Cleric

To become a cleric is to become a messenger of the gods. The power the divine
offers is great, but it always comes with tremendous responsibility.

– Riggby the patriarch

 

 

Cleric

Arms and eyes upraised toward the sun and a prayer on his lips, an elf begins to glow with an inner light that spills out to heal his battle-worn companions.

Chanting a song of glory, a dwarf swings his axe in wide swaths to cut through the ranks of orcs arrayed against him, shouting praise to the gods with every foe’s fall.

Calling down a curse upon the forces of undeath, a human lifts her holy symbol as light pours from it to drive back the zombies crowding in on her companions.

Clerics are intermediaries between the mortal world and the distant planes of the gods. As varied as the gods they serve, clerics strive to embody the handiwork of their deities. No ordinary priest, a cleric is imbued with divine magic.

Healers and Warriors

Divine magic, as the name suggests, is the power of the gods, flowing from them into the world. Clerics are conduits for that power, manifesting it as miraculous effects. The gods don’t grant this power to everyone who seeks it, but only to those chosen to fulfill a high calling.

Harnessing divine magic doesn’t rely on study or training. A cleric might learn formulaic prayers and ancient rites, but the ability to cast cleric spells relies on devotion and an intuitive sense of a deity’s wishes.

Clerics combine the helpful magic of healing and inspiring their allies with spells that harm and hinder foes. They can provoke awe and dread, lay curses of plague or poison, and even call down flames from heaven to consume their enemies. For those evildoers who will benefit most from a mace to the head, clerics depend on their combat training to let them wade into melee with the power of the gods on their side.

Divine Agents

Not every acolyte or officiant at a temple or shrine is a cleric. Some priests are called to a simple life of temple service, carrying out their gods’ will through prayer and sacrifice, not by magic and strength of arms. In some cities, priesthood amounts to a political office, viewed as a stepping stone to higher positions of authority and involving no communion with a god at all. True clerics are rare in most hierarchies.

When a cleric takes up an adventuring life, it is usually because his or her god demands it. Pursuing the goals of the gods often involves braving dangers beyond the walls of civilization, smiting evil or seeking holy relics in ancient tombs. Many clerics are also expected to protect their deities’ worshipers, which can mean fighting rampaging orcs, negotiating peace between warring nations, or sealing a portal that would allow a demon prince to enter the world.

Most adventuring clerics maintain some connection to established temples and orders of their faiths. A temple might ask for a cleric’s aid, or a high priest might be in a position to demand it.

Creating a Cleric

As you create a cleric, the most important question to consider is which deity to serve and what principles you want your character to embody. Check with your DM to learn which deities are in your campaign.

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Cleric Details

Almost all the folk in the world who revere a deity live their lives without ever being directly touched by a divine being. As such, they can never know what it feels like to be a cleric—someone who is not only a devout worshiper, but who has also been invested with a measure of a deity’s power.

The question has long been debated: Does a mortal become a cleric as a consequence of deep devotion to one’s deity, thereby attracting the god’s favor? Or is it the deity who sees the potential in a person and calls that individual into service? Ultimately, perhaps, the answer doesn’t matter. However clerics come into being, the world needs clerics as much as clerics and deities need each other.

If you’re playing a cleric character, the following sections offer ways to add some detail to that character’s history and personality.

Temple

Most clerics start their lives ofservice as priests in an order, then later realize that they have been blessed by their god with the qualities needed to become a cleric. To prepare for this new duty, candidates typically receive instruction from a cleric of a temple or another place of study devoted to their deity.

Some temples are cut off from the world so that their occupants can focus on devotions, while other temples open their doors to minister to and heal the masses. What is noteworthy about the temple you studied at?

Temples

d6	Temple
1	Your temple is said to be the oldest surviving structure built to honor your god.
2	Acolytes of several like-minded deities all received instruction together in your temple.
3	You come from a temple famed for the brewery it operates. Some say you smell like one of its ales.
4	Your temple is a fortress and a proving ground that trains warrior-priests.
5	Your temple is a peaceful, humble place, filled with vegetable gardens and simple priests.
6	You served in a temple in the Outer Planes.

Keepsake

Many clerics have items a mong their personal gear that symbolize their faith, remind them of their vows, or otherwise help to keep them on their chosen paths. Even though such an item is not imbued with divine power, it is vitally important to its owner because of what it represents.

Keepsakes

d6	Keepsake
1	The finger bone of a saint
2	A metal-bound book that tells how to hunt and destroy infernal creatures
3	A pig’s whistle that reminds you of your humble and beloved mentor
4	A braid of hair woven from the tail of a unicorn
5	A scroll that describes how best to rid the world of necromancers
6	A runestone said to be blessed by your god

Secret

No mortal soul is entirely free ofsecond thoughts or doubt. Even a cleric must grapple with dark desires or the forbidden attraction of turning against the teachings of one’s deity.

If you haven’t considered this aspect of your character yet, see the table entries for some possibilities, or use them for inspiration. Your deep, dark secret might involve something you did (or are doing), or it could be rooted in the way you feel about the world and your role in it.

Secrets

d6	Secret
1	An imp offers you counsel. You try to ignore the creature, but sometimes its advice is helpful.
2	You believe that, in the final analysis, the gods are nothing more than ultrapowerful mortal creatures.
3	You acknowledge the power of the gods, but you think that most events are dictated by pure chance.
4	Even though you can work divine magic, you have never truly felt the presence of a divine essence within yourself.
5	You are plagued by nightmares that you believe are sent by your god as punishment for some unknown transgression.
6	In times of despair, you feel that you are but a plaything of the gods, and you resent their remoteness.

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Class Features

As a cleric, you gain the following class features.

Hit Points

Hit Dice:

1d8 per cleric level

Hit Points at 1st Level:

8 + your Constitution modifier

Hit Points at Higher Levels:

1d8 (or 5) + your Constitution modifier per cleric level after 1st

Proficiencies

Armor:

Light armor, medium armor, shields

Weapons:

Simple weapons

Tools:

None

Saving Throws:

Wisdom, Charisma

Skills:

Choose two from History, Insight, Medicine, Persuasion, and Religion.

Equipment

You start with the following equipment (or 5d4 × 10 gp), in addition to the equipment granted by your background:

• (a) a mace or (b) a warhammer (if proficient)
• (a) scale mail, (b) leather armor, or (c) chain mail (if proficient)
• (a) a light crossbow and 20 bolts or (b) any simple weapon
• (a) a priest’s pack or (b) an explorer’s pack
• A shield and a holy symbol

Spellcasting

As a conduit for divine power, you can cast cleric spells.

Cantrips

At 1st level, you know three cantrips of your choice from the cleric spell list. You learn additional cleric cantrips of your choice at higher levels, as shown in the Cantrips Known column of the Cleric table.

Preparing and Casting Spells

The Cleric table shows how many spell slots you have to cast your cleric spells of 1st level and higher. To cast one of these spells, you must expend a slot of the spell’s level or higher. You regain all expended spell slots when you finish a long rest.

You prepare the list of cleric spells that are available for you to cast, choosing from the cleric spell list. When you do so, choose a number of cleric spells equal to your Wisdom modifier + your cleric level (minimum of one spell). The spells must be of a level for which you have spell slots.

For example, if you are a 3rd-level cleric, you have four 1st-level and two 2nd-level spell slots. With a Wisdom of 16, your list of prepared spells can include six spells of 1st or 2nd level, in any combination. If you prepare the 1st-level spell cure wounds, you can cast it using a 1st-level or 2nd-level slot. Casting the spell doesn’t remove it from your list of prepared spells.

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Ability Score Improvement

When you reach 4th level, and again at 8th, 12th, 16th, and 19th level, you can increase one ability score of your choice by 2, or you can increase two ability scores of your choice by 1. As normal, you can’t increase an ability score above 20 using this feature.

Alternatively, you may instead choose a feat from this list. You must satisfy each prerequisite for your chosen feat, if any.

Cantrip Versatility

Beginning at 4th level, whenever you reach a level in this class that grants the Ability Score Improvement feature, you can replace one cantrip you learned from this class’s Spellcasting feature with another cantrip from the cleric spell list.

Destroy Undead

Starting at 5th level, when an undead fails its saving throw against your Turn Undead feature, the creature is instantly destroyed if its challenge rating is at or below a certain threshold, as shown in the Destroy Undead table.

Destroy Undead

Cleric Level	Destroys Undead of CR…
5th	½ or lower
8th	1 or lower
11th	2 or lower
14th	3 or lower
17th	4 or lower

Divine Intervention

Beginning at 10th level, you can call on your deity to intervene on your behalf when your need is great.

Imploring your deity’s aid requires you to use your action. Describe the assistance you seek, and roll percentile dice. If you roll a number equal to or lower than your cleric level, your deity intervenes. The DM chooses the nature of the intervention; the effect of any cleric spell or cleric domain spell would be appropriate.

If your deity intervenes, you can’t use this feature again for 7 days. Otherwise, you can use it again after you finish a long rest.

At 20th level, your call for intervention succeeds automatically, no roll required.

Divine Domains

In a pantheon, every deity has influence over different aspects of mortal life and civilization, called a deity’s domain. All the domains over which a deity has influence are called the deity’s portfolio. For example, the portfolio of the Greek god Apollo includes the domains of Knowledge, Life, and Light. As a cleric, you choose one aspect of your deity’s portfolio to emphasize, and you are granted powers related to that domain.

Your choice might correspond to a particular sect dedicated to your deity. Apollo, for example, could be worshipped as a deity of Light or Life, as he exhibits strong traits of both domains. Alternatively, your choice of domain could simply be a matter of personal preference, the aspect of the deity that appeals to you most.

 

 

Arcana Domain

Magic is an energy that suffuses the multiverse and that fuels both destruction and creation. Gods of the Arcana domain know the secrets and potential of magic intimately. For some of these gods, magical knowledge is a great responsibility that comes with a special understanding of the nature of reality. Other gods of Arcana see magic as pure power, to be used as its wielder sees fit.

The gods of this domain are often associated with knowledge, as learning and arcane power tend to go hand-in-hand.

Arcana Domain Spells

Cleric Level	Spells
1st	detect magic, magic missile
3rd	levitate, Nystul’s magic aura
5th	dispel magic, magic circle
7th	arcane eye, Leomund’s secret chest
9th	planar binding, teleportation circle

Arcana Initiate

When you choose this domain at 1st level, you gain proficiency in the Arcana skill, and you gain two cantrips of your choice from the wizard spell list. These cantrips count as cleric spells for you but don’t count against the number of cantrips you know.

Arcane Banishment

Cleric Level	Banishes Creatures of CR…
5th	½ or lower
8th	1 or lower
11th	2 or lower
14th	3 or lower
17th	4 or lower

Spell Breaker

Starting at 6th level, when you restore hit points to an ally with a spell of 1st level or higher, you can also end one spell of your choice on that creature. The level of the spell you end must be equal to or lower than the level of the spell slot you use to cast the healing spell.

Blessed Strikes

At 8th level, you gain the ability to infuse your weapon strikes with the arcane power of the weave. When a creature takes damage from one of your cleric cantrips or weapon attacks, you can also deal 1d6 force damage to that creature.

Once you deal this damage, you can’t use this feature again until the start of your next turn.

Arcane Mystery

At 17th level, you choose four spells from the wizard spell list, one from each of the following levels: 6th, 7th, 8th, and 9th. You add them to your list of domain spells. Like your other domain spells, they are always prepared and count as cleric spells for you.

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Grave Domain

Gods of the grave watch over the line between life and death. To these deities, death and the afterlife are a foundational part of the multiverse. To desecrate the peace of the dead is an abomination.

Followers of these deities seek to put wandering spirits to rest, destroy the undead, and ease the suffering of the dying. Their magic also allows them to stave off death for a time, particularly for a person who still has some great work to accomplish in the world. This is a delay of death, not a denial of it, for death will eventually get its due.

Grave Domain Spells

Cleric Level	Spells
1st	bane, false life
3rd	gentle repose, ray of enfeeblement
5th	revivify, vampiric touch
7th	blight, death ward
9th	antilife shell, raise dead

Circle of Mortality

At 1st level, you gain the ability to manipulate the line between life and death. When you would normally roll one or more dice to restore hit points with a spell to a creature at 0 hit points, you instead use the highest number possible for each die.

In addition, you learn the spare the dying cantrip, which counts as a cleric cantrip for you but doesn’t count against the number of cantrips you know. For you, it has a range of 30 feet, and you can cast it as a bonus action.

Eyes of the Grave

At 1st level, you gain the ability to sense the presence of the undead, whose existence is an insult to the natural cycle of life. As an action, you can open your awareness to magically detect undead.

When you do, you know the location of any undead creature within 60 feet of you that isn’t protected from divination magic. You can track the location of each creature you detect this way for 10 minutes, or until you move more than 1 mile away from the creature. This sense doesn’t tell you anything about a creature’s capabilities or identity.

You can use this feature a number of times equal to your proficiency bonus, and you regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest.

Channel Divinity:

Path to the Grave

Starting at 2nd level, you can use your Channel Divinity to mark another creature’s life force for termination.

As an action, you choose one creature you can see within 30 feet of you, cursing it until the end of your next turn. The next time you or an ally of yours hits the cursed creature with an attack, the creature has vulnerability to all the damage caused by that attack, and then the curse ends.

Sentinel at Death’s Door

By 6th level, you gain the ability to impede death’s progress. As a reaction when you or a creature you can see within 30 feet of you suffers a critical hit, you can turn that hit into a normal hit. Any effects triggered by a critical hit are canceled.

You can use this feature a number of times equal to your Wisdom modifier (minimum of once), and you regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest.

Blessed Strikes

At 8th level, you gain the ability to channel negative energy into each of your attacks. When a creature takes damage from one of your cleric cantrips or weapon attacks, you can also deal 1d8 necrotic damage to that creature.

Once you deal this damage, you can’t use this feature again until the start of your next turn.

Keeper of Souls

Starting at 17th level, you can seize a trace of vitality from a parting soul and use it to heal the living. When an enemy you can see dies within 60 feet of you, you or one creature of your choice that is within 60 feet of you regains hit points equal to the enemy’s number of Hit Dice.

You can use this feature only if you aren’t incapacitated. Once you use it, you can’t do so again until the start of your next turn.

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Life Domain

The Life domain focuses on the vibrant positive energy—one of the fundamental forces of the universe—that sustains all life. The gods of life promote vitality and health through healing the sick and wounded, caring for those in need, and driving away the forces of death and undeath. Almost any non-evil deity can claim influence over this domain, particularly agricultural deities, sun gods , gods of healing or endurance, and gods of home and community.

Life Domain Spells

Cleric Level	Spells
1st	bless, cure wounds
3rd	lesser restoration, spiritual weapon
5th	beacon of hope, revivify
7th	death ward, guardian of faith
9th	greater restoration, reincarnate

When you choose this domain at 1st level, you gain proficiency with heavy armor.

Disciple of Life

Also starting at 1st level, your healing spells are more effective. Whenever you use a spell of 1st level or higher to restore hit points to a creature, the creature regains additional hit points equal to 2 + the spell’s level.

Channel Divinity: Preserve Life

Starting at 2nd level, you can use your Channel Divinity to heal the badly injured. As an action, you present your holy symbol and evoke healing energy that can restore a number of hit points equal to five times your cleric level. Choose any creatures within 30 feet of you, and divide those hit points among them. This feature can restore a creature to no more than half of its hit point maximum. You can’t use this feature on an undead or a construct.

Blessed Healer

Beginning at 6th level, the healing spells you cast on others heal you as well. When you cast a spell of 1st level or higher that restores hit points to a creature other than you, you regain hit points equal to 2 + the spell’s level.

Blessed Strikes

At 8th level, you gain the ability to infuse your attacks with divine energy. When a creature takes damage from one of your cleric cantrips or weapon attacks, you can also deal 1d8 radiant damage to that creature.

Once you deal this damage, you can’t use this feature again until the start of your next turn.

Supreme Healing

Starting at 17th level, when you would normally roll one or more dice to restore hit points with a spell, you instead use the highest number possible for each die. For example, instead of restoring 2d6 hit points to a creature, you restore 12 hit points.

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Light Domain

Gods of lightpromote the ideals of rebirth and renewal, truth, vigilance, and beauty, often using the symbol of the sun. Some of these gods are portrayed as the sun itself or as a charioteer who guides the sun across the sky. Others are tireless sentinels whose eyes pierce every shadow and see through every deception. Some are deities of beauty and artistry, who teach that art is a vehicle for the soul’s improvement.

Clerics of a god of light are enlightened souls infused with radiance and the power of their gods’ discerning vision, charged with chasing away lies and burning away darkness.

Light Domain Spells

Cleric Level	Spells
1st	burning hands, faerie fire
3rd	flaming sphere, scorching ray
5th	daylight, fireball
7th	dawn, wall of fire
9th	flame strike, wall of light

When you choose this domain at 1st level, you gain the light cantrip. If you already know it, you gain one other cleric cantrip of your choice.

Warding Flare

Also at 1st level, you can interpose divine light between yourself and an attacking enemy. When you are attacked by a creature within 30 feet of you that you can see, you can use your reaction to impose disadvantage on the attack roll, causing light to flare before the attacker before it hits or misses. An attacker that can’t be blinded is immune to this feature.

You can use this feature a number of times equal to your proficiency bonus, and you regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest.

Channel Divinity:

Radiance of the Dawn

Starting at 2nd level, you can use your Channel Divinity to harness sunlight, banishing darkness and dealing radiant damage to your foes.

As an action, you present your holy symbol, and any magical darkness within 30 feet of you is dispelled. Additionally, each hostile creature within 30 feet of you must make a Constitution saving throw. A creature takes radiant damage equal to 2d10 + your cleric level on a failed saving throw, and half as much damage on a successful one. A creature that has total cover from you is not affected.

At 10th level, this damage increases to 4d10.

Improved Flare

Starting at 6th level, you can also use your Warding Flare feature when a creature that you can see within 30 feet of you attacks a creature other than you.

Blessed Strikes

At 8th level, you can now channel radiant energy into each of your attacks. When a creature takes damage from one of your cleric cantrips or weapon attacks, you can also deal 1d8 radiant damage to that creature.

Once you deal this damage, you can’t use this feature again until the start of your next turn.

Corona of Light

Starting at 17th level, you can use your action to activate an aura of sunlight that lasts for 1 minute or until you dismiss it using another action. You emit bright light in a 60-foot radius and dim light 30 feet beyond that. Your enemies in the bright light have disadvantage on saving throws against any spell that deals fire or radiant damage.

Nature Domain

Gods of nature are as varied as the natural world itself, from inscrutable gods of the deep forests to friendly deities associated with particular springs and groves. Druids revere nature as a whole and might serve one of these deities, practicing mysterious rites and reciting all-but-forgotten prayers in their own secret tongue. These clerics might hunt the evil monstrosities that despoil the woodlands, bless the harvest of the faithful, or wither the crops of those who anger their gods.

Nature Domain Spells

Cleric Level	Spells
1st	earth tremor, speak with animals
3rd	enhance ability, spike growth
5th	plant growth, wall of water
7th	dominate beast, guardian of nature
9th	insect plague, tree stride

 

 

Acolyte of Nature

At 1st level, you learn one druid cantrip of your choice. You also gain proficiency in one of the following skills of your choice: Animal Handling, Nature, or Survival.

Nature’s Guardian

Also at 1st level, you gain proficiency with heavy armor.

Channel Divinity:

Animal Companion

Starting at 2nd level, you can use your Channel Divinity to summon an animal companion. As an action, you present your holy symbol and invoke the name of your deity. You may cast the find familiar spell, without material components.

When you cast the spell in this way, the familiar is a fey instead of a beast, and the familiar disappears after a number of hours equal to half your cleric level (rounded down).

Dampen Elements

Starting at 6th level, when you or a creature within 30 feet of you takes acid, cold, fire, lightning, or thunder damage, you can use your reaction to grant resistance to the creature against that instance of the damage.

Blessed Strikes

At 8th level, you can infuse your attacks with the fury of nature. When a creature takes damage from one of your cleric cantrips or weapon attacks, you can also deal 1d8 acid, cold, fire, poison, or lightning damage to the target. You choose the type whenever you use this feature.

Once you deal this damage, you can’t use this feature again until the start of your next turn.

Master of Nature

At 17th level, you gain the ability to command animals and plant creatures.

As an action, you present your holy symbol and invoke the name of your deity. Choose a number of beasts or plants that can see you within 30 feet of you up to a number equal to your proficiency bonus. Each creature must make a Wisdom saving throw. If a creature fails, it is charmed by you. You can use a bonus action on your turn to verbally command what each charmed creature will do on its next turn. While a creature is charmed by you, it is friendly to you and other creatures you designate.

This effect lasts for 1 minute and ends early if you or an ally causes damage to the affected creature, or if you are incapacitated.

Once you successfully charm a creature with this feature, you can’t use this feature again until you finish a long rest.

Order Domain

The Order Domain represents discipline, as well as devotion to the laws that govern a society, an institution, or a philosophy. Clerics of Order meditate on logic and justice as they serve their gods, examples of which appear in the Order Deities table.

Clerics of Order believe that well-crafted laws establish legitimate hierarchies, and those selected by law to lead must be obeyed. Those who obey must do so to the best of their ability, and if those who lead fail to protect the law, they must be replaced. In this manner, law weaves a web of obligations that create order and security in a chaotic multiverse.

Order Domain Spells

Cleric Level	Spells
1st	command, heroism
3rd	hold person, zone of truth
5th	mass healing word, slow
7th	compulsion, locate creature
9th	commune, dominate person

Holy Commander

When you choose this domain at 1st level, you gain proficiency with heavy armor. You also gain proficiency in the Intimidation or Persuasion skill (your choice).

Voice of Authority

Starting at 1st level, you can invoke the power of law to embolden an ally to attack. If you cast a spell with a spell slot of 1st level or higher and target an ally with the spell, that ally can use their reaction immediately after the spell to make one weapon attack against a creature of your choice that you can see.

If the spell targets more than one ally, you choose the ally who can make the attack.

 

 

Channel Divinity: Order’s Demand

At 2nd level, you can use your Channel Divinity to exert an intimidating presence over others.

As an action, you present your holy symbol, and each creature of your choice that can see or hear you within 30 feet of you must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw or be charmed by you until the end of your next turn or until the charmed creature takes any damage. You can also cause any of the charmed creatures to drop what they are holding when they fail the saving throw.

Embodiment of the Law

At 6th level, you become remarkably adept at channeling magical energy to compel others.

If you cast an enchantment spell from the enchantment school using a spell slot of 1st level or higher, you can change the spell’s casting time to 1 bonus action for this casting, provided the spell’s casting time is normally 1 action.

You can use this feature a number of times equal to your proficiency bonus, and you regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest.

Blessed Strikes

At 8th level, you can infuse your attacks with the fury of nature. When a creature takes damage from one of your cleric cantrips or weapon attacks, you can also deal 1d8 psychic damag to the target.

Once you deal this damage, you can’t use this feature again until the start of your next turn.

Order’s Wrath

Starting at 17th level, enemies you designate for destruction wilt under the combined efforts of you and your allies. If you deal psychic damage to a creature on your turn, you can curse that creature until the start of your next turn. The next time one of your allies hits the cursed creature with an attack, the target also takes 2d8 psychic damage, and the curse ends. You can curse a creature in this way only once per turn.

Peace Domain

The balm of peace thrives at the heart of healthy communities, between friendly nations, and in the souls of the kindhearted. The gods of peace inspire people of all sorts to resolve conflict and to stand up against those forces that try to prevent peace from flourishing. See the Peace Deities table for a list of some of the gods associated with this domain.

Clerics of the Peace Domain preside over the signing of treaties, and they are often asked to arbitrate in disputes. These clerics’ blessings draw people together and help them shoulder one another’s burdens, and the clerics’ magic aids those who are driven to fight for the way of peace.

Peace Domain Spells

Cleric Level	Spells
1st	heroism, sanctuary
3rd	aid, warding bond
5th	beacon of hope, sending
7th	aura of purity, Otiluke’s resilient sphere
9th	greater restoration, Rary’s telepathic bond

Calming Presence

When you choose this domain at 1st level, you gain proficiency in the Insight, Performance, or Persuasion skill (your choice).

Emboldening Bond

Starting at 1st level, you can forge an empowering bond among people who are at peace with one another. As an action, you choose a number of willing creatures within 30 feet of you (this can include yourself) up to your Wisdom modifier (minimum of two creatures). You create a magical bond among them for 10 minutes or until you use this feature again. While any bonded creature is within 30 feet of another, the creature can roll a d4 and add the number rolled to an attack roll, an ability check, or a saving throw it makes.

Each creature can add the d4 no more than once per turn. If one bonded creature willingly attacks another, the bond is immediately broken for all creatures.

You can use this feature a number of times equal to your proficiency bonus, and you regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest.

Channel Divinity: Balm of Peace

At 2nd level, you can use your Channel Divinity to make your very presence a soothing balm. As an action, you can move up to your speed, without provoking opportunity attacks, and when you move within 5 feet of any other creature during this action, you can restore a number of hit points to that creature equal to 2d6 + your Wisdom modifier (minimum of 1 hit point). A creature can receive this healing only once whenever you take this action.

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Protective Bond

At 6th level, the bond you forge between people helps them protect each other.

When a creature affected by your Emboldening Bond feature is about to take damage, a second bonded creature within 30 feet of the first can use its reaction to teleport to an unoccupied space within 5 feet of the first creature. The second creature then takes all the damage instead.

Neither creature can benefit from Emboldening Bond until the feature is used again.

Blessed Strikes

At 8th level, you gain the ability to infuse your attacks with divine energy. When a creature takes damage from one of your cleric cantrips or weapon attacks, you can also deal 1d8 radiant damage to that creature.

Once you deal this damage, you can’t use this feature again until the start of your next turn.

Expansive Bond

Beginning at 17th level, the benefits of your Emboldening Bond and Protective Bond features now work when the creatures are within 60 feet of each other. Moreover, when a creature uses Protective Bond to take someone else’s damage, the creature has resistance to that damage.

Tempest Domain

Gods whose portfolios include the Tempest domain govern storms, sea, and sky. They include gods of lightning and thunder, gods of earthquakes, some fire gods, and certain gods of violence, physical strength, and courage. In some pantheons, a god of this domain rules over other deities and is known for swift justice delivered by thunderbolts.

In the pantheons of seafaring people, gods of this domain are ocean deities and the patrons of sailors. Tempest gods send their clerics to inspire fear in the common folk, either to keep those folk on the path of righteousness or to encourage them to offer sacrifices of propitiation to ward off divine wrath.

Tempest Domain Spells

Cleric Level	Spells
1st	fog cloud, thunderwave
3rd	gust of wind, shatter
5th	call lightning, thunderstep
7th	control water, storm sphere
9th	destructive wave, maelstrom

Conductive Equipment

At 1st level, you gain proficiency with martial weapons and heavy armor.

Wrath of the Storm

Also at 1st level, you can thunderously rebuke attackers. When a creature within 5 feet of you that you can see hits you with an attack, you can use your reaction to cause the creature to make a Dexterity saving throw. The creature takes 2d8 lightning or thunder damage (your choice) on a failed saving throw, and half as much damage on a successful one.

You can use this feature a number of times equal to your proficiency bonus, and you regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest.

Channel Divinity:

Destructive Wrath

Starting at 2nd level, you can use your Channel Divinity to wield the power of the storm with unchecked ferocity.

When you roll lightning or thunder damage, you can use your Channel Divinity to deal maximum damage, instead of rolling.

Thunderbolt Strike

At 6th level, when you deal lightning damage to a Large or smaller creature, you can also push it up to 10 feet away from you.

Blessed Strikes

At 8th level, you gain the ability to infuse your attacks with divine energy. When a creature takes damage from one of your cleric cantrips or weapon attacks, you can also deal 1d8 thunder damage to that creature.

Once you deal this damage, you can’t use this feature again until the start of your next turn.

Stormborn

At 17th level, you have a flying speed equal to your current walking speed whenever you are not underground or indoors. While you are flying, you are resistant to lightning and thunder damage.

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Trickery Domain

Gods of trickery are mischief-makers and instigators who stand as a constant challenge to the accepted order among both gods and mortals. Their clerics are a disruptive force in the world, puncturing pride, mocking tyrants, stealing from the rich, freeing captives, and flouting hollow traditions. They prefer subterfuge, pranks, deception, and theft rather than direct confrontation.

Trickery Domain Spells

Cleric Level	Spells
1st	charm person, disguise self
3rd	mirror image, pass without trace
5th	blink, dispel magic
7th	dimension door, polymorph
9th	dominate person, modify memory

Silver Tongue

At 1st level, you gain proficiency with martial weapons and two of the following skills: Deception, Persuasion, Stealth, and Sleight of Hand.

Blessing of the Trickster

Starting when you choose this domain at 1st level, you can use your action to touch a creature, giving them advantage on Stealth checks. This blessing lasts for 1 hour or until you use this feature again.

Channel Divinity: Invoke Duplicity

Starting at 2nd level, you can use your Channel Divinity to create an illusory duplicate of yourself.

 As an action, you create a perfect illusion of yourself that lasts for 1 minute, or until you lose your concentration (as if you were concentrating on a spell). The illusion appears in an unoccupied space that you can see within 30 feet of you. As a bonus action on your turn, you can move the illusion up to 30 feet to a space you can see, but it must remain within 120 feet of you.

For the duration, you can cast spells as though you were in the illusion’s space, but you must use your own senses. Additionally, when both you and your illusion are within 5 feet of a creature that can see the illusion, you have advantage on attack rolls against that creature, given how distracting the illusion is to the target.

Channel Divinity:

Cloak of Shadows

Starting at 6th level, you can use your Channel Divinity to vanish. You can use your bonus action to become invisible until the end of your next turn.

Blessed Strikes

At 8th level, you gain the ability to infuse your attacks with divine energy. When a creature takes damage from one of your cleric cantrips or weapon attacks, you can also deal 1d10 poison damage to that creature.

Once you deal this damage, you can’t use this feature again until the start of your next turn.

At 17th level, you can create up to four duplicates of yourself, instead of one, when you use Invoke Duplicity. When you move on your turn, you can move any number of your duplicates up to 30 feet, to a maximum range of 120 feet.

Twilight Domain

The twilit transition from light into darkness often brings calm and even joy, as the day’s labors end and the hours of rest begin. The darkness can also bring terrors, but the gods of twilight guard against the horrors of the night.

Clerics who serve these deities bring comfort to those who seek rest and protect them by venturing into the encroaching darkness to ensure that the dark is a comfort, not a terror.

Twilight Domain Spells

Cleric Level	Spells
1st	faerie fire, sleep
3rd	moonbeam, see invisibility
5th	aura of vitality, Leomund’s tiny hut
7th	aura of life, greater invisibility
9th	circle of power, mislead

Bulwark of Dusk

At 1st level, you gain proficiency with martial weapons and heavy armor.

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War Domain

War has many manifestations. It can make heroes of ordinary people. It can be desperate and horrific, with acts of cruelty and cowardice eclipsing instances of excellence and courage. In either case, the gods of war watch over warriors and reward them for their great deeds. The clerics of such gods excel in battle, inspiring others to fight the good fight or offering acts of violence as prayers.

Gods of war include champions of honor and chivalry as well as gods of destruction and pillage and gods of conquest and domination. Other war gods take a more neutral stance, promoting war in all its manifestations and supporting warriors in any circumstance.

War Domain Spells

Cleric Level	Spells
1st	divine favor, shield of faith
3rd	magic weapon, spiritual weapon
5th	crusader’s mantle, spirit guardians
7th	freedom of movement, stoneskin
9th	flame strike, hold monster

Divine Soldier

At 1st level, you gain proficiency with martial weapons and heavy armor.

War Priest

From 1st level, your god delivers bolts of inspiration to you while you are engaged in battle. Once on each of your turns when you use the Attack action, you can make one additional attack as part of the same action.

You can use this feature a number of times equal to your proficiency bonus, and you regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest.

Channel Divinity: Guided Strike

Starting at 2nd level, you can use your Channel Divinity to strike with supernatural accuracy. When you make an attack roll, you can use your Channel Divinity to gain a +10 bonus to the roll. You make this choice after you see the roll, but before the DM says whether the attack hits or misses.

Channel Divinity:

War God’s Blessing

At 6th level, when a creature within 30 feet of you makes an attack roll, you can use your reaction to grant that creature a +10 bonus to the roll, using your Channel Divinity. You make this choice after you see the roll, but before the DM says whether the attack hits or misses.

Blessed Strikes

At 8th level, you gain the ability to infuse your attacks with divine energy. When a creature takes damage from one of your cleric cantrips or weapon attacks, you can also deal an additional 1d8 damage to that creature.

Once you deal this damage, you can’t use this feature again until the start of your next turn.

Twilight Shroud

Starting at 17th level, the twilight that you summon offers a protective embrace: you and your allies have half cover while in the sphere created by your Twilight Sanctuary.

Avatar of Battle

At 17th level, you gain resistance to bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing damage from nonmagical weapons.

 

 

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