Conclave of the Drakewarden

Drakewardens are rangers who use their magical connection with nature to form an enduring bond with a minor dragon, a drake. This bond allows the ranger to summon the drake to their side and to share in the awe-inspiring power wielded by dragons. Consider how your ranger gained their bond with the drake. The Drakewarden Origin table offers some examples.

D6	Origin
1	You studied a dragon’s scale or claw, or a trinket from its hoard, and created your bond through the token’s lingering draconic magic.
2	A secret order of rangers who collect and guard draconic lore taught you their ways.
3	A true dragon gave you a drake egg to care for. When it hatched, the drake bonded to you.
4	You drank a few drops of dragon blood, forever infusing your nature magic with draconic power.
5	An ancient Draconic inscription on a standing stone empowered you when you read it aloud.
6	You had a vivid dream of a mysterious man, accompanied by seven yellow canaries, who warned you of impending doom. When you awoke, your drake was there, watching you.

Draconic Magic

Starting at 3rd level, you learn an additional spell when you reach certain levels in this class, as shown in the Draconic Magic table. The spell counts as a ranger spell for you, but it doesn’t count against the number of ranger spells you know.

Level	Magic
3rd	Feather Fall
5th	Dragon's Breath
9th	Fear
13th	Elemental Bane

Draconic Gift

At 3rd level, the bond you share with your drake creates a connection to dragonkin, granting you understanding and empowering your presence. You gain the following benefits:

• Thaumaturgy: You learn the Thaumaturgy cantrip, which is a ranger spell for you.
• Tongue of Dragons: You learn to speak, read, and write Pure Draconic or one other language of your choice

   

Drake Companion

At 3rd-level you can magically summon the drake bound to you. As an action, you can summon the drake, which appears in an unoccupied space of your choice that you can see within 30 feet of you. The drake is friendly to you and your companions and obeys your commands. See its game statistics in the Drake Companion stat block, which uses your proficiency bonus (PB) in several places. When you summon the drake, choose a damage type listed in its Draconic Essence trait. You can determine the cosmetic characteristics of the drake such as its color, scale texture, or any visible effect of its Draconic Essence; your choice has no effect on its game statistics. In combat, the drake shares your initiative count, but it takes its turn immediately after yours. Once you summon the drake, you can’t do so again until you finish a long rest, unless you expend a spell slot of 1st level or higher to summon it.    

Bond of Fang and Scale

At 7th level the bond you share with your drake intensifies, protecting you and stoking the drake’s fury. When you summon your drake, you and the drake gain the following benefits:

• Drake Mount: The drake grows to Medium size. Reflecting your special bond, you can use the drake as a mount if your size is Medium or smaller.
• Flight or Swim: The drake gains a swimming speed of 40 feet and can breathe both air and water, or the drake grows wings and gains a flying speed of 40 feet.
• Magic Fang: The drake’s Bite attack deals an extra 1d6 damage of the type chosen for the drake’s Draconic Essence.
• Resistance: You gain resistance to the damage type chosen for the drake’s Draconic Essence.

     

Drake’s Breath

At 11th level, as an action, you can exhale a 30-foot cone of damaging breath or cause your drake to exhale it. Choose acid, cold, fire, lightning, or poison damage. Each creature in the cone must make a Dexterity saving throw against your spell save DC, taking 8d6 damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one. This damage increases to 10d6 when you reach 15th level in this class. Once you use this feature, you can’t do so again until you finish a long rest, unless you expend a spell slot of 2nd level or higher to use it again.    

Perfected Bond

At 15th level, your bond to your drake reaches the pinnacle of its power. While your drake is summoned, you and the drake gain the following benefits:

• Empowered Bite: The Drake's Bite attack deals an extra 2d6 damage of the type chosen for its Draconic Essence.
• Large Drake: The drake grows to Large size.
• Reflexive Resistance: When either you or the drake takes damage while you’re within 30 feet of each other, you can use your reaction to give yourself or the drake resistance to that instance of damage. You can use this reaction a number of times equal to your proficiency bonus, and you regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest.