Plague Knight
Class Details
A man clothed in dark garb, with both hands
on a combat scythe and a mask covering his
face rushes towards an unholy abomination.
As the large creature turns its head towards
the man and reveals its hollow eyes, an array
of homing, star-like missiles shots out of the
abyss in its maw. The blade cuts deeply,
leaving a sizeable gap in the vile mouth, yet
the beams pierce the garb of the hunter all
the way through, searing his skin and filling
the air with a smell of burnt flesh. As the
hunter falls down, glimmering blade severs a
leg of the abomination, as a swarm of insects
starts to climb up its torso and burrows into
its tendril-covered body. Two more figures,
wearing similar masks to the hunter, lunge
out from the shadows and strike down the
beast, which upon death, dissolves and
reveals that it was made of animated worms
and vermin of all kind. The duo help their
wounded comrade to stand up, murmuring
that task is not yet done. The abhorrent
abomination that controlled the creature still
lurks somewhere nearby. And the void still
calls out to all of them.
Plague Knights, the hunters of abominations,
and the eternal enemies of Aberrations,
scout the mortal realms in search of cults
and worshipers of Elder Evils. Forming
divisions specialized in different combat
styles, they hone their skills and tap into the
forbidden arts for the sake of greater good.
Wielders of the Plagues
The Plague Knights get their names from the
Plagues, which are lingering passive effects
that follow them like curses. Every time a
calamity occurs in a mortal realm, mass
amount of grief and suffering can be
contained by magical means in form of a
Plague seeking retribution for harm. The
Plague Knights allow for parts of their own
souls to be darkened in order to gain access
these occult powers, drawing magical
powers in exchange for life of suffering.
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Hunters of Aberrations
The Plague Knights are openly hostile to the
monsters known as the Aberrations, as it’s
their destructive influence that they deem
responsible for the majority of problems in
the world. They are known to appear in
places related to ancient cults and eldritch
temples. During hunts, they work in special
groups called divisions, but when working
alone its possible to see a Plague Knight
working as a mercenary. It’s a common thing
for Plague Knights to know many Warlocks,
partially because their skills are required in
tracking down their enemies, as well as
keeping an eye out for any Warlock that
finds himself in the service of an undesirable
patron.
Far Travelers
The Plague Knights rarely stay in one place
for long, often embarking on long journeys,
investigating places of occult and
exchanging information with others of their
profession. Most Plague Knights tend to
instinctively seek out the Aberrations, as in
order to wield the Plagues they establish a
deep connection with things of eldritch and
obscure, dark origins.
Making a Plague Knight
As you build a Plague Knight, consider three
important factors. First is your background,
which explains the reason you were fit to
become a Plague Knight in the first place.
Choose a thing from your past that left a
deep emotional scar in your hart or a sudden
mental change that allowed you to
understand the dark nature of mankind,
becoming your link to the Plagues. Second
factor are your skills. Most Plague Knight
tactics are passed down from teacher to
student, rarely in groups. However, nothing
stops you from finding external source of
combat training. Last factor is your
motivation. What did you want to achieve by
becoming a Plague Knight and, depending on
the setting of the campaign, why would your
character join a party.
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 The Plague Knight Spell Slots per Spell Level
Level Proficiency Features Plagues Active Cantrips 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th
Bonus Known Plagues Known
1 +2 Fighting Style - - 2 2 - - - -
Spellcasting
2 +2 Plagues 2 1 2 2 - - - -
3 +2 Plague Knight 2 1 2 3 - - - -
Division
4 +2 Ability Score 3 1 2 3 - - - -
Improvement
5 +3 Extra Attack 3 2 2 4 2 - - -
6 +3 Dark Harvest 3 2 2 4 2 - - -
7 +3 Division Feature 3 2 2 4 3 - -
8 +3 Ability Score 4 2 2 4 3 - - -
Improvement
9 +4 Skin of Darkness 4 2 3 4 3 2 - -
10 +4 Division Feature 4 2 3 4 3 2 - -
11 +4 Dust to Dust 4 3 3 4 3 3 - -
12 +4 Ability Score 5 3 3 4 3 3 - -
Improvement
13 +5 Skin of Darkness 5 3 3 4 3 3 1 -
(2)
14 +5 Versatile Dark 5 3 4 4 3 3 1 -
Harvest
15 +5 Division Feature 5 3 4 4 3 3 2 -
16 +5 Ability Score 6 3 4 4 3 3 2 -
Improvement
17 +6 Skin of Darkness 6 3 4 4 3 3 3 1
(3)
18 +6 Division Feature 6 3 4 4 3 3 3 1
19 +6 Ability Score 6 3 4 4 3 3 3 2
Improvement
20 +6 Wheel of Pain 7 4 4 4 3 3 3 2

Quick Build
Class Features
First, make Strength or Dexterity your highest
ability score, depending on whether you want to As a Plague Knight, you gain the following
focus on melee weapons or on archery (or class features:
finesse weapons). Your next-highest score
should be Wisdom, as most divisions depend on Hit Points
it, followed by Constitution. It’s worth to note ◙ Hit Dice: 1d10 per fighter level
that while the Plague Knight is a semi-caster ◙ Hit Points at 1st Level: 10 plus your
class, it possesses no long range damage related Constitution modifier
spells, which is why the use of magic should be ◙ Hit Points at Higher Levels: 1d10 (or 6) plus
considered primarily as a support. For your Constitution modifier per fighter level
after 1st
background, consider the Haunted One.

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Proficiencies
◙ Armor: Light armor, medium armor,
shields
◙ Weapons: Simple weapons, martial
weapons
◙ Tools: None
◙ Saving Throws: Constitution, Wisdom
◙ Skills: Choose two skills from Acrobatics,
Arcana, Athletics, History, Insight,
Intimidation, Perception, and Survival
Equipment
You start with the following equipment, in
addition to the equipment granted by your
background:
◙ (a) scale mail or (b) leather armor
◙ (a) a martial weapon and a shield or (b)
two martial weapons
◙ (a) a heavy crossbow and 20 bolts or (b)
two handaxes
◙ (a) a dungeoneer’s pack or (b) an
explorer’s pack
Fighting Style
You adopt a particular style of fighting as
your specialty. Choose one of the following
options. You can't take a Fighting Style
option more than once, even if you later get
to choose again.
◙ Archery:
You gain a +2 bonus to attack rolls you make
with ranged weapons.
◙ Defense:
While you are wearing armor, you gain a +1
bonus to AC.
◙ Dueling:
When you are wielding a melee weapon in
one hand and no other weapons, you gain a
+2 bonus to damage rolls with that weapon.
◙ Two-Weapon Fighting:
When you engage in two-weapon fighting,
you can add your ability modifier to the
damage of the second attack.
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Spellcasting
You have tapped into the flow of forbidden
arcana, spells of eldritch and scorned origins,
lost in the annals of time, passed down to
you by a Plague Knight teacher or discovered
during your training. As a result, your body
can channel a limited number of spells.
◙ Tools Required
You can cast your spells with the use of a
spellcasting focus. For the Plague Knight,
anything associated with strong emotions
and violence, like majority of weapons, can
channel the power of the forbidden arcana.
During a long rest, designate a weapon to be
your focus. As long as you hold that weapon,
you can use it as a focus for your class spells.
◙ Cantrips (level 0 spells)
At 1st level, you know two cantrips of your
choice from the Plague Knight spell list. At
higher levels, you learn additional Plague
Knight cantrips of your choice, as shown in
the Cantrips Known column of the Plague
Knight table.
When you gain a level in this class, you can
replace one of the Plague Knight cantrips
you know with another cantrip from the
Plague Knight spell list.
◙ Preparing and casting spells
The Plague Knight table shows how many
spell slots you have to cast your Plague
Knight spells. To cast one of your Plague
Knight spells of 1st level or higher, you must
expend a slot of the spell’s level or higher.
You regain all expended spell slots when you
finish a long rest.
You prepare the list of Plague Knight spells
that are available for you to cast, choosing
from the Plague Knight spell list. When you
do so, choose a number of Plague Knight
spells equal to your Wisdom modifier plus
half your Plague Knight level, rounded down
(minimum of one spell). The spells must be of
a level for which you have spell slots.
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For example, if you are a 5th-level Plague
Knight, you have four 1st-level and two
2nd-level spell slots. With a Wisdom of 14,
your list of prepared spells can include four
spells of 1st or 2nd level, in any combination.
If you prepare the 1st-level spell Cure
Wounds, you can cast it using a 1st-level or a
2nd-level slot. Casting the spell doesn’t
remove it from your list of prepared spells.
You can change your list of prepared spells
when you finish a long rest. Preparing a new
list of Plague Knight spells requires time
spent on meditation with your spellcasting
focus: at least 1 minute per spell level for
each spell on your list.
◙ Spellcasting Ability
Wisdom is your spellcasting ability for your
Plague Knight spells; your link to the
forbidden arcana allows you to use these
spells with superior skill, provided that your
body withstands their destructive effects.
You use your Wisdom whenever a Plague
Knight spell refers to your spellcasting
ability. In addition, you use your Wisdom
modifier when setting the saving throw DC
for a Plague Knight spell you cast and when
making an attack roll with one.
Spell save DC is equal to 8 plus your
proficiency bonus plus your Wisdom
modifier.
Spell attack modifier is equal to your
proficiency bonus plus your Wisdom
modifier.
◙ Ritual Casting
You can cast a Plague Knight spell as a ritual
if that spell has the ritual tag and you have
the spell prepared.
Plagues
At 2nd level, you gain the ability to give
shape to your powers of forbidden arcana in
forms of lingering effects, known as the
Plagues. You learn additional Plagues of your
choice when you reach certain levels in this
class, as shown in the Known Plagues column.
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You can have a number of Plagues active
equal to the number shown in the Active
Plagues column of the Plague Knight table.
You can switch out your active Plagues
during a long rest.
Plague save DC is equal to 8 plus your
proficiency bonus plus your Wisdom
modifier.
Plagues are given birth by magic but are
twisted embodiments of grief and suffering,
thus not classified as spells or magical
effects. Once active, they can’t be dispelled
nor sppressed. Plagues are active when the
user is unconscious or reduced to zero hit
points, but cease to exist if he dies.
◙ [1] Plague of Pollution:
Crimson veil of flesh-melting putrid liquid
manifests itself in times of need. Every time
you receive damage in melee combat, the
attacker receives 1d4 points of Acid damage
as a retaliation. This Plague damage
increases by 1d4 when you reach 5th level,
(2d4), 11th level (3d4), and 17th level (4d4).
◙ [2] Plague of Vermin:
When you move out of an enemy reach
without taking the Disengage Action, a
number of vermin of your choice (rats, frogs,
cockroaches, mosquitoes, spiders, snakes,
crows or other small creatures of your
choice) appears in a gust of black winds,
providing disadvantage for any creature that
tries to make an opportunity attack. The
vermin disperses at the end of your turn.
◙ [3] Plague of Infestation:
The first enemy in each turn that enters an
area of 10 ft. around you or starts its turn in
it is forced into a Wisdom saving throw. On
fail, hundreds of dot-sized shadows crawl up
its body and begin to puncture through its
skin. The victim’s speed is reduced to zero
and it can’t make opportunity attacks, feeling
the crawling entities on its body. If the
creature failed the saving throw by 5 or
more, it can use only a main or a bonus
action this turn.
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◙ [4] Plague of Flies:
Every time you fall a victim to an area of
attack spell, trait or other effect of similar
origin, a purple haze envelops you, as
thousands of ethereal bugs cloak you. They
reduce the total damage that you receive
from the area of attack effect by a number
of points equal to 1d10 plus your Wisdom
modifier. Allied creatures standing next to
you also can benefit from this effect.
◙ [5] Plague of Pestilence:
Your weapons carry disease which spreads
with precise blows. First enemy in each turn
that receives damage from your melee or
ranged weapon is forced into a Wisdom
saving throw. On fail, vibrant, green marks in
shapes of flower petals or insect wings
spread on its skin. The creature is poisoned
till the end of its next turn.
◙ [6] Plague of Blisters:
Every time an attack roll against you or an
ally you can see in 30 ft. scores a natural one,
the attacker’s limb becomes covered in
festering blisters, which sprout black
tendrils, enveloping a part of its body. The
tendrils take control of the limb and the
creature is forced into redirecting its attack
with a new roll at its ally in 30 ft. or, if it can’t
reach any, against itself.
◙ [7] Plague of Elements:
When you receive a devastating blow that
reduces you to zero hit points, forbidden
arcana lashes out, causing the elements
around you to go berserk. The area of 15 ft. is
covered in mist, making all ranged attacks
against you to be at disadvantage. Air in 10
ft. is enveloped by raging hail, causing a
creature inside to make melee attacks
against you at disadvantage. Lastly, Earth in
5 ft. becomes covered by slithering fires
which worn out the attackers, forcing them
to make only one melee attack per turn if it’s
aimed at you. All of the hindering effects
work only for creatures targeting you. The
Plague of Elements disperses when you are
stabilized or no longer in threat of dying.
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◙ [8] Plague of Locust:
When you take a Dash action, black mists
swirls around you and animates, creating a
cloak of locust. Every time a creature makes
an opportunity attack against you, the locust
swirls around, decreasing the damage that
you receive by 1d10 plus your Wisdom
modifier. If you still receive the damage
which passed the mitigation, the angry locust
lashes out, dealing 1d10 plus your Wisdom
modifier points of magical-piercing damage
to the attacker. The Plague of Locust
disperses at the end of your turn.
◙ [9] Plague of Darkness:
The first enemy in each turn that deals
damage of any kind to you is forced into a
Wisdom saving throw. On fail, a tendril of
darkness swells from your location and
blasts off towards the attacker. The creature
becomes blinded until the end of your next
turn.
◙ [10] Plague of Death:
You become an enemy of life itself. If a
creature which is hostile towards you ends
its turn in 10 ft. range of you, it dies instantly,
if the number of its current Hit Points is less
than your total level in the Plague Knight
class. Temporary Hit Points do not count. A
creature with Legendary Actions is immune
to this effect. This ability can’t kill a creature
for good if it uses abilities that prevent it
from dying, like Lich’s phylactery.
Plague Knight Division
At 3rd level, you chose the division that you
belong to:
◙ Shadow Scythe
◙ Plague Bearer
◙ Death Hand
The division you choose grants you features
at 3rd level and again at 7th, 10th, 15th, and
18th level.
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Ability Score Improvement
When you reach 4th level, 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.
Dark Harvest
Starting at 6st level, when you hit a creature
with a weapon attack, you can expend one
spell slot to deal necrotic damage to the
target, in addition to the weapon's damage.
The extra damage is equal to 1d8 for each
spell slot level, for a maximum of 5d8 if used
with the highest spell slot. If a creature dies
with the use of this ability, you can expand
reaction and regain a Spell Slot of first level.
Skin of Darkness
Starting at 9th level, you gain ability to
exchange one of your active Plagues for one
of your known, inactive Plagues as a bonus
action. When you do so, the forbidden arcana
emanates from your body, mending it,
restoring a number of Hit Points equal to
half of your level in the Plague Knight class
rounded down and covering it in dark fumes,
granting you temporary Hit Points equal to
half of your level in the Plague Knight class
rounded down. You can't use this feature
again until you finish a long rest. You can use
this feature twice between long rests
starting at 13th level and three times
between long rests starting at 17th level.
Dust to Dust
Starting at 11th level, your body, while still
mortal, becomes adjusted to the embraces of
death. You no longer require food or drink,
and can rest by meditation if you so desire.
You become immune to diseases and gain
resistance to poison. If you already possess
racial resistance to poison, you become
immune instead. You still age, but not visibly
outside. If subjected to a spell or a trait that
has special effect for the Undead creatures,
like the Antilife Shell, you can expand your
reaction to be treated by it as an Undead
instead.
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Versatile Dark Harvest
Starting at 14th level, your Dark Harvest
ability becomes empowered and is no longer
limited to your weapon attacks. If you use a
damage dealing spell or a cantrip that
targets a single creature, you may expand an
additional Spell Slot and deal necrotic points
of damage as stated in the Dark Harvest
trait. The target of the spell or a cantrip must
be a creature.
Aside from this ability, the Dark Harvest now
carries over passively to your weapon
attacks and single target damage dealing
spells, increasing the damage you deal by an
additional 1d8 points of necrotic damage.
Likewise, in order for this trait to work, the
target must be a creature.
Wheel of Pain
Starting at 20th level, you lose the ability to
fear death, as the line between the mortal
and spiritual ceases to exist for you. When
you are reduced to zero hit points, you
continue combat like you never received
damage in the first place and do not make
death saves. The damage done to you
accumulates slowly in the negative zone and
can reach the negative amount of Hit Point
equal to half of your base amount of Hit
Points rounded down. If this happens, you
die instantly. During the time your Hit Points
are in the negative zone, your body is
subjected to posthumous convulsions,
allowing you to make one additional weapon
attack or cast a cantrip at the start of your
turn for free, provided a target is in range. If
your Hit Points are restored from the
negative zone, you suffer a point of
Exhaustion. If your Hit Points stay in the
negative zone when the combat ends, you
fall unconscious and start rolling death
saving throws, if there is no one to help you.
The negative health pool of the Wheel of
Pain can’t be increased by any means,
magical or not.
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Plague Knight Spell List 3rd Level Spells:
Animate Dead
Cantrips: Bestow Curse
Blade Ward Blinding Smite
Booming Blade Blink
Green Flame Blade Counterspell
Guidance Dispel Magic
Infestation Elemental Weapon
Message Fear
Sword Burst Feign Death
Thaumaturgy Haste
Thorn Whip Life Transference
Toll the Dead Nondetection
True Strike Protection from Energy
Remove Curse
1st Level Spells: Revivify
Absorb Elements Speak with Dead
Bane Vampiric Touch
Cause Fear
Command 4th Level Spells
Create or Destroy Water Arcane Eye
Cure Wounds Banishment
Detect Evil and Good Blight
Expeditious Retreat Compulsion
Heroism Confusion
Identify Death Ward
Inflict Wounds Elemental Bane
Jump Freedom of Movement
Longstrider Giant Insect
Protection from Evil and Good Locate Creature
Ray of Sickness Shadow of Moil
Searing Smite Staggerring Smite
Thunderous Smite
Wrathful Smite 5th Level Spells:
Zephyr Strike Antilife Shell
Awaken
2nd Level Spells: Banishing Smite
Blindness/Deafness Circle of Power
Branding Smite Contact Other Plane
Cloud of Daggers Contagion
Crown of Madness Danse Macabre
Darkness Destructive Wave
Darkvision Dispel Evil and Good
Hold Person Geas
Invisibility Hallow
Magic Weapon Insect Plague
Misty Step Mislead
Protection from Poison Negative Energy Flood
Shadow Blade Raise Dead
Silence Steel Wind Strike

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Plague Knight: Shadow Scythe
The Shadow Scythes lurk in the darkness,
watching carefully the outside world for
signs of obscure and occult, acting swiftly
and without mercy, if they deem the
situation to bring harm to the material
planes. They hunt down the Aberrations that
create cults for their profane deities and
destroy their forces, working in organized
groups of specialized hunters. They possess
their own code, which justifies the killing of
masses if done for the greater good.
◙ Trick Weapon
When you choose this division at 3rd level,
you learn how to increase the combat
abilities of a weapon by applying additional
blades forged of eldritch shadows. Any time
you use a glaive, halberd or a pike, its
damage die changes for you into 1d12 and
the weapon gains finesse trait. You can
choose for its shape to resemble a combat
scythe or a bardiche.
◙ Existence is Pain
Starting at 7th level, your body accumulates
the damage that you receive and is capable
of forcing itself to overcome physical feats,
normally impossible to achieve. Every time
you receive damage outside of your turn,
your blows strengthen and allow you to add
extra 1d4 points of damage to each of your
melee or ranged weapon attacks made in
your next turn. As you continue to grow in
power, so does the base damage modifier of
this ability. It increases by a d2 when you
gain additional proficiency points at 9th
level, (1d6), 13th level (1d8), and 17th level
(1d10).
◙ Wide Swings
Beginning at 10th level, you learn how to
improve your ability to fight off groups of
foes. Once per turn, you can target two
creatures standing in your melee range
using the same attack roll. You must
proclaim the use of this ability before the roll
is made. Both targets become victims of
additional magical or trait effects if the
weapon carries them.
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◙ Execution
Beginning at 15th level, you can make
devastating blows that harm not only flesh
but scar the very soul of your enemy. Once
per turn when you hit a creature, you can
deal additional necrotic damage equal to
your Plague Knight level. If a creature is not
resistant to necrotic damage, it also suffers a
point of Exhaustion. If you use this ability
together with a Wide Swing, both targets
receive the damage and the point of
exhaustion. You can use this ability a number
of times equal to your Wisdom modifier. All
uses of this ability recharge on a long rest.
◙ Whirlwind Swing
When you reach 18th level, your mastery over
the blade allows you to achieve new heights
of brutality and bloodshed. Once per a short
or a long rest, you gain the ability to
concentrate your entire being on a powerful
swing. Instead of making a Wide Swing, you
can make a Whirlwind Swing, which targets
every creature of your choice in your melee
range with the same attack roll. You must
proclaim the use of this ability before the roll
is made. In addition, the powerful whirlwind
creates a cyclone of energy around you,
forcing every creature of your choice in a
range equal to twice your melee range into a
Dexterity saving throw against your class DC.
On fail, the creatures receive the same
damage as the creatures in your standard
melee range and are afflicted by any
additional effects placed on the strike.
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Plague Knight: Plague Bearer
Plague Bearers are the heralds of doom and
destruction, not because they spread it, but
because they usually appear in groups
before grand calamities occur. Their job is to
contain the damage made to material planes
inflicted by creatures of the eldritch origins
and fight off any leftover forces, essentially
making them the cleaners that make sure no
vile thing leaves the contaminated area.
Plague Bearers learn to draw power from
their Plagues in greater scale than the other
divisions, allowing them to utilize them as
combat tools as well of lingering effects.
◙ Carrier
When you choose this division at 3rd level,
you learn how to draw more power from the
Plagues you bear. After each long rest, you
start with a number of temporary Hit Points
equal to 5 times the number of your active
Plagues. Those temporary Hit Points last
until depleted or until you decide to replace
them by another pool of temporary Hit
Points. In addition, your Active Plagues
counter increases by one.
◙ Death Ripples
Starting at 7th level, you gain ability to force
your Plagues to go awry when they activate.
Once per turn, when a Plague is activated,
you can conjure up a ripple of dark energy
that travels in a 10 ft. radius around you. Any
hostile creature in this area receives 1d10
plus your Wisdom modifier points of necrotic
damage and makes its first saving throw on
its next turn at disadvantage. If this ability is
activated outside of your own turn, it can be
used only once until the start of your turn.
With advancement made at 18th level, your
ripples of dark energy become empowered.
They can reach 20 ft. radius and their
damage increases to 2d10 plus your Wisdom
modifier points of necrotic damage. In
addition to making saving throw at
disadvantage, the afflicted creatures reduce
their scores by 1d6.
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In addition, after reaching 18th level,
creatures immune to necrotic damage are
treated as resistant, and creatures naturally
resistant to necrotic receive this damage as
normal.
◙ Hex Eater
Beginning at 10th level, you learn how to
transmute the negative flow of energy from
your surroundings into the Plagues that you
bear. Every time you see a creature being
afflicted by such condition as blinded,
charmed, deafeaned, frightened, paralyzed,
poisoned, or stunned in 30 ft. of your
character, you can expand your reaction and
automatically end the condition. As a part of
the same reaction, you can use your Skin of
Darkness trait for free. You can use this
ability only once per a short or a long rest.
◙ Final Plague
Beginning at 15th level, your mastery over
the ten standard Plagues allows you to
create your own, additional Plague. In
addition, your Active Plagues counter
increases by one, for a maximum of 6 after
you reach level 20.
◙ [11] The Black Plague:
After finishing a turn, your body becomes
enveloped by a thick, semi-transparent, black
veil. The first attack aimed at you during this
time is made at disadvantage and the first
saving throw you make during this time is at
advantage. In addition, if the attack misses
or if you succeed on the saving throw, the
veil disperses, as a chilling sound of pitch-
black tendrils that reaps through the surface
of reality shots up in the direction of the
attacker. The tendrils pierce its body and
enter it, causing 1d10 plus your Wisdom
modifier points of necrotic damage. At the
end of each following turn, the target makes
a Wisdom saving throw. On fail, the damage
roll is repeated. On success, the effect ends.
In addition, when the Black Plague is active,
the victim makes all saving throws at
disadvantage and it loses resistance and
immunity to necrotic damage.
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Plague Knight: Hand of Death
Hands of Death are the dark infiltrators and
seekers of the abominations, serving as the
scout division. Their tasks include tracking
down and marking the target for culling,
which, if they find the situation to be dire,
will be handled by themselves. Their skills
drawn from the forbidden arcana allow them
to adapt their bodies to combat by twisting
the very essence of their souls, tethering it
to excess limbs and scorned machinations.
◙ Dark Embrace
When you choose this division at 3rd level,
you learn how to create a pair of skeletal
arms that are connected to your spine, which
are construct in origins, but based on organic
design. The extra pair of arms can hold
objects like your original one, but is clumsy in
mechanical tasks. If made to hold a weapon,
the arms can make a melee or a ranged
attack using your bonus action a number of
times equal to your Wisdom modifier, before
becoming stiff and unusable. They become
fully charged after a short or a long rest.
If you have no charges of Dark Embrace at
the start of a combat, you automatically
regain one charge.
Starting at 18th level, the arms can be used
with no limitations, and the charges of Dark
Embrace serve to empower it rather than to
fuel it, as explained in the Spine Implant
ability.
◙ A Helping Hand
Starting at 7th level, your motor skills with
the skeletal arms improve drastically. You
gain the ability to, as a bonus action, pick and
make them use an item. This includes
administering a potion to a creature in range
and interaction with a magical object, unless
its description requires use of other
components. For example, a Bead of Force
requires for it to be simply thrown, but a
Spell Scroll requires the act of reading, thus
rendering it impossible to use with skeletal
arms alone.
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◙ Shadow Strike
Beginning at 10th level, you learn how to
conceal and utilize the unusual build of your
skeletal arms. At the end of each turn you
have an option to have them compressed
and hidden with a mental command. This
causes the first attack made with your
skeletal arms in the next turn to be at
advantage, as the pair springs out from
concealment, surprising your enemy.
◙ Versatile Strikes
Beginning at 15th level, your mastery over
the skeletal arms allows you to use them
with skill equal to that of your own pair. One
handed melee weapons held in the skeletal
arms gain finesse and reach property. If each
of your regular arms and the skeletal arms
holds a separate weapon, your bonus action
utilized in the Dark Embrace trait allows you
to strike with both weapons held by the
skeletal pair at once, using separate rolls for
both (four attacks per turn if each is made
with separate limb). The advantage granted
by the Shadow Strike works for both attacks,
as they are made with a single bonus action.
◙ Spine Implant
Starting at 18th level, your skill in versatile
combat becomes unmatched, lifting the
charge requirement of the Dark Embrace
and allowing you to use the skeletal pair of
arms with no limitations. Instead, using the
Dark Embrace now empowers your skeletal
arms. Every time you deal damage with
weapons held by your skeletal arms, you may
use a charge of the Dark Embrace to
increase the damage by 2d10 plus your
Wisdom modifier points of necrotic damage.
In addition, every time you reduce a creature
to zero hit points, you regain one additional
charge of this ability.
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