Oath of the Raven Queen (5e Subclass)

Oath of the Raven Queen

Paladin Subclass

The Raven Queen's paladins are formidable foes. They are the chosen of this goddess and are the scythe that strikes down on her targets. It is said that the Raven Queen's paladins are the scythe that reaps an undead like the Raven Queen eliminates a dead person.

Tenets of the Raven Queen

Judgement. The paladin kills the undead intelligently.

Respect. The paladin respects life and will only kill if he is forced to..

intolerance. The paladin will have to eliminate or put back on the right path a sinner who helped an intelligent undead..

Absolute. Even if the paladin must oppose the world or his superior, he will do so to fulfill the previous Tenets.

Spellcasting

Paladin Level	Spells
3rd	sanctuary, false life
5th	spiritual weapon, silence
9th	speak with dead, feign death
13th	locate creature, ice storm
17th	commune, cone of cold

Channel Divinity

Eye of the Queen Crow. Allows you to see as the Raven Queen does as a bonus action. For 1 minute, you have Truesight at 10 feet. Increases to 30 feet at 15th level.

Raven Queen Aura. Allows you to use an action to release an aura 5 feet around you. For 1 minute, each target that starts their turn inside suffers necrotic damage equal to the paladin's level. Increases to 10 feet at level 12 and 20 feet at level 17.

Crow's Scythe

The paladin has a very precise weapon of choice. The Raven Queen taught him to perform a ritual to transform a Scythe into a Raven Scythe. At level 7, the paladin can during a rest spend 1 hour performing a ritual to bind himself to a scythe. Thus this Scythe gains the magical status regarding resistances and becomes a Raven Scythe. At level 10, the scythe's damage becomes necrotic. At level 13, the scythe bypasses necrotic resistances and immunities are treated as resistances. Can only bind one scythe at a time.

Raven Protection

At 15th level, the Raven Queen grants you a blessing of protection. You gain advantage on death saving throws, immunity to the frightened condition, and resistance to necrotic damage.

Chosen of the Raven Queen

At 20th level, you have reached the apotheosis of a Chosen of the Raven Queen. As such, you become a Raven avatar. You gain +2 to Constitution (for a maximum of 22) and +2 to Charisma (for a maximum of 22). Additionally, while you hold your Raven Scythe, you can use a long action to gain temporary hit points equal to your Constitution modifier + proficiency bonus. You can use temporary hit points a number of times equal to your Constitution modifier per long rest. Temporary hit points stack with those from the False Life spell.

Bonus

Scythe

2d4 slashing damage, Heavy, reach, two-handed. Common weapon costing 10 GP

War Scythe

2d6 slashing damage, Heavy, reach, two-handed, Special*. War weapon costing 50 GP

Special - Brutal Wounds

When you score a critical hit with a melee weapon attack, you can roll one of the weapon's damage dice a second time and add it to the critical hit's bonus damage.

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