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Beast Friend
Prerequisite: proficiency with Animal Handling
If you spend 10 minutes befriending and feeding a friendly Medium or smaller beast or beast-like fey, monstrosity, or other creature of CR 1/8 or less, you become its guardian. It follows you, is loyal to you, and obeys your commands, but it acts independently. In combat, it hides and cannot take actions, but it affected by hostile creatures. You can only be guardian to one beast at a time; if you use this ability again, your bond ends with the first creature (though it still may remain friendly to you.)
Call of the Wild
Prerequisite: proficiency with Animal Handling
Through sounds and gestures, you can communicate simple ideas to a beast or beast-like fey, monstrosity, or similar creature. As an action, you can read its basic mood and intent, learn its emotional state, whether it is affected by magic of any sort, its short-term needs (such as food or safety), and actions you can take (if any) to persuade it to not attack. You cannot use this ability against a creature that you have attacked within the past 10 minutes.
Camp Leader
During Survival, you can take the Scout (Shelter) and Camp (Shelter) actions once each in addition to your other actions.
Expert Forager
During Survival, you can take the Forage (Food) and Forage (Water) actions once each in addition to your other actions.
Guide
Prerequisite: Deft Explorer
Choose two minor abilities from the Natural Explorer feature. You benefit from these when traveling for an hour or more. You can take this talent up to three times, choosing new minor abilities each time.
Huntsman
During Survival, you can take the Hunt (Food) and Harvest (Food) actions once each in addition to your other actions.
Preferential Prey
Prerequisite:Foehammer
Choose two creature types to be your favored enemies. You have Advantage on ability checks to detect, track, and recall information about your favored enemies.
Internal Compass
You always know which way is north, and you always know the number of hours left before the next sunrise or sunset. You can't become lost by nonmagical means, and you have advantage on ability checks against becoming lost.
Longwalker
When you would gain a level of fatigue due to lack of food, water, forced marching, or other environmental effects, you can choose to not gain that level of fatigue. Alternatively, when up to two traveling companions would gain a level of fatigue, you can gain one instead. Once you have used this talent, you cannot do so again until you finish a Long Rest.
Monster Mimic
You are adept at mimicking the sounds of beasts, monsters, and even dragons. When you would make a Convince, Deception, or Performance Art (Oration) ability check to convince a creature it is hearing a beast, monster, or dragon you have heard before, you can use Nature instead. If you have proficiency in both, gain the a skill synergy bonus.
Relentless Pursuit
While you are following the tracks of a creature, you and a number of creatures equal to your proficiency bonus can double your movement speeds for one hour or until you roll initiative. Once you have used this talent, you cannot do so again until you finish a short or long rest.
Requires 4th Level
Woodsman of Mystery
Prerequisites: 4th level, Wilderness Mystique feature
Choose a second option from the Wilderness Mystique class feature. You gain the benefits from it.
Requires 5th Level
Ear to the Ground
Prerequisite: 5th level
As an action while prone, you can give yourself tremorsense out to 30 feet until you move or stand up.
Read the Room
Prerequisite: 5th level
By spending 10 minutes observing facial expressions, body language, and vocal intonation, you can detect minute details which give you insight into the creatures within 30 feet of you. For the next minute, you can direct your focus on any one creature that you can see within 30 feet. If the creature you choose has an Intelligence of 3 or lower or doesn’t speak any language, the creature is unaffected. You learn the surface thoughts of the creature — what is most on its mind in that moment. As an action, you can shift your attention to another creature’s thoughts.
Requires 9th Level
Scene Sleuth
Prerequisite: 9th level
You can spend 5 minutes looking at a 30-foot diameter outdoor area to study the ground and other clues. You learn all events which transpired in that area in a number of as though you had witnessed them yourself, although you do not learn secret information not obvious to an observer. The information you gain is only that which would be learned by sight; you do not gain sound-based information or learn what creatures in the area said to each other. Once you have used this feature, you can’t use it again until you finish a long rest.
Requires 17th Level
Master of Adventure
Prerequisites: 17th level, Survivalcraft feature
Choose a second option from the Survivalcraft class feature. You gain the benefits from it.