Sage of Water
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Sage of Water is one of several possible subclasses you can gain as a member of the sage class.
Your subclass affects which spells you can prepare as a sage, and what proficiencies you gain at 1st level. Your subclass grants more features at 2nd, 6th, 10th, and 14th levels.
Domain Proficiencies
Your supernatural affinity with water instills you with knowledge and skill of mysterious origin. Your sage capabilities rouse with several proficiencies.
You gain proficiency with scimitars, pikes, and ice rods.
If this is your first class, you can read, write, and speak one language of your choice from Ancient, Hebric, and Zoran.
Supernatural Swimming
When you immerse yourself in water, the water itself seems to flow with you. Starting from 2nd level, your speed is not reduced while swimming. If you already have a swim speed or otherwise gain one, you never provoke opportunity attacks when you use that swim speed to move.
Water Path
Each water sage embodies their domain in a different way—each way is merely one path of many to all reach a similar destination. Your chosen path encompasses supernatural talents and aptitudes that feel natural. At 2nd level, you gain one of the following paths of your choice.
You can later change your path or follow an additional one with your Improvement feature.
Amphibian
You can breathe both air and water.
While swimming, you can use your bonus action to Dash.
Biologist
You become proficient in the Animal Handling and Nature skills. If already proficient in either skill, you instead gain 2 proficiency points per skill, which can either be invested immediately or saved for later.
You are an expert in any Intelligence (Nature) check made to recall lore about aquatic creatures.
Lulu's Ballad
You gain proficiency with another musical instrument of your choice. You can use a musical instrument which you are proficient as the spellcasting focus for your sage spells. While manipulating it, you can perform the somatic components of your sage spells without a free hand.
When you cast life or heal, the target is absolved of the blinded, deafened, ignited, paralyzed, and jinxed conditions.
You gain the shape water cantrip, and it does not count against your cantrips known. If you already have this cantrip, you instead gain another cantrip of your choice from your sage spell list.
Mariner
You become proficient in the Survival skill. If already proficient, you can instead gain 2 proficiency points.
You become proficient with water vehicles.
You are an expert in any Intelligence check made in regards to oceanic maps or geography, as well as any check made to navigate at sea.
Sage of Ice
You have resistance to cold damage. You can treat slippery ice and thin ice as normal terrain.
Whenever you cast a sage spell that deals damage, you can choose for the spell to deal cold damage in place of its normal damage type.
Legacy of Water
Starting from 6th level, the aquatic majesty of past sages begins to well up within you. At this level you gain one of the following benefits:
- Mipha's Grace. When a creature under your blessing takes damage, you can use your reaction to end the blessing and cast a sage spell on that creature. The spell must be one you already have prepared and must normally have a cast time of 1 action. Casting the spell in this way still consumes magic points (or spell slots), but you can ignore the normal range of the spell. If the spell affects an area, you must choose the hit creature as the center point. During your next turn, you can't cast any spell other than a cantrip.
- Ruto's Imperative. You can use your bonus action to Disengage, Dash, or Hide. You can't use this feature again until you next roll initiative.
- Carben's Flow. You have advantage on saving throws to avoid being paralyzed, stunned, or petrified.
- Slippery Chu. You cannot be ignited. You have advantage on any ability check or saving throw made to escape a grapple. Whenever you bless a creature, it is soaked.
Water Divinity
At 14th level, you learn to enhance your supernatural gifts with truly divine power from the gods. You gain one of the following benefits:
- Veil of Jabun. You have a swim speed of 60 feet, have no need to breathe, and cannot be ignited or petrified. All friendly creatures within 60 feet of you enjoy these benefits as well unless you decide otherwise. (If you have the Amphibian Path when you first gain this feature, you can immediately replace it with a new Water Path.)
- Leviathan's Purge. Your banes wash away the enemy's resilience. Any creature under your bane does not benefit from any damage resistance. If the creature you baned succeeds on a saving throw to halve the damage it takes, you can use your reaction to force that save to fail instead, ending the bane after the damage is dealt.
- Nayru's Shell. As an action, you can consume one use of your Bless or Bane feature to give an adjacent creature a number of temporary heart points equal to your sage level. While these temporary heart points persist, any damage the creature takes from nonmagical weapons and attacks is reduced by 5. Multiple instances of damage reduction do not stack; only the largest applies.
- Faron's Divination. You can detect movements in water with supernatural clarity. While you are submerged in water, you have truesight into all contiguous water within 30 feet of you. Any creature adjacent to you is also subject to your truesight if it is soaked.
Water Sage Spell List
The following spells are available to all water sages.
Cantrips (0-point)
Aegis | A creature within 60 feet of you that you can see gains resistance to all damage other than bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing until the start of your next turn. |
Cryonis | Upon a relatively flat plane of liquid water at least five by five feet, you create a pillar of magic ice. |
Druidcraft | Whispering to the spirits of nature, you create one of several minor effects. |
Frost Bolt | Your ranged spell attack deals 1d6 cold damage and imposes disadvantage on the first attack roll the target makes. |
Light | You touch one object, causing it to shed bright light in a 20-foot radius and dim light for an additional 20 feet |
Marvelous Melody | Your melody damages adjacent creatures, and potentially charms them. |
Mending | This spell repairs a single break or tear in an object you touch. |
Message | You whisper a message that can be heard only by one creature you designate within 120 feet, who can respond similarly. |
Rushing Wave | A wave of water crashes into a creature to cause damage and push it away. |
Ruto's Pirouette | Slashing blades of water soak a creature, let you avoid opportunity attacks from it this turn, and let you regain movement. |
Sage Hand | Conjure a translucent, floating hand that can manipulate objects at range. |
Summon Instrument | You summon a musical instrument into your hands out of thin air. |
Thaumaturgy | You manifest a minor wonder, a sign of supernatural power, within range. |
1-point
Death | You inflict wounds upon a creature you touch. |
Icicle | Conjure a icicle on a ceiling, then use your reaction to attack a creature as it moves underneath. |
Jump | A creature's jump distance is tripled until the spell ends. |
Purify Food and Drink | Remove poison and disease from food and drink within a 5-foot-radius sphere. |
Sage's Smite | Your next melee attack surges with elemental power. |
2-point
Animal Friendship | Charm an animal for up to 24 hours. |
Barrier | Your bonus action grants a creature a +2 bonus to AC for up to 10 minutes. |
Courage | For 1 minute a creature regains temporary heart points at the each of its turns, and can't be frightened. |
Detect Magic | Sense the presence of magic within 30 feet of you. |
Detect Poison and Disease | Sense the presence and location of poisons, poisonous creatures, and diseases within 30 feet of you. |
Disguise Self | Cause yourself to appear different for the duration. |
Farore's Courage | For the duration, you and any friendly creatures within 30 feet of you have advantage on every saving throw against being charmed or frightened. |
Feather Fall | Your reaction safely slows the descent for up to five creatures within 60 feet of you. |
Fog Cloud | You create a sphere of fog within range. |
Healing Word | Your bonus action restores a few heart points to a creature within 60 feet of you. |
Life | You heal the wounds of a creature you touch. |
Longstrider | A creature you touch has its speed increases by 10 feet for 1 hour. |
Lullaby | Up to 4d12 heart points' worth of creatures within 30 feet of you fall unconscious for 1 minute. |
Perceive Invisibility | For at least 1 minute, you see invisible creatures and objects as if they were visible. |
Regulate Water | You either create, destroy, or drain water. |
Sage Armor | You touch a creature to surround it with a transparent barrier of protective energy, potentially improving its AC. |
Sanctuary | You ward a creature within range against attack, which remains protected so long as it doesn't harm other creatures. |
Speak with Animals | You gain the ability to comprehend and verbally communicate with beasts for the duration. |
3-point
Aid | Your spell bolsters your allies with toughness and resolve, boosting maximum heart points. |
Animal Messenger | Instruct a Tiny beast to deliver a message, traveling potentially hundreds of miles to do so. |
Calm Emotions | You attempt to suppress strong emotions of a group of creatures. |
Ceremonial Rite | A 10-minute ceremony lays a protective blessing upon a creature with varying benefits depending on recent events. |
Darkness | Create magical darkness out to a radius of 15 feet for 10 minutes or longer. |
Ice Barricade | You create a wall of nonmagical ice up to 10 feet tall and 30 feet across. |
Illumination | Create daylight out to a wide radius for 10 minutes or longer. |
Lesser Restoration | You touch a creature and can end either one disease or one lesser condition afflicting it. |
Magic Mouth | You implant a message within an object in range, a message that is uttered when a trigger condition is met. |
Paralyze | You attempt to paralyze a creature you can see within range. |
Protection from Poison | A creature you touch is no longer poisoned, and is bolstered against poison for 1 hour. |
Reflecting Shield | You enhance a shield's defenses, and grant its wielder the ability to reflect ranged spell attacks. |
4-point
Ice Wave | You conjure a wave of water into a 30-foot cone, then freeze it, damaging and restraining creatures within it. |
Invisibility | A creature you touch becomes invisible until it attacks or casts a spell, for up to 1 hour. |
Sending | You send a short message to any creature with which you are familiar over any possible distance. |
Water Walk | Up to ten willing creatures gain the ability to traverse any liquid surface as if it was solid ground for 1 hour. |
5-point
Beast Shape | Transform into a beast of your choice for 1 hour. |
Clairvoyance | You create a sensor up to 1 mile away that sees or hears on your behalf, lasting for up to 10 minutes. |
Counterspell | You attempt to interrupt a creature in the process of casting a spell. |
Dispel Magic | You attempt to end a spell effect in range. |
Fly | A willing creature you touch gains a flying speed of 60 feet for the duration. |
Magic Circle | You create a 10-foot radius cylinder that prevents certain creature types from entering. |
Nayru's Wisdom | Friendly creatures within 30 feet of you have advantage on Int checks, Wis (Insight) checks, and saving throws against jinxes. |
Nondetection | For 8 hours, you hide a target that you touch from divination magic. |
Protection from Energy | A creature you touch gains resistance to one damage type you specify for up to 1 hour. |
Remove Curse | At your touch, all curses affecting one creature or object end. |
Revivify | You touch a creature that has died within the last minute, restoring it to 1 heart point. |
Sleet Storm | For 1 minute, freezing rain and wind hinder movement and concentration in a 40-foot radius cylinder. |
Tiny Hut | |
Water Breathing | Grant up to ten creatures the ability to breathe underwater for 24 hours. |
6-point
Breath of Naydra | A blast of freezing breath assails a 10-foot cone in front of you, potentially freezing your enemies solid. |
Control Water | You control freestanding water |
Daruk's Shield | A creature you touch repels up to three attacks that would otherwise hit it. |
Death Ward | |
Ethereal Bridge | You create a glass-like bridge up to 100 feet long and 20 feet wide over a chasm, river, or other obstacle. |
Greater Invisibility | A creature you touch becomes invisible for 1 minute. |
Locate Creature | Sense the direction of a familiar creature you specify if it is within 1,000 feet of you. |
Mipha's Healing Rain | For 1 minute, whenever you cast a spell nearly friendly creatures regain a few heart points. |
Sentinel | You conjure a stationary statue that lasts for 8 hours. It can shoot fiery projectiles. |
7-point
Baneful Ray | You project a ray of divine power to bane a creature up to 60 feet away. |
Greater Restoration | You imbue a creature you touch with positive energy to undo one debilitating effect. |
Scrying | You can see and hear a particular creature you choose that is on the same plane of existence as you. |
Telepathic Bond | For 1 hour, up to 8 creatures of your choice can communicate telepathically with each other. |
8-point
Heal | A creature within 60 feet of you regains 10d12 heart points. |
9-point
Cooling Aura | Provide resistance to cold damage in an aura around you for 8 hours. |
True Seeing | A creature you touch gains truesight out to a range of 120 feet for 1 hour. |
10-point
Sequester | A willing creature or object you touch becomes hidden and enters suspended animation for any period of time. |
11-point
Animal Shapes | You transform any number of willing creatures within 30 feet into beasts (CR 4 or lower) for up to 24 hours. |
Antimagic Field | A 10-foot radius sphere around you suspends or dispels all magic effects within it. |
Holy Aura | Nearby creatures of your choice gain advantage on all saving throws, while all attack rolls against them have disadvantage. |
12-point
Mind Blank | One creature you touch becomes immune to divination spells, the charmed condition, psychic damage, and any effect that senses its thoughts. |
Nayru's Love | A creature you touch becomes immune to damage other than psychic for up to 1 minute. |
13-point
Foresight | A creature you touch can see into the immediate future. For 8 hours, the target has advantage on all attack rolls, ability checks, and saving throws, etc. |
Imprisonment | You create a magical restraint to hold a creature that you can see within range, permanently. |
Mass Heal | Restore up to 700 heart points, divided as you choose among all creatures within 60 feet of you. |
Shapechange | You change into almost any creature for up to 1 hour. |
Storm of Vengeance | You create a powerful storm cloud up to a radius of 360 feet, which assails the area underneath for 1 minute. |
Time Stop | Briefly stop time for everyone but yourself. |
True Resurrection | Taking an hour and 250,000 rp worth of diamonds, you bring back to life any creature that has died within the past 200 years. |
14-point