Throughout the world, there are many creatures beyond our understanding, foes too great to destroy, and terrors that keep people up at night. To combat this, many bards have sought out the loftiest of virtues. For bards belonging to the college of Lullabies, their art is more than just a passion for them. They have striven to master the art of soothing tempers and calming anxieties. They often speak softly and slowly, and many see them as lazy or dreamy types. 

This is rarely the case, however, as those belonging to the college of Lullabies are often the ones who handle the most dangerous of foes. It is said that they were instrumental in the defeat of the Sea Titan Dagon, as well as ancient dragons and even the Archdevil Deisis. The ability to soothe those around you to sleep becomes a necessary part of many adventurer’s lives, and it is an invaluable skill after facing down horrors such as these.

Soothing Magic

When you join this college at 3rd level, you learn how to use your magic to soothe those around you. You learn the Sleep and Calm Emotions spells. These spells count as Bard Spells for you but do not count against the number of spells you can learn.

Primal Lullabies

At 3rd level, you learn several lullabies that can help your allies in dire situations. As a bonus action on your turn, you can expend a use of Bardic Inspiration and choose one of the following lullabies. Each lullaby lasts for one minute, but is treated as if you are maintaining concentration on a spell and ends early under the same conditions.

Focused Mind: While this lullaby is active, choose a number of creatures equal to your charisma modifier (minimum of 1). These creatures must be within 30 feet of you and be able to hear you to gain this lullaby’s effects. A target affected by this lullaby gains resistance to psychic damage, has advantage on Wisdom saving throws, and gains a +1 to all attack rolls made while the lullaby is active.

Numb to the World: While this lullaby is active, choose a number of creatures equal to your charisma modifier (minimum of 1). These creatures must be within 60 feet of you and be able to hear you to gain this lullaby’s effects. A target affected by this lullaby has advantage on Constitution saving throws, gains a number of temporary hit points equal to a roll of your bardic inspiration die at the end of each of your turns, and cannot be charmed or frightened while the lullaby is active.

Sluggish Song: While this lullaby is active, choose one creature that can hear you within 60 feet. That creature gains disadvantage on all Dexterity saving throws, and its AC decreases by 1 while the lullaby is active.

Master of Slumber

At 6th level, you have learned to work around even the greatest of resistances to sleep. When you cast the Sleep spell on a creature that cannot be put to sleep by magic, the creature instead must succeed on a constitution saving throw against your spell save DC to avoid the spell affecting them. Undead and Constructs automatically succeed this saving throw.

Dreamwalker

Your connection to the world of dreamers has attracted the attention of its inhabitants. When you reach level 6 in this class, you learn the spell Find Familiar. This spell counts as a Bard Spell for you but does not count against the number of spells you can learn. In addition, when casting this spell, the familiar you summon is a Lullabeing, which is bonded to you. (See the Lullabeing stat block for more information.) If this lullabeing drops to 0 hit points, it does not die, and instead follows the rules given in Find Familiar. In addition, this lullabeing is immune to the effects of a Sleep spell cast by you, and if a Sleep spell is cast on it from another source that bypasses its immunity to sleep, it does not die, and is instead treated as if it dropped to 0 hit points using the rules of Find Familiar.

Deepest Sleep

Lullabeings are the inhabitants of the plane of Dreams. They feed on dreams, with good dreams tasting deliciously sweet and nightmares tasting horribly bitter. Their true forms are round, less than two feet in diameter, and are covered in a mass of incredibly soft, thick, pink fur, which becomes more vibrantly pink the more good dreams the lullabeing has fed on, or darker and more reddish the more nightmares it has fed on. If a lullabeing develops a taste for nightmares, their fur turns a bright red and they become known as Nightmarebeasts. Their head and face is covered in white fur, obscuring their features. While they feed on dreams, lullabeings cause no harm to the dreamers. In fact, they often use their innate abilities to improve dreams, feeding on the positive feelings of the dreamers. If a lullabeing chooses to, they will sometimes bond with those they feel to have particularly strong and vivid dreams, making this creature their primary source of sustenance. If the one they bond to has a particularly strong imagination, it is possible for the lullabeing to take on a physical form. Commonly only visible to the one they bond with, much like an imaginary friend, but if the belief that the lullabeing is real grows strong enough it can become powerful enough to appear to anyone around them and interact with the world. While they are relatively weak outside of the plane of Dreams, in their naitive environment, lullabeings are incredibly powerful, being able to warp the world around them. They are very pacifistic creatures, however, and are much more likely to remove themselves from any combat they are put in, even on their own plane. Lullabeings do not reproduce, and they are all but immortal. There are a finite number of lullabeings in existence, as the only way to make a new lullabeing is for an existing one to die. The only way a lullabeing can die, however, is if it, itself, dreams. If a lullabeing ever falls asleep, it dissipates into the energy of dreams, which reform into a new lullabeing. Lullabeings suffer no ill-effects from lacking sleep, however, and only choose to sleep when they believe it is their time to pass on.