In ancient days, elder Shamans communed with Spirits that desired mortal blood above all. Over time, the Spirits taught the first Blood Priests the dark secrets of blood magic, and in return, they offered these elder Spirits the blood of their foes.
Blood Priest Spells
2nd-level Shaman (Blood Priest) feature
You always have certain spells prepared at the Shaman levels in the table below. The spells count as Shaman spells for you, but they do not count against the spells you prepare each day:
Blood Totems
2nd-level Shaman (Blood Priest) Feature
Ancient Spirits have taught you to siphon life-blood and bind its spiritual power to Blood Totems using the rules below:
Bound Totems. When you finish a Long Rest, you gain one Blood Totem, which does not count against your total number of Bound Totems. In addition, you can forgo any number of Bound Totems to instead create that many Blood Totems. When a Blood Totem is created, it has 0 Hit Points. Being at 0 Hit Points does not destroy a Blood Totem. They cannot be targeted by attacks, spells, powers, or supernatural effects that deal damage, but can be targeted by other effects, such as a Disarming Strike.
Harvesting. When you deal Necrotic, Piercing, or Slashing damage to a creature within 10 feet of you, you can choose to harvest its blood, causing one Blood Totem you are holding to gain Hit Points equal to half the damage dealt. This ability has no effect on
Constructs,
Undead, or creatures without blood. You can only harvest Hit Points from one creature per spell cast or attack made.
Hit Points. Blood Totems can store up to 25 hit points at one time. If a Blood Totem is at its maximum hit points, you can expend all its hit points to cast one of your Blood Priest spells at your Slot Level, without expending a slot or the spell's normal material components that do not cost more than 50 gp.
When you finish a long rest, unused hit points stored within Blood Totems lose their magic and are dispelled.
Cruel Implements
2nd-Level Shaman (Blood Priest) Feature
You have learned to use particular weapons to better harvest the life-blood of your foes. You gain proficiency with all melee weapons that deal Piercing or Slashing damage.
Sanguine Shield
2nd-Level Shaman (Blood Priest) Feature
Whenever you take damage while you are holding a Blood Totem, you can use a reaction to cause it to take the damage in your place. Should this reduce a Blood Totem to zero hit points, you take any remaining damage.
Extra Attack
6th-Level Shaman (Blood Priest) Feature
You can attack twice, instead of once, whenever you take the Attack action on your turn. Moreover, if you use your action to cast a Shaman spell or use Totemic Assault, you can make a single melee weapon attack as a bonus action.
Attacks with your Cruel Implements also count as magical for overcoming Resistance and Immunity to non-supernatural attacks and damage.
Sanguine Curse
10th-Level Shaman (Blood Priest) Feature
Spirits that hunger for mortal vitality empower your magic. When you expend a Blood Totem to cast a Blood Priest spell, you can force the target to make a Constitution saving throw in place of the normal saving throw for that spell. If you have hit points harvested from the target of the spell in that Blood Totem, it makes this saving throw with disadvantage.
Also, when a creature takes damage from Totemic Assault, you can harvest hit points regardless of its distance from you.
Crimson Ascendant
14th-Level Shaman (Blood Priest) Feature
You have stained your soul with the blood of mortals in order to satisfy the hunger of dark Spirits. Whenever you damage a creature with a Cruel Implement, hit points you harvest for your Blood Totems are no longer halved.
You also start with three Blood Totems before you must forgo Bound Totems to create Blood Totems. These totems do not count against your number of Bound Totems.
