Mystic Botanist

Those who spend enough time among magic flora are bound to find something remarkable. Through your constant close contact and interactions with cursed or enchanted vegetation, you've attuned your magical ability to be especially strong when channeled through earth and plant life. Your powers often have dramatic effects on any plants you come into contact with as well as any organisms that come into contact with said plants. Whether pushed away from society or seduced by whispers behind the leaves, you now seek refuge within the greenery and have mastered the art of harnessing nature to your benefit.

Skill Proficiencies: Choose two of Acrobatics, Arcana, Nature, Perception, Stealth, or Survival

Tool Proficiencies: Poisons, pan flute, light armor, ranged weapons, spear-like weapons, whips

Languages: Common, Sylvan or Elvish

Equipment: a poisoner's kit or herbalism kit, a pan flute, a bone dagger, a javelin or whip, a dart or quarterstaff, a shortbow or light crossbow with 20 ammunition, a mystical trinket

Spell List

Branching Divination: Reach out to the surrounding flora with a thought or intention, resulting in the plant life responding in varying ways.

Uncanny Shift: Traverse an area considerably more effectively when in close contact with substantial plant life.

Branching Augury: Tap into inner dark magic to draw fantastic and grotesque plant creations to the surface.

Spell Level	Spells

Branching Divination: Five (5) times per long rest, a sorcerer can reach out to surrounding flora with an intention or thought and receive a response in varying degrees of helpfulness, determined by a nature and arcana check. Such intentions are limited to five (5) words or less. Mystic Botanists using this ability have advantage on both while Overgrowth Haggards have disadvantage.

Uncanny Shift: When surrounded by medium to large plant life (i.e. in a forest) or close to a larger plant (i.e. next to a large tree), movements such as running, climbing, jumping, etc. are heavily buffed until you exit those conditions.

• Movement speed is increased by half
• Roll with advantage on athletics checks
• Moving from in front of an enemy to directly behind them leaves to enemy open to an opportunity attack with advantage.

After exiting conditions that unlock this ability, it is on cooldown until after a long rest.

Branching Augury: Five (5) times per long rest, the sorcerer can channel its magic into any surrounding plants or earth and call forth diverse effects to varying degrees of success, determined by a nature or arcana check. Overgrowth Haggards using this ability have advantage on both while Mystic Botanists have disadvantage.

 These effects are performed as spells, but only consume a spell slot when used in quick succession, or in two (2) or more consecutive combat turns.

Suggested Characteristics

You have always felt at home away from other people, instead immersing yourself in nature and its wildlife. After a long time of not having to speak, you find yourself relying more on an intimidating presence to keep yourself safe, though you also are able to choose your words more carefully than most, lending an air of charisma to yourself in social situations. When all else fails you look to nature to help you conceal the things you lack.

As a Mythic Botanist, you are more likely to reach out to nature with benevolence and use defensive plant manipulation. As an Overgrowth Haggard, you are more likely to bend nature to your benefit and use offensive plant effects. Any effect, however, can be cast by either variation, at the discretion of the DM.

d6	Personality Trait
1	I barely tolerate others. I'm alone for a reason.
2	I was pushed away from society, and craved companionship ever since.
3	I stalk and strike my target as if I were born of darkness.
4	I scamper out of dodge at the first sign of danger.
5	I will fight anything that disrespects me or my space.
6	I pay attention to every footstep near me and every odd movement on the horizon.

d5	Ideal
1	Where nature suffers, I will be there to help however I can. (Good)
2	My purpose here can never be understood by others. (Chaotic)
3	Eventually, nature must reclaim the land we use. I simply aid the process. (Lawful/Chaotic)
4	I welcome any change to my current situation. (Neutral)
5	People ruined my life. Nature will help me ruin them all. (Evil)

d4	Bond
1	Someone entrusted me with my powers. I will make them proud.
2	I am constantly battling dark thoughts to prove that I am a good person.
3	The pursuit of knowledge is worth my life... as long as I record my findings.
4	Anyone under my protection, is protected with my life.

d3	Flaw
1	I avoid confrontation like a plague.
2	My impulses make me a wild card in the worst ways.
3	Spirits of the forest often seek me out, having no one else to talk to.