Amaranthea Dawnweaver (Level 20 Elf Bard)

Heart of Darkness

Those who look into your eyes can see that you have faced unimaginable horror and that you are no stranger to darkness. Though they might fear you, commoners will extend you every courtesy and do their utmost to help you. Unless you have shown yourself to be a danger to them, they will even take up arms to fight alongside you, should you find yourself facing an enemy alone.

Source of Inspiration:

War of Attrition. You gain Inspiration whenever you strike a blow against an especially powerful creature related to your destiny (but not necessarily your specific destined foe). Examples include forcing a powerful enemy's retreat, obtaining an item important to their defeat, get significant insight into their location or intentions, or defeating one of their trusted lieutenants.

Served Cold. You draw inspiration from the wails of those who have wronged you. You gain inspiration whenever you outwit a foe. Examples include successfully attack a surprised opponent, lead a foe into a prepared trap, trick an enemy into harming themself or greatly benefiting you.

Inspiration Feature:

Slayer's Tenacity. Fighting the creatures of darkness grants you uncommon fortitude to fight through debilitating effects that would incapacitate lesser folk. At the beginning of your turn, you can spend an Inspiration to suppress the effects of the Blinded, Charmed, Chilled, Deafened, Frightened, Incapacitated, Paralyzed, Poisoned, Slowed, and Stunned conditions, as well as any negative effects from fatigue and strife, until the end of your turn.

Cloak and Dagger. You know how to avert suspicion when danger closes in. Whenever you or an ally you can see fail a Sleight of Hand or Stealth check, you can use your reaction to spend your inspiration and undo any consequences of that failed check.

Fulfillment Feature:

Ender of Legends. Choose a creature type (Dragons). Creatures of the chosen type have one less Legendary Resistance while they are in combat with you.

Wyrm-Blessed

Either via blessings, proximity, or birthright, you have been changed by exposure to the awesome power of dragons, granting you the following benefits:

• Elemental Infusion. As a Bonus Action, you can touch a simple or martial weapon and infuse it with one of the following damage types: acid, cold, fire, lightning, or poison. For the next minute, the weapon deals an extra 1d4 damage of the chosen type when it hits. After you use this Bonus Action, you can't do so again until you finish a long rest.
• Protective Wings. You can manifest protective wings that can shield you or others. When you or another creature you can see within 5 feet of you is hit by an attack roll, you can use your Reaction to manifest spectral wings from your back for a moment. You grant a bonus to the target's AC equal to your proficiency bonus against that attack roll, potentially causing it to miss. You can use this Reaction a number of times equal to your proficiency bonus, and you regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest.
• Reactive Resistance. When you take acid, cold, fire, lightning, or poison damge, you can use your Reaction to give yourself resistance to that instance of damage. You can use this Reaction a number of times equal to your proficiency bonus, and you regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest.

Bardic Inspiration

You can inspire others through stirring words or music. To do so, you use a Bonus Action on your turn to choose one creature other than yourself within 60 feet of you who can see or hear you. That creature gains one Bardic Inspiration die, a d6.

Once within the next hour, the creature can roll the die and add the number rolled to one ability check, attack roll, or saving throw it makes. The creature can wait until after it rolls the d20 before deciding to use the Bardic Inspiration die, but must decide before the DM says whether the roll succeeds or fails. Once the Bardic Inspiration die is rolled, it is lost. A creature can have only one Bardic Inspiration die at a time.

You can use this feature a number of times equal to your Spellcasting modifier (a minimum of once). You regain any expended uses when you finish a Long Rest.

Your Bardic Inspiration die changes when you reach certain levels in this class. The die becomes a d8 at 5th level, a d10 at 10th level, and a d12 at 15th level.

Classical Archetype - Scoundrel

• Cutting Words. You learn how to use your wit to supernaturally distract, confuse, and otherwise sap the confidence and competence of others. When a creature that you can see within 60 feet of yourself succeeds on an Ability Check, Attack Roll, or Saving Throw, you can use your Reaction to expend one of your uses of Bardic Inspiration, rolling a Bardic Inspiration die and subtracting the number rolled from the creature’s roll, potentially turning it into a failure. Alternatively, you can use this ability to reduce a Damage Roll by the amount rolled. You can then deal psychic damage to that creature equal to the number rolled on the Bardic Inspiration die plus your spellcasting ability modifier.
• Jack of All Trades. You can add half your Proficiency Bonus (round down) to any ability check you make that uses a skill proficiency you lack and that doesn't otherwise use your Proficiency Bonus.
• Expertise.
  • Investigation
  • Insight
  • Society
  • Streetwise
• Natural Talent.
  • Loremaster of Creatures (Wizard)
  • The Pen's Companion (Bard)
  • Herbal Apothecary (Druid)
  • Multi-Faceted (Bard)

Bardic Speciality

• Oration. When you grant Bardic Inspiration, you can expend additional Bardic Inspirations to grant them to additional creatures within range up to half your proficiency bonus.
  • Improved Oration. When you grant Bardic Inspiration, you may also use your Battle Hymn using the same bonus action.
• Compositions. If you are within 5 feet of a creature when you grant them Bardic Inspiration, you may do so in the form of a piece of writing. If you do, the Bardic Inspiration lasts until it is used or until you finish a long rest. (Multi-Faceted)

Font of Inspiration

You regain all of your expended uses of Bardic Inspiration when you finish a short or long rest.

• Improved Font of Inspiration: When a creature uses your Bardic Inspiration on a d20 test and fails, they do not expend the Bardic Inspiration.
• Superior Font of Inspiration:The heights of your bardic prowess allow you to ride the highs and lows of life to keep the show going. When you or a creature you can see within 60 feet rolls a 1 or a 20 on a d20 Test, you regain one expended use of your bardic inspiration. If the creature is an ally other than you, you can spend your Reaction to grant them the bardic inspiration instead, even if you have no expended uses of your bardic inspiration.

Battle Hymn

You gain the ability to use musical notes or words of power to influence the battlefield in myriad ways. As a bonus action, you can start one of the following performances that lasts until the end of your next turn. During that time, you and any friendly creatures within 30 feet of you gain a benefit based on the battle hymn being performed. A creature must be able to hear you to gain this benefit. The performance ends early if you are incapacitated or silenced or if you voluntarily end it (no action required).

Renaissance Man

Your broad expertise gives you access to a wide variety of talents. Choose one of the following options. Whenever you learn a new bard Adventuring Trick or replace an existing one, you can choose from the adventuring talents of the classes associated with your choice, using your Bard levels as levels in the class for the purpose of fulfilling prerequisites.

• Art of Esoterica. Warlock.

Showstopper - Scoundrel

You always know how to bring encounters to their climactic finales. When activating a Limit Break, you can expend any number of Bardic Inspirations instead of Willpower.

Additionally, you gain access to a special Limit Break, based on your Classical Archetype:
Encore. You or a creature within range of your Bardic Inspiration who can see or hear you immediately gains the benefits of a Short Rest.

Bewitching Companion (Bard)

You have advantage on Charisma checks made against creatures you have travelled with for at least a number of days equal to 7 - your proficiency bonus.

Eyes of the Rune Keeper (Warlock)

You can read all writing. This ability doesn't decode secret messages in a text; you read the surface meaning and must rely on other capabilities to decode something.

Gaze of Two Minds (Warlock)

You can use a Bonus Action to touch a willing creature and perceive through its senses until the end of your next turn. As long as the creature is on the same plane of existence as you, you can use a Bonus Action on subsequent turns to maintain this connection, extending the duration until the end of your next turn.

While perceiving through the other creature's senses, you benefit from any special senses possessed by that creature, and you can cast spells as if you were in your space or the other creature's space.

Improvisation (Bard)

Prerequisite: 7th level, Battle Hymn
If you used your action to perform a Battle Hymn on your last turn, you can use your bonus action to weave a second Battle Hymn into your first and maintain both until the end of your next turn. You can maintain this Improvised Battle Hymn on subsequent turns, but if you ever use your bonus action for anything else, the Improvised Battle Hymn is lost.

Mystic Resonance (Bard)

Prerequisite: 9th level
When you or a companion that can hear you casts a ritual spell, its duration is doubled and it affects twice the usual number of targets.

Master of Myriad Forms (Warlock)

Prerequisite: 15th level
As an Bonus Action, you change your appearance and your voice. You determine the specifics of the changes, including your coloration, hair length, and sex. You can also adjust your height between Medium and Small. You can make yourself appear as a member of another race, though none of your game statistics change. You can't duplicate the appearance of a creature you've never seen. You can add vestigial horns, tails, wings or other features, or remove existing ones, but you cannot benefit from their game effects if you do not have them. For example, a creature with natural wings who removes them with this spell loses its fly speed. You can also add or remove arms, legs, and other functional appendages, but you can never add more arms or legs than is normal for your ancestry. Your clothing and equipment aren't changed by this trait.

You stay in the new form until you use a Bonus Action to revert to your true form or until you die.

Multi-Faceted (Bard)

Choose a second option from the Bardic Speciality class feature. You gain the benefits from it, but not from its Improved Bardic Speciality, and you cannot use them both at the same time. (Composition)

The Pen's Companion (Bard)

You gain proficiency with martial weapons and medium armor and shields. If you are already proficient with one or the other, you learn a first degree maneuver of your choice from any school for each one. You may use either of these maneuvers without spending focus a number of times equal to your spellcasting ability modifier equal, and you regain these uses when you finish a long rest.

Cavalier Stance 1st degree Cavalry bonus action (stance) While you maintain this stance, your mount’s AC increases by an amount equal to your proficiency bonus while you are riding it.

Herbal Apothecary (Druid)

You gain proficiency with the herbalism kit. If you are already proficient in it, you gain expertise instead. Whenever you obtain a medicinal or rare herb using an herbalism kit, you gain twice as many.

Loremaster of Creatures (Wizard)

When you choose this study, choose one creature type:dragons. This creature type becomes your Loremaster Creature Specialty. When you encounter a creature of the same type as your Loremaster Creature Specialty, you automatically know the creature’s CR (if it has one) and what the creature is, and you have advantage on Intelligence checks to recall information, myths, and legends that are related to that creature.

Truthseeker (Paladin)

You gain proficiency in the Insight skill. If you are already proficient in it, you may instead choose to use Charisma when making Insight checks.

Inquisitor (Paladin)

You gain proficiency in the Investigation skill. If you already have it, you can instead choose to use your Charisma when making Investigation checks.