When the balance of the natural order is most under threat, the Moon may yet call upon her children to bare fang as well as sword. Unlike the Moon-Cursed, those who stole from the Moon's power and suffer her scorn, the Moon-Blessed are vessels of her fury, champions who let the beast inhabit them to sunder all who commit heresy against the earth. Though you have been chosen, whether by Her or one of her many fangs, you still bear the weight of carrying within you a savage and starving spirit. You can the following benefits and banes:
Ability Score Improvement: Your Strength and Constitution score increase by 1.
Hybrid Transformation: As an action, you may transform into a monstrous hybrid of you and your animal form. While in this form you cannot cast or concentrate on spells, your ability to speak limited to short, guttural responses. Armor and equipment either merge into your body or shape and expand to accommodate physical changes. If you are not wearing armor or holding a shield your AC equals 10 + your Constitution modifier + your Dexterity modifier. Your unarmed strikes now deal 1d6 + your Strength modifier, dealing slashing damage instead of bludgeoning damage.
When you take the action to take your hybrid form, you may immediately use your bonus action to move up to half your speed and make a bite attack against a target within range. When taking the attack action, you may forego one of your attacks to instead make a bite attack. Your bite attack deals 1d8 piercing damage + your Strength modifier. If you take the attack action, as a bonus action you can make an unarmed strike with your claw or bite attack.
Your hybrid form lasts a number of hours equal to your Constitution modifier and ends early if you are knocked unconscious, reduced to 0 hit points, or you use your action to end the transformatiuon.
Shapechanger: Your creature type now includes Shapechanger in addition to your existing type. Your true nature can be revealed by spells, contact with silver, or the light of the full moon. When your true nature is revealed in these ways, a large, spectral version of your animal form can be seen emerging from your body, its demeanor reflective of your current emotional state.
Beast Within: Although you are blessed with the Moon's fury, that does not yet mean you are a master of containing it. The beast within your is forever starving, hunting for its next meal even when your spirit is at rest. If a creature enters the bloodied state within 30 feet of you, you must make a DC 10 Wisdom saving throw. On a failed save, you automatically take the action to transform into your hybrid form. When transformed in this way, you must wrestle control back from your primal spirit, making another DC 10 Wisdom saving throw at the start of each of your turns. On a failed save, you must use your turn to attack the closest bloodied creature. If there is not a bloodied creature within range of your movement, you must take the dash action to reach a target. On a successful save, you regain control of your body.
While changed in this way, you only attack with unarmed strikes. Each time you fail this saving throw after the first failure, the DC increases by 2 and your damage rolls gain the same increase. Once the save DC reaches 20 and your damage bonus is +10, you completely lose control, attack whatever creature is closest to you, and can only return to your normal form after falling unconscious or being reduced to 0 hit points.
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