College of Dirges

Bards that enter the College of Dirge become composers of sonorous laments for the dead and elaborate requiems for those lost yet long remembered. Their skills with their instruments bring the dead back to hear their music and heed their command, playing symphonies that please both the living and the dead.

Bonus Cantrip

When you join this bardic college, at 3rd level, you learn one necromancy cantrip of your choice, which counts as a bard cantrip for you but not towards your cantrips known.

Haunted Eyes

At 3rd level, your dealing with the dead has made your mind and body strong. You gain resistance to necrotic damage, and have advantage on saving throws against being frightened.

Dance of the Dead

Starting at 6th level, you are able to perform to raise the dead. You learn the animate dead spell, which does not count towards your spells known. Additionally, as an action, you can expend one use of your bardic inspiration to animate two corpses or piles of bone within 30 feet of yourself as either zombies or skeletons, giving them temporary hit points equal to the number rolled on the die. They remain under your command as if raised by an animate dead spell. You must retain concentration on this feature, and when you lose concentration, or when an hour has passed, the undead return to being corpses or piles of bones. Bodies or bones cannot be animated more than once using this feature.

Emboldened Undead

At 14th level, your undead are mightier than most. Undead you control are immune to being turned, and when you use your Dance of the Dead feature, you animate one additional zombie or skeleton.