Whispers of the Compassionate Blade

You focus your intent, channeling the Goddess of Mercy's influence through your rogue's cunning and precise movements. For the duration, you gain the following benefits:

1. Mercy's Stealth

Your movements become supernaturally quiet and precise, designed to avoid unnecessary confrontation or detection.

• You gain advantage on Dexterity (Stealth) checks.

• Opportunity attacks made against you are made with disadvantage.

2. Compassionate Strike

Your attacks become imbued with the Goddess's desire to end conflict swiftly and with minimal lasting harm, allowing you to choose the severity of your actions.

• When you hit a creature with a weapon attack, you can choose one of the following effects as part of the attack:

• Non-Lethal Incapacitation (Subdue): If your attack would reduce the creature to 0 hit points, it is instead reduced to 1 hit point and is incapacitated until the end of its next turn as the Goddess's mercy dulls its senses, making it easier to capture or bypass. This decision must be made before damage is rolled.

• Pacifying Rebuke (Disarm/Disorient): The target must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw against your Spell Save DC or drop one item it is holding (your choice, if applicable) and have disadvantage on its next attack roll before the end of its next turn. This effect occurs even if the attack doesn't reduce the creature to 0 hit points.

3. Unburdened Mind

The Goddess of Mercy's presence grants you a clarity of purpose, freeing you from hindering emotional burdens.

• You have advantage on saving throws against being Frightened or Charmed.

At Higher Levels

When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 4th level or higher, the duration increases by 1 minute for each slot level above 3rd.

This spell allows your Orc Rogue to be a master of stealth and precision, but always with the option to temper violence with mercy, making them an unpredictable force on the battlefield who can subdue instead of slay, or disarm instead of maim. It highlights the unique tension of their character concept!