Swordbearer (Edge of Humanity Supplement)

Positive Energy

Through rigorous training or a challenging situation, you’ve achieved a breakthrough, grasping the essence of Positive Energy. This energy, the natural opposite of Negative Energy, possesses properties that are not fully known to you. However, you understand that it’s not a holy or divine power but a force that harms creatures of Negative Energy while protecting you from the same. This energy manifests as a white aura, symbolizing its positive nature.

Positive Energy Pool

With your newfound ability to sense and understand Positive Energy, you can store this energy within yourself for later use. You have Positive Energy Points (PEP) equal to 2 + your Constitution modifier, gaining an additional 2 points at each level.

Adaptive Combatant

At 1st level, you possess an innate ability to adapt and evolve through combat experiences. When you encounter a new challenge, you can attempt to learn and replicate features or techniques from those you face. Work with your DM to determine the specific conditions or actions required to gain new features or abilities, which may include studying a creature's behavior, succeeding on skill checks, or other in-game criteria.

Basic Positive Energy Infusions

Starting at 1st level, you’ve developed the ability to sense and harness Positive Energy. Although your control is limited, you can perform the following infusions:

Basic Weapon Infusion

• As a bonus action, you can spend 1 PEP to do an additional 1d8 weapon damage. This effect lasts until the start of your next turn.

Basic Body Enhancement

• As a bonus action, you can spend 1 PEP to reduce incoming melee damage by 2 until the start of your next turn.

• As a bonus action, you can spend 1 PEP to increase your movement speed by 10 feet until the start of your next turn.

Basic Positive Energy Attack

• As a bonus action, you can spend 2 PEP, you can make a ranged attack using your Positive Energy, dealing 1d6 weapon damage and has a range of 15 feet. This effect lasts until the start of your next turn.

Positive Energy Channeling

At 2nd level, your understanding of Positive Energy deepens, allowing you to channel it in focused ways to achieve various effects. You can use your Positive Energy Points (PEP) to activate one of the following abilities:

Energy Surge

• As a free action, you can spend 1 PEP to channel your Positive Energy to boost your physical prowess: You can add 1d4 to a saving throw or ability check. You can decide to use this after seeing the roll but before knowing the outcome.

Shield of Light

• As a reaction, you can spend 1 PEP when you are hit by an attack, you can channel Positive Energy to form a protective barrier: You reduce the damage taken by 1d6.

Rejuvenating Pulse

• As an action, you can spend 2 PEP to channel Positive Energy to restore vitality to yourself or an ally within 10 feet: You restore hit points equal to 1d6 to a creature you touch.

Positive Energy Paths

Starting at 3rd level, choose one of the following schools: Way of the Radiant Blade, Way of the Sanctified Body, or Way of the Celestial Strike. This choice determines how you focus and enhance your use of Positive Energy.

Extra Attack

Starting at 5th level, you can attack twice, instead of once, when you take the Attack action during your turn. The number of attacks increases to three when you reach 17th level. Additionally features that take a free action to activate do not trigger extra attack unless a feature says otherwise

Favor of the Divine

Starting at 6th level you gain the following: To gain blessings from the angels, you must prove your worth through actions reflecting determination, strength, and righteousness. Mere victories over weak malborne creatures will suffice only temporarily; as your journey progresses, you must confront greater challenges, facing stronger foes to earn the angels’ unwavering trust. Each act of valor and determination furthers your favor, unlocking the potential to form deeper, more powerful vows.

Soulspan

Starting at 6th level you gain the following:

The Soul

This essence is your very life force, the tangible representation of your soul’s energy. Your Soulspan is linked to your lifespan, and its depletion means the end of your life. Soulspan is a limited resource, and the more you use it, the closer you come to your end. Primarily, devils will make use of this resource to form contracts, drawing upon your soul's energy to grant you dark powers.

Soulspan Calculation

Your Soulspan is calculated as twice your current lifespan. For example, if your lifespan is 80 years, your maximum Soulspan would be 160 points.

Erosion of the Soul

The consequences of forging contracts grow dire as your soul deteriorates. Each tier of contract invoked imposes cumulative deficits, reflecting the gradual fading of your essence. For example, reaching the 6th tier of soul erosion. subjects you to all prior deficits, each stacking as your soul edges closer to oblivion. This relentless decay mirrors the cost of boundless power and the price of tempting fate.

Look here for the deficits for reaching the different levels of Soul Erosion.

Vows and Contracts

Starting at 6th level, you gain the ability to form Vows and Contracts with angels and devils only if the being's favorability is high enough, entering into agreements that offer various rewards or abilities.

Vows: Vows are made with angels and are subject to conditions. These are sacred promises, where both the person and the angel must fulfill specific actions or requirements. In exchange for fulfilling these conditions, you gain divine rewards, such as healing, increased durability, or other boons.

Example: Vow of Radiant Resolve

• Prerequisite: Kill a low-level entity with Negative Energy.
• Method to Activate: Successfully land 2 strikes on an enemy in one turn.
• Reward: Regain 1 Positive Energy Point.

Contracts: Contracts are formed with devils using your Soulspan, and in exchange for this sacrifice, you receive dark boons, enhancements or power. These agreements come with risk: if you fail to meet the terms of the contract, you may lose Soulspan or suffer additional consequences.

Example: Contract of the Devouring Prey

• Offer: 10 Soulspan points.
• Gain: When in an encounter, mark an enemy as your prey, dealing an additional 1d6 damage against it. However, if you fail to deal the killing blow, you lose half the Soulspan used to form the contract as hit points, taken by anyone who delivers the final blow to your prey.

Here you can find the available Vows and Contracts.

Renewed Light

Starting at 6th level, you have learned to manipulate both Positive and Negative Energy with greater control, channeling it through your weapon and even recycling the remnants of Negative Energy into Positive Energy. You gain the following benefits:

• As an action, you can absorb the residual Negative Energy from a slain creature, transforming it into Positive Energy equal to your proficiency bonus. This ability can only be used once per creature slain with Negative Energy.

Relentless Initiative

At 7th level, your mastery of Positive Energy Points allows you to act with unparalleled swiftness.

• Bonus Action Surge: As a free action, spend 3 Positive Energy Points to gain an additional bonus action on your turn.
• Reactive Instinct: As a free action, spend 3 Positive Energy Points to gain an extra reaction until the start of your next turn.

Positive Energy Core

At 8th level, during a long rest, you can spend a significant amount of Positive Energy Points to develop a Positive Energy Core within yourself. This core enhances one specific aspect of your body, granting a permanent boon. Once you choose one of the cores, you cannot change it during the same long rest.

• Strength Core: Spend 15 Positive Energy Points. Gain +2 Strength. Additionally, you can spend 3 PEP to gain advantage on one Strength-based attack roll or saving throw per turn, up to your proficiency bonus.

• Dexterity Core: Spend 15 Positive Energy Points. Gain +2 Dexterity and can spend 3 PEP to add +2 to your AC against a single attack can activate this equal to your proficiency bonus per turn.

• Constitution Core: Spend 15 Positive Energy Points. Gain +2 Constitution. You can spend 3 PEP to gain resistance to the next instance of damage you take, usable up to your proficiency bonus per turn.

Evasion

At 9th level, your instinctive agility lets you dodge out of the way of certain area effects, such as a blue dragon's lightning breath or a fireball spell. When you are subjected to an effect that allows you to make a Dexterity saving throw to take only half damage, you instead take no damage if you succeed on the saving throw, and only half damage if you fail.

Boundless Initiative

At 10th level, your mastery over Positive Energy Points enhances your ability to act decisively in battle.

• Action Surge: As a free action, spend 6 Positive Energy Points to gain an additional action on your turn.

• Enhanced Initiative: At the start of combat, you can as a free action spend Positive Energy Points to increase your initiative roll by an amount equal to the number of points spent, up to your proficiency bonus.

Way of the Radiant Blade

Swordsmen who channel Positive Energy into their blades, enhancing their damage and cutting through even the toughest foes.

Holy Blade

At 3th level, As a bonus action, spend 2 PEP to channel positive energy into your sword. For 1 minute gain the following effects:

• Deal an additional 1d6 radiant damage on each successful hit.
• You add your proficiency to your attack roles.
• Activate your Basic Sword Infusion as a free action.

Light of the Eternal Edge

As an action, you can spend 5 PEP to make a melee attack with your weapon. If the attack hits, you deal your normal damage, and your weapon becomes charged with pure light for 1 minute. During this time, it gains the following benefits:

• If you miss an attack while within 5 feet of an enemy, you can deal half of your weapon's damage to that enemy.
• You can make a second attack with your katana as part of the same attack action.
• If a creature is reduced to 0 HP by your katana’s radiant damage, you gain 2d6 temporary hit points.

Way of the Sanctified Body

Enhance your body with Positive Energy, bolstering your defenses against Negative Energy attacks.

Sanctified Body

At 3th level, As a reaction when taking damage from a creature with Negative Energy, spend 2 PEP and then for 1 minute gain the following effects:

• Reduce melee damage dealt to you by 3.
• Gain temporary hit points equal to your Constitution modifier each time you're targeted by an attack.
• You now can activate your Basic Body Enhancement ability as a free action.

Aura of the Blessed Shield

At 6th level, you gain the ability to exude a protective aura that shields yourself and your allies. As a bonus action, you can spend 3 PEP to activate the aura. The aura lasts for 1 minute and extends 10 feet from you, granting the following benefits:

• All creatures within the aura have resistance to Negative Energy damage.
• When an ally within the aura is reduced to below half their hit points, they gain temporary hit points equal to your Constitution modifier at the start of their turn.

Way of the Celestial Strike

Harness Positive Energy to unleash potent ranged attacks imbued with celestial force.

Enlightening Strike

As a bonus action, spend 4 PEP to empower your ranged attacks. For 1 minute:

• Deal an additional 1d6 radiant damage with you're Basic Positive Energy Attack attack.
• Your range for Positive Energy attacks increases by 15 feet.
• You now can activate your Basic Positive Energy Attack ability as a free action also having its cost reduced by 1.

Heaven's Wrath

At 6th level, you can tap into the celestial forces within you to call down devastating radiant strikes that strike from afar with precision and force. You gain the following abilities:

• Celestial Bolt: As an action, spend 6 PEP to launch a radiant projectile imbued with the power of the heavens. The bolt travels up to 30 feet and deals 3d6 radiant damage to the first target it strikes. If the target is a creature with Negative Energy, they must make a Constitution saving throw against your spell save DC. On a failed save, they are blinded until the end of their next turn.

• Radiant Surge: As a bonus action, spend 2 PEP to unleash a wave of celestial energy in a 10-foot radius centered on you. Creatures within this area must make a Constitution saving throw against your spell save DC. On a failed save, they are pushed 10 feet away from you and take 2d6 radiant damage. On a successful save, they take half damage and are not pushed.