Empyrean

Empyrean

Huge celestial (titan)
Challenge

STR
10
DEX
5
CON
10
INT
5
WIS
6
CHA
8

313
19d12+190
26
Soak
2
Fort
+16
Ref
+13
Will
+13
Defense note natural armor
Damage immunities bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing from attacks that have not been desecrated with the blood from a celestial or humanoid killed within the past 24 hours

Speed 10 m., fly 10 m., swim 10 m.
Skills Divinity (cha) +14 (25), Insight +12 (23), Persuasion +14 (25)
Senses truesight 20 m.
Languages all

Legendary Resistance (3/day). If the empyrean fails a saving throw, it can choose to succeed instead.

Magic Resistance. The empyrean has advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical effects.

Magic Weapons. The empyrean’s weapon attacks are magical.

Spellcasting. The empyrean uses Divinity (cha) to cast spells (spell save Difficulty 23, +14 to hit with spell attacks). It has 22 mana, a mana limit of 4, regains all expended mana when it finishes a long rest, and regains half its total mana when it finishes a short rest. It knows the following spells:

At will: aquatic adaptation, pass without trace, restoration (augmented to greater restoration), water walk

1 mana: aid, heal

2 mana: archon’s trumpet, blade barrier, commune, remove curse

3 mana: dispel evil and good, plane shift (self only)

1/day each: earthquake, meteor swarm

Actions (2)

Maul. Melee Weapon Attack: +16 to hit, reach 2 m. Hit: 29 (3d12 + 10) bludgeoning damage. If the target is a creature, it must succeed on a Difficulty 25 Fortitude saving throw or be stunned until the end of the empyrean’s next turn.

Warhammer. Melee Weapon Attack: +16 to hit, reach 2 m. Hit: 23 (3d8 + 10) bludgeoning damage, or 26 (3d10 + 10) bludgeoning damage if used with two hands. If the target is a creature, it must succeed on a Difficulty 25 Fortitude saving throw or be stunned until the end of the empyrean’s next turn.

Bolt (1/turn). Ranged Spell Attack: +14 to hit, range 150 m. Hit: 24 (7d6) acid, cold, concussion, fire, force, lightning, or radiant damage.

Legendary actions (3)

Only one legendary option can be used at a time and only at the end of another creature’s turn. The empyrean regains spent legendary actions at the start of its turn.

Attack. The empyrean makes one attack.

Bolster. The empyrean bolsters all nonhostile creatures within 20 meters of it until the end of its next turn. Bolstered creatures can’t be charmed or frightened, and they gain advantage on skill checks and saving throws until the end of the empyrean’s next turn.

Trembling Strike (Costs 2 actions). The empyrean strikes the ground with its maul, triggering a tremor. All other creatures on the ground within 10 meters of the empyrean must succeed on a Difficulty 25 Reflex saving throw or be knocked prone.

Upper planesmm

Spells

3 hours/mana

As an action, you bolster your allies with toughness and resolve. Choose two creatures within 5 meters. A creature’s maximum health and health increase by 1d6 + your spellcasting ability for the duration.

Augment
You can augment this spell with the following options, expending mana for each option.
  • The target’s health increases by an additional 7 for each additional mana expended.

  • You can target two additional creatures for each additional mana expended. The creatures must be within 5 meters of each other when you target them. Augments to the health increase the health by 5 for each additional mana expended, instead of the normal increase.

1 hour/mana

As an action, you adapt to life underwater. Choose fins or gills as the spell’s effect.

Fins. You grow fins and webbing between your fingers and toes; you gain a swimming speed of 5 meters for the duration.

Gills. You grow gills; you gain the ability to breathe underwater for the duration. You also retain your normal breathing pattern.

Augment
You can augment this spell with the following options, expending mana for each option.
  • You can expend 1 additional mana to gain the benefit of both effects.

  • You can target one additional creature for each additional mana expended. The creatures must be within 5 meters of each other when you target them.

As an action, a creature that you can touch or see within 10 meters regains 2d8 + your spellcasting ability health. This spell has no effect on constructs or undead.

Augment
You can augment this spell with the following options, expending mana for each option.
  • You can increase the healing by 3d8 for each additional mana expended.

  • Major Regeneration. You can expend 2 additional mana to increase the healing by 1d8 and stimulate major natural healing. The duration changes to 1 minute/mana and for the duration of the spell, the creature regains 1 health at the start of each of its turns (10 health each minute).

    The target’s severed body members (fingers, legs, tails, and so on), if any, are restored after 2 minutes. If you have the severed part and hold it to the stump, the spell instantaneously causes the limb to knit to the stump.

  • Power Word Heal. You can expend 3 additional mana and cast this spell as two actions so the target regains all its health. If the creature is charmed, frightened, paralyzed, or stunned, the condition ends. If the creature is prone, it can use its reaction to stand up.

1 hour/mana

As an action, a veil of shadows and silence covers you, masking you from detection. For the duration, you have advantage on Stealth checks and can’t be tracked except by magical means. A creature that receives this bonus leaves behind no tracks or other traces of its passage.

Augment

You can expend 1 additional mana so each creature you choose within 5 meters of you (including you) has advantage on Stealth checks and can’t be tracked except by magical means.

As two actions, you produce a loud trumpeting. Each creature in a cone must make a Fortitude saving throw.

On a failure, it is incapacitated until the end of its next turn.

Augment
You can augment this spell with the following options, expending mana for each option.
  • You can expend 1 additional mana so a creature is stunned instead of incapacitated.

  • You can expend 2 additional mana so the duration changes to 1 minute/mana, concentration and a creature is incapacitated for the duration. A creature can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on itself on a success.

concentration, 5 minutes/mana

As two actions, you create a vertical wall of whirling, razor-sharp, blades within 20 meters that last for the duration. The wall can’t occupy the same space as a creature or object, provides three-quarters cover to creatures behind it, and its space is difficult terrain. A creature that enters the wall’s area for the first time on a turn or starts its turn there must make a Reflex saving throw.

On a failure, it takes 6d6 slashing damage.

On a critical failure, it takes twice as much damage.

On a success, it takes half as much damage.

On a critical success, it takes no damage.

Augment

You can increase the damage by 2d6 for each additional mana expended.

(ritual); M (incense and a sacrificial offering appropriate to your religion worth 25 sp, consumed)

As you spend 1 minute to cast this spell, you contact your deity or a divine proxy with an offering and ask a single question concerning a specific goal, event, or activity that has occurred or has yet to occur. The GM offers a truthful reply. The reply might be a short phrase, a cryptic rhyme, or an omen.

Divine beings aren’t necessarily omniscient, so you might receive “unclear” as an answer if a question pertains to information that lies beyond the deity’s knowledge. In a case where a one-word answer could be misleading or contrary to the deity’s interests, the GM might offer a short phrase as an answer instead.

If you cast the spell two or more times before finishing your next long rest, there is a cumulative 25% chance for each casting after the first that you get no answer. The GM makes this roll in secret.

Augment

You can ask one additional question for each additional mana expended.

As two actions, choose a creature, object, or magical effect within 20 meters. Make a Divinity or Occult check. The Difficulty typically equals the spell Difficulty used to cast the curse spell + the mana used to cast the curse spell or a flat Difficulty. If there are multiple curses and if you have not identified them, the curse is chosen at random starting with the least powerful curse.

On a success, if the curse specifies that it is lifted by this spell, the curse ends.

If you fail by 4 or less and the curse specifies that it is lifted by this spell, the curse is suppressed for 1 minute.

On a success, if the curse does not specify that it is lifted by this spell, you learn about the curse. The more information you already have about the thing, the more precise and detailed the information you receive is.

The information you learn is accurate, but might be couched in figurative language. For example, if you have a mysterious magic axe on hand, the spell might yield this information: “Woe to the evildoer whose hand touches the axe, for even the haft slices the hand of the evil ones. Only a true Child of Stone, lover and beloved of Moradin, may awaken the true powers of the axe, and only with the sacred word Rudnogg on the lips.”

Augment

You gain a +1 bonus to your skill check for each additional mana expended.

As two actions, you touch a creature and can remove the blinded or deafened condition.

Augment
You can augment this spell with the following options, expending mana for each option.
  • You can target one additional creature for each additional mana expended. The creatures must be within 5 meters of each other when you target them.

  • Greater Restoration. You can expend 1 additional mana to instead remove any reductions to one of its abilities, remove one effect that reduces its maximum health, remove one effect that charmed, paralyzed, or petrified it, or reduce its exhausted level by one.

(ritual); 1 hour/mana

As two actions, you grant the ability to move across any liquid surface—such as water, acid, mud, snow, quicksand, or lava—as if it were harmless solid ground (creatures crossing molten lava can still take damage from the heat) to a creature that you can touch or see within 5 meters.

If you target a creature submerged in a liquid, the spell carries the target to the surface of the liquid at a rate of 10 meters per round.

Augment

You can target one additional creature for each additional mana expended. The creatures must be within 5 meters of each other when you target them.

concentration, 1 minute/mana

As two actions, shimmering energy surrounds and protects you from fey, undead, and creatures originating from beyond the Material Plane. For the duration, celestials, elementals, fey, fiends, and undead have disadvantage on attacks made against you.

You can end the spell early by using either of the following special functions.

Break Enchantment. As two actions, you touch a creature you can reach that is charmed, frightened, or possessed by a celestial, an elemental, a fey, a fiend, or an undead. The creature you touch is no longer charmed, frightened, or possessed by such creatures.

Dismissal. As two actions, a celestial, an elemental, a fey, a fiend, or an undead within 10 meters must make a Will saving throw.

On a failure, the creature is sent back to its home plane (if it isn’t there already). If they aren’t on their home plane, undead are sent to the Shadowfell, and fey are sent to the Feywild.

As two actions, you are transported to a different plane of existence. You can specify a target destination in general terms, such as the City of Brass on the Elemental Plane of Fire or the palace of Dispater on the second level of the Nine Hells, and you appear in or near that destination. If you are trying to reach the City of Brass, for example, you might arrive in its Street of Steel, before its Gate of Ashes, or looking at the city from across the Sea of Fire, at the GM’s discretion.

Alternatively, if you know the sigil sequence of a teleportation circle on another plane of existence, this spell can take you to that circle. If the teleportation circle is too small to hold all the creatures you transported, they appear in the closest unoccupied spaces next to the circle.

Augment

You can transport five additional willing creatures for each additional mana expended. The creatures must link hands with you in a circle.

concentration, 1 minute/mana

As two actions, you create a seismic disturbance at a point on the ground that you can see within 100 meters. For the duration, an intense tremor rips through the ground in a 20-meter radius circle centered on that point and shakes creatures and structures in contact with the ground in that area.

The ground in the area becomes difficult terrain. Each creature on the ground that is concentrating must make a Will saving throw.

On a failure, the creature’s concentration is broken.

When you cast this spell and at the end of each turn you spend concentrating on it, each creature on the ground in the area must make a Reflex saving throw.

On a failure, the creature is knocked prone.

This spell can have additional effects depending on the terrain in the area, as determined by the GM.

Fissures. Fissures open throughout the spell’s area at the start of your next turn after you cast the spell. A total of 1d6 such fissures open in locations chosen by the GM. Each is 2d6 meters deep, 2 meters wide, and extends from one edge of the spell’s area to the opposite side. A creature standing on a spot where a fissure opens must succeed on a Reflex saving throw or fall in. A creature that successfully saves moves with the fissure’s edge as it opens.

A fissure that opens beneath a structure causes it to automatically collapse (see below).

Structures. The tremor deals 75 bludgeoning damage to any structure in contact with the ground in the area when you cast the spell and at the start of each of your turns until the spell ends. If a structure drops to 0 health, it collapses and potentially damages nearby creatures. A creature within half the distance of a structure’s height must make a Reflex saving throw.

On a failure, it takes 10d6 bludgeoning damage, is knocked prone, and is buried in the rubble, requiring a Difficulty 20 Brawn check as an action to escape. The GM can adjust the Difficulty higher or lower, depending on the nature of the rubble.

On a success, it takes half as much damage.

As two actions, four blazing orbs of fire plummet to the ground at different points you can see within 2 kilometers. The fire spreads around corners and ignites flammable objects in the area that aren’t being worn or carried. Each creature within 2 meters of each point must make a Reflex saving throw.

On a failure, it takes 8d6 concussion damage and 7d6 fire damage and is burning 5.

On a critical failure, it takes twice as much damage and is burning 10.

On a success, it takes half as much damage and is burning 2.

On a critical success, it takes no damage.

A creature in the area of more than one fiery burst is affected only once.