Base Class: Barbarian
There exist tribes in far-off mountain peaks that study the runes left behind on stone tablets by their ancestors. Sometimes such a tribe is blessed with the birth of a child capable of harnessing such Runic Power, such a child is known as a Runic Rager, someone who uses raw arcane power to amplify their rage directing it outward.
Runic Artisan
You gain a fundamental understanding of the arcane and its connections that spread throughout the natural world. You gain proficiency in the Arcana, and History skill, in addition to proficiency in Mason's Tools. Additionally, you know how to scribe runes, and any Intelligence (Arcana) or Intelligence (History) checks you make to understand runes, you may add your Runic Die to the result of the roll.
Runic Attunement
You may attune to runes that you have found or scribed personally. At the end of a long rest, you may attune to a number of runes up to your number of attunement slots, you must know the rune you're attempting to attune to.
Runic Dice: You have a pool of Runic Dice which begin as a number of d6's equal to 2× your Constitution Modifier. You begin the day with half of your Runic Dice. When you take damage from a spell, you may use your reaction to gain a number of Runic Dice equal to the number of dice the spell dealt in damage.
Your Runic Dice increase to d8's at 7th level, d10's at 11th level, and d12's at 15th level.
The Original Language
Through studying a vast number of runes, you have discovered that all other languages have roots in this single ancient script. You understand all written language in a literal sense.
Awakened Soul
You feel your mind and soul expand reaching outward to all the magical essence which suffuses this world. You gain 2 additional attunement slots for a total of five, and during a short rest you may switch out a single rune you're attuned to with another you know.
Exalted One
Your body is a catalyst for the runes which you wield, as a bonus action while you are raging, you may exalt a single rune which you're attuned to harnessing the true potential of that rune, doing so consumes any Runic Dice you have dropping you to zero.
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