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Keepers of this covenant command such a presence that their will is enough to overwhelm the spirits of the world around them. When these legionnaires walk, the wind is at their back, their way is clear, and their pace is swift as they follow their path to victory, their most loyal companion and follower always by their side. They speak with the voice of a conqueror, and the universe listens.   Hear me! I claim this place and name it mine! Let all who would oppose me speak now, or fall silent forevermore!"  

Covenant Spells

You gain covenant spells at the keeper levels listed.

Keeper Level	Spell
3rd	command
5th	silence
9th	spirit guardians
13th	freedom of movement
14th	dominate person

 

Hearthkeeper

When you reach 3rd level, you learn to speak with the spiritual denizens of an area. You can spend 10 minutes entreating or ordering these spirits, burning simple offerings, or otherwise commanding the attention of the world around you.   If you do so, you learn one fact of your choice about any of the following subjects as they relate to the area within 1 mile of you:

• Frequently visited buildings and places of business
• Historically significant events
• Powerful aberrations, celestials, fey, fiends, elementals, or undead
• Safe sources of food, water, and places to rest

Mortals and spirits experience life in fundamentally different ways. In offering their wisdom, the spirits' advice may be cryptic, spoken like a prophecy, or conveyed through potentially disturbing dreams and visions.   Once you use this feature, you can't use it again until you finish a long rest.  

Sworn Protector

By 3rd level, your companion is your faithful servant and protector. When a creature your companion can see attacks you, your companion can use its reaction to move up to its speed towards the attacker, imposing disadvantage on the attack roll if it ends this movement within 5 feet of the attacker.  

March of the Legion

Beginning at 5th level, your companion can attack twice, instead of once, whenever it takes the Attack action on its turn.  

Unseen Serfdom

At 7th level, you gain access to the unseen servant spell. You always have it prepared, and it doesn't count against the number of spells you can prepare each day.   Additionally, when you cast unseen servant, you can create a number of additional servants equal to half your keeper level. When you cast unseen servant in this way, each servant has a Strength score equal to the number of unseen servants under your command (maximum Strength score of 12), and you can mentally command any or all of the servants when you use your bonus action to command a servant, issuing the same command to each one.   Once you cast unseen servant in this way, you can't do so again until you finish a long rest.  

Oathbound Guardian

Starting at 11th level, your companion is your devoted guardian. When you use your Sworn Servant feature, your companion can make a melee attack against the attacker as part of the same reaction.   Additionally, while your companion is within 5 feet of a hostile creature, that creature has disadvantage on any attack roll targeting you.  

Demesne

By 18th level, you can perform a ritual to claim ownership of a location no larger than 500 feet on a side, such as a section of forest, a manor, a castle, or other area, establishing it as your demesne. To perform the ritual, you must spend at least 24 consecutive hours within the area without resting, falling unconscious, or being reduced to 0 hit points. During the ritual, any creature within 1 mile of you is made aware of your claim and the consequences of the ritual. If you successfully complete the ritual, you claim the area as your demesne.   Within your demesne, you can shape reality to your will. You can use your action to manipulate an area you can see within your demesne no larger than a 20-foot cube, destroying solid structures, raising or depressing land, changing the weather and temperature, manifesting sounds or smells, or altering the material of a structure or surface - such as changing a stone wall to one of wood, ice, or flesh. If you manipulate an area to cause harm, each hostile creature within the area must make a Charisma saving throw against your keeper spell save DC. A creature takes 4d8 damage of a type of your choice on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one.   If you claim another demesne, your lose ownership of your former demesne, and any changes you made within are slowly undone over the course of a week. Anything created by this feature vanishes when it leaves your demesne, and any changes made to an object are rapidly undone if it leaves your demesne.  

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Every keeper treads a measure in the world of the mystical. Some, however, go further, truly joining with the magical world. Called vessels, these keepers cut away fragments of their self, the bedrock of their identity, and fill the gaps with spirits kin to their companion. These vessels are imbued with wild, electrifying power, but must remain vigilant, or risk losing themselves to the spirits they invite within.   "Hungry spirits, rattlin' around inside you; something wild, to run faster, hit harder... It's enough to make you feel hollow."  

Covenant Spells

You gain covenant spells at the keeper levels listed.

Keeper Level	Spell
3rd	expeditious retreat
5th	alter self
9th	haste
13th	shadow of moil
14th	spirit feast

 

Burning the Candle

At 3rd level, the spirits invited within change you, making you restless, agitated, and just a little inhuman. You cannot sleep, magically or otherwise, and no longer need to, though you can still be knocked unconscious. To gain the benefits of a long rest, you can spend all 8 hours doing light activity, such as pacing and keeping watch.  

Spirit Riding

Starting at 3rd level, your will is steeled, strong enough to withstand assault from within.   While within 60 feet of you, your companion can use its action to beckon spirits of its nature to enter your body, imbuing you with a portion of their strength through a practice called riding. These spirits remain for 10 minutes. Your Spirit Riding ends early if you die or if you dismiss it (no action required). Your companion can't use this feature while you're Spirit Riding.   While Spirit Riding, you gain the following benefits:

• Whenever you hit a creature with a weapon attack on your turn, you can push the creature up to 5 feet away from you and immediately move up to half your speed to an unoccupied space within 5 feet of the target.
• Immediately after you take damage, you gain temporary hit points equal to your Charisma modifier (minimum of 1).
• You cannot be frightened. If you are frightened when you begin Spirit Riding, the effect is suspended while you are Spirit Riding.
• You ignore the effects of any levels of exhaustion.

The first time you use this ability, you suffer no adverse effect. Each time you use this feature again before you finish a short or long rest, you suffer one level of exhaustion.  

Extra Attack

Beginning at 5th level, you can attack twice, instead of once, whenever you take the Attack action on your turn.  

Hollowed Heart

By 7th level, your harrowed spirit can consume fragments of the dead. By spending 1 minute within 5 feet of a creature's corpse, you can learn what skill and tool proficiencies the creature possessed, what languages it spoke, and its type.   When you use this feature, you can also choose to harvest fragments of its spirit. If you do so, you gain proficiency in two skills or tools of your choice, chosen from those the creature possessed in life, which remain until you harvest fragments of another creature's spirit. You can replace one or both of these selections with languages the creature spoke. If the creature did not speak a language, you can instead communicate with and be understood by any of its kind.  

Soul Frenzy

Starting at 11th level, the spirits within you scream at the slightest provocation. When you hit a creature with a weapon attack while Spirit Riding, you can roll one of the weapon's damage dice one additional time and add it to the damage of the attack if that creature has damaged you or your companion since the end of your last turn.  

Spirit Vault

Starting at 18th level, your body is animated by the spirits held within. You ignore the effects of the first five levels of exhaustion. In addition, while Spirit Riding, having 0 hit points doesn't knock you prone. You still must make death saving throws, and you suffer the normal effects of taking damage while at 0 hit points.   Additionally, when your Spirit Riding ends, you can open the vault within your soul and release a hurricane of hungry spirits. Each creature within 30 feet of you must make a Constitution saving throw against your keeper spell save DC. A target takes 8d8 necrotic damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one. A target killed by this damage is devoured whole. You regain hit points equal to your Charisma modifier for each creature devoured in this way. If your Spirit Riding ended early because you died and the spirits devour a creature, you are returned to life with 1 hit point.   Once you open the vault, you can't open it again until you finish a long rest.  

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