Mercy, justice, or spectacle, to some, it makes no difference. To me, every stroke of the blade is a final truth. When I speak, even the guilty grow silent. I have looked into the eyes of a thousand dying men, and they have all seen the same thing staring back. I am not a murderer. I am the end of the line, the last face the guilty see, and the only one who remembers their names.

Ability Scores: Strength, Constitution, Wisdom

You may increase one ability score by 2 and another score by 1 or you may increase three ability scores by 1.

Feat: Hand of Judgment

Your divine calling binds you to the role of executioner, the duty of both judge and enforcer. You wield radiant authority and are attended by a spectral vulture that marks the condemned.

Features

Judgment Condor

• You can perform a 10-minute ritual to summon your Judgment Condor, a radiant or spectral vulture bound to your soul.
• It functions as a familiar using the find familiar spell, except:
• It takes the form of a Small condor (celestial or undead — your choice).
• It has Flyby (it doesn’t provoke opportunity attacks when it flies out of a creature’s reach).
• When it uses the Help action to assist an ally’s attack, the target of that attack is wreathed in faint radiant light until the start of your next turn.
• If the marked creature willingly moves more than 5 feet before your next turn, it takes 1d8 radiant damage.
• You can resummon the condor if it dies by performing the ritual again.

 

Executioner’s Promise

• You learn the Executioner’s Promise cantrip. It functions identically to booming blade, except:
• It deals radiant damage instead of thunder damage.
• The spell’s visual effect is a flash of judgmental light. A target marked by this spell has a radiant noose tied around their neck, tightening if they try to escape.
• Your spellcasting ability for this cantrip is Strength, Wisdom, or Charisma (choose when you gain this feat).

 

Voice of Authority

• When you speak a creature’s name as part of the casting of Executioner’s Promise or while commanding your Judgment Condor, your voice carries supernatural weight. You have advantage on Intimidation checks made against any creature that has taken radiant damage from you in the past minute.

 

Skill Proficiencies: You gain proficiency with Intimidation and Medicine. You know both how to end life swiftly, and how fragile it truly is.

Tool Proficiencies: You gain proficiency with a Poisoner’s Kit, ensuring that if the final blow doesn’t end them, it won’t be long.

Languages: One of your choice 

Equipment: Executioner’s Blade, a thick, forward-weighted saber (1d10 slashing, Heavy, Two-Handed, Vex weapon mastery, requires Strength 15). This is your signature weapon, used for both ceremonial and battlefield executions.

Dark hood or veil, traditionally worn during executions; may be plain or inscribed with prayers, tally marks, or symbols of judgment.

Iron sigil of judgment, a badge, medallion, or token representing your authority and allegiance, often worn visibly on your clothing or weapon.

Set of manacles, practical for restraining the guilty before your final judgement.

Ledger of the condemned, a small book containing names, dates, real or imagined confessions of the executed, or left blank for future records.

Whetstone and oil cloth, for maintaining the Executioner’s Blade, reflecting the ritual care required by your calling.

Common clothes.

A pouch containing 20 gp.

 

Suggested Characteristics

d6	Personality Trait
1	I face every challenge with cold efficiency. Emotion has no place in judgment.
2	I speak softly and let the weight of silence carry my authority.
3	Every life I take is a burden I remember by name.
4	I maintain a ritual before every battle, not for faith, but for focus.
5	I have a grim sense of humor, found in the darkest places.
6	I treat even condemned enemies with respect; all deserve dignity in death.

d6	Ideal
1	Justice. Every sentence must be carried out with fairness and precision. (Lawful)
2	Duty. The world needs those willing to do what others cannot. (Neutral)
3	Redemption. Death should not be cruel; it should be a release. (Good)
4	Fear. Authority only exists so long as it is respected and feared. (Lawful Evil)
5	Balance. Life and death are two sides of the same truth. (Neutral)
6	Obedience. I follow orders; I am the blade, not the will behind it. (Lawful Neutral)

d6	Bond
1	I carry the blade of my predecessor and their spirit watches every execution.
2	The one I spared still lives; one day, I must see if that mercy was a mistake.
3	I once served a corrupt lord. My every act now is penance for their sins.
4	My guild, order, or temple taught me the rites of death. I still follow their creed.
5	I promised to deliver a final mercy to a fallen comrade, no matter how long it takes.
6	My familiar, a spectral bird of judgment, carries the souls of the condemned.

d6	Flaw
1	I’ve grown numb; I struggle to see value in any life, even my own.
2	My hand never trembles, even when perhaps it should.
3	I speak in verdicts and condemnations, not conversation.
4	I distrust mercy; I’ve seen it lead to worse suffering.
5	I see omens of death everywhere, and I always ignore them, for I too am an omen.
6	I am haunted by those whose lives I ended unjustly, whether they were real or imagined.