Domain of The Gray

Tenants of The Gray

“Seek the end where love Begins” - As The Gray was in life, he sought to assist those in love or conflict within family.

“Never Harm or Reanimate the Innocent” - You must never use your Magic’s to harm a innocent soul, eventually, you may learn to give innocents who lost their lives another chance, but at a cost to yourself of course..

“Never Desecrate a graveyard, Ever. Relay rights to the dead at every chance if possible. Show them love, even after death for they may know that even in death they are still cared/loved for.”

”Use the Corpses of The Sinful for they may repay their dues, and gain the opportunity to be in the arms of the Glory when their time comes.”

Backstory

Those who follow the Lord of The Gray, know of his true nature: A selfless man, willing to throw all of himself for love. Through his teachings he grew an order that helped in the control of undead. Controlling mindless ones with ease and being them under foot of his Deity, The Evening Glory. through many sacrifices, tribulations, personal sacrifices and self discovery The Gray eventually reached acknowledgment from his goddess, as she granted her boon upon him. Becoming a Demigod, The Gray used his new immortality to assist the realm in new ways, and with such the Gray Order was born. Group of extremely skilled clerical necromancers chosen among selected beings of faith, beings of undeath with pure intent, Highest Ranking members of the Evening Glory’s cult, or skilled honest wizards.

Dogma

The Gray followed the Evening Glory’s Dogma religiously, and it was:

“The Evening Glory teaches that desire is all that matters, regardless of creed, and nationality: And the desire for the love of another should never be allowed to fail through the depredations of age. Those whose love transcends life should seek life everlasting through the grace of undeath. The perfect preservation may freeze love forever. While the resurrection of tragically slain lovers may do for some, nothing can stay old age’s imperious final call—love is all that matters in life, above other things, and that it must be preserved through the embrace of undeath.”

Domain of The Gray Spells

​Domain of The Gray spells. 

Cleric Level	Spells
1st	false life, inflict wounds
3rd	blindness/deafness, Detect Thoughts
5th	animate dead, feign death
7th	divination, death ward
9th	commune, raise dead

Caretaker of The Dead

At 1st level, You gain proficiency in medicine, and gain a proficiency in alchemy or herbalism kit.

Guidance of The Gray

Starting at 1st level, When the cleric animates/subjugates any undead, it retains any skill, weapon, armor, and tool proficiencies it once had in life, and their alignment changes to that of the Cleric.

Additionally, you learn the Resistance and Guidance cantrip and cast these spells as a bonus action and these spells are now ranged and have a range of 30 feet.

Channel Divinity: Chosen Undead

As a 1 hour ritual, you infuse the energies of life and death into a corpse and recreate undead using the said corpse. The creatures you create must be undead and be a CR up to your proficiency bonus. (You can also reanimate the downed creature instead, so long as their CR is below your proficiency bonus.)

The creature raised is now your Chosen Undead and does not need to be maintained to stay under your command and Chosen Undead gain additional HP equal to your cleric level.

Chosen Undead gain the following benefits:

• When you cast Guidance or Resistance on/through your Chosen Undead they can apply the effects of the spell to all allies within 15 feet of them.
• You can now cast spells through your Chosen Undead as if it was you.
• You can take over your Chosen Undead, And see what they see, hear what they would hear, and speak through them as if you were there and can operate the Chosen Undead as if it was you yourself was there. While under this effect you are blinded and deafened, and cannot take movement while channeling into your Chosen Undead.
• Chosen Undead gain your proficiency bonus to their ability checks and saves on top of their normal saves.

You can create additional Chosen Undead at levels 11 and 17, to a maximum of three Chosen Undead. 

Rites of Acension

Starting at 6th level, Your understanding of the dark arts has grown and with the power of your faith, You can imbue strength back into your Chosen Undead. All Undead raised by you or your Chosen Undead gain the following benefits:

• Your Undead may use your spell attack modifier for their abilities that require a roll to hit. Abilities that inflict a saving throw my also instead use your spell save.
• All attacks made my your undead are considered magical for the sake of overcoming resistances.

Additionally, When you create a Chosen Undead you may imbue them with the aspects of Life and Death, aiding in their combat effectiveness while providing additional utility to each of the undead raised by the said Chosen Undead.

You may also choose to imbue your Chosen Undead with an aspect of of intelligence, changing them from how they normally would function. You can only have one Chosen Undead be a single aspect at a time, and cannot have multiple Chosen Undead as the same aspect. Below are the various aspects that Chosen Undead can become, and takes an additional hour to apply the aspect to an already raised Chosen Undead.

 The Pristine

A Chosen Undead are selected undead that have the grace of being able to live among the living without fear of detection from the humans that may surround them. They gain the following benefits aswell as the undead that they raise.

• Pristine Chosen Undead exclusively gain expertise in stealth, and undead raised by them gain proficiency in stealth. Pristine Chosen Undead gain the ability to hide as a bonus action as well.
• Cannot be perceived or detected by divination magic and magical senses in any way other than their master.
• Remain preserved and healthy, as still being alive.

The Decrepit

A Chosen Undead is imbued with the dark necrotic arts of poison and necrosis and gains the following benefits as does all undead under their control:

• If a Decrepit Chosen Undead dies, they leave behind a cursed gas, that extends 20 feet radius, All enemies within the gas must make a CON saving throw, and then must make the save at the beginning and end of their turn, should they fail, the target takes 3d6 poison damage. Should this gas kill its target, the Chosen Undead takes over the corpse of the creature that died by the gas, coming to life at 1 HP. (They are no longer Decrepit Chosen Undead if revived by this method.)
• When a Decrepit Undead would attack a target, they deal 1d6 acid damage.
• As an action or when a Decrepit would drop to 0 hit points, they detonate dealing 2d6 magical bludgeoning damage and leave behind a fog of poisonous gas that takes up a space of 10 feet and lingers for one minute. When a hostile creature would enter the gas, begin their turn in the gas or end their turn in the gas they take 3d6 poison damage and targets must make a CON saving throw. Should they fail, They become poisoned till the end of their next turn.
• Their base movement speed is increased by 10 feet.

The Juggernaut

A Chosen Undead is imbued with the powers of the Gray, making them far more resilient and gaining the following benefits aswell as all undead under their control:

• Melee Attacks made by Juggernaut Undead make enemies do a strength saving throw, on failure, the creature is knocked back 10 feet and knocked prone.
• Juggernaut Undead gain additional AC equal to your proficiency bonus.
• Juggernaut Undead gain temporary HP equal to your cleric level.
• Juggernaut Chosen Undead exclusively gain twice your cleric level to their HP value, and has advantage against being turned.

Blessings of The Evening Dawn

At 8th level, you may cast Arcane Eye (regardless of range) through any undead under your or your chosen undead's control at will.

Additionally, your understanding in the necrotic arts has grown significantly while maintaining your faith. When you would use a spell that would do necrotic damage, you can change the damage to radiant instead, And touch spells that do radiant or necrotic damage have their damage multiplied by two and if you would kill a target with the said spell, you can choose to immediately raise the target as a zombie or as a Chosen Undead and imbue an aspect into the Chosen Undead the moment they are raised.

Additionally, Your Chosen Undead now can each cast animate dead for free without you needing to expend a spell slot, once per long rest.

Mantle of The Gray

At 17th level, you can use magic to bring undead under your control, even those created by other spellcasters, even Liches themselves. As an action, you can choose one undead that you can see within 60 feet of you. That creature must make a Charisma saving throw against your cleric spell save DC. If it succeeds, you can't use this feature on it again. If it fails, it becomes a Chosen Undead with one imbuement of your choice. If you already have maximum Chosen Undead you can release control of one of your currently controlled Chosen Undead, and it becomes a basic undead creature using the same effects of the effects of animate dead.

Additionally, Your Chosen Undead become your champions and protectors. They gain your mental stats instead of their own, and can can speak like they once did. When fighting undead, they must roll their attacks to hit/spells to hit at disadvantage if they target you and you gain advantage on saving throws inflicted on you by an undead creature. Additionally due to your strong mental fortitude you can no longer be charmed or frightened.