Order of the Shadowed Soul

The order of the shadowed soul is one of the more controversial orders as instead of using blood their power comes at the cost of one's own soul, slowly becoming more & more of an empty husk. They have learned how to channel this power to summon the dangerous shadow versions of creatures at the expense of a small piece of your soul which the shadow consumes as payment for its service. At the end of a shadowed soul's life they are nothing but a mere shell of who they once may have been decades ago. Shadowed soul blood hunters seek out the strongest monsters to call upon, devoting their very being in exchange for aid in tasks. The relationship between the shadowed soul hunter & the monster is mutually beneficial as the shadow lacks a soul until it has consumed enough souls to have one while lending its power to the hunter.

Rite of the Shadow

When you join this order at 3rd level, you learn the Rite of the Shadow, esoteric rite (detailed below).

Rite of the Shadow. Your rite damage is necrotic damage. While the rite is active, you gain the following benefits:

• You gain resistance to necrotic damage
• As a part of activating this rite, you summon a soul gloom, using the stat block below, it takes on the form of a ¼ CR monster of your choice from beast, dragon, or undead. The soul gloom disappears when your rite of shadow ends.
  

Cursed Soul

Beginning at 3rd level your order teaches you the forbidden knowledge on controlling blood curses at the expense of your soul. You gain an additional use of your Blood Maledict feature.

In addition, you can use your blood curses through the shadow as long as it’s within 30 ft you.

 

Otherworldly Recovery

At 7th level, you gain the ability to cast the spell Vampiric Touch with this feature. The following changes apply when targeting the soul gloom.

• You don’t expend a use of the feature.
• The spell has a range of 30 ft.
• You cast the spell as a bonus action instead of an action, and it becomes instantaneous.
• It takes maximum damage from the spell, ignoring its immunity to necrotic damage.

You can use this feature once. At 15th level, you can use your Otherworldly Recovery feature twice between rests. You regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest.

Brand of Subjugation

Beginning at 11th level, level your Brand of Castigation now subjects your enemies to the fear of shadows, leaving them unable to defend against your soul gloom's attacks. Whenever a branded creature is attacked by the soul gloom it adds a damage bonus equal to one roll of your hemocraft die, additionally, its attacks become magical for the purpose of overcoming resistance and immunity to nonmagical attacks and damage.

At 15th level, your soul gloom adds an attack bonus equal to twice the roll of your hemocraft die a number of times equal to half your Intelligence modifier (minimum of once).

Blood Curse of the Shadow Hunter

As a bonus action, you touch one creature's weapon and imbue their weapon attacks with the same magic as one of your primal rites for 1 minute. The additional damage is equal to one roll of your hemocraft die + half your intelligence modifier (minimum of 1).

The imbued weapon(s) aren't affected by your crimson rite feature if the weapon isn't held at the end of your turn.

Amplify. You can imbue up to three weapons with your primal rite and add your full intelligence modifier.

Ruinous Dusk

Upon reaching 18th level, your connection to the realm of shadows becomes amplified from your devotion to its power. The silhouette of a darker form gathers around the soul gloom, twisting its shape to that of a great monster. Instead of a shadowy visage, when attacked, it has a physical form and instead of blood, the creature oozes some sort of black substance.

The soul gloom transforms into a CR 9 beast, dragon, or undead of your choice. It gains temporary hit points equal to one roll of your hemocraft die + your intelligence modifier + half your Blood Hunter level. The soul gloom you had summoned previously, ceases to exist, and can no longer be summoned by your Rite of Shadow until the new creature is killed. In addition, the soul gloom doesn't disappear when your Rite of Shadow ends.

This creature can traverse the Shadowfell as to not become a target to others outside of combat and will reappear when you call to it as a bonus action. After it is killed, you cannot summon another CR 9 creature until 7 days have passed.