Blood Hunter (Balanced)

Perhaps they had begun to use their powers for their own ends, maybe there was no cost too high to pay for the destruction of their quarry or they simply learnt something the Orders would rather keep hidden...

Called 'selfish', 'deviants' or even 'evil' by both their specific order and the order as a whole the Exiled find themselves cast out and alone against the world.

However having survived the Hunter's Bane and the various trials of Blood Hunter training they remain unfaltering in their ambitions and desires, continuing to hone their bloody craft without the strict guidance of their peers no matter what dark path it may ultimately lead them down.

At 7th level your continued delving into the secrets you gleaned during your time in your previous order have yielded new means to exercise your powers. Depending on which order you chose for your stolen secrets feature, you gain one of the following:

At 11th level your delving into dark lore allows your brand to drain the very life from your foes and feed your own.

When a creature is branded by you it must make a Constitution saving throw against your hemocraft save DC. On a failed save the branded creature gains 1 level of exhaustion and takes necrotic damage, which can't be reduced in any way, equal to your Blood Hunter level while you gain temporary hit points equal to the same amount.

The creature repeats the Constitution saving throw every 10 minutes for the duration of the Brand, if a creature's saving throw is successful, the creature is immune to the Brand of Vital Hunger for the next 10 minutes. All levels of exhaustion gained from this brand are removed at the end of the brand's duration.

At 15th level you've unlocked the secret to simply manipulating the blood within other's veins to your needs, something you use to violent and visceral effect. You gain the Blood Curse of Igneous Exsanguination for your Blood Maledict feature. This does not count against your number of blood curses known.

Starting at 18th level your pursuit for forbidden knowledge leads finally, to your enlightenment; the true realisation of your bloody power unfolds before you as easily as you might turn pages in a book. Depending on which order you chose for your stolen secrets feature, you gain one of the following:

The Order of the Ghostslayer is the oldest of the orders, having originally rediscovered the secrets of blood magic and refined them for combat against the scourge of undeath. ghostslayers seek out and study the moment of death, obsessing over the mysteries of the transition and how it can become corrupted by unholy powers to rise once more. Tuning their abilities to annihilate such abominations, these zealous blood hunters seek out the sources of such necromantic energies, intent to destroy them wherever they arise.

At 7th level, you've learned to briefly step into the spirit world, enabling a swift and deadly strike. When you use the Attack action you can spend a use of this feature to make one additional weapon attack as a bonus action and become temporarily spectral. Until the end of your next turn, you can move through other creatures and objects as if they were difficult terrain. You take 1d10 force damage if you end your turn inside a creature or an object. If you are inside a creature or an object when you are no longer spectral, you are immediately shunted to the nearest unoccupied space that you can occupy and take force damage equal to twice the number of feet you moved.

You can use this feature once. Beginning at 15th level, you can use your Supernal Surge feature twice. You regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest.

Beginning at 11th level, your Brand of Castigation now exposes a fragment of your foe's essence, leaving them vulnerable to your Crimson Rite. Whenever you damage a branded creature with your Crimson Rite, your weapon deals one additional hemocraft die of rite damage. In addition, the branded creature can't move through creatures or objects.

At 15th level, you've honed your hemocraft to tear wicked influence from your allies, punishing those who would infiltrate their body and mind. You gain the Blood Curse of the Exorcist for your Blood Maledict feature. This doesn't count against your number of blood curses known.

Upon reaching 18th level, you learn to project your spirit to continue fighting while on the edge of death. When you are reduced to 0 hit points but not killed outright, you can choose to let your soul emerge from your body to fight on. Your body remains unconscious and you continue to make death saving throws as per normal.

At the beginning of your next turn, you manifest a spirit form in your space that picks up your weapons and acts on each of your turns under your control. Your spirit form shares your game statistics, can move through other creatures and objects as if they were difficult terrain, and is immune to cold, necrotic and nonmagical damage.

If your spirit form takes any damage, your body dies, your spirit moves more than 30 feet away from your body or you regain at least 1 hit point, your spirit form vanishes and drops your weapons in its space.

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

Of the many terrible curses that plague the realm, few are as ancient or as feared as Lycanthropy. Passed through blood, this affliction seeds a host with the savage strength and hunger for violence of a wicked beast. The Order of the Lycan is a proud order of blood hunters who undergo "The Taming," a ceremonial inflicting of lycanthropy from a senior member. These hunters then use their abilities to harness the power of the monster they harbor without losing themselves to it. Through intense honing of one's own willpower, combined with the secrets of the order's blood magic rituals, members learn to control and unleash their hybrid form for short periods of time. Enhanced physical prowess, unnatural resilience, and razor sharp claws make these warriors a terrible foe to any evil that crosses their path. Yet, no training is perfect, and without care and complete focus, even the greatest of blood hunters can temporarily lose themselves to the bloodlust.

At 7th level, your speed increases by 10 feet while you aren't wearing heavy armor. You also can add 10 feet to your long jump distance and 3 feet to your high jump distance. In addition, your hybrid form gains the Improved Predatory Strikes feature.

Starting at 11th level, you learn to unleash and control more of the beast within. You can now transform into your hybrid form as a bonus action, and can use your Hybrid Transformation feature twice, regaining all expended uses when you finish a short or long rest. In addition, your hybrid form gains the Lycan Regeneration feature.

At 15th level, you have advantage on your Wisdom saving throws to maintain control of your bloodlust in hybrid form.

Also at 15th level, your Brand of Castigation now binds your foe to your hunter's thirst for savagery. While in your hybrid form, your attacks have advantage against a creature branded by you.

At 18th level, you have wrestled your inner predator and mastered it. You can now use your hybrid form feature three times instead of two, and your hybrid form now lasts for up to 1 hour.

Also at 18th level you gain the Blood Curse of the Howl for your Blood Maledict feature. This does not count against your number of blood curses known.

The process of the Hunter's Bane is a painful, scarring, and sometimes fatal experience. Those that survive find themselves irrevocably changed, enhanced. Some found this experience exalting, embracing the ability to alter one's own physiology through a combination of hemocraft and corrupted alchemy. Over generations of experimentation, a splinter order of blood hunters began to emerge, one that focused on brewing toxic elixirs to modify their capabilities in battle, altering their blood and, overtime, become something beyond what they once were. They called themselves the Order of the Mutant. Researching their targets to know their strengths and weaknesses, these blood hunters can alter their biology to be best prepared for the coming conflict.

Beginning at 7th level, your body has begun to adapt to toxins and venoms, ignoring their corroding effects. You gain advantage on saving throws against poison, and you have resistance against poison damage.

In addition, you can instill a burst of adrenaline to temporarily resist the negative effects of a mutagen. As an action, you can choose to ignore the side effect of a mutagen affecting you for 1 minute.

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

At 11th level, your mutagenic hemocraft lets your Brand of Castigation reveal a foe's true nature.

If a creature branded by you is under the effect of any illusion spell, the polymorph spell, the Change Shape action, the Shapechanger trait, the Wild Shape feature, or a similar effect, it must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw. On a failed save the illusion spell (if any) ends, it reverts to its true form (if changed) and is stunned until the end of your next turn.

If a creature's saving throw is successful, the creature is immune to the Brand of Axiom for the next 10 minutes.

Starting at 15th level, your blood curse can wrack a creature's body with terrible toxins. You gain the Blood Curse of Corrosion for your Blood Maledict feature. This does not count against your number of blood curses known.

At 18th level, your body has adapted to produce mutagens naturally in a moment of need. As a bonus action, choose one mutagen currently affecting you. Its effects and side effects end, and you can immediately have a mutagen you know the formula for take effect in its place.

Or instead you can spend two uses of this feature to gain the effects and side effects of one mutagen you know the formula for, as if you had consumed the mutagen normally.

You can use this feature a number of times equal to your Intelligence modifier (minimum of 1). You regain all uses of this feature after you finish a long rest.

Those who have taken to the Order of the Profane Soul have seen the limits of hemocraft against some of the most ancient and cruel fiends and terrors of the world. Unable to pursue beings of such power, creatures able to vanish amongst the nobles without a trace, or bend the mind of the most stalwart warrior with but a glance, this order trusted in the irresilience and delved into this same well of corrupting arcane knowledge, making pacts with lesser evils to better combat the greater. While they may have traded a part of themselves, members of this order believe the power gained far outweighs the price, for even devils now quake when they know they've drawn the attention of the Order of the Profane Soul.

Starting at 7th level, when you use your action to cast a cantrip, you can immediately make one weapon attack as a bonus action.

At 7th level, your patron grants you the use of a distinctive spell based on your pact. You can cast this spell without expending a spell slot, and can't do so again until you finish a long rest.

Upon reaching 11th level, your Brand of Castigation feature digs dark arcane scars into your target, leaving them vulnerable to your magic. A creature branded by you has disadvantage on saving throws against your warlock spells.

At 15th level, your patron grants you the use of an additional spell based on your pact. You cast this spell without expending a spell slot, and can't do so again until you finish a long rest.

Starting at 18th level, you've learned to siphon the soul from your fallen prey. You gain the Blood Curse of the Souleater for your Blood Maledict feature. This does not count against your number of blood curses known.