Shadow Invoker

Rumours describing living shadows are often derived from the abilities of deadly creatures, highly skilled assassins, nimble thieves and deformed undead spirits. However, few know the means to acquire the knowledge to manifest the power of shadows and control them. Although, there is no one true path in following the ways of the shadow. Some find the knowledge through deadly martial techniques in order to efficiently dispose of their enemies. Others become cursed by a powerful being or are bound by a symbiotic creature gaining the power to wield deathly shadows and masking their presence within the deepest reaches of darkness.

Dark Calling

As a shadow invoker, you can call upon the powers of darkness to traverse distances through dim shades or even manifest a doppelganger of yourself to aid you. The shadow becomes an extension of your very self, moving and acting in a manner identical to yours. The shadow becomes stronger alongside you, mimicking your every improvement and even well beyond that by master invokers. Some may even confuse the powers of a master invoker as sorcery by taking advantage of light sources to enhance their abilities.

Invoke Shadow. While you are in dim light or darkness. As a bonus action, you can manifest a shadow in your likeness within 30 feet of you. The shadow has a single hit point but shares your armour class, movement speed, stats and can trigger your Sneak Attack feature when it attacks. It cannot gain any benefit from spells and does not gain any of your proficiencies except for attack rolls and stealth ability checks. The shadow acts immediately after your turn Any creature can occupy the same space as the shadow, doing so renders the shadow unable to attack until that space is unoccupied or the shadow moves.

When you take the Attack action on your turn, you can instead mentally command your shadow to attack a target within its range instead. The shadow deals your weapon damage as necrotic damage and also gains advantage on the attack. The shadow cannot manifest under sunlight and the shadow is also instantly destroyed while under direct sunlight, regardless if the sunlight is magical or otherwise.

Traverse Darkness. You can use your bonus action to teleport up to 30 feet to an unoccupied space that you can see that is in either dim light or darkness. Alternatively, when an attack hits you. You use your reaction to swap places with one of your shadows you can see within 60 feet. Forcing the attack to instead, connect with the shadow instead of you, destroying it as a result.

You can use this feature a number of times equal to your proficiency bonus, and you regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest.

Unseen Presence

While you are hidden or in dim light, you can use your action to change your form into a shadow silhouette of yourself for up to 10 minutes. While in this form you gain advantage on stealth ability checks and you gain half of your movement speed as additional movement. The form immediately ends as soon as you attack, cast a spell or otherwise deal damage to a creature. You can enter this form a number of times according to your Wisdom modifier {{modifier:wis}} per day (min 1).

Living Shades

Living Shades

Suffocate Light. When using your Dark Calling feature to manifest a shadow, you can now do so while in direct sunlight and your shadow is no longer destroyed by sunlight. The shadow now, instead has its movement speed halved until the end of its next turn when it first manifests. 

Boundless Phantom. When using your Dark Calling feature to manifest your shadow in dim light or darkness. You can now alter its form to become one size larger than yourself and change its appearance to any creature with CR equal to your proficiency and Wisdom modifier (min 1). Additionally, attacks made by your shadow now have an increased reach of 10 feet and gains your Wisdom modifier (min 1) as a bonus to its damage. 

Your shadow may only benefit from either Suffocate Light or Boundless Phantom at any given time when it is invoked.

Night Assailant

While in dim light or darkness, both you and your shadow gain a bonus to your armour class according to your Wisdom modifier.

Additionally, by using your Action you may cast the Darkness spell and invoke a shadow from within the darkness at the same time, given you still have uses of your Dark Calling feature. While the spell is active you and your shadow gain a blindsense of 20 feet, while you are inside the magical darkness. 

You regain use of this feature once you finish a short or long rest.

Master of Shadows

As a complete master of shadows, you now gain twice as many uses of your Dark Calling feature per day and you can now manifest more than one shadow at a time when using the Invoke Shadow feature.