In combat, a bladesinger uses a series of intricate, elegant maneuvers that fend off harm and allow the bladesinger to channel magic into devastating attacks and a cunning defense. Many who have observed a bladesinger at work remember the display as one of the more beautiful experiences in their life, a glorious dance accompanied by a singing blade.

Training in War and Song

When you adopt this tradition at 2nd level, you gain proficiency with light armor, and you gain proficiency with one type of one-handed melee weapon of your choice.

You also gain proficiency in the Performance skill if you don’t already have it.

Fighting Style

You adopt a particular style of fighting as your specialty. Choose one of the following options. You can't take a Fighting Style option more than once, even if you later get to choose again.

Extra Attack

Starting at 6th level, 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.

Accelerando Arcana

Starting at 10th level, you have honed the ability of hastening spells you cast. As a bonus action, you can accelerate the next casting of any spell that has a casting time of 1 action to a bonus action. You may only accelerate one spell this way at a time, thus accelerating a new spell will replace the last one.

Song of Empowerment

The constant usage of spell casting and physical attacks has unlocked the potential to bolster your bodies physical abilities after casting a spell. After casting a level 1 spell or higher, you gain one of the following benefits till the end of your next turn. 

Song of Victory - After you've cast a spell, the next attack you land does additional damage equal to 1d4 x the spell level

Song of Defense - After casting a spell, you gain temporary hit points equal to your intelligence modifier x the spell level