Martyr

Like other martyrs, you were chosen to accomplish great things and die for a noble cause. However, you were not destined for glory; no one will ever know your name. Martyrs chosen for the Burden of Anonymity work in the shadows to influence the world for the greater good, and will inevitably die in the shadows, unknown to all.

Your divinely-appointed task might be secret, such as assassination or infiltration, and even your role as a martyr might be incognito, even to your allies. Anonymous martyrs might disguise themselves as paladins, mercenaries, or rogues with hidden agendas and abundant conspiracies.

Starting at 6th level, whenever you use your Torment feature against a creature that can't see you or is surprised, the target is magically silenced until the start of your next turn, rendering it unable to speak or perform the verbal components of spells. Additionally, you don't lose any hit points from using the Torment ability.

Beginning at 14th level, you can magically claim the identity of any person you slay. Whenever you reduce a Humanoid to 0 hit points with a melee attack, you can instantly cause any of the following effects:

At 18th level, as a reaction when you take damage or use the Undying Conviction feature, you can convincingly fake your death. You teleport up to a known location within 10 miles of you at the same time that a duplicate corpse appears to take your place. The corpse is indistinguishable from you and wears nonmagical copies of your clothing and equipment. You can choose for the corpse to realistically bleed, mutter incoherently, and breathe shallowly for up to a minute. The corpse is unaffected by spells and magical effects. The corpse and its clothing and equipment vanish after 10 days, or when you dismiss it as an action on your turn or use this feature again.

Furthermore, if you covertly notify the GM, you can also convince your allies of your death. You can roll death saving throws as normal, ignoring successes, temporarily prepare a new character sheet, and so on.

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

The gods have set an arduous path for your life, replete with labors, challenges, and trials designed to test your morality and resolve. You likely won't succeed. However, if you best the gods' trials and die in marvelous glory, you will ascend to the afterlife as a demigod.

Perhaps the gods envision you as a replacement for a recently-deceased god, or perhaps they raise dozens of demigods to do their bidding across the planes of existence. Regardless of your status, immortality after death awaits.

Starting at 6th level, whenever you use your Torment feature against a hostile creature and you reduce the target to 0 hit points, you don't lose any hit points from using the ability.

By 14th level, your legendary deeds have imbued your most iconic equipment with supernatural blessings. You choose three pieces of equipment to be your Aegis, Oracle, and Xiphos, detailed below. These items might have been at your side for years, or they might have been used to accomplish one of your labors, or may even be trophies taken from your mightiest foes.

Once you use your Aegis, Oracle, or Xiphos, you can't use that relic again until you finish a short or long rest.

At 18th level, the power of demigods flows through your veins in anticipation of your final ascension. You gain the following benefits:

For all the wrong you have done in your life, the gods have graced you with an undeserved second chance. Your burden is to atone, to undo all the evils you have done in your life, and to seek redemption before the gods. How you accomplish this is your choice, so long as you remove any dark marks you leave behind. Ultimately, your final martyrdom might be a grand act, averting a great disaster or banishing a force of evil, or it might be as humble as redirecting the life of an evil person and causing them to seek redemption, passing the torch to a new martyr of atonement.

Starting at 6th level, whenever you use your Torment feature against a hostile creature and you reduce the target to 0 hit points, you lose no hit points from using the ability.

Beginning at 14th level, as a bonus action on your turn, you can invoke the ire of your foes to protect your allies. Until the start of your next turn, each hostile creature you choose within 5 feet of you that can see you has disadvantage on attack rolls against creatures other than you, and advantage on attack rolls against you.

Starting at 18th level, you can use your action to transfer negative effects from any number of willing creatures within 60 feet to yourself. You can transfer one of the following effects from each creature:

The effect ends for the creature and targets you as if you were the original target, with the effect's original duration. You can transfer multiple negative effects of the same type to yourself, affecting you only once each time you use this ability.

A grim task awaits those shouldering the Burden of Calamity. These martyrs spark wars, conjure floods, raise plagues of locusts, call down fire and brimstone, and set apocalypses in motion. As benevolent as the gods might seem, their mercy is tempered with disasters such as these—events that the gods deem necessary to cleanse unjust societies or wipe the slate clean for new advancements. Martyrs of Calamity are therefore harbingers of doom, the first omen of terrible things to follow.

Starting at 6th level, whenever you use your Torment feature against a hostile creature and you reduce the target to 0 hit points, you don't lose any hit points from using the ability.

By 14th level, your proclamations and condemnations carry divine weight. When you finish a long rest, you can speak aloud the name of a specific creature known to you (or a unique pseudonym, title, or nickname) and denounce that creature. Until you finish a long rest, whenever you see the denounced creature make an attack roll, ability check, or saving throw, you can use your reaction to impose disadvantage on that roll.

At 18th level, you can call upon all of the gods' malice to create a sweeping disaster. You can cast the spell control weather, earthquake, fire storm, or storm of vengeance without using hit points or counting against your total number of martyr spells per day.

Once you use this feature to cast one of these spells, you can't do so again until you finish a long rest.

Martyrs of Discord are chosen at random to sow chaos and stoke evil wherever they travel. They light things on fire, commit petty crimes, and even murder when the fancy strikes. Given to their own predilections, martyrs of discord are unified only by their charge to disrupt the status quo as much as possible.

No one is certain why the gods make martyrs of Discord in the first place. Perhaps it is at the whim of one capricious or evil god, or perhaps the gods desire a balance between chaos and law, and must sometimes stoke the fire to restore this balance.

Starting at 6th level, whenever you use your Torment feature against a hostile creature and you reduce the target to 0 hit points, you lose no hit points from using the ability.

At 14th level, you have a coin blessed with the tides of chaos. Whenever you or a creature you can see makes an attack roll, ability check, or saving throw, you can flip a coin|Coin of Chaos|Heads (+4)|Tails (+1) to add a bonus to the roll. The bonus equals +4 on a heads or +1 on a tails. Once you use the coin, the coin goes to the GM, who can use it to enhance any roll made by an NPC or monster. Once the GM has used the coin, it passes back to you, and so on. When you finish a long rest, you regain the coin, whether or not the GM has used it.

At 18th level, you can use your Havoc! ability whenever you make an attack roll or cast a spell targeting a hostile creature, and do not need to rest between uses.

You were destined to see your name in lights, to be the talk of the town, to be a superstar. Unfortunately, the gods also chose you to go out in a blaze of glory. The Burden of Fame entails a life of renown matched only by royalty, coupled with incredible duties undertaken in the public eye. Your flame burns brightly for half as long, but when your journey is complete, nobody will forget your name.

At 6th level, when you cast one of your Burden Spells or a spell that has the sole effect of causing a creature to regain hit points, you lose no hit points from casting the spell if you cast it at its lowest level. Casting the spell still counts against your total number of spell uses.

By 14th level, your renown drives crowds to your side. You can cast the spell mass suggestion without using hit points or counting against your total number of martyr spells per day. Once you cast the spell in this way, you can't do so again until you finish a long rest.

You can also stretch the spell's magic to influence more targets with less specificity. You can target up to 100 creatures within range and deliver a one-or two-word suggestion. Each target or group of targets (as decided by the GM) must make a Wisdom saving throw against your spell save DC or collectively follow the suggestion.

You can't specify conditions that will trigger a special activity during the duration or suggest any activity that will be harmful to one or more members of the group.

Some typical commands and their effects follow. You might issue a command other than one described here. If you do so, the GM determines how targets behave. If a target can't follow your command, the spell ends for it.

Beginning at 18th level, every Humanoid you meet recognizes you as the most beloved and iconic personality of your age.

Additionally, you can cast the spell sanctuary at will, targeting yourself, without using hit points or counting against your total number of martyr spells per day.

When bacchanal and trickster deities believe that the mortal realm has gotten too self-serious, they call upon a Martyr of Levity to lighten the mood. These impish martyrs are given license to joke, prank, and romp about the world with extraordinarily vague directives. Perhaps they have been commanded to pull a prank or tell a joke so ludicrous that history remembers it forever. Or perhaps the martyr is themselves the butt of a larger joke, a walking parable about fate's blunders. Sadly, the martyr's death usually serves as a punchline.

At 6th level, when you cast one of your Burden Spells or a spell that has the sole effect of causing a creature to regain hit points, you lose no hit points from casting the spell if you cast it at its lowest level. Casting the spell still counts against your total number of spell uses.

By 14th level, your puckish nature helps you escape consequences for your actions. As a reaction when one or more creatures you can see become hostile toward you, you can magically suppress their hostility by declaring it was an elaborate prank. Each hostile creature must succeed on a Charisma saving throw against your spell save DC.

On a failed save, a target becomes indifferent about you, and you have advantage on the next Charisma check you make directed at it within the next hour. This indifference ends if the target is attacked or harmed by a spell or if it witnesses any of its friends being harmed.

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

Beginning at 18th level, you can use your reaction when you are targeted by an attack to change the target of that attack to a creature within 5 feet of you that is also within the attack's range or reach. If there is no such creature within 5 feet of you, the attack has disadvantage.

When the suffering of the world grows too heavy, and the cries of the anguished grow too loud, the gods deliver a martyr to ease the strife and bring peace to the masses. This burden, however, has no end. A martyr may spend all their days healing the sick and driving demons out of the possessed, but they will scarcely impact the world at large. Indeed, the onus upon them is not to mend every wound or comfort every widow, but to provide hope in the darkest of times that the gods have not forsaken their people, that peace will soon reign, and that light will be victorious.

At 6th level, when you cast a spell with a casting time of 1 minute or longer, or a spell that has the sole effect of restoring hit points, you lose no hit points from casting the spell if you cast it at its lowest level. Casting the spell still counts against your total number of spell uses.

Beginning at 14th level, when you use your Divine Healing ability to expend Hit Dice and regain hit points, one willing creature you choose within 60 feet can also regain hit points equal to the highest number rolled on a hit die + your Constitution modifier.

By 18th level, your status as a divine healer is enshrined in sainthood. Whenever you restore hit points to a creature, you can add your martyr level to the number of regained hit points. Any creature can benefit from this additional healing once, regaining the ability to do so when you finish a long rest.

The gods have tasked you with exploring the far reaches of the world, to venture where no soul has gone before, and bring back the discoveries waiting to be found there. You might be tasked to map an undiscovered continent, discover a strait between distant cities, or sail the edge of the oceans, but peril and adventure regardless await. You are unlikely to return from your journey, but your expedition will not have been in vain as long as your odyssey is remembered.

Starting at 6th level, whenever you use your Torment feature against a hostile creature and you reduce the target to 0 hit points, you don't lose any hit points from using the ability.

At 14th level, whenever you end your turn 30 feet or further away from where you began your turn, you are enveloped by a blur of speed. Attacks against you have disadvantage until the start of your next turn.

At 18th level, the gods hasten you and your companions onward to your inevitable end. Whenever you finish a long rest, you can choose six willing creatures to gain a blessing of swiftness, which lasts until the creature finishes a long rest. Each creature blessed this way gains a climbing speed and a swimming speed equal to its walking speed, and can use its bonus action to move 10 feet without provoking opportunity attacks.

The gods have seen a great cataclysm on the horizon and tasked their martyr with protecting the world from catastrophe. The exact nature of the coming End may vary: sometimes the awakening or arrival of an evil entity, sometimes the discovery and abuse of a powerful artifact, and sometimes a singularly destructive event that endangers the gods themselves, but the martyr must be dedicated to give their lives to stop it. To this end, the gods imbue their martyr with ancient and powerful spells, tools once gifted only to prophets.

When the coming cataclysm threatens the world, a martyr would be ill-served to ignore their call, for the cataclysm imperils them directly—as well as the lives of their family and companions. The life of a martyr is always forfeit, but the rest of the world can yet be saved.

At 6th level, when you cast a spell with a casting time of 1 minute or longer, or a spell that has the sole effect of restoring hit points, you lose no hit points from casting the spell if you cast it at its lowest level. Casting the spell still counts against your total number of spell uses.

Beginning at 14th level, as a bonus action on your turn you can enter a state of natural regeneration for 1 minute. When you do so, and again at the start of each of your turns during this time, you regain hit points equal to your Wisdom modifier. Also during this time you have resistance to bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing damage and you can't cast martyr spells. You can use a bonus action to end your verdant resilience early.

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

Starting at 18th level, you can cast the reincarnate spell without providing material components or losing hit points. When you do, you can choose which race the target reincarnates as rather than the GM rolling randomly. If you wish, instead of targeting a dead humanoid with this spell, you can target yourself. Once you cast the spell using this feature you can't do so again until you finish a long rest.

If you die without using your Final Martyrdom feature, you can return to life 24 hours after you die as if you were targeted by the reincarnate spell. You can choose which race you reincarnate as instead of the GM rolling randomly. Once you return to life in this way, you can't do so again for 100 days.

Kings and leaders are bound by an unspoken covenant to the gods to govern their people justly and peacefully. When a monarch turns their back on the gods, embraces tyranny, or uses cruel measures against their own people, a martyr is called to end their reign. Rarely does a Martyr of Revolution come with peaceful measures, for when a king must fall, only the sword can provide the necessary leverage.

Such martyrs are not only called to battle kings; any person of influence that oppresses others and abuses their power might wrong the gods enough to earn the ire of a martyr. In dark times, a martyr might be tasked with clearing a continent of despots and oppressors, calling for a full-scale military campaign of liberation.

Starting at 6th level, whenever you use your Torment feature against a hostile creature and you reduce the target to 0 hit points, you lose no hit points from using the ability.

At 14th level, your banner is a symbol of resistance. You and friendly creatures within 10 feet of you can add your Wisdom modifier to initiative rolls and are immune to being charmed or frightened.

By 18th level, you are the bane of despots, the usurper of tyrants. When you reduce a hostile creature to 0 hit points, choose one of the following effects:

The gods have seen a great cataclysm on the horizon and tasked their martyr with protecting the world from catastrophe. The exact nature of the coming End may vary: sometimes the awakening or arrival of an evil entity, sometimes the discovery and abuse of a powerful artifact, and sometimes a singularly destructive event that endangers the gods themselves, but the martyr must be dedicated to give their lives to stop it. To this end, the gods imbue their martyr with ancient and powerful spells, tools once gifted only to prophets.

When the coming cataclysm threatens the world, a martyr would be ill-served to ignore their call, for the cataclysm imperils them directly—as well as the lives of their family and companions. The life of a martyr is always forfeit, but the rest of the world can yet be saved.

At 6th level, when you cast a spell with a casting time of 1 minute or longer, or a spell that has the sole effect of restoring hit points, you lose no hit points from casting the spell if you cast it at its lowest level. Casting the spell still counts against your total number of spell uses.

Starting at 14th level, once on each of your turns, when you cast a martyr spell of 1st level or higher which calls for a saving throw to resist its effects, you can spend additional hit points equal to half the cost of the spell to cause the creature to roll its first save against the spell with disadvantage.

By 18th level, the gods have blessed you with precious time enough to forestall catastrophe. At the end of your turn, you can choose to take another turn immediately. Once you use this ability, you can't use it again until you finish a long rest.

Tasked with unveiling the world's deceptions and delivering to the people a profound truth, martyrs tasked with the Burden of Truth face an endless battle with disillusionment and lies. Such a martyr must earn the people's hearts and minds, turning their favors away from evil influences and toward divine ones. It is an uphill battle, but one that rarely requires grievous violence except in the most dire of circumstances.

Martyrs of Truth are often deemed prophets, for their gods entrust them with knowledge of the future, insights into the past, and sagacious perspective on the present. Such information is proof of their messages' divine origin and is a necessary balm, for the truths such martyrs are called to preach are often a bitter pill for listeners to swallow.

At 6th level, when you cast a spell with a casting time of 1 minute or longer, or a spell that has the sole effect of restoring hit points, you lose no hit points from casting the spell if you cast it at its lowest level. Casting the spell still counts against your total number of spell uses.

Starting at 14th level, when an attacker that you can see makes an attack roll against you, you can use your reaction to impose disadvantage on the attack.

By 18th level, you are the bane of despots, the usurper of tyrants. When you reduce a hostile creature to 0 hit points, choose one of the following effects:

When malevolent gods find the world pacified and defenseless, they send a martyr of tyranny to conquer its kingdoms, subjugate the weak, and spread misery with their blade. Once unleashed, this martyr stops at nothing to establish an empire to rule over with an iron fist. They demand bloodshed from their foes and pledges of absolute fealty from their allies, taking gleeful satisfaction with every power grab and malicious turn. It is not enough to rule: they must be feared, and any resistance must cower in their shadows. Only then will the gods let them die, likely stabbed in the back by someone crueler or more pitiless.

Starting at 6th level, whenever you use your Torment feature against a hostile creature and you reduce the target to 0 hit points, you lose no hit points from using the ability.

By 14th level, your strikes drain the vitality of others. Once on each of your turns, when you hit a hostile creature with a melee weapon attack, you gain 1d8 temporary hit points. Alternatively, if you reduce a charmed or allied humanoid to 0 hit points with a melee weapon attack, you gain 3d8 temporary hit points. Temporary hit points gained from this ability last for 1 minute.

By 18th level, you can demand complete fealty from dire enemies. You can cast the spell dominate person once without using hit points or counting against your total number of martyr spells per day. Whenever you cast dominate person, the target has disadvantage on its saving throw and doesn't make a new Wisdom saving throw against the spell when it takes damage. Once you cast this spell without using hit points, you can't do so again until you finish a long rest.