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Prerequisite: Aasimar
 

Your connection to the Upper Planes has placed a divine weight on your soul that can sometimes be too much to bear. This Celestial Burden can grant you strength, but also comes at a heavy toll.
Roll for or select a Celestial Burden - a specific goal, agenda, or ideal that your divine essence pulls you towards - from the below table, and work with your DM to determine the specifics of your Celestial Burden or create one not found on the table.

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Celestial Burden

1

Your Celestial Burden demands vengeance against sources of evil. It compels you to smite a specific type of being when you meet them, such as fiends, goblins, or criminals.

2

Your Celestial Burden compels you to save or help innocent lives, at all costs.

3

Your Celestial Burden is the tenets of a particular god, or the mission of a particular organization.

4

Your Celestial Burden is a prophecy you must bring to fruition - or thwart.

5

Your Celestial Burden pushes you to defeat a specific being or organization - such as the king of a certain kingdom, a particular archfiend, or your own sibling.

6

Your Celestial Burden compels you to protect a particular object or person at all costs, or to deliver said object to a particular place.

7

Your Celestial Burden binds you to find a particular location, object, or person.

8

Your Celestial Burden compels you to be forever moving, urging you to discover new places, learn new things, and train new crafts. You can stay settled at one place for only so long before it demands you get on the move again.


Every time you complete a Long Rest, you may attempt a Wisdom saving throw (DC 10 + your PB) to suppress your Celestial Burden. On a successful save, your Celestial Burden is suppressed until your next Long Rest, or until you take a Magic Action to unsuppress it.
While your Celestial Burden is not suppressed, you gain the following effects:

Burden’s Reward. If you have the opportunity to act in alignment to your Celestial Burden and you do so, you must make a Charisma saving throw. On a failed save, nothing occurs. On a successful save, you gain a Heroic Inspiration and Temporary Hit Points equal to your character level. 

Burden’s Consequence. If you act contrary to your Celestial Burden or try and fail to achieve it, you must succeed in a Charisma saving throw or take a level of Exhaustion. This effect does not activate if your Exhaustion level is 3 or higher.

Angelic Heroism. You can spend Heroic Inspiration to regain a usage of Healing Hands or Celestial Revelation (no action required).

The DC for your Celestial Burden effects is 8 + your Proficiency Bonus. Every time you make a saving throw against these effects, the saving throw’s DC is increased by +2 for all future souls, as the pull felt by your soul strengthens; this DC resets after a long rest.
After succeeding or failing on a saving throw for your Celestial Burden’s effects, that effect cannot take place again for 1 hour.

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