Oath of the Locust Song

Paladin Class: Sacred Oath

Created by IyeNano  

Tenets of the Locust Song

Serve the Swarm

The melody of the locust plague cannot go unheard. Serve their ravenous nature without falter.  

Destroy the Everlasting

Death comes for all. Even those who dare try cheat death will meet their end against the swarm.  

Consume Life

Steal the essence of life from others and make it your own power.  

Paladin Level	Spells
3rd	faerie fire, fog cloud
5th	blur, dust devil
9th	bestow curse, vampiric touch
13th	giant insect, polymorph
17th	contagion, insect plague

 

Channel Divinity

When you take this oath at 3rd level, you gain the following two Channel Divinity options.  

Voracious Siphon

As an action, you can use your Channel Divinity to imbue your weapon with the power to rip the life from your foes. For 1 minute, when you hit a creature with a melee weapon attack, you add necrotic damage equal to your Charisma modifier to the damage roll. In addition, for the duration, when you use the Divine Smite feature, you can choose to deal necrotic damage instead.  

Protective Swarm

At command, your locust presence consolidates to protect you from harm. When you take damage from an attack or spell, as a reaction, you can choose to gain resistance to all types of damage except fire damage, including against the triggering attack, until the end of your next turn.  

Aura of the Creeping Cicada

At 7th level, your locust swarm shrouds you and your allies from complete vision. You and friendly creatures within 10 feet of you is given half cover against ranged attacks and spells. When you reach 18th level in this class, the range of the aura increases to 30 feet.  

Risen Subsumption

When you reach 15th level in this class, you are able to infest the fallen with your locusts letting you take control of their body. You learn the Animate Dead spell if you do not know it already, which doesn’t require somatic or material components and doesn’t count against the number of paladin spells you have prepared. In addition, while Voracious Siphon is active, creatures you control through the Animate Dead spell also gain a bonus to its damage rolls equal to your Charisma modifier.   At the end of the duration, the creature is consumed by the locusts inside and control cannot be maintained or reasserted.  

Aspect of Devouring

At 20th level, you release your locusts and take on a form that emulates their gluttonous mind. As an action, you gain the following benefits for 1 minute:

You gain the benefits of Protective Swarm without needing to use your Channel Divinity class feature.

You can use your bonus action to consume an undead creature you control, gaining temporary hit points equal to your Paladin class.

You emanate an aura of ravenous insects in a 15-foot radius. The first time any hostile creature enters the aura or starts its turn inside, the creature must make a Constitution saving throw or become blinded until the start of its next turn.

Once you use this feature, you can’t use it again until you finish a long rest.