Steel is where your magic learned to live.

Your sorcery does not flare in distant incantations or raw elemental displays. It settles into the weight of a blade, the balance of a guard, and the discipline of motion. Elemental power answers your steel—fire licking along an edge, frost tightening a parry, lightning sharpening a charge—but always as an extension of the weapon, never apart from it.

Each strike carries intent. Each defense is reinforced by instinctive wards, and each step through the fray is guided by magic bound to muscle and metal. The elements obey because your steel gives them form.

Your power may come from a bloodline shaped by ancient war-mages, a soul scarred by elemental conflict, or a weapon that fused permanently with your sorcery. Whatever its origin, your magic demands closeness and control. Distance weakens it. Stillness wastes it.

Against a swordmage, the blade strikes first. The elements merely follow.

Ancient traditions of swordmages were common throughout Abeir and parts of Toril, such as Netheril and Evermeet, and were particularly common amongst eladrin, genasi, and githyanki. Wielding swords enchanted with spells, swordmages were powerful foes to cross, hardened through years of training in the melding of spell and blade.

Level 3: Blade Magic

When you reach a Sorcerer level specified in the Blade Magic table, you thereafter always have the listed spells prepared.

Blade Magic

Sorcerer Level	Spells
3	Elminster's Elusion, Cloud of Daggers, Spiritual Weapon, Blade Ward
5	Conjure Barrage, Elemental Weapon
7	Backlash, Conjure Minor Elementals
9	Conjure Volley, Steel Wind Strike

In addition, consult the Manifestations of Blade table and choose or randomly determine a way your connection to order manifests while you are casting any of your Sorcerer spells.

Manifestations of Blade

1d6	Manifestation
1	Your weapon hums like a struck tuning fork, its edge briefly traced in faint arcane light.
2	Arcane sigils flash along your weapon’s fuller or guard, like runes quenched into steel.
3	The sound of steel on steel echoes for a moment, even if no blades meet.
4	Your weapon sheds dim reflections of distant steel—phantom blades mirrored in its surface.
5	The scent of scorched metal, cold iron, or rain on steel lingers briefly around you.
6	A short-lived ripple travels through your shadow, aligning it perfectly with your weapon.

Level 3: Swordmage Arsenal

At 3rd level, you gain proficiency with Martial weapons and training with Light armor, and Shields. In addition, you can use a Simple or Martial weapon as a Spellcasting Focus to cast spells from your Sorcerer spell list. When you finish a short or long rest, you can bind with a weapon. Whenever you attack with the bonded weapon, you can use your Charisma modifier for the attack and damage rolls instead of using Strength or Dexterity.

Additionally, you have learned to harness your arcane powers to materialize weapons from the Weave. When you use your Innate Sorcery , as a part of its activation, you can spend 2 sorcery points to cast Spiritual Weapon rather than expending a spell slot. When you cast the spell in this way, it doesn’t require Concentration. Instead the spell lasts for 1 minute, but it ends early if you cast the spell again, or if Innate Sorcery ends.

Level 6: Extra Attack

You can attack twice instead of once whenever you take the Attack action on your turn.

In addition, you can cast one of your Sorcerer cantrips that has a casting time of an action in place of one of those attacks

 

Level 14: Swordmage Aegis

You have mastered the ability to channel your magic both offensively and defensively. While your Innate Sorcery is active, you can activate following the magical effects :

• Assault: Immediately after attacking with Spiritual Weapon, you can teleport, swapping places with it, provided that it is within 60 feet of you.
• Shielding: As a reaction, when you, or a creature you can see within 30 feet of you, takes damage, you can give it Resistance to that damage and any other damage of the same type until the beginning of your next turn.

Level 18: Dance of Steel

You gain the ability to surround yourself in arcane spectral blades to bolster your battle prowess, allowing you to ward against all attacks and bypass any defense. When you activate your Innate Sorcery, you can choose to gain the following benefits :

• You gain Temporary Hit Points equal to your sorcerer level at the beginning of your turn.
• You have advantage on attack rolls.
• Your attacks deal additional 2d6 force damage.

Once you use this feature, you can’t use it again until you finish a Long Rest unless you spend 7 Sorcery Points (no action required) to restore your use of it.