Arcane Traditions
Blue Magic
Blue magic is a relatively new branch of wizarding tradition
born out of a desire to expand an individual's knowledge
beyond the scope normally limited to wizards. Blue mages
can use their magic to absorb the knowledge of spells cast
upon them, allowing them to replicate their effects and utilize
the same kind of magic themselves.
Blue Magic Features
Wizard Level Feature
2nd Azure Training, Copy Spell
6th Adaptive Magic
10th Spellbreaker
14th Masterful Mimicry
Azure Training
Your unique training has helped prepare you for combat.
When you adopt this tradition at 2nd level your hit point
maximum increases by 2, and it increases by 1 every time you
gain a level in this class.
Additionally, you gain proficiency with light armor and
shields, and you can use a shield as an arcane focus for your
spells.
Copy Spell
At 2nd level, you learn how copy spells cast upon you.
When a spell is cast which includes you as a target, you can
use your reaction to attempt to absorb the knowledge of that
spell. Make an ability check using your Intelligence. The DC
equals 10 + the spell's level. On a success, you add that spell
to your list of prepared spells. It is considered a wizard spell
for you, and you can cast it using your spell slots as normal.
You can only copy a spell in this way if you have spell slots
capable of casting the spell at its lowest level.
The spell remains prepared until you finish a long rest, at
which point its knowledge is lost. You can choose to let the
knowledge of a spell fade early, losing it at the end of a short
rest. You can write a copied spell in your spell book before
the spell's knowledge is lost, following the normal rules for
copying wizard spells. Doing so allows you to retain the
knowledge of the spell in your spell book and prepare it
normally from then on.
You can only have one additional spell prepared at a time
using this feature. At 11th level you can have two additional
spells prepared at a time, and at 20th level you can have three
additional spells prepared.
Adaptive Magic
Starting at 6th level, you can empty your mind of magical
knowledge to prepare different spells. You can change your
list of prepared spells when you finish a short rest, even if you
have already changed your list of prepared spells that day.
Doing so takes 1 minute per spell level for each spell on your
list.
Once you use this feature, you can't do so again until you
finish a long rest.
Spellbreaker
Beginning at 10th level, you can use your Copy Spell feature
when you successfully avoid a spell by casting shield or
successfully end a spell with counterspell, even if the use of
these spells causes you to completely avoid the effects of the
triggering spell. The spell you counterspell does not have to
target you.
Masterful Mimicry
Beginning at 14th level, you have advantage on the ability
check made when you attempt to copy a spell with your Copy
Spell feature. If you successfully copy a spell that targets you,
you have resistance against the damage of that spell.
In addition, you can use your Copy Spell feature even if the
spell being cast does not target you. You must be within 120
feet of the creature casting the spell, able to see the creature,
and able to perceive that they are casting a spell. You do not
have advantage on the ability check when you copy a spell in
this way.
Sangromancy
Sangromancers, or blood mages, revel in blood shed. Bodies
are little more than vessels containing liquified red power.
Life itself is but a resource, to be manipulated and controlled
by those who have the proper ambition.
Few magics are considered as vile and unholy as
sangromancy. A subsect of necromancy, sangromancers can
expend their own blood (or even someone else's) to cast
powerful magics and empower their spells in ways that more
conventional magics do not allow for.
Sangromancy Features
Wizard Level Feature
2nd Sanguine Empowerment, Detoxify
6th Steal Life
10th Blood Reserve
14th Sacrificial Magic
Sanguine Empowerment
At 2nd level when you adopt this tradition, you learn how to
sacrifice your own life essence to empower your blood magic.
Whenever you cast a spell that deals damage you can spend 1
or more hit dice (up to your Intelligence modifier, minimum
of 1) to empower it. When you spend a hit die in this way you
do not regain hit points. Instead, for each hit die spent in this
way, you roll the die. On that turn, the spell deals an
additional amount of damage equal to the total to each
creature affected by the spell, and your current hit points are
also reduced by the total (ignore temporary hit points when
reducing your hit points in this way).
If using this feature would put you at 0 hit points, the spell
finishes casting before you fall unconscious.
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 Detoxify
Beginning at 2nd level, your knowledge of the body allows
you to purge diseases and poisons. As an action, you can
touch a creature who has blood and expend a spell slot to
cure the target of one disease or neutralize one poison
affecting it. You can cure multiple diseases and neutralize
multiple poisons with a single use of Detoxify by expending a
higher level spell slot, affecting one disease or poison for
each slot level.
Steal Life
Starting at 6th level, you can collect the blood of fallen foes to
boost your own vitality. When a creature that you can see dies
within 30 feet of you, you can use your reaction to gain
temporary hit points equal to the creature's Constitution
score. You must be conscious to use this feature, have a clear
path to the target, and the creature must have blood to be
affected.
You can also use a bonus action on your turn to use this
feature on the body of a suitable creature within range that
has died within the last 48 hours.
Once you use this feature, you can't use it again until you
finish a short or long rest.
Blood Reserve
Beginning at 10th level, when you lose hit points due to
casting a sangromancy spell or from using a feature granted
by this arcane tradition, you can first deduct hit points from
your temporary hit points. If you run out of temporary hit
points while doing so, you must deduct the remaining
damage from your hit points as normal.
Sacrificial Magic
At 14th level, when you cast a spell of 1st level or higher, you
can expend a number of hit dice equal to the spell's level
rather than expend a spell slot. When you spend a hit die in
this way you do not regain hit points. Instead, for each hit die
spent in this way, you roll the die and your current hit points
are reduced by the total. If this would put you at 0 hit points,
the spell finishes casting before you fall unconscious. These
hit dice do not count against your Sanguine Empowerment
feature.
You can spend a maximum number of hit dice in this way
equal to half your total number of hit dice. Once you do, you
can't use this feature again until you finish a long rest.
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Sangromancy Spells
Sangromancy spells require a small sacrifice to be performed
by the caster in addition to expending a spell slot; a few drops
of blood, which empowers the spells and make them stronger
than spells of a similar level. The cost is represented by
deducting hit points from your current hit points (ignoring
temporary hit points) equal to the spell's level. The hit point
cost is included in the spell's description. If casting a
sangromancy spell would put you at 0 hit points, you
complete the casting of the spell before you fall unconscious.
Sangromancy spells are necromancy spells with an
additional keyword, and so features which affect necromancy
spells affect sangromancy spells as well. These spells are on
the sorcerer, warlock, and wizard spell lists.
Black Blood
3rd-level necromancy (sangromancy)
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: Self
Components: V, S, M (a few drops of your blood, which the
spell consumes)
Duration: 1 minute
When you cast this spell, your current hit points are
reduced by an amount equal to the spell's level.
You toxify your own blood, turning it into a weapon when
your enemies harm you. When a creature hits you with a
melee attack the creature takes 1d10 necrotic damage.
If the attack is a bite attack, the creature takes an
additional amount of necrotic damage equal to your
spellcasting modifier, and none of the necrotic damage
inflicted by this spell can be reduced or prevented in any way.
If the creature would normally regain hit points as part of the
attack (such as the bite attack of a vampire), the creature does
not regain any hit points. In addition, the attacking creature
must succeed on a Constitution saving throw or be poisoned
for 1 minute, even if it is normally immune to the poisoned
condition. The creature can repeat the saving throw at the
end of each of its turns, ending this effect on a success.
Blood Bend
5th-level necromancy (sangromancy)
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: 60 feet
Components: S, M (a few drops of your blood, which the
spell consumes)
Duration: Concentration, up to 1 minute
When you cast this spell, your current hit points are
reduced by an amount equal to the spell's level.
You reach out and attempt to seize hold of a Medium-sized
creature's blood, controlling it like a puppet. The target must
succeed on a Strength saving throw or be restrained for the
duration. The target must have blood to be affected.
On the same turn you cast this spell, and using your action
on subsequent turns, you can take total and precise control of
the target. Until the beginning of your next turn, the creature
is no longer restrained but takes only the actions you choose,
and doesn't do anything that you don't allow it to do. You
cannot force a creature to use its class features, cast spells,
or manipulate spells while controlling it, and the creature
remains aware of itself and can speak normally as it acts
against its will. During this time you can also cause the
creature to use a reaction, but this requires you to use your
own reaction as well.
At the end of each of its turns, the target can make another
Strength saving throw. On a success, the spell ends on the
target.
At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a spell
slot of 6th level or higher, you can target one additional
Medium-sized creature for each slot level above 5th, and can
control each of them with your action. You can cause multiple
creatures to use their reaction by using your own reaction,
but only if their reactions use the same trigger. The creatures
must be within 30 feet of each other when you target them.
Alternatively, you can control a creature of a larger size,
requiring an additional slot level above 5th for each size
category above Medium (for example, a Huge creature would
require a spell slot of 7th level).
Blood Shard
1st-level necromancy (sangromancy)
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: 60 feet
Components: S, M (a few drops of your blood, which the
spell consumes)
Duration: Instantaneous
When you cast this spell, your current hit points are
reduced by an amount equal to the spell's level.
You create a shard of your hardened blood and fling it at
one creature within range. Make a ranged spell attack against
the target. On a hit, the target takes 1d12 piercing damage.
Hit or miss, the shard then explodes. The target and each
creature within 5 feet of the point where the blood exploded
must succeed on a Dexterity saving throw or take 2d8
necrotic damage.
At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a spell
slot of 2nd level or higher, the necrotic damage of the blood
explosion increases by 1d8 for each slot level above 1st.
Conjure Blood Elemental
4th-level necromancy (sangromancy)
Casting Time: 1 minute
Range: 90 feet
Components: S, M (a few drops of your blood, which the
spell consumes)
Duration: Concentration, up to 1 hour
When you cast this spell, your current hit points are
reduced by an amount equal to the spell's level.
You call forth an elemental servant. Choose an area of
spilled blood that fills a 5-foot circle within range. A blood
elemental appears in an unoccupied space within 10 feet of
it, emerging from the blood. The elemental disappears when
it drops to O hit points or when the spell ends. The elemental
is friendly to you and your companions for the duration. Roll
initiative for the elemental, which has its own turns, and it
takes only the actions you want it to (no action required by
you). If your concentration is broken, the elemental is
destroyed.
The elemental uses the statistics of a Water Elemental (pg
125 of the Monster Manual) but is immune to necrotic
damage instead of cold damage and does not have Aquan as
a language.
Crimson Rain
5th-level necromancy (sangromancy)
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: 150 feet
Components: V, S, M (a few drops of your blood, which the
spell consumes)
Duration: Concentration, up to 1 minute
When you cast this spell, your current hit points are
reduced by an amount equal to the spell's level.
Until the spell ends, blood falls as rain in a 20-foot-tall
cylinder with a 40-foot radius centered on a point you choose
within range. The area is lightly obscured, and exposed
flames in the area are doused.
When the area appears, each creature in it must make a
Constitution saving throw. A creature takes 5d12 necrotic
damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a
successful one. A creature must also make this saving throw
when it enters the spell's area for the first time on a turn or
ends its turn there.
At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a spell
slot of 6th level or higher, the damage increases by 1d12 for
each slot level above 5th.
Embolism
9th-level necromancy (sangromancy)
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: 60 feet
Components: V, S, M (a few drops of your blood, which the
spell consumes)
Duration: Instantaneous
When you cast this spell, your current hit points are
reduced by an amount equal to the spell's level.
You manipulate the flow of blood within a creature's body,
causing an aneurysm to form and eventually rupture. Choose
a creature that is not a construct and that has blood. The
target must make a Constitution saving throw. On a success
the spell has no effect. On a failure the target gains two levels
of exhaustion, and is incapacitated as long as they have a
level of exhaustion. An affected creature gains an additional
level of exhaustion at the end of every hour until death. Only a
greater restoration spell or similar magic can reduce the
target's exhaustion while under the effects of this spell. Once
a target's exhaustion level is reduced to zero the effects of
this spell end.
Sanguine Blade
2nd-level necromancy (sangromancy)
Casting Time: 1 bonus action
Range: Self
Components: S, M (a few drops of your blood, which the
spell consumes)
Duration: 10 minutes
When you cast this spell, your current hit points are
reduced by an amount equal to the spell's level.
You generate a blade of hardened blood in your free hand.
The blade is similar in size and shape to a longsword and it
lasts for the duration. If you let go of the blade it disappears
and the spell ends. While the blade is in your hands you can
use your action to make a melee spell attack with it. On a hit,
the target takes 3d8 necrotic damage.
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     At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a spell
slot of 4th level or higher, the necrotic damage dealt by the
blade increases by 1d8 for every two slot levels above 2nd.
Shape Blood
Transmutation cantrip
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: 30 feet
Components: S
Duration: Instantaneous or 1 hour (see below)
You choose an area of blood that you can see within range
and that fits within a 5-foot cube. You manipulate it in one of
the following ways:
You instantaneously move or otherwise change the flow of
the blood as you direct, up to 5 feet in any direction. This
movement doesn't have enough force to cause damage.
You cause the blood to form into simple shapes and
animate at your direction. This change lasts for 1 hour.
You freeze or coagulate the blood, provided that there are
no creatures in it. The blood unfreezes in 1 hour.
    If you cast this spell multiple times, you can have no more
than two of its non-instantaneous effects active at a time, and
you can dismiss such an effect as an action.
Siphon Blood
6th-level necromancy (sangromancy)
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: Self
Components: V, S, M (a few drops of your blood, which the
spell consumes)
Duration: Instantaneous
When you cast this spell, your current hit points are
reduced by an amount equal to the spell's level.
You draw in blood from the creatures around you to heal
your wounds. Each creature of your choice within 20 feet of
you must make a Constitution saving throw. Constructs and
any creature without blood aren’t affected. A creature takes
6d8 necrotic damage on a failed save, or half as much
damage on a successful one, and you heal for an amount
equal to half of the total necrotic damage caused by this spell
amongst all targets.
At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a spell
slot of 7th level or higher, the necrotic damage dealt to each
creature increases by 1d8 for each slot level above 6th.

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