Minor Elemental spirits
There are many different kinds of elemental creatures that live throughout the planes from djini to efreeti. One especially unique and interesting among them is the minor elemental spirit. What sets them apart from other residents of the elemental planes is that they arent trully alive, instead they are fragments of elemental power of creation left wild that have slowly gained sentience through the influence of sapient beings on the material plane personifying the elements around them.
Interestingly the millennia they spent out of the material plane made them anchored, meaning that part of them always remains in their plane of origin, and that they have a limited ability to interact with objects in the material plane. They are vastly varied in their appearances, characteristics, and levels of intelligence, they can be found throughout the world phasing in and out around large concentrations of the element or concept they represent (like wind, frost and death). They appear as small translucent humanoids about a hand span in size.
Spirit bond
the spren have limited sentience when phasing into other planes and they act like the element or concept they are personifying with little variation. However,they have the ability to bond to creatures from the material plane. By doing that they gain the ability to remain in the material plane as long as the bond is in place and they also gain sentience and personality that can adapts depending the person they are bonded to.
The particulars for initiating the pact differ for each kind but in general after finding a minor lemental and convincing them to make a pact, the spirits test or require a task of some sort from the person initiating the pact.
The longer the creatures are bonded, their link becomes stronger and the more intelligent the fey becomes. whenever you level up the bond level increases up to level 7.
Bond spellcasting
After completing the test and the bond is formed you gain a stat increase depending on the type . Additionally you gain a cantrip of the domain of the minor elemental spirit you bond with, and gain access to higher level spells of that element as the bond strengthens. The link with the fey however takes one slot of attunement.
These spells use Charisma + half of your bond level, rounded down, as a modifier (seen in the tables below) and use the spirit as both the spellcasting focus and any material components the spell may require, however that means that you cannot have two spells that you gain from the bond active at the same time.
unlike most caster classes bond spellcasting does not have spellslots , instead you have a pool of points , equal to your bond level and when casting a spell you subtract points from that pool equal to the spell's level. You cannot cast the spells on higher levels. you regain half of your total points during a short rest , rounded up, and all of them during a long rest.
Bond weapon
Upon reaching the forth level in your bond the spren gains the ability to transform into a weapon fitting to it's personality and abilities (chosen by the DM). that weapon counts as a magical +1 weapon that deals damage of the type that weapon normally would. At seventh level that weapon becomes a +2
for the DM
I have found that the spren companion is very helpful for pulling out different aspects of a player's personality , as well as relaying information to my group without directing them since spren are supposed to be alien of mind, and as such they have a very different understanding of the world and morality in general.
I would advise talking with your players about what they want out of it and changing whatever would fit more, like giving the final for of the weapons extra effects or elemental damage or switching any of the spells below.
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Wind spirit
+1 DEX
Personality: Carefree, mischievous
Test: Do something wild or dangerous
They appear as teal humanoids with swirling storm inside their figures
Bond spell list
| leveling | spell | bond level |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | gust | 1 |
| 2 | fog cloud | 2 |
| 3 | feather fall | 3 |
| 4 | levitate | 4 |
| 5 | gust of wind | 5 |
| 6 | wind wall | 6 |
| 7 | fly | 7 |
Fire spirit
+1 STR
Personality: Bloodthirsty, entropy loving
Test: Destroy something
They appear as orange-red burning humanoids
Bond spell list
| leveling | spell | bond level |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | produce flames | 1 |
| 2 | burning hands | 2 |
| 3 | searing smite | 3 |
| 4 | flaming sphear | 4 |
| 5 | schorching ray | 5 |
| 6 | fireball | 6 |
| 7 | flame arrows | 7 |
Water spirit
+1 CHA
Personality: Peaceful, non-confrontational
Test: Create something
They appear as blue humanoids of flowing water
Bond spell list
| leveling | spell | bond level |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | shape water | 1 |
| 2 | create water | 2 |
| 3 | grease | 3 |
| 4 | water breathing | 4 |
| 5 | skywrite | 5 |
| 6 | water walk | 6 |
| 7 | tidal wave | 7 |
Earth spirit
+1 WIS
Personality: Slow, simple, lethargic
Test: Hide and seek
They appear as stout brown humanoids with cracks running through them
Bond spell list
| leveling | spell | bond level |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | mold earth | 1 |
| 2 | earth tremor | 2 |
| 3 | catapult rock | 3 |
| 4 | earth bind | 4 |
| 5 | dust devil | 5 |
| 6 | erupting earth | 6 |
| 7 | meld into stone | 7 |
Light spirit
+1 INT
Personality: Stoic, scholarly, stern
Test: Answer a question/riddle
They appear as radiating white humanoids
Bond spell list
| leveling | spell | bond level |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | light | 1 |
| 2 | faery fire | 2 |
| 3 | guiding bolt | 3 |
| 4 | dark vision | 4 |
| 5 | see invisibility | 5 |
| 6 | blinding smite | 6 |
| 7 | daylight | 7 |
Poison spirit
+1 CON
Personality: Sickly , tired
Test: Endure something
they appear as green humanoids bubbling and steaming
Bond spell list
| leveling | spell | bond level |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | poison spray | 1 |
| 2 | detect poison | 2 |
| 3 | ray of sickness | 3 |
| 4 | acid arrow | 4 |
| 5 | protection from poison | 5 |
| 6 | stinking cloud | 6 |
| 7 | gaseous form | 7 |
SPREN TYPES
Metal spirit
+1 CON
Personality: Gruff, serious
Test: Protect something
They appear as sleek grey humanoids
Bond spell list
| leveling | spell | bond level |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | swordburst | 1 |
| 2 | shield | 2 |
| 3 | shape metal | 3 |
| 4 | heat metal | 4 |
| 5 | cloud of daggers | 5 |
| 6 | conjure fort | 6 |
| 7 | skin of steel | 7 |
Wood spirit
+1 WIS
personality: Gentle , shy
Test: Cultivate life
They appear as dark green humanoids formed of leaves and vines
Bond spell list
| leveling | spell | bond level |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | thorn whip | 1 |
| 2 | entangle | 2 |
| 3 | hail of thorns | 3 |
| 4 | barkskin | 4 |
| 5 | spike growth | 5 |
| 6 | plant growth | 6 |
| 7 | speak with plants | 7 |
Frost spirit
+1 DEX
Personality: Stutering, forgetful
Test: Escape from something
They appear as white humanoids of gleaming crystal
Bond spell list
| leveling | spell | bond level |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | frost bolt | 1 |
| 2 | armor of agathys | 2 |
| 3 | ice knife | 3 |
| 4 | snowball storm | 4 |
| 5 | frost step | 5 |
| 6 | sleet storm | 6 |
| 7 | brain freeze | 7 |
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Thunder spirit
+1 STR
Personality: Pompus, dramatic
Test: Be heard/known
They appear as yellow humanoids of crackling lightning
Bond spell list
| leveling | spell | bond level |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | lightning lure | 1 |
| 2 | thunderus smite | 2 |
| 3 | thunderwave | 3 |
| 4 | blindness deafness | 4 |
| 5 | shatter | 5 |
| 6 | thunderstep | 6 |
| 7 | call lightning | 7 |
Death spirit
+1 INT
Personality: Mumbling, psychotic
Test: Come back to life
They appear as black humanoids made of dark smoke
Bond spell list
| leveling | spell | bond level |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | toll the dead | 1 |
| 2 | false life | 2 |
| 3 | cause fear | 3 |
| 4 | ray of enfeeblement | 4 |
| 5 | gentle repose | 5 |
| 6 | animate dead | 6 |
| 7 | speak with dead | 7 |
Illusion spirit
+1 CHA
Personality: Deadpan, deceiving
Test: Deceive/trick someone
They appear as purple humanoids with distortions to their shape periodically
Bond spell list
| leveling | spell | bond level |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | minor illusion | 1 |
| 2 | color spay | 2 |
| 3 | disguyse self | 3 |
| 4 | blur | 4 |
| 5 | phantasmal force | 5 |
| 6 | major image | 6 |
| 7 | hypnotic patern | 7 |
SPREN TYPES
custom spells
Frost step
2nd-level transmutation
- Casting Time: 1 action
- Range: Self
- Components: V, S
- Duration: Concentration, up to 10 minutes
the air around your feet freezes for the next 10 minutes or until you use a bonus action to end the spell , you gain the following effects
- you have advantage against being moved
- you can move along vertical surfaces with half speed
- you can move at double speed while moving downslope
brain freeze
3rd-level enchantment
- Casting Time: 1 action
- Range: 30 feet
- Components: V, S
- Duration: instantaneous
select a creature within range they mast make a Constitution saving throw. On a failed save they take 3d8 cold damage and are stunned until the end of your next turn . On a successful one they take half the damage and are not stunned
Shape metal
1st-level transmutation
- Casting Time: 1 action
- Range: Touch
- Components: V, S
- Duration: instantaneous
You touch a non organic object of Medium size or smaller or a section of a solid object no more than 1 feet in any dimension and form it is transmuted into iron
conjure fort
3rd-level conjuration
- Casting Time: 1 action
- Range: 30 feet
- Components: V, S
- Duration: 8 hours
you instantaneously create a metal barrage in a 7X7 feet cube, the appearance and shape are predetermined and based on the fey but details can be altered between uses . after the time ends the structure begins to rust and starts to quickly deteriorate .
skin of steel
3rd-level transmutation
- Casting Time: 1 action
- Range: Touch
- Components: V, S
- Duration: 10 minutes
you touch a willing creature , for the duration of the spell it gets a +2 to it's AC and becomes resistant to slashing and piercing damage
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