Class Overview

Hit Points

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

Proficiencies

• Armor: Light armor
• Weapons: Simple weapons
• Tools: None
• Saving Throws: Wisdom, Charisma
• Skills: Choose two from Deception, Intimidation, Insight, Investigation, Arcana, and Stealth

Equipment

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

• (a) a quarterstaff or (b) a sickle
• (a) a scholar’s pack or (b) an explorer’s pack
• Leather armor, and a spellcasting focus (orb, crystal, or amulet)

Class Features

The Buried

Also called The Centre, Choke, Too Close I Cannot Breathe, Forever Deep Below Creation.
The fear of small spaces, of being buried alive, of suffocating and drowning in the dark. The Buried presses inward, silent and unmoving. It doesn’t chase you it waits for the collapse. It manifests as dirt, coffins, heavy debts, crumbling ceilings, or the slow press of inevitable collapse.

The Corruption

Also called Filth, The Crawling Rot, Flesh Hive.
The fear of rot and sickness, of things that fester. It is not death, but what comes before: the oozing, crawling, unnatural thing that spreads in quiet corners. The Corruption disgusts and invades, clinging to skin and soul alike. It manifests as insects, decay, parasitic bonds, and toxic devotion.

Cloak of Night

At 3rd level, you learn to embrace the comfort of shadow.

You can see normally in darkness, both magical and nonmagical, out to a range of 60 feet. If you already have darkvision, its range increases by 30 feet and functions in magical darkness as well.

Eyes Never Met

Also at 3rd level, you learn to distort the senses of others.

As a reaction when a creature hits you with an attack roll, you can expend a Fear Die to create an illusory afterimage. The attacker must subtract the result from their attack damage.

Fade Into the Black

At 6th level, your form becomes harder to hold in memory.

When you roll initiative and are in dim light or darkness, you can become invisible until the end of your next turn. You may use this feature once per long rest.

Additionally, while you are in dim light or darkness, you have advantage on saving throws against being grappled or restrained.

Lightless Grasp

At 11th level, your presence darkens the hearts of others.

As an action, you can unleash a wave of shadowy tendrils from your form. You must expend a number of fear die for number of creatures targetted. Each creature must succeed on a Strength saving throw (DC = 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Charisma modifier) or take psychic damage equal to two Fear Dice and be unable to take reactions until the end of their next turn.

If they are in dim light or darkness, they also have disadvantage on the save.

You can use this feature once per long rest.

Scorch the Hope

At 3rd level, you gain the ability to mar a creature’s potential in the moment of opportunity.

When a creature within 30 feet of you regains hit points, casts a spell, or succeeds on a saving throw, you can use your reaction to expend a Fear Die. Roll the die and reduce the healing received, spell’s effective level (minimum 1), or subtract it from the save result retroactively.

This can only affect one creature per turn, and a spell reduced this way does not lose its slot but has reduced effect as determined by the DM (e.g. range halved, targets reduced, etc.).

Waxen Brand

Also at 3rd level, you mark others with your own pain.

When you take damage from a source you can see, you can choose to brand a creature within 30 feet. Until the end of your next turn, whenever that creature deals damage, it also takes psychic damage equal to your Charisma modifier.

You can use this feature a number of times equal to your proficiency bonus per long rest.

Collapse the Foundation

At 6th level, you can cause physical or emotional structures to crumble under your presence.

As an action, you target a structure, magical effect (such as wall of force or telekinetic barrier), or a creature concentrating on a spell within 60 feet. That target must make a Constitution saving throw (DC = 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Charisma modifier).

• On a failure, the structure takes double damage from the next source to affect it.
• A creature rolls concentration as if it took damage (roll as normal), and if it fails, it takes psychic damage equal to your Fear Die.

You can use this feature once per long rest, or expend 2 Fear Dice to use it again.

Burn the Future

At 11th level, when a creature within 30 feet, benefits from a critical hit, or succeeds on an attack roll, you may use your reaction to expend a Fear Die and instead impose despair:

• The creature becomes frightened of you until the end of its next turn.
• The creature takes psychic damage equal to the Fear Die rolled.

You can use this feature a number of times equal to your Charisma modifier per long rest.

The Black Flame Hungers

At 17th level, you can summon the desolation within and let it devour hope directly.

As an action, you unleash a pillar of heatless black flame in a 20-foot radius centered on yourself that lasts for 1 minute. While this flame is active:

• Creatures of your choice in the area cannot benefit from healing or temporary hit points.
• Whenever a creature takes fire or psychic damage from you or an ally, you may roll a Fear Die and deal additional psychic damage equal to the die.
• Allies in the flame gain immunity to fear but take 1 psychic damage at the start of their turns.

You can use this feature once per long rest.

Omen of Closure

At 3rd level, you can sense when an end draws near.

When a creature within 60 feet of you is below half its maximum hit points, you have advantage on Intimidation checks and Wisdom (Insight) checks against it.

Additionally, when a creature within 30 feet of you is reduced to 0 hit points, you may expend a Fear Die. If you do, another creature of your choice within 30 feet must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw (DC = 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Charisma modifier) or become frightened of you until the end of its next turn.

Dream of Dying

Also at 3rd level, you can cast sleep once per long rest without expending a spell slot or components. Charisma is your spellcasting modifier for this spell.

Echoes of the Last Breath

At 6th level, you can reach into the fading memory of life.

As a bonus action, you may target a corpse or undead creature within 60 feet. Until the end of your next turn, you can ask it one question as if under the effect of speak with dead. It answers mentally, and only to you—no one else can hear it.

You can use this feature a number of times equal to your Charisma modifier per long rest.

Death’s Patience

At 11th level, you become a still figure in the chaos of battle.

When you take the Dodge action, you can expend a Fear Die to do one of the following at the end of your turn:

• Deal psychic damage equal to the Fear Die to each creature within 10 feet of you that missed you with an attack.
• Cause one creature within 60 feet to have disadvantage on its next attack roll.

Additionally, when you reduce a creature to 0 hit points, you may choose to have them fall unconscious and stable instead of dying. Their dreams are filled with visions of you.

The Door Closes

At 17th level, you can invoke the weight of finality itself.

As an action, you call upon the inevitability of death. Each creature of your choice within 30 feet that is frightened, below half hit points, or unconscious must make a Wisdom saving throw (DC = 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Charisma modifier).

On a failure, the creature takes 5d10 psychic damage and is unable to regain hit points until the end of its next turn.

On a success, it takes half damage with no additional effect.

You can use this feature once per long rest.

Unblinking Sight

At 3rd level, your gaze pierces lies and illusions.

You gain proficiency in either Investigation or Insight (your choice). If you're already proficient, your proficiency bonus is doubled for that skill.

Additionally, you can see normally through lightly obscured areas and magical darkness. You have advantage on Intelligence (Investigation) checks to uncover hidden doors, traps, or written secrets.

Force the Gaze

Also at 3rd level, you gain proficiency in two languages of your choice.

Additionally, whenever you attempt to learn a new language, skill proficiency, or tool proficiency through downtime, the required time is reduced by half. If the DM requires a check to learn the skill, you may add your Charisma modifier to the roll.

Twisting Grasp

At 3rd level, your power over the physical form begins to show.

When you expend a Fear Die to affect a creature, you may also cause its body to momentarily betray it. Choose one:

• It is knocked prone.
• It cannot take reactions until the start of its next turn.
• It has disadvantage on its next Strength or Dexterity saving throw.

Additionally, your unarmed strikes count as magical for the purpose of overcoming resistance and immunity, and you may use your Charisma modifier in place of Strength for unarmed strikes.

Made of Meat

Also at 3rd level, you understand flesh so intimately that your own resists change.

When you take bludgeoning, piercing, or slashing damage, you can use your reaction to expend a Fear Die and reduce the damage by the result + your Charisma modifier.

Mark the Prey

At 3rd level, you can instinctively choose a target to stalk.

As a bonus action, choose one creature you can see within 60 feet. Until the end of your next long rest or until you mark a different creature, you gain the following benefits against your prey:

• You know its direction as long as you’re on the same plane of existence.
• You have advantage on Wisdom (Survival) checks to track it.
• The first time you deal damage to it on your turn, you may add your Fear Die to the damage once per round.

You may have only one marked prey at a time.

Predator's Step

Also at 3rd level, your body adapts to the thrill of the hunt.

When you take the Dash or Disengage action, you may move through the space of creatures larger than you, and your movement does not provoke opportunity attacks from creatures you've damaged this turn.

Additionally, you gain proficiency in the Survival skill. If you are already proficient, your proficiency bonus is doubled for checks made to track or follow a target.

Stalk the Pulse

At 6th level, you can sense the heartbeat of prey.

While you have a creature marked with Mark the Prey, you gain the following:

• You have blindsight out to 10 feet.
• You can hear the breathing and heart rate of your prey — granting you advantage on Insight checks against them, and on attack rolls if they are frightened or below half hit points.
• If your marked prey becomes invisible, you may still see their faint outline as if under see invisibility.

No One to Call

At 3rd level, you begin to shed connections — intentionally or not.

You learn the message cantrip, and can cast it without verbal or somatic components. When you use it, the voice sounds distant, distorted, or familiar in the wrong ways.

Additionally, you gain proficiency in one of the following: Insight, Stealth, or Deception. If you are already proficient in all three, choose one to gain expertise in instead.

Drifting Step

Also at 3rd level, your movement becomes unsettling, like a figure just barely missed in the fog.

When you start your turn and no allies are within 10 feet of you, you gain one of the following benefits until the end of your turn (your choice):

• Your movement speed increases by 10 feet.
• You can move through hostile creatures’ spaces without provoking opportunity attacks.
• You can Dash as a bonus action.

This feature does not function if you are within range of a bonded familiar, mount, or ally creature you consider emotionally close.

Hollow Presence

At 6th level, you are there, but not quite.

When a creature tries to recall your face, name, or voice after seeing or hearing you for the first time in a scene, it must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw (DC = 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Charisma modifier) or their memory of you becomes hazy and indistinct.

Additionally:

• You have advantage on Charisma (Deception) and Dexterity (Stealth) checks when you are not standing adjacent to any allies.
• You can sleep in armor and cannot be surprised while sleeping, as even dreams stay quiet around you.

Fog Between Us

At 11th level, you can summon a subtle emotional fog not just of sight, but of presence.

As an action, you create a 20-foot radius fog centered on yourself. The fog lasts for 1 minute, is lightly obscured, and moves with you.

While within the fog:

• Attack rolls made against you or any creature of your choice are made with disadvantage.
• You may cast silence (centered on yourself) once during this fog’s duration without expending a spell slot.

You can use this feature once per long rest.

I Was Never Here

At 17th level, you may vanish in a moment of quiet.

When you are reduced to 0 hit points, you may instead drop to 1 hit point and become invisible, intangible, and inaudible until the end of your next turn. During this time, you cannot be targeted, seen, heard, or affected by any effect, nor can you take the attack action, or cast spells. You leave behind no trace.

You can use this feature once per long rest.

Sudden Red

At 3rd level, violence answers your presence like a trigger pulled.

When you roll initiative, you may add your Strength modifier to the roll.

Additionally, you gain proficiency in martial weapons. If you already have it, you may choose proficiency in medium armor or one musical instrument (The Slaughter often hums its own tune).

Mark of Violence

Also at 3rd level, you can curse someone with the promise of pain.

As a bonus action, choose one creature you can see within 60 feet. For the next minute or until you mark another creature:

• The first time the marked creature takes damage each turn, it takes additional psychic damage equal to your Charisma modifier.
• If the marked creature dies, you regain 1 expended Fear Die.

You can use this feature a number of times equal to your proficiency bonus per long rest.

Blood Follows Noise

At 6th level, battle calls to you and through you.

Once per turn when you deal psychic or weapon damage to a creature, you may choose to create one of the following effects:

• An ally within 30 feet gains advantage on their next melee attack roll against the target.
• The sound of your strike echoes forcing all hostile creatures within 10 feet of you to make a Dexterity saving throw or have disadvantage on attacks until the start of their next turn.

You may use this feature a number of times equal to your Charisma modifier per long rest.

Beautiful Ruin

At 11th level, your violence is mesmerizing even artistic.

When you deal damage that reduces a creature to 0 hit points, you may choose to make an impression.

• You gain temporary hit points equal to the damage dealt.
• One creature of your choice within 30 feet that can see you must make a Charisma saving throw or be charmed or frightened by you (your choice) until the end of their next turn.

This can affect a creature only once per round.

When It Starts, It Doesn’t Stop

At 17th level, you become a vessel of perfect carnage.

When you reduce a creature to 0 hit points, you may immediately make another melee weapon or unarmed attack as a reaction.

In addition, once per long rest, when you roll initiative, you may enter a state of Slaughter for 1 minute. While in this state:

• You have resistance to bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing damage.
• You may Dash or make a single weapon attack as a bonus action on each of your turns.
• You cannot be charmed or frightened.

You may end this state early as a bonus action. When it ends, you gain 1 level of exhaustion.

Fractal Trick

At 3rd level, your presence bends understanding.

When a creature within 60 feet of you fails a saving throw against an charm spell or effect, you may expend a Fear Die to cause one of the following:

• The creature believes it is somewhere else, it cannot take reactions until the end of its next turn.
• The creature becomes disoriented — it falls prone.
• The creature sees a twisted reflection of someone it trusts — it is frightened of you until the end of its next turn.

You can use this feature a number of times equal to your proficiency bonus per long rest.

Face That Wasn’t Yours

At 3rd level, you learn to wear familiarity like a disguise.

As an action, you may take on the visage and voice of a humanoid creature you’ve seen within the past 24 hours. This functions like disguise self, but can mimic clothing, gestures, and voice with perfect precision.

While disguised, you gain advantage on Charisma (Deception) and Charisma (Performance) checks to impersonate that creature, and creatures must succeed on an Intelligence (Investigation) check (DC = 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Charisma modifier) to detect the illusion.

You can use this feature a number of times equal to your proficiency bonus per long rest.

Maskwork

Also at 3rd level, you may create a tangible mask of strangeness.

As a bonus action, you summon or touch a simple mask porcelain, wood, wax, etc. While wearing it:

• You are have advantage on saving throws or checks for effects that read thoughts, detect alignment, or discern your true identity.
• You have advantage on saving throws against the charmed condition.
• Your voice sounds wrong, distorted, or artificial.

Removing the mask ends these effects. You may conjure or destroy this mask at will with a bonus action.

Echo Skin

At 6th level, you can mirror your enemy's presence even if imperfectly.

When a creature within 60 feet of you makes an attack roll or casts a spell that targets only you, you may use your reaction to mimic part of its form. Until the end of your next turn:

• You gain resistance to the type of damage dealt by that attack or spell (if applicable).
• You may use your next attack roll or spell to imitate the flavor or posture of that creature if you do, roll a Fear Die and add it to the attack roll or spell’s saving throw DC.

You can use this feature a number of times equal to your Charisma modifier per long rest.

Call of the Open Sky

At 3rd level, the sensation of falling creeps into your presence.

You gain resistance to falling damage.

Additionally, as an action, you may cause a creature within 30 feet to feel the sensation of plummeting. The creature must make a Wisdom saving throw (DC = 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Charisma modifier) or have disadvantage on the next attack roll or saving throw it makes before the end of its next turn, as its balance and perspective lurch out of place.

You can use this feature a number of times equal to your proficiency bonus per long rest.

Vertigo

Also at 3rd level, you can create a sense of unmooring in others.

You gain proficiency in Acrobatics. When you make an ability check or saving throw to resist being moved or knocked prone, you may roll a Fear Die and add it to the roll.

Drop Them

At 6th level, you can cause the world to vanish beneath a target’s feet.

As an action, choose a creature within 60 feet. You may expend a Fear Die to force the creature to make a Strength saving throw (DC = 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Charisma modifier). On a failure:

• The creature is launched 10 feet into the air and then falls, taking bludgeoning damage equal to the Fear Die and landing prone.
• If the creature was already prone, it instead takes double the Fear Die in damage.

On a successful save, the creature takes no damage and is not moved.

Weightless Dread

At 11th level, you can shed gravity like a thought and impose that absence on others.

As a bonus action, you can float 3 feet off the ground for 1 minute. While floating:

• You are immune to effects that rely on being grounded (such as spike growth or difficult terrain).
• You can hover over water, gaps, or thin air.
• Once per round, you may choose one creature within 30 feet they must succeed on a Constitution saving throw or suffer disadvantage on Strength and Dexterity checks until the end of their next turn.

You may use this feature once per short or long rest.

The Space Between Stars

At 17th level, you can open the infinite a glimpse of the sky that never ends.

As an action, you tear open a rift into The Vast. Choose a point within 120 feet. A 20-foot radius, 100-foot deep vertical shaft of open sky or void tears open.

When you activate this effect:

• Each creature of your choice within the shaft must make a Strength saving throw (DC = 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Charisma modifier). On a failure, the creature is banished as if affected by the banishment spell, but instead of another plane, it vanishes into endless space weightless and alone until the end of its next turn.
• When the creature returns, it takes 15d6 force damage as it crashes back into reality.

You can use this feature once per long rest.

Silken Threads

At 3rd level, you can weave a thin psychic thread between yourself and another.

As a bonus action, choose one creature within 60 feet. Until the end of your next long rest or until you choose a different creature, that target becomes thread-bound. You can only have one thread-bound creature at a time.

While a creature is thread-bound:

• You always know its direction and distance while on the same plane.
• You have advantage on Insight checks against it.
• When it takes damage, you may use your reaction to expend a Fear Die and reduce the damage by that amount. The target is unaware of your protection.

Whispered Pull

Also at 3rd level, you may subtly tug the thread.

When your thread-bound creature makes an attack roll, ability check, or saving throw, you may use your reaction to roll a Fear Die and add or subtract the result (your choice) from their roll.

You can use this feature a number of times equal to your Charisma modifier per long rest.

Tangle Their Will

At 6th level, your influence spreads through speech and silence alike.

You learn the suggestion spell and may cast it once per long rest without expending a spell slot or components. When casting it, your voice sounds like someone the target trusts.

Additionally, creatures charmed by you:

• Are also considered thread-bound.
• Have disadvantage on saving throws against your suggestion, command, or similar influence effects.

Strands Between Us

At 11th level, you can stretch your control between multiple figures.

As a bonus action, you can link yourself to up to two creatures you can see within 60 feet. They remain thread-bound for 1 hour or until you link again. You must maintain concentration (as if concentrating on a spell) to maintain the link. All other threadbound creatures are released.

While linked:

• The creatures can telepathically communicate with each other and with you.
• When one of the linked creatures hits with an attack, the other may use their reaction to immediately move up to half their speed toward the target or make a weapon attack against it.
• Once per turn, when one linked creature succeeds on a saving throw, the other may add your Charisma modifier to their next saving throw before the start of their next turn.

You can use this feature once per long rest.

Dance on My Strings

At 17th level, you seize control with finality.

As an action, choose up to 3 hostile creatures within 60 feet that are either thread-bound, charmed, or frightened. Each must succeed on a Charisma saving throw (DC = 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Charisma modifier) or become your puppet until the end of your next turn.

While a creature is your puppet:

• You may control their movement.
• They cannot target you with attacks or spells.
• You may speak through them in your own voice or theirs.

Once the effect ends, the target has no memory of being controlled unless told.

You may use this feature once per long rest.

Stillness

Transmutation Cantrip (Harbinger, Warlock)

• Casting Time: 1 Action
• Range: 30 feet
• Components: S
• Duration: One round

You reach toward a nearby creature, conjuring a fragment of still, smothering fear. Choose one creature within range. That creature must succeed on a Constitution saving throw on a fail:

• The creature’s speed is reduced by 10 feet.
• It takes 1d6 psychic damage.

On a success nothing happens.