Dark Arts

Scarlet Magus

You use Blood Magic as a means of achieving powers that would terrify a normal mage, increasing your destructive force and honing your archaic talents. To you, sanguimancy is not a barbaric power but a tool to connect the very fabric of life.  

Blood Shield

At 1st level, you have learned to how to draw from the power of your blood to defend yourself. Once per round as a reaction, you can cause your blood to become volatile to defend yourself. Until the start of your next turn, whenever you take damage from a creature that you can see, that creature takes necrotic damage equal to half your sanguimancy level plus your charisma modifier. You can use this feature a number of times equal to your Charisma modifier (a minimum of once). You regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest.

 

Bleed Magic

Starting 6th level, you gain the ability to cast spells when you are wounded, turning the blood spilt from your veins into magic. When you take slashing, bludgeoning, or piercing damage from a hostile creature, you can use your reaction to spend a hit die and cast a 1st level spell or lower that targets the creature that dealt damage to you.    

Sanguine Drain

At 14th level, you have enhanced your understanding on how to use your blood absorption abilities on living creatures. As an action, you can target a creature that has blood to make a Constitution saving throw against your spell save DC. On a failed save, the creature takes 6d8 necrotic damage and you regain half as many hit points. On a successful save, the creature takes half damage and you don't regain half as many hit points.   Once you use this feature, you can’t use it again until you finish a long rest.    

Blood Dive

When you reach 18th level, you can channel energies within yourself and dive into a creature, emerging from another. As an action, you can choose a creature with blood that is your size or larger within 30 feet of you, and dive into their body. The creature must make a Constitution saving throw against your spell save DC or take 8d10 necrotic damage, taking half damage on a successful saving throw.   You can then choose a creature to emerge from within 30 feet in an unoccupied space nearby. This creature must also make a Constitution saving throw or take 8d10 necrotic damage, taking half damage on a successful saving throw.   Once you have used this ability, you cannot use it again until you finish a long rest.      

Crimson Crusader

Not all blood Mages are distant in the midst of war. Some thrive on being face to face with their victims slamming powerful spells and sharp blades into their foes for the unforgettable feeling of a blood rush.    

Crimson Armaments

When you choose this archetype at 1st level, you gain proficiency in Medium Armor, and Shields. You have learned how to harden your blood into a deadly weapon to defeat your enemies. As a bonus action you create a weapon shaped as a short sword, long sword, great sword, or any weapon you are proficient with into a free hand.   The weapon has similar properties as the normal version of it's kind, except that it is considered magical for the purpose of overcoming resistance and immunity to nonmagical attacks and damage. The weapon disappears if it is more than 5 feet away from you for 1 minute or more. It also disappears if you use this feature again, if you dismiss the weapon (no action required), or if you die.    

Extra Attack

Starting at 6th level you can attack twice, instead of once, whenever you take the Attack action on your turn.  

Crimson Resilience

Upon reaching 14th level, you become closer to mastering control over blood, permanently reinforcing your resilience. When you take enough damage to fall below half your maximum hit points, you can use your reaction to gain temporary hit points equal to 1d4 + your sanguimancy level and gain advantage on Constitution and Strength saving throws for 1 minute.  

Blood Frenzy

At 18th level, you gain the ability to harness your blood to exhibit extraordinary martial prowess. As an action, for 1 minute you can magically enter a powerful rage and gain the following benefits:

• When you take the Attack action with a melee weapon on your turn you can make one additional attack as part of that action
• You regain hit points equal to twice your Charisma modifier when you reduce a creature to 0 hit points.
• If you begin your turn with no more than half of your maximum hit points, you must succeed on a DC 12 Wisdom saving throw or move directly towards the nearest creature to you and use the Attack action against that creature. If there is more than one possible target, roll to randomly determine the target. You then regain control for the remainder of your turn. If you are under an effect that prevents you from concentrating (like the barbarian’s Rage feature), you automatically fail this saving throw.

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