Alchemist

Masters of a rare and ancient discipline, alchemists study the properties of mundane and magical elements. They are keen observers of the physical world, and many alchemists have extensive interests in fields of knowledge ranging from astronomy to zoology.

Although many wizards find the study of alchemy rewarding, not all alchemists are wizards. Alchemy does not require the casting of spells or the use of arcane power; the reagents provide all the magic that is necessary to create alchemical effects. Anybody who has a reliable formula, the necessary ingredients, and the specialized knowledge to follow exacting instructions precisely can create alchemical substances and devices. For example, fighters and paladins sometimes study alchemy for its usefulness in siegecraft and military engineering, and rogues find many uses for smoke bombs, lock-eating acids, and sleeping powders.

Experiment and experience are the alchemist’s path to understanding, and the vast majority of alchemists maintain a large laboratory stocked with a huge variety of tools and reagents. Alchemical laboratories are expensive, so most alchemists seek out a wealthy sponsor, such as a royal patron, or a civic commission. In some lands, sponsorship of a famous alchemist is a point of great pride, and rival cities or courts seek to entice alchemists of renown to establish workshops in the realm. Alchemists who have no royal patrons support their studies and experiments by producing mixtures that are useful to other artisans, or substances that have military (or criminal) applications. Unsponsored alchemists have less time or fewer resources available for pure experimentation, but they’re also not hampered by meddling or inconvenient requests from the lord or lady holding the purse strings.

Alchemist Starting Feature (1st level): You gain the Alchemist feat as a bonus feat. You know the formula for a particular 1st-level alchemical item (such as alchemist’s fire). You can use this formula without needing training in any skill associated with it.

At the end of a short rest, you can create one alchemical item of your level or lower at no cost. You must know the formula for the item you create. You can have only one such item prepared at a time.

Alchemist Level 5 Feature (5th level): You learn one alchemical formula of your level or lower.

Alchemist Level 10 Feature (10th level): You gain a +2 bonus to attack rolls with alchemical items you create. Also, you learn one new alchemical formula of your level or lower.

Alchemist Utility 2Aqua Regia

You apply powerful acid to a metal object.

Encounter

Minor Action Melee 1

Requirement: You must have an alchemy case on your person.

Target: One metal object

Effect: The next creature that attempts a Thievery or Strength check to open, break, bend, or destroy the target before the end of your next turn gains a +5 power bonus to that check.

Alchemist Utility 6Alchemist's Escape

You cover your retreat with a cloud of thick red smoke.

Encounter Zone

Move Action Close burst 1

Requirement: You must have an alchemy case on your person.

Effect: The burst creates a zone that is heavily obscured. It lasts until the end of your next turn. In addition, you can move up to your speed, and this movement does not provoke opportunity attacks from creatures in the zone.

Alchemist Utility 10Goblin Oil

A flask of alchemical oil makes a patch of floor almost impassable—and it burns nicely, too.

Daily Zone

Standard Action Area burst 2 within 10 squares

Requirement: You must have an alchemy case on your person.

Effect: The burst creates a zone of difficult terrain until the end of the encounter. Any creature that enters the zone must succeed on an Acrobatics check against a DC equal to 10 + one-half your level or fall prone. Each creature that falls prone in the zone gains vulnerable 5 fire until the end of its next turn.

Animal Master

Gifted with an uncanny ability to befriend and train natural beasts, animal masters are often more at home with animals than with people. Anyone who lacks for humanoid companionship might adopt an animal as a friend and traveling companion, but animal masters aren’t just collectors of pets—they’re expert trainers and handlers who establish practical partnerships with their animal companions. Animals possess crucial senses and abilities that humans (and other civilized people) lack, and by working closely with a well-trained partner, animal masters gain the benefit of these senses and talents too.

Although some who work with animals train large, ferocious creatures as battle companions, most animal masters work with common animals that are easily domesticated. Their companions are friendly toward or tolerate humans, and they have much more ability to learn complicated tricks and behaviors than truly wild animals do. Heroes interested in keeping panthers, bears, wolves, or other large carnivores to tear their foes to pieces belong in the druid or ranger classes, where they can learn the appropriate powers and acquire dangerous wild beasts to aid them in battle.

Animal Minions in Combat

Your animal minion normally stays out of the way in combat, waiting by the outskirts of the fighting. You can direct it to help you by using distracting attack. If you’re not using your animal minion to harass a foe, you can assume that your pet is safely out of harm’s way and won’t attract any enemy attention. Distracting attack doesn’t normally provoke a response against your animal, since it moves in and out of the thick of the fighting quickly.

At the DM’s discretion, an animal minion can act independently; for example, if you are incapacitated, your minion might run off to bring help back to you.

Replacing Animal Minions

Until you reach 5th level, if your animal minion is killed, you can replace it after the end of your current adventure or one week, whichever comes first.

Animal Master Starting Feature (1st level): Choose one of the five animals described below—cat, dog, hawk, monkey, or raven—to be your animal minion. This creature accompanies you for as long as it lives. The animal doesn't have a normal complement of actions, but it can take a move action when you take one. If it has a power, it can use it only on your turn. (With your DM’s consent, you can substitute any similar creature for these choices; for example, an otter would be much like a cat with a skill bonus for swimming instead of climbing and jumping, and a badger is pretty close to a small dog in size and abilities.)

In addition, you gain the distracting attack power.

Animal Master Level 5 Feature (5th level): You can find and train a new animal minion at the end of any extended rest. If no suitable creatures are in your vicinity, you have to wait until you find a better spot. You can have only one animal minion at a time.

Animal Master Level 10 Feature (10th level): You gain a +2 bonus to Bluff checks, Diplomacy checks, Insight checks, and Intimidate checks made against natural beasts.

Animal Master AttackDistracting Attack

At your command, your animal friend darts forward to bite, rake, or peck at your foe.

Encounter Martial

Minor Action Close burst 5

Requirement: Your animal minion must be within 5 squares of you.

Target: One enemy in the burst

Effect: You gain combat advantage against the target until the end of your turn.

Animal Master Utility 2Timely Trick

You direct your animal minion to perform a special task.

At-Will Primal

Standard Action Close burst 10

Target: Your animal minion in the burst

Effect: Your minion performs a move action and a standard action as you direct. It can accomplish any action it is physically capable of performing (with the DM’s consent).

Animal Master Utility 6Guard My Back

Your animal leaps into battle to protect your back.

Encounter Primal

Immediate Reaction Personal

Trigger: An enemy enters a square adjacent to you where it flanks you, and your animal minion is adjacent to you.

Effect: Until the end of your next turn, you gain a +2 power bonus to all defenses, and enemies do not gain combat advantage for flanking you.

Animal Master Utility 10Shared Sight

You see through your animal minion’s eyes.

Encounter Primal

Standard Action Ranged 1 mile

Effect: Your animal minion can take a move action and a standard action as you direct, and you share its senses until the end of your next turn. You do not need to have line of sight or line of effect to the animal to use or sustain this power.

Sustain Standard: You share your minion's senses until the end of your next turn, and it can take a move action and a standard action.

Athasian Minstrel

"Set aside your cares for a time, my lords and ladies, and lend an ear to my song. Tomorrow is for toil and worry; tonight we make revel!"

The minstrels of Athas are entertainers to the wealthy and powerful elite of the city-states. Singers, acrobats, poets, dancers, and storytellers, minstrels tour the cities of Athas in troupes or individually, making a living with their wits and talents. The civilized peoples of Athas have long celebrated minstrels, and by tradition all but the poorest or most suspicious of hosts are proud to open their doors to traveling performers. Hosting a minstrel or sponsoring a troupe’s performance reflects well on the host, and most Athasians are eager to forget their troubles with a few hours of song and dance. Nobles often send troupes of minstrels to one another as gifts; it is seen as a great insult to refuse such a gift, even when all involved know that minstrels are often spies or assassins.

The most skilled (or fortunate) minstrels are highly paid companions to nobility, trusted advisors or agents who enjoy the most intimate confidences of their patrons. Minstrels are often retained by noble houses to tutor young nobles or teach them about the world. They might serve as bodyguards and fighting instructors at the same time. Minstrels who belong to a troupe lack the comfort and trust bestowed on a kept minstrel, but they enjoy the freedom to travel and the aid of a network of informants and allies throughout the Tyr Region. The poorest and most humble minstrels are simple wandering storytellers or jugglers who perform for their supper from night to night.

Many minstrels have a dark side they conceal beneath their charm and talent. Those with ambition and ruthlessness find opportunities in the employ of the elite classes. Minstrels often lead double lives as blackmailers, thieves, spies, or assassins; a minstrel’s visit or a troupe’s performance might conceal a mission of espionage or murder. They are renowned as masters of poison, concealed weapons, and subtle trickery. Even the humblest wandering minstrel with threadbare cloak and battered lyre might be more than he or she seems—there’s no better spy than someone who seems harmless and is welcome wherever he or she goes.

Athasian Minstrel FeaturePoisoned Strike

You splash a few drops of poison on your weapon from a vial at your belt, and slash at your foe. The pain can bring your target to its knees.

Encounter Martial, Poison, Weapon

Standard Action Melee or Ranged weapon

Target: One creature

Attack: Primary ability vs. AC

Hit: 1[W] damage plus 5 poison damage. Until the end of your next turn, if the target willingly moves more than 2 squares or makes an attack, it then falls prone, and it is immobilized until the end of its next turn.

Level 11: 2[W] plus 5 poison damage.

Level 21: 3[W] plus 5 poison damage.

Athasian Minstrel Utility 2Concealed Weapon

You have learned how to keep a weapon completely hidden from searching eyes.

Encounter Martial

Minor Action Personal

Target: One weapon you’re holding

Effect: The target weapon is invisible until the end of the encounter or until you attack with it. The first target you attack with a weapon affected by this power grants you combat advantage for that attack.

Athasian Minstrel Attack 3Fever Poison

You draw a hidden vial and sprinkle its contents on your weapon in one swift motion before attacking. This poison dazes and disorients your foe.

Encounter Martial, Poison, Weapon

Standard Action Melee or Ranged weapon

Target: One creature

Attack: Primary ability vs. AC

Hit: 2[W] damage plus 5 poison damage. Until the end of your next turn, if the target willingly moves more than 2 squares or makes an attack, it is dazed until the end of its next turn.

Level 13:

Hit: As above, but 3[W] damage plus 5 poison damage.

Level 23:

Hit: As above, but 4[W] damage plus 5 poison damage.

Athasian Minstrel Attack 5Draining Poison

A splash from a tiny vial coats your weapon with a lethal venom that cripples the target with cramping muscles.

Daily Martial, Poison, Reliable, Weapon

Standard Action Melee or Ranged weapon

Target: One creature

Attack: Primary ability vs. AC

Hit: 2[W] damage, and ongoing 5 poison damage (save ends). The first time the target takes the ongoing poison damage, it takes a -4 penalty to its next saving throw against the ongoing damage. The target is also slowed until the start of its next turn.

Level 15:

Hit: As above, but 2[W] damage plus 5 poison damage, and ongoing 5 poison damage (save ends).

Level 25:

Hit: As above, but 2[W] damage plus 10 poison damage, and ongoing 5 poison damage (save ends).

Athasian Minstrel Utility 6Envenomed Weapon

You smear prepared poison on your weapon to erode your enemy’s stamina.

Encounter Martial

Minor Action Melee touch

Target: One weapon you're wielding

Effect: The next creature hit by a melee attack using this weapon before the end of the encounter gains vulnerable 5 poison until the end of your next turn.

Athasian Minstrel Attack 7Crystal Spider Poison

You splash a few drops of a debilitating poison on your blade before striking, briefly weakening your foe.

Encounter Martial, Poison, Weapon

Standard Action Melee or Ranged weapon

Target: One creature

Attack: Primary ability vs. AC

Hit: 2[W] damage plus 5 poison damage. Until the end of your next turn, if the target willingly moves more than 2 squares or makes an attack, it is then weakened until the end of its next turn.

Level 17:

Hit: As above, but 3[W] damage plus 5 poison damage.

Level 27:

Hit: As above, but 4[W] damage plus 5 poison damage.

Athasian Minstrel Attack 9Insidious Poison

You envenom your weapon with a lethal poison that is exceptionally difficult to shake off. Few survive its touch.

Daily Martial, Poison, Reliable, Weapon

Standard Action Melee or Ranged weapon

Target: One creature

Attack: Primary ability vs. AC

Hit: 2[W] + ability modifier damage, and ongoing 5 poison damage (save ends). The first time the target takes the ongoing poison damage, the target cannot make a saving throw against the ongoing poison on its turn.

Level 19:

Hit: As above, but 2[W] + ability modifier damage plus 5 poison damage, and ongoing 5 poison damage (save ends).

Level 29:

Hit: As above, but 2[W] + ability modifier damage plus 10 poison damage, and ongoing 5 poison damage (save ends).

Athasian Minstrel Utility 10Framing Assassin

You have mastered a fighting technique in which you lunge swiftly toward one opponent to strike at other foes behind it.

Daily Martial, Stance

Minor Action Personal

Effect: You assume the stance of the framing assassin. Until the stance ends, you can use a square adjacent to you that is occupied by an enemy as the square of origin for your weapon attacks.

Beguiler

Beguilers aspire to become masters of deception in all its forms. Consummate practical jokers, they delight in playing tricks even on their closest friends. A beguiler might be a master spy, able to slip into the shadows of an alley to evade a bothersome patrol, or a glib-tongued charmer who cons a wealthy merchant out of priceless jewels. Unattended valuables have a way of mysteriously disappearing in a beguiler’s presence; those that are carefully watched are simply more of a challenge.

Beguilers struggle to tell the truth at the best of times. The stories they recount feature outlandish embellishments: The small drake vanquished by the beguiler’s adventuring party is likely to become a massive red dragon somewhere around the third retelling. Succeeding with one lie just encourages the beguiler to try another, more outrageous one.

The greater the level of skill required to pull off a deception, the more likely a beguiler is to attempt it, just to see what he or she can get away with. Should a patron challenge one to pull off a difficult heist, or to deceive an entire town with a near-impossible illusion, the beguiler will pursue the assignment obsessively, to the exclusion of all else.

Beguilers often find employment as spies or thieves. Most possess a smattering of skills useful to such occupations: the crafting of disguises, the ability to disarm traps and pick troublesome locks, and the training to tread quietly without drawing attention. Able to think quickly on their feet, beguilers can lie readily and convincingly should they be discovered in an indelicate situation. Unlike most traditional spies, however, many beguilers also possess a strong affinity for mind-altering magic (including bards, or wizards specializing in illusion or enchantment) or a strong connection to the Shadowfell (such as assassins and nethermancers). Whether conjuring an illusory wall of fog to secure their escape, or implanting a simple magical suggestion in a guard, beguilers frequently use arcane trickery to succeed in their goals.

Most covert operators aim to get away clean and finish the task with none the wiser. Beguilers, however, take great pride in their grandiose deceptions and want the world to know what they have accomplished—not just that they succeeded, but how they did it. Thus, a beguiler might leave a calling card after stealing an enchanted sword from a supposedly impregnable vault, or imprint a unique signature on a masterful illusion, such as a fake volcanic eruption that evacuates a nearby town.

Beguilers place great importance on their reputations, and many acquire followers who admire their exploits. They delight in building an entourage that hangs on their every word. As they rise in stature, beguilers seek to acquire apprentices from the ranks of amateur thieves and illusionists drawn to their growing legend—though such a master never reveals all his or her secrets. Ironically for those so adept at deceiving others, beguilers are often vulnerable to flattery from sycophantic devotees.

Beguiler Starting Feature (1st level): You gain proficiency with orbs.

In addition, you gain the beguiling flash power.

Beguiler Level 5 Feature (5th level): You gain a +2 power bonus to Arcana checks and Stealth checks.

Beguiler Level 10 Feature (10th level): If you miss an enemy with an arcane attack power while you have any concealment from that enemy, you gain a +2 power bonus to the next attack roll you make against it before the end of your next turn.

Beguiler AttackBeguiling Flash

You create a sudden flash of light that temporarily confuses your foe so that it cannot easily find you.

Encounter Arcane, Illusion, Implement

Minor Action Ranged 10

Target: One creature

Attack: Highest ability modifier vs. Will

Hit: You slide the target up to 3 squares. Until the end of your next turn, you have partial concealment from the target.

Beguiler Utility 2Cloaking Feint

With a quick flourish, you convince an opponent that you aren’t really where it thinks you are.

Encounter Arcane, Illusion

Minor Action Ranged 10

Target: One creature

Effect: Make an Arcana check. If the check result beats the target’s passive Insight, you gain combat advantage and partial concealment against the target until the end of your next turn.

Beguiler Utility 6Trickster Veil

With a nearly perfect disguise, no one can see your true face—or the dagger hidden in your boot.

Daily Arcane, Illusion

Minor Action Personal

Effect: For the next hour, whenever you make a Bluff or Thievery check, you can roll twice and use the higher result.

Beguiler Utility 10Vanishing Swirl

As your enemy draws near, you spin away and disappear into thin air.

Encounter Arcane, Illusion

Immediate Reaction Personal

Trigger: An enemy moves adjacent to you.

Effect: You become invisible until the start of your next turn, and you shift up to 2 squares.

Black-Hearted Knave

"Of course I’m out for myself. If I don’t look out for me, who will?"

Personal gain motivates the black-hearted knave. Scoundrels of the highest order, these cunning, untrustworthy villains exploit, betray, and deceive, having little concern for the people they hurt and the lives they destroy. Knaves encompass a wide range of characters, from the charlatan foisting colored water off as a cure for ills to the charming rake who steals hearts and purses in equal numbers. Turncoats, bandits, and public figures might be knaves in secret, masking their true intentions behind facades.

One does not make a career of double-crossing and exploiting people without risking consequences. Rather than advertise their villainy, many knaves go to great lengths to stay above suspicion. A good disguise is sometimes all a knave needs. Fabricating a history, adding possible relations, and becoming established in a community gives the knave freedom to pursue his or her goals. Others work their trickery by being exceptional liars. A ready story and a convincing manner can divert a skeptic’s attention elsewhere.

Black-hearted knaves don’t put down roots. No matter how many safeguards they have in place, a simple gaffe or a glimmer of recognition by a prior victim is all it sometimes takes to expose a knave for what he or she truly is. Adventuring provides a knave with a ready excuse to move from place to place. Between expeditions, he or she works schemes in whatever town or hamlet that has the bad fortune to serve as a host to the knave. Then, before anyone grows the wiser about what has been done, he or she moves off, drawn toward the next dungeon and adventure.

Black-Hearted Knave Starting Feature (1st level): You gain the treacherous advantage power.

Black-Hearted Knave Level 5 Feature (5th level): Whenever you would make a Diplomacy check or an Intimidate check, you can instead make a Bluff check with a -2 penalty.

Black-Hearted Knave Level 10 Feature (10th level): You can use a minor action in place of a standard action when making a Bluff check to gain combat advantage or to create a diversion to hide.

Black-Hearted Knave AttackTreacherous Advantage

Shoving an ally into danger creates a distraction so that you can move into an advantageous position.

Encounter Martial, Weapon

Standard Action Melee 1

Primary Target: One ally

Effect: You push the primary target up to 2 squares, and he or she grants combat advantage until the start of your next turn. You then shift up to half your speed and make the secondary attack.

Treacherous Advantage Secondary Attack

Encounter Martial, Weapon

Standard Action Melee 1

Secondary Target: One creature

Secondary Attack: Highest ability modifier vs. AC

Hit: 2[W] + your highest ability modifier damage, and the target grants combat advantage until the end of your next turn.

Level 11: 3[W] + your highest ability modifier damage.

Level 21: 4[W] + your highest ability modifier damage.

Black-Hearted Knave Utility 2Flee Peril

When the enemy gains the upper hand, you waste no time making good your escape.

Encounter Martial

Immediate Reaction Personal

Trigger: An ally within 5 squares of you is hit by an attack.

Effect: You shift up to half your speed.

Black-Hearted Knave Utility 6Surprising Betrayal

You shove a nearby ally into an attack’s path so that you can slip away unscathed.

Encounter Martial

Immediate Interrupt Melee 1

Trigger: A creature hits or misses you with a melee or a ranged attack.

Target: One ally

Effect: You and the target swap positions (the target slides 1 square, and you shift 1 square). The target is hit or missed by the attack, instead of you.

Black-Hearted Knave Utility 10Duplicitous Evasion

You duck behind another creature to escape an attack, leaving it to fend for itself.

Daily Martial

Immediate Interrupt Personal

Trigger: An enemy makes a melee or a ranged attack against you while you are adjacent to at least one other creature.

Effect: You gain a +4 power bonus to all defenses against the triggering attack. If the attack misses you, you can swap positions with an adjacent creature other than the triggering enemy (the creature slides 1 square, and you shift 1 square), and the enemy repeats the attack against that creature.

Blackstaff Apprentice

Prerequisite: Wizard. You must be able to prepare spells from a spellbook (such as with the Arcanist’s Spellbook, Bladesinger’s Spellbook, or Mage’s Spellbook class feature).

You always wanted to be a wizard. Your family did its best to indulge your dream, even when others told you that you would never amount to anything. You attended public academies and auditioned with private spellcasters, striving without success to master the techniques of an apprentice mage. Enchantment, evocation, illusion—every school of magic was a closed door to you. The simplest cantrips seemed to be out of your reach. You would have given up, but you were convinced that it was a matter of learning, not a matter of talent. If only you could find the right teacher.

Having exhausted all other options, you presented yourself at the fabled Blackstaff Tower. The new archmage of Waterdeep and the master of Blackstaff Tower, Vajra Safhar, had issued an open call in search of apprentices. To your surprise, and that of Waterdeep’s magical community, you were among those whom Vajra chose to train as one of her new corps of Blackstaff wizards.

With your fellow apprentices, you embarked on an experimental path of study that demanded absolute understanding and mastery of magic’s fundamentals before specializing in any one school. Under Vajra’s unorthodox tutelage, you flourished. Then, on the eve of your first-year exam, Vajra vanished.

For weeks, you and the other apprentices waited, without a hint or an indication of your mentor’s fate. Finally, with a heavy heart and a backpack full of books, you set out from Blackstaff Tower. You resolve to continue your studies, even as you search for Vajra’s whereabouts. You’re so close to being a wizard, it’d be ludicrous to stop now.

Blackstaff Apprentice Starting Feature (1st level): You gain the magic missile power if you do not already have it. Once per encounter you can use magic missile as a minor action instead of a standard action.

Blackstaff Apprentice Level 5 Feature (5th level): You gain three wizard cantrips of your choice.

Blackstaff Apprentice Level 10 Feature (10th level): You add the dispel magic power to your spellbook. As a standard action, you can expend a wizard utility power that you have prepared and use dispel magic in its place. The utility power must be of level 6 or higher and cannot be usable at will.

Bloodsworn

"My enemies must pay for their crimes, and the only payment I will accept is in blood."

Evil emerges from below to work villainy on the innocent. Those of good heart stand against its machinations and struggle to rebuild in the aftermath of the conflict. For bloodsworn, though, guarding against wickedness is not enough. They take the fight to their enemies in a quest to destroy them all.

Evil creates the situation that brings a bloodsworn into existence. Some terrible event sows the seeds of vengeance in an individual’s heart, goading him or her to take up sword and staff to fight back against the darkness and ensure that evil never rears its head again. Often, bloodsworn are survivors of slaughters, whether from goblin marauding, a dark cult’s sacrifices, or grimlock raids. Swearing bitter vows to the gods or to their dead comrades, bloodsworn travel a path of righteous vengeance.

Bloodsworn Starting Feature (1st level): You gain the bloodied determination power.

Bloodsworn Level 5 Feature (5th level): When you use your second wind, you gain a +2 power bonus to attack rolls until the end of your next turn.

Bloodsworn Level 10 Feature (10th level): You gain a +2 power bonus to initiative checks and Intimidate checks.

Bloodsworn UtilityBloodied Determination

When you are in dire straits, failure is not an option. You adjust your attack at the last moment to deliver a strike.

Encounter Martial

Free Action Personal

Trigger: You miss with an at-will attack power while you are bloodied.

Effect: You reroll the missed attack roll.

Bloodsworn Utility 2Forced Advantage

You fix your attention on one opponent to the exclusion of all other foes.

Encounter Martial

Minor Action Close burst 5

Target: One creature you can see in the burst

Effect: Until the end of your next turn, you gain combat advantage against the target and a +2 power bonus to all defenses against the target’s attacks. You also take a -2 penalty to attack rolls on attacks that do not include the target.

Bloodsworn Utility 6Urgent Aggression

The enemies you face bring back memories of your loss and sorrow, feelings you use to push yourself beyond your normal limits.

Daily Martial

Free Action Personal

Trigger: You roll initiative.

Effect: You gain an extra move action during your first turn in the encounter.

Bloodsworn Utility 10To the Death

You refuse death’s call and push yourself to keep fighting.

Daily Healing, Martial

Immediate Interrupt Personal

Trigger: You drop below 1 hit point.

Effect: You use one of your at-will attack powers. If the attack reduces its target to 0 hit points or fewer, you can spend a healing surge.

Brazen Ambassador

The City of Brass in the Elemental Chaos is a complex net of social intrigue, woven through the courts of the efreet lords who stand as the city’s masters. The feuds, alliances, and enmities of the city require a special class of citizen to navigate: the brazen ambassadors. Developed as a means for embattled efreets to communicate with their peers, brazen ambassadors have taken on a greater role, not just within the City of Brass but also on far-flung planes. Today, brazen ambassadors handle most of a lord’s affairs, from negotiating alliances with the city’s many courts to brokering with planar traders that come to the city. They even deign to represent Bashamgurda, Lord of the Efreets, and through him, the City of Brass itself.

Each brazen ambassador is drawn from the ranks of slaves within the City of Brass, and the decision to elevate such an individual is not made lightly. The process requires potent magic, demanding the investment of an efreet patron’s power. The efreet first draws off some of its burning blood, which a specially trained ritual practitioner, or sahaar, uses to tattoo arcane symbols on the skin of the chosen figure. As it cools, the blood leaves a brass filigree etched into the ambassador’s skin. This initiation is dangerous; the frail do not survive. Adventurers are prized choices to become brazen ambassadors because they are far more likely to survive the process than any common slaveling.

The markings on an ambassador serve two purposes. The first and most obvious is to distinguish a brazen ambassador as more than a mere slave. At a glance, an efreet can know that the words of such an individual are not the mere whining of a lowly slave— they are treated as the words of a peer. Second, the ritual causes the blood of the patron to intermingle with that of its ambassador, causing the ambassador to become a part of that efreet’s bloodline. The connection between an ambassador and its patron is a potent one, permitting the efreet to invest an ambassador with some of its power, even across the planes.

Brazen Ambassador Starting Feature (1st level): You gain the bound by brass power.

Brazen Ambassador Level 5 Feature (5th level): Once per encounter, when you roll a Bluff check against a creature of the elemental origin and dislike the result, you can reroll the check. You must use the second result.

Brazen Ambassador Level 10 Feature (10th level): You can sustain the effect of bound by brass as a standard action. This benefit lasts until the end of your next turn or until you attack.

Brazen Ambassador UtilityBound by Brass

While the mystic symbols on your skin burn bright, enemies dare not strike you for fear of drawing the ire of your master.

Encounter Charm, Elemental

Minor Action Personal

Effect: Until the end of your next turn or until you attack, creatures of your level or lower cannot target you with melee attacks or ranged attacks.

Brazen Ambassador Utility 2Use Cinderspeech

You instill your words with primordial echoes that transcend simple language.

Encounter Arcane, Elemental

Free Action Personal

Trigger: You would make a Diplomacy check or an Intimidate check.

Effect: You instead make an Arcana check with a +2 power bonus. You are considered to share a language with the target of the check.

Brazen Ambassador Utility 6Me and This Army

You inform opponents that the adventurers wielding a legion’s worth of blades are, in fact, your comrades.

Daily Arcane, Aura

Minor Action Personal

Effect: You activate an aura 1 that lasts until the end of the encounter. Each ally in the aura gains a +2 power bonus to Will. While the aura is active, you gain a +1 power bonus to Intimidate checks and Diplomacy checks for each ally in the aura (maximum +5).

Brazen Ambassador Utility 10Blazing Reprisal

Your foes reconsider interfering with you when they learn whom you call master.

Encounter Charm, Elemental, Fire

Immediate Interrupt Close burst 5

Trigger: An enemy within 5 squares of you hits you with an attack.

Target: The triggering enemy in the burst

Effect: The target rerolls the attack and must use the second result. If the attack still hits, the target takes fire damage equal to 5 + one-half your level after the attack is resolved.

Bregan D'aerthe Mercenary

Menzoberranzan is built on unwritten laws that provide some semblance of structure to the chaotic lives of the drow. Its harsh society does not tolerate nonconformity. Those who stand up to the matriarchy or who blaspheme against Lolth have no allies. Such drow are expelled by their houses—if they are not killed out of hand. Usually, those so exiled do not long survive, but there is a refuge for such misfits: Bregan D’aerthe. The infamous mercenary company takes in drow of all stripes: commoners who have run afoul of the priestesses, exiles, and the children of destroyed houses.

You are one such unfortunate: you were cast out of Menzoberranzan society for crimes real or perceived. When you joined, you abandoned your past, your heritage, and even your name, and you were expressly forbidden to talk about them. A sellsword, you fight for masters who in turn offer their services to the highest bidder. Bregan D’aerthe takes care of its own, though, and you can count on your new allies to protect you from past reprisals—as long as you remain useful.

As it is with the Bregan D’aerthe spy), the deadly mercenary group to which you owe your loyalty might occasionally place demands on your time or efforts. Unlike those far-roving agents, some of whom operate on the surface, you stick to more localized bloodshed. You also lack the specialization of such spies, being as likely to have a martial background as an arcane one; you might even be a cleric of a deity other than Lolth. You are a mystery: cold steel wrapped in a silken sheath.

Bregan D'aerthe Mercenary Starting Feature (1st level): You gain a +2 power bonus to Bluff checks, and you gain the skullduggery power.

Bregan D'aerthe Mercenary Level 5 Feature (5th level): Gain the uncertain loyalties power.

Bregan D'aerthe Mercenary Level 10 Feature (10th level): You can use the Bluff skill to feint in combat as a minor action instead of a standard action. Also, while under the effect of your uncertain loyalties power, a creature grants you cover and helps you flank as though it were an ally.

Bregan D'aerthe Mercenary UtilitySkullduggery

You knock a foe off guard, leaving an opening for you and your allies to exploit.

Encounter Martial

Minor Action Melee touch

Target: One creature

Effect: The target grants combat advantage until the end of your turn.

Bregan D'aerthe Mercenary AttackUncertain Loyalties

You sow doubt in an opponent’s mind as to whether you are truly a friend or foe.

Encounter Fear, Martial

Standard Action Ranged 10

Target: One creature

Effect: The target cannot attack you until the end of your next turn. This effect ends immediately if you attack the target.

Bregan D'aerthe Mercenary Utility 2Weapon Ring

With a flick of a finger, you produce a blade seemingly from thin air.

At-Will Arcane, Transmutation

Minor Action Melee touch

Target: One nonliving object of 5 lb. or less that you are holding

Effect: You change the target object into a small ring on one of your fingers, or change the ring back into the object. You can have only one such ring at a time. If the ring is removed from your finger, it returns to its original form.

Bregan D'aerthe Mercenary Utility 6Tiny Sunburst

You dazzle your foe with a bright burst of light.

Encounter Arcane

Immediate Interrupt Close burst 5

Trigger: A creature hits you with a melee or a ranged attack.

Effect: Until the end of your next turn, the triggering creature takes a -2 penalty to attack rolls against you. If the creature has darkvision, the penalty instead applies to all the creature’s attack rolls.

Bregan D'aerthe Mercenary Utility 10Dimensional Confusion

Teleportation magic sends one of your foes into your place.

Encounter Arcane, Teleportation

Move Action Ranged 5

Target: One creature of your size or smaller

Effect: You and the target each teleport up to 5 squares, swapping positions. If the target is an enemy, it grants combat advantage until the end of your turn.

Bregan D'aerthe Spy

No one owns a secret. Indeed, among my people, we say that secrets own their keepers.

Prerequisite: Drow

You were on patrol in the Underdark outside your home, beautiful and benighted Menzoberranzan, when betrayal came. As if directed by psychic command, your companions suddenly turned against you as one. Drow are treacherous by nature, but such a blatant and brutal attack could mean only one thing: Your house had fallen. You escaped with your life, but with no allies and no idea of what to do next.

None survive alone in the wilds of the Underdark for long, and so your would-be killers assumed you to be dead—as you would have been if the members of Bregan D’aerthe had not found you. You had heard the tales of these drow mercenaries, of course—the much-derided and dishonorable castaways of other destroyed houses. When your benefactors confirmed that your kin had been annihilated, you expected them to show contempt for the weakness of your house and your own helplessness. Instead, they offered to induct you into their company—giving you a chance to restore the honor, the allies, and the home that had been taken from you.

For decades, you have served as part of Bregan D’aerthe. As a part of the force sent to the surface to manipulate events in Luskan, you have watched that city’s steady decline from den of piracy to cesspool of evil. You felt the tremors in the earth and saw the plume of black smoke to the south that marked Neverwinter’s fall. During this time, Bregan D’aerthe continued to add to its coffers with missions for hire, but the opportunities for wealth grew slimmer as the danger in the North spread.

Now, the mercenary drow have largely left the region, with only a few such as you remaining. You would have preferred to go with your fellows, but an order from Jarlaxle brought you instead to the ruins of Neverwinter. The sometime leader of Bregan D’aerthe gave you the task of investigating the forces at work in the city and the surrounding area—and, as always, to look for ways for Bregan D’aerthe to profit from others’ plots. You have been told that someone—perhaps Jarlaxle himself—will come to you for information. Until then, you are on your own.

You have learned that it doesn’t pay to be without allies—even in the relative safety of the surface world. Few surface-dwellers have any compunctions about the death of a lone drow, particularly in the lawless North. Like Jarlaxle and the legendary Drizzt, you need to travel with others if you are to be successful in your goals.

Bregan D'aerthe Spy Starting Feature (1st level): You gain the levitation power.

Bregan D'aerthe Spy Level 5 Feature (5th level): You gain the continuous levitation power.

Bregan D'aerthe Spy Level 10 Feature (10th level): When you grant combat advantage, enemies do not gain the bonus to attack rolls against you.

Bregan D'aerthe Spy UtilityContinuous Levitation (Bregan D'aerthe Spy)

With focused concentration, you keep yourself aloft to gain the advantage over your foes.

Daily

No Action Personal

Trigger: You use levitation.

Effect: You gain the ability to sustain levitation. This ability lasts until the end of the encounter.

Sustain Move: Levitation persists until the end of your next turn, and you can move up to 3 squares vertically or 1 square horizontally.

Bregan D'aerthe Spy UtilityLevitation (Bregan D'aerthe Spy)

Calling on the magic inherent in your bloodline, you rise into the air as lightly as a feather on the wind.

Encounter

Move Action Personal

Effect: You can fly up to 4 squares vertically and 1 square horizontally, and hover there until the end of your next turn. You have an altitude limit of 4, but if some effect causes you to exceed this limit, you immediately descend to 4 squares above the ground after resolving the effect. When this flight ends, you descend to the ground, taking no falling damage.

Bregan D'aerthe Spy Utility 2Sudden Stealth

The moment a threat reveals itself, your instinct for stealth takes over, letting you vanish from sight.

Encounter Martial

Free Action Personal

Trigger: You have any cover or concealment when you roll initiative.

Effect: You can make a Stealth check to hide.

Bregan D'aerthe Spy Utility 6Fluid Steps

You concentrate on the dance of combat, making certain that you stay a few steps ahead.

Daily Martial

Minor Action Personal

Effect: Until the end of the encounter, you can shift up to 3 squares as a move action.

Bregan D'aerthe Spy Utility 10Spy Sight

You focus your senses, letting all that would obscure the world slip away.

Daily Martial

Minor Action Personal

Effect: You gain a +5 power bonus to Insight checks and Perception checks until the end of the encounter.

Callidyrr Dragoon

Duty bids me to defend the realm of my ancestors. Honor demands that I act with temperance before valor. For the glory of the High King, this I swear.

Prerequisite: Human or halfling.

Callidyrr stands as a beacon of hope in a region overrun with malevolent fey, marauding giants, and bloodthirsty lycanthropes. As a Callidyrr dragoon, you are a stalwart defender of the realm, a privileged member of the High King’s elite guard. Dragoon is a special title awarded to individuals who have shown exceptional service to the crown.

Unlike knights of the realm, dragoons do not muster with the realm’s army but instead receive assignments best handled alongside a small number of compatriots. As such, Callidyrr dragoons receive specialized training in diplomacy and espionage. Dragoons have access to the Palace of the High King and can speak with royal authority throughout the realm. In exchange for these privileges, a dragoon must swear a binding oath of unwavering allegiance to the High King and the land. The Royal Hierophant administers this oath and seals it with a geas that binds the dragoon to the honored ancestors. If the dragoon ever forsakes the vows to king and country, the geas irrevocably wipes the fallen dragoon of his memories.

The rank of dragoon is relatively new, having been born of the nation’s conflict with Amn at the dawn of the century. After repeated failed attempts to forcibly liberate the kingdom of Westphal from Amnian occupation, High Queen Alicia Kendrick founded the dragoons to work against the Amnian invaders clandestinely.

When the High Queen died unexpectedly in the Year of the Halls Unhaunted (1407 DR), the dragoons were instrumental in quelling insurgent uprisings throughout Callidyrr. Common belief held that agents of Lionel Carrathal, heir to the former royal dynasty of Callidyrr who claimed to be the “true” High King of the Moonshaes, poisoned the beloved High Queen.

In the years since, the dragoons have thwarted countless assassins, driven off sahuagin incursions, and even brokered a tenuous peace with the fey of Sarifal. This proud legacy is what you inherit as a Callidyrr dragoon. May you live up to its valorous ideal.

Callidyrr Dragoon Starting Feature (1st level): You gain the Mounted Combat feat. In addition, you gain proficiency with one military melee weapon of your choice.

Callidyrr Dragoon Level 5 Feature (5th level): You gain a +2 power bonus to Diplomacy checks and Intimidate checks.

Callidyrr Dragoon Level 10 Feature (10th level): You can use the Diplomacy skill as if it were the Heal skill to grant either a saving throw or a use of second wind. The subject of your check can be up to 5 squares away from you.

Callidyrr Dragoon Utility 2Dragoon Warding

You vow to protect an ally, creating a spiritual tie between you and shielding the ally from the worst of any assault.

Encounter Martial, Primal

Minor Action Melee 1

Target: One ally

Effect: The target gains a +2 power bonus to AC and Fortitude. Whenever the target is adjacent to you and takes damage from a melee or ranged attack, you can take half the damage, halving the damage the target takes. Nothing can reduce the damage you take. These effects last until the end of your next turn.

Callidyrr Dragoon Utility 6Dragoon Parry

Subtle changes in the enemy’s bearing reveal its intentions, allowing you to parry and throw the foe off balance.

Encounter Martial, Primal

Immediate Interrupt Personal

Trigger: An adjacent enemy hits you with a melee attack while you are wielding a melee weapon.

Effect: You gain a +2 power bonus to AC and Reflex against the triggering attack. In addition, you gain combat advantage against the triggering enemy until the end of your next turn.

Callidyrr Dragoon Utility 10Dragoon Summons

You howl the ancient battle cry of Ffolk warriors and the wind gains a sudden chill, followed by the ghostly arrival of an ancestral defender.

Daily Primal, Summoning

Minor Action Ranged 5

Effect: You summon an ancestral defender in an unoccupied square within range. The creature is an ally to you and your allies.

The defender lacks actions of its own. Instead, you spend actions to command it mentally, choosing from the actions in its description. You must have line of effect to the defender to command it. When you command the defender, the two of you share knowledge but not senses.

When the defender makes a check, you make the roll using your game statistics, not including temporary bonuses or penalties.

The defender lasts until it drops to 0 hit points, at which point you lose a healing surge (or hit points equal to your healing surge value if you have no surges left). Otherwise, it lasts until you dismiss it as a minor action or until the end of the encounter.

Chaosmade

Throughout the mortal world and scattered among the planes, hidden pockets of the Cult of the Elder Elemental Eye work in secret to avoid persecution from those who do not understand their faith. The cult is a fragmented organization. Few members fully understand the forces they worship, but all have a common goal: to blur the lines between the mortal world and the Elemental Chaos. The various sects have different understandings of what will happen when they achieve that goal, but they all pursue it with equal fervor.

One of the more unusual methods used by the cults to hasten the planar merging is the creation of the creatures known as chaosmade. Strange hybrids of mortal races and the Elemental Chaos itself, the chaosmade are living, breathing hosts of the disquieting forces of the plane. Wherever chaosmade walk, order is doomed to fall into disorder, and, little by little, the Elemental Chaos leaks into the world.

The creation of a chaosmade is an exercise in potent magic, done in secret. The cult continually watches the offspring of its members to see if any bear the marks of chaos. These marks manifest in many ways, from an unusual birthmark, to a hatred for tradition, to an unrestrained spirit. These criteria change from one cult to another, but the outcome is the same. The cult takes the child to its inner sanctum, where it is reborn as a chaosmade.

The high priest strips a portion of the child’s soul away and plants in its place a seed of pure chaos, which in time will grow and flourish. This force feeds on the whims and urges of the individual, and in turn, it shapes those urges toward fomenting discord. In return, a chaosmade has access to immense power that, while it can be directed, is torturously difficult to control.

Chaosmade Starting Feature (1st level): Your origin changes to elemental if it is not elemental already. For the purpose of effects that relate to creature origin, you are considered an elemental.

In addition, you gain the seed of chaos power.

Chaosmade Level 5 Feature (5th level): You gain a +2 power bonus to Arcana checks and Endurance checks.

Chaosmade Level 10 Feature (10th level): You can use seed of chaos one additional time per encounter.

In addition, you gain fluency in Primordial if you do not already have it.

Chaosmade UtilitySeed of Chaos

When extra effort is called for, your chaos-touched being cannot help but respond.

Encounter Elemental

Free Action Ranged sight

Trigger: You or an ally you can see spends an action point to make an attack.

Effect: After the attack is resolved, roll a d6. The triggering character gains the resulting benefit.

1. The character gains a +2 power bonus to attack rolls until the end of your next turn.

2. Until the end of your next turn, the target of the attack takes 2 extra damage each time it is bit with an attack.

3. The creature gains a +2 power bonus to speed until the end of your next turn.

4. Until the end of your next turn, the target of the attack grants combat advantage.

5. The character can make a basic attack as a free action.

6. Until the end of your next turn, the target of the attack cannot shift.

Chaosmade Utility 2Foment Chaos

Siphoning off a piece of your soul, you unleash it to run wild in the world.

Daily Elemental

Free Action Personal

Trigger: You roll initiative.

Effect: You are weakened until the end of your first turn during this encounter, and you can use seed of chaos up to two additional times this encounter.

Chaosmade Utility 6Command Chaos

You take command of your chaotic essence, wresting it into your desired shape. Chaos demands payment for such acts, though, and you are left drained for the effort.

Encounter Elemental

Free Action Personal

Trigger: You use seed of chaos.

Effect: You lose a healing surge, and you can select the result of your d6 roll.

Chaosmade Utility 10Warp the World

Dissatisfied with the course of events, you draw upon your ability to reshape it to fit your whims.

Encounter Elemental

Immediate Interrupt Close burst 5

Trigger: A creature within 5 squares of you makes an attack roll or a skill check, and you dislike the result.

Effect: Roll a d6. Use the result as a bonus or a penalty to the roll or check.

Chevalier

Dedicated to the ideals of chivalry, chevaliers are gallant warriors who serve as champions and exemplars to the people around them. A chevalier’s personal honor is his or her most treasured possession; it is far better to die with honor than to live without it. Chivalric codes vary from race to race and culture to culture, but most agree on a number of noble virtues that all chevaliers should aspire to: courage, fairness, mercy, justice, loyalty, honesty, charity, piety, moderation, and gallantry.

Although chevaliers strive to cultivate all the chivalric virtues, the most important elements of their code revolve around behavior on the field of battle. Honor demands that chevaliers seek out the most worthy foes on the field to defeat in a fair fight. Chevaliers aren’t under any requirement to stand and die against superior foes—but they must stand as long as they hold out any hope for victory, and they need to execute a fighting retreat rather than flee in panic if the battle is hopeless. Likewise, chevaliers strive to fight fairly. Flanking foes or attacking dazed enemies is fair enough, especially if the enemy has the advantage of numbers, but performing a coup de grace or attacking a stunned foe is not honorable. Some chevaliers might wait for enemies that have fallen prone to stand again before resuming combat, or to permit a respite if a foe requests one. Of course, enemies who refuse to fight in a chivalrous manner fall outside the protections of honor and should be dealt with in the most expedient manner available.

Chevaliers frequently come from well-born families. Many chivalrous traditions arise from the requirements of elite military social classes, such as heavily armored cavalry and highly trained sword fighters. Acquiring the specialized equipment and years of training needed to serve as their realms’ most highly prized warriors—whether that warrior ideal is a human knight, a dwarf giant-slayer, or an eladrin bladesinger—is never cheap or easy. In some lands, aspiring heroes aren’t permitted to become chevaliers unless they can prove their noble birth and thus their right to claim the privileges of knighthood, but in most places low-born warriors of skill and personal integrity can win their spurs through the sponsorship of royal patrons or their performance on the battlefield. No one denies that chevaliers are prone to more than a little haughtiness toward those they perceive as their social inferiors, but even the prickliest among them are conscious of their obligation to protect the weak and the poor from those who would oppress them.

Chevalier Starting Feature (1st level): While mounted, you and your mount gain a +5 power bonus to Athletics checks and Acrobatics checks to jump, swim, or hop down. You can use your skill check or your mount’s skill check, whichever is better.

In addition, you gain the valiant charge power.

Chevalier Level 5 Feature (5th level): You gain a +2 power bonus to Diplomacy checks and Intimidate checks.

Chevalier Level 10 Feature (10th level): You gain a +1 power bonus to saving throws.

Chevalier AttackValiant Charge

You charge your enemy and strike out, momentarily holding it where it stands.

Encounter Martial

No Action Special

Trigger: You hit a creature with a charge attack.

Effect: The creature is immobilized until the end of its next turn.

Chevalier Utility 2Battle Riding

You quickly guide your mount away from danger.

Encounter Martial

Immediate Interrupt Melee 1

Trigger: A mount you are riding is damaged by an attack.

Effect: Your mount takes half damage from the triggering attack. After the attack is resolved, your mount can shift 1 square.

Chevalier Utility 6Indefatigable

You call upon your iron self-discipline to shake off the effects of enemy blows.

Daily Healing, Martial

Minor Action Personal

Effect: You regain hit points equal to your healing surge value, and you can make a saving throw.

Chevalier Utility 10Loyal Stand

You protect nearby allies with a flurry of blocks and parries for a short time, refusing to give ground.

Encounter Aura, Martial

Minor Action Personal

Effect: You activate an aura 1 that lasts until the end of your next turn. You and your allies gain a +2 power bonus to AC while in the aura, and you can reduce the distance of push, pull, or slide effects against you or your allies in the aura by 1 square.

Cipher

"Would you rather be remembered as someone who thought about action, or someone who took action?"

There is a rhythm to the planes that few can hear. It is all around, permeating every living being, every piece of land and sea, and every act of magic. Yet it often goes muffled and ignored, drowned out by the sound of your thoughts. Only by knowing yourself and unifying thought and action can you exist in harmony with everything.

The Transcendent Order teaches that the path to enlightenment comes from knowing your body and learning to listen to what existence is telling you to do instead of what your mind is saying.

This quality gives the Order’s members the reputation for being impulsive, yet they also can be stoic and introspective. This dichotomy, in addition to the fact that they seek all their answers from within, leads others to call them Ciphers, since they can be indecipherable to those not listening in the right place.

The Transcendent Order teaches that action without thought is the most perfect form of action, since that action is taken in harmony with the multiverse. This philosophy does not mean that a Cipher charges in blindly whenever an opportunity arises; it means that he or she attempts to transcend the moment and touch a higher purpose.

Cipher Starting Feature (1st level): You gain a +2 power bonus to initiative. In addition, when you roll initiative and do not have the highest result, you can use a free action to move up to your speed before anyone else’s turn in the encounter.

Cipher Level 5 Feature (5th level): You gain a +2 power bonus to Acrobatics checks and Athletics checks.

Cipher Level 10 Feature (10th level): Once per day, you can use a second action point during an encounter.

Cipher Utility 2Action Momentum

It’s tough to control the mind of a cutter who’s not controlled by his or her thoughts.

Encounter

Immediate Reaction Personal

Trigger: An enemy hits your Will with an attack.

Effect: You make a saving throw to end one effect imposed by the triggering attack on you, provided the effect has a stated duration.

Cipher Utility 6Action Trance

You have learned to place yourself in a state that relies on reflex alone.

Encounter Stance

Minor Action Personal

Requirement: You must have at least one action point remaining.

Effect: You assume the action trance stance, which ends if you spend an action point. Until the stance ends, you gain a +1 power bonus to speed and saving throws.

Cipher Utility 10Master of the Mind

You know that all things must pass, and any hindrance is temporary.

Daily Stance

Minor Action Personal

Effect: You assume the master of the mind stance. Until the stance ends, you can make a saving throw at the start of your turn against one effect that a save can end. If you fail the saving throw, you can still make a saving throw against the effect at the end of your turn. Additionally, when you succeed on a saving throw, you gain 5 temporary hit points.

Cormyrian Battle Mage

Prerequisite: Unaligned, good, or lawful good wizard or sorcerer

Although any magician can create fire or force effects to hinder foes, a battle mage studies the art of maximizing his or her devastating effectiveness under the watchful eye of an established War Wizard. Those who truly master the craft might be invited to join the order of Cormyr’s War Wizards, the elite battle casters sworn to the crown of Cormyr.

The War Wizards of Cormyr are a secretive group. They realize that if the secrets they discover are shared only with those within their ranks, they gain an edge over their enemies. They reveal some of these secrets through research, and they find others in long-lost tomes of lore. Many War Wizards send their battle mage apprentices out with adventurers, with strict instructions to return and share any ancient secrets they might uncover. Like Purple Dragons, War Wizards and battle mages must swear an oath of fealty to Cormyr before training begins.

Most battle mages are recruited as children when they show aptitude after being introduced to arcane theories or if they exhibit a natural talent for the arcane art. Some students who excel at their studies after being recruited are tested by a War Wizard and, if special talent is identified, they are taken from their families to learn at the War Wizard Academy. Only a few of those who achieve the mastery of basic arcane practices are admitted to the academy formally and are assigned to a particular War Wizard as an apprentice. The others are returned to their families. Having one’s child selected to study with the War Wizards is considered a great honor.

Once admitted, an apprentice spends five years studying the basic tenets of wizardry. Over half cannot achieve the high standards set by the War Wizards and are dismissed. After five years of successful study, an apprentice gains the benefits and official title of battle mage. He or she then studies additional secrets unique to the War Wizards.

A few adults petition the War Wizards for an apprenticeship to learn their secrets and master their craft. The War Wizards are suspicious of such requests and turn away those who have not gained the full trust of the crown or proven themselves loyal citizens. Petitioners must undergo a series of divinations and other tests to verify their intentions. They must also prove their value to the organization by providing new knowledge of the arcane arts or by teaching a new and useful spell. Only then can a practicing wizard or sorcerer become the apprentice of a War Wizard. The expectations for all battle mages are the same, regardless of age.

After becoming a battle mage, some thus titled request a sabbatical to travel the world so that they can learn mystical secrets to bring back to the organization and strengthen it.

Cormyrian Battle Mage Starting Feature (1st level): You gain the defensive casting power.

Cormyrian Battle Mage Level 5 Feature (5th level): You gain a +2 power bonus to History checks and Religion checks.

Cormyrian Battle Mage Level 10 Feature (10th level): You cannot be surprised.

Cormyrian Battle Mage UtilityDefensive Casting

You use one of the secret incantations of the War Wizards to protect yourself when casting.

Encounter Arcane

Minor Action Personal

Effect: Until the end of your next turn, your ranged and area arcane powers do not provoke opportunity attacks.

Cormyrian Battle Mage Utility 2Irregular Dispersal

You control the energy of your spells to avoid hitting your friends.

Encounter Arcane

Minor Action Personal

Effect: You take a -4 penalty to attack rolls against your allies until the end of your next turn.

Cormyrian Battle Mage Utility 6Attuned Wards

You cover your nearby ally in an arcane cloak that offers protection from your attacks.

Encounter Arcane

Minor Action Close burst 2

Target: One ally in the burst

Effect: The target takes no damage from your arcane attack powers until the end of your next turn.

Cormyrian Battle Mage Utility 10Unleash Devastation

You channel all your strength into one furious attack.

Daily Arcane

No Action Personal

Trigger: You roll damage for an arcane attack power and dislike the result.

Effect: You reroll as many of the damage dice as you like, but you must use the second result.

Courtier

Prerequisite: You must be trained in Diplomacy. The games of court are about winning allies and subtle persuasion, which is impossible without at least some knowledge of the art of diplomacy.

Most adventurers stick out like a troll among halflings when placed in courtly situations. They see only a bunch of nobles and retainers fawning over one another in incomprehensible ways with little relevance to their lives.

A courtier knows better. A battle rages amid the smiles and niceties of court. Each word is a carefully calculated move, each meeting a play for political power, and each friend another piece in the game of court. A single mistake can mean the difference between acquiring a powerful position and being clapped in irons.

A courtier sees unique solutions to a problem. When confronted by a wicked duke, a typical adventurer might launch an assault on his keep or try to assassinate him. A courtier might instead go to the king and plant the idea that the duke’s wicked acts are a political liability. The villainous duke could soon be stripped of his lands and titles, thus ending his threat just as effectively.

Courtier Starting Feature (1st level): Whenever you make a Diplomacy check, you can roll twice and take the higher result.

Courtier Level 5 Feature (5th level): Whenever you would make a Bluff check, you can make a Diplomacy check instead.

Courtier Level 10 Feature (10th level): Whenever you would make a Streetwise check to gather information in a settlement, you can make a Diplomacy check instead.

Courtier Utility 2Courtier's Cover

You quickly cover for another’s gaffe.

Encounter

Free Action Personal

Trigger: While you are able to speak, an ally that you can hear and is within 5 squares of you makes a Diplomacy check and dislikes the result.

Effect: Make a Diplomacy check and use your result in place of the triggering result.

Courtier Utility 6Call for Capitulation

Your words reveal the wisdom of surrender.

Encounter

Free Action Personal

Trigger: You would make an Intimidate check to force an opponent to surrender

Effect: In place of the Intimidate check, make a Diplomacy check with a DC equal to the target’s Will defense + 5.

Courtier Utility 10Bastion of Words

A well-timed warning causes your enemies to hesitate.

Encounter

Minor Action Close burst 5

Target: Each enemy who can hear and understand you in the burst.

Effect: Make a Diplomacy check against each target’s passive Insight. If the check succeeds against a target, the target cannot take actions during your turn until the end of your next turn.

Cultist

"My master is the Truth, the Way, and the Will!"

Given the vital role that religion plays in many societies and the number of people who venerate gods, cults could find wider acceptance in the general population. After all, cults honor a higher power, a greater good, or a treasured ideal.

What sets a cult apart from other religious institutions is a fundamentally bad belief, a perception about the cosmos that is diametrically opposed to those held by right-thinking folk. A cult’s creed could be based on an extraordinary interpretation of a god (any god, even a good one) that compels certain sinister practices in their worship. Another cult might elevate a demon lord, monstrous alien, or dark power to divine status. Cults could be founded by devotees of beings that exist only in their minds. Such strange and deviant belief breeds dangerous behaviors and attracts the attention of forces that champion the good. As a result, most cults are driven underground.

Cults spring up regularly the world over. Fear, uncertainty, and dissatisfaction foment offbeat beliefs and unwholesome ideas about how the world works and what the future holds. Cult leaders prey on doubts and superstition, drawing the disaffected and the despairing under their inf luence. One by one, adherents are brought under the cult’s sway, abandoning families and work to find the salvation promised by following the one true path.

Few cults subscribe to peace and harmony. Such rewards must be earned, a task that is impossible to realize in the present state of affairs. Therefore, cults are subversive societies, working against governments and widespread faiths, all to attain whatever objective the cult was founded to achieve.

Cultist Starting Feature (1st level): You gain the master's eye power.

Cultist Level 5 Feature (5th level): While you are bloodied, you gain a +1 power bonus to Fortitude and Will.

Cultist Level 10 Feature (10th level): You gain a +2 power bonus to Intimidate checks.

In addition, during the first round of each encounter, enemies take a -2 penalty to attack rolls against you.

Cultist AttackMaster's Eye

Your obsequious call draws attention to your deeds, risking your master’s ire if you fail.

Encounter Shadow

Minor Action Personal

Effect: If you make an attack this turn and hit with your first attack roll, the creature you hit takes 1d8 extra damage from that attack, and you gain 5 temporary hit points.

If the attack roll misses, or if you do not attack this turn, you grant combat advantage and are deafened until the end of your next turn.

Level 11: 10 temporary hit points.

Level 21: 15 temporary hit points.

Cultist Utility 2Mad Confidence

Your master is with you. You cannot fail.

Daily Shadow, Stance

Minor Action Personal

Effect: You enter the mad confidence stance. Until the stance ends, you grant combat advantage and gain a +4 power bonus to damage rolls.

Cultist Utility 6Ritual Sacrifice

By offering your latest victim to the dark master, you are rewarded with a surge of power.

Daily Healing, Shadow

Free Action Personal

Trigger: You kill a nonminion creature.

Effect: Choose one of the following effects:

You spend a healing surge.

You gain a +1 power bonus to attack rolls until the end of the encounter.

You gain a +5 power bonus to Arcana checks, Dungeoneering checks, Nature checks, and Religion checks until the start of your next extended rest.

Cultist Utility 10Reluctant Sacrifice

Shared pain transforms near failure into a resounding success.

Encounter Shadow

No Action Melee 1

Trigger: You make an attack roll and dislike the result.

Target: One ally

Effect: You and the target each take damage equal to your level. You then reroll the attack roll with a +2 power bonus and must use the second result.

Dead Rat Deserter

"Me? Betray the gang?" I said. Then the steel came out, and I barely made it away with my skin.

Prerequisite: Human, half-elf, or halfling

The port city of Luskan squats along the northern frontier of the Sword Coast. It is a den of thieves and murderers that attracts criminals like moths to a bright-burning flame. Luskan is controlled by a consortium of gangs, war chiefs, and would-be rulers, few of which last more than a season.

The Dead Rats are one of the exceptions.

That thieves’ guild has earned the respect and fear of the populace through a campaign of intimidation. Its members are known for their stealth, their ruthlessness, and their treachery. It is rumored—correctly—that the most deadly members of the gang are wererats. Like the creatures from which they derive their power, the Dead Rats can penetrate any safe house, no matter how secure. Initiation into the gang involves a blood ritual with one of these wererats, imbuing members of the guild with a sneaky and twitchy demeanor, particularly on nights of the full moon.

Every member of the gang is fiercely loyal to a captain named Toytere—a halfling bard noted for his ability to see the future. Whether he truly possesses such sight or not, “King Toy” has never fallen to any of the attempts made to overthrow him. He has frequently rooted out would-be betrayers before they act, and he punishes anyone who attempts to leave the gang. However, your own split from the Dead Rats was a more complicated affair.

It wasn’t that your last job went bad. Not exactly. You made off with less than you expected, but like a good Rat, you gave over the one-quarter share due to King Toy and resolved to enjoy the rest. The next night, when you returned to your safe house, you were taken prisoner by wererat marauders and brought before King Toy. The halfling accused you of planning a mutiny and expected you to understand his need to purge his gang of disloyalty. His bodyguards drew their steel.

Much blood was shed that night, but you escaped—barely alive and thanking Tymora for your good fortune. You fled Luskan, nigh penniless and with only the tools of your trade to your name. Your destination was the nearest safe haven you could manage—the comparatively civilized city of Neverwinter, several days’ journey to the south.

Exhausted, not knowing whom to trust, you thought at last that you had found somewhere to rest and ply your trade once more. Any good thief could spot the coin to be made or taken in this disorderly city. Perhaps your flight from Luskan was good fortune in disguise—you won’t have the gang’s dubious protection here, but you’ll be free to keep all of your booty. Here you could build up wealth and power, and perhaps eventually return to Luskan to take your revenge on those who had wronged you.

Well, that was your plan before you got here, anyway.

Dead Rat Deserter Starting Feature (1st level): You gain the body of the rat power.

Dead Rat Deserter Level 5 Feature (5th level): You gain a +2 power bonus to Bluff checks and Stealth checks.

Dead Rat Deserter Level 10 Feature (10th level): You gain the hybrid bite power.

Dead Rat Deserter UtilityBody of the Rat

You scent danger in the air. Quick as thought, you transform into a more appropriate form for flight or investigation.

At-Will (Special) Polymorph, Primal

Minor Action Personal

Effect: You change from your humanoid form to the form of a Tiny rat, or vice versa. When you change from rat form to humanoid form, you can shift 1 square.

While in rat form, you cannot attack. You retain your game statistics, but gain a climb speed equal to half your normal speed, and a +4 bonus to Stealth checks. Your equipment becomes part of your rat form, and you drop any other items you are holding. You continue to gain the benefits of the equipment you wear, except shields and item powers. While equipment is part of your rat form, it cannot be removed, and anything in a container that is part of your rat form is inaccessible.

Special: You can use this power only once per round.

Dead Rat Deserter UtilityHybrid Bite

You express the wildness running through you, melding your normal form with your inner rat.

At-Will (Special) Polymorph, Primal

Minor Action Personal

Effect: You change from your humanoid form to the form of a rat–humanoid hybrid, or vice versa. While in hybrid form, you retain your normal game statistics and size. You also retain your equipment, and can use it normally. In addition, you can use the secondary power at will.

Special: You can use this power only once per round.

Hybrid Bite Secondary Power

At-Will (Special) Primal

Standard Action Melee 1

Requirement: The power Hybrid Bite must be active in order to use this power.

Target: One creature

Secondary Attack: Strength or Dexterity vs. AC. You gain a +4 bonus to the attack roll.

Level 21: The bonus increases to +6.

Hit: 1d8 + Strength modifier or Dexterity modifier damage and ongoing 5 damage (save ends).

Level 21: 2d8 + Strength modifier or Dexterity modifier damage.

Dead Rat Deserter Utility 2Savage Hiss

You dip into your inner beast and hiss in challenge as you land a brutal strike, cowing the craven fools around you.

Encounter Fear, Primal

No Action Close burst 5

Trigger: You score a critical hit.

Target: Each enemy in the burst

Effect: Each target takes a -4 penalty to attack rolls made against you until the end of your next turn.

Dead Rat Deserter Utility 6Dead Rat Stealth

Your inner rat helps you slip past undetected.

Daily Primal

Minor Action Personal

Effect: Until the end of the encounter, you gain a +2 power bonus to Stealth checks and Thievery checks. If you dislike the result of a Stealth check or a Thievery check, you can end this effect as a free action to reroll the check with a +5 bonus.

Dead Rat Deserter Utility 10Intuitive Leap

A brief flicker of prescience forewarns you of danger, and like a rat, you spring into motion before anyone has a chance to react.

Daily Primal

Free Action Personal

Trigger: You roll initiative.

Effect: You gain a +4 power bonus to the initiative check, and you can stand up or move up to your speed.

Deep Delver

"Only here, with the weight of the world above my head, am I home."

Beneath the tramping of nations and the roots of forests is a world that surface dwellers can barely imagine. Countless tunnels and caverns, rivers and oceans form a fantastic, globe-spanning environment. To the unprepared, though, the underground wilderness is as ruthless as it is wondrous. Those who survive these wilds are among the greatest explorers in the world. For these deep delvers, an expedition to the Underdark is no more threatening than a stroll through the woods.

Deep delvers are driven by an unquenchable desire to pit themselves against the challenges of the subterranean world. Some seek to map out the spiraling highway-tunnels of the Underdark. Others are naturally drawn to the seclusion of caves, preferring to abandon life on the surface. Yet others are born to the Underdark and still call it home.

Deep Delver Starting Feature (1st level): You gain a +2 power bonus to Dungeoneering checks.

You also gain the subterranean survival power.

Deep Delver Level 5 Feature (5th level): Your power bonus to Dungeoneering checks increases to +4.

Also, when you squeeze, your speed is not halved, and you take a -2 penalty to attack rolls instead of the normal -5.

Deep Delver Level 10 Feature (10th level): You gain blindsight with a radius of 2 squares.

Deep Delver UtilitySubterranean Survival

You thrive in the unforgiving caverns of the Underdark.

Encounter Martial

Free Action Personal

Trigger: You make a Dungeoneering check and dislike the result.

Effect: You reroll the Dungeoneering check.

Deep Delver Utility 2Up against the Wall

You find ways to take advantage of close-quarters environments.

Encounter Martial

Minor Action Personal

Effect: Until the end of your next turn, you gain partial cover while you are adjacent to a square of blocking terrain, and any enemy that misses you with a melee attack while you have partial cover grants combat advantage to you until the end of your next turn.

Deep Delver Utility 6Cavern Lore

Your talent for exploring caves gives you the edge needed to overcome unexpected challenges.

Encounter Martial

Free Action Personal

Trigger: You fail an Acrobatics, Athletics, Endurance, or Perception check while underground.

Effect: You make a Dungeoneering check and use its result instead.

Deep Delver Utility 10Spelunker’s Instincts

Your cave-delving reactions can save you from a sudden misstep or a serious injury.

Encounter Martial

Immediate Interrupt Personal

Trigger: You take damage from a trap, a hazard, or a fall.

Effect: Reduce the damage by 5 + one-half your level.

Level 11: 10 + one-half your level.

Level 21: 15 + one-half your level.

Demon Spawn

"Am I evil? It’s in my blood. But let my actions, rather than my appearance, show you my true nature."

Encounters between demons and mortals end almost always in swift death for the mortals. Demons live to destroy everything they can until they are destroyed themselves. This violent behavior makes it rare for demons to consort with mortals, yet here and there across the planes, one can find mortals who have demonic blood flowing through

their veins. Called demon spawn, most such creatures display wild, destructive evil similar to that of their demonic sires.

Unraveling the mystery of how demon spawn come to exist requires some background about how mortal races interact with the Abyss. Lolth instructed her chosen people in demonology ages ago, and her priestesses sometimes call forth demons to sire draegloths with willing initiates. Similar ceremonies might be found in other dark societies. Other kinds of demon spawn descend from incubi. Sages believe that incubi were devils that followed Graz’zt into the Abyss when he sought to conquer its first layer. Despite their new home, these incubi retain their basic nature, and they still trouble the natural world with nocturnal visitations that sometimes result in demon-blooded children. However, because the Abyss changes and corrupts all it touches, the most common way that demon spawn come into existence is through exposure to abyssal energy.

Few demon spawn show evidence of their demonic heritage as soon as they are born. In fact, most look like normal mortal children, visually unremarkable. The transformation might start gradually, first with small horns breaking the skin on the forehead and later vestigial bat wings emerging from the shoulder blades. Demon spawn who conceal or downplay these features can avoid attracting attention or, if they desire, pass as tieflings.

Demon Spawn Starting Feature (1st level): Your origin becomes elemental. For the purpose of effects that relate to creature origin, you are considered to be an elemental. You also gain the demon keyword and are considered to be a demon.

You also gain the demonic frenzy power.

Demon Spawn Level 5 Feature (5th level): You gain a +2 power bonus to Intimidate checks. In addition, you add Abyssal to the languages you can read, write, and speak.

Demon Spawn Level 10 Feature (10th level): The first time you are bloodied in each encounter, choose acid, cold, fire, lightning, or thunder. You gain resist 5 to that damage type until the end of the encounter. At 11th level, this resistance increases to 10, and at 21st level, this resistance increases to 15.

Also, until the end of your next turn, your allies provoke opportunity attacks from you. You must make every opportunity attack you can.

Demon Spawn AttackDemonic Frenzy

When your anger breaks free, your claws and teeth lengthen and you can’t stop yourself from lashing out.

Encounter Elemental

No Action Melee 1

Trigger: You hit with a melee attack on your turn.

Target: One randomly determined creature adjacent to you

Effect: The target takes 1d6 damage.

Level 11: 2d6 damage.

Level 21: 3d6 damage.

Demon Spawn Utility 2Abyssal Eyes

Your eyes give off a sinister gleam that enables you to see in the dark and unnerve your enemies.

Daily Elemental

Minor Action Personal

Effect: Until the end of the encounter, you have darkvision. In addition, whenever you make a melee attack against a bloodied enemy, you have combat advantage against that enemy.

Demon Spawn Utility 6Demonic Ferocity

Surrendering to your demonic heritage fills you with dreadful viciousness.

Encounter Elemental

No Action Personal

Trigger: You make an attack roll and miss.

Effect: You reroll the attack roll and can use either result. Until the end of your next turn, your allies provoke opportunity attacks from you. You must make every opportunity attack you can.

Demon Spawn Utility 10Abyssal Doom

The brutality of your attack instills a similar lust for blood in every creature near you.

Encounter Elemental

Free Action Close burst 3

Trigger: You reduce a creature to 0 hit points on your turn.

Target: You and each creature in the burst

Effect: Until the end of your next turn, each target grants combat advantage and deals 1d8 extra damage with melee attacks.

Devil's Pawn

What do you mean, those cultists seemed to know me? I don’t know what you’re talking about.

Throughout Faerûn’s history, the North has ever been a breeding ground for cults, whether they serve devils, demons, or any of a thousand other dark masters. The last decades have grown progressively darker, presenting a great opportunity for cultists that promise protection from the terrors of the frontier—at the comparatively small cost of eternal loyalty and secrecy. Or so the stories and tales go.

In reality, most of the cults that operate in the North have no deific connections, but are composed of indolent noble scions using the threat of darkness to gain romantic favor or to intimidate business rivals into closing up shop and skipping town. In such cults, young nobles claim to supplicate devils for the sake of their own jests, then drink themselves into oblivion while waiting for their servants to clean up the mess.

You used to belong to one such false cult—or at least you thought you did.

It seemed like a good idea at the time—allying with powerful individuals in Waterdeep in the mutual pursuit of authority, pleasure, and coin. Now, however, you’ve made a terrible mistake—one that you might end up paying for with your eternal soul.

Although you come from a noble bloodline, you’ve never been particularly wealthy or influential. In the cult, however, you could rub shoulders with powerful and wealthy noble heirs who are excited to delve into the dark. You saw the potential in making important connections to your fellow noble scions, in the hope of securing a good marriage when you finally decided to settle down.

At your infrequent rituals, celebrants would gather around braziers of white-hot coals and invoke the power of strangely named beings. Chanting would ensue, along with tedious and false religious mummery. Nothing ever came of these rites, of course, and each secret conclave would eventually devolve into the more important business of drinking, scheming, and hedonism. It all seemed harmless.

Then one day, you were late for a meeting. When you arrived, it was to discover a ritual chamber covered in blood and gore. Your fellow cultists had been brutally dismembered as by a storm of ravaging claws and fangs. The central brazier burned with an unbelievably hot flame, drawing your attention. Enraptured, you stepped toward it, unable to resist. Fire flared, driving into your chest like a lance as it burned you, body and soul.

When you awoke, it was in your own bed, far from the scene of the cult’s massacre. You were happy to dismiss the memory as a nightmare—until you glimpsed a mark on your chest that made the nightmare real. You bear a crimson brand now—a sigil that you somehow recognize as the mark of Asmodeus. What it means, you have no idea—but the implications terrify you.

Tricked, confused, and scared out of your mind, you fled Waterdeep for a place where you might hope to hide from those who know you. In N everwinter, you have spent uncounted days looking over your shoulder and dreaming of treachery, violence, and fire.

You seek to gather allies to your side, fearful of what the power that binds you has in store. However, you hesitate to share your dreadful secret with them—and the dark dream that has begun to haunt you, wherein you betray those closest to you.

Devil's Pawn Starting Feature (1st level): You gain the hellfire and brimstone power

Devil's Pawn Level 5 Feature (5th level): You gain a +4 bonus to Diplomacy checks made to interact with devils, duergar, devil cultists, and other creatures devoted to devils.

Devil's Pawn Level 10 Feature (10th level): You gain resist 10 fire. If you already have fire resistance as a racial trait, it increases by 5.

Devil's Pawn AttackHellfire and Brimstone

Your brand burns, searing through clothing and flesh as hellfire springs up around you.

Encounter Arcane, Fire, Zone

Minor Action Close burst 2

Effect: Creatures in the burst take 5 fire damage. The burst creates a zone that lasts until the end of your next turn. While in the zone, enemies take a -2 penalty to attack rolls and all defenses.

Level 11: 7 fire damage.

Level 21: 10 fire damage.

Devil's Pawn Utility 2Traitor's Brand

The fiendish brand on your chest flares, causing your enemy to lash out.

Daily Arcane, Fire

Immediate Reaction Close burst 5

Trigger: An enemy within 5 squares of you hits you.

Effect: Creatures adjacent to the triggering enemy take 1d6 fire damage.

Infernal Pact: This power deals extra fire damage equal to your Intelligence modifier.

Devil's Pawn Utility 6Shielding Hellfire

Flames flicker into life around you, drinking in the darkness and blessing your graceful movements.

Daily Arcane, Fire, Stance

Minor Action Personal

Effect: You enter the shielding hellfire stance. Until the stance ends, whenever you have any concealment, you gain a +4 power bonus to Stealth checks and resist 5 fire. If you already have fire resistance, increase that resistance by 5.

Infernal Pact: Whenever your Warlock’s Curse is triggered, you gain a +4 power bonus to damage rolls with fire attack powers until the end of your next turn.

Devil's Pawn Utility 10Pit Fiend Harbinger

Glorious pain rips through you as your skin blackens and hardens into devilish scales and great black wings, a crown of fire wreathing your brow.

Daily Arcane, Polymorph

Minor Action Personal

Effect: Until the end of your next turn, you gain a +2 power bonus to AC, a fly speed equal to your speed, and fire resistance equal to 5 + your level (if you already have fire resistance, increase it by 5). While this effect persists, you cannot spend healing surges, and you must make an attack on your turn each round or take damage equal to your level at the end of your turn. This damage cannot be prevented or reduced in any way.

Sustain Minor: The effect persists until the end of your next turn.

Infernal Pact: You gain 10 temporary hit points each time you sustain this power.

Disgraced Noble

"Don’t let my reputation color your impression, my darling. The rumors are all lies, spurious tales told by enemies who resent my good fortune."

Song and story profess that nobility carries a higher morality, that the aristocracy upholds honor, justice, truth, and valor. The hard truth is that this celebrated virtue is a myth—what distinguishes nobles from everyone else are the circumstances of their birth. Money, land, privilege: none of these things ensure good character and high ideals. In fact, such boons often create the worst villains.

If the masses pierce the veil of pomp and circumstance and see the noble for who he or she truly is, that vaunted individual is bound to tumble from great heights to wallow in the filth of the fallen. As a result, the aristocracy works hard to preserve the illusion, to maintain at least the veneer of respectability. Waging war against scandal and rumor, nobles fight to preserve their lifestyles, their fortune, and their lives.

No matter how cunning, some nobles succumb to temptation and forget their fragile position. Perhaps it was a careless moment, maybe it was a full assault on his or her character—no matter, the damage is done. A reputation, no matter how carefully nurtured, can be torn down in an instant. The fate of those nobles who topple, whose carefully constructed masks shatter, is one of disgrace and shame.

Disgraced Noble Starting Feature (1st level): You gain the dirty deed power.

Disgraced Noble Level 5 Feature (5th level): You gain a +2 power bonus to Bluff checks and Streetwise checks.

Disgraced Noble Level 10 Feature (10th level): The power bonus to your Bluff checks and Streetwise checks increases to +4.

In addition, while you are not bloodied, allies within 2 squares of you who can see or hear you gain a +1 power bonus to saving throws.

Disgraced Noble AttackDirty Deed

Seizing an opening, you shove a distracted enemy and send it sprawling, just as an ally strikes.

Encounter Martial

Standard Action Melee 1

Target: One creature granting combat advantage to you

Attack: Highest ability modifier + 3 vs. Reflex

Level 11: Highest ability modifier + 5

Level 21: Highest ability modifier + 7

Hit: The target falls prone.

Effect: One ally of yours adjacent to the target can make a melee basic attack against the target as a free action.

Disgraced Noble Utility 2Disgraceful Retreat

An ally’s fall makes clear that withdrawal is the better part of valor.

Encounter Martial

Immediate Reaction Personal

Trigger: An ally within 5 squares of you falls unconscious.

Effect: You can shift 1 square and then move up to your speed + 2. You must end the move farther from your ally than you were when you began the move.

Disgraced Noble Utility 6Unabashed Treachery

A quick step and a slight push places an ally in the path of harm intended for you.

Encounter Martial

Immediate Interrupt Melee 1

Trigger: An enemy hits you with a melee or a ranged attack.

Target: One ally

Effect: The triggering attack hits the target instead of you. The triggering enemy grants you and the target combat advantage until the end of your next turn.

Disgraced Noble Utility 10Regrettable Sacrifice

With little more than a rueful pause, you undermine an ally to reinvigorate yourself.

Encounter Healing, Martial

Minor Action Melee 1

Target: One ally

Effect: The target loses a healing surge. If the target can’t lose a surge, he or she takes damage equal to his or her healing surge value. You then regain hit points equal to your healing surge value.

Dune Trader

"I’ve crossed the Tablelands, survived the Ivory Triangle, slipped away from Hamanu’s half-giant thugs, and sold sand to a tarek. I’ve seen it all, and there isn’t much left that can surprise me."

Dune traders roam every civilized corner of the known world. From crowded marketplaces crawling with thieves, to caravans wending across difficult wastes, to the isolated settlements and trading posts found in the places between the great city-states, dune traders are everywhere, pushing their wares on anyone they encounter. Dune traders bring needed goods to remote areas, offering water, food, arms, and more, but their work is not charity. Such offerings come at the highest prices a merchant can ask and still be able to move the merchandise. It’s all about making a profit, and no one does a better job at looking out for themselves and their wealth than the dune traders of Athas.

Many small traders and merchant cabals exist, but they pale next to the dynastic houses that dominate trade across the Tyr Region. These houses are nations unto themselves, sworn to no sorcerer-king but allied with all. They field their own armies, hold their own lands, and take an active part in political and social developments affecting the region. A merchant house’s leadership might rest in one family’s hands, but these houses readily accept new members, always looking for new talent to bolster their presence and influence in the Tyr Region. Regardless of the position sought, candidates must swear several oaths to the house leaders. In exchange, a candidate receives protection, status, and regular pay. The particular oaths vary from house to house, but the following are common to them all.

• Forsake any citizenship or membership in a city-state or tribe.

• Swear allegiance to the merchant house.

• Always act in the merchant house’s best interest.

• Deal honestly with stranger, friend, and foe.

• Flaunt no wealth gained through employment by the house.

• Uphold the local laws and always act in accordance with them.

• Protect your own, lending help to merchants in need and refusing to deal with those who unjustly imprison or harass any merchant.

In contrast to the great dynastic houses of the city-states, elven merchant tribes are small and mobile. They do not enjoy the peaceful relations enjoyed by the dynastic houses and, for this reason, they are not beholden to any oaths or promises. They foist off junk, deal in contraband, and sometimes resort to base robbery if given sufficient cause. Elven houses tend to be tribal in structure, but they are as widespread and as dangerous as any human organization.

Dune Trader FeatureQuick Formation

You lash at your enemies and move your allies into a defensible position.

Encounter Martial, Weapon

Standard Action Melee or Ranged weapon

Target: One creature

Attack: Primary ability vs. AC

Hit: 1[W] + ability modifier damage, and either you shift 4 squares, or each ally within 5 squares of you can shift 2 squares as a free action.

Level 11: 2[W] + ability modifier damage.

Level 21: 3[W] + ability modifier damage.

Dune Trader Utility 2Slick Negotiator

You don’t let a gaff sabotage your negotiation, and move on as if the misstep never occurred.

Encounter Martial

Free Action Close burst 5

Trigger: You or an ally in the burst makes a Bluff, Diplomacy, Intimidate, or Streetwise check and dislikes the result.

Target: The triggering creature

Effect: If you are the target, you gain a +3 power bonus to the skill check result. If an ally is the target, the ally can reroll the skill check, using either result.

Dune Trader Attack 3Delaying Strike

A painful hit against your opponent helps you make good your escape.

Encounter Martial, Weapon

Standard Action Melee or Ranged weapon

Target: One creature

Attack: Primary ability vs. AC

Hit: 2[W] + ability modifier damage, and the target is slowed until the end of your next turn.

Effect: Either you shift your speed, or each ally within 2 squares of you can shift one-half his or her speed as a free action.

Level 13:

Hit: As above, but 3[W] + ability modifier damage.

Level 23:

Hit: As above, but 4[W] + ability modifier damage.

Dune Trader Attack 5Blunt Force Strike

Your weapon strikes with a satisfying crunch, leaving your opponent unable to defend itself.

Daily Martial, Reliable, Weapon

Standard Action Melee or Ranged weapon

Target: One creature

Attack: Primary ability vs. AC

Hit: 2[W] + ability modifier damage, and the target is dazed (save ends). In addition, either you make a basic attack against the target, or two allies within 5 squares of you can each make a basic attack against different creatures (but not against the target) as a free action.

Level 15:

Hit: As above, but 3[W] + ability modifier damage.

Level 25:

Hit: As above, but 4[W] + ability modifier damage.

Dune Trader Utility 6Deft Avoidance

You duck out of the way, slipping to where you can best land your next attack.

Encounter Martial

Immediate Reaction Close burst 2

Trigger: An enemy in the burst you can see misses you with a melee attack.

Target: The triggering enemy

Effect: The target grants combat advantage until the end of its next turn. In addition, either you can shift 2 squares, or each ally in the burst can shift 1 square as a free action.

Dune Trader Attack 7Sly Gambit

Your quick strike lures your enemy into a rash counterattack.

Encounter Martial, Weapon

Standard Action Melee or Ranged weapon

Target: One creature

Attack: Primary ability vs. AC

Hit: 1[W] + ability modifier damage, and the target makes a melee basic attack against a creature of your choice as a free action. Until the end of your next turn, either you gain a +4 power bonus to AC, or the target provokes opportunity attacks when shifting or making melee attacks.

Level 17:

Hit: As above, but 2[W] + ability modifier damage.

Level 27:

Hit: As above, but 3[W] + ability modifier damage.

Dune Trader Attack 9Hounding Presence

You step in close to your enemy to land your attack but stay in motion, using its proximity to your advantage.

Daily Martial, Weapon

Standard Action Melee or Ranged weapon

Target: One creature

Attack: Primary ability vs. AC

Hit: 2[W] + ability modifier damage, and the target cannot shift (save ends).

Miss: Half damage.

Effect: Until the end of the encounter, while you are adjacent to the target either you gain a +4 power bonus to all defenses, or the target grants combat advantage.

Level 19:

Hit: As above, but 3[W] + ability modifier damage.

Level 29:

Hit: As above, but 5[W] + ability modifier damage.

Dune Trader Utility 10Command Decision

As your enemy’s blade comes down, you are forced to decide—your life, or that of your ally?

Encounter Martial

Immediate Interrupt Close burst 1

Trigger: You are hit by an attack

Target: You or one ally in the burst

Effect: If you are the target, you lose a healing surge and gain temporary hit points equal to your healing surge value. If an ally is the target, that ally is hit by the triggering attack instead of you.

Earthforger

"Elemental earth resonates in my soul."

Strong, durable, and implacable, earthforgers embody elemental earth. They can manifest its power in defense or as a weapon, drawing energy from the stones or releasing it outward to hold enemies back. Earthforgers wield great power, but such ability comes at an even greater price. When they grasp this elemental magic and take it in, earthforgers are reborn as elemental creatures.

Dwarves pioneered the techniques of earthforging long ago; many sages believe that the race’s first steps toward mastering elemental power occurred when the dwarves were enslaved by the giants, and those efforts led to the birth of the galeb duhr race. While extracting precious metals and gemstones from deep under the mountains, dwarf miners in that long-ago time came across primordial shards, crystallized magic left from creation. Using these shards, the dwarves found they could shape stone more easily, while also being able to endure even greater punishment. An unknown number of dwarves succumbed to elemental power’s temptations, losing themselves to its magic, but enough resisted and proved mighty allies in the uprising that led to the dwarves’ exodus from cruel enslavement.

Other races have stumbled across earthforging under similar circumstances. Goliaths learned to use elemental earth from the stone spirits who watch over their mountain camps. Svirfneblin, gnomes who have long dwelt in the Underdark, use earthforging to evade drow slavers and destroy other hostile humanoids. Travelers report encounters with strange hermits, formerly mortal creatures that have been transformed into beings of living stone. Such individuals are rare, yet anyone who explores the wild places, those untamed lands where the primordials’ fingerprints can still be seen, might very well come across an earthforger.

Earthforger Starting Feature (1st level): Your origin becomes elemental. For the purpose of effects that relate to creature origin, you are considered to be an elemental. In addition, you add Primordial to the languages you can read, write, and speak. Whenever you use your second wind, you gain a +1 power bonus to all defenses until the start of your next turn.

You also gain the stone panoply power.

Earthforged Level 5 Feature (5th level): You gain a +2 power bonus to Endurance checks. Further, whenever you use stone panoply, the burst creates a zone that lasts until the end of the encounter. The ground in the zone is difficult terrain for enemies that lack earth walk.

Earthforged Level 10 Feature (10th level): Whenever an effect would pull, push, or slide you while you are on the ground, you can reduce the distance of that forced movement by 1 square.

Earthforger AttackStone Panoply

By striking the ground, you bring forth a shower of rock and dirt that besets those near you and armors you in a stony shell.

Encounter Elemental, Weapon

Standard Action Close burst 1

Requirement: You must be on the ground.

Target: Each creature in the burst

Attack: Highest ability modifier vs. AC

Hit: 1[W] + highest ability modifier damage.

Level 11: 2[W] + highest ability modifier damage.

Level 21: 3[W] + highest ability modifier damage.

Effect: Until the end of your next turn, you are slowed and you gain resistance to all damage equal to 1 + one-half your level.

Earthforger Utility 2Earthforger’s Might

You draw power from the stones beneath you to increase your physical might.

Daily Elemental

Minor Action Personal

Requirement: You must be on the ground.

Effect: Until the end of the encounter, or until you are no longer on the ground, you gain a +2 power bonus to melee damage rolls and Strength checks.

Level 11: +4 power bonus.

Level 21: +6 power bonus.

Earthforger Utility 6Earthforger’s Passage

Whether dirt or stone, rubble or debris, earth moves to accommodate your passage.

Encounter Elemental

Move Action Personal

Effect: You move up to your speed. During this movement, you have earth walk, and you can move through earth or stone as if you had phasing.

Earthforger Utility 10Tremor Step

The earth trembles around you, making footing treacherous for your foes and infusing allies with refreshing earth energy.

Daily Aura, Elemental

Minor Action Personal

Requirement: You must be on the ground.

Effect: You activate an aura 2 that lasts until the end of your next turn or until you are no longer on the ground. The ground in the aura is difficult terrain for enemies that lack earth walk.

Sustain Minor: The aura persists until the end of your next turn, and you or one ally in the aura gains temporary hit points equal to one-half your level.

Elderboy

Prerequisite: Male, drow.

Some drow males rebel overtly against their subservient roles, while others find subtler means to confound the expectations of an order that seeks to grind them down. Elderboys embody such contradiction: males who are favored within their houses. They play by the matriarchy’s rules—at least when others are looking.

Your birth was the first time you disappointed your matron mother, and since then your life only went downhill. You learned from an early age that you are inferior in every way. Paradoxically, what you also learned—and the reason you still live—is how to derive power by apparently submitting.

Perhaps you had the good fortune to be born the first male child of your matron mother, or a series of unfortunate occurrences claimed your older brothers. You might even have been the third son, born to be sacrificed to Lolth, but one of your brothers perished first, incidentally raising your status. You quickly climbed to the vaunted position of elderboy, the matron’s oldest living son, earning something like honor within your house.

Your actions reflect not only on you but on your house, and it is your responsibility to rise above your mother’s limited expectations. Your station is the envy of the other males, and you must defend yourself with all your treacherous wit.

Elderboy Starting Feature (1st level): You gain the endure torment power.

Elderboy Level 5 Feature (5th level): You gain a +2 power bonus to saving throws against ongoing poison damage, and you gain poison resistance equal to 5 + one-half your level.

Elderboy Level 10 Feature (10th level): You gain a +1 power bonus to initiative checks and a +2 power bonus to all defenses against allies’ attacks.

Elderboy UtilityEndure Torment

You brace yourself for a particularly wicked blow, allowing you to shrug off pain for a time.

Encounter

Immediate Interrupt Personal

Trigger: You take damage from an attack.

Effect: You reduce the damage of the triggering attack by 5 + your level. After the attack is resolved, you gain resist 5 to all damage until the start of your next turn.

Elderboy Utility 2Shift Blame

With quick reason and honeyed words, you turn your enemy’s attack against another target.

Encounter Martial

Immediate Interrupt Close burst 2

Trigger: You are hit by a melee or a ranged attack.

Effect: The attack instead targets one ally in the burst within range of the attack.

Elderboy Utility 6Betray Confidence

You leave an ally in harm’s way so that you can find an opening.

Encounter Martial

Minor Action Close burst 5

Target: One ally in the burst

Effect: Until the end of your next turn, the target gains vulnerable 2 all, and you gain a +2 power bonus to attack rolls.

Elderboy Utility 10Beg Lolth's Favor

You turn to the Spider Queen in a time of need, and she unexpectedly answers your prayer.

Daily Divine

Minor Action Close burst 5

Effect: Choose one of the following:

Martial Favor: Until the end of your next turn, enemies in the burst grant combat advantage and take a -4 penalty to attack rolls.

Healing Favor (Healing): You and one ally in the burst can spend a healing surge.

Divine Favor: You and each ally in the burst gain a +4 power bonus to damage rolls until the end of your next turn.

Elemental Initiate

"Inner harmony is a balancing of elements."

Elemental initiates follow a philosophy grounded in the understanding of the four elements and their influence over mortal bodies, hearts, and minds. One who would become an initiate withdraws from ordinary life to seek wisdom in a setting free of distractions, such as a monastery, a remote temple, or the dojo of a famous teacher. In some societies, the philosophy of the elements is widely known and respected as a path all should seek to progress along during the course of their lives. Among other cultures, these teachings are regarded as exotic or are unheard of. No matter the viewpoint of others, the path of the initiate is one of truth seeking and selfknowledge above all, a lifelong search for meaning and understanding.

Before heading into the world, most elemental initiates lead ascetic lives. They own little more than the robes on their backs, and they eschew luxuries and intemperate behavior as distractions from the path to which they devote themselves. An initiate strives to curb passions rather than allowing those passions to rule. An elemental initiate might be a student who preserves ancient tomes, a martial arts disciple who studies the four elements, or an anchorite absorbed in the exploration of the mind in the wild and lonely places of the world. Philosophically minded initiates devote hours each day to study, discourse, and observation of the world around them, while others dedicate their time to meditation and exercise. In and around the daily discipline of the monastery or temple, common chores and tasks are shared among all members of the order.

Typical elemental initiates are content to remain in their hidden temples and remote monasteries all their lives, devoting themselves to the study of their philosophy. However, some believe that they must travel widely, to pass on their learning and to absorb new lessons from the world outside the monastery walls. Other initiates take up a life of humble service, using their unusual training and abilities to help others. Adventuring elemental initiates come from the latter two camps.

Elemental Initiate Starting Feature (1st level): You gain a +2 proficiency bonus with unarmed attacks, and your unarmed attack can deal 1d6 damage instead of 1d4. You also gain proficiency with ki focuses.

You also gain the disciplined counter power.

Elemental Initiate Level 5 Feature (5th level): You gain training in one skill from among Arcana, History, Nature, and Religion.

Elemental Initiate Level 10 Feature (10th level): You gain a +1 power bonus to Will.

Elemental Initiate AttackDisciplined Counter

An enemy’s miss allows you to rebalance the flow of energy by making an instant counterattack.

Encounter Elemental, Psionic, Weapon

Immediate Reaction Melee 1

Trigger: An adjacent enemy misses you with a melee attack.

Target: The triggering enemy

Attack: Highest ability modifier vs. Reflex

Hit: 1[W] damage, and you slide the target up to 2 squares. The target grants combat advantage until the end of your next turn.

Level 11: 2[W] damage.

Level 21: 3[W] damage.

Elemental Initiate Utility 2Balancing Step

The elemental balance within you allows you to move carefully and with perfect grace.

Encounter Elemental, Psionic

Move Action Personal

Effect: You shift up to 3 squares, ignoring difficult terrain. Until the end of your next turn, you gain a +2 power bonus to all defenses, and climbing or balancing doesn’t cause you to grant combat advantage.

Elemental Initiate Utility 6Restoring Touch

Your knowledge of the body’s natural energy flow allows you to heal minor injuries with a few skillful touches.

Encounter Elemental, Healing, Psionic

Standard Action Melee 1

Target: One creature

Effect: The target can spend a healing surge and regain 1d6 additional hit points. The target can also end one poison, dazing, or stunning effect currently affecting it.

Elemental Initiate Utility 10Flowing Defense

You adopt a shifting stance that allows you to move easily while guarding yourself and nearby friends.

Daily Elemental, Psionic, Stance

Minor Action Personal

Effect: You assume the flowing defense stance. Until the stance ends, you can shift 1 square as a minor action. Further, you gain a +2 power bonus to all defenses. Your allies gain the same bonus while adjacent to you.

Elemental Priest

"I hold the wrath of fire in my grasp, the endurance of rock in my shoulders. None can outlast me in battle."

The gods of Athas are little more than half-remembered myths in the current age, but many of those who live beneath the crimson sun give their devotion and worship to other powers. Some worship sorcererkings who claim to be divine, or the false deities other sorcerer-kings purport to serve. Some worship demons or primordials—grim, malevolent patrons that frequently demand terrible rites or horrendous acts of sacrifice. But most Athasians instead venerate the living elements as they manifest in the world.

Elemental priests are those who serve these sullen and fierce spirits. They have a special kinship with the primal elements, a connection so close it’s as if they stand in two worlds: that of mortals, and that of raw elemental power. They channel this rage into themselves to call forth the spirits of rock and fire, wind and water, seeking their aid in battle.

Dozens of elemental cults and priesthoods exist in the Tyr Region. For the most part, these cults are impoverished, weak, and mocked by city dwellers. However, the people who dwell in the villages and wastes have a different opinion of elemental priests. They regard them as holders of powerful and dangerous magic, to be respected or feared accordingly.

Many elemental priests revere the nameless, formless principle of all living elements together, making no distinction between one manifestation over another. However, others give themselves to more specific examples of elemental power. For example, the Smoking Crown is home to dwarf priests who serve the spirit of the volcano, whereas the mountain known as An-Bezzumar, the Crown of Heaven, is sacred to goliath wind shamans. The wandering thrikreen mystics known as the Rainspeakers venerate the rare, blessed showers that fall a few times each year during the cooler months and often make pilgrimages to places where rain is soon to fall.

Heroic elemental priests are leaders of the village and wasteland folk and potent enemies of the sorcerer-kings and their templars. They are often intermediaries who protect villagers by seeking to placate angry elemental manifestations or summon vanished ones to places where they are needed. Some elemental priests instead follow a monastic or ascetic tradition instead of the more common tribal or village traditions of elemental worship. Your character might therefore be a secret scholar or cultist indoctrinated in a hidden temple, or a semibarbaric elemental priest raised among the people of the wastes.

Elemental Priest FeatureSpirit of Athas

A spirit appears, defending you and your allies with its body.

Encounter Conjuration, Implement, Primal

Minor Action Ranged 5

Effect: You conjure a spirit of Athas. You and your allies gain a +1 power bonus to all defenses while adjacent to it. As a standard action, you can dismiss the spirit and make the following melee 1 attack from the spirit’s square.

Target: One enemy

Attack: Primary ability vs. Reflex

Hit: 1d10 + ability modifier damage, and the target takes a -2 penalty to attack rolls and all defenses until the end of your next turn.

Level 11: 3[W] + ability modifier damage.

Level 21: 4[W] + ability modifier damage.

Elemental Priest Utility 2Scion of Stone

The ground trembles as a misshapen hulk forms from rocks and dirt to shelter your companions from harm.

Daily Conjuration, Primal

Minor Action Ranged 5

Effect: You conjure a scion of stone that lasts until the end of the encounter. You and your allies gain a +1 power bonus to all defenses while adjacent to it. As a minor action, you can dismiss it to grant you and each ally adjacent to it temporary hit points equal to 5 + one-half your level.

Elemental Priest Attack 3Bloodthirsty Elemental

A spirit made of bones, blood, and sand savages your enemy.

Encounter Conjuration, Implement, Primal

Minor Action Ranged 5

Effect: You conjure a bloodthirsty elemental that lasts until the end of your next turn. Enemies grant combat advantage while adjacent to it. As a standard action, you can dismiss it and make a close burst 1 attack centered on its square.

Target: Each enemy in the burst

Attack: Primary ability vs. Reflex

Hit: 1d10 + ability modifier damage, and the target can’t shift until the end of its next turn.

Level 13:

Hit: As above, but 2d10 + ability modifier damage.

Level 23:

Hit: As above, but 3d10 + ability modifier damage.

Elemental Priest Attack 5Vengeful Elementals

Warped elementals pull themselves from the landscape and scuttle forward to engage the enemy.

Daily Conjuration, Primal

Standard Action Ranged 10

Effect: You conjure four vengeful elementals in four different squares. The elementals last until the end of the encounter. Allies gain a +1 power bonus to attack rolls and a +1d6 bonus to damage rolls on melee attacks while adjacent to a vengeful elemental. As a minor action, you can dismiss one vengeful elemental and let one ally adjacent to it make a basic attack as a free action.

Level 15:

Effect: As above, except as a minor action, you can dismiss one vengeful elemental and let one ally adjacent to it make a basic attack with a +3 power bonus to the damage roll as a free action.

Level 25:

Effect: As above, except as a minor action, you can dismiss one vengeful elemental and let one ally adjacent to it make a basic attack with a +6 power bonus to the damage roll as a free action.

Elemental Priest Utility 6Retrieving Elemental

The wind elementals gather to form a dust devil that can whisk an ally to safety.

Daily Conjuration, Primal

Minor Action Ranged 10

Effect: You conjure a retrieving elemental that lasts until the end of the encounter. You can push any creature that ends its turn in a square adjacent to the retrieving elemental 1 square. When you start your turn, you can move the elemental 1 square before you take any other actions. As a minor action, you can dismiss the elemental, and an ally adjacent to it can shift 5 squares as a free action.

Elemental Priest Attack 7Elemental Justice

When an ally falls victim to an attack, the elementals leap to your companion’s defense.

Encounter Conjuration, Implement, Primal

Standard Action Ranged 10

Effect: You conjure an elemental that lasts until the end of your next turn. You and allies gain a +1 power bonus to attack rolls while adjacent to the elemental. As a standard action, you can make a melee 1 attack from the elemental’s square.

Target: One creature

Attack: Primary ability vs. Will

Hit: 2d8 + ability modifier damage, plus 2 damage for each bloodied ally with line of sight to the elemental. In addition, you slide the target 3 squares to a square adjacent to the elemental.

Effect: The elemental is dismissed.

Level 17:

Hit: As above, but 3d8 + ability modifier damage, plus 3 damage for each bloodied ally with line of sight to the elemental.

Level 27:

Hit: As above, but 4d8 + ability modifier damage, plus 4 damage for each bloodied ally with line of sight to the elemental.

Elemental Priest Attack 9Primordial Retribution

Horrific elementals spring forth from the ground and latch onto your enemies, holding them fast and rending their flesh.

Daily Conjuration, Implement, Primal

Minor Action Ranged 10

Effect: You conjure four tortured elementals in four different squares. The elementals last until the end of the encounter. As a standard action, you can make the following melee 1 attack from each elemental’s square.

Target: One, two, three, or four creatures, each adjacent to at least one tortured elemental

Attack: Primary ability vs. Reflex

Hit: The target is restrained and takes ongoing 5 damage (save ends both). Remove one tortured elemental from play.

Miss: Slide the target and the tortured elemental each 1 square.

Level 19:

Hit: As above, but 2d6 + ability modifier damage, and the target is restrained and takes ongoing 5 damage (save ends both).

Miss: As above, plus half damage.

Level 29:

Hit: As above, but 5d6 + ability modifier damage, and the target is restrained and takes ongoing 5 damage (save ends both).

Miss: As above, plus half damage.

Elemental Priest Utility 10Elemental Boon

The favor of elemental powers shines across your allies, transforming their strength into vitality.

Daily Conjuration, Healing, Primal

Standard Action Ranged 10

Effect: You conjure a rewarding elemental that lasts until the end of the encounter. You and each ally that spends a healing surge while adjacent to the elemental regains additional hit points equal to your primary ability modifier. When an ally you can see fails a death saving throw, you can dismiss the elemental as a free action to allow the ally to spend a healing surge and gain a +4 power bonus to all defenses until the start of its next turn.

Escaped Slave

"No one is my master—not anymore. You think you’re free? At least I had bonds to break. You can’t even see the prison that surrounds you."

The cities of the sorcerer-kings crouch upon the backs of slaves. Slave bones litter their alleys. Slave blood makes mud in the dust of their streets. Almost everywhere you go in the city-states you see someone with a yoke around the neck and eyes cast toward the ground. Tyr presents the only exception, but Tyr has depended upon the labor of slaves just as much as any other city. Even it sells criminals into slavery beyond its walls. How long can such “freedom” last?

Slaves have always been a part of Athasian society. A harsh world calls for harsh justice. Those who cannot obey the laws that protect all or who are not smart enough to bow before those stronger than themselves do not deserve the water it takes to keep them alive. People become slaves by angering or offending those more powerful than themselves. A slave might have owed a debt, stolen a crust of bread, or not bowed low or fast enough when a person of importance passed. Citizens are declared slaves for owning items desired by nobles, for being captured instead of killed during war, and for knowing information above their station. Those born to slaves are slaves owned by the mother’s master. After all, the master lost work from the mother during pregnancy and must pay for the child’s care. Such a child owes the master labor equal to the period of time until it can do the work of a full adult, and by then it has no doubt done something to warrant its continued slavery. Even the kindest master realizes that a child raised in slavery is ill equipped for freedom and would likely die shortly after release. Though a slave lives a harsh life with no security, a master must provide for a slave’s needs or accept the loss of that investment.

Once declared a slave, a person becomes property. Slaves change hands like money. They are won and lost in bets, sold at auction, and brought to market. Slave owners with slaves that have specialized skills or unusual attributes seek out buyers with particular needs. A slave owner can do what he or she likes with a slave, and it’s no concern of anyone else. Masters expect slaves to work incredibly hard to earn their keep or face death in the arena, a quick execution, or whatever other cruelty the master dreams up.

Few slaves even dream of escape. The declaration of slavery is like a death sentence in its finality. Even if the leather and bone manacles are broken, even if the guards are evaded or killed, the rest of the world hates and fears an escaped slave. Those who aid an escaped slave—even unwittingly—can expect to become slaves themselves. Those who turn them in often receive a reward worth as much as half the slave’s value. Only Tyr offers a slim hope of sanctuary, and if a slave has angered the master enough, many ways exist to take someone from that city.

An escaped slave’s only hope is to see freedom as a rebirth. Old haunts, one-time friends, even family—all need to be avoided for fear of being recognized and turned in. Hide the brand, disguise the tattoo, cover up the scars, explain the calluses away—successful escaped slaves do all this and more. Escaped slaves must take up a new name, a new history, and if one can manage it, a new appearance. Some escaped slaves do all this, but the strong will and sharp mind such a life requires often drives successful escaped slaves back toward their former owners, exchanging one master for another: revenge.

Escaped Slave FeatureHidden Strike

You disguise your movements so that no one suspects you are at fault.

Encounter Martial

Free Action

Trigger: You make an attack

Effect: Make a Bluff check. If your result exceeds the passive Insight of creatures observing you, they believe something or someone else was the source of the triggering attack and treat you as invisible until the start of your next turn.

Escaped Slave Utility 2No Bonds Can Hold

You were imprisoned once. Never again.

Encounter Martial

Immediate Reaction Personal

Trigger: You are affected by a grabbed, restrained, immobilized, or slowed condition that can be ended by an escape attempt or saving throw

Effect: You make an escape attempt or saving throw (as appropriate) to end the triggering effect with a +2 power bonus.

Escaped Slave Attack 3Repel the Siege

With the fury of a caged beast, you lash out at those who would hem you in.

Encounter Martial, Weapon

Immediate Reaction Close burst 1

Trigger: An enemy moves to a square to flank you

Target: Each flanking enemy in the burst

Attack: Primary ability vs. AC

Hit: 2[W] + ability modifier damage, and you push the target 1 square.

Effect: Until the end of your next turn, you do not grant combat advantage to creatures flanking you.

Level 13:

Hit: As above, but 3[W] + ability modifier damage.

Level 23:

Hit: As above, but 4[W] + ability modifier damage.

Escaped Slave Attack 5Turn the Tables

You feign vulnerability and suddenly turn the tables on your foe, putting it in a terrible position.

Daily Martial, Weapon

Immediate Interrupt Melee weapon

Trigger: An enemy makes a melee attack against you.

Effect: You shift 1 square. If you are prone, you instead stand up in an unoccupied adjacent square. The triggering enemy is pulled into the square you vacated and is knocked prone. You make the following attack.

Target: The triggering creature

Attack: Primary ability vs. AC

Hit: 2[W] + ability modifier damage, and you gain a +2 bonus to all defenses against the triggering attack.

Level 15:

Hit: As above, but 3[W] + ability modifier damage.

Level 25:

Hit: As above, but 4[W] + ability modifier damage.

Miss: Half damage, and you do not gain the bonus to all defenses.

Escaped Slave Utility 6Wary Defense

You remain light on your feet as you eye your foes.

Daily Martial, Stance

Minor Action Personal

Effect: You gain a +1 power bonus to AC. As long as you can make opportunity attacks, the first time an enemy moves adjacent to you on its turn, you can shift 1 square as a free action.

Escaped Slave Attack 7Astonishing Wound

Your weapon appears to come from nowhere and stops your shocked enemy in its tracks.

Encounter Martial, Weapon

Standard Action Melee or Ranged weapon

Target: One creature

Effect: Make a Bluff check. If your result exceeds your target’s passive Insight score, then the target grants combat advantage to you for the following attack.

Attack: Primary ability vs. AC

Hit: 2[W] + ability modifier damage, and if the target grants combat advantage to you, it is immobilized until the end of your next turn.

Level 17:

Hit: As above, but 3[W] + ability modifier damage.

Level 27:

Hit: As above, but 4[W] + ability modifier damage.

Escaped Slave Attack 9Who Is Master Now

You use your weapon to draw your foe in close and then entrap it in your arms, where you command its actions like a puppeteer.

Daily Martial, Weapon

Standard Action Melee 1

Target: One creature that is your size, smaller than you, or one size category larger.

Attack: Primary ability vs. Fortitude

Hit: 1[W] + ability modifier damage, and you grab the target and it is dominated (save ends both). If the grab ends, the target is no longer dominated.

Effect: While you have the target grabbed and dominated by this power, you can exchange positions with the target as an immediate interrupt triggered by an enemy making a melee or ranged attack against you. The triggering attack affects the grabbed enemy instead. Exchanging positions with the target ends the grab and the dominate.

Miss: 1[W] + ability modifier damage, and you do not grab the target.

Escaped Slave Utility 10Opportune Distraction

You draw the attention of your foes elsewhere and make the most of the opportunity.

Encounter Martial

Free Action Personal

Effect: Make a Bluff check. If your result exceeds the passive Insight of creatures observing you, they cannot make opportunity attacks against you until the end of your next turn.

Escaped Thrall

"I can still feel them crawling in the back of my mind, but they’ll never get me again—not if I have anything to say about it."

In the deepest caverns, where the sun is but a myth and the weight of the world crushes all hope, abominations haunt the dark. These perverse beings—aboleths, mind flayers, and worse—exert a loathsome control over the minds of others. Few who become their slaves ever return. Yet some of dauntless resolve do escape, though they are forever burdened by the scars of their slavery. The lingering voice of the master echoes just beyond comprehension in the backs of their minds.

Escaped Thrall Starting Feature (1st level): You gain 1 power point. You regain all your power points when you take a short rest or an extended rest.

You also gain the my mind is my own power.

Escaped Thrall Level 5 Feature (5th level): Add Deep Speech to the languages you can speak, read, and write. You also gain a +2 power bonus to Dungeoneering checks.

Escaped Thrall Level 10 Feature (10th level): You gain a +1 power bonus to Will.

Escaped Thrall UtilityMy Mind Is My Own

Your passion for freedom drives out the presence of insidious entities from your mind.

Encounter Augmentable, Psionic

Immediate Interrupt Personal

Trigger: You are hit by a charm or a psychic attack.

Effect: You gain resist 5 psychic until the end of your next turn. Also, you gain a +2 power bonus to saving throws against charm effects and psychic effects until the end of your next turn.

Level 11: Resist 10 psychic.

Level 21: Resist 15 psychic.

Augment 1

Effect: As above, and you can make a saving throw against any charm effect and psychic effect at the start of your turn, instead of at the end, if a save can end the effect. This benefit lasts until the end of the encounter.

Escaped Thrall Utility 2Protective Trauma

A hidden bit of memory has placed an accessible psionic defense in your mind.

Encounter Augmentable, Psionic

Minor Action Personal

Effect: You gain a +2 power bonus to all defenses until the end of your next turn.

Augment 1

Effect: As above, and allies gain a +1 power bonus to Will while adjacent to you. This benefit lasts until the end of your next turn.

Escaped Thrall Utility 6Alien Insight

A confusing barrage of sensations left over from your imprisonment flashes before your eyes, giving you an advantage if you can make sense of them.

Daily Augmentable, Psionic

Minor Action Personal

Effect: Roll a d4 to determine the power’s effect.

1. You gain an extra move action this turn.

2. You gain a +2 power bonus to all defenses until the end of the encounter.

3. You gain a +2 power bonus to the number of squares you can push, pull, or slide creatures with attacks and effects until the end of the encounter.

4. You regain 2 power points.

Augment 1

Effect: As above, but roll twice and use either result.

Escaped Thrall Utility 10Window into Madness

You make mental contact with your enemy, giving it a brief yet vivid taste of the torment you endured as a thrall.

Daily Psionic

Minor Action Close burst 5

Target: One creature in the burst

Effect: Until the end of your next turn, you grant combat advantage, and the target gains vulnerable 10 psychic.

Sustain Minor: The effect persists until the end of your next turn.

Explorer

Seekers of new lands and lost places, explorers are masters of the trackless wilderness. Formal exploration is not very common in the world; a few wealthy kingdoms and mercantile cities charter expeditions to distant lands or reward travelers who return home with descriptions of far-off places. Most explorers, however, are individuals whose interests or duties lead them to venture into places where other people rarely go. They can be hunters, scouts, pathfinders, merchants, or emissaries to distant realms. Pursuing their private interests or carrying out important missions entrusted to them leads these travelers into the wild places of the world.

Many explorers begin their adventures as professional treasure-seekers. Searching out legends about lost hoards, hidden artifacts, or unplundered tombs, they put their talents to use in locating the rich score that no one else has found. Other explorers are engaged in searches, quests, or missions that lead them to places no one has visited before. For example, an order of knights or wizards might charge its members with traveling the world to battle a specific threat. A few explorers are true wanderers—travelers who feel compelled to see for themselves what lies beyond the next ridge or to seek out legendary challenges. Fortune or fame is of little concern to these wanderers; they live to satisfy their personal curiosity or to measure themselves against the dangers they overcome.

Regardless of individual motivation, explorers must master a daunting set of skills if they hope to be successful. They must be tough and enduring, capable of traveling great distances over difficult terrain, and must have the ability to survive the worst extremes of weather. They must be expert beast hunters and foragers with a talent for living off the land no matter where they are, since they’re not likely to find friendly inns or trading posts once they leave civilization behind. A knack for direction is indispensable; roads are nonexistent in the wilds, and missing an important landmark or choosing the wrong turn off a poorly marked trail might be a fatal mistake. Finally, explorers had better be ready to defend themselves from the attacks of vicious raiders and hungry monsters.

Explorer Starting Feature (1st level): You can tell which way is north, and you gain a +5 bonus to any skill check to avoid becoming lost, find your way to a specific location, or spot a distant landmark.

In addition, you gain the surefooted stride power.

Explorer Level 5 Feature (5th level): You gain a +2 power bonus to Endurance checks. In addition, for the purpose of determining how far you and up to ten companions can travel in an hour or a day, treat the group's speed as the slowest member's speed + 1. While the group travels with you, its members also gain a +2 power bonus to Endurance checks.

Explorer Level 10 Feature (10th level): You gain a +1 power bonus to Fortitude and a +2 bonus to saving throws against ongoing poison damage.

Explorer UtilitySurefooted Stride

Your expert woodcraft allows you to move easily through difficult terrain and use it to your advantage in battle.

Encounter Primal

Move Action Personal

Effect: You move up to your speed, ignoring difficult terrain. Until the end of your next turn, you gain a +2 bonus to AC and Reflex if you are in difficult terrain, and you gain combat advantage against enemies that are in difficult terrain.

Explorer Utility 2Stag's Bound

Fleet-footed as the wild deer, you fly over a treacherous surface or make a daring leap.

Encounter Primal

Move Action Personal

Effect: You move up to your speed +2. During this movement, and until the end of your next turn, you gain a +5 power bonus to Athletics checks to jump and Acrobatics checks to balance or reduce falling damage. Any jump you make is considered to have a running start, and you can move at full speed while balancing.

Explorer Utility 6Eagle's Eye

You fix your eye on a distant target, seeing it with exceptional clarity.

Encounter Primal

Minor Action Personal

Effect: Until the end of your next turn, you gain combat advantage with your ranged attack powers and area attack powers, and your weapon attacks take no penalty for long range. You also gain a +4 power bonus to Perception checks to detect hidden objects or creatures.

Explorer Utility 10Lynx's Reflexes

Sensing a sudden threat, you throw yourself out of danger’s way.

Encounter Primal

Immediate Interrupt Personal

Trigger: A trap attacks you.

Effect: You shift up to 2 squares and gain a +4 power bonus to AC and Reflex against the trap’s attack.

Fatedancer

Everyone wants good luck, but few have minds broad enough to embrace the whole of fate, sense what is meant to be, and follow that path. Those who do so learn to accept both the best and the worst that the world can offer. Fatedancers understand that what should not happen, cannot happen; the proper way to live is to embrace what must be. By accepting what fate offers, they gain more than peace of mind—everything they do aligns with the true purpose of the world.

To know fate is to dance, for life compels one to quickly move from here to there, from one thought or place or event to another. Though outsiders believe fatedancers to be mercurial at best, random chance does not exist for those who embrace fate, only opportunities taken or missed. The future and the present are always exactly as they should be for fatedancers; such individuals exist in the moment. They get into a lot of trouble because of this stance, but they are usually lucky enough to get out of it. Theirs is the life of a vagabond, taking both good and bad fortune as it comes.

Any adventurer who believes in luck as a force can be a fatedancer. Martial characters most often choose this theme. They do not depend on any external source for their powers, so they are attracted to a path that depends on their own actions. To their minds, reliance on arcane magic or the power of the gods is an attempt to circumvent what should happen.

Bards and rogues also have worldviews that encourage this way of life. Bards weave songs that tell of heroes’ fortunes and misfortunes and thus naturally respect the power of fate. A few follow this tendency further and learn to rely on it, even though they also use arcane magic. Rogues approach their lives with equal parts daring, skill, and luck, but many take to heart the idea that it is better to be lucky than skilled.

Fatedancer Starting Feature (1st level): You can have up to two Fortune Cards in your hand. You can still play only one in a round, but you can draw a card at the start of your turn if you have fewer than two cards in your hand.

Fatedancer Level 5 Feature (5th level): You gain a +4 power bonus to passive Perception checks to determine if you are surprised.

Fatedancer Level 10 Feature (10th level): Once per encounter, you can discard two Fortune Cards at the start of your turn to search your deck for any one card. Put that card into your hand, then shuffle your deck.

Fatedancer Utility 2Seize Fate

You seize one opportunity, then another.

Encounter

Minor Action Personal

Requirement: You must have fewer than two Fortune Cards in your hand.

Effect: Draw two cards from your Fortune Card deck. Put one of those cards into your hand, and discard the other.

Fatedancer Utility 6Flowing Fortune

You read the flow of fate, creating a decisive advantage for your allies.

Daily

Minor Action Close burst 5

Requirement: You must discard a Fortune Card.

Target: Each ally in the burst

Effect: If the card you discarded was an Attack card, each target gains a +4 power bonus to the next damage roll he or she makes before the end of your next turn. If it was a Tactics card, you slide each target up to 2 squares. If it was a Defense card, each target gains a +2 power bonus to all defenses until the end of your next turn.

Fatedancer Utility 10Desperate Chance

Fortune smiles broadly on you in troubled times.

Daily

Minor Action Personal

Requirement: You must have expended all your encounter attack powers.

Effect: Draw three cards from your Fortune Card deck. Until the end of the encounter, you can have up to three Fortune Cards in your hand. You can still play only one in a round, but you can draw a card at the start of your turn if your hand contains fewer than three cards.

Fey Beast Tamer

"Of course you can domesticate an owlbear! Want me to show you how?"

When the natural world was young and humanity was in its infancy, callous elf nobles intentionally opened fey crossings between their realm and the natural world, sending dangerous monsters through to terrorize early mortal civilizations. Many of humanity’s oldest folk tales concern these first encounters with creatures such as owlbears and displacer beasts. Although eladrin scholars have tried to disprove the assertion that their ancestors were responsible, there is no doubt that an unusual number of stories passed down by human cultures involve such occurrences.

However troublesome or malicious the ancient elves might have been, they inadvertently gave the people of the natural world a familiarity with fey creatures. During these formative years for human culture, contact with Feywild beasts had a great impact; the magic of that plane touched hearts and souls in the mortal world. As a result, some members of mortal races developed an affinity for dealing with creatures from the Feywild. They could command the beasts of the fey realm just as mortal nobles could command their subjects. Renowned fey beast tamers, many of whom have been immortalized in story and song, rode into battle with powerful denizens of the Feywild at their side.

Generations passed, empires rose and fell, and wars came and went. Bloodlines that once had been strong were thinned out by centuries of marriage and expansion. The beast tamers who commanded armies of fey creatures died out, and every generation of their offspring grew weaker in their control over fey beasts until the ability was almost forgotten.

Once every few generations, however, a mortal is born of parents who still have strong blood ties to the ancient beast lords. Such individuals grow up with the inherent ability to bond with fey creatures. Though many never realize their full potential, some discover—through chance encounters—that they can influence fey beasts by sheer willpower. These special mortals usually bond with a single creature, forming a connection that is as strong as the one shared by soldiers who serve together in battle.

You are one of these rare individuals with an ability that reaches back to the dawn of civilization. You have formed a connection with a fey creature and can command it to aid you and protect you from harm. Over time, as you develop this bond further, you will begin to absorb the inherent magic of the creature and find yourself capable of things you never thought possible.

Fey Beast Tamer Starting Feature (1st level): Choose one of the following creatures: blink dog, displacer beast, fey panther, or young owlbear. You gain it as your fey beast companion.

Your fey beast companion is considered an ally of you and your allies. It can be affected by powers in the same way that any other creature can be. It has animal intelligence, so you can communicate with it only at a basic level (like a trained pet), and it doesn’t understand complex ideas.

Your fey beast companion’s level is equal to yours, and its hit points, defenses, and attack values are determined by your level, as noted in its statistics.

Your companion shares your healing surge total. Whenever an effect requires your fey beast companion to spend a healing surge, the surge is deducted from your total. Whenever you use your second wind, your companion also regains hit points equal to your healing surge value. At the end of a short rest, your fey beast companion regains all its hit points.

If you die or your companion drops below 1 hit point, it retreats back into the Feywild. If that occurs, you can use one of these two ways to call it back.

Minor Action: You lose a healing surge, and your companion appears in the nearest unoccupied space, with hit points equal to your healing surge value.

Short Rest or Extended Rest: At the end of the rest, you lose a healing surge, and your companion appears in the nearest unoccupied space, with full hit points.

Fey Beast Tamer Level 5 Features (5th level): You have combat advantage against enemies in your fey beast companion’s aura.

Fey Beast Tamer Level 10 Feature (10th level): You can communicate normally with your fey beast companion and other creatures of the same kind.

Fey Beast Tamer Utility 2Heal Fey Beast Companion

You focus briefly on your bond with your fey beast companion, restoring some of its vitality.

Daily Arcane, Healing

Minor Action Ranged 10

Target: Your fey beast companion

Effect: The target regains a number of hit points equal to your healing surge value.

Fey Beast Tamer Utility 6Safe Banishment

With a wave of your hand, your fey beast companion vanishes.

At-Will Arcane

Move Action Ranged 10

Target: Your fey beast companion

Effect: Your fey beast companion is removed from play. It travels to a safe location in the Feywild. As a move action, you can recall your fey beast companion, and it appears in an unoccupied square adjacent to you.

Fey Beast Tamer Utility 10Companion Form

Your body shifts and changes, and suddenly you take on a form that is nearly a mirror image of your fey beast companion.

Encounter Arcane, Polymorph

Minor Action Personal

Effect: You assume a form similar to that of your fey beast companion. While in this form, you have the same aura as your companion. You gain the creature’s senses and speed, but the form does not otherwise alter your game statistics. The form lasts until the end of the encounter, until you end it as a minor action, or until you use any other power.

Firecrafter

"I feel the flames of a thousand suns burning in my heart."

Fire creates and destroys. With fire, one can transform raw iron into a useful blade, clear a field of crops to halt the spread of a disease, or lay waste to anything that stands in one’s way. Fire is also the element of emotion, of passion and intensity, of new ideas and revelations. Firecrafters embrace elemental fire, using it to forge themselves into something new, something made from fire and yet bound in humanoid form.

Firecrafting finds its roots among the primitive cultures in the world. Legend holds that the primordial Imix gifted mortals with fire in order to destroy them, and it was Ioun’s intervention and knowledge that gave mortals the wisdom to control it. Ioun enabled mortals not only to use fire for light and warmth, but to bend it to their will with magic.

Firecrafters come by their power through the same channels that other individuals learn to use elemental magic. Some might transform into elemental creatures after discovering a primordial shard. An imprisoned primordial might grant a boon to a particularly loyal follower, while mere exposure to the Elemental Chaos could be the catalyst that awakens a latent elemental quality in others. Regardless of his or her history, a firecrafter leads a lonely life. People fear firecrafters, and with good reason.

Firecrafter Starting Feature (1st level): Your origin becomes elemental. For the purpose of effects that relate to creature origin, you are considered to be an elemental. Add Primordial to the languages you can read, write, and speak. Also, you can emit dim light out to 5 squares. As a minor action, you can suppress or resume this light.

You also gain the blazing corona power.

Firecrafter Level 5 Feature (5th level): You gain a +2 power bonus to Acrobatics checks. Whenever you use your second wind, you gain a +1 power bonus to attack rolls with fire attacks until the end of your next turn.

Firecrafter Level 10 Feature (10th level): Whenever you use blazing corona, you can also shift up to 3 squares as a free action.

Firecrafter AttackBlazing Corona

Fire erupts from your body, burning until you fling it away from you as a fiery bolt.

Encounter Aura, Elemental, Fire

Minor Action Personal

Effect: You activate an aura 1 that lasts until the end of your next turn. Any creature that starts its turn in the aura takes fire damage equal to your highest ability modifier. Using the secondary power ends the aura.

Blazing Corona Secondary Power

Encounter Elemental, Fire

Standard Action Ranged 10

Requirement: The power Blazing Corona must be active in order to use this power.

Target: One creature

Attack: Highest ability modifier + 2 vs. Reflex

Level 11: Highest ability modifier + 4

Level 21: Highest ability modifier + 6

Hit: 1d8 fire damage.

Level 11: 2d8 fire damage.

Level 21: 3d8 fire damage.

Firecrafter Attack 3Lesser Produce Flame

Snapping your fingers causes a fiery ball to appear in your hand to illuminate your surroundings.

Encounter Elemental, Fire

Minor Action Personal

Effect: You create a flame in your hand that emits bright light out to 10 squares. The flame lasts until the end of the encounter, until you dismiss it as a minor action, or until you use the secondary power.

Lesser Produce Flame Secondary Power

Encounter Elemental, Fire

Standard Action Ranged 10

Requirement: The power Lesser Produce Flame must be active in order to use this power.

Target: One creature

Attack: Highest ability modifier vs. Reflex. You gain a +2 bonus to the attack roll.

Hit: 2d8 + highest ability modifier fire damage.

Firecrafter Utility 6Burning Bright

Your presence causes fires to burn so hot that little hope exists of extinguishing them.

Daily Aura, Elemental, Fire

Minor Action Personal

Effect: You activate an aura 2 that lasts until the end of the encounter. Enemies in the aura have vulnerable 5 fire and take a -2 penalty to saving throws against ongoing fire damage. Nonmagical fires in the aura can be put out only if you allow them to be extinguished.

Firecrafter Attack 7Lesser Roaring Flames

A bright and loud cascade of fire singes your foes while inspiring your allies.

Encounter Elemental, Fire

Standard Action Close burst 3

Target: Each enemy in the burst

Attack: Highest ability modifier vs. Reflex. You gain a +2 bonus to the attack roll.

Hit: 2d6 + highest ability modifier fire damage.

Effect: Each ally in the burst gains a +2 power bonus to one attack roll, saving throw, or skill or ability check made before the start of your next turn.

Firecrafter Attack 13Produce Flame

Snapping your fingers causes a fiery ball to appear in your hand to illuminate your surroundings.

Encounter Elemental, Fire

Minor Action Personal

Effect: You create a flame in your hand that emits bright light out to 10 squares. The flame lasts until the end of the encounter, until you dismiss it as a minor action, or until you use the secondary power.

Produce Flame Secondary Power

Encounter Elemental, Fire

Standard Action Ranged 10

Requirement: The power Produce Flame must be active in order to use this power.

Target: One creature

Attack: Highest ability modifier vs. Reflex. You gain a +4 bonus to the attack roll.

Hit: 3d8 + highest ability modifier fire damage.

Firecrafter Attack 17Roaring Flames

A bright and loud cascade of fire singes your foes while inspiring your allies.

Encounter Elemental, Fire

Standard Action Close burst 3

Target: Each enemy in the burst

Attack: Highest ability modifier vs. Reflex. You gain a +4 bonus to the attack roll.

Hit: 3d6 + highest ability modifier fire damage.

Effect: Each ally in the burst gains a +2 power bonus to one attack roll, saving throw, or skill or ability check made before the start of your next turn.

Firecrafter Attack 23Greater Produce Flame