Base Class: Warlock
You have heard the most sublime sound in the world, and it has changed you forever. You’ve taken the resonance into your beating heart and it has brought meaning and inspiration to your days. The Perfect Chord resounds through the quiet places of the world as a clear and harmonious note that spirals with infinite complexity, gaining sentience and life with every sound it collects. It has no motive but to include every sound in the universe within itself, and it inspires others with an endless desire to find new forms of radiant music to call forth and collect.
Traits of the Vocalist:
Warlocks who have been touched by the Chord often manifest unique physical or mental traits thanks to the influence of this curious Alrisen. These warlocks are known to scholars as Vocalists, as most devote themselves to musicality through their voice. However, not all are singers: many master an instrument, while others are passionate about unique forms of musical art. Some are famed for their use of illusion magic to create powerful displays of sound and light, singing the verbal components of their spells in order to summon symphonies of instruments to accompany the eldritch arts that they invoke. Consider adding one or more of these traits when creating a warlock or after seeking a new sound to add to the Perfect Chord’s eternal symphony.
1. You often inquire about people's music preferences
2. You insist on others joining you when you sing.
3. You sometimes hum in your sleep
4. You are extremely interested in new environments.
5. You always listen with complete focus when hearing a new piece of music for the first time.
6. You move in way that is perfectly in rhythm.
7. You speak to instruments and expect a response.
8. You have a tendency to snap in time.
9. You sometimes ask people to repeat or speak certain words so that you can memorize their voices.
10. You do not walk. You march. Everywhere.
11. Your skin has odd parallel lines tracing it, like those of sheet music.
12. Your eyes are shaped like those of a bird.
13. Your fingers are oddly supple and delicate.
14. Your heartbeat is always in rhythm with your words.
15. Clothing or armor you wear for long periods of time becomes colorful or somber to suit your mood.
16. Your speech comes in defined patterns, such as haiku, rhyming couplets, or particular timing.
17. Your hair is always perfectly kept.
18. The scent of spring air always surrounds you.
19. When you cast a spell, a pulsing light appears from your chest in time with your heartbeat.
20. Your vocal range surpasses human hearing.
Expanded Spell List
The Perfect Chord lets you choose from an expanded list of spells when you learn a warlock spell. The following spells are added to the warlock spell list for you.
Spell Level / Spells
1st / shrill whistle, thunderwave
3rd / beacon of hope, resonance
4th / compulsion, shattersong
5th / animate objects, awaken
Seeker of the Sound
At 1st level, your heartbeat is tuned to the Perfect Chord. You gain proficiency in the Performance skill and with all musical instruments. You can use a musical instrument as a spellcasting focus for your warlock spells, and can play it in place of using a verbal spellcasting component.
When you cast a spell that has only a verbal and somatic component, you can choose to cast it as though it only had a verbal component.
When you cast a spell of 1st level or higher that only has a verbal component, including those modified by this feature, you gain temporary hit points equal to your Charisma modifier that last for one minute.
Instrument of the Chord
At 6th level, your practice teaches you to turn others into your instruments. Using your bonus action, you can curse or harmonize with one creature within 60 feet of you. Each time you cast a spell using a warlock spell slot, you can cause that creature to vibrate in harmony with your spell. If the creature is friendly, its movement speed is doubled until the end of its next turn. If it is hostile, it must make a Constitution saving throw against your warlock spell save DC. If it fails, it is knocked prone. This curse lasts for 1 minute or until the creature enters an area of magical silence.
Once you use this feature, you can’t do so again until you finish a short or long rest.
Voice of the Maestro
At 10th level, your spirit copies the sounds it hears with perfect clarity. You gain resistance to thunder damage. Whenever you cast a spell that makes noise or the illusion of noise, you can cause it to produce any sound you wish.
Additionally, you can perfectly mimic the speech and other vocalizations of creatures you have heard, but not spellcasting. Creatures must succeed an Insight check against your warlock spell save DC to determine the sound is a mimicry, and they make this check with disadvantage.
The Grand Finale
Starting at 14th level, you can use your action to call upon a single note of the Perfect Chord. Choose one of the following effects. Once you use this feature, you can’t do so again until you finish a long rest.
• Celebration: Each friendly creature within 1 mile of you gains advantage on Charisma checks for 8 hours. During this time, these creatures can use their actions to magically conjure an instrument of their choosing, and they gain proficiency with that instrument for the duration. They can also use their action to summon delicious food or beverages sufficient to satisfy their needs for one day. They can only use each action once. Finally, they can cast any cantrips that you know that are from the schools of illusion or enchantment. After 8 hours, all of the conjured objects vanish and all ongoing effects created or enabled by this feature end.
• Defiance: You unleash a painful sound. Creatures of your choosing within 120 feet of you can choose to use their reaction to drop what they are holding and cover their ears. If they don’t do so, they take 8d10 thunder damage and are deafened for one hour. If they do, they take half as much damage and are not deafened.
• Discord: Each hostile creature within 60 feet of you that can hear you must make a Charisma saving throw against your warlock spell save DC. If they fail, they are frightened of you and of all creatures friendly to you for one minute. A creature can repeat their saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on a success.
• Exaltation: Each creature within 60 feet of you that can hear you can use their reaction to cheer. You immediately gain temporary hit points equal to ten times the number of creatures that cheer. These temporary hit points last for 10 minutes.
• Unity: Each friendly creature within 60 feet of you that can hear you can use their reaction to immediately move up to 30 feet and make one weapon attack.
Eldritch Invocations
These invocations are additional options for whenever you can pick eldritch invocations. Please keep in mind and work with your DM to make sure you have the correct amount of invocations for your level.
Allegro Vivace
You can cast greater restoration using a warlock spell slot. Once you cast this spell, you cannot do so again until you finish a long rest.
Cheerful Duet
If you have a symphonic songbird as your familiar, it gains additional maximum hit points equal to your warlock level. You can choose to cast spells that require only verbal components as though you were in your familiar’s space.
Compositions of the Masters
You can ignore the effects of the silence spell and of magical effects that would produce a similar area of magical silence, enabling you to speak and cast spells normally. You also become immune to the deafened condition.
Singing Slayer
You can create a weapon of swirling light that emanates musical tones using your Pact of the Blade feature. It counts as a musical instrument. Whenever you cast a cantrip as an action using a verbal component, one friendly creature within 30 feet of you that can hear you can use their reaction to harmonize with you. You gain advantage on your next weapon attack during your next turn and the other creature gains advantage on its next attack roll during its next turn.
Wicked Waltz
You can cast otto's irresistible dance once without using a spell slot. You cannot do so again until you finish a long rest.
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