Base Class: Artificer
The soul forger uses the power of souls and machinery to aid their allies and hinder their enemies. They combine metallurgy or woodcraft with the power of souls to make powerful weapons, tools and medical applicators. As they grow more powerful their tools stop using drifting soul essence and require more powerful souls, a soul forger will have to contend with that to use more powerful spells.
The Forge of Souls
A Soul Forger uses the power of souls to enhance their own abilities. To do this a Soul Forger uses their forge of souls. This is a storage container that the soul forger has made specifically for containing souls. This soul forge contains every soul that the soul forger has decided to store, it can hold 3 full souls. Souls can choose to wilingly enter and be stored within the soul forge upon death if within 300ft. Otherwise the soul forger can take the souls of sentient creatures they have killed and store them within the forge.
This can be created for 50 gold and 1 hour of work.
The amount of souls that can be stored increase by 1 at levels 5, 9, 15 of the class.
Forge Domain
Soul forgers are split between two different Domains, the Guilded Exorcists and the Shrine Menders. These two factions, while using the same tools, tend to pursue different ends. The Guilded Exorcists tend to use their power to crush what they consider evil, capturing the souls of enemies and using them for their own ends. Whereas the Shrine Menders tend to use the power of souls to aid their allies and keep them alive.
Choosing your Domain
Guilded Exorcists have access to a few different offensive options. At 3rd level they have access to "Soul Train", an attack that moves the user to a target's position. At level 5 they get access to "Flaming Fury" where the Exorcist encases a soul in a construct and throws it at a location, searing, and scaring all enemies within range. At level 9 the exorcist gains access to "Path of Purgatory." where the Exorcist summons miasma in a cone, this costs 2 souls. At level 9 whenever once per turn the exorcist makes an attack they can immediately cast one of their soul abilities as a bonus action. At level 15 the exorcist get access to "Battery of Souls" the exorcist chooses an infinite amount of creatures within range, and in a radius of 5 feet around them all creatures take damage this costs 3 points.
The shrine menders are more defensive focused. At 3rd level they have access to "Guardian of Metal", a bonus action that grants an allied creature in range +1 AC and if they choose temporary HP. At level 5 they get access to "Repair the Flesh" where they use their guardian of metal to grant temporary hp in an area around it. At level 9 the menders gain access to "Mend and Bend" where the mender selects a two creatures, one of these creatures will be unable to die and instead be reduced to 1 hp, the other creature will take double damage for the time, when either the first creature loses invulnerability or the second creature is reduced to 0 hp, remove both effects this costs 2 souls. At level 9 when the exorcist casts or sees a healing spell being cast they may augment it granting additional temporary HP. At level 15 the mender gets access to "Creation of Life" where the can create a creature, and
Soul Train
At level 3 the Gilded Exorcist gets access to soul train. Soul train is an attack that allows for the Gilded Exorcists to rush toward another creature's location. The Gilded Exorcists makes a melee attack against the creature. On a successful attack the creature then must make a strength saving throw otherwise the creature is knocked back 5 feet, the Gilded Exorcists then occupies the space left free by the creature. On a failed save nothing happens.
The damage caused by this ability increases at levels 5, 9, 15.
Flaming Fury
At level 5 Gilded Exorcists get access to Flaming Fury where the Gilded Exorcist encases a soul in a construct and throws it at a location, searing, and scaring all enemies within range.
The damage caused by this ability is increased at level 9, 15.
Path of Purgatory
The Gilded Exorcist creates a miasma in a 40ft cone, this costs 2 souls.
Temp 1
Temporary stuff