The Circle of the Sky

Most druids find themselves enamored with the lands. Content to roam forests, plains, mountains, deserts, and even the Underdark, they walk with their feet firmly planted on the ground. Other druids find the majesty of nature in the clouds. These druids are most captivated by the might of a rolling thunderstorm, the vast peaks and valleys of a titanic nimbus, the tranquility of a gentle breeze, and the deep azure of an open sky.

This order of druids is a loose and nomadic lot. They revere skies that hangover all lands and strive to see as much of them as they can. Therefore, the Circle of the Sky druids travels nearly constantly throughout their lives. They meet occasionally at mountain vistas, the canopies of great forests, and the peaks of floating islands to exchange tales of their travels and perform rites of sky deities. Members of this Circle are known for their powerful weather magics and flighty attitudes.

Bonus Cantrip

When you choose this circle at the second level, you learn one additional cantrip of your choice of these three--shocking grasp, gust, or thunderclap.

 

Aurai

You gain the service of an aurai, a spirit of the winds that takes an avian form you choose: blood hawk, eagle, hawk, owl, raven, or vulture.

The aurai has the statistics of the chosen form, though it is a fey instead of a beast.

Your aurai obeys your commands as best as it can. It takes its turn on your initiative, though it doesn’t take an action unless you command it to. On your turn, you can verbally command the aurai where to move (no action required by you). You can use your action to verbally command it to take the Dash, Disengage, Dodge, or Help action.

When the aurai drops to 0 hit points, it disappears, leaving behind no physical form. You can summon it back using a ritual that takes 1 hour to perform, during which you may choose a new form for the aurai.

Additionally, as an action, you can see through your aurai's eyes and hear what it hears until the start of your next turn, gaining the benefits of any special senses that the aurai has.

During this time, you are deaf and blind with regard to your own senses.

Finally, when you cast a spell with a range of touch, your aurai can deliver the spell as if it had cast the spell. Your aurai must be within 100 feet of you, and it must use its reaction to deliver the spell when you cast it. If the spell requires an attack roll, you use your attack modifier for the roll.

Sky Step

Begining at the 6th level, you can use your reaction when you fall to reduce any falling damage you take by five times your druid level.

Ward of the Wild Blue

When you reach 10th level, you can move through nonmagical weather effects without being slowed and without taking damage from sleet, hail, or lightning. You have advantage on saving throws against weather effects that are magically created or manipulated, such as those created by the sleet storm spell.

In addition, you are immune to environmental effects involving altitude such as low pressure, decreased oxygen, and altitude sickness. However, you still need to breath.

Wings of Air

At 14th level, you gain the ability to manifest a pair of ethereal wings from your back, gaining a flying speed equal to your current speed.

These wings are composed entirely of force, and do not interfere with armor or clothing. They are translucent, but the exact color and shape of the wings are up to you.

You can create these wings as a bonus action on your turn. They last until you dismiss them as a bonus action on your turn.

Bonus Cantrip

When you choose this circle at 2nd level, you learn one additional druid cantrip of your choice.

Natural Recovery

Starting at 2nd level, you can regain some of your magical energy by sitting in meditation and communing with nature. During a short rest, you choose expended spell slots to recover. The spell slots can have a combined level that is equal to or less than half your druid level (rounded up), and none of the slots can be 6th level or higher. You can’t use this feature again until you finish a long rest.

For example, when you are a 4th-level druid, you can recover up to two levels worth of spell slots. You can recover either a 2nd-level slot or two 1st-level slots.

Circle Spells

Your mystical connection to the land infuses you with the ability to cast certain spells. At 3rd, 5th, 7th, and 9th level you gain access to circle spells connected to the land where you became a druid. Choose that land — arctic, coast, desert, forest, grassland, mountain, swamp, or Underdark — and consult the associated list of spells.

Once you gain access to a circle spell, you always have it prepared, and it doesn’t count against the number of spells you can prepare each day. If you gain access to a spell that doesn’t appear on the druid spell list, the spell is nonetheless a druid spell for you.

Arctic

Druid Level	Spells
3rd	hold person, spike growth
5th	sleet storm, slow
7th	freedom of movement, ice storm
9th	commune with nature, cone of cold

Coast

Druid Level	Spells
3rd	mirror image, misty step
5th	water breathing, water walk
7th	control water, freedom of movement
9th	conjure elemental, scrying

Desert

Druid Level	Spells
3rd	blur, silence
5th	create food and water, protection from energy
7th	blight, hallucinatory terrain
9th	insect plague, wall of stone

Forest

Druid Level	Spells
3rd	barkskin, spider climb
5th	call lightning, plant growth
7th	divination, freedom of movement
9th	commune with nature, tree stride

Grassland

Druid Level	Spells
3rd	invisibility, pass without trace
5th	daylight, haste
7th	divination, freedom of movement
9th	dream, insect plague

Mountain

Druid Level	Spells
3rd	spider climb, spike growth
5th	lightning bolt, meld into stone
7th	stone shape, stoneskin
9th	passwall, wall of stone

Swamp

Druid Level	Spells
3rd	darkness, acid arrow
5th	water walk, stinking cloud
7th	freedom of movement, locate creature
9th	insect plague, scrying

Underdark

Druid Level	Spells
3rd	spider climb, web
5th	gaseous form, stinking cloud
7th	greater invisibility, stone shape
9th	cloudkill, insect plague

Land’s Stride

Starting at 6th level, moving through nonmagical difficult terrain costs you no extra movement. You can also pass through nonmagical plants without being slowed by them and without taking damage from them if they have thorns, spines, or a similar hazard.

In addition, you have advantage on saving throws against plants that are magically created or manipulated to impede movement, such those created by the entangle spell.

Nature’s Ward

When you reach 10th level, you can’t be charmed or frightened by elementals or fey, and you are immune to poison and disease.

Nature’s Sanctuary

When you reach 14th level, creatures of the natural world sense your connection to nature and become hesitant to attack you. When a beast or plant creature attacks you, that creature must make a Wisdom saving throw against your druid spell save DC. On a failed save, the creature must choose a different target, or the attack automatically misses. On a successful save, the creature is immune to this effect for 24 hours.

The creature is aware of this effect before it makes its attack against you.