Soul Binder

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, when your companion is harmed you can catch its life force and redirect it elsewhere before it dissipates.

When your companion takes damage you can use your reaction to heal a creature other than you or your companion for an amount equal to the damage your companion just took. If you used your reaction to redirect damage to your companion you can use this feature as part of that reaction.

You can activate this feature a number of times equal to your proficiency bonus and regain all uses on a long rest.

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 companion, 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 creature that has an unusual nature about it, it has the ability to shift itself and blink around the world with ease, but it needs your guidance to control this power.

When you reach 3rd level, you have taught your companion to blink to your enemies and deliver a deadly strike.

Whenever you hit a creature with an attack, your companion can use its reaction to teleport to an unoccupied spot within 5 feet of that creature. If you use your reaction to transfer damage to your companion with the Symbiotic Link feature, your companion can also use its reaction and teleport to an unoccupied space within 5 feet of the creature that dealt damage to you. Your companion can only teleport this way if it is within 60 feet of the creature.

After your companion teleports it can make an attack as part of that reaction, and it has advantage on the attack. On a hit, the creature's movement speed is reduced to 0 until the start of your next turn.

Your companion can use this feature a number of times equal to your proficiency bonus and regains all uses on a short or long rest.

Starting at 7th level you and your companion's connection have become so strong that you can teleport to each other.

While you and your companion is within 60 feet of each other, either of you can expend 20 feet of your movement to teleport to an unoccupied space that is within 5 feet of the other.

Only one of you can activate this feature each turn.

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

Beginning at 15th level you can channel the conjuration magic of your companion to shift you and your allies around the battlefield.

As an action you can choose any number of willing creature that is within 10 feet of either you or your companion (this can include you and your companion), you can then choose to teleport thoese creatures to a spot that is within 60 feet of their position and that you can see.

Any creature teleported this way can use their reaction to make a melee weapon attack against a creature who is within range.

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

You have bound yourself to a strange creature that is able to shift its form and absorb matter to enhance itself.

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

While you are morphed with your companion, you can't take actions or reactions except ending the merge, using your action or bonus action to command your companion (and potentially use an Edict as part of that action), and you cannot move unless specified. If you are concentrating on a spell while merged, you must make a concentration check when the companion is hit, using the companion's Constitution for the roll. The merge ends after 1 minute, when your companion is incapacitated, or if you choose to end it as a bonus action. When the merge ends, you emerge from your companion in an unoccupied space within 5 feet of it.

Once you have merged with your companion, you can't do so again until you finish a long rest, unless you expend a spell slot of 1st level or higher to merge again.

Starting at 7th your companion can assimilate pieces of monsters you have slain and add it to it's body to grow stronger. As an action your companion can touch a dead organic creature within 5 feet of it, to consume the body add some of it to itself, your companion will get certain benefits depending on the type of the creature. Your companion can only have the part of one creature at a time and if it uses this feature again it will lose its old benefit. The possible benefits are the following:

At the end of a long rest the assimilated body will decay and rot away and your companion will loose its current benefit, unless you spend one of your regained spell slots to keep the body fresh until the next long rest.

Beginning at 11th level, you can command your companion to absorb more matter and becomes better. The following commands are added to your Edict options:

When you reach 15th level, your body has become more accepting of your companion, and you are much more potent at merging together. While merged with your companion, you both gain the following additional benefits:

Sometimes a persons soul can also be split in two as the result of a magical experiment, in such case they can because a Soul Binder and will have crafted a construct that can house their shattered soul and be controlled like a puppet.

Beginning at 3rd level you can now take more direct control of your companion and guide it.

If you used your action to command your companion you can then also use your bonus action to give it one the benefits listed below until the start of your next turn. You can also expend a spell slot as part of activating this feature to enhance the bonuses:

Starting at 7th level you can empower your companion and make more complex tasks.

When you use the Take Control feature, your companion can get two of the benefits, although only one of the bonuses can benefit from being empowered by a spell slot.

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 companion 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.

You have bound yourself to a fleeting spirit unable to go to the afterlife. To help keep your companion grounded in this world you have made a vessel for them, whenever that be a carefully crafted construct or a corpse that is no longer being used.

Starting at 3rd level you can use your own lifeforce to reconstruct your companion when its damaged. You have a pool of soul energy represented by a number of d6s equal to 1 + your soul binder level.

As a bonus action, you can spend a number of those dice equal to half your soul binder level or less. Roll the spent dice and add them together. You take damage equal to the the total, and your companion regains hit points equal to twice the total.

You regain all expended dice when you finish a long rest.

When you reach 7th level you and your companion's life force has been so entwined that your companion will harm anyone who dares to hurt you.

When your companion takes damage, it can use its reaction to choose any number of creatures that is within 10 feet of it, the chosen creatures must succeed on a Constitution saving throw or they will take necrotic damage equal to the damage your companion took when it activated this reaction.

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

Starting at 11th level, you can command your companion to use its powers to manipulate life force. The following commands are added to your Edict options:

When you reach 15th level you can manipulate the thread that ties you and your companion to heal one of you.

As an action you can compare your current hit points to that of your companion's hit points, whoever has the lowest amount of current hit points will get healed so they have the same amount of hit points as the other one (to a maximum of their maximum hit points).

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

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 each other.

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 companion is incapacitated or it dies, or if another creature marks them using this feature.

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

In addition, if a creature marked by your companion deals damage to anyone other than your companion, you can use your reaction to make a weapon attack against the marked creature 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 companion can use its action this turn to exhale a destructive breath.

Each creature caught in the breath must make a saving throw or take 3d8 damage on a failed save, or half on a success. Your companion can apply its draconic mark from Draconic Challenge to one of the creatures that failed the saving throw. The shape, saving throw, and damage type is determined by your companion's Draconic Damage type:

You can use higher level spell slots to increase the damage. The damage increases by 2d8 for each spell slot level above 1st. 5d8 for a 2nd level spell slot, 7d8 for a 3rd level spell slot, 9d8 for a 4th level spell slot, and 11d8 for a 5th level spell slot.

When you reach 11th level you can activate this feature as a bonus action.

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 companion into its true dragon form for a little while.

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

You have formed a link with an entity that is not from this world, and though it grants you a powerful ally is tearing at your mind to have a constant connection to this otherworldly creature.

This creature is either an outsider from beyond the stars or a spawn from a demon of madness and chaos.

Starting at 3rd level you can sacrifice some of your sanity in order to power up your companion. Your companion can use the following features:

Using this power will cause you to loose your sanity and there is a risk that it will be too much for your mortal mind to bear. After your companion has used one of the features you must make a Sanity check, which is a Charisma saving throw with a DC of 5, on a success the DC increases by 3 for next time your companion uses a feature. On a failed save the DC doesn't increase but you must roll on the madness table below and suffer that condition for 1 minute. Your companion can't use this feature while you are suffering from a madness effect.

At the end of a long rest the DC for your Sanity check returns to 5. As a bonus action you can also spend a spell slot to reduce the DC of your Sanity check by an amount equal to double the spell slots level (to a minimum of 5).

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

As an action your companion can target up to six 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 your companion.

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 companion until the grapple ends.

Once your companion has used this feature, it must finish a short or long rest before it can do so again.

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

When you reach 15th you can choose to let willingly go of your sanity in order to give your companion magnificicant powers.

As a bonus action you can roll on the Madness table from the Edge of Sanity feature and suffer that effect for 1 minute. During that minute your companion can use the features from the Edge of Sanity feature as much as it wants to.

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

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.

Starting at 3rd level you and your companion can work together to become empowered by the power of nature.

Once per turn when your companion hits a creature that is within 5 feet of you or if you hit a creature that is within 5 feet of your companion, you can activate one of the following features:

You can activate this feature a number of times equal to your proficiency bonus and regain all uses on a short or long rest.

When you reach 7th level you and your companion can work together like a pack to overcome overwhelming odds.

When you make an attack against a creature within 5 feet of your companion you can choose to gain advantage on the attack roll, if you hit you must activate and use Call of the Wild, you can't use this feature if you don't have any uses of Call of the Wild. If the creature dies from your attack you don't have to expend a use of Call of the Wild.

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 you can call upon the spirits of nature to fight and hunt alongside you and your companion.

As an action you can use this feature to cast the summon beast spell at 5th level. When cast with this feature the spell summons two spirits instead of one, its duration in reduced to 1 minute and it doesn't require concentration. The spirit's attacks also counts as magical for the purpose of overcoming resistances.

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