Corrupted Soul (5e Class)
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Corrupted Soul
Who mourns the dead and living? Why? The dead have rest. The living have yet time. But what of those who cannot live and cannot die? What of them who wander, tortured for all eternity, their bodies withering as their souls persist, unable to leave? Like rust binds a sword to its sheath, so too doth a soul to its body when enraptured by corruption. Unable to let go, unable to stay, unable to rest, unable to dream ... Bound to a damned existence of pain.
Rotten In to Out
Corrupted souls are people who dabbled in dark arts and magic which eventually infected their very souls and core. This sort of damage is irreversible and cannot be drawn out or healed. The corruption only spreads from that point on, slowly eating at the host mentally and physiologically. As their souls get more corrupted, they gain more power at the expense of their bodies, which they are bound to by corruption. The effects eventually become visible at the skin as the body begins to change due to the curse. Some develop superhuman qualities and cannibalistic tendency while others get corrupted flesh and limbs. This continues in agony until nothing is left but a monster.
Creating a Corrupted Soul
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| By spterson085 |
How has your character been cursed with this? Was it a fated happening? Did your character defy some rule of magic or encounter a curse? As you grow more and more corrupted, how does your character handle that feeling? Are they grieving and down on their luck, or relishing the feeling of power? Do you seek a way to lift or alleviate your corruption? If so, how?
- Quick Build
You can make a Corrupted Soul quickly by following these suggestions. First, Strength should be your highest ability score, followed by Wisdom. Second, choose the Hermit or Criminal background.
Class Features
As a Corrupted Soul you gain the following class features.
- Hit Points
Hit Dice: 1d10 per Corrupted Soul level
Hit Points at 1st Level: 10 + Constitution modifier
Hit Points at Higher Levels: 1d10 (or 6) + Constitution modifier per Corrupted Soul level after 1st
- Proficiencies
Armor: Light and Medium Armor, shields
Weapons: Simple and Martial weapons
Tools: None
Saving Throws: Strength and Wisdom
Skills: Choose two from Athletics, Insight, Intimidation, Perception, Stealth, and Survival
- Equipment
You start with the following equipment, in addition to the equipment granted by your background:
- (a) A Maul or (b) a Longsword and a Whip
- (a) A Longbow with a quiver of 10 arrows or (b) any two simple weapons
- (a) Scale Mail or (b) Studded Leather Armour
- (a) Dungeoneer's pack or (b) Explorer's pack
- If you are using starting wealth, you have 3d4 x 10 gp in funds.
| Level | Proficiency Bonus |
Soul Points | Features |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1st | +2 | 5 | Spark of Corruption, Replenish |
| 2nd | +2 | 10 | Eldritch Eyes |
| 3rd | +2 | 15 | Corrupted Touch |
| 4th | +2 | 20 | Ability Score Improvement |
| 5th | +3 | 25 | Corrupted Flesh |
| 6th | +3 | 30 | Manifestation |
| 7th | +3 | 35 | Corrupted Flesh Upgrade |
| 8th | +3 | 40 | Ability Score Improvement |
| 9th | +4 | 45 | Corrupted Flesh Upgrade |
| 10th | +4 | 50 | Flesh Morpher, Manifestation improvement |
| 11th | +4 | 55 | Corrupted Flesh Upgrade |
| 12th | +4 | 60 | Ability Score Improvement |
| 13th | +5 | 65 | Corrupted Flesh Upgrade |
| 14th | +5 | 70 | Manifestation improvement |
| 15th | +5 | 75 | Improved Flesh Morpher |
| 16th | +5 | 80 | Ability Score Improvement |
| 17th | +6 | 85 | Corrupted Flesh Upgrade |
| 18th | +6 | 90 | Blood of Jubilex |
| 19th | +6 | 95 | Ability Score Improvement |
| 20th | +6 | 100 | Eternal Rot |
Spark of Corruption
You are infected from the soul, which makes you vulnerable internally. But this corruption likewise grants you powers to use, in exchange for more of your soul, and eventually your body. Starting 1st level, you have your soul's energy harnessed as an exchange which you can feed the corruption in you, represented by soul points. Your level determines the number of points you have, as shown in the Soul Points column of the class table. As your soul strengthens against the corruption, you gain more base points to use.
When you spend a soul point, it is unavailable until you regain the points by use of the Replenish feature.
You spend soul points to fuel corruption bargain features, where the corruption is allowed to devour your mind and body in exchange for bursts of power or special abilities. You start knowing two such bargain features and gain more features at later levels:
- Maddened Surge
You can spend one soul point to double your movement speed on your turn.
- Resilience
Immediately after you take damage from an attack or spell, you may spend 5 soul points to halve the damage dealt to you.
Replenish
Your soul cannot last long before the corruptive influence prevails, and with you trading parts and your body left and right for power, you're nigh to be devoured by the rot. So, you must be able to bolster yourself by adding soul essence to your own to guard and last against the corruption. You gain the power to draw out and devour souls of the fallen starting at 1st level. Types of creatures souls that can be eaten are as per DM's discretion. The only beings that cannot be devoured under any circumstances are Undead beings of any kind, and Constructs; they are filled with an essence that mocks life and are not "truly alive." You can use an action to eat the life essences of the recently deceased. The creature must have died in the past hour for the essence to be consumed, and you must be within 10 feet of the creature to eat its soul. When consumed, you regain expended soul points equal to the CR of the soul consumed (minimum of 1). You cannot regain more points than the total shown on the table with this feature. You can use this ability equal times your Wisdom modifier, regaining use after you finish a long rest. Since you eat the life essence, it makes the soul consumed unable to be revived in any way other than the wish spell.
Eldritch Eyes
Starting at 2nd level your corruption peeks out of your body's eyes when anyone looks in them and gazes into your rotten soul. This not only makes you frightening but also bares the pure corruption into the soul of another, as the eyes are windows. You may choose to roll with advantage on an Intimidation or Insight check you make. You can use this feature a number of times equal your Wisdom, regaining use after finishing a short or long rest.
Corrupted Touch
Starting at 3rd level, your soul's acrid rot pervades your touch, though it has yet to eat away at your body. You are able to spread this damaging quality onto others to harm them. You may expend ten soul points to use this feature, manifesting a corrupted, ethereal hand of your soul and shooting it to claw a creature within 120 feet. Make a ranged weapon Attack against the creature to assail it with the rot of your soul. On a hit, the target takes necrotic damage equal to 3d8 + your Wisdom modifier, and it can't regain Hit Points until the start of its next turn. Until then, the target has the stain of corruption on them.
Ability Score Increase
When you reach 4th level, and again at 8th, 12th, 16th and 19th level, you can increase one ability score of your choice by 2, or you can increase two ability scores of your choice by 1. As normal, you can't increase an ability score above 20 using this feature.
Corrupted Flesh
The corruption spreads from your soul onto your body now, taking parts of it while granting extraordinary abilities. Starting 5th level, your eyes go first. You may choose one of the following effects as your feature for the corresponding levels:
- All Seeing Eyes. You may spend 10 soul points to overcharge your eyes. You gain blindsight for one minute with a range equal to 5 x your Wisdom modifier. You may only use this ability once, before needing to complete a long rest.
- Hypnotic Gaze. You gain proficiency in the Persuasion skill. You may expend 20 soul points and an action to look at a creature within melee range which can see you. They must succeed a Wisdom saving throw with DC equal to 8 + your Wisdom modifier + your proficiency bonus or become charmed for the next hour or until you or your companions do anything harmful to it. The charmed creature regards you as a friendly acquaintance. When the spell ends, the creature knows it was charmed by you.
- Menacing Glare. You gain proficiency in the Intimidation skill. You may expend 10 soul points and an action to look at a creature within melee range which can see you. They must succeed a Charisma saving throw with DC equal to 8 + your Wisdom modifier and your Strength modifier or become frightened until the end of their next turn.
- Medusa's Gift. As an action you may spend 25 soul points to glare at another creature within 30 feet of you. They must succeed a Wisdom saving throw with DC equal to 8 + your Wisdom modifier + your proficiency bonus or become paralyzed until the beginning of their next turn.
- Inquisitor's Sight. You gain proficiency in the Investigation skill. As an action you may spend 15 soul points to cast the spell identify at will.
Starting 7th level, your arms and hands start to be affected by the corruption.
- Shadowy Misdirection. You gain proficiency in the sleight of hand skill. You may expend an action to use 30 soul points. For the next minute, all Perception checks roll with disadvantage against you.
- Corrupted Claw.You may expend 5 soul points to make an unarmed strike as a bonus action. This attack deals necrotic damage equal to your corrupted soul level.
- Iron Reaver.You may expend 15 soul points to make an unarmed strike as an action. This attack deals slashing damage equal to five times your Wisdom modifier.
Starting 9th level, the corruption of your flesh surfaces in your legs and feet.
- Swift Foot. You gain 20 feet of movement speed and can walk through difficult terrain as though normal.
- Pounding Kick. You may expend 20 soul points to expend an action and make a powerful kick as an unarmed strike. This attack deals bludgeoning damage equal to five times your Wisdom modifier.
- Steady Footing. You no longer take falling damage, as you can always land with amazing acrobatic grace and steady footing. You also have advantage in saving throws against being moved against your will or being knocked prone.
Starting 11th level, your internal workings are corroded and changed by the taint of corruption.
- Retain Guts. You can keep your guts in for a bit longer if you're hit by a fatal move that would otherwise spill it all out. When you would be dropped to 0 hit points, you can instead drop to 1 hit point instead. You can use this feature once, regaining use after you finish a long rest.
- Iron Stomach. You can eat anything and nothing will go wrong. You become immune to diseases and being poisoned by food or drink.
- Venomous Insides. Venomous acid bubbles in your stomach as the corruption eats away at your insides and converts the innards into a biological weapon. The stronger your inside is, the higher toxicity the acid is. You may expend 30 soul points to expend an action and spit a bout of corrupted acid at a creature within 30 feet of you. It must attempt a Constitution saving throw with a DC equal to 8 + your Strength modifier + your proficiency bonus. On failure, it takes 3d10 acid damage and becomes poisoned. On success, it takes half as much damage and is not poisoned.
Starting 13th level, your main body below your neck has pretty much succumbed to the corruption.
- Ethereal Form. Your form is very hazy now, with the edges seeming wisping and fraying due to the corruption. You gain resistance to any one damage type of your choice.
- Fluid Form. As your body deteriorates, becoming partially a soul and losing physicality, you can pass through objects like air. Using 30 soul points, you gain the ability to move through a space as narrow as 1 inch wide without squeezing. This lasts for 1 hour.
Starting 17th level, the corruption has worked its way entirely throughout your flesh, ending its spread at the crown of your head once it has pervaded every nook and cranny.
- Corrupted Mentes. The corruption enshrouds your mind almost protectively from other influences. You become aware of any divination magic which targets you and you cannot be affected by any which you refuse.
- Mouthpiece of Death. The barrier between you and the soul disintegrates, allowing you to make conversation with the ethereal. You are considered permanently under the effects of speak with dead.
- Aura of Corruption. All Beasts with a Wisdom score below 14 are uneasy around and are prone to avoid you.
- Corruption Barrier. You emanate the corruption's influence into the ether. You gain advantage to Charisma saving throws.
Manifestation
The corruption eating away at you gains the powers now to grow and manifest outside you as it eats more of you and gains more power. Starting 6th level, you can project your corruption from yourself to distract or frighten others.
- Summon Corruption
- You may expend 20 soul points to conjure a bit of corruption in an unoccupied space of your choice within 60 feet of you which lasts for up to 1 minute. It occupies a space like a Medium creature and appears like some malformed mass of darkness. Any creature that ends its turn within 5 feet of the corruption must make a Wisdom saving throw. The creature takes 3d6 necrotic damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one. As a bonus action, you can move the corruption up to 30 feet. If you ram the corruption into a creature, that creature must make the saving throw against the corruption's damage, and the corruption stops moving this turn. When you move the corruption, you can direct it over barriers up to 10 feet tall and jump it across pits up to 10 feet wide.
Starting 10th level, the corruption manifests around you as a dark miasmatic aura. This aura appears as a shadowy dark mass that seems to radiate from you. While you are wearing no armor and not wielding a shield, your Armor Class equals 12 + your Strength modifier + your Wisdom modifier.
Starting 14th level, the aura now has form and ravenous sentience. It remains attached to you, but will tear at anything that appears hostile to you, its host. When you are attacked, the aura manifested on you automatically attacks viciously in retaliation, with no action on your part. This attack shares your modifiers and proficiency bonus, and deals necrotic damage equal to 4d8 + your Corrupted Soul level.
Flesh Morpher
Your corruption is like a parasite. It is not wholly aware of how it may die with you should you perish. However, it does grant you some ability to heal flesh wounds in a pinch, at the exchange of more spirit. Starting 10th level, you may expend 30 soul points to regain hit points equal to 2d8 + your corrupted soul level. You cannot regain hit points over your hit point maximum with this feature.
Starting 15th level, you may expend 85 soul points to fully restore your hit points to your hit point maximum.
Blood of Jubilex
Starting 18th level, your souls corruption renders your blood to become like viscous goop, like the oozes ruled by Jubilex, one of the Underworld Kings. It accumulates the stuff of nightmares, agglutinating in darkness and vile thoughts which actually nourish the corruption in you. You can spend 1 minute feeding your blood to your corruption in exchange for a burst of power, to regain all your expended soul points from your Spark of Corruption feature. Once you regain soul points with this feature, you must finish a long rest before you can do so again.
Eternal Rot
Your rotting inside has now covered your outside. The rot has become part of you, and the corruption is self-feeding. At 20th level, when you are hit by an attack dealing necrotic damage, you take no damage and instead regain hit points equal to half the amount of damage you would have taken. You cannot regain hit points over your hit point maximum with this feature. If you are at your hit point maximum, you gain temporary hit points instead, which expire and vanish when you take a long rest.
Multiclassing
Prerequisites. To qualify for multiclassing into the Corrupted Soul class, you must meet these prerequisites: Strength 13, Wisdom 15, afflicted by madness
Proficiencies. When you multiclass into the Corrupted Soul class, you gain the following proficiencies: Intimidation, Medicine, Religion
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