Martial Soul

The Martial Soul is an individual who is gifted with an extraordinary connection with the primal forces. While occasionally compared to Bladesingers, they are wildly different in their nature. Whereas Bladesingers studied weaving magic with prowess of the blade, Martial Souls use their preferred weapon as a tool to direct the powers they innately possess. Their innate affinity with weapons is further enhanced with basic combat training, making the Martial Soul a potent combatant and spellcaster alike.

Martial Adept

When you choose this subclass at 1st level you gain the following benefits:

 

Martial Soul

You can invoke your martial soul, provided that you aren’t wearing medium or heavy armor or using a shield. It graces you with supernatural speed, agility, and focus.

You can use a bonus action to invoke your martial soul, which lasts for 1 minute. It ends early if you are incapacitated, if you don medium or heavy armor or a shield, or if you use two hands to make an attack with a weapon. You can also dismiss the martial soul at any time (no action required).

While your martial soul is active, you gain the following benefits:

• You gain a bonus to your AC equal to your charisma modifier (minimum of +1).
• Your walking speed increases by 10 feet.
• You gain a bonus to any Constitution saving throw you make to maintain your concentration on a spell. The bonus equals your charisma modifier (minimum of +1).

You can use this feature a number of times equal to your proficiency bonus, and you regain all expended uses of it when you finish a long rest.

Extra Attack

6th-level Martial Soul feature

You can attack twice, instead of once, whenever you take the Attack action on your turn. Moreover, you can cast one of your cantrips in place of one of those attacks.

Martial Victory

14th-level Martial Soul feature

You can add your Charisma modifier (minimum of +1) to the damage of your melee weapon attacks while your Martial Soul is active.

Martial Defense

18th-level Martial soul feature

You can direct your magic to absorb damage while your Martial Soul is active. When you take damage, you can use your reaction to expend one spell slot and reduce that damage to you by an amount equal to five times the spell slot’s level.