Circle of the Angry Sky

A young girl stands atop a hill and looks at the approaching thunderhead. It scares her, but she stands up to it. "Come, do your worst. I can take it." And as if in response, a deep rumble of thunder rips through the countryside.

Surrounded by enemies, Skuallen closes his eyes and takes a deep breath. His eyes suddenly flash open as electricity sparks around them. In a blur of motion a bolt of lightning arcs and hits an approaching gnoll, knocking him back, and the resulting thunder wave knocks back one of his allies. Then the dwarf druid is gone as their eye's adjust to the darkness. Before they know where he went, they see something start to spark on the far wall, as he smiles, lining them up for a devastating bolt of power.

There is chaos in the stronghold. When the adventurers approached, the drow thought it would be an inconvenience if anything. But when one of them turned into a swirling, angry mass of lightning and thunder, no one knew what to do. They don't get storms in the Underdark.

Storm's Initiate

At 2nd level you learn the Auran language. You also gain the Lightning Strike ability and the free extra cantrip, Storm Attunement, which replaces Druidcraft.

Storm Attunement. As an action, you can cause one of the following effect to happen up to 30ft away. You can have up to 3 effects active at one time, and they last for up to 1 minute.
- You create a tiny, harmless sensory effect that predicts what the weather will be at your location for the next 24 hours. This effect persists for 1 round.
- Create a harmless, instantaneous sensory effect related to storms such as electrical sparks, a puff of wind, a spray of mist, or a rumble of thunder.
- Cause mist that can fit within a 1ft cube to shape itself into a crude form you designate for 1 minute.
- Your voice booms up to three times as loud as normal for 1 minute.
- You instantly light or snuff out a candle, a torch, or a small campfire.

Lightning Strike. You can channel your internal energy into a bolt of electrical energy. You get a number of d6's equal to you WIS modifier. Pick a number of d6's and make a ranged spell attack on a creature up to 60 feet away. The creature makes a DEX saving throw against your spell casting DC. Roll the d6's of lightning damage, on a successful save the creature takes half damage, and full damage on a failed save. You gain all d6's back after a long rest.

Circle Spells

At 3rd level, your mystical connection to the storms infuses you with the ability to cast certain spells. At 3rd, and then at 5th, level you gain access to circle spells connected to the storms.

Once you gain access to a circle spell, you always have it prepared, and it doesn’t count against the number of spells you can prepare each day. If you gain access to a spell that doesn’t appear on the druid spell list, the spell is nonetheless a druid spell for you.

Druid Level	Spells
3rd	shocking grasp, storm attunement
3rd	feather fall, thunderwave
3rd	levitate, gust of wind
5th	lightning bolt, call lightning
11th	chain lightning

One with the Storm

At 6th level, you gain the ability to subtly control the weather around you.

If it is raining, you can use an action to cause the rain to stop falling in a 20-foot-radius sphere centered on you. You can end this effect as a bonus action.

If it is windy, you can use a bonus action each round to choose the direction that the wind blows in a 100-foot-radius sphere centered on you. The wind blows in that direction until the end of your next turn. This feature doesn’t alter the speed of the wind.

You also gain the ability to enhance your Lightning Strikes.

Augmented Lightning Strike. When you expend 2 or more of your d6's to discharge a Lightning Strike, choose one of the following effects to add to the normal effects:
- The thunder follows the lightning strike. The target of the Lightning Strike is the source of a Thunderclap spell, damaging surrounding creatures.
- The lightning inspires shock and awe. The target of the Lightning Strike must make a CON save or become stunned for a turn.
- You use excess energy to protect yourself. If you are hit with a melee attack, during a turn after casting Lightning Strike, you can use your reaction to deal lightning or thunder damage equal to your Druid level to the attacker.
- You can use excess energy to energize your speed. During a turn that you are going to discharge a Lightning Strike, you can use your bonus action to either Dash, Dodge, or Disengage.

Storm Chaser

Once you hit level 10, you've spent so long among thunderheads and lightning storms that you are now resistant to lightning and thunder damage. You have seen storms that would have shaken elders, and you walked through them. Your fearlessness in the face of such raw elemental force has taught you to be immune to being frightened by elementals.

Aspect of the Storm

At level 14, you can now take on power of the storm. By using up all of your Wild Shapes, you can turn into a Storm Elemental.