Velameestra Windrunner (Level 17 Elf Wizard)

Unburdening. You gain inspiration whenever you make sacrifices to attain new lore, contacts, or items to aid your transformation. Examples include sever earthly attachments such as wealth or comfort, behave appropriately akin to your pursued form, spend inordinate time in your transformation’s pursuit.

Learning. You draw inspiration from research, understanding, and gaining new insights and data. You gain inspiration whenever you make an arcane, divine, scholastic, or scientific discovery. Examples include closely examine a previously unknown or rare creature or phenomenon, discover something thought to be a myth or impossible, learn new information after at least 8 hours studying from a source of knowledge such as a library, book, or powerful artifact.

Unearthly Diplomacy. Your unearthly aspirations grant you insights into the minds of even utterly alien beings. As an Action, you may spend your Inspiration to form a connection with a non-humanoid creature you can see that has a CR equal to or less than your level. You communicate freely, even if you do not share a language or the creature would be normally unable to speak. You have no control over a creature you connect with in this way. The knowledge and awareness of a creature is limited by its intellect or perceptions, but most give you information about nearby locations, monsters in the area, and knowledge of whatever it perceived within the past day. This connection lasts for up to 1 hour or until you use an Action to end it.

Critical Evaluation. Drawing upon a lifetime of study, you leap to accurate conclusions with only preliminary findings. As a Bonus Action you may spend your inspiration to quickly evaluate a creature or item you can see and accurately determine one objective attribute of your choice. When evaluating a creature in this way, you may determine its resistances, immunities, vulnerabilities, what languages it speaks, or its Armor Class. When evaluating an item in this way, you may determine if it is magical, poisonous, cursed, trapped, or its approximate value.

Darkvision. The range of your darkvision increases by 90 feet. ^{(Modified by True Vampire)}

Undead Nature. You do not age and cannot die of natural causes. You do not need to breathe air, and eating normal food no longer sates your hunger. However, you do not need to eat or drink as long as you have dealt damage to a living creature with your bite attack within the last day.

Spider Climb. You gain a climbing speed equal to your walking speed, and you gain the ability to move up, down, and across vertical surfaces and upside down along ceilings, while leaving your hands free.

Anima Vampyr. If you deal necrotic or shadow damage with a spell or magical ability, you do not need to drink blood for a week. ^{(Added by Dark Adaptation)}

Claws. You can spontaneously grow monstrous claws to ensnare your foes and make unarmed strikes. When you hit with them, the strike deals 2d4 + 4 slashing damage, instead of the bludgeoning damage normal for an unarmed strike. ^{(Added by Child of the Night)}

Bite. You gain a fanged bite attack, which is a special melee weapon attack with the finesse quality that may be used on a willing creature, or on a creature who is Incapacitated, Restrained, or that you are Grappling. If you hit with it, you deal 1d6 + 4 piercing damage plus 3d6 necrotic damage. If the target is not a construct or undead, its hit point maximum is reduced by an amount equal to the necrotic damage taken, and you regain hit points equal to that amount. The reduction lasts until the target finishes a long rest. A creature dies if this effect reduces its hit point maximum to 0. You can only make one bite attack per turn.

Undead Resistance. You have resistance to poison, necrotic damage and shadow damage, and to bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing damage from nonmagical weapons.

Natural Armor. When you are not wearing armor, your AC is equal to 16.

Regeneration. At the beginning of your turn, you regain 17 hit points if you have at least 1 hit point and aren't in sunlight or running water. If you take radiant or holy damage, you don't restore hit points at the start of your next turn. ^{(Added by Child of the Night)}

Misty Escape. When you drop to 0 hit points outside of your resting place, you transform into your cloud of mist form, provided you aren't in sunlight or running water. While at 0 hit points, you can't revert to your vampiric form, and you must reach your resting place within 2 hours or die. Once in your resting place, you revert to your vampiric form and are Paralyzed until you regain 1 hit point after spending 1 hour there. ^{(Added by True Vampire)}

Children of the Night. Provided the sun is not up, you can cast the conjure animals spell without mana or components, but the beasts must be creatures you can speak to using your Night Speech ability. The spell does not require you to maintain concentration, and it always lasts for 1 hour, unless you die or you dismiss the creatures with a Bonus Action. This magical effect cannot be dispelled. After using this ability, you may not do so again until you finish a Long Rest. ^{(Added by True Vampire)}

Night Speech. You can speak to bats, rats, wolves, and other creatures of the night as if you shared a common language. If you know the find familiar spell, your familiar can take the form of a Medium or Large beast of CR 1/4th or less as long as you can speak to it with this ability. ^{(Added by Child of the Night)}

Charm. You may attempt to charm and beguile others. You may target one humanoid, fiend, or beast you can speak with using your Night Speech ability that you can see within 30 feet. If the target can see you, the target must succeed on a DC 13 Wisdom saving throw against this magic or be Charmed by you. The Charmed target regards you as a trusted friend to be heeded and protected. Although the target isn't under your control, it takes your requests or actions in the most favorable way it can, and it is a willing target for your bite attack. Each time you or your allies do something harmful to the target, it can repeat the saving throw, ending the effect on itself as a success. Otherwise, it lasts 24 hours or until you are killed, travel to a different plane of existence, or take a Bonus Action to end the effect. ^{(Added by True Vampire)}

Shapechanger. If you aren't in sunlight or running water, you can polymorph into a CR 0 creature, such as a bat or a spider, or a Medium cloud of mist or back into your true form as an Action. While in this form, you can't speak, your speed becomes that of the beast, and you gain the senses of the new form. Your other statistics are unchanged. Anything you are wearing or carrying transforms with you. You revert to your true form if you die. While in mist form, you can't take any actions, speak, or manipulate objects. You are weightless, have a flying speed of 20 feet, can hover, and can enter a hostile creature's space and stop there. In addition, if air can pass through a space, the mist can do so without squeezing, but you can't pass through water. You have Advantage on Strength, Dexterity, and Constitution saving throws, and you are immune to all nonmagical damage, except the damage it takes from sunlight. ^{(Added by Child of the Night)}

Vampiric Progeny. Living creatures killed by your vampiric bite and then buried in the ground rise the following night as vampire spawn under your control. Vampire spawn who feed from you are no longer under your control. ^{(Added by True Vampire)}

Forbiddance. You can't enter a residence without an invitation from one of the occupants. If you are forced to enter against your will, or if your invitation is revoked while inside, you have Disadvantage on attack rolls, ability checks, and saving throws while you remain in the residence.

Harmed by Water. You take 20 acid damage if you end your turn in running water.

Sunlight Sensitivity. You have Disadvantage on attack rolls and Wisdom (Perception) checks that rely on sight when you, the target of the attack, or whatever you are trying to perceive is in direct sunlight. ^{(Alleviated by Dark Adaptation)}

Stake to the Heart. If a piercing weapon made of wood is driven into your heart while you are Incapacitated in your resting place, you are Paralyzed until the stake is removed. ^{(Alleviated by True Vampire)}

Resting Place. You normally cannot sleep and gain no benefit from a long rest unless you spend it in your own grave. A grave can be designated as your resting place by mixing a large amount of grave dirt with the local soil, or by transporting your casket there.

Echoes of the Past. You have expanded what constitutes your resting place to include things that were significant to you in life. Any location with strong ties to your experiences in life, such as your childhood residence or a room decorated with several works of art you created while alive, can count as a resting place. Once a week, any location can be designated as a resting place as long as you keep a single item of significance there, be it a plank of wood from your coffin, a satchel of dirt from your grave, or your favorite doll. This ritual takes one hour, and when you designate a new resting place with this ability, the old one becomes inert. ^{(Added by Dark Adaptation)}

Cold Adaptation. Your body is uniquely adapted for freezing temperatures, and you are only affected by the most extreme chills. You do not need to make saves to resist exhaustion when exposed to Extreme Cold unless the temperatures are below -50 degrees Fahrenheit.

Season of Death. Beasts recognize you as an unnatural embodiment of winter that acts as a shadow of death even in the warmest months. A beast's opinion of you is automatically one step lower than it otherwise would be, thus trained mounts and animal companions become nervous and skittish, and wild beasts automatically respond in a hostile manner. This does not affect the opinion of creatures that you can communicate with via the Child of the Night vampyrism feat.