Variant Sorcerer

An alien influence has wrapped its tendrils around your mind, giving you psionic power. You can now touch other minds with that power and alter the world around you by using it to control the magical energy of the multiverse. Will this power shine from you as a hopeful beacon to others? Or will you be a source of terror to those who feel the stab of your mind and witness the strange manifestations of your might?

As an Aberrant Mind sorcerer, you decide how you acquired your powers. Were you born with them? Or did an event later in life leave you shining with psionic awareness? Consult the Aberrant Origins table for a possible origin of your power.

6th-level Aberrant Mind feature

When you cast any spell of 1st level or higher from your Psionic Spells feature, you can cast it by expending a spell slot as normal or by spending a number of sorcery points equal to the spell's level.

If you cast the spell using sorcery points, it requires no verbal or somatic components, and it requires no material components, unless they are consumed by the spell.

6th-level Aberrant Mind feature

You gain resistance to psychic damage, and you have advantage on saving throws against being charmed or frightened.

14th-level Aberrant Mind feature

You can unleash the aberrant truth hidden within yourself. As a bonus action, you can spend 1 or more sorcery points to magically transform your body for 10 minutes. For each sorcery point you spend, you can gain one of the following benefits of your choice, the effects of which last until the transformation ends:

18th-level Aberrant Mind feature

You can unleash your aberrant power as a space-warping anomaly. As an action, you can teleport to an unoccupied space you can see within 120 feet of you. Immediately after you disappear, each creature within 30 feet of the space you left must make a Strength saving throw against your spell save DC. On a failed save, a creature takes 3d10 force damage and is pulled straight toward the space you left, ending in an unoccupied space as close to your former space as possible. On a successful save, the creature takes half as much damage and isn't pulled.

Once you use this feature, you can't do so again until you finish a long rest, unless you spend 5 sorcery points to use it again.

An alien influence has wrapped its tendrils around you, warping you in both body and mind. Perhaps a psychic splinter lodged in your psyche after you suffered domination by an aboleth. Maybe you were born somewhere tainted by the Far Realm, a planar blot that changed you forever. Or perhaps mind flayers kidnapped you, subjecting you to the nightmarish process of ceremorphosis—but the transformation failed and left you altered.

6th-level Aberrant Mind feature

Beginning at 6th level, when you cast any of the spells gained from your Psionic Spells feature, you can cast it by expending a spell slot as normal or by spending a number of sorcery points equal to the spell's level. If you cast the spell using sorcery points, it requires no components.

6th-level Aberrant Mind feature

At 6th level, you gain resistance to psychic damage, and you have advantage on saving throws against being charmed or frightened.

14th-level Aberrant Mind feature

Beginning at 14th level, you can unleash the aberrant truth hidden within your flesh. As a bonus action, you can spend 1 or more sorcery points to magically transform your body for 1 minute. For each sorcery point you spend, you can gain one of the following benefits of your choice, the effects of which last until the transformation ends:

18th-level Aberrant Mind feature

At 18th level, you become the focal point of a reality-warping anomaly. As an action, you can magically radiate a transparent, 20-foot-radius aura for 1 minute. This might take the form of a sphere of rippling psychic energy, a fluctuating amoebic gel, an extrusion of ephemeral parasites, or some other manifestation. Other creatures treat the aura as difficult terrain, and when they start their turn in it, they take 2d10 psychic damage. When you activate this feature, you can choose any number of creatures you can see to be unaffected by the aura.

As a bonus action, you can end the aura early. If you do so, you and any number of creatures you choose within the aura are teleported to a location you can see within 1 mile of you. Each creature must appear within 20 feet of you and in an unoccupied space. An unwilling creature that succeeds on a Charisma saving throw against your spell save DC is not teleported. Once you use this feature, you can't use it again until you finish a long rest.

Your innate magic is channeled through the planar pools which connect many of the planes of existence to the astral plane. Your soul has been split in two, with the majority of its essence - the "anchor"-bound to the astral plane. Many such souls never awaken their power, but through intense training, a near-death experience, or other elevating event, you have gained awareness and control of this flexible magic source.

Starting at 6th level, you can draw upon your anchor's well of sorcerous power in addition to your own. When you spend 2 or more sorcery points during a turn, you can immediately use your reaction to regain 1 sorcery point.

Starting at 14th level, your astral anchor protects you in response to dire threats.

Immediately after you are incapacitated or knocked unconscious, you can choose to gain the benefits of the resilient sphere spell, with the following changes: it doesn't require concentration, the sphere is resistant to all damage instead of immune, it has 15 AC, and it has 4 hit points for each of your Sorcerer levels. When all of these hit points are lost, the spell ends, and you take any remaining damage. If a creature touches the sphere, you can choose to end the spell, whether you are conscious or not. You can also choose to end it on your turn (no action required by you).

Once you have used this feature, you must finish a short or long rest before using it again.

Starting at 18th level, your astral anchor has gained enough fortitude to support transporting your physical form. When you cast a spell, you can expend 3 sorcery points to teleport up to 30 feet to a point you can see before casting the spell. You also gain a short burst of power in the process, increasing the damage of the spell. The damage increase equals half your sorcerer level.

The cosmic force of order has suffused you with magic. That power arises from Mechanus or a realm like it-a plane of existence shaped entirely by clockwork efficiency. You, or someone from your lineage, might have become entangled in the machinations of the modrons, the orderly beings who inhabit Mechanus. Perhaps your ancestor even took part in the Great Modron March. Whatever its origin within you, the power of order can seem strange to others, but for you, it is part of a vast and glorious system.

6th-level Clockwork Soul feature

You can tap into the grand equation of existence to imbue a creature with a shimmering shield of order. As an action, you can expend 1 to 5 sorcery points to create a magical ward around yourself or another creature you can see within 30 feet of you. The ward lasts until you finish a long rest or until you use this feature again.

The ward is represented by a number of d8s equal to the number of sorcery points spent to create it. When the warded creature takes damage, it can expend a number of those dice, roll them, and reduce the damage taken by the total rolled on those dice.

14th-level Clockwork Soul feature

You gain the ability to align your consciousness to the endless calculations of Mechanus. As a bonus action, you can enter this state for 1 minute. For the duration, attack rolls against you can't benefit from advantage, and whenever you make an attack roll, an ability check, or a saving throw, you can treat a roll of 9 or lower on the d20 as a 10.

Once you use this bonus action, you can't use it again until you finish a long rest, unless you spend 5 sorcery points to use it again.

18th-level Clockwork Soul feature

You summon spirits of order to expunge disorder around you. As an action, you summon the spirits in a 30-foot cube originating from you. The spirits look like modrons or other constructs of your choice. The spirits are intangible and invulnerable, and they create the following effects within the cube before vanishing:

Once you use this action, you can't use it again until you finish a long rest, unless you spend 7 sorcery points to use it again.

A plane of utmost order, Mechanus is a realm overseen by a godlike entity called Primus, whose actions are inscrutable and calculations, vast. You, or someone from your lineage, might have become entangled in one of the machinations of the leader of the modrons. Perhaps you were exposed to an artifact created by Primus, or your ancestor took part in the Great Modron March in some way.

The power of Mechanus can seem strange and alien to others, but for you it is part of a vast and glorious system that others can't comprehend. At your option, you can pick from or roll on the Manifestations of Mechanus table to create a way your connection to the plane manifests while you are casting a spell.

6th-level Clockwork Soul feature

You can imbue a creature with a shimmering shield of order. As an action, you can expend 1 to 5 sorcery points to create a magical ward around yourself or another creature you can see within 30 feet of you. The ward lasts until you finish a long rest or until you use this feature again.

The ward is represented by a number of d8s equal to the number of sorcery points spent to create it. When the warded creature takes damage, it can use its reaction to spend a number of those dice, roll them, and reduce the damage taken by the total of the spent dice.

14th-level Clockwork Soul feature

You gain the ability to enter a state of clockwork consciousness as a bonus action. For the next minute, attack rolls against you can't benefit from advantage, and whenever you make an attack roll, an ability check, or a saving throw, you can treat a d20 roll of 9 or lower as a 10.

Once you use this action, you can't use it again until you finish a long rest or until you expend 5 sorcery points to use it again.

18th-level Clockwork Soul feature

You summon spirits of order to restore balance around you. As an action, you summon the spirits in a 30-foot cube originating from you. The spirits look like modrons or other constructs of your choice. The spirits are intangible and invulnerable, work fast and efficiently, and create the following effects within the cube before vanishing:

Once you use this action, you can't use it again until you finish a long rest or until you expend 7 sorcery points to use it again.

You have a neural link to the central consciousness of a hive, colony, or some other collective. Those with this link have some relation to these entities; be it an integrated ancestor, indoctrination, cloning, or otherwise. Their link allows these sorcerers to use the reconnaissance and communication available to their collective.

Starting at 6th level, you can spend 10 minutes in commune with your collective, as long as you are on the same plane of existence to inquire about one event, object or piece of information that you know. At the DM's discretion, the collective can share its knowledge as it relates to your inquiry via a truthful reply.

Starting at 14th level, your consciousness becomes a permanent part of your collective, which can produce a new body for you should yours perish.

If you die, you return to life 24 hours after death. You reform within 1 mile of your place of death at a point chosen by the DM. Your equipment remains where you died, if it wasn't destroyed.

Starting at 18th level, the regal presence of your collective mind can be implanted into the conscious of another, weaving into their psyche and inducting them into your collective.

As an action, you can touch a non-hostile creature, which must succeed on a Charisma saving throw or regard you as family. A creature that succeeds on its saving throw becomes immune to this effect for 24 hours and is aware that you attempted to manipulate it. A greater restoration spell ends the effect.

You learn the following spells at the sorcerer levels listed. These spells count as sorcerer spells for you, and they do not count against your number of spells known.

Sometimes the spark of magic that fuels a sorcerer comes from a divine source that glimmers within the soul. Having such a blessed soul is a sign that your innate magic might come from a distant but powerful familial connection to a divine being. Perhaps your ancestor was an angel, transformed into a mortal and sent to fight in a god's name.

Or your birth might align with an ancient prophecy, marking you as a servant of the gods or a chosen vessel of divine magic.

A Divine Soul, with a natural magnetism, is seen as a threat by some religious hierarchies. As an outsider who commands sacred power, a Divine Soul can undermine an existing order by claiming a direct tie to the divine.

In some cultures, only those who can claim the power of a Divine Soul may command religious power. In these lands, ecclesiastical positions are dominated by a few bloodlines and preserved over generations.

Starting at 6th level, the divine energy coursing through you can empower healing spells. Whenever you or an ally within 5 feet of you rolls dice to determine the number of hit points a spell restores, you can spend 1 sorcery point to reroll any number of those dice once, provided you aren't incapacitated. You can use this feature only once per turn.

Starting at 14th level, you can use a bonus action to manifest a pair of spectral wings from your back. While the wings are present, you have a flying speed of 30 feet. The wings last until you're incapacitated, you die, or you dismiss them as a bonus action.

The affinity you chose for your Divine Magic feature determines the appearance of the spectral wings: eagle wings for good or law, bat wings for evil or chaos, and dragonfly wings for neutrality.

At 18th level, you gain the ability to overcome grievous injuries. As a bonus action when you have fewer than half of your hit points remaining, you can regain a number of hit points equal to half your hit point maximum.

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

You learn the following spells at the sorcerer levels listed. These spells count as sorcerer spells for you, and they do not count against your number of spells known.

Your innate magic comes from draconic magic that was mingled with your blood or that of your ancestors. Most often, sorcerers with this origin trace their descent back to a mighty sorcerer of ancient times who made a bargain with a dragon or who might even have claimed a dragon parent. Some of these bloodlines are well established in the world, but most are obscure. Any given sorcerer could be the first of a new bloodline, as a result of a pact or some other exceptional circumstance.

Starting at 6th level, when you cast a spell that deals damage of the type associated with your draconic ancestry, you can add your Charisma modifier to one damage roll of that spell. At the same time, you can spend 1 sorcery point to gain resistance to that damage type for 1 hour.

At 14th level, you gain the ability to sprout a pair of dragon wings from your back, gaining a flying speed equal to your current speed. You can create these wings as a bonus action on your turn. They last until you dismiss them as a bonus action on your turn.

You can't manifest your wings while wearing armor unless the armor is made to accommodate them, and clothing not made to accommodate your wings might be destroyed when you manifest them.

Beginning at 18th level, you can channel the dread presence of your dragon ancestor, causing those around you to become awestruck or frightened. As an action, you can spend 5 sorcery points to draw on this power and exude an aura of awe or fear (your choice) to a distance of 60 feet. For 1 minute or until you lose your concentration (as if you were casting a concentration spell), each hostile creature that starts its turn in this aura must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw or be charmed (if you chose awe) or frightened (if you chose fear) until the aura ends. A creature that succeeds on this saving throw is immune to your aura for 24 hours.

You have been chosen by a deity, and bestowed with a fragment of their divine power. You have been fundamentally changed by the touch of this deity, which awakens powerful magical abilities inside you.

Beginning at 6th level, you can attack twice, instead of once, whenever you take the Attack action on your turn.

At 14th level, you gain the ability to sprout a pair of wings from your back (feathered or bat-like, your choice), gaining a flying speed equal to your current walking speed. You can create these wings as a bonus action on your turn. They last until you dismiss them as a bonus action on your turn.

You can't manifest your wings while wearing armor unless the armor is made to accommodate them, and clothing not made to accommodate your wings might be destroyed when you manifest them.

Starting at 18th level, when you cast one of the spells you learned from your Chosen of the Gods class feature, you regain hit points equal to your Charisma modifier (minimum of +1) + the spell's level.

Sometimes the spark of magic that fuels a sorcerer comes from a divine source that glimmers within the soul. Having such a favored soul, your innate magic might come from a distant but powerful familial connection to a divine being. Perhaps your ancestor was an angel, transformed into a mortal and sent to fight in a god's name. Or your birth might align with an ancient prophecy, marking you as a servant of the gods or a chosen vessel of divine magic.

Favored souls, with their natural magnetism and strong personalities, are often seen as threats by traditional religious hierarchies. As outsiders who command the power of the gods, these sorcerers can undermine the existing order and claim a direct tie to the divine.

In some cultures, only those who can claim the power of a favored soul may command religious power. In these lands, ecclesiastical positions are dominated by a few bloodlines and preserved over generations.

At 6th level, your divine essence causes you to undergo a minor physical transformation. Your appearance takes on an otherworldly version of one of the following qualities (your choice): beautiful, youthful, kind, or imposing.

Whatever your choice, if your proficiency bonus applies to a Charisma check, double that bonus.

At 14th level, you become immune to disease, poison damage, and the poisoned condition.

At 18th level, you gain the ability to overcome grievous injuries. As a bonus action when you have less than half of your hit points remaining, you can regain a number of hit points equal to half your hit point maximum.

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

Sometimes the spark of magic that fuels a sorcerer comes from a divine source that glimmers within the soul. Having such a favored soul, your innate magic might come from a distant but powerful familial connection to a divine being. Perhaps your ancestor was an angel, transformed into a mortal and sent to fight in a god's name. Or your birth might align with an ancient prophecy, marking you as a servant of the gods or a chosen vessel of divine magic.

Favored souls, with their natural magnetism and strong personalities, are often seen as threats by traditional religious hierarchies. As outsiders who command the power of the gods, these sorcerers can undermine the existing order and claim a direct tie to the divine.

In some cultures, only those who can claim the power of a favored soul may command religious power. In these lands, ecclesiastical positions are dominated by a few bloodlines and preserved over generations.

Starting at 6th level, the celestial energy coursing through you can empower your healing magic. Whenever you roll dice to determine the number of hit points a sorcerer spell of yours restores, you can spend 1 sorcery point to reroll any number of those dice once.

At 14th level, your divine essence causes you to undergo a minor physical transformation. Your appearance takes on an otherworldly version of one of the following qualities (your choice): beautiful, youthful, kind, or imposing.

In addition, as a bonus action, you can manifest a pair of spectral wings from your back. The wings last until you're incapacitated or you dismiss them as a bonus action. While the wings are present, you have a flying speed of 30 feet.

At 18th level, you gain the ability to overcome grievous injuries. As a bonus action when you have less than half of your hit points remaining, you can regain a number of hit points equal to half your hit point maximum.

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

Use the Mark of the Ordning feature from the UA article, or add the following origin spells*:

* Soul of Lost Ostoria allows you to choose which giant ancestry represents you, and triggers on casting one of your origin spells.

The giants once dwelled in a fabled realm known as Ostoria, a paradise for their folk that reflected their mastery of the mortal realm. In time, Ostoria fell, and the giants were scattered and broken. During that mythic era, the giants granted a few chosen individuals among the small folk a shard of their great power. These favored people were caught in the same tragedy that sundered Ostoria. Since that time, they have spread across the many worlds of the multiverse. Now and again, one of their descendants manifests the gifts imparted by the giants, granting them sorcerous magic that allows them to command the elements and gain the might of a giant.

Starting at 6th level, you gain a benefit whenever you cast one of the spells granted by your Mark of the Ordning Feature.

Starting at 14th level, you gain the ability to channel the souls of your ancestors into your physical form. When you start casting a sorcerer spell on your turn and expend a spell slot, you can increase your size by one category—from Medium to Large, for example.

This increase lasts for 1 minute. It ends early if you die or are incapacitated. Until it ends, you enjoy the following benefits:

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

At 18th level, your Constitution score increases by 2, up to a maximum of 22.

In addition, you can now use Rage of Fallen Ostoria twice between rests, but no more than once on a turn. If you use that feature while under its effects, its increases to your size, hit points, reach, and walking speed are cumulative.

Gloom-touched sorcerers are those who are tainted with demonic magic. These are most commonly descendants of creatures doomed to Hades by a curse, but some may also be born by ritual, a desperate pact, or some other demonic encounter. These sorcerers have magical abilities warped in dark and deranged ways, allowing them to capture and manipulate the souls of fallen creatures. Due to their demonic nature, gloom-touched sorcerers can often be subject to scorn or even violence.

Starting at 6th level, you can use a fragment of a trapped soul as a seed to replenish your own vitality.

When damage reduces you to 0 hit points but doesn't outright kill you, you can use a retained soul to make a Constitution saving throw (DC 10 or half of the damage, whichever is higher). On a successful save, you are instead reduced to 1 hit point. The soul is freed whether you succeed or fail.

Starting at 14th level, you can use your magic to quickly draw the souls of others to you, even at a distance.

You can use your Soul Extraction feature at a range of 30 feet, and you can expend 1 sorcery point to use the feature as a reaction when a creature other than you is reduced to 0 hit points; if you do, you also regain hit points equal to your Charisma modifier.

Starting at 18th level, you can call forth a fiend to create a contract in exchange for souls.

By spending 1 minute in concentration (as if concentrating on a spell) and choosing any number of your currently retained souls, you can call forth a fiend from its native plane. Based on the number of souls offered, a creature appears in an unoccupied space of the DM's choice within 30 feet of you. Consult the Barter Souls Summoning table to find the creatures you can summon.

The fiend remains under control of the DM at all times. It offers a contract: assistance with a single task or goal in exchange for the amount of trapped souls shown in the Barter Souls Summoning table. You describe this task or goal in up to two sentences, which the fiend uses to forge the contract and immediately receive its payment. The fiend interprets your contract in good faith, and it executes a given contract to the best of its ability; however, it does not treat you as an ally for purposes beyond the calling of its contract, and its contractual obligations end if you die.

The fiend is likely to look for ways it can extract further compensation from you, and is capable of offering further deals. Once its contracts are fulfilled, or if the fiend is reduced to 0 hit points, it returns to its place of origin.

You have the ability to sense and interact with the gravitational forces inherent in reality around you. Your magic allows you to manipulate these physics, but also confuses your psyche; a result of interacting with the natural forces of the world in ways your body and mind cannot properly decipher.

Starting at 6th level, you become inherently able to amplify your kinetic force with magic, and you learn to create a small, localized field of dense gravity.

When you deal damage to a creature with a sorcerer spell, you can push or pull the creature up to 10 feet. You can spend sorcery points to increase the distance that the creature is pushed or pulled by 10 feet for each sorcery point spent.

Also, when you are attacked by a source within 5 feet of you, you can use your reaction to create a field of rejecting gravity, encapsulating and slowing the strike. You gain resistance to the attack's damage, and if the attacker is a creature, it must make a Strength saving throw. On a failed save, the creature cannot make attacks until the start of its next turn. Once you have used this reaction, you can't use it again until you finish a long rest.

Starting at 14th level, you can harness control of gravity when you use magic, allowing you a short burst of gravity-induced acceleration.

If you cast a spell of 1st-level or higher, you can spend 1 sorcery point to Dash or Disengage as a bonus action. When you do, any speeds you have are doubled until the start of your next turn.

Starting at 18th level, your mastery of gravity allows you to intensify others' gravitational pull to such a level that those around them are crushed under the pressure.

As an action, you can spend 2 sorcery points and choose a point within 60 feet of you that you can see. Until the start of your next turn, a 20-ft radius sphere of crushing gravitational force envelops the area.

Any creature contained fully within the area of this sphere that moves more than 5 feet or starts its turn there must succeed on a Strength saving throw or fall prone and have its speed set to 0 until the start of its next turn. Once a creature succeeds on its saving throw against this effect, it is immune to the effect until the start of its next turn.

You learn the following spells at the sorcerer levels listed. These spells count as sorcerer spells for you, and they do not count against your number of spells known.

Your power draws from the immortal flame that fuels the legendary phoenix. You or your ancestors perhaps rendered a phoenix a great service, or you were born in its presence. Whatever the cause, a shard of the phoenix's power dwells within you.

That power is a mixed blessing. Like the mythical creature, you can invoke fiery energy and gain the ability to cheat death itself. This power comes at a cost. The fire within you seethes, demanding to be unleashed. You sometimes find yourself absentmindedly feeding fires. You can't bear to allow a fire to sputter out. You feel most comfortable while holding a lit torch or sitting in front of a campfire.

More importantly, this gift comes with no special protection from fire. You are as vulnerable as any other creature to fiery magic, including your own. Phoenix sorcerers can use their powers to pull themselves back from the brink of death, and all too often their own, rash nature or reliance on destructive magic is what puts them there in the first place.

Such sorcerers are wanderers by necessity. The volatile nature of their magic makes other folk nervous. If a fire breaks out in town, a phoenix sorcerer had best flee, whether guilty or not. Fire is a dangerous force, and phoenix sorcerers have a reputation (deserved or not) for reckless behavior, confident that the essence of the phoenix can save them.

Starting at 6th level, the fiery energy within you grows restless and vengeful. In the face of defeat, it surges outward to preserve you in a fiery roar.

If you are reduced to 0 hit points, you can use your reaction to draw on the spark of the phoenix. You are instead reduced to 1 hit point, and each creature within 10 feet of you takes fire damage equal to half your sorcerer level + your Charisma modifier.

If you use this feature while under the effects of your Mantle of Flame, this feature instead deals fire damage equal to your sorcerer level + double your Charisma modifier, and your Mantle of Flame immediately ends.

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

Starting at 14th level, your fire spells soothe and restore you. When you expend a spell slot to cast a spell that includes a fire damage roll, you regain hit points equal to the slot's level + your Charisma modifier.

At 18th level, you finally master the spark of fire that dances within you. While under the effect of your Mantle of Flame feature, you gain additional benefits:

One day a light blazed forth within you—the illumination of psionic power. Your mind now simmers with this power, the full extent of which you won't fully grasp for years to come. You can touch other minds with it and alter the world around you by using it to control the magical energy of the multiverse. Will this power shine from you as a hopeful beacon to others? Or will you be a source of terror to those who feel the stab of your mind and witness the strange manifestations of your might?

Among githyanki and githzerai, the powers of Psionic Soul sorcerers are revered and marshaled on both sides of the gith war. In Eberron, many kalashtar dream of discovering this origin's abilities within themselves, and in Athas, more sorcerers are born with a Psionic Soul than with any other source of power. In the glades of primeval woods touched by the Feywild, children sometimes awaken to the wonders of psionic power. And in communities that survive Far Realm incursions, some folk are mutated into horrific aberrations, while a lucky few not only remain themselves, but also discover that psionic energy now suffuses their minds.

As a Psionic Soul sorcerer, you decide how you acquired your powers. Were you born with them, and did they manifest throughout childhood? Or did an extraordinary event later in life leave you shining with psionic awareness? Consult the Psionic Origins table for a possible origin of your power.

6th-level Psionic Soul feature

You have learned to channel additional psychic energy into your spells. Immediately after you deal damage to a creature with a sorcerer spell for which you expend a spell slot, you can roll your Psionic Talent die and also deal psychic damage to that creature equal to the number rolled. You can deal this extra damage only once per turn.

14th-level Psionic Soul feature

You can now use the psi that flows through you to give your body extraordinary abilities. As a bonus action, you can roll your Psionic Talent die and spend 1 or more sorcery points to magically transform yourself for a number of hours equal to the number rolled. Until the transformation ends, you gain one of the following benefits of your choice for each sorcery point you spent, choosing a different benefit for each point:

18th-level Psionic Soul feature

If your Psionic Talent die is available, you can unleash your psionic power in a crackling aura of psychic energy; as a bonus action, you can magically radiate this transparent, 30-foot-radius aura for 1 minute or until you're incapacitated or lose the use of your Psionic Talent die.

Whenever a creature starts its turn in the aura or moves into it for the first time on a turn, you can roll your Psionic Talent die and deal psychic damage to the creature, equaling the number rolled plus your Charisma modifier. If the creature takes any of this damage, its speed is halved until the start of its next turn.

Your innate magic manifests in fire. You are your fire, and your fire is you.

At 6th level, you gain resistance to fire damage. In addition, spells you cast ignore resistance to fire damage.

Starting at 14th level, when you are hit by a melee attack, you can use your reaction to deal fire damage to the attacker. The damage equals your sorcerer level, and ignores resistance to fire damage.

At 18th level, you gain immunity to fire damage. In addition, any spell or effect you create ignores resistance to fire damage and treats immunity to fire damage as resistance to fire damage.

You have a taste for blood. Whether this trait is hereditary, gifted, or magical in nature, you can use your magic to draw out the essence of your foes and consume it, and you have an insatiable urge to do just that. Many such sorcerers can trace their abilities back to a powerful vampire, a bloodthirsty fiend, or a curse.

Starting at 6th level, victims of your magic feel a temporary need to depend on you.

You can use your bonus action and spend 2 sorcery points to choose a creature within 60 feet of you that is charmed by you or who has taken damage from one of your spells this turn. That creature must succeed on a Charisma saving throw against your spell save DC or be afflicted with Dependence, a disease that causes it to have disadvantage on Wisdom and Charisma checks against you for 10 minutes. An affected creature can repeat the saving throw each minute, ending the effect on itself on a success.

Starting at 14th level, you can draw out your own blood and mix it into your spells, rending your enemies with sharp, lacerating magic.

When you deal damage to a creature with a sorcerer spell, you can reduce your hit points by an amount no greater than your sorcerer level to deal the same amount of slashing damage to that creature.

Starting at 18th level, your disease's potency increases, temporarily enthralling your victims.

Any creature afflicted with Dependence treats you as a close friend for the disease's duration. It won't risk its life for you or fight for you, unless it was already inclined to do so. It grants you favors and gifts it would offer to a close friend. You know the afflicted creature's emotional state, surface thoughts, and location relative to you at all times, as long as you are on the same plane of existence.

When the disease ends, the creature doesn't know why it held you in such high regard.

You learn the following spells at the sorcerer levels listed. These spells count as sorcerer spells for you, and they do not count against your number of spells known.

The power of water is the strength of flexibility, resilience, and a relentless nature. Water parts to allow a ship to sail over it or a diver to plunge into it, but their passing leaves no mark. Water flowing down a mountain reaches the sea. It might bend and turn across valleys and down hillsides, but it slowly and steadily returns to the waves. Those whose souls are touched by the power of elemental water command a similar power.

Your heritage ties to powerful creatures of the sea, such as nereids, the lords of the merfolk, and elemental powers. Like a river, you feel the call of the ocean. The call is ever present in your heart, and you are never completely at peace until you are near the sea.

At 6th level, you gain resistance to fire damage.

You also gain the ability to defend yourself by momentarily assuming a watery form. As a reaction when you are hit by an attack and take bludgeoning, piercing, or slashing damage from it, you can reduce that damage by an amount equal to your sorcerer level plus your Charisma score, and then you can move up to 30 feet without provoking opportunity attacks. Once you use this special reaction, you can't use it again until you finish a short or long rest.

Starting at 14th level, you gain the ability to enter a liquid state while moving.

When you move on your turn, you take only half damage from opportunity attacks, and you can move through any enemy's space but can't willingly end your move there.

On your turn, you can move through any space that is at least 3 inches in diameter and do so without squeezing. When you stop moving, the regular squeezing rules apply if you're in a space one size smaller than you. You can't willingly stop in a space smaller than that, and if you're forced to do so, you immediately flow to the nearest space that can fit you, back along the path of your movement.

Starting at 18th level, your being is altered by the power of the sea. You gain the following benefits:

Your innate magic comes from the Shadowfell. You might trace your lineage to an entity from that place, or perhaps you were exposed to its fell energy and transformed in some fundamental manner.

The power of shadow magic casts a strange pall over your physical presence. The spark of life that sustains you is muffled, as if it struggles to remain viable against the dark energy that imbues your soul. At your option, you can pick from or roll on the following table to create a unique quirk for your character.

At 6th level, you gain the ability to call forth a howling creature of darkness to harass your foes. As a bonus action, you can spend 3 sorcery points to summon a hound of ill omen to target one creature you can see. The hound uses a dire wolf's statistics with the following changes:

The hound appears in an unoccupied space of your choice within 30 feet of the target. Roll initiative for the hound. On its turn, it can move only towards its target by the most direct route, and it can use its action only to attack its target. The hound makes opportunity attack, but only against its target. Additionally, the target has disadvantage on all saving throws against your spells while the hound is within 5 feet of it. The hound disappears if it is reduced to 0 hit points, if its target is reduced to 0 hit points, or after 5 minutes.

At 14th level, you gain the ability to step from one shadow into another. When you are in dim light or darkness, as a bonus action, you can teleport up to 120 feet to an unoccupied space you can see that is also in dim light or darkness.

At 18th level, you can spend 3 sorcery points to transform yourself into a shadow form as a bonus action. In this form, you have resistance to all damage except force damage, and you can move through other creatures and objects as if they were difficult terrain. You take 5 force damage if you end your turn inside an object. You remain in this form for 1 minute.

Add the following origin spells:

You are a creature of shadow, for your innate magic comes from the Shadowfell itself. You might trace your lineage to an entity from that place, or perhaps you were exposed to its fell energy and transformed by it.

The power of shadow magic casts a strange pall over your physical presence. The spark of life that sustains you is muffled, as if it struggles to remain viable against the dark energy that imbues your soul. At your option, you can pick from or roll on the Shadow Sorcerer Quirks table to create a quirk for your character.

At 6th level, you gain the ability to call forth a howling creature of darkness to harass your foes. As a bonus action, you can spend 3 sorcery points to magically summon a hound of ill omen to target one creature you can see within 120 feet of you. The hound uses the dire wolf's statistics (see the Monster Manual or appendix C in the Player's Handbook), with the following changes:

The hound appears in an unoccupied space of your choice within 30 feet of the target. Roll initiative for the hound. On its turn, it can move only toward its target by the most direct route, and it can use its action only to attack its target. The hound can make opportunity attacks, but only against its target. Additionally, while the hound is within 5 feet of the target, the target has disadvantage on saving throws against any spell you cast. The hound disappears if it is reduced to 0 hit points, if its target is reduced to 0 hit points, or after 5 minutes.

At 14th level, you gain the ability to step from one shadow into another. When you are in dim light or darkness, as a bonus action, you can magically teleport up to 120 feet to an unoccupied space you can see that is also in dim light or darkness.

Starting at 18th level, you can spend 6 sorcery points as a bonus action to magically transform yourself into a shadowy form. In this form, you have resistance to all damage except force and radiant damage, and you can move through other creatures and objects as if they were difficult terrain. You take 5 force damage if you end your turn inside an object.

You remain in this form for 1 minute. It ends early if you are incapacitated, if you die, or if you dismiss it as a bonus action.

Soulknives are initiates of an ancient technique that uses magic to awaken the mind. These sorcerers are trained to be assassins and spies, as their abilities are difficult to discern and allow them to act rapidly. With their ability to harness both magical and mental energy, they can create lethal weapons and strike with deadly precision.

Starting at 6th level, you can use mental energy to travel through a momentary rift, cutting through your foe's defense.

You can use your bonus action and spend 2 sorcery points to teleport up to 30 feet to an unoccupied space that you can see and then make one weapon attack with your Soul Focus. At 14th level, this attack deals an extra 1d8 force damage on a hit.

Also at 6th level, you can attack twice, instead of once, whenever you take the Attack action on your turn.

Starting at 14th level, your keen mental control allows you to create magical effects by sheer force of will.

You can cast your sorcerer spells without performing verbal and somatic components while you are wielding your Soul Focus.

Starting at 18th level, you can overload a creature's mind when you strike it, causing you to disappear from its sight.

When you hit a creature with your Soul Focus, you can spend 3 sorcery points to force the target to make a Wisdom saving throw against your spell save DC. On a failed save, the creature can't see or hear you by any means until the end of your next turn.

Add the following origin spells:

Your magic springs from a mystical link between your soul and the magic of elemental earth. You might trace a distant ancestor to the Plane of Earth, or your family might have earned a mighty boon in return for a service to the dao lords. Whatever your past, the magic of elemental earth is yours to command.

Your link to earth magic grants you extraordinary resilience, and stone sorcerers have a natural affinity for combat. A steel blade feels like a natural extension of your body, and sorcerers with this origin have a knack for wielding both shields and weapons. In combat your place is amid the fray. You rely on your elemental nature to shield you from harm and your magic and metal weapons to overwhelm your foes.

Starting at 6th level, your command of earth magic grows stronger, allowing you to harness it for your allies' protection.

As a bonus action, you can grant an aegis to one allied creature you can see within 60 feet of you. The aegis is a dim, gray aura of earth magic that protects the target. Any bludgeoning, piercing, or slashing damage the target takes is reduced by 2 + your sorcerer level divided by 4. This effect lasts for 1 minute, until you use it again, or until you are incapacitated.

In addition, when a creature you can see within 60 feet of you hits the protected target with a melee attack, you can use your reaction to teleport to an unoccupied space you can see within 5 feet of the attacker. You can teleport only if you and the attacker are on the same surface. You can then make one melee weapon attack against the attacker. If that attack hits, it deals an extra 1d10 force damage. This extra damage increases to 2d10 at 11th level and 3d10 at 17th level.

Starting at 14th level, your mastery of earth magic allows you to add the force of elemental earth to your spells. When you cast a spell that deals damage, choose one creature damaged by that spell on the round you cast it. That creature takes extra force damage equal to half your sorcerer level. This feature can be used only once per casting of a spell.

Beginning at 18th level, when you use your Stone Aegis to protect an ally, you can choose up to three creatures to gain its benefits.

Your innate magic comes from the power of elemental air. Many with this power can trace their magic back to a near-death experience caused by the Great Rain, but perhaps you were born during a howling gale so powerful that folk still tell stories of it, or your lineage might include the influence of potent air creatures such as djinn. Whatever the case, the magic of the storm permeates your being.

Storm sorcerers are invaluable members of a ship's crew. Their magic allows them to exert control over wind and weather in their immediate area. Their abilities also prove useful in repelling attacks by sahuagin, pirates, and other waterborne threats.

At 6th level, you gain resistance to lightning and thunder damage. In addition, whenever you start casting a spell of 1st level or higher that deals lightning or thunder damage, stormy magic erupts from you. This eruption causes creatures of your choice that you can see within 10 feet of you to take lightning or thunder damage (choose each time this ability activates) equal to half your sorcerer level.

At 6th level, you gain the ability to subtly control the weather around you.

You can use your bonus action to start or stop manipulating rain. If it is raining, you can cause the rain to stop falling in a 20- foot-radius sphere centered on you as part of this bonus action. If it isn't raining, you can instead expend 2 sorcery points to cause lightrain, which lightly obscures the area, to begin falling in a 100-foot-radius sphere centered on you for up to 1 hour or until you use your bonus action to end this effect.

You can also use your bonus action to start or stop manipulating wind. If it is windy, you can use a bonus action each round to choose the direction that the wind blows in a 100-foot-radius sphere centered on you. The wind blows in that direction until the end of your next turn. This feature doesn't alterthe speed of the wind. If it isn't windy, you can instead expend 2 sorcery points to cause wind to blow at a rate of 20 miles per hour in a vortex filling a 100-foot sphere centered on you, which lasts for up to 1 hour or until you use your bonus action to end this effect.

Starting at 14th level, when you are hit by a melee attack, you can use your reaction to deal lightning damage to the attacker. The damage equals your sorcerer level. The attacker must also make a Strength saving throw against your sorcerer spell save DC. On a failed save, the attacker is pushed in a straight line up to 20 feet away from you.

At 18th level, you gain immunity to lightning and thunder damage.

You also gain a magical flying speed of 60 feet. As an action, you can reduce your flying speed to 30 feet for 1 hour and choose a number of creatures within 30 feet of you equal to 3 + your Charisma modifier. The chosen creatures gain a magical flying speed of 30 feet for 1 hour. Once you reduce your flying speed in this way, you can't do so again until you finish a short or long rest.

You learn the following spells at the sorcerer levels listed. These spells count as sorcerer spells for you, and they do not count against your number of spells known.

Your innate magic comes from the wild forces of chaos that underlie the order of creation. You might have endured exposure to some form of raw magic, perhaps through a planar portal leading to Limbo, the Elemental Planes, or the mysterious Far Realm. Perhaps you were blessed by a powerful fey creature or marked by a demon. Or your magic could be a fluke of your birth, with no apparent cause or reason. However it came to be, this chaotic magic churns within you, waiting for any outlet.

Starting at 6th level, you have the ability to twist fate using your wild magic. When another creature you can see makes an attack roll, an ability check, or a saving throw, you can use your reaction and spend 2 sorcery points to roll 1d4 and apply the number rolled as a bonus or penalty (your choice) to the creature's roll. You can do so after the creature rolls but before any effects of the roll occur.

At 14th level, you gain a modicum of control over the surges of your wild magic. Whenever you roll on the Wild Magic Surge table, you can roll twice and use either number.

Beginning at 18th level, the harmful energy of your spells intensifies. When you roll damage for a spell and roll the highest number possible on any of the dice, choose one of those dice, roll it again and add that roll to the damage. You can use the feature only once per turn.