The spear opens the path to the afterlife, and the butterflies bridge this world and the next. Balance must be mantained, and yet destinies remain variable. Death has its own rules, and yet is still hard to predict. Balance your health and melt your oponents with this fighter archetype inspired by Hu Tao from Genshin Impact.

Guide to Afterlife

3rd-level Fragrance in Thaw feature

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You can use your bonus action to expend a Hit Die and take it as necrotic damage to surround yourself with crimson butterflies and enter the Paramita Papilio state.

Paramita Papilio

While you maintain the Paramita Papilio state, your attacks with melee weapons deal additional fire damage equal to your Constitution modifier.

The state lasts for 1 minute, or until you are knocked unconscious.

Saving Throws

Some features of this archetype require a creature to make a saving throw. The DC for those features is 8 + your Proficiency Bonus + your Constitution modifier.

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Secret Spear of Wangshen

3rd-level Fragrance in Thaw feature

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Once per round, when you are wielding a glaive, halberd, quarterstaff, or spear and take the Attack action, you can forgo one attack to make a Charged Attack.

Charged Attack

You target a creature up to 10 feet away from you to lunge at them and make a melee attack with your weapon. After the attack, you end up 5 feet behind the target. If the space is occupied, you end up 5 feet in front of the target.

You can use this feature a number of times equal to your Proficiency Bonus between short or long rests.

Blood Blossom

While Paramita Papilio is active, succesful Charged Attacks leave crimson butterflies on the target, afflicting them with the Blood Blossom effect for up to 1 minute.

A creature afflicted by Blood Blossom must make a Constitution saving throw at the start of their turn. On a failed check, they take fire damage equal to your Proficiency Bonus. On a success, the effect ends and they don’t take damage.

 

 

Spirit Soother

7th-level Fragrance in Thaw feature

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Once per long rest, you can expend your Second Wind ability to use Spirit Soother. As an action, you can command a blazing spirit to attack nearby enemies. All creatures of your choice within 15 feet from you must make a Dexterity saving throw. On a failed save, they take 4d8 fire damage, or half as much on a success. You heal for 1d10 for each creature you targeted, up to a maximum of 3d10. If you use this feature while your current hit points are equal to or less than half of your maximum hit points, you deal an additional 2d8 (6d8 total) fire damage and gain a bonus to the healing equal to your fighter level.

Sanguine Rouge

10th-level Fragrance in Thaw feature

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While in the Paramita Papilio state, your subclass features ignore fire damage resistance, and treat immunity as if it were resistance. Also, if your current hit points are equal to or less than half of your maximum hit points, your damage bonus increases by half of your Proficiency Bonus (rounded down).

Crimson Bouquet

15th-level Fragrance in Thaw feature

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While on the Paramita Papilio state, you can use your Charged Attack as a bonus action, instead of forgoing an attack.

Butterfly’s Embrace

18th-level Fragrance in Thaw feature

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When your hit points reach 0, you do not fall as a result of the damage. Instead, you regain 1d10 + your Constitution modifier as hit points and gain the following bonuses for one round:

• You gain resistance to all incoming damage.
• You deal critical damage on attack rolls of 19 or 20.
• You are immune to knockbacks and becoming prone.

Once you use this feature, you must wait a long rest before you can use it again.

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