Subclasses | Rebinding

 

Cults of binders are founded on forbidden, lost, or transgressive knowledge that sets them apart from conventional wisdom. While some cults meet regularly in secret, assembling in private lodges or covert hideaways, others do not meet at all, its members united only by a shared philosophy or obscure dogma. Each cult keeps its own mysterious rituals for induction, proceedings, and most importantly, binding. As these occult secrets are passed to binder initiates, they can master new, enigmatic powers, unknown to all but their order.

 

 

The Order of the Black Binding sees the nature of the soul as not unlike that of the Void itself: unknowable, fractal, and ultimately hollow. With their special ritual implements and ink made of lodestone, they can form special black seals with which to entrap vestiges deeper into their souls, capturing more of the vestige’s essence and allowing them greater control of the binding process.

 

Starting when you join this cult at 3rd level, you can use your Rebinding feature twice, instead of once, between long rests.

 

At 3rd level, when a vestige’s Trait allows you to replace a skill roll with a 10 or your binder level plus your Charisma modifier, you can choose gain advantage on the roll. You can choose to use this ability after seeing the result of the check. Once you use this ability, you must finish a long rest before using it again.

 

Beginning at 7th level, you can transfer some of the damage you take to your vestiges. As a reaction when you take damage, you can halve the damage taken.

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

 

Starting at 10th level, you can perform a special ritual over the course of 10 minutes, allowing you to partially bind an additional vestige. You can only bind one vestige at a time using this ability, and this vestige doesn’t count against the number of vestiges you can bind nor toward the number of vestiges you have bound. While it is bound, you gain only the vestige’s Bonus Proficiencies feature, if it has one, or its Trait, if it offers the ability to replace a skill roll with a 10 or your binder level plus your Charisma modifier. You remain partially bound to this vestige until you finish a long rest.

 

Starting at 14th level, the total level of vestiges you can have bound increases by 3.

 

 

Initiates to the Society of the Stygian Seal learn the story of Erebus, The Shadow Interminable, a vestige of singular age, profound implication, and terrible portent. She is a vestige inextricably linked to the creation and destruction of the multiverse, the latter of which is prophesied to be heralded by her sign, the Stygian Seal, being fixed in the sky for forty days and nights before the multiverse is to be unraveled. Initiates of the Society seek Erebus’s sign and the ritual means to draw her true form from the Void to hasten the end of the multiverse, and by extension, the coming of a new, more perfect world, uncorrupted by the shortfalls and compromises made by the primeval gods of our multiverse. By drawing parts of the Stygian Seal, binders of the Society can pull forth voidstuff, a manifest absence in space, and shape it to their whims.

 

At 3rd level, you gain darkvision out to a range of 60 feet. If you already have darkvision from your race, its range increases by 30 feet.

 

Starting at 3rd level, you can bend the walls of the universe, creating a small pocket of black voidstuff in its absence, and shaping it as you see fit. You can use the following abilities:

     Barrier. As an action, you warp the Void pocket into a large obstruction, a 5-foot diameter sphere, at an empty space you choose within 30 feet. For the next minute, while you maintain concentration on this effect as a spell, nothing can penetrate or move through this space.

     Weapon. As a bonus action, you forge a shield, a set of artisan tools, or any melee weapon that deals bludgeoning, piercing, or slashing damage, made entirely out of refractive voidstuff. You can have up to three of these constructions at a time, each of which last for one hour before dissipating. 

 

At 7th level, you can use your action to cause a creature you can see within 60 feet to make a Wisdom saving throw against your Vestige save DC. On a failed save, the creature is banished into an endless sable demiplane adjacent to the Void. While there, the target is incapacitated. At the beginning of your next turn, the target reappears in the space it left or in the nearest unoccupied space if that space is occupied. You can also target yourself with this ability, requiring no saving throw.

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

 

Starting at 10th level, you can perform a special ritual over the course of 10 minutes, shrouding yourself in plates of voidstuff which act as ablative armor. You gain temporary hit points equal to your binder level plus your Charisma modifier. While these hit points remain, your AC equals 10 + your Dexterity modifier + your Charisma modifier. These temporary hit points remain until you finish a long rest. 

 

Beginning at 14th level, Erebus whisks you away to the Void, rather than subjecting you to death. If you drop to 0 hit points and don’t die outright, you are instead teleported to an endless demiplane adjacent to the Void. While there, you are incapacitated. At the beginning of your next turn, you return to the space you left or in the nearest unoccupied space if that space is occupied. At this time, make a death saving throw. On a failure, you drop to 0 hit points, begin dying, and suffer a failed death save; otherwise, you drop to 1 hit point instead.

 

 

The binders of Legion’s Lodge fill their souls with an abundance of spirits, becoming hives of wandering ghosts and whispered voices from beyond the pale. With each new spirit they bind, they develop even greater power, as the whole of their collection is mightier than the sum of its parts. At the peak of their strength, these binders speak with the voice of dozens in uncanny unison and sling attacks for a swarm of minor spirits which linger around them.

 

Beginning when you join this cult at 3rd level, you gain an additional minor spirit, which doesn’t count against your total number of minor spirits. At 10th level, you gain another additional minor spirit.
     Additionally, you can add your Charisma modifier to damage you deal with your minor spirits.

 

Also by 3rd level, you have unlocked the hidden potential of the myriad spirits residing within you. Each minor spirit you have bound grants you the ability to cast a cantrip, as shown on the Spirit Arcana table below.

 

Beginning at 7th level, you can burn the totality of a minor spirit’s essence for a flash of great power. When you hit with a minor spirit’s spell attack or a creature fails its saving throw against your minor spirit’s ability, you can choose to deal four dice of damage, instead of only one. Once you do this with a minor spirit, the spirit is dismissed until you finish a long rest. While a minor spirit is dismissed, you can’t use any of its abilities or the cantrip the minor spirit allows you to use.

 

Starting at 10th level, you can perform a special ritual over the course of 10 minutes, manifesting a minor spirit you have bound in a physical form. This minor spirit becomes a familiar, as per the find familiar spell, and remains in this form until you take a long rest. Additionally, on your turn, you can command your familiar to use any of its abilities it offers as a minor spirit (using your action or bonus action, as appropriate), which originate from it.

 

Beginning at 14th level you can bring your army of minor spirits to bear all at once. When you use your bonus action to make a spell attack with a minor spirit or use a minor spirit to cause a target to make a saving throw, you can use this ability twice, or use the bonus action of another minor spirit, targeting the same or different creatures.