Introduction

Frostbrand
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he Tome of Elemental Origins contains
subclasses for the Sorcerer class in Frostbrand subclass offers ways to make even more
Dungeons & Dragons 5ᵗʰ Edition. These effective use of the hallmark area-of-effect spells
subclasses are themed around the presented by these damage types.
elemental damage types available to
players: acid, cold, fire, lightning, poison, Frostbrand Features
and thunder- the subclasses in this tome
being focused around two different Level Subclass Feature(s)
damage types at a time. A high level overview of the 1st Frostbrand Magic, Cauterize
subclasses within this tome and the damage types 6th Thermodynamics, Nonconductor
around which they have been created can be found 14th Conflagrate & Glaciate
below: 18th Thermal Maelstrom

Blightblood Electric Heart

The Blightblood subclass focuses on poison- and acid The Electric Heart subclass lets you bring the thunder
damage while providing an array of defensive- and and lightning to your enemies’ doorstep, providing ways
debuffing options to reduce the damage dealt by to deal damage to nearby enemies and quickly
enemies, while increasing the damage dealt to them. disengaging from direct harm when it finds you.
Blightblood Features Electric Heart Features
Level Subclass Feature(s) Level Subclass Feature(s)
1st Blightblood Magic, Acrid Blood 1st Electric Heart Magic, Sparkjump
6th Vile Miasma, Mithraditism 6th Transistor, Dynamo
14th Corrosive Reagents 14th Amplifier
18th Exaltation in Blight 18th Electric Form

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destruction of warmth and hope- in the
eyes of many. Sorcerers who carry the
Blightblood know this to be false;
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down into its basest components, from nise loftsteinn
which new life may sprout. Within them
flows magic strongly rooted in the elements of poison
and acid- elements adept at deconstructing matter, both
organic and inorganic, accelerating the process of decay
to give way to new life. It is up to you how your sorcerer
obtained the Blightblood. If you are in need of
inspiration, confer with the Blightblood Origins table
below.
Blightblood Origins
D6 Origin
1 You escaped Yuan-ti intending to sacrifice you, at the
cost of being bitten during your escape. The poison did
not kill you, but instead made you stronger.
2 One of your parents made a pact with a Green Dragon.
Faint traces of the pact’s magic still reside within you.
3 You grew up near a druidic Circle of Spores, the
environment around altering your body as you grew up.
4 You were once an alchemist, but after ingesting what you
had thought to be a potion of youth forever changed
your being.
5 You were infected by a fungus which now acts as a
symbiote, granting you your magic.
6 One of your ancestors is a couatl, its legacy the magic
flowing through your veins.

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Blightblood Magic
1st-level Blightblood feature
You learn additional spells when you reach certain
levels in this class, as shown on the Blightblood Spells
table. Each of these spells counts as a sorcerer spell for
you, but it doesn’t count against the number of sorcerer
spells you know.
Whenever you gain a sorcerer level, you can replace
one spell you gained from this feature with another spell
of the same level. The new spell must be a necromancy
or transmutation spell from the sorcerer, warlock, or
wizard spell list.
Blightblood Spells
Sorcerer Level
1st
Spells
Ray of Sickness, Detect Poison and Disease
3rd Acid Arrow, Protection from Poison
5th Stinking Cloud, Gaseous Form
7th Blight, Vitriolic Sphere
9th Cloudkill, Contagion
Additionally, you may confer with the Manifestations of
Magic table to gain inspiration for how your sorcerer
manifests their magic.
Manifestations of Magic
D6 Manifestation
1 Your veins darken to a sickly, dark green hue.
2 Your fingertips and eyes glow a toxic green.
3 Drops of blood trickle from facial orifices.
4 Any plantlife covering the ground on which you stand
quickly decays.
5 Clusters of boils rapidly appear and fade from the skin
on your extremities.
6 The skin of your extremities darken as the toxins in your
blood coalesce to form the spell you cast.
Acrid Blood
1st-level Blightblood feature
Blighting blood flows through your arteries, corroding
and decaying anything that comes into contact with it.
When you are hit by a weapon attack, you may use your
reaction to reduce the damage dealt to you by 1d4. The
damage reduction increases to 1d8 when you reach 6th
level in this class, 2d6 at 14th level, and 2d10 at 18th
level.
Alternatively, when you are hit by a melee weapon
attack, you may opt to deal acid or poison damage (your
choice) equal to your Sorcerer level to the attacker,
rather than reducing the attack’s damage.
Vile Miasma
6th-level Blightblood feature
The poisons you conjure forth are so potent that even
the most robust of constitutions cannot remain
unaffected by them. When you deal poison damage, you
may ignore your target’s resistance to this damage type
if they posess it, and you may treat immunity to poison
damage as if it was resistance.
Mithridatism
6th-level Blightblood feature
You gain immunity to the Poisoned condition.
Furthermore, when you cast a spell that requires
concentration, you gain resistance to acid- and poison
damage while maintaining concentration on the spell.
Corrosive Reagents
14th-level Blightblood feature
When you hit an enemy with or an enemy fails a saving
throw against a spell of 1st level or higher that deals
acid damage, you leave a coating of acid on the targeted
enemy, affecting them in one of the following ways:
An airborne enemy immediately falls to the ground,
the thick coating of acid causing it to become too
heavy to remain airborne.
The enemy’s movement speed is halved.
Attack rolls are made with advantage against the
enemy.
Attacks made by the enemy suffer a penalty to the
damage dealt equal to your Constitution modifier.
The enemy takes an amount of damage at the start of
its turns equal to your Constitution modifier.
Constitution saving throws made by the enemy are
made with disadvantage.
You may choose one effect per cast spell. The effect
remains until you use this feature again, or until an
affected enemy uses its action to wipe off the acid.
The number of creatures you can affect with this
feature per turn is equal to your proficiency bonus, as is
the amount of times you can use this feature per long
rest.
Exaltation in Blight
18th-level Blightblood feature
As an action, you become an avatar of decay, lasting for
one minute or until you are knocked unconscious. While
this feature is active, you are granted the following
benefits:
The damage reduction from Acrid Blood is
maximized.
Enemies that start their turn within 15 ft. from you
must make a Constitution saving throw or take 2d10
poison damage, or half as much on a succesful
saving throw.
You gain immunity to acid- and poison damage.
You may choose two effects to impose on enemies
with Corrosive Reagents, rather than one.
Once you have used this feature, you cannot use it again
until you have finished a long rest, unless you use 6
sorcery points to use it again.
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Frostbrand
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Frostbrand Origins
the innate dichotomy between these
two apparent polar opposites is a D6 Origin
hallmark element in many pieces of 1 You were a wizard who bit off more than they could chew
folklore, art and music. To many, they in casting a dangerous, volatile evocation spell, the
are night and day, black and white, but magic overpowering and fusing with you.
not to sorcerers that carry the 2 You spent time on the border of the Shadowfell, where
Frostbrand. They know the warmth and cold to be two the Plane of Ash and Plane of Ice meet, absorbing some

sides of the same coin, that the only difference between of the elemental magic present there.

them is a matter of temperature. These sorcerers 3 You are a descendant of a long-lost lineage of Frost- and

posess an innate magical gift to manipulate Fire Giants.

temperature, inheriting it perhaps from an ancestor or 4 You fought a horde of Magma- and Ice Mephits and lived

otherwise having obtained it through the events which to tell the tale. The fleeting magic of their corpses

occured during their lifetime. How your sorcerer trickled into your open wounds.

obtained their powers is up to you to decide. Consult the 5 You are a descendant of an Ice Devil.

Frostbrand Origins table for a possible origin of your 6 You were trapped between Phlegethos and Stygia, the

power. fourth and fifth circle of the Hells. Over time, their
infernal magic trickled into your pores, granting you your
magic.
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Frostbrand Magic
1st-level Frostbrand feature
You learn additional spells when you reach certain
levels in this class, as shown on the Frostbrand Spells
table. Each of these spells counts as a sorcerer spell for
you, but it doesn’t count against the number of sorcerer
spells you know.
Whenever you gain a sorcerer level, you can replace
one spell you gained from this feature with another spell
of the same level. The new spell must be an evocation or
a transmutation spell from the sorcerer, warlock, or
wizard spell list.
Frostbrand Spells
Sorcerer Level Spells
1st Burning Hands, Armor of Agathys
3rd Scorching Ray, Heat Metal
5th
7th
Fireball, Elemental Weapon
Fire Shield, Ice Storm
9th Immolation, Cone of Cold
Additionally, you may confer with the Manifestations of
Magic table to gain inspiration for how your sorcerer
manifests their magic.
Manifestations of Magic
D6 Manifestation
1 A faint aura emanates from your silhouette, shifting from
light blue to bright orange.
2 Your skin is alternatingly cold and hot to the touch.
3 One half of your body begins forming a layer of frost on
your skin, the other half begins emanating steam.
4 Parts of your body become a chilly blue, the remainder a
boiling red.
5 The ground on which you stand repeatedly freezes and
boils.
6 Your pulse alternates between slowing down to a crawl
and subsequently speeding up rapidly.
Cauterize
1st-level Frostbrand feature
You gain the ability to manipulate the heat and cold of
your magic in an extremely precise manner- where you
would normally harm creatures with frost & flame, you
can now opt to heal them instead.
When you hit a creature with a spell of 1st level or
higher that deals cold- or fire damage, you can instead
heal them for an amount of hit points equal to your
Sorcerer level.
The number of creatures you can affect with this feature
per turn is equal to your proficiency bonus, as is the
amount of times you can use this feature per long rest.
Thermodynamics
6th-level Frostbrand feature
The heat and cold come naturally to you, allowing you to
shift the magic you cast to your advantage in a pinch.
You gain access to the Transmuted Spell metamagic
option, or a different one if you already have it.
When you use Transmuted Spell to change the
damage type of a spell that deals cold- or fire damage to
its respective opposite type, you do not need to expend a
Sorcery Point to do so.
Nonconductor
6th-level Frostbrand feature
The thermal magic flowing through your veins renders
you immune to the scorching sun and the deepest of
winters. You are unaffected by the effects of the extreme
heat & cold.
Additionally, you can spend 1 sorcery point to gain
resistance to fire- and cold damage for 10 minutes.
Conflagrate & Glaciate
14th-level Frostbrand feature
Your thermal magic becomes more potent. When you
deal cold- or fire damage or heal a creature with
Cauterize, you can add your Charisma modifier to the
damage and/or healing dealt.
Thermal Maelstrom
18th-level Frostbrand feature
You learn to unleash the full extent of the duality
residing within you onto the battlefield.
As an action, you create a vortex of thermal magic
within 60 ft. of you. All creatures within 30 ft. of the
center of the vortex must make a Strength saving throw
or be pulled 15 ft. towards the vortex’s center and take
2d8 fire and 2d8 cold damage. Friendly creatures within
the radius may benefit from Cauterize.
On a succesful save, they take half as much damage
and aren’t pulled towards the center.
For the next minute, you can use your bonus action to
reapply the effects of the vortex to creatures caught
within its radius.
The vortex lasts for 1 minute or until you are knocked
unconscious. Once you use this feature, you can’t use it
again until you finish a long rest, unless you spend 7
sorcery points to use it again.
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Electric Heart
lectricity courses through

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your veins, granting you the power to
control and manifest lightning; a gift
bestowed upon you perhaps through
an inherited affinity with the
Elemental Plane of Air, a pact made
with a Storm Giant, or your
presence in a cataclysmic thunderstorm. In the end, it is
up to you how you acquired your powers. If you need
inspiration, confer with the Electric Origins table for
examples of how you acquired your magic.
Electric Origins
D6 Origin
1 Ages ago, a distant ancestor made a pact with a Storm
Giant. The magic granted by this pact laid dormant in
your bloodline, until a cataclysmic storm awakened the
lightning deep within you.
2 Lost and abandoned for years on the Elemental Plane of
Air, you were touched by its raw magic, now carrying a
small part of the Plane with you wherever you go.
3 Mere moments after your heart had stopped beating, a
lightning bolt struck your chest, restarting your heart and
turning your veins an electric blue for a second. You now
hold the power of lightning itself, dependent on it to
keep you alive.
4 A lightning bolt struck the nursery you resided in as a
child, which consequentially burned down. You were the
only child found residing within the rubble, your tiny
palms crackling with electricity.
5 In their adventuring days, one of your parents was struck
by the breath attack of a Blue Dragon, which they
narrowly survived. Years later, you were born with a faint,
blue-glowing skin.
6 As a child, you had climbed into the great oak tree on the
outskirts of your village after your friends had dared you
to. You were too afraid to climb back down as dark
clouds rolled over the village and lightning struck the
great tree, with you residing in its branches.

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Electric Heart Magic
1st-level Electric Heart feature
You learn additional spells when you reach certain
levels in this class, as shown on the Electric Heart
Spells table. Each of these spells counts as a sorcerer
spell for you, but it doesn’t count against the number of
sorcerer spells you know.
Whenever you gain a sorcerer level, you can replace
one spell you gained from this feature with another spell
of the same level. The new spell must be an evocation or
a transmutation spell from the sorcerer, warlock, or
wizard spell list.
Electric Heart Spells
Sorcerer Level Spells
1st Witch Bolt, Thunderwave
3rd Shatter, Hold Person
5th Lightning Bolt, Thunderstep
7th Storm Sphere, Elemental Bane
9th Destructive Wave, Hold Monster
Additionally, you may confer with the Manifestations of
Magic table to gain inspiration for how your sorcerer
manifests their magic.
Manifestations of Magic
D6 Manifestation
1 Your eyes glow an electric blue and sparks shoot out
from the corners of your eyes.
2 Your veins glow with electricity pulsing towards your
fingertips.
3 Your skin becomes a translucent navy blue, your skeletal
structure visible.
4 Lightning crackles from your fingertips, zapping back
and forth between your hands.
5 Your extremities glow a bright electric blue, the blood in
your veins pulsing with white light matching the beat of
your heart.
6 Your heart emanates a bright, white light, every beat
sending jolts of light through your body.
Sparkjump
1st-level Electric Heart feature
You gain the ability to transport yourself to safety by
harnessing the energy of an incoming attack. When you
are hit by an attack, you can use your reaction to
teleport to a space you can see within 30 ft. Enemies
within 5 ft. of your location prior to teleporting take
lightning damage equal to your Sorcerer level.
You can use this feature a number of times equal to
your proficiency bonus. You regain all expended uses
after finishing a long rest.
Transistor
6th-level Electric Heart feature
You learn to effortlessly transform elemental magic into
its electric equivalent. You gain access to the
Transmuted Spell metamagic option, or a different one
if you already have it.
When you use Transmuted Spell to change the
damage type of a spell to lightning or thunder, you can
use Transmuted Spell even if you have already used a
different Metamagic option during the casting of the
spell.
Dynamo
6th-level Electric Heart feature
When you use Transistor to transmute a spell’s damage
type to lightning or thunder damage, you gain a Fleeting
Sorcery Point. You may use this Fleeting Sorcery Point
to fuel your metamagic options as a normal one would,
but if the Fleeting Sorcery Point remains unused by the
end of your next turn, it disappears.
You can use this feature a number of times equal to
your proficiency bonus. You regain all expended uses
upon finishing a long rest.
Amplifier
14th-level Electric Heart feature
Once per turn, when you deal damage to a creature with
a spell of 1st level or higher that deals lightning or
thunder damage, you may choose to target an additional
number of creatures equal to your proficiency bonus
within 10 ft. of the original target. These creatures take
half the damage dealt to the initial target (rounded up),
unless they succeed a Constitution saving throw against
your spell save DC. Creatures hit by the initial spell
cannot be targeted by this feature.
Electric Form
18th-level Electric Heart feature
As an action, your form becomes one of pure electricity,
lasting for one minute or until you are knocked
unconscious. While this feature is active, you are
granted the following benefits:
You gain a flying speed equal to your movement
speed, and you can hover.
You gain immunity to lightning and thunder damage,
as well as nonmagical slashing, piercing and
bludgeoning damage.
While this feature is active, you may use the Spare
the Dying cantrip, and can cast it as a bonus action.
Once you have used this feature, you cannot use it again
until you have finished a long rest, unless you use 6
sorcery points to use it again.
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