Spiritual Swordsman

At 1st level, your spirit manifests itself as the spirit of your own weapon. Choose a weapon from the list in which the spiritual swordsman is proficient. This weapon manifests physically and becomes your spiritual weapon.

You can materialize and dematerialize it as a bonus action, provided you have at least one free hand. You have a special bond with these weapons, who become your companions and may have their own desires. The personality of a spiritual weapon varies, but it's usually similar to the strongest personality traits of the swordsman.

You can create a new spiritual weapon by absorbing the spiritual shards from your soul and the environment. This process takes 4 hours in which you must be in concentration (as if you were concentrating in a spell). You may choose any weapon in the list in which the spiritual swordsman is proficient.

You can have up to two spiritual weapons. If you create a third one, the oldest weapon shatters and is destroyed. You may also turn an physical weapon, if it's a weapon from the list in which the spiritual swordsman is proficient, into a spiritual weapon, and in this case the process takes only 1 hour. Doing this also shatters your oldest spiritual weapon if you try to exceed your maximum.

Some features from the spiritual swordsman require its targets to make a saving throw to avoid its effects. The formula for the difficulty is:

Your exposition to spiritual particles and your martial training let you unleash your hidden spiritual power.

As a bonus action on your turn, you can activate spirit awakening, gaining the following benefits:

Your transformation lasts for 1 minute. It ends early if you are knocked unconscious or if you die.

Once you have activated spirit awakening the maximum number of times for your spiritual swordsman level, you must finish a long rest before you can activate it again. You may activate spirit awakening 2 times at 1st level, 3 at 5th, 4 at 9th, 5 at 13th, and 6 at 17th.

You adopt a particular style of fighting as your specialty. Choose one of the following options. You can't take the same Fighting Style option more than once, even if you get to choose again.

You discover peculiar spiritual manifestations beffiting yours your weapon's spirit.

The manifestations are permanent, and after choosing one you won't be able to change it.

A level prerequisite in an manifestation refers to spiritual swordsman level, not character level.

When you reach the 3rd level, the spirit of your weapon completely reveals itself to you, showing you its powers and forging a more intimate bond. This revelatons grants the swordsman specific powers from his weapon.

Choose a path that shapes your weapon's spirit from the list of available paths. Your choice grants you features at 3rd level and again at 6th, 11th, and 17th levels.

At 3rd level, your link with the ethereal plane and the spiritual world become strong enough for you to see people beyond their physical bodies.

As an action, you can sense the souls of living creatures within 60 feet from you until the start of your next turn. Each creature you can see in the area appears to you wrapped in a colored aura that symbolizes the strongest emotion in its spirit at the moment. The color of the aura may vary from red to anger, indigo for sadness, black for hate, yellow for joy, and so on. The DM chooses which colors represents each feeling.

You know each color's meaning and are able to sense the most superficial feelings of any individual wrapped inside an aura this way.

You can use this feature a number of times equal to 1 + your Wisdom modifier (minimum of 1). When you finish a long rest, you regain all expended uses.

When you reach 4th level, you can increase one ability score of your choice by 2, or you can increase two ability scores of your choice by 1. As normal, you can't increase an ability score above 20 using this feature.

If your DM allows the use of feats, you may instead take a feat.

Beginning at 5th level, you can attack twice, instead of once, whenever you take the Attack action on your turn.

At 6th level, your attacks with your spiritual weapons count as magical for the purpose of overcoming resistance and immunity to nonmagical attacks and damage.

At 6th level, you gain a feature from your Spiritual Path.

By 7th level, all your training with your spiritual weapons is rewarded by the strengthening of the bond between you, manifesting an even greater power.

When you choose a spiritual manifestation, you may choose a special spiritual manifestation called superior manifestation. The list of available options can be found at the Optional Features page

The superior manifestations become more powerful as you level, evolving to advanced superior manifestation at 14th level, and to perfect superior manifestation at 20th level. You can choose only one superior manifestation.

When you reach 8th level, you can increase one ability score of your choice by 2, or you can increase two ability scores of your choice by 1. As normal, you can't increase an ability score above 20 using this feature.

If your DM uses the optional Feats, you can instead take a feat.

Beginning at 9th level, whenever you reduce a creature to 0 hit points in your turn with any of your spiritual weapons, you regain a number of hit points equal to your Wisdom modifier (minimum of 0), and your speed increases by 10 feet until the end of the turn. Additionaly, your movement doesn't provoke opportunity attacks this turn.

At 10th level, you adquire the power to meditate and absorb the information the spirits around you can reveal.

Upon meditating for 10 minutes, you attune yourself with the place manifesting an aura of 60 feet around you, that lasts for 1 minute.

While the aura lasts, you gain the benefits of the detect magic spell, and gain truesight with a range of 20 feet. Additionaly, you have advantage on Wisdom (Perception) checks related to seeing things within the aura.

Your DM may also choose to reveal additional information within the aura, according to the history of the place, recent events and spiritual ambiance.

At 11th level, you gain a feature from your Spiritual Path.

When you reach 12th level, you can increase one ability score of your choice by 2, or you can increase two ability scores of your choice by 1. As normal, you can't increase an ability score above 20 using this feature.

If your DM uses the optional Feats, you can instead take a feat.

Beginning at 13th level, you learn how to touch the spirit of other creatures through your own soul, making your communication perfect.

You understand every spoken language, and any creature that can understand a language can understand what you say.

At 14th level, you superior manifestation become advanced superior manifestation.

Beginning at 15th level, your frequent absortion of spiritual shards grant you proximity to the timeless spiritual world.

You do not age, and you become immune to poison and disease. Also, while you are carrying any of your spiritual weapons, you don't need to eat or drink.

When you reach 16th level, you can increase one ability score of your choice by 2, or you can increase two ability scores of your choice by 1. As normal, you can't increase an ability score above 20 using this feature.

If your DM uses the optional Feats, you can instead take a feat.

At 17th level, you gain a feature from your Spiritual Path.

At 18th level, your spirit emanates a sensation of weight to all creatures that wish to do you harm when you are awakened.

While your spirit awakening is active, you emanate an aura up to 60 feet from you. A creature that enters the aura or starts its turn there must succeed in a Wisdom saving throw or become incapacitated. Creatures affected may repeat the saving throw at the end of each of their turns, ending the effect on a success. On a success, a creature is also immune to this effect for 24 hours. Constructs aren't affected by this feature.

When you reach 19th level, you can increase one ability score of your choice by 2, or you can increase two ability scores of your choice by 1. As normal, you can't increase an ability score above 20 using this feature.

If your DM uses the optional Feats, you can instead take a feat.

At 20th level, your superior manifestation becomes a perfect superior manifestation.