Niobe Niobe (1) HP: 6/8 | AC 13 | PP: 12 | Prof: +2 | Status: Normal, Mounted HD: 1/1d8 | STR 15(+2), DEX 16(+3), CON 11(+0), INT 10(+0), WIS 15(+2), CHA 7(-2) Stats | Your healing spells (cure wounds, mass cure wounds, prayer of healing, heal, mass heal) must be powered by sacrifice, either your own blood or the death of another creature (see Blood Ritual). If you sacrifice your own blood, you suffer damage equal to half the amount healed. If a single spell heals multiple creatures (such as a mass cure wounds), you only take the damage once. Blood Healing | You can cast healing spells as rituals, but this requires the sacrifice of a helpless living creature as part of the ritual. The creature must be at least medium size or have a challenge rating above zero. Constructs, elementals, oozes, plants, swarms, and undead cannot be used as sacrifice. Blood Ritual | The spells healing word and mass healing word can only be cast whenever you have slain a creature in combat and you triumphantly shout out the word (as a bonus action). This does not expend the spell slot. Triumphant Sacrifice The last survivors of decadent civilizations start to feud over dwindling resources, or are driven away by stronger cultures. Fleeing into the wilderness, or deep underground beneath their ruins, they start to inbreed and devolve into something no longer entirely human. Degenerates may outwardly resemble savages, but they carry the evil taint of fallen empires. When the last such taint disappears, the culture has become savage, and thus the cycle of history repeats itself.ASI: +2 to Constitution. Nocturnal: You can see in dim light within 60 feet of you as if it were bright light, and in darkness as if it were dim light. You can’t discern color in darkness, only shades of gray. Ferocious: When you score a critical hit with a melee weapon attack, you can roll one of the weapon’s damage dice one additional time and add it to the extra damage of the critical hit. Unwholesome: Degenerates always have a physical deformity or a mental illness, caused by inbreeding, that sets them apart from other humans. This unwholesomeness can never be fully concealed. You, and anyone you associate with, suffer disadvantage on Deception and Persuasion checks (except when interacting with other degenerates), and the initial attitude of persons from other cultures will always start at Hostile. Degenerate | Defeating a superior foe via stealth or ambush Inspiration | Race: The men of Lamu are regarded as a degenerate and evil people by other nations, a belief that mainly springs from ignorance, but is strengthened by the fact that some Lamurans have unnaturally keen eyesight in the dark, and that they worship many weird and loathsome gods in the isolation of their remote hill kingdom.Appearance: Gaunt of build and pale-skinned, with long flowing hair, although the priests are often shaven-headed. Decadent Lamurans dress in flowing robes and wear distinctive tall caps, often wound around with turbans, while the more wholesome Civilized men prefer simpler clothing and sturdy armor.Religion: The cult of Yot-Kamoth is best-known, but a multitude of other deities is worshipped.Culture: The Lamurans, corrupted by their worship of sinister Yot-Kamoth, are mostly Decadent, but retain both a significant Civilized stratum in and around their cities and of Degenerates in the more remote parts of their realm.Language: Lamuran, plus Susrahnite as a bonus language. Lamuran | Background: Skill Proficiencies: Sleight of Hand, StealthTool Proficiencies: Disguise kit, thieves’ toolsUrchin | Background Feature: You know the secret patterns and flow to cities and can find passages through the urban sprawl that others would miss. When you are not in combat, you (and companions you lead) can travel between any two locations in the city twice as fast as your speed would normally allow. City Streets | Lamuran, Susrahnite Languages The great devil-bird is unworthy of my worship, he says. Bah! ), Niobe took a large reptile's egg from his care; her first thought was to hide it, but how could she hide something the size of a man's head? The best she could do was hold it and try to drape her oversized sleeves across it as she walked. It was tan, leathery, but somehow soft and squishy in her hands.off , somehow. It had the taste of age; that was probably the kindest way to put it. Who knows how long the old man had unknowingly carried it for her. However, it became more palatable as she drank, becoming almost like liquid butter.
Stats: Spell Save DC 12 | Spell Attack +4 | Spell Slots: Level 1 (2/2)
Cultist of Jul-Juggah: Fetch an egg from a devil-bird’s nest in the mountains of Azimba. Initiation Rite |
light armor, medium armor, simple weapons, deception, religion. The Jul-Juggah subclass adds animal handling and perception skills. Proficiencies |
You can cast a cultist spell as a ritual if that spell has the ritual tag and you have the spell prepared. Ritual Casting |
You can use a cultic symbol (including a tattoo or other permanent physical mark) as a spellcasting focus for your cultist spells. Niobe's symbol is a small series of scars shaped like the Devil-Bird on her wrist. Spellcasting Focus |
At 2nd level, once per rest, you can use your touch to steal life force from a victim, as per a vampiric touch spell. The effective level of the spell is half your cultist level. Beginning at 6th level, you can use this ability twice between rests, and beginning at 18th level, you can use it three times between rests. When you finish a short or long rest, you regain the expended uses. Steal Life (2nd) |
4th, 8th, 12th, 16th, 19th ASI |
At 6th, 14th, and 18th level, you gain a cult-specific special ability. Cult Secrets (6th) |
At 10th level, you can draw power form an idol that represents an entity worshipped by your cult. The idol is large or huge, and usually of stone. Idolatry (10th)
Cantrips: 1 act, touch, VS, 1min conc, divination. You touch one willing creature. Once before the spell ends, the target can roll a d4 and add the number rolled to one ability check of its choice. It can roll the die before or after making the ability check. The spell then ends. Guidance ,
1 act, 60', VS, instant, evocation, DEX save. Flame-like radiance descends on a creature that you can see within range. The target must succeed on a Dexterity saving throw or take 1d8 radiant damage. The target gains no benefit from cover for this saving throw.The spell's damage increases by 1d8 when you reach 5th level (2d8), 11th level (3d8), and 17th level (4d8). Sacred Flame ,
1 act, 30', V, 1min, transmutation. You manifest a minor wonder, a sign of supernatural power, within range. You create one of the following magical effects within range:Your voice booms up to three times as loud as normal for 1 minute.You cause flames to flicker, brighten, dim, or change color for 1 minute.You cause harmless tremors in the ground for 1 minute.You create an instantaneous sound that originates from a point of your choice within range, such as a rumble of thunder, the cry of a raven, or ominous whispers.You instantaneously cause an unlocked door or window to fly open or slam shut.You alter the appearance of your eyes for 1 minute.If you cast this spell multiple times, you can have up to three of its 1-minute effects active at a time, and you can dismiss such an effect as an action. Thaumaturgy
1st level: 1 bonus act, 60', V, instant, evocation. A creature of your choice that you can see within range regains hit points equal to 1d4 + your spellcasting ability modifier. This spell has no effect on undead or constructs.At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 2nd level or higher, the healing increases by 1d4 for each slot level above 1st. Healing Word ,
1 act, 10' (5' radius sphere), VS, instant, transmuation. All nonmagical food and drink within a 5-foot-radius sphere centered on a point of your choice within range is purified and rendered free of poison and disease. Purify Food & Drink ,
1 bonus act, 30', VSM (a small silver mirror), 1min, abjuration, WIS save. You ward a creature within range against attack. Until the spell ends, any creature who targets the warded creature with an attack or a harmful spell must first make a Wisdom saving throw. On a failed save, the creature must choose a new target or lose the attack or spell. This spell doesn't protect the warded creature from area effects, such as the explosion of a fireball.If the warded creature makes an attack, casts a spell that affects an enemy, or deals damage to another creature, this spell ends. Sanctuary
Cult Spells: 1 reaction (when you/creature falls), 60', VM (a small feather or piece of down), 1min, transmutation. Choose up to five falling creatures within range. A falling creature's rate of descent slows to 60 feet per round until the spell ends. If the creature lands before the spell ends, it takes no falling damage and can land on its feet, and the spell ends for that creature. Feather Fall (1st), Crown of Madness (3rd), Wind Wall (5th), Stoneskin (7th), Commune with Nature (9th), Flesh to Stone (11th), Conjure Fey [wyverns only] (13th), Earthquake (15th), Imprisonment (17th)
Cult Secrets :
Once on each of your turns when you hit a creature with a ranged weapon attack, you deal an additional 1d8 thunder damage to the target. (6th) ,
Once per short rest, you can emit a horrifying screech with effects similar to the fear spell. (14th) ,
The skin between your arms and torso loosens. You gain a flying speed equal to your walking speed whenever you are not underground or indoors. (18th) .
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