Demi-Dragon

Arbiters tap into their inner strength through magic by binding spells to their very form. Arbiters learn esoteric magical secrets that aid them in enhancing their own natural abilities with spells, using core principles of magic known only to dragonkind.

The melding of body and the Weave of magic lies in your heritage. As a bonus action, you can call on your innate magic to grant yourself Dragonweave until the end of your turn. If you take the Attack action while you have Dragonweave, you can cast one of your cantrips in place of one of your attacks. The cantrip must have a casting time of 1 action.

At 6th level, you now regain use of your Scale Bind feature when you finish a short rest.

Additionally, while the scale is detached from you and the spell remains bound, you can see and hear from the scale's location (no action required), using your own senses.

When you reach 10th level, you've studied both the creation and destruction of magic, and have developed an unerring sight for the mystical. You gain the ability to cast detect magic and identify at will. Additionally, you add dispel magic and counterspell to your spells known, and you can cast them each once per long rest without expending a spell slot.

At 17th level, you've learned how to fuel your spells with the sundered power of your enemies. Whenever you use Devour Magic or cast dispel magic, you can immediately use your bonus action to cast a spell of 2nd level or lower. The spell must have a casting time of 1 action or bonus action.

Ascetics devote themselves to contemplation and worship. By seeking to better themselves through spiritual and physical training, Ascetics harness the magical nature of their Dragon Spark, developing it into an ember of ineffable power which they use to aid and protect their allies.

At 6th level, the gift of your breath imbues greater boons. When you use Imbue Breath, you can additionally grant the target one of the following additional effects:

At 10th level, your Dragon Spark can bond your breath to a creature. When you use Imbue Breath, you can additionally grant the target one of the following additional effects:

At 10th level, you become a conduit for the teachings of dragon sages. At the end of a short rest, the target of your Disciple's Meditation can ask one question that can be answered with a yes or no. The sages speak through you, and give a correct answer for the question. The DM provides the answer.

The sages aren't omniscient, so you might receive "unclear" as an answer if a question pertains to information that lies beyond their knowledge. In a case where a one-word answer could be misleading or contrary to the sages' teachings, the DM might offer a short phrase as an answer instead.

By 17th level, your selfless dedication has exalted your being. Choose one of the effects from Anointed Blessings or Bestow Grace. You gain the chosen effect permanently. You can change your choice each time you finish a short or long rest.

Some dragons rely on brute strength and unyielding vitality to survive in a world that means them ill. Such dragons use their size and tenacity to shrug off deadly attacks, cause upheaval by their very presence, and manhandle their foes with their natural strength.

You readily use your size and natural might to your benefit. Starting at 6th level, the following options are available to you. You can use each option once, and must then complete a short or long rest to use that option again.

At 6th level, you understand well to push the world harder than it pushes back. When you hit with a natural weapon attack against a target that is frightened, grappled, incapacitated, prone, or restrained, you gain a +2 to the damage roll. Additionally, creatures under any of those conditions have disadvantage against your Dragon's Breath saving throw.

At 10th level, a mere glance can terrify your foes. When you use your Feast feature, choose one creature within 60 feet of you that can see you. That creature must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw against your Dragon Spark save DC or be frightened of you for 1 minute. The creature can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turn, ending the effect on a success.

At 10th level, you only grow more steadfast in the face of danger. If you have no more than half your hit points left, bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing damage that you take from nonmagical attacks is reduced by an amount equal to your Constitution modifier (minimum 1).

At 17th level, the upheaval of your presence sends your foes tumbling. Each creature of your choice that is your size or smaller which starts their turn within 10 feet of you must succeed on a Dexterity saving throw against your Behemoth save DC or fall prone.

Additionally, when you use your Earth-Shaking Stomp feature, each creature of your choice which fails their saving throw against the effect takes bludgeoning damage equal to 1d6 + your Strength modifier.

Every dragon is unique, but few know it like you do. You mystically draw on the essence of other dragons to embolden yourself with their powers and ideals. While you do not have precise control over the echoes you call upon to aid you, you have a breadth of experience that others cannot rival.

At 6th level, your echoes change you fundamentally. Each time you use Seek Echo, you can select one skill to gain proficiency in. You keep the proficiency until you choose another skill to become proficient in. Additionally, whenever finish a long rest, you can choose to roll on the table below. Your Dragon's Breath changes to match the result. Instead of rolling on the table, you can choose to revert your Dragon's Breath element to your original choice.

At 6th level, experiencing different echoes has granted you a deep understanding of the life they lived, distilled to aid you. Whenever you complete a long rest, you can choose to roll on the table below to determine your insight. You gain the associated benefit until you choose to change it during another long rest.

At 10th level, you can briefly imbue yourself with multiple echoes. Whenever you roll on the Draconic Embodiment table, you can choose an additional Draconic Embodiment from those you rolled, following the same rules as Seek Echo. You do not immediately gain the benefits of the chosen Draconic Embodiment, but must make your choices for it during the long rest.

At the start of each of your turns, you can choose to activate your twinned echo. If you do, you immediately gain all the benefits of the chosen Draconic Embodiment in addition to those gained from Seek Echo. Your twinned echo lasts for 10 minutes, after which the benefits are lost. Once you activate your twinned echo, you cannot do so again until you finish a long rest.

At 17th level, the fate and identity of the echoes you wield are yours to determine. When you use Devour Magic, you can choose to roll again on the tables for one or both of your current selections for Essence In Flux and Distant Insight. When you do, you additionally regain a number of hit points equal to the number rolled on each die that you roll for Essence In Flux or Distant Insight.

Fervent Hoarders hold a singular desire in their heart, and take up adventuring to sate it. Hoarders form a special bond with an object that they covet, binding it tightly to the Weave of magic as a focus for their own extraordinary power. Though many Hoarders desire glittering gold, their magical bond can take the form of any beloved object.

A hoard serves as the magical anchor for a lair, and as an adventuring dragon, you've learned to rapidly form and sever the magical connections that signify a lair. Starting from 6th level, as an action you establish a connection to all nearby terrain within a 60 feet radius of your centerpiece item. Your lair lasts until the centerpiece item is moved from within the range of the established lair, until you manifest a new lair, or until you die.

While you are within your lair, you can take one of the following reactions of your choice at the end of any other creature's turn.

Once you manifest your lair, you can't do so again until you finish a short or long rest.

From 10th level, all that you survey is yours to wield. As an action, you immediately attune to a magical item that is in your possession and is not attuned to another creature. If doing so would cause you to be attuned to more than your maximum attuned items, you can immediately unattune from one other item as part of the action.

When you attune or unattune to an item in this way, you can additionally choose to use Absorb Magic to absorb or return the item's enchantment. If you do, the item must remain in your possession for 1 hour, else the enchantment returns to the item at the end of the hour.

You can use this feature a number of times equal to your proficiency bonus, after which you must finish a long rest to use it again.

Given a little time to settle in, you can make improvements to your new home. From 10th level, when you finish a long rest while resting in the area of your Manifest Lair, you can choose a spell from the following list which takes effect: druid grove, guards and wards, programmed illusion, and project image. You determine the effects of the spell as if you had cast it, but all effects must be within the radius of your lair and cannot leave it. Only one of these spells can be active at any one time, and the spell immediately ends if Manifest Lair ends. The spell does not require you to concentrate on it.

At 17th level, the crowning glory of your hoard is a true marvel. When you designate an item as your centerpiece item during a short or long rest, you can choose two of the features detailed in Heart of the Hoard. You gain the benefits of both.

Juggernauts face their foes head on and break them under a barrage of fury. Juggernauts rely on raw might and tenacity to wade into battle, using their multiple limbs to tear their enemies down with their powerful natural weapons.

By 6th level, a fervor burns within you to enact your fury upon your enemies. When you make an attack as a part of a maneuver, you have advantage on the attack roll.

At 10th level, you embrace challenge. You gain the following benefits:

Combat is the anvil of will, and you are its hammer. Starting from 17th level, when a creature succeeds on a saving throw against one of your demi-dragon class features, you can force it to reroll. It must use the new roll. Once you use this feature, you can't do so again until you finish a short or long rest.

Metamorphs learn to master and manipulate the secrets that drove their initial transformation. They can reshape their own bodies, adapting themselves to overcome the challenges that are brought on by their surroundings, solve practical problems, enhance their draconic nature, or to express themselves freely by taking on fantastical traits of their choosing - such as by imitating the brightly-colored feathered wings of the coatl, or the flowing mane of a ki-rin.

Starting from 6th level, your morphs carry side effects with them. Whenever you choose an Active Category, you gain both the benefits listed in that category. When you choose a new Active Category, you choose one morph from the previously Active Category to keep as a Waning morph and one to discard.

At 6th level, your form is so malleable that it only needs a spark of energy to change entirely. When you use Devour Magic, or upon completing the goal of your Resolution, you can additionally choose to immediately change your form. If you do, choose a new Active Category that you know and one of its morphs, and discard old morphs as if you had changed morphs during a rest.

At 10th level, you can remake yourself from the ground up. As part of a long rest, you can choose to undergo a metamorphic ritual, during which you cocoon yourself as you rework the nature of your being. This allows you to change your past choices. Change each of the following to your liking. Upon completing the ritual, any ability score damage, scars suffered, or limbs lost are restored. Once initiated, the ritual can't be interrupted. You are helpless and unconscious for the full duration, and can only be stopped by an untimely death.

At 10th level, you understand change like few others. Unless you choose to be affected, your form can't be changed against your will, such as by the polymorph spell or a Medusa's Petrifying Gaze.

Starting from 17th level, you have nigh-total control over your transformation. You can retain one additional Waning morph, and when you change morphs, you can choose to change each of your previously Waning morphs to any morph from any category you know.

You've forged a powerful bond with a group of humanoid creatures who have become your minions. Perhaps you are an industrious taskmaster, or maybe you have befriended your dear minions, or shared the magical nature of your draconic power with them. Regardless, the pack stands ready to assist you.

At 6th level, your minions learn new tricks to hinder your foes. As part of the bonus action you use for Unleash Pack, or as a bonus action that you can take on subsequent turns, you can choose one of the following options to activate.

Additionally, when the target of Unleash Pack is reduced to 0 hit points, you can choose a creature within 60 feet of the target. At the start of your next turn, the chosen creature becomes the new target of Unleash Pack.

You carry your minions into battle. As a bonus action, your minions come to your assistance. You gain temporary hit points equal to your demi-dragon level + your Charisma modifier. These temporary hit points last for 10 minutes.

While you have these temporary hit points, you can choose for damage you take to bypass your temporary hit points. Additionally, when you end your turn while you have these temporary hit points, you can use a reaction to command your minions to make a ranged weapon attack against a target of your choice within 60 feet of you that you can see, using your Dragon Spark attack modifier. On a hit, the target takes 1d4 + your Charisma modifier piercing damage.

Once you use this feature, you must finish a short or long rest to use it again.

Your minions always have your back. Once per round when you fail a saving throw while Unleash Pack or Packbearer is active, you can choose to reroll the saving throw and must use the new roll.

Scions are demi-dragons who commit themselves fully to dragonkind. The purity of their elemental spark makes them nearly indistinguishable from true dragons, inheriting their most iconic traits. Scions dedicate themselves to a specific draconic bloodline from which they draw their power.

At 6th level, you've learned how to get the most out of your Ardent Gift. Depending on your Bloodline Heritage, you gain the following benefit:

By 10th level, you've grown fully attuned to your bloodline. You are immune to the damage type you chose for Dragon's Breath.

At 17th level, your heritage lets you inspire fear in those around you. As a bonus action, each creature of your choice that is aware of you and within 60 feet of you is forced to make a Wisdom saving throw against your Dragon Spark save DC. On a failed save, a target becomes frightened of you for 1 minute. You can use this feature once, and regain the ability to do so after finishing a long rest.

Some demi-dragons are rejected or feared by those around them, and learn to rely on tricks and subterfuge. Shadestalkers outmaneuver their enemies with predatory ambushes before vanishing into the night, striking only when they have the advantage.

At 6th level, you can create an area of sheltering shadows. As a bonus action, you choose a point within your Cone Range from which spreads a 15-foot cube of magical darkness. The darkness spreads around corners, a creature with darkvision can't see through the darkness, and nonmagical light can't illuminate it. The darkness lasts for 1 minute, or until you choose to dismiss it early as a bonus action. You can use this feature three times, and must then complete a short or long rest before you can use it again.

Starting from 10th level, you vanish and reappear abruptly. Immediately after ending your turn, you can take the Hide action as a reaction.

Additionally, whenever you hit with a melee weapon attack which you had advantage on, the target of your attack must make a Wisdom save against your Dragon Spark save DC. On a failure, the target becomes frightened of you for 1 minute. The target can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns. A target that succeeds on this save is immune to this effect for the next 8 hours.

At 17th level, shadows cling to you as you burst from concealment, and when you strike, you leave your enemies bleeding and crippled. If you start your turn while heavily obscured or hidden, you become invisible until the end of your turn.

Additionally, the speed reduction of your Rend and Ruin lasts for 1 minute.

Sibilants are psionic manipulators who prefer to quietly and selectively influence those around them in their own favor, whispering unassuming suggestions that play into their plans. A sibilant will compel their foes to step right into the path of their elemental breath without them even realizing.

At 6th level, your careful planning and disciplined thoughts leave no room for error. You cannot be charmed. Additionally, whenever you start your turn with no hostile creature within 5 feet of you, you can add your Charisma modifier to one damage roll you make before the end of your turn.

Starting from 6th level, you can infiltrate the minds of others to change how they see you. As a bonus action, choose a creature within 120 feet of you that you are aware of. The creature must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw or become charmed by you for 10 minutes or until you lose your concentration (as if you were concentrating on a spell). Additionally, you alter the creature's perception of you, choosing from the following secondary effects:

If the charmed target takes any damage, the charm ends, but the secondary effect persists for the remaining duration. You can use this feature twice, and must then finish a short or long rest to use it again.

Amidst the destruction of your elemental breath reigns confusion. Starting from 10th level, when you use your Dragon's Breath feature, you can use your bonus action to psionically overwhelm one target that took damage from your Dragon's Breath. That creature must make a Wisdom saving throw against your Dragon Spark save DC or be incapacitated until the end of their next turn.

At 17th level, you leave a web of altered perception in your wake. While concentrating on your Obfuscate Consciousness, you can as a bonus action choose to target another creature within your range with the effects of Obfuscate Consciousness, but cannot target the same creature more than once.

An ancient martial technique amongst dragons has seen a resurgence under a new flair, wielding steel weaponry to decimate unprepared foes. Normally impractical to a grounded dragon, such weapons take on a different characteristic when swung from the air, giving the appearance of a brutal aerial dance of flashing steel and beating wings.

At 6th level, your momentum is your greatest asset. Once during each of your turns, you can activate one of the following benefits (no action required):

At 10th level, you are both elegant and devious in your maneuvering. When you use Wing Surge, you gain advantage on Dexterity saving throws and your AC increases by 3 until the start of your next turn.

At 17th level, you are swift and free as the wind. Your walking and flying speeds each increase by 20.

Additionally, when you use Wing Surge, your speed can't be reduced in any way until the start of your next turn.