicked, deranged, and even murderous, Lycan blood hunters accept the gifts of the beast while maintaining control through intense training and the power of their blood magic. A member of the Order of the Lycan cannot spread their curse through blood unless they wish to, and one of the most sacred oaths of this order is to never infect another creature without the order’s sanction.
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If a member of the Order of the Lycan is ever cured of their lycanthropic curse, it brings terrible shame to their name and the order. Members who have been cleansed against their will readily return to the order to undergo a renewed initiation of the Taming, reintroducing the curse to their bodies and restoring their honor.
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Lycanthropy comes in many forms bound to specific beasts, with wolf, bear, tiger, boar, and rat the best-known variations. The particular strain of the lycanthropic curse defines the physical traits that manifest in a Lycan blood hunter’s hybrid transformation, even as the benefits the curse bestows remain relatively uniform.
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##### 3rd level: Heightened Sense
When you choose this archetype at 3rd level, you gain the improved senses of a natural predator. You have advantage on Wisdom (Perception) checks that rely on hearing or smell.

##### 3rd level: Hybrid Transformation
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Also at 3rd level, you learn to control the lycanthropic curse that courses through your veins. As a bonus action, you transform into a special hybrid form for up to 1 hour. You can speak, use equipment, and wear armor while in this form, and can revert to your normal form as a bonus action. You automatically revert to your normal form if you fall unconscious or die.
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This feature replaces the rules for lycanthropy in the Monster Manual. Once you use this feature, you must finish a short or long rest before you can use it again.

##### Hybrid Transformation Features
While you are transformed, you gain the following benefits and drawbacks:
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**Feral Might.** You have advantage on Strength checks and Strength saving throws, and you have a +1 bonus to melee damage rolls. This bonus increases to +2 at 11th level and to +3 at 18th level.
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**Resilient Hide.** You have resistance to bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing damage from nonmagical attacks not made with silvered weapons. Additionally, while you are not wearing heavy armor, you have a +1 bonus to AC.
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**Predatory Strikes.** You can apply your Crimson Rite feature to your unarmed strikes, which you treat as one weapon.

* **Weapon category** : Simple Melee

* **Damage on a hit::**   Bludgeoning, piercing or slashing (your choice) damage equal to one roll of your hemocraft die plus the ability modifier used for the hit.
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* **Weapon category.**     Finesse, Light

* **Mastery:** Nick  (you can use this property and it doesn't count against the number property you can use with Weapon Mastery)
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Additionally, when you use the Attack action to make an unarmed strike, you can make one additional unarmed strike as a bonus action.
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**Bloodlust.** If you start your turn with fewer hit points than half your hit point maximum, you must succeed on a DC 8 Wisdom saving throw or move directly toward the nearest creature and use the Attack action against that creature. If you’re concentrating on a spell or are under an effect that prevents you from concentrating (such as the barbarian’s Rage feature), you automatically fail this saving throw.
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If you have your Extra Attack feature, you can choose whether to use it for this frenzied attack. If more than one creature is equally near to you, roll randomly to determine your target. Once your attack is resolved, you regain control of yourself.

##### 7th level:Stalker's Prowess
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At 7th level, your speed increases by 10 feet, and you add 10 feet to your long jump distance and 3 feet to your high jump distance. Your hybrid form also gains the following additional benefit.
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**Improved Predatory Strikes**. You have a +1 bonus to attack rolls made with your unarmed strike. This bonus increases to +2 at 11th level and to +3 at 18th level.
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**Rite transformation:**
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##### 11th level:Advanced Transformation
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At 11th level, you learn to unleash and control more of the beast within. You can use your Hybrid Transformation feature twice, regaining all expended uses when you finish a short or long rest. Your hybrid form also gains the following additional benefit.
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**Lycan Regeneration.** At the start of each of your turns when you have at least 1 hit point but fewer hit points than half your hit point maximum, you gain hit points equal to 1 + your Constitution modifier (minimum of 1). If you are in hybrid form, you gain these hit points before you must make the saving throw for your bloodlust.
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You also gain the Blood Curse of the Howl for your Blood Maledic feature. This doesn'tcount against your number of blood curse you known

##### 15th level:Brand of Voracious
Starting at 15th level, you have advantage on the saving throw for your bloodlust while in hybrid form. <div style='margin-top:10px;'></div>Additionally, your Brand of Castigation can now bind a foe to your hunter’s ferocity. While in your hybrid form, you have advantage on attack rolls against a creature branded by you

##### 18th level: Hybrid Transformation Mastery
At 18th level, you have mastered your inner predator. You can use your Hybrid Transformation feature an unlimited number of times, and your hybrid form lasts until you revert to your normal form, fall unconscious, or die.

### Order of Mutant
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The process of undertaking the Hunter’s Bane ritual is a painful, scarring, and sometimes fatal experience. Those who survive are irrevocably changed—and not always for the better. Over generations of experimentation, a splinter order of blood hunters honed the way in which hemocraft alters the body, using corrupted alchemy and toxic elixirs to alter their blood even further. Over time, they have modified their capabilities in battle, becoming something beyond what they once were. Calling themselves the Order of the Mutant, these blood hunters now specialize in assessing the strengths and weaknesses of their foes, altering their biology to be best prepared for any conflict.
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##### 3rd level: Mutagencraft
When you choose this archetype at 3rd level, you learn to master forbidden alchemical formulas known as mutagens that can temporarily alter your mental and physical abilities.
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As a bonus action, you consume a mutagen, whose effects and side effects last until you finish a short or long rest unless otherwise specified. While one or more mutagens are affecting you, you can use an action to focus and flush all mutagens from your system, ending their effects and side effects.
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Mutagens are designed for the specific biology of the character who concocted them, and your mutagens have no effect on other creatures. They are also unstable by nature, losing their potency over time and becoming inert if not used before you finish your next short or long rest.

##### Mutagencraft
| | Blood hunter level |    Mutagen created | Formulas Knows |
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|| 3rd  | 1 | 4 |
| |7th  | 2| 5|
|  | 11th | 2|6 |
| |  15th| 3| 7 |
|  | 18th | 3 | 8 |

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##### Formula

Formulas
The number of mutagens you can concoct when you finish a rest, and the number of formulas you know, increases as you gain levels in the blood hunter class, as shown on the Mutagencraft table above. <div style='margin-top:10px;'></div>
Additionally, when you learn a new mutagen formula, you can replace one formula you already know with a new mutagen formula. You choose four mutagen formulas to learn from the options detailed at the end of this subclass description, and you can concoct one mutagen when you finish a short or long rest.

##### 7th level: Strange Metabolism

When you reach 7th level, your body begins to adapt to toxins and venoms, ignoring their corrupting effects. You gain immunity to poison damage and the poisoned condition.
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Additionally, you can trigger a burst of adrenaline that lets you temporarily resist the negative effects of a mutagen. As a bonus action, you can ignore the negative side effect of one mutagen affecting you for 1 minute. Once you do so, you can’t do so again until you finish a long rest.

##### 11th level Blood Curse of Corrosion
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Starting at 11th level, your blood curse can infuse a creature’s body with terrible toxins. You gain the Blood Curse of Corrosion for your Blood Maledict feature.<div style='margin-top:10px;'></div> This doesn’t count against your number of blood curses known.

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##### 15th level Brand of Axiom
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At 11th level, your mutagenic hemocraft lets your Brand of Castigation reveal a foe’s true nature. Any illusion or invisibility in effect on a creature when you brand it ends, and the creature can’t benefit from invisibility or illusion effects while branded by you. <div style='margin-top:10px;'></div>If a creature branded by you is in an alternative form (by way of the polymorph spell, the Change Shape action or Shapechanger trait, the Wild Shape feature, and similar effects), it must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw or revert to its true form and be stunned until the end of your next turn.
<div style='margin-top:10px;'></div>Whenever a branded creature attempts to alter its form, it must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw or have the attempt fail, and it is stunned until the end of your next turn.

##### 18th level Exalted Mutation
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At 18th level, your body has adapted to produce mutagens naturally in a moment of need. As a bonus action, choose one mutagen currently affecting you. Its effects and side effects end, and you can immediately have a mutagen you know the formula for take effect in its place.
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You can use this feature a number of times equal to your Hemocraft modifier (minimum of once). You regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest.

##### Mutagens
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The mutagens that are part of your hemocraft are presented in alphabetical order. You can learn a mutagen at the same time you meet its prerequisites.

**Aether
Prerequisite: 11th level**
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You have a flying speed of 20 feet for 1 hour. However, you have disadvantage on Strength checks and Dexterity checks during this time.
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**Alluring**
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Your skin and voice become malleable, allowing you to enhance your appearance and presence. You have advantage on Charisma checks. However, you have disadvantage on initiative rolls.
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**Celerity**
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Your Dexterity score increases by 3, as does your maximum for that score. However, you have disadvantage on Wisdom saving throws. Your Dexterity score and your maximum increase by 4 if you consume this mutagen at 11th level, and by 5 at 18th level.
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**Conversant**
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You have advantage on Intelligence checks. However, you have disadvantage on Wisdom checks.
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**Cruelty
Prerequisite: 11th level**
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When you use the Attack action, you can make one additional weapon attack as a bonus action. However, you have disadvantage on Intelligence, Wisdom, and Charisma saving throws.
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**Deftness**
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**Embers**
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You have resistance to fire damage and vulnerability to cold damage.

**Gelid** <div style='margin-top:10px;'></div>
You have resistance to cold damage and vulnerability to fire damage.

**Impermeable**
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You have resistance to piercing damage and vulnerability to slashing damage.
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**Mobility**
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You have immunity to the grappled and restrained conditions. However, you have disadvantage on Strength checks. At 11th level, you are also immune to the paralyzed condition.

**Nighteye**
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You have darkvision out to a range of 60 feet. If you already have darkvision, its range increases by 60 feet. However, you have disadvantage on attack rolls and on Wisdom (Perception) checks that rely on sight when you, the target of your attack, or whatever you are trying to perceive is in direct sunlight.

**Percipient**
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You have advantage on Wisdom checks. However, you have disadvantage on Charisma checks.
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**Potency**
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Your Strength score increases by 3, as does your maximum for that score. However, you have disadvantage on Dexterity saving throws. Your Strength score and your maximum increase by 4 if you consume this mutagen at 11th level, and by 5 at 18th level.

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**Precision
Prerequisite: 11th level**
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Your weapon attacks score a critical hit on a roll of 19 or 20. However, you have disadvantage on Strength saving throws.
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**Rapidity** <div style='margin-top:10px;'></div>
Your speed increases by 10 feet. However, you have disadvantage on Intelligence checks. At 15th level, your speed increases by an additional 5 feet.
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**Reconstruction
Prerequisite: 7th level**
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For 1 hour, at the start of each of your turns when you have at least 1 hit point but fewer hit points than half your hit point maximum, you regain hit points equal to your proficiency bonus. However, your speed is reduced by 10 feet during this time.
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**Sagacity**
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Your Intelligence score increases by 3, as does your maximum for that score. However, you have disadvantage on Charisma saving throws. Your Intelligence score and your maximum increase by 4 if you consume this mutagen at 11th level, and by 5 at 18th level.

**Shielded** <div style='margin-top:10px;'></div>
You have resistance to slashing damage, and you have vulnerability to bludgeoning damage.
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**Unbreakable**
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You have resistance to bludgeoning damage, and you have vulnerability to piercing damage.
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**Vermillion** <div style='margin-top:10px;'></div>
You gain an additional use of your Blood Maledict feature. However, you have disadvantage on death saving throws.

### Order of Profane Soul
Blood hunters belonging to the Order of the Profane Soul have pushed the limits of hemocraft for use against some of the most terrifying creatures corrupting the world. <div style='margin-top:10px;'></div> Ancient fiends and cruel magic-users have long counted on their ability to meld into the background and escape those who hunt them, vanishing into noble courts without a trace, or bending the minds of the most stalwart warriors with but a glance. <div style='margin-top:10px;'></div>
So the blood hunters who founded this order trusted to their resilience as they delved into the same well of corrupting arcane knowledge, making pacts with lesser evils to better combat the greater threats. And though they might have traded a part of themselves for their power, the members of this order know the benefits of that power far outweigh the price.

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##### 3rd level: Pact Magic

Also at 3rd level, you augment your combat techniques with the ability to cast spells. See chapter 10 of the Player’s Handbook for the general rules of spellcasting and chapter 11 of the Player’s Handbook for the warlock spell list.
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Cantrips. You learn two cantrips of your choice from the warlock spell list. You learn an additional warlock cantrip of your choice at 10th level.

#### Profane spell Casting

| Blood Hunter Level  | Cantrip Known |  | Spell Knows| Spell Slots <BR>  | <BR>   |Slot<BR>  Level
|:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:|
| 3rd | 2 |  | 2 | 1 |  | 1 | ― |
| 4th | 2 |  | 2 | 1 |   | 1 | ― |
| 5th | 2 |  | 3 | 1 |   | 1 | ― |
| 6th | 2 |  | 3 | 2 |   | 1 | ― |
| 7th | 2 |  | 4 | 2 |   | 2 | ― |
| 8th | 2 |  | 4 | 2 |   | 2 | ― |
| 9th | 2 |  | 5 | 2 |   | 2 | ― |
| 10th |3 |  | 5 | 2 |   | 2 | ― |
| 11th | 3 |  | 6 | 2 |   | 2 | ― |
| 12th | 3 |  | 6 | 2 |   | 2 | ― |
| 13th | 3 |  | 7 | 2 |   | 3 | ― |
| 14th | 3 |  | 7 | 2 |   | 3 | ― |
| 15th |3 |  | 8| 2 |   | 3 | ― |
| 16th | 3 |  |8 | 2 |   | 3 | ― |
| 17th | 3 |  | 9| 2 |   | 3 | ― |
| 18th | 3 |  | 9 |2 |   | 3 | ― |
| 19th | 3 |  | 10 | 2 |   | 4 | 1 |
| 20th | 3 |  | 11| 2 |   | 4 | 1 |

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Spell Slots. The Profane Soul Spellcasting table shows how many spell slots you have. The table also shows what the level of those slots is; all of your spell slots are the same level. To cast one of your warlock spells of 1st level or higher, you must expend a spell slot. You regain all expended spell slots when you finish a short or long rest.
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For example, when you are 8th level, you have two 2nd-level spell slots. To cast the 1st-level spell witch bolt, you must spend one of those slots, and you cast it as a 2nd-level spell.
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Spells Known of 1st Level and Higher. At 3rd level, you know two 1st-level spells of your choice from the warlock spell list.
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The Spells Known column of the Profane Soul Spellcasting table shows when you learn more warlock spells of your choice of 1st level and higher. A spell you choose must be of a level no higher than what’s shown in the table’s Slot Level column for your level. When you reach 13th level, for example, you learn a new warlock spell, which can be 1st, 2nd, or 3rd level.
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Additionally, when you gain a level in this class, you can choose one of the warlock spells you know and replace it with another spell from the warlock spell list, which also must be of a level for which you have spell slots.
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Spellcasting Ability. Your chosen Hemocraft ability (Intelligence or Wisdom) is your spellcasting ability for your warlock spells, so you use your Hemocraft ability whenever a spell refers to your spellcasting ability. In addition, you use your Hemocraft modifier when setting the saving throw DC for a warlock spell you cast and when making an attack roll with one.
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Spell save DC = 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Hemocraft modifier
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Spell attack modifier = your proficiency bonus + your Hemocraft modifier

#####  3rd level: Otherworldly Patron

When you reach 3rd level, you strike a bargain with an otherworldly being. Choose Archfey, The Celestial, The Fiend or The Great Old One. <div style='margin-top:10px;'></div>The choice you make augments some of your subclass features, as noted below.

##### The Archfey

| | Blood hunter level |    Patron Spells 
|:---:|:---:|:---|:---:|
|| 3rd  | Speak with Animal  | |
| |7th  | Misty Step
|  | 13th | Plant Growth|
| |  19th| Greater Invibility |

##### The Celestial
| | Blood hunter level |    Patron Spells 
|:---:|:---:|:---|:---:|
|| 3rd  | Protection From Evil and Good  | |
| |7th  | Lesser Restoration
|  | 13th | Revivify|
| |  19th| Summon Celestial |

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##### The Fiend

| | Blood hunter level |    Patron Spells 
|:---:|:---:|:---|:---:|
|| 3rd  | Hellish Rebuke | |
| |7th  | Scorching Ray
|  | 13th | Fireball|
| |  19th| Fire Shield|

##### The Great Old One

| | Blood hunter level |    Patron Spells 
|:---:|:---:|:---|:---:|
|| 3rd  | Charm Person | |
| |7th  | Detect Thoughts
|  | 13th | Hunger of Hadar|
| |  19th| Modify memory|

#####  3rd level: Rite Focus
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Starting at 3rd level, your weapon becomes a conduit for the power of your pact with your chosen patron. <div style='margin-top:10px;'></div> While you have an active crimson rite, you can use your weapon as a spellcasting focus for your warlock spells, and you gain a specific benefit based on your chosen pact.
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**The Archfey.** <div style='margin-top:15px;'></div>
When you damage a creature with a weapon for which you have an active crimson rite, that creature glows with faint light until the end of your next turn. For the duration, the creature gains no benefit from any cover or from being invisible.

**The Celestial.**
<div style='margin-top:10px;'></div>As a bonus action, you expend one use of your Blood Maledict feature to heal one creature you can see within 60 feet of you. That creature regains a number of hit points equal to one roll of your hemocraft die + your Hemocraft modifier (minimum of +1).

**The Fiend.**  <div style='margin-top:10px;'></div>While using the Rite of the Flame, if you roll a 1 or 2 on a damage die when you roll the extra damage from the rite, you can reroll the die and choose which roll to use.

**The Great Old One.** 
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##### 7th level: Mystic Frenzy <div style='margin-top:10px;'></div>
Starting at 7th level, when you use your action to cast a cantrip, you can immediately make one weapon attack as a bonus action.

##### 11th level:Blood Curse of the Souleater <div style='margin-top:10px;'></div>
Starting at 11th level, you learn to siphon the life energy from your fallen prey. You gain the Blood Curse of the Soul Eater for your Blood Maledict feature. This doesn’t count against your number of blood curses known.

##### 15th level:Brand of the Sapping Scar <div style='margin-top:10px;'></div>
Upon reaching 11th level, your Brand of Castigation feature digs dark arcane scars into your target, leaving them vulnerable to your magic. A creature branded by you has disadvantage on saving throws against your warlock spells.

##### 18th level: Profane Vindication

When you roll initiative and have no spell slots you may regain 1 spell slot. <div style='margin-top:10px;'></div>
Once you use this feature you must finish a Long Rest before using it again

### Order of the Exorcist
The Order of the Exorcist is primarily concerned in ending the influence of extraplanar creatures. These blood hunters study the appropriate wards and apotropaics to release the bonds of those who have are under such a creature's possession or sway. They then work to send the malfeasants back to their home worlds or to destroy them fully.

#####  3rd level: Exorcism

You learn how to exorcise malicious influences from a creature. As an action, you may touch a creature and end one possession or one effect causing the charmed or frightened condition.

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

#####  3rd level:  Expert Hunter

The benefits of your Hunter's Bane feature apply to aberrations and celestials as well.

#### 7th level: Planar Protector

You have learned to cast the *magic circle* spell. Hemocraft modifier is your spellcasting ability modifier for the spell. Once you cast this spell, you can't cast it again with this feature until you finish a short or long rest.

#### 11th level: Blood Curse of Exile

Your blood curse can repel invasive creatures. You gain the Blood Curse of Exile for your Blood Malediction feature. This doesn't count against your number of blood curses known.
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####  15th level: Brand of Vengeance

You can strike back against aggressors you have branded. When a creature with your Brand of Castigation targets a creature other than you with an attack or harmful ability or magical effect, you may use your reaction to move up your movement speed and make a single weapon attack against the branded creature.

#### 18th-level: Evil and Good's Bane

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Your crimson rite is able to penetrate the foes you most abhor. When you hit an aberration, celestial, fey, fiend, or undead with your Crimson Rite, your weapon deals one additional hemocraft die of rite damage, and your rite damage ignores any resistances or immunities the creature has to it.

### Order of the Hound
Often thought of as hounds themselves, blood hunters formed the Order of the Hound to train canines to aid in tracking and fighting the unsavory creatures that plague the material plane. Its easy to loose track of a quarry that can turn in invisible, fly, or teleport, but having a partner with a heightened sense of smell means you can easily sniff them out. The hounds are also taught to sic and hold down enemies to prevent their further escape. This training leads to a special bond between beast and master which further amplified through your Hunter's Bane. If trained well and cared for properly, your hound will forever be a loyal and trusty companion.

#####  3rd level: Pet Hound

When you join this order, you develop a preternatural bond with a hound. Your hound can take the appearance of any canine such as a wolf, jackal, or any dog, but will always have the stat block of the hound provided.

The hound obeys your commands as best as it can. In combat, your hound shares your initiative count, but it takes its turn immediately after yours. On your turn, you can verbally command the hound (no action required by you). If you do not issue a command, your hound takes the Dodge action.

If you are incapacitated or absent, your hound acts on its own, focusing on protecting you and itself. It never requires your command to use its reaction, such as when making an opportunity attack.

When you use your Crimson Rite feature, instead of applying it to a weapon, you may apply it to your hound, provided it is within 30 feet of you.

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#### 3rd level:Undying Dog

You may bring your hound back to life using some of your life force. As an action, you may touch your dead or unconscious hound and reduce your hit point total by an amount equal to a roll of your hemocraft die. Your hound is brought back to life with hit points equal to two times your your blood hunter level and is now undead instead of a beast.

If your hound has no retrievable body, you may spend 1 hour and 10 gold performing a ritual to return its corpse which appears in an unoccupied space within 10 feet of you.

When your hound finishes a long rest, it is no longer undead and becomes a beast. The reduction of your hit point maximum lasts until you finish a long rest.

#### 7th level: Foul Villains

When your hound uses its Smell action on a creature, it can tell if the creature is fey, fiend, or undead. In addition, it can take 1 minute to smell 50 foot by 50 foot area. When it does so it can detect any hidden or invisible creatures in the area as well as if any fey, fiend, or undead were within the area within the past day. If so, the hound can begin trailing with strongest scent of the area.

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> ## Hound
>*Medium beast, unaligned*
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> - **Armor Class** 13 + plus your Hemocraft modifier
> - **Hit Points** 5 plus five times your Blood Hunter level (the beast has a number of Hit Dice [d8s] equal to your Blood Hunter level)
> - **Speed** 40 ft.
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>|STR|DEX|CON|INT|WIS|CHA|
>|:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:|
>|15 (+2)|14 (+2)|12 (+1)|7 (-2)|15 (+2)|13 (+1)|
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> - **Saving Throws** Profiency Bonus
> - **Skills** Athletics +4, Investigation +0, Perception +4, Survival +4
> - **Senses** passive Perception (14)
> - **Languages** understands the languages you speak, but can't speak them
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> ***Keen Smell.*** The hound has advantage on Intelligence (Investigation), Wisdom (Perception), or Wisdom (Survival) checks that rely on smell.
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> ***Loyal.*** Your hound can never be compelled to disobey or harm you.
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> ***Hemocraft Bond.***  Add your Proficiency Bonus to any ability check or saving throw the beast makes.
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>***Trail.*** If your hound has the scent of a creature (through the Smell action), it gains a +10 bonus to Wisdom (Survival) checks to track that creature and can do so at a fast pace. These bonuses are lost if the creature has taken any steps to mask or change its scent or if the creature has not been within 5 miles in the past 3 days. 
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> ### Actions
> ***Bite.*** Melee Attack Roll: Bonus equals your spell attack modifier, reach 5 ft. Hit: 1d8 + 2 plus your Hemocraft modifier Bludgeoning, Piercing, or Slashing damage (your choice when you summon the beast).  On a successful attack against a Large or smaller target, the hound can make a grapple attack as a part of its bite attack.  The grapple ends if the hound uses the bite action again.
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>***Smell.*** Your hound smells a creature or an object held by a creature in the last day or worn by a creature within the last 7 days, gaining its scent. Your hound can use this scent to trail. Your hound loses the scent if it uses the smell action to gain another scent or finishes a long rest.
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#### 11th levelBlood Curse of the Pack

You can manifest spectral versions of your hound to hunt foes. You gain the Blood Curse of the Pack for your Blood Malediction feature. This doesn't count against your number of blood curses known.

#### 15th level: Brand of the Blood Hound

Your Brand of Castigation allows your hound to better attack and hold the afflicted creature. Your hound has advantage on attack rolls and contested ability checks against a branded creature. Also, while a branded creature is grappled by your hound, it is also restrained, and you may have it take psychic damage equal to your your Hemocraft modifier (minimum of 1) at the beginning of its turns.

In addition, when your hound damages a creature, you may brand that creature with your Brand of Castigation feature.

#### 18th level:  Eldritch Hound
*18th-level Order of the Hound feature*

Your hound can turn into a fiend or fey hound. Your hound can use its action to transform into a hell hound or yeth hound (your choice). Your hound takes the statistics of its new form, but can still understand you and obey you.

It reverts to its normal form if it is reduced to 0 hit points, after 1 hour, or if you end the transformation early as an action. If it reverts as a result of dropping to 0 hit points, any excess damage carries over to its normal form.

Once your hound uses this feature, your hound can't use it again until your hound finishes a long a rest.

### Order of the Reaper
The Order of the Reaper charges itself with the utter eradication of its enemies. Reapers act as death's foot soldiers and mortal psychopomps, offering up souls to the afterlife. So steeped in the essence of death, they are able to extend their own life to continue their mission to reap souls. They are merciless and implacable in this duty.

#### 3rd level: Blood Marker

You have learned how to use the pain of your blood hunter abilities to enhance your combat. Each time you take damage from activating a crimson rite or amplifying a blood curse, you gain 1 blood marker. You may spend 1 blood marker as a bonus action on your turn to gain advantage on the next attack roll you make before the end of the turn or to take the Disengage or Dodge action. You can only have a maximum number of blood markers equal to 1 + your Constitution modifier and lose all unspent blood markers when you finish a long rest.

#### 3rd level: Reaper Resistance

You cannot die unless you have failed three death saving throws. Any effect that would kill you, when you do not have three failed death saves, instead reduces you to 0 hit points. Damage from a critical hit while at 0 hit points and rolling a 1 on a death saving throw now only count as one death saving throw failure.

In addition, you are proficient with heavy armor, and while you have an active crimson rite, you gain resistance to that damage type.

#### 7th level :Painful Tutelage

You may expand your blood hunter powers through suffering. You may spend 1 blood marker to learn another Primal Rite and 3 blood markers to learn another blood curse which doesn't count against your blood curses known. When you reach 14th level in this class, you may spend 3 blood markers to learn another Esoteric Rite.

Any power learned from this feature is lost when you finish a short or long rest.

#### 11th level:  Blood Curse of the Reaper's Mask

You can use your own blood to transform into a fearsome facsimile of death incarnate. You gain the Blood Curse of the Reaper's Mask for your Blood Malediction feature. This doesn't count against your number of blood curses known.

#### 15th level: Brand of the Death Watcher

Your Brand of Castigation grants insight and boons over a creature's death. You know the maximum and current hit points of a branded creature, as well as any curses or diseases it is afflicted by or any benefit it currently has that allows it to return to life such as the *clone* spell or a phylactery. In addition, when a branded creature is reduced to 0 hit points, you gain temporary hit points equal to your blood hunter level plus your your Hemocraft modifier

#### 18th level: Aspects of the Deathless

You can ignore the normal requirements for life. You no longer need to breathe, drink, eat, or sleep, although you still must rest to gain the benefits of a long rest and for every 10 years that pass, your body ages only 1 year.

#### 18th level: Merciless Reaping

You resist approaching death and spur it on in others. When a creature scores a critical hit against you, it becomes a regular hit instead, and any effects triggered by a critical hit are canceled. Also, the next hit you score against that creature before the end of your next turn is a critical hit. In addition, whenever you gain 1 blood marker while you are below half your hit points, you gain 1 additional blood marker.

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### Order of the Vampire
The original purpose of this strain of Hunter's Bane was to help abate the affliction of those cursed with vampirism. Many of these victims chose to combat the scourge that had cursed them as well as those of their ilk, and the Order of the Vampire was formed. Soon other blood hunters who were not cursed began to drink the specialized concoction, willing to gain a mild form of the vampiric disease for the cause.

Given the Order's history, many of these blood hunters specialize solely with the fight against vampires, looking to prevent others from going through the pain they suffered. But others of the Order see the similar oppression and violation of vampires in the many forms of evil infiltrating the land all of which must be stopped.

#### 3rd level: Vampirism

When you join this order, the Hunter's Bane concoction has afflicted you with a more gentle vampirism. You gain the following traits:

***Darkvision.*** You can see in dim light within 120 feet of you as if it were bright light, and in darkness as if it were dim light. You can't discern color in darkness, only shades of gray.

***Sunlight Sensitivity.*** You have disadvantage on attack rolls and on Wisdom (Perception) checks that rely on sight when you, the target of your attack, or whatever you are trying to perceive is in direct sunlight.

***Cursed Daylight.*** You have disadvantage on saving throws from effects that deal radiant damage.
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***Undead Resilience.*** You gain resistance to necrotic damage.

***Bloody Aroma.*** You can smell any creature within 60 feet of you that is at or below half its hit points. This does not apply to creatures that do not have blood in their body.

***Bite.*** Your fangs are a natural weapon, which you can use to make unarmed strikes. If you hit with it, you deal piercing damage equal to 1d4 + your Strength or Dexterity modifier (your choice), instead of the bludgeoning damage normal for an unarmed strike.

***Drink.*** You may attempt to drink the blood of an unwilling living creature. If you have made a bite attack against a creature with blood on your turn, you may use a bonus action to make a Strength (Athletics) or Dexterity (Acrobatics) check (your choice) contested by the creature’s Strength (Athletics) or Dexterity (Acrobatics) check (the target chooses the ability to use). If you succeed, you drink of its blood and regain hit points equal to half your blood hunter level.

You can't use this trait to regain hit points again until you finish a short or long rest.

***Sanguine Sustenance.*** You no longer require food, water, or air. You do however require blood to sustain yourself. You must drink the blood of a living humanoid every day. Each day you do not, you gain a level of exhaustion which cannot be reduced by finishing a long rest or by magical means. You can only reduce this exhaustion by drinking humanoid blood, reducing one level of exhaustion each time you drink. While you are exhausted in this way, you do not regain hit points when drinking blood.

#### 3rd level: Blood of the Prey

You may use the blood of your victims to fuel your blood curses. After you have successfully drunk the blood of a creature, the next blood curse you amplify within the next minute does not cause you to lose hit points.

#### 7th level: Mist Glide

You can move as mist to reach your prey. You can use a bonus action on your turn to fly up to half your movement speed toward a creature you can see or sense. You become intangible for this movement and can pass through creatures, objects, structures, and difficult terrain without expending extra movement, but can not end the movement inside a creature, object, or structure. If the target is at half its hit points or below, this movement equals your whole movement speed instead.

Once you use this feature, you can't use it again until you finish a short or long rest.

#### 11th level:  Blood Curse of the Supplicant

You can powerfully enchant creatures with blood coursing through their veins. You gain the Blood Curse of the Supplicant for your Blood Malediction feature. This doesn't count against your number of blood curses known.

#### 15th level:  Brand of the Bloodied

Your Brand of Castigation makes creatures more susceptible to your ravenous attacks. When you make a bite attack against a branded creature, you have advantage on the attack roll, the attack deals an extra 2d8 necrotic damage, and you automatically succeed on the ability check if you choose to drink the branded creature's blood.

#### 18thlevel:  Vampiric Regeneration

You gain the ability to regenerate. You regain 2 hit points every hour, and if you have no more than half of your hit points left, you regain hit points equal to 5 + your Constitution modifier at the start of each of your turns. You don’t regain hit points if you are in direct sunlight, have taken radiant damage since the end of your last turn, are exhausted as a result of your Sanguine Sustenance trait, or don't have at least 1 hit point.

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### Order of the Scale

Across the ages, the mighty dragon has been both idolized and feared. Regardless of the perception, it is irrefutable that dragons are brilliant creatures to be learned from. Power, survival, and intellect, all are words that can describe dragons. As such, the Order of the Scale spends years using their power of Hemocraft to manifest aspects of dragons. The Trial of Hibernation is the final step to becoming a member of this order and fully understanding its teachings. The trial involves sneaking into a dragon's lair and residing there, hidden, and absorbing the ambient magic that exudes from the lair. As they do so, they become increasingly draconic in nature.to the hunt

#### 3rd level: Dragon Bane

When you join this order at 3rd level, you consume a version of the Hunter's Bane made from dragon's blood. The benefits of your Hunter's Bane feature apply to Dragons in addition to the usual creature types, and you can speak, read, and write Draconic.

In addition, choose the type of dragon your Dragon's Bane is brewed from, and reference the Draconic Features table below for your Order of the Drake features.

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 ##### Type of Dragon Blood
 Also, choose a type of dragon whose blood flows through you. You gain the features according to its type, (refer to the dragon type table.)

Some Crimson Rites are unique to the Order of the Scale. The rites of Corrosive and  Sickness,  are detailed:

Rite of Corrosive: Your Rite Damage is Acid Damage

Rite of Sickness: Your Rite Damage is Poison Damage

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#### 3rd level: Scaled Affinity

Also at 3rd level, as the draconic blood alters your body, you gain the following benefits:

**Draconian Resilience.** You have resistance to your chosen Draconic damage type. When you aren't wearing armor, your AC is 13 + your Dexterity modifier. You can use your natural armor to determine your AC if the armor you wear would leave you with a lower AC. A shield's benefits apply as normal while you use your natural armor.

**Draconic Rites.** You learn the Crimson Rite associated with that type of dragon. If you already know this rite, you may learn another Crimson Rite of your choice.

#### 7th  level:Drake's Hide

**Draconic Hide:** The draconic blood in your veins has caused your skin to toughen and grow scales in patches. While you are not wearing heavy armor, you gain a +2 bonus to your AC and Constitution saving throws.