Soul Binder

Some say the most dangerous of the Lower Planes, the Abyss holds endless hoards of animalistic monstrosities with only one goal: rend, tear, and destroy. You have made a spiritual bond with such a wretched creature, which could be of mutual benefit, or one-sided. Perhaps you enslaved this creature in an act of good faith to protect others from its wrath; or maybe in a desperate moment you performed a foul ritual that bonded this monster to your soul.

Beginning at 3rd level you know how to inflict pain on your demon and make that pain resonate with nearby foes.

As an action you can make a special kind of melee weapon attack targeting your demon, you don't make an attack roll as this special attack always hits. When your demon takes damage from this attack it will send out a pulse of pain, and every creature of your choice within 5 feet of your demon must succeed on a Constitution saving throw or take the same amount of damage as your demon took from the attack as psychic damage. Additionally when you use this feature, your demon will have advantage on its next attack rolls this turn.

When you reach 7th level, your demon fights best when it is covered in blood. Whenever your demon is below half of its maximum hit points, it gains the following benefits:

Starting at 11th level, you can command your demon to inflict pain to both its enemies and itself. The following commands are added to your Edict options:

When you reach 15th level, your demon becomes an avatar of agony, sharing its misery with other creatures. As an action, your demon can try to make a blood bond with a creature within 10 feet of it. The target must succeed on a Constitution saving throw or be bound by blood to the demon for 1 minute or until one of them drops to 0 hit points. Whenever the demon takes damage, the target takes half of that damage. The affected target can use its action to repeat the saving throw, ending the effect on a success. The demon can only create a blood bond with one creature at a time.

You have used a piece of your soul to revive a dead corpse, and returned them to this world under your command. Now they walk with you and serve you as their master, aiding you by utilizing their undead nature.

When you reach 3rd level, your zombie has an aura of necrotic energy that consumes some energy from a soul as it is leaving a body.

Whenever a creature within 10 feet of the zombie is reduced to 0 hit points, the zombie gains temporary hit points equal to half your soul binder level.

Beginning at 7th level, your zombie can manipulate bodies like a twisted pupped as their life is leaving them.

Whenever a creature is reduced to 0 hit points within 10 feet of the zombie, the zombie can use its reaction to make that creature make one melee weapon attack against a creature of the zombie's choice within range.

At the 11th level, you can command your zombie with a voice from beyond the grave. The following commands are added to your Edict options:

When you reach 15th level, your zombie has feasted upon so much flesh and soul, that it grows into an undead monster. Whenever your zombie eats a piece of a fresh soul by using Soul Collecting, it can enter an enlarged and enraged state. While the zombie is in this form, it gains several benefits:

It stays in this form for 1 minute, or if it ends it as a bonus action.

Sometimes gods grant gifts to worthy mortals. They can take all shapes and forms and you have been given a boon in the form of a friend and protector for life.

Soul binders that make a bond with a celestial are often followers of the god that the celestial used to serve, traveling the world and spreading the word of that god.

When you reach 3rd level, your companion has learned to be selfless and giving, sacrificing part of its life energy to heal you or your companions.

Your guardian can use a bonus action to deal damage to itself, in turn healing a creature of its choice within 5 feet of it. This damage ignores temporary hit points, immunities and resistances. The creature regains hit points equal to the damage dealt.

At 7th level, you know how to mend wounds and inspire your guardian to perform better in combat.

You learn the healing word spell. You always have it prepared, and it doesn't count against the number of spells you can prepare each day. It counts as a soul binder spell for you.

Additionally, whenever you cast healing word on your guardian, it can use its reaction to make a melee weapon attack.

Starting at 11th level, you can command your guardian with a voice that can pierce the heavens. The following commands are added to your Edict options:

When you reach 15th level, your guardian have gained the powers to protect people from the grasp of death.

If a creature within 60 feet of your companion drops to 0 hit points or fails a death saving throw, your guardian can use its reaction to teleport to an unoccupied space within 5 feet of that creature and breathe new life into them. The creature regains 10d12 hit points.

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

You have bound your soul to a drake in hopes of protection and power. Maybe you have been chosen by a dragon to receive an everlasting gift as it created a Guard Drake especially for you, binding your souls together as one to protect one another. Or you gained the trust of such a beast in a deadly situation, bonding for life to mutually help eachother.

Starting at 3rd level, your drake is a force to be reckoned with, drawing attention from teammates on the battlefield. When your dragon hits a creature with a melee weapon attack, it can mark the creature until the end of your next turn. This effect ends early if your dragon is incapacitated or it dies, or if someone else marks the creature.

While the marked creature is within 5 feet of your dragon, the creature marked by your dragon has disadvantage on any attack roll that doesn't target your dragon.

In addition, if a creature marked by your dragon deals damage to anyone other than your dragon, you can make a weapon attack against the marked creature as your reaction, if it is within range of your weapon.

When you reach 7th level your drake can activate some of its draconic powers using your magic as fuel.

As an action you can spend a 1st level spell slot. If you do your dragon can use its action this turn to exhale a destructive breath.

Each creature caught in the breath must make a saving throw or take 3d6 damage on a failed save, and half on a success. When a creature fails the saving throw the drake can choose to put its Draconic mark on them, it can mark multiple creatures at once using this feature. The Shape, Damage type and saving throw is determined by the color of your drake:

You can use higher level spell slots to increase the damage. The damage increase by 2d6 for each spell slot level above 1st. 5d6 for 2nd level spell slot, 7d6 for 3rd level spell slot, 9d6 for 4th level spell slot and 11d6 for 5th level spell slot.

Beginning at 11th level, you can command your guard drake with the fury of a dragon. The following commands are added to your Edict options:

When you reach 15th level, you have studied the draconic powers that lie deep within the blood of your companion. You can transform your drake into its true dragon form for a little while.

As an action, you can cause your drake to grow wings and transform into a dragon for 1 minute. While transformed it gains the following benefits:

The transformation ends after 1 minute, or if the drake uses its bonus action to end it. The drake can only transform again after it finishes a long rest.

You are in balance with the world, and the elements that surround you. You are so closely bonded with them that you can manifest an elemental avatar, using part of your soul to anchor it to this plane of existence.

At 3rd level, your avatar has learned to harness its elemental powers with great fury. As an action, it can burst elemental force all around it.

Every creature of its choice within 10 feet of it must make a saving throw which is dependent on the element of the attack, taking 3d8 damage of your current attuned elemental type on a failed save, or half as much on a successful one. Additionally, they suffer one of the following effects, dependent on what element you are attuned to:

Once your avatar has used this feature it must finish a long rest before it can do so again.

The damage of this feature increases by 1d8 as you gain levels in this class. The damage improves to 4d8 at 7th level, 5d8 at 11th level, 6d8 at 15th level and 7d8 at 18th level.

When you reach 7th level, your soul is infused with the essence of nature through your avatar. As an action, you can use this power to empower your avatar. It keeps this boon for 1 minute. The boon has a different effect depending on what element you are attuned to, and the boon will not change even if you attune to a different element while it is in effect.

Once you have used this feature you must finish a long rest before you can do so again.

At the 11th level, you can command your avatar to unleash their elemental powers. The following commands are added to your Edict options:

When you reach 15th level, your avatar can take on a form of multiple elements, combining the strength of both. You can now attune to two elements at once. Your avatar gains resistance to both damage types associated with said elements. When your elemental attacks, it can choose between the two damage types for its attacks. It does the same for its Edict options and when it uses Elemental Burst. It gains both traits and cantrips from your attuned elements. When you use your Boon of Nature feature, it gains the effects of both elements as well.

When you use an action to change your avatar's elements, you can choose to change both at once.

You infused a piece of your soul into a puddle of ooze to empower it so that it can help you in your goals. Maybe you animated a pile of liquid by accident through an alchemical or arcane experiment or you deliberately sought out a spawn of Jubilex himself to gain mutual power.

Your ooze will sometimes fall apart, but you have taught it how to pick itself back together.

Starting at 3rd level, whenever your ooze takes damage from an attack that is greater or equal to twice your proficiency bonus it can use its reaction to shoot off a little piece of itself that lands in an a space of its choice that is 10 feet away. When your ooze comes in contact with a piece, it consumes the piece, regaining 1d4 hit points. If not consumed within 1 minute, the piece disappears.

This healing becomes stronger as you gain levels in this class: 1d6 at 5th level, 1d8 at 9th level, 1d10 at 13th level and 1d12 at 17th level.

When you reach 7th level, you have taught your ooze to engulf and consume creatures.

As an action the Ooze can try and engulf a creature smaller than the ooze within 5 feet of it. The creature must make Dexterity saving throw with a DC equal to 8 + its Strength modifier + your proficiency bonus. On a successful save, the creature can choose to be pushed 5 feet back or to the ooze's side rather than be engulfed. A creature that chooses not to be pushed suffers the consequences of a failed saving throw.

On a failed save, the ooze enters the creature's space, and the creature takes 2d8 acid damage and is engulfed. The engulfed creature can't breathe, is restrained, and takes 2d8 acid damage at the start of each of your turns. When the ooze moves, the engulfed creature moves with you. An engulfed creature can try to escape by making an opposed Strength (Athletics) check as per escaping a grapple. On a success, the engulfed creature escapes and enters a space of its choice within 5 feet of the ooze. An engulfed creature automatically escapes the ooze if the ooze falls unconscious.

The ooze can only have one creature engulfed at a time. Creatures inside it can be seen but have total cover. A creature within 5 feet of the ooze can attempt to pull an engulfed creature. Doing so requires a successful opposed Strength (Athletics) check.

At 11th level you can give out edicts to your ooze with fluidity and perfection. The following commands are added to your Edict options:

Beginning at 15th level, your ooze has learned from its mistakes and now it grows stronger ever time it collects itself.

Whenever your ooze hits a creature with its Pseudopod attack, it deals an additional 1d6 damage of the attack's type for every piece of itself it has collected on that turn.

There are places where the barrier between the Material Plane and the Feywild is thin, and sometimes creatures from one plane end up in another. Soul binders have found that creatures from the Fey make excellent companions. Maybe you got your companion as a gift from an Archfey or maybe the two of you became friends naturally and made a bond.

At 3rd level, your companion has learned to use their illusory powers to confuse and play tricks on their enemies.

Whenever your companion is hit with a melee weapon attack, it can use its reaction to reduce the damage of the attack by 1d8 + your Charisma modifier + your soul binder level.

If the damage is reduced to 0, your companion can force the enemy to make a Wisdom saving throw. On a failed save, the creature takes psychic damage equal to the original amount of damage their attack would have dealt.

Your fey can use this feature a number of times equal to your Charisma modifier (minimum 1). It regains all expended uses when you finish a long rest.

When you reach 7th level, you have learned to channel the powers from the Feywild and can use that energy to form a protective veil over your companion.

Whenever your companion is forced to make a saving throw due to a spell or another magical effect, you can use your reaction to give your companion advantage on the saving throw if you are within 30 feet of it.

At 11th level, you can command your companion to pull playful maneuvers. The following commands are added to your Edict options:

When you reach 15th level, your companion resonates with you so well, that it can mimic your every move.

As a bonus action, your companion can create an illusion over itself that is identical you, including the clothes and equipment you are currently wearing. The illusion lasts for 10 minutes or until the companion ends it as a bonus action. While the illusion is active, the companion gains the following benefits:

Some people don't feel comfortable binding with live creatures, so they bind their soul to a carefully crafted puppet, giving it great power and allowing full control through the tether between the split soul.

At 3rd level you have studied your puppet and feel a stronger connection to it, you can now take total control of the puppet so it fights with the might of two.

As an action you can take full control if you can see your puppet and if it is within 60 feet and you can see it, until the start of your next turn the you and puppet gain the following benefits:

When you reach 7th level you know how to pull your puppet out of a tight spot.

Whenever your puppet takes damage and is within 60 feet, you can use your reaction to pull the puppet to a spot within 5 feet of you, your puppet then regain 3d10 hit points.

Once you have used this feature, you must finish a short or long rest before you can do so again.

Beginning at 11th level, you become a puppet master. The following commands are added to your Edict options:

At 15th level you can take even finer control of your control of your puppet.

When your puppet is under the effect of the Take Control feature it can now make three attacks when it takes the Attack action on its turn, and it has advantage on all saving throws.

Troll regenerate and every time they do they absorb some of what killed them, you have found a troll an killed it over and over again with soul magic until the troll has absorbed so much of your soul that the two of you are bonded and the troll is under your control.

At 3rd level you learn how to activate your troll innate powers to regenerate itself for a period of time.

As an action you can make your troll start to regenerate itself for 1 minute, during this time at the start of its turn it regains a number of hit points equal to your Charisma modifier, the troll doesn;t regain these hit points if it has taken fire or acid damage since the end of its last turn or if the Soul Binder is unconscious.

Once you have used this feature you must finish a long rest before you can do so again.

When you reach 7th level you how studied your troll and can see that it is possible to infuse different energies into it when it regenerating. You can choose one of the following infusions:

Beginning at 11th level, you close with your troll. The following commands are added to your Edict options:

At 15th level you have mastered the act of regenerating from being bonded with your troll.

You can cast the regenerate Spell once per long rest, it is a Soul Binder Spell for you. When you cast it using this feature it has a casting time of 1 action.

Some Soul Binders don't bind their soul to another creature, but instead split their own soul into two pieces and creates a body for their split soul, one with martial skills and the original is a caster.

At 3rd level your twin has trained in combat and is beginning to develop its own style, choose one of the following features below:

When you reach 7th level your twin has gained an undying determination to stay in battle and fight for you and itself.

When your twin's HP is reduced to 0 and it is not killed outright, it can move up to half its speed and make one melee attack as a reaction, before falling unconscious. This movement doesn't provoke opportunity attacks, and if the attack hits, the twin regains hit points equal to the damage dealt.

Once it has used this feature it must finish a long rest before it can do so again.

Beginning at 11th level you know how to guide your twin in combat to help them survive. The following commands are added to your Edict options:

At 15th level your twin has mastered whatever style it choose earlier.

Depending on which style you chose at 3rd level your twin get one of the following features:

While some soul binders turn to nature or living creatures, others use science and magic to create life on their own, and infuse their own soul into their creations to keep them alive and stable. They will often bolt, pin or stitch new parts to their creation to improve it in all walks of life.

When you reach 3rd level, you have managed to switch out the arms of your creation to something more interesting. Choose one of the following options to give to your creation:

At 7th level, you have experimented with changes to your creation's head, and have finally managed to implement them. Choose one of the following options to give to your creation:

Beginning at 11th level, you have taught your creation commands that will help it in combat. The following commands are added to your Edict options:

When you reach 15th level, you have been working a long time on your creation and thinking of ways to improve it, and now you are finally ready to make your final and most powerful modification. Choose one of the following options to give to your creation:

By conducting an otherworldly ritual, you have summoned an aberration and bound it to your command. Whether you had captured it through hard work and research, or had to make a great sacrifice in order to have this unnatural being unde ryour command, you two are bound and use your newly gained bizarre powers to your own benefit.

Beginning at 3rd level, you can use an action to touch your aberration and become absorbed, morphing together as a single unit for 1 minute. While you are morphed with your aberration, it gains the following benefits:

While you are morphed with your aberration, you can't take actions or reactions except ending the morph as a bonus action, and cannot move unless specified. While morphed you can still command your companion and use your Edict feature telepathically.

If you are concentrating on a spell while morphed, you must make a concentration check when the aberration is hit, using the aberration's Constitution for the roll.

The morph ends after 1 minute, when the aberration is incapacitated, or if you choose to end it. When morph ends, the soul binder emerges from the aberration in an unoccupied space within 5 feet of it.

You may use this feature without any negative effects once per long rest. The morphing process is hard for the soul binder's body, making it hard to sustain the use of it. Everytime you end this feature after the first, you gain one level of exhaustion.

When you reach 7th level, your aberration has learned to pull creatures closer using either tentacles or telekinesis and show them images that can drive them mad.

As an action your aberration can target up to 6 creatures of its choice within 30 feet of it. Target creatures must succeed on a Strength saving throw or be pulled to an unoccupied space within 5 feet of the aberration.

Your companion can immediately spend its bonus action to attempt to grapple one of the pulled creatures. If a creature is grappled in this way, it is frightened of you and your aberration until the grapple ends.

Once your aberration uses this feature, it must finish a short or long rest before it can do so again.

Starting at 11th level, you can command your aberration to use its newly gained unnatural abilities. The following commands are added to your Edict options:

When you reach 15th level, your body has become more accepting of your aberration, and you are much more potent at morphing together. While morphed with your companion it gains the following additional benefits:

Additionally, you can now stay morphed for longer and your body has an easier time being in this conjoined state. You can retain your morph for 1 hour and you may use this feature once per short rest without any negative effects

A gift from mother nature, an alchemical experiment or a druidic ritual are all things that may cause you to make both a magical and a sympathetic bond with a plant, infusing it with your own soul to give it strength and purpose.

At 3rd level, your plant has grown strong roots and vines that can seize the momentum of creatures.

As an action, your plant can attempt to entangle a creature within 10 feet of the plant. The target must succeed on a Strength or Dexterity saving throw (target's choice). On a failed save, the target is grappled by your companion. While grappled in this way, a creature is restrained. The target can use its action to repeat the saving throw ending both the grapple and restrained conditions on a success. Your plant can only have one creature grappled by the use of this feature, and while it has someone grappled this way, it can only attack that creature.

When you reach 7th level, your plant can use its magic to reach into the earth and call the roots forth to trap its enemies.

Your plant can cast entangle and ensnaring strike using your Soul Binder Spell Save DC.

The plant can cast the spells a combined number of two times. It regains all uses when it finishes a long rest.

Beginning at 11th level, you control your plant with extreme precision. The following commands are added to your Edict options:

At 15th level, your plant can redirect some of the damage it is taking towards a held target.

Whenever your plant takes damage while it is grappling a target with its Entangling Arms feature, the damage is reduced by an amount equal to your Charisma modifier and the grappled creature takes damage equal to your Charisma modifier that is of the same type as the damage your plant took.

Additionally, your plant can now use its Entangling Arms feature as a bonus action.

You are in touch with nature itself and have offered something of yourself to it. In return, you are given a trusty animal companion that protects you and carries out your orders. Your bond with the beast makes you inseparable.

When you reach 3rd level, you and your beast know each other's every move and you perform best in combat when you are together. When you and your beast are within 10 feet of each other and neither of you are incapacitated, you gain the following benefits:

At 7th level, your beast is infused with magic via your bond and can evolve itself in different ways. You can pick one of the following features to grant to your beast:

At 11th level, you can command your beast with the guidance of nature itself. The following commands are added to your Edict options:

When you reach 15th level, your beast has surpassed any limits you could imagine. Your essence is infused within its body, pushing it to the peak of its evolution.

It gains two additional traits from your Beast Companion feature and one additional option from your Bestial Evolution feature.