Warden

The primal power you wield has formed an intrinsic bond with the creatures of the wild, and you have taken up the task of defending them. Because you share in the beast's ferocity, tenacity, and animal instinct, you can summon a beast's primal strength from within yourself, and slay your enemies in an animalistic trance.

While entranced, you can sense a connection to a greater being, the Primal Beast, the first predator, from which all hunters are descended. As your commitment to defending the wilds from corruption grows, you grow closer to the Primal Beast, until you can at last adopt its ancient form yourself, and allow it to hunt once again.

By 6th level, you hunt like an animal. A creature you have marked can remain marked for up to 24 hours, even if it moves out of your sight. Additionally, while this creature is marked, you can track it effortlessly; you know the direction and distance to the creature while it remains on the same plane of existence.

Beginning at 13th level, you can nimbly dodge out of the way of certain area effects, such as a red dragon's fiery breath or an ice storm spell. When you are subjected to an effect that allows you to make a Dexterity saving throw to take only half damage, you instead take no damage if you succeed on the saving throw, and only half damage if you fail.

At 20th level, as an action, you can transform into a hunched thing of fur and shadow, an echo of the Primal Beast. For 1 minute, you gain the following features:

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

A master and champion of vermin, you are called to defend the lowliest creatures of all: insects, rats, spiders, and other pests. You know that these creatures mean no harm—they are merely trying to survive in a world too large for them—so you come to their aid, and they flock to your side. Unmistakably, your coming is signaled by the scrambling of little claws and the cawing of the crows. Legions of pests wait at your command to swarm, bite, and claw at anyone who might thin their numbers.

By 6th level, insects and rodents inhabit every nook and cranny of your clothes and gear. Whenever a creature within 5 feet of you hits you with an attack, these vermin retaliate, dealing 1d6 piercing damage to the attacker. Additionally, on each subsequent attack the creature makes before the end of its turn, it must roll a d4 and subtract the number rolled from the attack roll.

Beginning at 13th level, you can nimbly dodge out of the way of certain area effects, such as a red dragon's fiery breath or an ice storm spell. When you are subjected to an effect that allows you to make a Dexterity saving throw to take only half damage, you instead take no damage if you succeed on the saving throw, and only half damage if you fail.

At 20th level, you can use your action to beckon forth a colossal swarm of flying insects and scurrying rodents, which envelop you like a cloud. For the next minute, a 10-foot-radius sphere of vermin is centered on you. The area is heavily obscured. Each creature you choose within the sphere has disadvantage on attack rolls and ability checks and takes 6d4 piercing damage when it enters the area for the first time on a turn or starts its turn there.

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

Crossing a fey bridge into the enchanted Feywild beyond can be a perilous journey, threatening travelers with dangerous wild magic, fey tricksters, and horrific magical beasts. You, however, have heard the carefree call of magic in these few places where the Feywild intersects with the mortal plane, and have cultivated your skill in guiding travelers through the Feywild's hazards. In turn, the Feywild has left its mark on you, adorning your mark with capricious magic and letting you step easily through the planes.

By 6th level, your connection to the Feywild enables you to blink from place to place. You can spend your entire movement to teleport up to half your movement speed.

Beginning at 13th level, you have advantage on saving throws you make against spells.

At 20th level, as an action, you can channel the majesty of the archfey that rule the fey courts, becoming an embodiment of unnatural grace and beauty for the next minute. You gain the following benefits:

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

The whispers of gods, the ringing of bells, and the meter of hymns called you, compelling you to swear an oath of protection. With your blade, you defend temples, holy sites, and other sacred grounds, and with your shield, you protect pilgrims as they make their grand journeys. With your mark, you watch over magiless priests and ensure that their message turns hearts and minds, even in the most dangerous places. You know that your purpose is grander than just one life, and you look forward to seeing what designs the gods have set on your travels.

By 6th level, the spirits of saints and martyrs rise to protect you. You can use your action to cast the spirit guardians spell (DC equals 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Strength modifier) without using a spell slot.

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

Also at 13th level, your determination allows you to shrug off effects that would otherwise harm you. When you are subjected to an effect that allows you to make a Constitution saving throw to take only half damage, you instead take no damage if you succeed on the saving throw, and only half damage if you fail.

At 20th level, you can use your bonus action to wreathe yourself in divine protection, a soft glow and faint halo signifying the sainted mantle. For the next minute, while you are conscious, you regain 5 hit points at the start of each of your turns. If you have less than half your hit points at the start of your turn, you instead regain 10 hit points.

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

Ever vigilant and unceasing in your duties, you are a watcher of the realms of men, called to keep vigil over a keep or wall. As a grey watchman, trained in the arts of combat, you have honed your skills to a razor's edge to repel any invaders that might challenge your land. You need not keep watch over the same keep your entire life, but, wherever you travel, you are dedicated to keeping your land safe from invading armies, marauding monsters, and other external threats.

By 6th level, your experience manning battlements and blockades has given you insight in how to raise and reinforce them. You have advantage on any ability check you make to erect defensive fortifications, examine walls and other defenses for weak points and entryways, or climb constructed walls. Additionally, you can treat three-quarters cover as full cover.

Also at 13th level, your determination allows you to shrug off effects that would otherwise harm you. When you are subjected to an effect that allows you to make a Constitution saving throw to take only half damage, you instead take no damage if you succeed on the saving throw, and only half damage if you fail.

Starting at 20th level, you can use your action to transform into a paragon of battle, an unstoppable sentinel, channeling the strength of every man, woman, and child beneath your charge. For the next minute, you gain the following benefits:

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

Some wardens hear a call of flames and tormented screams rising up from the bowels of the earth. These grim few become Hellkeepers, tasked by devils with watching the gates of the underworld, safeguarding the innocent from wandering inside, and trapping the damned prisoners within. Some Hellkeepers feel that their position is a merciful one, for it protects mortals from unspeakable fiendish cruelties. Others know full well the implications of their calling and relish in the vileness of their deeds.

By 6th level, your flesh darkens and toughens to match that of a fiend as you come closer to death. You have advantage on Strength and Constitution saving throws when your hit points are less than half your maximum.

Also at 6th level, when you mark a creature with Warden's Mark, the target takes 1d6 fire damage. At 11th level, this fire damage increases to 2d6.

Beginning at 13th level, you can nimbly dodge out of the way of certain area effects, such as a red dragon's fiery breath or an ice storm spell. When you are subjected to an effect that allows you to make a Dexterity saving throw to take only half damage, you instead take no damage if you succeed on the saving throw, and only half damage if you fail.

At 20th level, as an action, you can transform into the fiendish shape of a true devil. For the next minute, your melee weapon attacks deal an additional 2d8 fire damage on a hit. Moreover, fire damage you deal ignores damage resistance and immunity. Once during the duration, if you fail a saving throw, you can choose to succeed instead.

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

When you heard the call, it was in the form of howling winds flecked with snow, beckoning you to the north's frigid, barren, majestic reaches. It is placed upon you to drive back the horrors that thrive in the utter frost, as well as incursions from warmer southern lands, to protect the hardy people and noble animals of this cold place. Wherever you travel, the ice of the northern lands lives in your heart, and as such, you can summon it to your hands with icy gales from the most northern mountain peaks.

Starting at 6th level, you can exhale a breath of the true North Wind, an icy gale which affects a 100-foot-long, 5-foot-wide line in a direction you choose. Each creature in the line must make a Dexterity saving throw. On a failed save, a creature takes 4d6 cold damage and its speed is halved until the end of its next turn. On a success, a creature takes half damage and its speed isn't halved.

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

Also at 13th level, your determination allows you to shrug off effects that would otherwise harm you. When you are subjected to an effect that allows you to make a Constitution saving throw to take only half damage, you instead take no damage if you succeed on the saving throw, and only half damage if you fail.

At 20th level, you can use your action to transform into a creature of deepest cold, a sentinel of the old hoarfrost. For one minute, you are surrounded by a frigid 15-foot-radius vortex which extinguishes any nonmagical flames in its area. This area is difficult terrain. When a creature enters the area for the first time on a turn or starts its turn there, it takes 8d6 cold damage. You can choose for creatures to be immune to the effects of the area.

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

Lawbringers hear the steady, unyielding call of universal law and follow it without question. This set of invisible guidelines organizes the universe into its current state, but deviations from it threaten to destabilize all of creation. Reckless reality changing, time travel, and immortality are all violations of this law and must be punished. Lawbringers are called to enforce laws both magical and mundane, and to deliver such punishment when necessary.

At 6th level, you can cast the command spell once without using a spell slot. This spell targets each creature you choose within 30 feet, using the same command for each target. The saving throw for this ability is 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Constitution modifier.

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

Starting at 13th level, your mind is a fortress, unbendable and unbreakable. You have advantage on saving throws against being charmed or frightened. Whenever you succeed on a saving throw against an enchantment spell or an ability that attempts to cloud your thoughts or control your mind, the caster takes 4d6 psychic damage.

At 20th level, as an action, you can transform into an embodiment of universal law, a ticking construct of inevitable intent. For 1 minute, you gain the following features:

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

You have heard the call of rotting scrolls and antediluvian artifacts, remnants of wisdom now almost lost to time. As a loreseeker, you uncover and protect ancient relics, whether they be mundane scrolls or powerful magic items, that they might be archived for future generations. Some loreseekers are called to defend places of learning, from the halls of wisdom to great libraries, whereas others are entrusted with safeguarding a dangerous secret that could do irreparable harm in the wrong hands. All loreseekers, however, are students of what they protect, cultivating skill in the arcane arts even as they hone their talents with the blade.

Starting at 6th level, when you place your Warden's Mark on a creature, you can teleport the creature to an unoccupied space within 5 feet of you.

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

Beginning at 13th level, you have advantage on saving throws you make against spells.

At 20th level, as an action, you can channel the power of the lore and stories you have collected, becoming a living embodiment of ancient knowledge for the next minute and gaining the following benefits:

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

Blood-drinkers, undead, and other creatures of the night are often feared and hunted, and few stand in their defense; except, of course, the grim and terrible nightgaunt. Tales of the nightgaunt are whispered of in fairy tales, casting them as a things to be feared: hunters of clerics and goodly vampire slayers. Their appearance always presages long nights and great rises in hungry undead.

You felt the calling of the moon bringing you to the graveside of living corpses. Though vampires, zombies, and skeletons are mighty, they are always outnumbered, hunted, and turned by clerics; never given a fair chance to live peacefully. They require an ally among the living to continue their ceaseless lives, and you have risen by moonlight to the task.

By 6th level, you are a friend even to mindless undead. Whenever an undead tries to attack you, it must make a Wisdom saving throw (DC equals 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Constitution modifier.) On a failed save, its attack misses and, if its Intelligence is 4 or lower, it becomes friendly to you and your allies.

Beginning at 13th level, you can nimbly dodge out of the way of certain area effects, such as a red dragon's fiery breath or an ice storm spell. When you are subjected to an effect that allows you to make a Dexterity saving throw to take only half damage, you instead take no damage if you succeed on the saving throw, and only half damage if you fail.

At 20th level, you can use your action to invite the necromantic energies of true undead into your body, divorcing yourself from life for the next minute and gaining the following benefits:

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

The ancestral spirits called you by starlight to enact their will on the world, to protect their descendants, and to safeguard their resting places. You are a Soulblood Shaman, a manipulator of soul and ascetic of primal magic. Your community looks to you as a leader as well as a vital connection to the afterlife, for if you play your role, they too will join their ancestors in the great beyond.

At 6th level, you can hear the small voices of ancient spirits when you need guidance. If you spend one minute in contemplation when you make an Intelligence or Wisdom check, you can consult the spirits to gain advantage on the roll. However, the GM can decline to give you advantage on this check if the spirits would not possess appropriate guidance of knowledge.

Beginning at 13th level, you have advantage on saving throws you make against spells.

At 20th level, as an action, you can shrug off your mortal form for a short time to become something spiritual and material, an ethereal watcher. For the next minute, you gain the following benefits:

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

You heard the steadfast, unyielding call from the mountains, which dwarves and gnomes have felt for generations. The stones called to you, beckoning for a protector to defend the mountains from those that would despoil them, from both within and without. You might be a watchman of old dwarven walls, or a sentinel, patrolling the lookouts of high mountain peaks; regardless of where you stand, you are unmovable: a mountain in the shape of a man. You draw your power from the earth beneath your feet and can crush your enemies with the strength of stone.

Starting at 6th level, you can choose to use Warden's Grasp as an action, rather than a bonus action. When you do so, each creature affected must make a Strength saving throw (DC equals 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Strength modifier) or be knocked prone.

You can use this ability a number of times equal to your Strength modifier, and regain all uses when you finish a long rest.

At 13th level, your determination allows you to shrug off effects that would otherwise harm you. When you are subjected to an effect that allows you to make a Constitution saving throw to take only half damage, you instead take no damage if you succeed on the saving throw, and only half damage if you fail.

By 20th level, you can summon the power of true earth as an action, protecting yourself in an encasement of stone. For the next minute, you gain the following benefits:

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

Your strength originates among furious storm clouds and flashes of lightning. As a storm sentinel, you are called to protect wayward sailors and coastal villages from the wrath of the tempests and the arrival of great waves that threaten them. You despise pirates and other enemies of coastal peoples, and will oppose them wherever they strike.

From your fingertips, you can deliver the awe of lightning and the roar of thunder to devastate your foes. With practice and patience, you can harness the power of the storm itself to fly and rain thunderbolts from above.

Starting at 6th level, when you use Warden's Grasp as a bonus action, each creature affected can't take reactions until the beginning of your next turn.

Beginning at 13th level, you can nimbly dodge out of the way of certain area effects, such as a red dragon's fiery breath or an ice storm spell. When you are subjected to an effect that allows you to make a Dexterity saving throw to take only half damage, you instead take no damage if you succeed on the saving throw, and only half damage if you fail.

Starting at 20th level, you have a flight speed equal to your movement speed.

Additionally, you can use your action to summon a bolt of lightning to strike you, imbuing your body with the storm's fury. For 1 minute, you gain the following benefits:

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

You draw your strength from the trees of the forest and the loamy earth beneath your feet. As a Verdant Protector, you are the champion of the green things in nature, and defend them against those who would despoil the wilds. You easily find allies among druids, and others that understand the forest's sacred trees and ancient spirits.

At your command, the plants of the earth sprout up to assist you in your duty. At the pinnacle of your power, you can assume the form of an elder tree guardian, which looks much like a treant, with tough, bark skin, and long, branchlike arms.

At 6th level, you gain proficiency in the Stealth skill, if you did not have it before. Additionally, you can use your action to draw a thick mass of vines and leaves to conceal you. Until you move, you have advantage on Dexterity (Stealth) checks you make to hide among vegetation.

At 13th level, your determination allows you to shrug off effects that would otherwise harm you. When you are subjected to an effect that allows you to make a Constitution saving throw to take only half damage, you instead take no damage if you succeed on the saving throw, and only half damage if you fail.

Starting at 20th level, you can use your action to transform into an oak sentinel, a bark-covered titan of the forest. For 1 minute, you gain the following features:

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

Where there is magic, there is evil. Witches lurk in the shadows with hags and warlocks, waiting for your guard to lower, such that they might turn their hexes upon the innocent. But your ever-vigilant sword is ready for them, ready to defend the nonmagical folk from evil spellcasters the world over. You slay vampires, hexers, devils, and fey alike with impunity, for anyone who might despoil the world with magic shall be hunted and put to the stake.

At 6th level, when you succeed on a saving throw against a spell, you can use your reaction to cast the spell back at the caster, as though it originated from you, turning the caster into the target. Once you reflect a spell in this way, you can't do so again until you finish a long rest.

Beginning at 13th level, you have advantage on saving throws you make against spells.

At 20th level, you can use your bonus action to transform into an arbiter of spellcasters, a breaker of mages, wreathed with antimagic. For the next minute, you have advantage on the first attack roll you make on each of your turns. Additionally, whenever you use your Warden's Grasp, the area affected becomes an antimagic field, as per the spell. You can wrap the field around creatures you choose within its radius, creating pockets where magic still functions, even though magic originating there can't extend to the rest of the field.

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