Alternate Blood Hunter

Blood Hunters that join this Order make use of alchemy and dark transmutation magic to mutate their physical form. The sinister power in their blood triggers massive physiological changes thanks to experimental Mutagens. These mutants are often striving to evolve into an ultimate physical form.

The potency of your dark alchemical experiments has grown. During a long rest, you can spend 1 hour using alchemist's supplies to make the effects of a single Latent Mutagen permanent, even when you aren't Mutated. When you Mutate, this Enduring Mutagen always counts as one of the Latent Mutagens that you gain the benefits of.

You can replace this Enduring Mutagen with another one of your Latent Mutagens during a subsequent long rest.

You can weaponize the strange toxins in your blood to afflict your enemies. Once per turn when you hit a creature with a melee attack, you can force it to make a Constitution saving throw against your Rite save DC. On a failure, it takes acid damage equal to four rolls of your Rite Die and is blinded or stunned (your choice) for 1 minute. On a successful save, it takes half as much damage and suffers no other effects.

A blinded or stunned creature repeats this saving throw each time it takes damage, ending this effect on a success.

You can use this feature a number of times equal to your Constitution modifier (minimum of once), and you regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest. When you have no uses left you can make a Vital Sacrifice to use it again.

You have gained mastery over your body's mutability. While you are Mutated, you can use a bonus action to switch one of your active Mutagens for one of your Latent Mutagens.

Excommunicated from their religious orders, the founders of the Order of Heretics were holy priests who desired to utilize forbidden rites to combat darkness. Branded heretics, these conduits of divine power supplemented their holy knowledge with blood magic. Now, this Order of priestly Blood Hunters works to combat wayward divine entities, both good and evil.

You can draw life from one creature and transfer it to another in a dark mockery of the divine. As an action, you can force a creature you can see within 30 feet to make a Constitution saving throw against your Rite save DC. On a failure, it takes necrotic damage equal to four rolls of your Rite Die, and half as much necrotic damage on a success. It has disadvantage on its saving throw if you touch it as part of this action.

As part of the action, a creature you can see within 30 feet regains hit points equal to half the necrotic damage dealt.

You can use this feature a number of times equal to your Constitution modifier (minimum of once), and you regain all uses when you finish a long rest. When you have no uses left, you can make a Vital Sacrifice to use this feature again.

When you use Censure the Divine you can empower it with a Vital Sacrifice, forgoing its normal effects to instead force creatures of your choice within 30 feet to make a Charisma saving throw. On a failure, their speed is reduced by 10 feet.

Creatures suffering from this effect must repeat this saving throw at the end of each of their turns. On a failed save, their speed is reduced by an additional 10 feet. On a success, they regain 10 feet of their speed.

This effect ends when a creature's speed returns to normal, or when the speed reduction from this feature equals its total speed, at which point the creature is instantly Petrified.

Celestials and Fiends have disadvantage on saving throws to resist this feature. Once a creature succeeds against this feature it is immune to its effect until the following dawn.

You use your occult knowledge to bind denizens of heaven. As an action, you can cast conjure celestial, at 5th-level, using Constitution as its spellcasting modifier. The Celestial is bound against its will by unholy blood magic, allowing you to ignore the material component of the spell, but the duration of the spell is reduced to 1 minute.

You can cast this spell between each short or long rest at no cost, after which, you must make a number of Vital Sacrifices equal to the CR of the Celestial you wish to conjure to cast it again.

Since the dawn of time, the ancient Order of Salt & Iron has trained exorcists that defend the living from the undead. Willing to sacrifice all that they are, these Blood Hunters stain their souls with spectral power. They then use the power of darkness to drive back the darkness itself, and work tirelessly to prevent the tide of undeath from overwhelming the living.

Your knowledge and experience with undead enhances the power of your blood magic. You can target any creature with your Blood Rites, even if they do not have blood in their veins.

In addition, at the end of each long rest you can choose one Blood Rite you know. You can invoke that Rite one additional time before you must make a Vital Sacrifice to use it again.

You use the power of blood magic to drive out the influence of extraplanar creatures. As a bonus action on your turn, you can choose one willing creature within 30 feet that can hear you that is currently charmed, frightened, or being magically controlled, and instantly end one of the above effects on it.

If the creature that inflicted this condition on the target is also within 30 feet of you, it must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw against your Rite Save DC or it takes radiant damage equal to three rolls of your Rite Die.

Once you use this feature you must finish a short or long rest before you can use it again. When you have no uses left, you can make a Vital Sacrifice to use this feature again.

You can sacrifice your own vitality to resist the grasp of death. When you would fall to 0 hit points but are not killed outright, you can choose to reduce your maximum hit points by one roll of your Rite Die, and fall to 1 hit point instead.

You walk between the land of the living and the dead. For every 10 years that pass, you age 1 year, and you no longer need to sleep, eat, or drink. You gain the benefits of a long rest when you spend 6 hours performing only light activity.

Moreover, when you are in your Spectral State, you gain a flying speed equal to your walking speed and can hover.

Lycanthropy is an ancient curse that changes those afflicted into mindless beasts with an unquenchable hunger for flesh. In order to combat these monsters, some Blood Hunters will purposefully contract this curse. These warriors willingly give their lives so that they may draw on this bestial power to rid the world of lycanthropes and other shapeshifting monsters.

You are able to draw out more power from your curse. While Shifted, your attacks are magical, and you gain Resistance to bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing damage from attacks that are non-magical and non-silvered.

When Shifted, you can use Crimson Offering to empower your transformation, applying the benefits to all your natural weapons and unarmed strikes. If you are holding a Crimson Offering weapon when you Shift, you can transfer its benefit to your natural weapons and unarmed strikes.

Your curse allows you to shrug off minor wounds. When you begin your turn Shifted, and you have less than half your hit points remaining, but at least 1 hit point you regain hit points equal to your Constitution modifier (a minimum of 1).

You have mastered your lycanthropic curse. You can Shift at will without making a Vital Sacrifice, and you can remain in your Shifted forms indefinitely.

Finally, while Shifted, you have advantage on attack rolls against creatures marked by Crimson Brand, and you have advantage on any saving throws it forces you to make.

Legends speak of an ancient vampire who came to regret the many atrocities he committed when driven by thirst. He gathered to himself a group of vampire hunters, and after they vowed to scour the curse of vampirism from the world, passed his curse to them and instructed them in the power of ancient blood magic. Known as the Order of Undying Thirst, these Blood Hunters work tirelessly to carry out their founding vow to destroy all vampires.

You can drain the life from your foes. When you hit a creature with an attack, you can use your bonus action to make a Fang attack against that creature. On hit, your maximum hit points are restored by an amount equal to the damage dealt.

You can restore maximum hit points in this way a number of times equal to your Constitution modifier (a minimum of once), and you regain all uses when you finish a long rest.

The life you steal from others invigorates you. Whenever you deal necrotic damage to a creature, you can gain temporary hit points equal to half the necrotic damage dealt.

While these temporary hit points last, you are resistant to necrotic, poison, and all bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing damage from all non-magical and non-silvered attacks.

However, if you take radiant damage, all of your temporary hit points from this feature are immediately dispelled, and the total radiant damage is applied to your normal hit points.

When a creature you can see hits you with an attack, you can use your reaction to turn into a cloud of swirling mist, and the triggering attack automatically misses. You instantly reappear in an unoccupied space you can see within 30 feet.

Once you use this reaction you must finish a short or long rest before you can use it again. When you have no uses left, you can make a Vital Sacrifice to use this reaction again.

You have mastered your ancient curse, and your abilities rival those of true vampire lords. You gain the following benefits:

Blood Hunters who join the dark Order of Witch Knights are driven by an overwhelming desire to destroy the great evils of the world. Those especially dedicated, those willing to give up anything, are often approached by Eldritch Powers, beings of otherworldly might. These benefactors offer power in return for a fraction of the warrior's soul or unquestioning fealty.

You seamlessly weave minor spells with weapon attacks. If you use your action to Cast a Spell, or activate a spell you are concentrating on (such as witch bolt), you can make a single weapon attack as a bonus action on that turn.

When using a Crimson Offering weapon as a spellcasting focus, you can change the damage dealt by any spell you cast to match the damage type of your Crimson Offering weapon.

The cursed magic in your blood seeps into your weapons. When you hit a creature with a weapon attack, that creature has disadvantage on the next saving throw it makes against a Blood Rite or spell you cast before the end of your next turn.

You can offer the death of your foes to your Eldritch Power for enhanced magicks. If a hostile creature dies within 30 feet of you, you can use your reaction to regain one Pact Magic spell slot, or gain temporary hit points equal to your Rite Die + your Blood Hunter level.

Once you use this feature you must finish a short or long rest before you can use it again.