Heartless Vessel

Very few people partake in the magic of being a vessel for a Facade due to the dangers of attempting to become applicable for such arts. In order to embellish their humanoid bodies to such creatures, the person must first remove their heart to allow for a Facade to possess them without taking full control of their bodies. Once accomplished, you can gain mastery over your Facade and use their strengths for your own gain. As your Facade grows, powers will manifest themselves for you to ascertain and unleash.

Awaken Facade

You awaken your Facade from within you. As an action, you unleash your Facade to aid you and your allies. You can use this feature twice. You regain expended uses when you finish a short or long rest.

Your Facade appears behind you, looming over your body as a sentinel for your soul. Each hostile creature within 10 feet of you when it appears must succeed on a Dexterity saving throw against your spell save DC or take 2d10 force damage and be thrown 10 feet away from you.

Your Facade is friendly to you and your companions and obeys your commands. This embodiment of your will uses the Facade stat block below. When you awaken your Facade, choose an aspiration: Longevity, Equality, Freedom, or Domination. You determine your Facade's appearance based on your current aspiration.

In combat, your Facade shares your initiative count, but it takes its turn immediately after yours. The only action it takes on its turn is the Dodge action, unless you take a bonus action on your turn to command it to take one of the actions in its stat block or to take the Dash, Disengage, Help, or Hide action.

Your Facade manifests and stays for 1 minute, until it is reduced to 0 hit points, or until you dismiss it (requires no action).

Empty Anatomy

Without your heart within you, the wounds against your body cannot bring you death. When you drop to 0 hit points and become incapacitated you will not make death saving throws as usual.

When you fail a death saving throw it is simply treated as not being a success, rather than a failure, and will not give you a failed death saving throw. You will recover a hit point and regain consciousness when you get 3 successful death saving throws, as usual.

However, as a Heartless Vessel, whether it be on your person or somewhere in the World, your heart is still beating outside of your body and, if that beating stops, you will die.

Look at the item Heart of a Vessel for more details.

Inner Bond

Starting at 6th level, when a creature targets you with an attack, and your Facade is awakened, you can use your reaction to cause your Facade to shield you from it. This will cause your Facade to become the target of the attack rather than you.

You can use this feature a number of times equal to your Charisma modifier (a minimum of once). You regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest.

Co-dependant

At 14th level, when you use your Awaken Facade feature, you may now choose 2 aspirations for your Facade to gain the benefits of and it will be able to carry out a multiattack of 2 different actions if you use your bonus action to command it.

Show's Over

Beginning at 18th level, using your heart, you and your Facade become one: creating a Beating Facade. You can use this feature once. You regain expended uses when you finish a long rest.

In order to use this feature you must both have your Heart of a Vessel on you and used your Awaken Facade feature so that it is with you.

As an action, you offer your heart to your Facade, causing you and your Facade to fuse together, to form a Beating Facade. This transformation lasts for 1 minute. You then revert to your normal form without your Facade being awakened. You can revert to your normal form earlier by using a bonus action on your turn. You automatically revert if you fall unconscious, drop to 0 hit points, or die.

This will shield your Heart of a Vessel from attacks, meaning it cannot be targeted under any means while transformed.

While transformed, you will use the Beating Facade stat block below and will not be able to access any actions or features you have in your normal form. Additionally, you assume the Beating Facade's hit points and when you revert to your normal form, you return to the number of hit points you had before you transformed. However, if you revert as a result of dropping to 0 hit points, any excess damage carries over to your normal form.

Furthermore, transforming doesn’t break your concentration on a spell you’ve already cast or prevent you from taking actions that are part of a spell, such as call lightning, that you’ve already cast.

The abilities of your Beating Facade are dictated by the aspirations of the Facade you fused with.