Way of Emptiness

Emotions distort decisions. Only by expelling them, can one attain a pure mind free from any influence.

 

Empty Mind

Starting when you choose this tradition at 3rd level, you learn how to channel your inner emptiness.

• Your Ki exudes a cold feeling.
• Empty State: Using your bonus action, you can enter a mental state of emptiness.
• You become unnaturally calm.
• For the duration, your emotions are suppressed, granting you advantage against charm, fear or any other effect using emotion.
• If one searches your thoughts and chooses to go deeper, they will only encounter emptiness.
• Maximum duration is 10 minutes.
• Its maximum charges are equal to your proficiency bonus, they reset on long rest.
• Chill: You can hurl a wave of cold at a target within 60ft.
• Make a ranged attack.
• Damage: martial arts die + wisdom modifier cold damage.

Null

At 6th level, your emptiness becomes vast, claiming more space within your mind than anything else, becoming a truth.

• Null: Creatures have disadvantage reading your emotions.
• Twice per long rest, you can cast pass without trace.
• Twice per long rest, you can cast dispel magic.
• By spending a charge and 1 point of ki, dispel magic is cast at 4th level.

Birth of Void

Beginning at 11th level, your emptiness gives birth to a metaphysical space of nothingness, void.

• Metaphysical Nothingness: You can survive without air for 1 hour.
• Taking psychic damage causes no pain at all, but it still deals damage.
• Gain resistance to force damage.
• Dispel magic is always cast at 4th level, spending 1 extra ki, makes it affect everything within a 5ft. radius around you.
• Void State: The ability Empty State gains new effects.
• Your thoughts can not be detected at all.
• When you are subjected to an effect that allows you to make a Wisdom or Intelligence saving throw to take only half damage, you instead take no damage if you succeed on the saving throw, and only half damage if you fail.
• When you use your bonus action to enter Empty State, you also cast dispel magic on yourself at 5th level.

Phlegmatic Catharsis

At 17th level, you managed to clear your mind from any emotion and attain a pure state, becoming a being of pure logic.

• True Void: You don't need to breathe anymore.
• If looked at by truesight your body appears to be pitch black.
• You are invisible for creatures in the ethereal plane, while residing outside it.
• Pure State: Empty State becomes passive, it gains new effects when activated:
• You lose all emotion.
• While a creature is possessing you or connected to your mind, it needs to make a wisdom saving throw on its turn.
• On fail, it takes 2d10 force damage + 10 cold damage.
• On success, it takes half as much damage.
• You can cast Void Banishment.
• Void Banishment: Using 4 ki, you can force a creature within 15ft. to make a constitution saving throw.
• On fail, it is banished into your own void for 1 minute.
• On success, half of the ki is refunded.
• Your void can not hold more than 1 creature at a time.
• At level 20 it can hold 2 creatures at once.