SoulBringer

The Soul Bringers use souls to manipulate their physical and magical abilities. the sight of a Soul Bringer is considered an terrible omen to spiritually endowed people. these sorcerers draw their power from the thin fishing line that is death and the afterlife, as such when they trap a soul they are yanking them back to the plane of reality and trapping them their for their usage. soul bringers are often hated by society and those around them are typically disgusted by their abilities as it goes against the gods themselves. because the Soul Bringers are shunned by the people they often look to honing in on their abilities to make a living in killing.

Tome of souls

at 1st level you can imprint a Tome of Souls onto a book you touch during a long rest. The Tome of Souls allows you store up to 5 souls. these souls have three uses each with their own draw back. to collect a soul you must kill them personally, if someone else achieved the killing blow all chance to collect the soul is lost. a soul can choose to resist if they did not give permission to have their soul, if this happens than you must succeed in a contested wisdom save.

Tome of Souls abilities

1. you can use a soul as a spell slot going up to fifth level each level needing a same number of souls. when used like this you only deal 3/4ths of the original rolled damage to a minimum of 2.

2. you can summon a soul to aid you in combat but without their physical body they only deal half damage, and their hp is also half of its original. This soul takes a twisted shape and a green color, looking almost like a floating top half of a humanoid.

3. you can use the souls to temporarily hold damage, the amount they can store is equal to 1/3 their original hp. if a creature takes to much damage and their max thresh hold is reached before being released or used by the book the damage spills out and hits the user all at once. these souls can take any shape to block damage.

 

Ghostly ravager

At 1st level The casters arm turns to a see through almost ghost like hand with long monster claws. You can do this as a reaction, you can attack a creature within 5 feet of you with a melee attack dealing 1d8 slashing damage + charisma modifier and you can modify it with your meta magic but it cannot extend its range. Killing a creature with this absorbs souls for the tome of souls. 

Necromatic Might

at 6th level you achieve strength from the power of souls,  when attacked by necrotic damage you half the damage and the half (max of 50, min of 1) you didn't take is included into only your next melee attack if missed the damage is lost forever. If this attack hits than the user heals for 1/4 of the damage.

Tora's Hunger

At 14th level you gain access to Tora's Hunger, you gain the ability to now consume souls that are stored inside of the Tome of Souls, when consuming a soul you can roll 1d6, doing so you gain one random enhancement from the table below, you can use this as a reaction. You can now store 10 souls in the Tome of Souls.

1. you glow a necrotic green this turn and you gain 4d6 of HP

2. your legs take on a ghastly look, and your movement speed is trippled but on your next turn your movement is halved

3. you can add 3d4 of damage to your next successful melee attack but your next melee attack is halved

4. you take on a ghastly form becoming immune to necrotic damage

5. mindless undead will now follow your every command for 1 minute once time limit is up they drop whatever it is they are doing and if you are within sight of one of them they all agro towards you.

6. you can use one spell under 4th level without using a spell slot.

 

Ghastly Visage

At 18th level you gain Ghastly Visage, you can turn a creature's soul into a jade green stone, if this stone is destroyed the person who crushed the gem may steal one unique ability from this creature and use it for 30 minutes. if the person who crushed the gem is a soulbringer this is increased to 1 hour. to turn a creature's soul into a jade stone you must deal the killing blow and claim it within the next 20 minutes before the soul dissipates, this process takes 4 minutes each. you can only use a jade once and can only hold 5 at a time.