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Seabound tieflings share common traits with their other fellow tieflings but have a few key differences:

Ability Score Increase. Your Constitution score increases by 1, and your Charisma score increases by 2.

Age. Seabound tieflings mature at the same rate as humans but live a few years longer– similar to other tieflings.

Size. Seabound tieflings, like other tieflings, are about the same size and build as humans. Your size is Medium.

Speed. Your walking speed is 30 feet, and you have a swimming speed equal to your walking speed.

Darkvision. Thanks to your infernal heritage and deep-sea origins, you have superior vision in dark and dim conditions. You can see in dim light within 60 feet of you as if it were bright light, and in darkness as if it were dim light. You can’t discern color in darkness, only shades of gray.

Hellish Resistance. Your aquatic nature keeps your skin naturally slicked with absorbed moisture, making it difficult for you to catch fire. You have resistance to fire damage.

Legacy of Shargon. You know the shape water cantrip. When you reach 3rd level, you can cast the create or destroy water spell as a 2nd-level spell once with this trait and regain the ability to do so when you finish a long rest. When you reach 5th level, you can cast the spike growth spell once with this trait and regain the ability to do so when you finish a long rest. Charisma is your spellcasting ability for these spells.

Seabound. Your evolution has made you dependent on water itself. You can breathe air and water, but you must consume four times as much water to survive and avoid gaining levels of exhaustion compared to a regular human. You can also consume water by submerging your entire body in a volume of water.

Languages. You can speak, read, and write Common and your choice of either Infernal or Aquan, depending on which is more crucial to your upbringing.

Aquatic Adaptation. Your biology has changed to adapt yourself to the surrounding environment of the waters you hail from. You choose two mutations to take on from the following options:

Absorption. Your body has a calcified form that absorbs blows and breaks off in small pieces, slowly restoring itself over time. As a bonus action, you can stimulate your natural healing ability to grant yourself 1d4 temporary hit points.

Regeneration. You have a supernatural ability to heal and recover from serious injuries. You can cast the lesser regenerate spell once with this trait and regain the ability to do so when you finish a long rest.

Spines. Your body protrudes with sharp features that can be used for stabbing and slicing. You can use these sharp features to make unarmed strikes, dealing 1d6 + your Strength modifier piercing damage, instead of the bludgeoning damage normal for an unarmed strike.

Shapeshifting. Your body actively shifts in shape and appearance to blend into surroundings or overcome obstacles. You can cast the alter self spell once with this trait and regain the ability to do so when you finish a long rest.

Toxicity. Your body courses with natural toxins secreted from your body, making you dangerous to the touch. When you take damage from a melee attack, you can use your reaction to deal 1d8 + your Constitution modifier poison damage back to the attacker.

Characteristics. Seabound tieflings have inherited a powerful affinity for their aquatic surroundings, causing their figures to grow with the forms of seashells, corals, and such to assist them in tactics of hunting and survival.

Bound to the Sea

"... But for those who need to be convinced most, a druid of the Night taps into the very fear that their tales inspire to take on the forms of these beings, becoming the very monsters they speak of before the eyes of the nonbelievers..." -Tales of the Night, Vol. I

The Circle of Night is home to those who bring themselves closely to the haunting terrors of darkness, learning their secrets and spreading their tales as warnings to the innocent and guilty alike.

Level 2: Unleashed Horror

At 2nd level, you draw upon the power of the night to conjure the subjects of your terrifying tales, manifesting their shapes through the telling of their fearsome legends. When you use your Wild Shape feature, you can choose to transform into a Fey, Fiend, or Monstrosity instead, provided that the creature’s stat block follows the other limitations of Wild Shape. 

Folklore Knowledge. You must know all of the languages which the intended creature knows in order to achieve its form, and the creature cannot possess any immunities to any damage types or conditions. When you choose this subclass, you also learn one additional language of your choice to reflect the origins of your tales, training yourself to become more versed in the native culture and language of the legendary folktales you are most familiar with.

Shocking Transformation. When you use a feature of your Wild Shape to transform into a non-beast creature, you may force any number of creatures that can see or hear you within 30 feet to make a Wisdom saving throw against your spellcasting DC. On a failed saving throw, a target is frightened until the start of your next turn.

Level 2: Tales of Shadows

At 2nd level, you can regale other resting creatures you share a language with in your ominous folk tales over the course of a short or long rest. At the end of the rest, you may choose to increase or decrease the maximum hit points of any creatures who rest within 30 feet of you while you rest equal to your druid level (to a minimum of 1 hit point). All creatures that are affected by this feature are aware that they feel greater or lesser vitality due to the fear you have instilled in them.

Warnings of Wisdom. When making an Intelligence (History) or Charisma (Intimidation) skill check, you may use your Wisdom modifier in place of the skill’s normal ability score modifier.

Level 2: Circle Spells

Your connection to the darkness of night infuses you with the ability to cast certain spells. At 3rd, 5th, 7th, and 9th level you gain access to circle spells connected to the Circle of Night. 

3rd: alter self, phantasmal force 5th: bestow curse, fear 7th: compulsion, phantasmal killer 9th: legend lore, mislead

Level 6: Dark Pursuit

At 6th level, you have advantage on melee attacks made against creatures frightened by you and move twice as quickly towards them, spending 1 foot of movement for every 2 feet moved when moving closer to a creature frightened by you.

Level 10: Creature of the Night

At 10th level, you can choose a creature of up to CR 2 when expending a use of your Wild Shape feature to transform into a creature other than a Beast.

Stalk in Shadows. While using your Wild Shape feature, you may use your bonus action while in dim light or darkness to become invisible. This invisibility lasts until you enter an area of bright light, enter a space within 5 feet of another creature, make an attack, or take any other action.

Eyes in the Dark. You gain darkvision with a range of 60 feet, or increase your range by an additional 60 feet if you already possess darkvision. This feature applies to both your regular form and your Wild Shape form.

Level 14: Unstoppable Terror

At 14th level, you can choose a creature of up to CR 4 when expending a use of your Wild Shape feature to transform into a creature other than a Beast, and you may also now select creatures to Wild Shape into that possess immunities to one or more damage types or conditions.

This colorful pair of tights is well suited for a court fool, but allows the wearer to leap and land with great mirth. While attuned to these pants, you do not provoke attacks of opportunity while jumping. Additionally, when you jump as a part of your movement, you may occupy the space directly on top of another creature within your movement. While atop a creature, you are treated as if you have mounted the creature and follow rules to mount and dismount it. If you end your movement on top of a creature after jumping on it, you immediately fall off the mount and land prone 5 feet away.

Mirror Façade. This ominous mask conforms closely over the features of its wearer's face, with one side rendered in a mirrorlike silver and the other in glass. While attuned to the mask, you can use an action to cast Mirror Image, causing the mirror half of the mask to fragment. The mask regains its use of this feature after a short or long rest, repairing the damage done to the mirror half.

Misty Façade. Additionally, once per long rest when you take damage, you can use your reaction to cast Invisibility upon yourself, causing the glass portion of the mask to shatter. The mask regains its use of this feature after a long rest, repairing the damage done to the glass half.

The greatest of arcane tricksters know that the true power of magic was misdirection and deception. By compounding spells with careful concentration, the best of the best learned to mislead foes into thinking they held all the cards. In the end, these masters were the ones who slid through the cracks and rose to lofty heights- not as bold mages, but as subtle afterimages. All the while, they made their final peace by vanishing into obscurity, needing only their own knowledge of their vast triumphs over this world full of fools...

Blackfire. This lacquered infernal skull pours with an ephemeral flame, burning light itself into nothing but darkness. As a bonus action, you can speak the skull’s command word while it is held in hand, priming it to explode. At the end of the turn, the skull erupts and casts Fireball centered on its location (save DC 13), destroying the skull in the process. Immediately after it explodes, a patch of magical darkness enshrouds the engulfed area’s radius as if by the Darkness spell.

This darkness lasts for 1 minute or until it is dispelled. As an action, you can throw the skull at a target as if it were an improvised thrown (20/60 feet) weapon. If the skull strikes a target, they have disadvantage on their saving throw against the Fireball spell cast from it.

“Ordinary beings would easily succumb to the inescapable darkness of such an abyss— and when their shadow-tinged corpses were recovered, their charred remains would hunger for nothing more than the freedom of light...”

-Zalder, the Mancer

Forbidden Tongues