There is an order of monks in existence that possess an inner strength and steely resolve unseen in most creatures of this world. They will never bend, and never break. Unyielding and determined, these are the monks of the Way Of The Iron Will.

Some say these monks train for years, sitting under roaring waterfalls. Others say that they do not require food or water like a normal person, as their willpower has freed them of the mundane constraints of mortals. Others yet whisper legends of the brutal punishments they can endure.

Monks who follow the Way Of The Iron Will tend to spread throughout the world and lead solitary lives in pursuit of higher states of thought, all except the grandmasters, who stay to train the next generation of warriors.

Unless called back to the monastery, which rarely happens besides appointment as a grandmaster, these monks blaze their own path and live according to their own ideals. They have no teachings on morals, and good against evil. They have but one Tenent: Once you feel all the universe has to offer, only then can you close your mind to it.

Armour Of Ki

Your training grants you the resolve to steel yourself against even the mightiest of blows.

When you spend a ki point to use patient defense, you also gain temporary hp equal to your monk level, plus your wisdom modifier.

Temperature Training

Your years of training as a monk of the iron will has hardened you to the extreme conditions of the wilds.

You can choose to gain a resistance to either cold or fire damage.

Cold Resistance

You gain resistance to cold damage.

Fire Resistance

You gain resistance to fire damage.

Defiance

As you continue to sharpen your mind, you gain the ability to ignore some of the damage from attacks upon your person.

If you fail a saving throw, and would take damage as a result, you can half the damage you would take after all other calculations have been made by using a ki point.

Ki Redirection

As a formidable monk warrior, you now have the ability to absorb some of the force of an attack, and redirect it back towards a foe.

When you are the target of an attack, you can spend a ki point in order to use your reaction to redirect half of the damage taken from the attack towards a target within melee attack range of you. You only take half damage from the attack, and the target you choose takes the other half.

Unbreakable Spirit

As a true master of iron will, you can perform feats of endurance that most mortals will find impossible.

If you are taken down to 0 hp, instead of being knocked unconscious, you will instead be left at 1 hit point, and also gain 2 ki points. This feature can be used once per long rest.

You can also go without sleep for a single night without gaining a point of exhaustion, and your exhaustion points can be recovered on a short rest as opposed to a long rest.