Occultist v1.1

Wisps of purple smoke anddancing shadows rise from the ritual as the young human woman with strange magical markings tattooed across her hands whispers words in a language long forgotten, calling forth ancient powers.

The woods creak and bend, black wings beating as raven alights on the outstretch hand of an ancient elf, her eyes as black as the raven's. Soft words are spoken, and the elf nods in agreement.

A young orc lets out a bellowing roar and flames burst into a form taller than an ogre causing her enemies to flee. She holds up her spear and the flames pour from the roaring fire spirit to it, swirling about it, causing it to roar alight with searing magical flames.

The mysterious halfling woman gives a knowing smile, her unseeing eyes focused on you. She knows what you've come for, and tosses a handful of incense into the fire; what it is she sees in there? Your fate? Your destiny? As she speaks, it is only in riddle.

Occultists are those that follow the old ways, a path of ritual and wisdom long known yet oft forgotten. Rather than force magic to obey, they bind, twist, manipulate, and compromise with it. They follow ancient agreements and techniques to produce results that few fully understand, even those that use them, but they know it will work, for it always has.

Ancient Traditions

Occultists are spell casters following legacies that go far back. While they may or may not be directly tutored or influence by another member of their tradition, their path to magic involves unearthing ancient secrets, old ways, and knowledge gleaned from spirits, ghosts, and elementals.

The often personify aspects of their magic in ways that other casters find odd, coaxing and manipulating magic forces by ancient laws and bargains. Occultists tread between the arcane and the divine, not necessarily worshiping any god, but treating gods and spirits alike with cautious respect for their domains, asking for the what they take, and carefully giving thought to their actions.

Each tradition that appears in the Occultist is an ancient legacy of magic, found deep within folklore and story. Every villager could tell you stories of Occultists and their traditions, and they are often seen in this context. Though villagers and the superstitious might fear them and their magic, they may be more likely to turn to them than a Wizard, for at least an Occultist makes sense to them, even if they are scared by their powers.

Spiritual Magic

A common thread of the magic wilded by the Occultist is the spiritual connection of it; the demi-divine nature of magic that taps into the weave of magic oft through the intermediaries of the power of gods, spirits, elementals, and more. An Occultist is fundamentally tied into the greater magical world, being neither a source of magic nor an academic researcher of it, but wielding it through intuition, cunning, and tradition.

Frequently an Occultist may call upon their magic through the mediums of spirits quite directly, even having names for the spirits it calls about to bring about certain magical effects; the verbal component of an Occultist spell might be the spirit they call upon to work the effect they wish, an invocation of their ancient bargain, or words in a language that binds or persuades.

Occultist

Level	Proficiency Bonus	Features	Occult Rites	Cantrips Known	Spells Known	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th	7th	8th	9th
1st	+2	Spell Casting, Occult Tradition	—	3	4	2	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
2nd	+2	Occult Rites	2	3	5	3	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
3rd	+2	Occult Tradition Feature	2	3	6	4	2	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
4th	+2	Ability Score Improvement	2	3	7	4	3	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
5th	+3	─	3	4	8	4	3	2	—	—	—	—	—	—
6th	+3	Occult Tradition Feature	3	4	9	4	3	3	—	—	—	—	—	—
7th	+3	─	4	4	10	4	3	3	1	—	—	—	—	—
8th	+3	Ability Score Improvement	4	4	11	4	3	3	2	—	—	—	—	—
9th	+4	─	5	4	12	4	3	3	2	1	—	—	—	—
10th	+4	Traditional Expertise	5	5	13	4	3	3	3	2	—	—	—	—
11th	+4	─	5	5	14	4	3	3	3	2	1	—	—	—
12th	+4	Ability Score Improvement	6	5	15	4	3	3	3	2	1	—	—	—
13th	+5	─	6	5	16	4	3	3	3	2	1	1	—	—
14th	+5	Occult Tradition Feature	6	5	17	4	3	3	3	2	1	1	—	—
15th	+5	─	7	5	18	4	3	3	3	2	1	1	1	—
16th	+5	Ability Score Improvement	7	5	19	4	3	3	3	2	1	1	1	—
17th	+6	─	7	5	20	4	3	3	3	2	1	1	1	1
18th	+6	─	8	5	21	4	3	3	3	3	1	1	1	1
19th	+6	Ability Score Improvement	8	5	22	4	3	3	3	3	2	1	1	1
20th	+6	The Old Ways	8	5	22	4	3	3	3	3	2	2	1	1

Creating an Occultist

When creating an Occultist, the most important decision will be what Tradition you follow. Each Tradition of an Occultist is distinct with divergent flavor and calling upon a different aspect of folklore. Do you embody the associations or defy them? What led you to this path? Did you uncover your tradition on your own or were you taught by another?

Quick Build

You can make an Occultist quickly by following these suggestions. First, Wisdom should be your highest ability score, followed by Constitution or Dexterity. Second, choose the hermit background. Third, choose the poison spray and produce flame cantrips, along with the 1st-level spells burning hands, cause fear, cure wounds, and tasha's hideous laughter.

Class Features

As an Occultist, you gain the following class features.

Hit Points

Hit Dice: 1d6 per Occultist level
Hit Points at 1st: Level: 6 + your Constitution modifier
Hit Points at Higher Levels: 1d6 (or 4) + your Constitution modifier per occultist level after 1st

Proficiencies

Armor: None
Weapons: Daggers, quarterstaffs, light crossbows
Tools: Herbalism Kit
Saving Throws: Wisdom, Charisma
Skills: Choose two from Animal Handling, Arcana, Deception, History, Investigation, Medicine, Nature, Religion, Sleight of Hand, Stealth, Survival

Equipment

You start with the following equipment, in addition to the equipment granted by your background:

(a) a quarterstaff or (b) a dagger
(a) a component pouch or (b) an arcane focus
(a) a scholar’s pack or (b) an explorer’s pack
A herbalism kit.

Spellcasting

As a practioner of occult magic, you have inherited and developed techniques to manipulate reality through mediums of rituals, spirits, elements, and more. See Spells Rules for the general rules of spellcasting and the Spells Listing for the Occultist spell list.

Cantrips

At 1st level, you know three cantrips of your choice from the Occultist spell list. You learn additional Occultist cantrips of your choice at higher levels, as shown in the Cantrips Known column of the Occultist table.

Spell Slots

The Occultist table shows how many spell slots you have to cast your Occultist spells of 1st level and higher. To cast one of these spells, you must expend a slot of the spell’s level or higher. You regain all expended spell slots when you finish a long rest.

For example, if you know the 1st-level spell witchbolt and have a 1st-level and a 2nd-level spell slot available, you can cast witchbolt using either slot.

Spells Known of 1st Level and Higher

You know four 1st-level spells of your choice from the Occultist spell list.

The Spells Known column of the Occultist table shows when you learn more Occultist spells of your choice. Each of these spells must be of a level for which you have spell slots, as shown on the table. For instance, when you reach 3rd level in this class, you can learn one new spell of 1st or 2nd level.

Additionally, when you gain a level in this class, you can choose one of the Occultist spells you know and replace it with another spell from the Occultist spell list, which also must be of a level for which you have spell slots.

Spellcasting Ability

Wisdom is your spellcasting ability for your Occultist spells. Your magic comes from a practitioners knowledge of traditional, ritual, and the way things work learned through experience, care and cunning. You use your Wisdom whenever a spell refers to your spellcasting ability. In addition, you use your Wisdom modifier when setting the saving throw DC for a Occultist spell you cast and when making an attack roll with one.

Spell save DC = 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Wisdom modifier. Spell attack modifier = your proficiency bonus + your Wisdom modifier.

Ritual Casting

You can cast any Occultist spell you know as a ritual if that spell has the ritual tag.

Spellcasting Focus

You can use an occult fetish as a spellcasting focus for your Occultist spells.

Occult Fetish

Similar to a Holy Symbol or an Arcane Focus, an Occult Fetish is a magical focus, but one that functions for the Occultist.

It can be almost anything, though usually has a somewhat macabre bent, such as a skull decorated with feathers or pendant decorated with teeth and runes.

You can buy or make one for 10 gp, and it typically weighs about 1 lb.

Occult Tradition

Choose an occult tradition, shaping your the techniques, features, and rites available to you from the following: Oracle, Shaman, or Witch.

Your choice grants you features when you choose it at 1st level, 3rd level, 6th level, and 14th level.

Occult Rites

In as you delve your Tradition of occult magic, you find deviations and branches to explore that help you specialize and perfect your craft in the way that best suits you.

At 2nd Level, you gain two Occult Rites of your choice. Your Occult Rites options are detailed at the end of the subclass description for subclass specific Rites, and at the end of the class description for general Rites, you can select from either you subclass or class list.. When you gain certain Occultist levels, you gain additional Occult Rites of your choice.

Additionally, when you gain a level in this class, you can choose one of the Occult Rites you know and replace it with another Occult Rites that you could learn at that level. A level prerequisite in a Occult Rite refers to Occultist level, not character level.

Class & Subclass Rites

Each subclass has specific rites that only they can select, and for each subclass, these are added to the pool of rites with the class rites you can select. You can select from either list when you are selecting a new rite.

Ability Score Improvement

When you reach 4th level, and again at 8th, 12th, 16th, and 19th level, you can increase one ability score of your choice by 2, or you can increase two ability scores of your choice by 1. As normal, you can't increase an ability score above 20 using this feature.

Traditional Expertise

Starting at 10th level, your passed down knowledge of tradition gives you expertise in a skill of your tradition; choose one of your skill proficiencies form Animal Handling, Arcana, Medicine, Nature, Survival. Your Proficiency Bonus is doubled for any ability check you make that use of the chosen Proficiency. If you have proficiency in none of the selected skills, you can instead gain proficiency in one of your choice.

Additionally, when you make a Wisdom ability check, you can draw upon your Tradition and expend a 1st level spell slot to gain advantage on the check.

The Old Ways

At 20th level, your master of ritual and tradition is extensive an unparalleled, you've unlocked ancient secrets and perfected techniques to master rituals completely. Any occultist spell you know of 3rd level or lower becomes a ritual spell for you. When you cast a spell that is not normally a ritual as a ritual, it requires additional consumed material components worth 10 gold per level of the spell.

Additionally, your mastery of rituals allows you to work them more quickly, and a spell only takes additional turns equal to the spells level to cast (for example, casting a 3rd level spell as a ritual would take fours turns to cast, casting as your action or bonus action on the fourth turn). Spells with a casting time of a reaction cannot be cast as a ritual.

Tradition of the Witch

A Witch can be many things, and most often refers to someone that villagers find scary and weird, but at the heart of every crazed story there's a sliver of truth, and that truth is that witches do indeed exist.

Some may live openly as what they are, while others may be the last person the superstitious villagers might expect. Varied in their powers, designs, and traditions based on their Coven, generalizing about a Witch is challenging, but they are most often defined by the varied utilitarian magic, hexes that make crossing them unwise, and powerful intelligent familiars.

Witch's Magic

When you select this Tradition at first level you learn the spell find familiar, and when you summon a familiar with this spell, it acts on your initiative. Additionally, can select 2 additional cantrips of your choice from the Occultist spell list.

Witches & Gender

While the term Witch is generally thought of to refer to a female spell caster, the typical male counterpart would be Warlock, a class that is certainly open to any gender, and the same would generally be true for Witch.

Various lore and mythos in and out of a setting may make assumptions, but by their vary nature PCs tend to be the exception to rules, and this subclass is not limited to any particular gender.

Coven

Starting at 1st level, you select the Coven you belong to, selecting from Black Coven, White Coven, or Green Coven. Based on which Coven you select, you gain access to additional spells and manifest different special powers. Spells gained from this feature added to your spells known and are Occultist spells for you, but do not count against the number of spells you can know.

While the Covens are often associated with Evil, Good, and Neutral respectively, you do not have to of a particular alignment to join a particular coven - it is merely your area of expertise and what traditions you know.

A Witch of the Black Coven specializes in inflicting pain, curses, and eventual agonizing death to those that cross her, a Witch of the White Coven focuses on binding and healing, and the focus of a Witch of the Green coven is the closest to the Witch's roots in Hag-like fey magic, drawing power from nature to baffle her foes and control her surroundings.

Black Coven

Witch Level	Bonus Spells
1st	rotting curse, arms of hadar
3rd	blindness/deafness, darkness
5th	animate shadow, summon shadowspawn
7th	blight, evard's black tentacles
9th	killing curse, contagion

White Coven

Witch Level	Bonus Spells
1st	binding curse, healing word
3rd	calm emotions, hold person
5th	revivify, mass healing word
7th	banishment, otilue's resilient sphere
9th	curse of impotence, summon celestial

Green Coven

Witch Level	Bonus Spells
1st	befuddling curse, entangle
3rd	alter self, enlarge/reduce
5th	major image, summon fey
7th	greater invisibility, polymorph
9th	swapping curse, wrath of nature

Familiar Bond

At 3rd level, when you cast find familiar, your familiar gains an Intelligence, Wisdom and Charisma of 10, and the ability to speak any languages you speak.

Black Coven

As a reaction to a creature within 30 feet of your familiar hitting with an attack, you can have your familiar can subtract 1d4 + half your Occultist level (rounded down) from their attack roll. You can choose to use this feature after the creature makes its roll, but before the DM determines whether the attack roll succeeds or fails, or before the creature deals its damage. It can do this a number of times equal to your Wisdom modifier, regaining all uses after you complete a long rest.

White Coven

When you complete a long rest, your familiar gains temporary hit points equal to your twice Occultist level + you Wisdom modifier. As a reaction to a creature within 30 feet of it being attacked, you can have your familiar teleport to that creature and give it temporary hit points up to the number of temporary hit points it currently has (minimum one). If the familiar has no temporary hit points remaining, it cannot use this reaction.

Green Coven

When you complete a long rest, your familiar gains illusory duplicates equal to your Wisdom modifier. These persist until destroyed by taking damage or you complete a long rest. The illusory duplicates cannot take any actions, but move and act like your familiar during your turn, staying within 30 feet of you or it.

At the end of your familiar's turn or when it takes damage, it can swap places with an illusory familiar. If it does this as a result of taking damage, the illusory familiar is destroyed but the familiar takes no damage. Illusory duplicates are immune to damage while within 5 feet of you.

You can assume illusory familiars are in the witch's space unless otherwise specified.

Witch's Touch

Starting at 6th level, whenever you cast a spell of 1st level or higher with (including through your familiar), you can add one of the following modifiers to the spell:

It grants one affected target temporary hit points equal to your Wisdom modifier. Only one creature can have these temporary hit points at a time.
It deals additional damage equal to your Wisdom modifier to one affected creature.
It adds or subtracts 1d4 from the target's next attack roll or saving throw before the start of your next turn.

You can also confer these effects to another spell with a range longer than touch by making its range touch, or confer these effects as an action without casting a spell by touching a target (making a melee spell attack to do if the target is an unwilling creature).

Master of Curses

Starting at 14th level, when you cast a curse spell that requires a material component that would be consumed by the spell, you no longer need that material component and can use your occult fetish as the material component of the spell.

Additionally, any time you cast a curse with a duration that is not Instantaneous or hex you have advantage on concentration saving throws to maintain their effects.

Rules Tip: Consumed components

Note that while normally a material component can be replaced with a spell casting focus, if the material is consumed or has a cost, it cannot be replaced by a spell casting focus.

Witch Specific Rites

Animate Broom

Prerequisite: 12th level Witch

You infuse an object - traditionally a broom, but can be any vaguely broom-shaped object (like a spear, staff, or similar) - with flying magic, turning it into a Broom of Flying (basic rules, pg. 156). If your broom is lost or destroyed, you can create a new one during 8 hours of work. If a previous broom still exists when you make a new one, it loses its magic upon the completion of the new one.

Animate Hair

As a bonus action, you can expend a 1st level spell slot to cause your hair to lengthen, strengthen, and spring to life for 1 minute. While it is animated, you can use your action to make a melee spell attack with a range of 5 feet with it, dealing 1d8 bludgeoning damage on hit. This increases by 1d8 when you reach 5th Level (2d8), 11th level (3d8), and 17th level (4d8). If you hit a Large or smaller creature with this attack, as a bonus action you can attempt to grapple the creature with your hair using your Wisdom modifier in palce of your Strength modifier to initiate and maintain grapple.

A grappled creature can contest the grapple as normal, or deal 5 slashing, fire, or acid damage to the hair to free themselves. The hair has an AC of 12, and you take no damage when it is attacked.

Companion Coven

As a ritual that takes 1 hour, you can form a coven bond with one willing creature that has spell slots. While both of your are conscious and within 120 feet of each other, you gain the ability to share spell slots up to a spell slot level of your Witch level divided by four (rounded down), minimum of 1st level slots. While this bond is active, you can use your Spellcasting feature to cast using their spell slots (consuming them as normal), and they can use their Spellcasting feature (if they have one) to cast using your qualifying spell slots (consuming them as normal).

Additionally, you know their location at all times while they are part of your coven and within 120 feet of you. You can only be bonded to one creature with this bond at a time. You can end this coven at any time.

Evil Eye

You gain the ability to lay the most unsettling of gaze upon a creature. As a reaction to a creature hitting you with a melee attack, you can unleash a terrifying glare at them. The target creature must make a Wisdom saving throw or become frightened of you until the end of your next turn. Once a creature has passed a save against this ability, they are immune to it for 24 hours.

Additionally, you gain proficiency in the Intimidation skill.

Familiar Swap

If your familiar is within 60 feet of you, as an action, you can swap places with your familiar. If you cannot fit into the space where your familiar is, the ability fails and you take 1d6 force damage. Once you do this, you cannot do so again until you complete a short or long rest.

Form of the Familiar

You learn the form of familiar spell, and gain the ability to cast it once without expending a spell slot as an action. You regain the ability to cast it in this way again after completing a short or long rest.

Rites of the Moon

You learn the ancient rites of the moon and the powers that holds, opening new pathways of magic to you. You learn the following spells at the following levels. This are Occultist spells for you.

Occultist Level	Spells Learned
1st	faerie fire
3rd	moonbeam
5th	tidal wave
7th	control water
9th	wall of light

Riding Familiar

If you have a familiar without a flying speed, as an action you can make them become a creature one size larger than you (up to Large sized) for 8 hours. As an action, you can revert your familiar to it's normal size. At 12th level, you can use this ability on familiar with flying speed. Once you do this, you cannot do so again until you complete a short or long rest.

Skulking Familiar

Any familiar summoned by you gains proficiency in the Stealth skill, and its movement doesn't provoke opportunity attacks.

Witch's Brew

During a short or long rest, you can infuse a spell with a casting time of one action or bonus action into a concoction, expending the spell slot on completion of the rest.

This spell can subsequently be cast by anyone carrying the potion by drinking the potion as an action, with the drinker as the target, acting as the caster of the spell, but using the Witch's spell casting ability modifier.

The potion remains potent until you complete a long rest and recharge the spell slot expended to create the potion.

Alchemist Rules

If your group uses the KibbleTasty Artificer, you can use the rules for Alchemical Infusions (Artificer, pg 17) for this feature, but can only make 1 potion during a short or long rest with it, and using the your Spells Known as the valid selection options.

Witch's Claws

You learn the cantrip primal savagery. When you deal damage to a creature with primal savagery, you can add your Wisdom modifier to the damage dealt. At 6th level, when you hit with primal savagery you can apply the effects of Witch's Touch as a bonus action.

Witch's Hat

You invest some of your magic, turning a hat (traditionally a floppy wide brimmed black witch's hat) into a hat of disguise. If your hat is lost or destroyed, you can create a new one with 2 hours of work. If a previous hat still exists when you make a new one, it loses its magic upon the completion of the new one.

Tradition of the Oracle

An oracle is an occultists whose power comes to them from their connection to fate; bound and empowered oracles carry some piece of divine mystery within them, tied to an aspect of destiny and fate. As their power grows they begin to understand this mystery with revelations, unlocking its secrets and the power they contain.

An oracle typically does not directly serve a god, rather they often are people who's fate has entangled them in the affairs of the gods. Oracles have great power, but their powers are not ones that mortals were meant to have, and consequently they are frequently burdened by their powers.

Divine Touch

At 1st level when you select this Tradition, you have been touched by a divine revelation that has given you a gift of insight and a dramatic flair to deliver it - you learn the cantrips guidance and thaumaturgy.

You learn the following spells at the following levels. These are occultist spells for you.

Occultist Level	Spells Learned
1st	identify
3rd	locate object
5th	clairvoyance
7th	locate creature
9th	legend lore

Mystery Unveiled

Additionally at 1st level, the touch of the divine inside of you has opened up new pathways of magic and understanding that most cannot comprehend - a connection to magic. Select one of the following options Mystery of Life, Mystery of Fire, Mystery of Death or Mystery of War.

Some oracles are burdened with too much power for their mortal body. Optionally you can select to be one of these by selecting the "Oracle's Curse" feature, gaining an additional divine boon and curse.

You can can select an additional Mystery at 5th (two Mysteries) and again at 11th level (three Mysteries).

Mystery of Death

Your understanding of the nature of death unlocks its secrets for you. You learn the following spells at the following levels. These are occultist spells for you.

Occultist Level	Spells Learned
1st	false life
3rd	gentle repose
5th	wither
7th	blight
9th	killing curse

Oracle's Curse

Optional Feature

These are optional additions for an Oracle to select at 1st level.

Blind. You are permanently blinded. You gain the Oracle's Sight rite.

Frail. Your hit dice become d4s. Once per day when you complete a short rest, you can regain expended spell slots equal to

Burned. (Requires Mystery of Fire) Your hands are scarred by terribly burns. You have disadvantage with weapon attacks and slight of hand checks. You gain the Revelation of Fire rite.

Foresworn. Visions of the future come easily to you. The casting time of Divination spells that take 1 minute is reduced to 1 action for you. You cannot reveal the results of your divinations to others.

Twice Gifted. You bear more gifts than a mortal mind can comprehend. You can select an additional Mystery, but the spells granted by Mysteries now count against your spells known.

Mystery of Fire

Your understanding of the nature of fire unlocks its secrets for you. You learn the following spells at the following levels. These are occultist spells for you.

Occultist Level	Spells Learned
1st	burning hands
3rd	continual flame
5th	fireball
7th	fire shield
9th	immolation

Mystery of Life

Your understanding of the nature of life unlocks its secrets for you. You learn the following spells at the following levels. These are occultist spells for you.

Occultist Level	Spells Learned
1st	healing word
3rd	warding bond
5th	mass healing word
7th	aura of life
9th	mass cure wounds

Mystery of Battle

Your understanding of the nature of battle unlocks its secrets for you. You learn the following spells at the following levels. These are occultist spells for you.

Occultist Level	Spells Learned
1st	thunderous smite
3rd	branding smite
5th	blinding smite
7th	staggering smite
9th	banishing smite

Mystery of Souls

Your understanding of the nature of battle unlocks its secrets for you. You learn the following spells at the following levels. These are occultist spells for you.

Occultist Level	Spells Learned
1st	unseen servent
3rd	healing spirit
5th	spirit guardians
7th	guardian of faith
9th	raise dead

Revelations of Fate

You can expand on the powers granted by your Mysteries with special Occult Rites called Revelations. A Revelation is triggered when you cast a spell. You can trigger only one Revelation per spell cast.

Fate Reading

Starting at 3rd level, your connection to the flow of fate gives you the ability to read from it, tracing outcomes and glimpsing the unknowable future. When you are hit by an attack, you can use your reaction to add your Wisdom modifier to your AC until the start of your next turn (including against the triggering attack). You can do this a number of times equal to your proficienecy bonus, regaining all uses on a long rest.

Additionally, you learn the spell augury and can cast it at will without expending spell slot.

Winding Paths of Fate

It should be noted that this does not negate the normal drawback of casting augury multiple times. As you delve fate further for more information, it becomes harder to read as the flow becomes more turbulent for your changes to it.

Enlightened Understanding

Starting at 6th level, whenever you activate a Revelation, you gain temporary hit points equal to your Wisdom modifier.

Master of Prophecy

Starting at 14th level, you can cast augury a number of times equal to your Wisdom modifier before per day before it starts having a chance to return random answers.

Additionally, when you divine the future with augury, you can issue a cryptic prophecy, with three specific points for rolls that may occur within the next 30 minutes. For each specific point you prophesize, if you specify only the type of roll (for example, an attack, a Strength (Athletics) check, or an initiative roll, etc), a d4 is reserved (example "someone will be particularly quick when rolling initiative").

If you specify a specific action and a specific person, a d6 is reserved (for example, "when the wizard Caius rolls for initiative, he will be unusually quick"). If you give it a specific unlikely condition, a d8 can be reserved at the discretion of the DM.

A specific action or person can only have one prophesized event. If that prophesized event takes place (at the discretion of the DM it has occurred), the oracle can spend the reserved die and add it to the roll; if multiple events trigger the prophecy, the oracle can select which of them is effected by the reserved die.

Oracle Specific Occult Rites

Death Watcher

Prerequisite: 12th level Occultist

You can see the lines of fate, and detect when one of them is about to snap. When an ally would drop to 0 hit points as a result of taking damage, you can manipulate their fate with a cryptic warning. Target instead drops to 1 hit point, and the spell ends.

Once you use this ability, you cannot use it again until you complete a long rest.

Divine Miracle

You learn one cleric spell of your choice. The spell must be of a level you can learn, and becomes an Occultist spell for you. The spell does not count against your spells known.

Divine Sight

Prerequisite: 15th level Occultist

If you have blindsight, you gain truesight with a range equal to your blindsight.

Oracle's Sight

You gain blindsight with a range of 15 feet. When affected by the Blinded condition for more than a minute the range of this sight is doubled while under that effect.

Revelation of Fire

Prerequisite: Mystery of Fire

When you cast a spell of 1st level or higher, you can shroud yourself in flames until the start of your next turn, giving you partial cover.

At the end of your turn, you and all creatures within 5 feet of you take 1d6 fire damage. Any creature that strikes you with a melee attack while within 5 feet of you takes an additional 1d6 fire damage.

Revelation of Life

Prerequisite: Mystery of Life

Your powers are tied to the nature of life and its ever shifting balance. When you cast a spell of 1st level or higher, you can heal a creature other than yourself within 30 feet for a number of hit points equal to your Occultist level. Your current hit points are reduced by half as many hit points as you restore with this feature.

You can only use this ability on creatures that have vibrant life pulsing within them, it does not work on undead, constructs, or creatures at zero hit points.

Revelation of Souls

Prerequisite: Mystery of Souls

The souls of the departed are all around. When you cast a spell of 1st level or higher, you can conjure a benevolent soul or a tormented soul to empty space you can see with 30 feet. The first creature other than you that enters the space of a benevolent soul is healed for a number of hit points equal to the level of the spell. The first creature other than you to enter the space of a tormented soul takes necrotic damage equal to the level of the spell.

Revelation of War

Prerequisite: Mystery of War

Within war and conflict you see the true essence of perfect conflict. Once per turn on your turn, when you cast a spell of 1st level or higher, can make a single melee weapon attack as part of the same action.

Touch of Fire

Prerequisite: Mystery of Fire

You learn the cantrip burn. Additionally, as a bonus action you can take 1 fire damage and can cause a weapon you are carrying to burst into flames for 1 minute or until you let go of it. For the duration, it sheds bright light for 10 feet and dim light for an additional 10 feet. Attacks made with the weapon while it burns deal an additional 1d6 fire damage.

Truth of Death

Prerequisite: Mystery of Death

All things must end. Necrotic damage dealt by your spells and effects ignores resistance to necrotic damage.

Truth of Fire

Prerequisite: Mystery of Fire

Everything burns. When roll fire damage, you can reroll any number of fire damage dice. You must use the new rolls. If you reroll all the dice of the damage roll, the damage bypasses any fire resistance a target has. You take 1 fire damage for each die rerolled, this damage cannot be resisted.

Truth of War

Prerequisite: Revelation of Battle, 5th level Occultist

Your understanding of war reveals that it comes easily. You can trigger the Revelation of Battle when cast a cantrip that has a casting time of one action.

Truth of Souls

Prerequisite: Mystery of Souls

You have advantage on Constitution saving throws to maintain concentration on spells granted by the Mystery of Souls.

Twin Revelation

Prerequisite: 12th level occultist

When you cast a spell that invokes a Revelation, you can invoke two different Revelation at the same time, as long as a spell fulfills both Revelation's requirements.

Understanding of War

Prerequisite: Mystery of War

When you make a weapon attack, you can use your Wisdom modifier, instead of Strength or Dexterity, for the attack and damage rolls.

Tradition of the Shaman

A shaman is an occultist that walks the paths of the spirits, binding them to their cause to empower themselves or bring havoc to their foes. Tough and powerful, they are most often found in the thick of the fight, wreathed in their primal power.

A shaman may view themselves as in service to their spirits or as served by the spirits; the what and the how of their contract can vary wildly, as can the source of their spirits, be it pulling from an ancestral or primal powers.

Spiritual Warrior

When you select this subclass, you gain proficiency in simple weapons, light armor, medium armor and shields. Additionally, your hit point maximum increases by 1 and increases by 1 again whenever you gain a level in this class.

Call Spirit

Starting at 1st level, as a bonus action you can call a spirit to your side. This can be a primal spirit of fire, cold, or lightning, or an ancestral spirit with radiant or necrotic power. This bond lasts for 10 minutes once formed. You can release a spirit early as an action, and it is immediately released if you call another spirit.

While a spirit is bonded to you it strengthens your melee weapon attacks, causing them to deal an additional 1d4 damage of the spirit's type.

As a bonus action while it is bonded, you can manifest the spirit within 30 feet of you. The spirit is medium sized but spectral in nature while manifested. While the spirit is manifested, whenever you take the attack action you may replace any number of attacks you could normally take with melee spell attacks from your bonded spirit. Melee spell attacks done by the spirit deal 1d4 + your Wisdom modifier damage of the same spirit's type on a hit. As a bonus action you can move it up to 30 feet in any direction or recall it to yourself, ending its manifestation.

A manifested spirit cannot move more than 60 feet from you, and is recalled to you if you move more than 60 feet from it.

Empowered Spirits

Starting at 3rd level, when you call a spirit, you expend a spell slot of 1st level or higher to empowered that spirit. An empowered spirit adds additional damage to your weapon and deals additional manifested damage. While the spirit is called and not manifested you gain temporary hit points equal to the level of the spell slot spent to empower at the start of each of your turns.

Spell Slot	Weapon Damage	Manifested Damage	Temporary Hit Points
1st	1d6	2d4	1
2nd	1d8	2d6	2
3rd	1d10	2d6	3
4th	1d12	2d8	4
5th	1d12	2d8	5

Extra Attack

Beginning at 6th level, you can attack twice, instead of once, whenever you take the Attack action on your turn.

If you have a manifested spirit, you can replace one or both attacks with the special attack with it.

Spiritual Empowerment

Starting at 14th level, when you cast a spell of 1st level or higher, you can make a single weapon attack as a bonus action. If you have a manifested spirit, you can attack with it in place of making a weapon attack.

Shaman Specific Rites

Avatar of the Elements

Prerequisite: 11th level Shaman

You learn the investiture of fire, investiture of ice, and investiture of stone spells. These are Occultist spells for you. When you cast one of these spells, you can choose to shorten the duration of the spell to to 1 minute. When you do so, these spells do not require concentration.

Dance of the Spirits

Prerequisite: 5th-level Occultist

When you cast spirit guardians, you can choose what damage type it does from any of Fire, Cold, Lightning, Radiant or Necrotic, regardless of your alignment.

Additionally, you have advantage on Constitution saves to maintain concentration on spirit guardians and healing spirit.

Elemental Weapons

Prerequisite: fists of fire or ice weapon cantrip

When you create a weapon with fists of fire or ice weapon the damage die of the weapon is increased by one size (for example, from a d6 to a d8).

Energized Weapon

You gain the ability to infuse your weapon with the power granted to you by the spirits. While you have an empowered spirit bonded, you can pour all of it's energy into your weapon (recalling it if it is manifested). The next attack with that weapon adds twice the additional damage from the spirit, but the bond immediately expires.

Guidance of the Spirits

When you expend a spell slot to empower a spirit with your Call Spirit feature, you can select a number of skills equal to the spell slot expended that the spirit is proficient in. While it is not manifested, you gain proficiency with these skills. If you expend a spell slot of 5th level or higher, you can exchange three of the skills the spirit gaining expertise in one skill.

Mistwalker

You can see through heavy obscurement when the obscurement is caused by fog, mist, or smoke, natural or otherwise. While you are shrouded by fog, mist, or smoke, you have half cover.

Enhanced Bond

Prerequisite: 7th level Occultist

When you are empowered by a spirit called by a 1st level spell slot or higher, you can add the level of the spell slot spent to your Strength, Dexterity, and Constitution saving throws.

Primal Earth

You harness the primal elemental powers of the earth and stone to your call, you learn the following spells at the following list, but they do not count against your spells known. These are Occultist spells for you.

Occultist Level	Spells Learned
1st	earth tremor
3rd	earthbind
5th	erupting earth
7th	orbital stones^K^
9th	wall of stone

Primal Ice

You harness the primal elemental powers of ice to your call, you learn the following spells at the following list, but they do not count against your spells known. These are Occultist spells for you.

Occultist Level	Spells Learned
1st	ice knife
3rd	snowball storm
5th	sleet storm
7th	ice storm
9th	cone of cold

Primal Fire

You harness the primal elemental powers of fire to your call, you learn the following spells at the following list, but they do not count against your spells known. These are Occultist spells for you.

Occultist Level	Spells Learned
1st	burning hands
3rd	pyrotechnics
5th	fireball
7th	wall of fire
9th	immolation

Primal Storms

You harness the primal elemental powers of storms and lightning to your call, you learn the following spells at the following list. This are Occultist spells for you.

Occultist Level	Spells Learned
1st	thunderwave
3rd	gust of wind
5th	lightning bolt
7th	storm sphere
9th	control winds

Radiate Power

Prerequisite: 15th-level occultist

While you have a spirit bonded to you, as a bonus action you can cause it to emanate power, causing all creatures within 5 feet of you (or it if it is manifested at another location) to make a Wisdom saving throw against your spell save DC, or take damage equal to its manifested damage.

Rite of Prowess

You can select one fighting style from Dueling, Two-Weaponing Fighting, or Great Weapon Fighting.

Shaman's Touch

Prerequisite: 7th-level occultist

When you take the attack action, you can replace one attack with a cantrip with a range of touch.

Warding Power

You learn the spell shield, and it becomes an Occultist spell for you.

Occultist Rites

The following are Occult Rites that can be selected by any Occultist, regardless of subclass.

Alchemical Rites

You gain proficiency with alchemy tools. During a long rest, you can use them to concoct an improvised potion of healing spending 1 hour of the long rest to tend to it's simmering. Due to it's improvised nature, it expires in 24 hours, and has no value in gold pieces.

During this process, you can expend a 5th level spell to make it a greater healing potion. The expended spell slot is regained when the long rest is completed as normal.

Blood Rituals

Prerequisite: 5th level Occultist

Whenever you cast a ritual spell that requires a material component, you can instead use blood.

Willing living creatures within 10 feet of you can expend hit dice, rolling them and taking necrotic damage equal to the value rolled to fuel the ritual instead of a material component, with each 10 hit points sacrificed in this manner able to replace up to 100 gp of material components (for example, to replace a diamond worth 500 gold, 50 hit points would have to be expended in this manner).

Creatures that lose hit points in this way cannot regain those hit points until they complete a long rest.

Blood Magic

Prerequisite: Blood Rituals

You can sacrifice the blood of living creatures to power spells. When you cast a spell, instead of expending a spell slot, you can sacrifice blood to power the spell, sacrificing one hit die per level of spell you cast, rolling them and taking damage equal to the number rolled. Willing creatures within 10 feet can use their reaction contribute blood to the spell, sacrificing hit dice by rolling them and taking necrotic damage equal to the number rolled. All sacrificed hit dice are added together to the level of the spell you can cast.

Creatures that lose hit points in this way cannot regain those hit points until they complete a long rest.

You can cast a total number of spell levels in this manner equal to your Occultist level. You regain all levels of usage of this rite when you complete a long rest. Some spells (marked as blood magic) can only be cast via blood magic using this rite.

Corrupt Item

Prerequisite: 5th level Occultist

You use a dark and secret rite to corrupt a non-magical item causing it to become a cursed magic item. While any creature other than you is in possession of this item, they are under the effect of bane. Select one of the following for the items magical property (the item must be of a type of item that could be the magical item selected): bag of tricks, brooch of shielding, goggles of night, lantern of revealing, or staff of the python (you can ignore attunement restrictions of this item).

When you change rites, you can reselect this rite to destroy the item and create a new item.

Commune Beyond Death

You learn the speak with dead spell, and it's a occultist spell for you, but does not count against your spells known. You can cast it without expending a spell slot. Once you cast it this way, you must finish a short or long rest before you can cast it this way again.

Emblazoned Focus

You emblazon a mystical mark on yourself, via a tattoo, scar, or similar permanent mark. You can use this as your spell casting focus for casting spells. You no longer need a free hand to cast spells with somatic or material components, as you can channel your magic through this mark though it glows visible when you do so. To work in this manner, the mark must remain uncovered (casting in this way does not remove the signs of casting a spell, merely means you do not need a free hand).

Expert of Tradition

Prerequisite: 10th level Occultist

You can select an additional skill you are proficiency in from Traditional Expertise. Your Proficiency Bonus is doubled for any ability check you make that use of the chosen Proficiency. If you have proficiency in none of the selected skills, you can instead gain proficiency in one of your choice.

Forbidden Rites

Prerequisite: 5th level Occultist

You learn the spell animate dead. It is an occultist spell for you. You cannot turn this spell into a ritual with Lost Ritual.

Lost Ritual

You learn of a ritual lost to time. Select on occultist spell you know of 5th level or lower. This spell becomes a ritual spell for you. You can cast this spell as a ritual once, and must complete a short or long rest before casting it as a ritual again.

Occult Haste

Prerequisite: 5th level Occultist

You learn the spell haste. It is an occultist spell for you.

Markings of Protections

You mark yourself with magical symbols and patterns, protecting you from harm. You are under the effect of the mage armor spell.

Rite of Immortality

Prerequisite: 15th-level Occultist

You continue to age, but you will no longer die of old age.

Rite of Youth

Prerequisite: 15-level Occultist

You cease to visually age, and can even choose to become more youthful in appearance, though the natural life span of your race remains your natural lifespan.

Root of Magic

Prerequisite: 15th-level Occultist

You learn 10 cantrips from any class list of your choice. They are occultist spells for you.

Spatial Storage

You can convert a pocket, ring, hat, or bag into a spatial storage device, capable of carrying up 5 x your Occultist level lbs, with 0.5 cubic foot of storage space x your Occulist level. So, for example, a level 5 occultist can store things that would fit in a 2.5 cubic area weighting up to 25 lbs in the storage. As action, you can send an item you are holding into the storage or retrieve an item from storage to your hand.

If lost, you can recreate it over a short rest.

Specialized Poisons

When you deal poison damage with an occultist spell or created poison, you can (but don't have to) specify a creature type (such as beast or monstrosity) it is created to effect. The poison damage from that spell or poison bypasses any resistance or immunity to poison damage a creature of that type has. All other creature types beside the specified type have resistance to damage by that spell effect or poison.

Soulburn

You can make your powers sear the very soul of the creature they strike. When you deal cold, fire or lightning damage, you can choose to make it deal necrotic damage instead.

Vestaments of War

You gain proficiency with light armor, medium armor, and shields.

Feats

Occult Specialist

Prerequisite: Occultist

You delve deeper into your tradition perfecting a new rite. You can select an Occult Rite from the Occultist class Occult Rite list. You cannot select a rite you already know, or one that requires a level restriction, even if you are already of that level. You can only select one from a subclass list if you are have at least one level in that subclass.

Occultist Spell List

Cantrips (0 Level)

Acid Splash
Burn
Chill Touch
Create Bonfire
Decaying Touch
Dancing Lightings
Druidcraft
Fists of Fire
Freeze
Frostbite
Guidance
Gust
Ice Weapon
Infestation
Light
Lightning Lure
Magic Stone
Mending
Message
Minor Illusion
Mold Earth
Poison Spray
Primal Savagery
Produce Flame
Shape Water
Thorn Whip

1st Level

Absorb Elements
Animal Friendship
Bane
Beast Bond
Burning Hands
Cause Fear
Ceremony
Comprehend Languages
Cure Wounds
Crippling Agony
Detect Magic
Detect Poison and Disease
Disguise Self
Dissonant Whispers
Electrify
Entangle
Feather Fall
Fog Cloud
Grip of the Dead
Hail of Thorns
Ice Knife
Identify
Illusory Script
Inflict Wounds
Induce Headache
Nauseating Poison
Ray of Sickness
Speak with Animals
Spiritual Consultation
Tasha's Caustic Brew
Tasha's Hideous Laughter
Unseen Servant
Witch Bolt

2nd Level

Alter Self
Alacrity
Animal Messanger
Animate Object
Augury
Barkskin
Blindness/Deafness
Boil Blood
Calm Emotions
Darkness
Darkvision
Detect Thoughts
Form of Familiar
Earth Ripple
Enhance Ability
Enlarge/Reduce
Gentle Repose
Healing Spirit
Heat Metal
Hold Person
Invisibility
Lesser Restoration
Locate Object
Melf's Acid Arrow
Mirror Image
Misty Step
Protection from Poison
Scorching Ray
See Invisibility
Shadow Blade
Silence
Spider Climb
Spike Growth
Suggestion
Summon Beast
Web

3rd Level

Animate Shadow
Bestow Curse
Blink
Catnap
Clairvoyance
Counterspell
Cruel Puppetry
Dispel Magic
Fear
Fly
Gaseous Form
Hypnotic Pattern
Life Transference
Magic Circle
Nondetection
Plant Growth
Rain of Spiders
Remove Curse
Sending
Sleet Storm
Slow
Spirit Guardians
Summon Undead
Vampiric Touch
Wall of Water
Water Breathing
Water Walk
Wind Wall
Wither

4th Level

Arcane Eye
Banishment
Blight
Charm Monster
Compulsion
Confusion
Conjure Minor Elementals
Conjure Woodland Beings
Control Water
Divination
Elemental Bane
Evard's Black Tentacles
Giant Insect
Greater Invisibility
Hallucinatory Terrain
Ice Storm
Leomund's Secret Chest
Locate Creature
Polymorph
Shadow of Moil
Summon Elemental
Vitriolic Sphere
Wall of Fire
Watery Sphere

5th Level

Animate Objects
Awaken
Cloudkill
Commune with Nature
Conjure Elemental
Contact Other Plane
Contagion
Danse Macabre
Deglove Creature
Dominate Person
Dream
Enervation
Geas
Greater Restoration
Hold Monster
Insect Plague
Mass Cure Wounds
Mislead
Modify Memory
Negative Energy Flood
Reincarnate
Scrying
Seeming
Skill Empowerment
Transmute Rock
Wall of Stone

6th Level

Baba's Walking Hut
Bones of the Earth
Conjure Fey
Contingency
Create Homunculus
Eyebite
Find the Path
Flesh to Stone
Forbiddance
Harm
Heal
Magic Jar
Mass Suggestion
Mental Prison
Move Earth
Otiluke's Freezing Sphere
Primordial Ward
Soul Cage
Sunbeam
Tasha's Otherworldly Guise
True Seeing
Wall of Ice
Wall of Thorns
Wind Walk

7th Level

Finger of Death
Fire Storm
Mirage Arcane
Plane Shift
Power Word Pain
Prismatic Spray
Project Image
Regenerate
Resurrection
Sequester
Teleport
Twisting Eruption
Whirlwind

8th Level

Abi-Dalzim's Horrid Wilting
Animal Shapes
Antipathy/Sympathy
Clone
Control Weather
Demiplane
Dominate Monster
Earthquake
Feeblemind
Incendiary Cloud
Maddening Darkness
Maze
Mind Blank
Power Word Stun
Tsunami

9th Level

Astral Projection
Foresight
Imprisonment
Invulnerability
Manipulate Fate
Power Word Heal
Power Word Kill
Psychic Scream
True Polymorph
True Resurrection
Shapechange
Weird

Alacrity

2nd-level transmutation

Classes: Bard, Occultist, Sorcerer, Wizard
Casting Time: 1 bonus action
Range: Self
Components: V, S, M (the hand of a broken clock)
Duration: 1 Round.

Until the spell ends, your speed is doubled, you gain a +2 bonus to AC, you have advantage on Dexterity saving throws, and you gain an additional action. That action can be used only to take the Attack (one weapon attack only), Dash, Disengage, Hide, or Use an Object action.

If you are under the effect of haste, you gain no benefit from this spell.

Animate Object

2nd-level transmutation

Classes: Bard, Occultist, Sorcerer, Wizard
Casting Time: 1 bonus action
Range: 60 feet
Components: V, S
Duration: Concentration, Up to 1 minute.

You bring a small or smaller object to life. Its Constitution is 10 and its Intelligence and Wisdom are 3, and its Charisma is 1. Its speed is 30 feet; if the object lacks legs or other appendages it can use for locomotion, it instead has a flying speed of 30 feet and can hover. The object has the following stats: HP: 20, AC: 18, Str: 4, Dex: 18. The object has an attack modifier equal to your spell attack modifier. If the object is a weapon, it deals damage equal to the weapon's damage dice + your Wisdom modifier on hit dealing that weapons damage type, otherwise it deals 1d4 + your Wisdom modifier bludgeoning damage on hit.

As a bonus action, you can mentally command the animated object as long as it is within 60 feet of you. You decide what action the creature will take and where it will move during its next turn, or you can issue a general command, such as to guard a particular chamber or corridor. If you issue no commands, the creature only defends itself against hostile creatures. Once given an order, the creature continues to follow it until its task is complete.

If the object is securely attached to a surface or a larger object, such as a chain bolted to a wall, its speed is 0. It has blindsight with a radius of 30 feet and is blind beyond that distance. When the animated object drops to 0 hit points, it reverts to its original object form, and any remaining damage carries over to its original object form.

Animate Shadow

3rd-level illusion

Classes: Occultist
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: 60 feet
Components: V, S, M (a smoke stained mirror)
Duration: Concentration, up to 1 hour. Targeting a creature you can see within range, you bring it's shadow to life under your control. If the creature has a CR of more than 3 or the creature has no shadow (either from the nature of the creature or from the lack of a light source to cast one) the spell fails.

Otherwise a copy of the creature is created using its game statistics is created adjacent to the creature (on the side away from the brightest light near it). The shadow has no legendary actions, legendary resistance, and cannot cast spells. The shadow creature has hit points equal to half the target's hit points, and looks like mirrored version of the creature it was summoned from formed from inky black smoke. The creature is resistant to bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing damage from non-magical sources while in darkness. The creature is vulnerable to all damage while in bright light, and always vulnerable to fire, lightning, and radiant damage. If the shadow is killed, the target creature it was summoned from casts no shadows for the next 8 hours.

The shadow acts immediately after the creature's turn, and without further direction it attempts to follow and takes the attack action against it was summoned from. As a reaction to the shadow starting it's turn, the caster can exert control over it and cause it to move and take its action as the caster directs.

At Higher Levels: When you cast this spell using a 5th- or 6th-level spell slot, the maximum CR of the target increases to CR 4. When you cast it using a 7th- or 8th-level spell slot, the maximum CR of the target increases to CR 5. When you cast it using a spell slot of 9th level or higher, the maximum CR of the target increases to CR 6.

Baba's Walking Hut

6th-level transmutation

Classes: Occultist
Casting Time: 10 minutes.
Range: Touch.
Components: V, S, M (a chicken leg)
Duration: 24 hours. You touch a hut, cabin, or other building no more than 15 feet by 15 feet by 10 feet. On completion of the spell, the building grows legs large enough to support it, as well as the structural integrity needed stand and move, and becomes a gargantuan creature. It has 250 hit points, an AC of 12, and a walking speed of 20 feet. If it drops to 0 hit points, the spell ends.

On your turn, you can direct it to move (no action required) and it will continue to move as directed until you direct it to stop or reaches its destination. It can take no actions, but if it walks over a large or smaller creature, you can direct it to attempt to step on that creature, and that creature must succeed a Dexterity saving throw, or take 2d10 bludgeoning damage and be knocked prone.

If you cast this spell on the same building every day for a year, the spell lasts until dispelled.

Befuddling Curse

1st-level enchantment

Classes: Occultist
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: 60 feet
Components: V, S, M (something from the target creature (such as blood, hair, or scales) which the spell consumes)
Duration: Concentration, up to 1 minute You befuddle a creature's mind, swapping the position of two things it can see that are of the same size and category (for example, two medium creatures or two gargantuan buildings). The target creature must make a Wisdom saving throw. On failure, it is unaware the two things have been swapped.

Each time the creature interacts with, attacks, or is attacked by a swapped targets, it can repeat its saving throw against the effect.

Binding Curse

1st-level enchantment

Classes: Occultist
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: 60 feet
Components: V, S, M (something from the target creature (such as blood, hair, or scales) which the spell consumes)
Duration: Concentration, up to 1 minute You bind a creature to a point within 5 feet of it, causing a glowing chains of light to connect it to that point. For the duration of the spell, if the creature attempts to move away from that point, the must make a Wisdom saving throw, or be unable to move more than 5 feet away from from that point until the start of their next turn.

If a creature starts its turn more than 10 feet from the binding point, they must make a Strength saving throw are dragged 5 feet toward the binding point.

Boil Blood

2nd-level transmutation

Classes: Occultist
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: 60 feet
Components: V, S
Duration: Concentration, up to 1 minute Targeting a creature that has taken slashing or piercing damage in the last minute, make it's blood heat and boil. The target creature must make a Constitution saving throw. On failure, it's blood begins to heat. At the start of it's turn while effected, it takes 3d4 fire damage and is crippled with agony, all terrain is difficult terrain for it.

At the end of each of its turns, the target can make another Constitution saving throw. On a success, the spell ends on the target.

At Higher Levels: When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 3rd level or higher, the damage increases by 2d4 for each slot level above 2nd.

Burn

Transmutation cantrip

Classes: Druid, Occultist, Sorcerer
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: Touch
Components: V, S
Duration: Instantaneous. You ignite a brilliant flame around your hand that sears anything you touch. Make a melee spell attack against the target. On hit, the target takes 1d12 fire damage.

The spell's damage increases by 1d12 when you reach 5th level (2d12), 11th level (3d12), and 17th level (4d12).

Curse of Impotence

5th-level enchantment

Classes: Occultist
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: 60 feet
Components: V, S, M (something from the target creature (such as blood, hair, or scales) which the spell consumes)
Duration: Concentration, up to 1 minute. You curse a target creature, causing an overwhelming sense of powerlessness to wash over it. Any time the target creature attempts to attack, cast a spell that deals damage, or use an action that deals damage, it must make a Wisdom saving throw. On failure, they complete their action, but their action does no damage to any target.

Crippling Agony

1st-level necromancy

Classes: Occultist
Casting Time: 1 action.
Range: 60 feet
Components: V, S, M (a joint bone)
Duration: Concentration, up to 1 minute You can inflict crippling agony on a foe. Choose one creature that you can see within range to make a Constitution saving throw. If the target fails, it becomes crippled with horrific pain. Whenever the creation moves more than half of it's movement speed or takes an action, the crippling pain causes it to take 1d6 necrotic damage.

It can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, the target can make a Constitution saving throw. On a success, the spell ends.

Cruel Puppetry

3rd-level necromancy (ritual)

Classes: Occultist
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: 120 feet.
Components: V, S, M (a small humanoid doll worth at least 5 gp and something from the target creature (such as blood, hair, or scales) both of which the spell consumes)
Duration: Concentration, up to 1 minute You attempt to bind a creatures soul to a doll, linking the creature to the doll in a sympathetic link. The target must make a Charisma saving throw. On failure, the creature becomes bound to the doll. On a successful save, the creature is not bound and the spell ends.

As part of casting the spell when the creature fails the save, and on subsequent turns using your action until the spell ends, you can perform one of the following actions:

Hold the doll still, causing the creature to be Restrained until start of your next turn.
Force the doll to move, causing the creature to move 15 feet in a direction of your choice that it can move.
Smash the doll, causing it take 4d6 bludgeoning damage.
Rip the doll in half, ending the spell, destroying the doll, and dealing 4d12 necrotic damage.

Each time after the first you use an action to manipulate the doll, after the effect takes place, the creature can repeat the Charisma with disadvantage, ending the effect on a successful save.

Once a creature has been targeted by this spell, they cannot be targeted again for 24 hours.

At Higher Levels: When cast with a 5th level spell slot or above, the range of the spell becomes unlimited, as long as the target is on the same plane as the caster.

Decaying Touch

Transmutation cantrip

Classes: Druid, Occultist, Sorcerer
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: Touch
Components: V, S, M (powdered remains of a dead animal)
Duration: Instantaneous. You wreath your hand in necrotic decay that causes anything you touch to wither and die. Make a melee spell attack against the target. On hit, the targets takes 1d6 necrotic damage is starts to flake and decay. The first time they take damage from another source before the start of your next turn, they take an additional 1d6 necrotic damage. Targets immune to diseases are immune to this effect.

The both the initial and secondary damage of the spell increases by 1d6 when you reach 5th level (2d6), 11th level (3d6), and 17th level (4d6).

Deglove Creature

5th-level necromancy

Classes: Occultist
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: 60 feet
Components: V, S, M (a finger bone)
Duration: Instantaneous You point at a creature within range, and attempt to make it's skeleton rip free of it's body. The creature must make a Constitution saving throw. The target takes 7d10 + 7 necrotic damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one.

If this damage kills the target creature, it's flesh sloughs of it's skeleton, collapsing a pile, and the skeleton becomes a Skeleton (Basic Rules, pg. 152), hostile to all living creatures that attacks the closest target.

Electrify

1st-level evocation

Classes: Occultist, Sorcerer, Wizard
Casting Time: 1 bonus action
Range: Self
Components: V, S, M (a pair of singed gloves)
Duration: 1 Round. You channel lightning into your hands. After casting this spell, if you make a successful melee spell attack, unarmed strike or a melee weapon attack with a weapon made of a conductive material (such as metal), the target takes 1d10 lightning damage and must make a Constitution saving throw. On a failed save, the target becomes stunned until the start of their next turn. The spell ends after dealing damage, or at the start of your next turn, whichever occurs first.

For the duration of the spell, you can cast the spell shocking grasp.

Earth Ripple

2nd-level transmutation

Classes: Druid, Occultist, Sorcerer, Wizard
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: 60 feet
Components: V, S
Duration: Instantaneous. You cause the earth to deform and ripple, a target creature must make a Dexterity saving throw or suffer one of the following effects (your choice):
The target is pulled into the earth, taking 1d8 damage and reducing its movement speed to zero until a creature spends an action to dig it free.
It is slammed in a direction, taking 2d8 bludgeoning damage, is moved 5 feet in a direction of your choosing, and knocked prone.
It is impaled by a spike of earth, taking 4d8 piercing damage.

Form of Familiar

2nd-level transmutation

Classes: Occultist, Wizard
Casting Time: 1 minute
Range: 60 feet
Components: V, S, M (a piece of fur, feather, or scale from your familiar, which the spell consumes)
Duration: 1 hour. You assume the form of the familiar that provided the material component to the spell. The transformation lasts for the duration, or until you drop to 0 hit points or die. Your game Statistics are replaced by the Statistics of the chosen creature, though you retain your Alignment and Intelligence, Wisdom, and Charisma scores.

You assume the Hit Points and Hit Dice of the new form. When you revert to your normal, you return to the number of Hit Points you had before you transformed. If you revert as a result of Dropping to 0 Hit Points, any excess damage carries over to your normal form. As long as the excess damage doesn't reduce your normal form to 0 Hit Points, you aren't knocked Unconscious. You can use an action to revert to your normal form at any time.

You are limited in the actions you can perform by the nature of your new form, and you can't speak, cast spells, or take any other action that requires hands or speech. Your gear melds into the new form. You cannot activate, use, wield, or otherwise benefit from any of your equipment.

Fists of Fire

Transmutation cantrip

Classes: Druid, Occultist, Sorcerer
Casting Time: 1 bonus action
Range: Self
Components: V, S
Duration: 1 minute.

You cause your fists to erupt in flames. For the duration, your fists become a set of simple natural weapons that deal 1d6 fire damage. You are proficient in these weapons, and they have the Light property.

For the duration, any flammable object you attempt to hold catches fire. If you end your turn grappling another creature with your hands, it takes 1d4 fire damage.

You can end the spell early (no action required).

Freeze

Transmutation cantrip

Classes: Druid, Occultist, Sorcerer
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: Touch
Components: V, S
Duration: Instantaneous.

You instill a deadly chill into your hand. Make a melee spell attack against the target. On hit, the target takes 1d8 cold damage, and the target's movement speed is reduced by 10 feet until the end of their turn.

The spell's damage increases by 1d8 when you reach 5th level (2d8), 11th level (3d8), and 17th level (4d8).

Grip of the Dead

1st-level necromancy

Classes: Occultist
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: Touch
Components: V, S
Duration: Concentration, up to 1 minute You channel unholy strength into you hand, and reach out to grab a creature. The creature must make a Strength saving throw or become restrained by your deathly iron grasp. As an action on its turn, the creature can attempt to escape using a Strength (Athletics) or Dexterity (Acrobatics) check against your Spell Save DC.

At the start of the creatures turn while you maintain the grip and the spell, it takes 1d8 necrotic damage as you drain the life from it, and regain hit points equal to half the damage dealt.

At Higher Levels: When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 2nd level or higher, the damage increases by 1d8 for each slot level above 1st.

Ice Weapon

Transmutation cantrip

Classes: Druid, Occultist
Casting Time: 1 bonus action
Range: Self
Components: V, S, M (a drop of water that was once snow)
Duration: 1 minute. You conjure a weapon formed from magical ice from the air. You have proficiency with this weapon. When you form it and as a bonus action while wielding it, you can morph the weapon into different forms that take on the following properties. If you lose or discard the weapon, you can reform it in your hand as a bonus action.

Weapon	Damage	Properties
Ice Spear	1d6	Thrown (30/90)
Ice Sword	1d6	Versatile (1d8)
Ice Lance	1d8	Two-Handed, Reach
Ice Hammer	1d10	Two-Handed, Heavy
Ice Dagger	1d4	Finesse, Thrown (30/90)

Regardless of it's form, the weapon deals cold damage. You can end the spell early, letting the weapon melt to a harmless splash of water (no action required). You can have up to three ice weapons formed from this spell at a time. After forming a fourth, the first created one melts away.

Induce Headache

1st-level evocation

Classes: Bard, Occultist, Wizard
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: 60 feet
Components: V, S, M (a bad pun written on a scrap of parchment)
Duration: Concentration, up to 1 minute Targeting a creature with 6 or more intelligence, you inflict an instantaneous headache on it. The target takes 1 psychic damage at the start of its turn, and has disadvantage on Constitution saving throws to maintain Concentration or Intelligence ability checks.

Killing Curse

5th-level enchantment

Classes: Druid, Occultist, Sorcerer, Warlock, Wizard
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: 60 feet
Components: V, S, M (something from the target creature (such as blood, hair, or scales) which the spell consumes)
Duration: Concentration, up to 1 minute You curse a target to die. The targets current and maximum hit points is reduced by 3d10 + 10. If this causes a creatures to have zero hit points, the creature dies.

For the duration of the spell, the target cannot regain hit points unless from a magical effect cast by a spell slot of higher level than this spell slot this curse was cast with, and any death saving throw they roll is automatically considered a 1.

At the start of a creatures turn while they are under the effect of this spell, they make a Charsima saving throw. On failure, their current and maximum hit points is reduced by 1d10 + 10. On a successful save, the spell ends. A creature's maximum hit points are restored when it takes a long rest.

Nauseating Poison

1st-level necromancy

Classes: Druid, Occultist, Warlock
Casting Time: 1 bonus action
Range: Self
Components: V, S, M (a piece of rotten meat)
Duration: 1 round. You shroud your hand, a weapon you are holding, or a natural weapon in dark ichorous miasma. After casting this spell, if you make a successful melee spell attack, unarmed strike or a melee weapon attack, the target takes an additional 1d8 poison damage and must make a Constitution saving throw. On a failed save, the target becomes poisoned until the end of your next turn.

The spell ends after dealing damage, or at the start of your next turn, whichever occurs first.

Rain of Spiders

3rd-level conjuration

Classes: Druid, Occultist, Sorcerer, Warlock, Wizard
Casting Time: 1 bonus action
Range: 60 feet
Components: V, S, M (a spider leg)
Duration: Concentration, up to 1 minute. A vertical column of spiders begins to rain down in 20 foot radius, 40 foot high cylinder, centered on a location you specify. A Swarm of Spiders (Monster Manual, pg 334) descends onto each creature within the cylinder when the spell is cast.

This swarm is considered to be climbing on the target creature and moves with it, even if they leave the affected area, and takes its turn immediately after that creature's turn. A creature can make use its action to attempt to get it off, making a Strength (Athletics) or Dexterity (Acrobatics) check against the spell save DC of the caster.

A swarm will attack the creature it fell on if it can, or move to chase it if it has been knocked off of it. Any spiders that remain when the spell ends disappear.

Rotting Curse

1st-level necromancy

Classes: Occultist
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: 60 feet
Components: V, S, M (something from the target creature (such as blood, hair, or scales) which the spell consumes)
Duration: Concentration, up to 1 minute You inflicting a rotting decay on a creature, causing it to to begin to rot. For the duration of the spell, every time the creature takes damage, it takes an additional 1d4 necrotic damage, and the effect of all healing on the creature is reduced by half.

The target creature has disadvantage on any Charisma checks for social interaction during the effect of the spell.

Spiritual Consultation

1st-level necromancy

Classes: Occultist
Casting Time: 1 minute.
Range: Self
Components: V, S, M (1 gp worth of incense, which the spell consumes)
Duration: 10 minutes.

You call forth a spirit that is proficient in a skill from Arcana, Animal Handling, History, Investigation, Medicine, Nature, Perception, Religion, or Survival. The spirit is ethereal and ephemeral and cannot interact with physical objects, but can provide guidance on matters relating to the skill selected when you summon it.

You can treat any check you make in the skill as if you have proficiency with it so long as the spirit can communicate with you. Alternatively, if the ability check is an Intelligence or Wisdom check you can have the spirit make the check, and it has a +8 modifier for the skill was summoned for.

The spirit will follow you and cannot stray more than 5 feet from you. You can choose to release it early, dismissing it back from whence it came.

Swapping Curse

5th-level enchanment

Classes: Occultist
Casting Time: 1 action.
Range: 60 feet
Components: V, S, M (something from each creature (such blood, hair, or scales) the spell is targeting, which the spell consumes.)
Duration: Concentration, up to 1 minute.

You cast a curse targeting two individuals. Both targets must make a Charisma saving throw (which they can choose to fail). If both targets fail their saving throws, for the duration of the spell their souls are swapped. A soul controls the body it inhabits. It gains any ability score or action the body had (besides legendary actions or legendary resistance), but retains it's own spell casting (if it has the spellcasting, innate or otherwise), and has disadvantage on all attack rolls and strength, dexterity, and constitution saving throws for 1d4 turns after swapping bodies.

At the end of a swapped creatures turn, it can choose to repeat the saving throw, ending the effect on a successful save. It its CR (or character level if it has no CR) is higher than the body of the creature it is, it has advantage on the save.

If a creature dies while while it's soul is swapped, the souls return to their original bodies. If a soul was in a dying creature that returns to a living body, that creature takes 5d10 necrotic damage.

Twisting Eruption

7th-level conjuration

Classes: Occultist
Casting Time: 1 action.
Range: 120 feet.
Components: V, S, M (a handful of dead plants)
Duration: Concentration, up to a 1 minute. You target a point and call forth tendrils, twisted vines, and gnarled roots of dark energy that erupt from the ground in a 60 foot radius. All creatures of your choice must make a Dexterity saving throw or be restrained as the shadowy plant tendrils grasp and drain the life from it.

At start of a creature's turn, if it is restrained by the spell, it takes 2d10 bludgeoning damage, and 2d10 necrotic damage. Each time a creature takes necrotic damage from this spell, the caster regains 1d4 hit points.

A creature restrained by the tendrils can use its action to make a Strength or Dexterity check (its choice) against your spell save DC. On a success, it frees itself. A tendril can be destroyed, freeing a creature from its grasp. They have an AC of 10, 20 hit point, and are immune to all damage besides radiant and fire. Spells that deal radiant or fire damage to creatures in an area of effect also affect tendrils in that area.

Creatures that end their turn within the radius while not restrained must make a Dexterity saving throw or become restrained by the tendrils.

Wither

3rd-level necromancy

Classes: Occultist
Casting Time: 1 action.
Range: 60 feet
Components: V, S, M (a pinch of powdered bone and sand)
Duration: 1 round Dark energy tears the moisture from a body, sapping of life and vitality. The target must make a Constituion saving throw. The target takes 4d10 necrotic damage on a failed save and becomes withered until the start of your next turn, or half as much on a successful one and does not become withered. A withered creature gains vulnerability to fire damage if they are not resistance to fire damage, or loses their resistance to fire if they were resistant to fire.

At Higher Levels: When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 4th level or higher, the damage increases by 1d10 for each slot level above 5th.

Manipulate Fate

9th-level divination

Classes: Occultist, Wizard
Casting Time: 1 action.
Range: Self
Components: V, S, M (a spool of silk thread).
Duration: Concentration, up to 1 minute.

You reach out and grasp the imperceptible threads of fate, subtly manipulating them. Whenever a creature within 60 feet of you makes an attack roll, saving throw, or ability check, you can use your reaction to tweak their fate, altering the value of the roll. You can choose to manipulate fate after the die is rolled, but before the outcome is determined.

You can alter the roll of the die to an adjacent number to the number rolled (outcomes listed on the table below).

d20	Tweaked Fates
1	7, 13, or 19
2	12, 18, or 20
3	17, 16, or 19
4	11, 14, or 18
5	13, 15, or 18
6	9, 14, or 16
7	1, 15, or 17
8	10, 16, or 20
9	6, 11, or 19
10	8, 12, or 17
11	4, 9, or 13
12	2, 10, or 15
13	1, 5, or 11
14	4, 6, or 20
15	5, 7, 12
16	3, 6, or 8
17	3, 7, or 10
18	2, 4, or 5
19	1, 3, or 9
20	2, 8, or 14

When you alter a roll, you can choose to cast aside subtlety and yank the thread of fate, and select any value of the d20 as the outcome of the result, but the backlash causes you to take a number d6 equal to the difference in the value selected from the value rolled in necrotic damage. The spell immediately ends after the result is changed in this more drastic way.

Editor's Note

The numbers you can pick are the adjacent sides of a d20 to the number rolled. This represents literally nudging the die of fate.

Multiclassing

Should you want to multiclass into Occultist, the prerequisites and proficiencies are as follows:

Prerequisite: 13 Wisdom
Proficiencies gained: Medicine, Herbalism Kit

For the purpose of multiclassing and spell slots, add your Occultist levels when calculating your Spell Slots on the multiclassing spells slots table.