Daughter to the Goddess of Prosperity Zada, Hydra is referred to as the Saint of Energy. Using her own magical prowess she grants others with the strength and will to push through. However she also possess the ability to take that away. What was once a deity of kindness and light to others has grown dark. She believes that there needs to be a balance in the world. Therefore, she will strip away what she sees fit from those she believes do not deserve it. This can include the lives of those individuals. She works on behalf of her Uncle and Aunt the God of Justice Zuzen and the Goddess of Law Themis, despite her mother's wishes. She often finds herself working with Saiko and is the one to keep him in check the most.
Hydra
Saint of Diligence, Goddess of Destruction
NPC
Personality
Mannerism
Arrogant and a bit of a know it all. She believes what she is doing is true justice for the world.
Music
Appearance
Hydra stands at 6'0 tall with segmented green, silver, and black armor with blue and gold accents. Her armor extends to the right arm but not her left leaving her brown skin exposed. She wears a golden circlet with her light brown thick hair going past her shoulders to her waist. She has a button nose and red eyes She carries around a large great sword with the symbol of her parents on it.
In her other form her segments turn into scales and she grows a green, silver, black, and brown snake like heads with red eyes.. She grows massive wings with varying colors and has four legs and two arms.
The Story
Along with Saiko, the two of them established a safehouse for Unknown within the Badlands. The two of them had discovered an old experimental lab where they decided to reside. However, their safety was in jeopardy when they were under attack by the Order of the Moonlight. Hydra had shown up to late and tried to rescue Saiko but failed. She watched him succumb to the enemies while she fled in pain.
The Hydra
As a deity, Hydra has three main forms; a mortal form, a hybrid form, and a full form.
In his hybrid form she takes on a scaly lizard like appearance with large wings on her back and a spiked tail.
In her full form, she grows a large reptilian like body with claws and three heads each of a different color.
Mannerism
Arrogant and a bit of a know it all. She believes what she is doing is true justice for the world.
Abilities
Bard
College of Spirts - Subclass
Bards of the College of Spirits seek tales with inherent power—be they legends, histories, or fictions— and bring their subjects to life. Using occult trappings, these bards conjure spiritual embodiments of powerful forces to change the world once more. Such spirits are capricious, though, and what a bard summons isn’t always entirely under their control.
Guiding Whispers
3rd-level College of Spirits feature
You can reach out to spirits to guide you and others. You learn the guidance cantrip, which doesn’t count against the number of bard cantrips you know. For you, it has a range of 60 feet when you cast it.
Spiritual Focus
3rd-level College of Spirits feature
You employ tools that aid you in channeling spirits, be they historical figures or fictional archetypes. You can use the following objects as a spellcasting focus for your bard spells: a candle, crystal ball, skull, spirit board, or tarokka deck.
Starting at 6th level, when you cast a bard spell that deals damage or restores hit points through the Spiritual Focus, roll a d6, and you gain a bonus to one damage or healing roll of the spell equal to the number rolled.
Tales from Beyond
3rd-level College of Spirits feature
You reach out to spirits who tell their tales through you. While you are holding your Spiritual Focus, you can use a bonus action to expend one use of your Bardic Inspiration and roll on the Spirit Tales table using your Bardic Inspiration die to determine the tale the spirits direct you to tell. You retain the tale in mind until you bestow the tale’s effect or you finish a short or long rest.
You can use an action to choose one creature you can see within 30 feet of you (this can be you) to be the target of the tale’s effect. Once you do so, you can’t bestow the tale’s effect again until you roll it again.
You can retain only one of these tales in mind at a time, and rolling on the Spirit Tales table immediately ends the effect of the previous tale. If the tale requires a saving throw, the DC equals your spell save DC.
Spirit Tales
ROLL TABLE TO VTT
| Bardic Insp. Die | Tale Told Through You |
|---|---|
| 1 | Tale of the Clever Animal. For the next 10 minutes, whenever the target makes an Intelligence, a Wisdom, or a Charisma check, the target can roll an extra die immediately after rolling the d20 and add the extra die’s number to the check. The extra die is the same type as your Bardic Inspiration die. |
| 2 | Tale of the Renowned Duelist. You make a melee spell attack against the target. On a hit, the target takes force damage equal to two rolls of your Bardic Inspiration die + your Charisma modifier. |
| 3 | Tale of the Beloved Friends. The target and another creature of its choice it can see within 5 feet of it gains temporary hit points equal to a roll of your Bardic Inspiration die + your Charisma modifier. |
| 4 | Tale of the Runaway. The target can immediately use its reaction to teleport up to 30 feet to an unoccupied space it can see. When the target teleports, it can choose a number of creatures it can see within 30 feet of it up to your Charisma modifier (minimum of 0) to immediately use the same reaction. |
| 5 | Tale of the Avenger. For 1 minute, any creature that hits the target with a melee attack takes force damage equal to a roll of your Bardic Inspiration die. |
| 6 | Tale of the Traveler. The target gains temporary hit points equal to a roll of your Bardic Inspiration die + your bard level. While it has these temporary hit points, the target’s walking speed increases by 10 feet and it gains a +1 bonus to its AC. |
| 7 | Tale of the Beguiler. The target must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw or take psychic damage equal to two rolls of your Bardic Inspiration die, and the target is incapacitated until the end of its next turn. |
| 8 | Tale of the Phantom. The target becomes invisible until the end of its next turn or until it hits a creature with an attack. If the target hits a creature with an attack during this invisibility, the creature it hits takes necrotic damage equal to a roll of your Bardic Inspiration die and is frightened of the target until the end of the frightened creature’s next turn. |
| 9 | Tale of the Brute. Each creature of the target’s choice it can see within 30 feet of it must make a Strength saving throw. On a failed save, a creature takes thunder damage equal to three rolls of your Bardic Inspiration die and is knocked prone. A creature that succeeds on its saving throw takes half as much damage and isn’t knocked prone. |
| 10 | Tale of the Dragon. The target spews fire from the mouth in a 30-foot cone. Each creature in that area must make a Dexterity saving throw, taking fire damage equal to four rolls of your Bardic Inspiration die on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one. |
| 11 | Tale of the Angel. The target regains hit points equal to two rolls of your Bardic Inspiration die + your Charisma modifier, and you end one condition from the following list affecting the target: blinded, deafened, paralyzed, petrified, or poisoned. |
| 12 | Tale of the Mind-Bender. You evoke an incomprehensible fable from an otherworldly being. The target must succeed on an Intelligence saving throw or take psychic damage equal to three rolls of your Bardic Inspiration die and be stunned until the end of its next turn. |
Spirit Session
6th-level College of Spirits feature
Spirits provide you with supernatural insights. You can conduct an hour-long ritual channeling spirits (which can be done during a short or long rest) using your Spiritual Focus. You can conduct the ritual with a number of willing creatures equal to your proficiency bonus (including yourself). At the end of the ritual, you temporarily learn one spell of your choice from any class.
The spell you choose must be of a level equal to the number of creatures that conducted the ritual or less, the spell must be of a level you can cast, and it must be in the school of divination or necromancy. The chosen spell counts as a bard spell for you but doesn’t count against the number of bard spells you know.
Once you perform the ritual, you can’t do so again until you start a long rest, and you know the chosen spell until you start a long rest.
Mystical Connection
14th-level College of Spirits feature
You now have the ability to nudge the spirits of Tales from Beyond toward certain tales. Whenever you roll on the Spirit Tales table, you can roll the die twice and choose which of the two effects to bestow. If you roll the same number on both dice, you can ignore the number and choose any effect on the table.
SPIRIT TALES
Storytellers, like bards of the College of Spirits, often give voice to tales inspired by some greater theme or body of work. When determining what stories you tell, consider what unites them. Do they all feature characters from a specific group, like archetypes from the tarokka deck, figures from constellations, childhood imaginary friends, or characters in a particular storybook? Or are your inspirations more general, incorporating historic champions, mythological heroes, or urban legends? Use the tales you tell to define your niche as a storytelling adventurer.
Druid
Circle of Witchcraft - Subclass
A kindly old crone who always smells of tea and fresh earth lives down the street. She gives homemade sweets to the children and is quick to come over when childbirth or sickness takes someone abed. She never asks for anything for her services, but the village showers her with gifts, if not out of gratitude then out of fear she may leave.
A young woman sews together a small poppet of a wicked man, lips twisted in a cruel smile. She sets it over the flame and knows that somewhere a villain is boiling in his own skin.
A twistedly beautiful dark queen stirs a great black cauldron, within is a terrifying stew with too small bones bobbing to the surface. She did unforgivable things to brew the awful sludge, but the fumes will give her another 100 years of youth and vigor.
Druids of this circle follow a certain old practice, one that may have passed off as being merely the stuff of myth and fairytales. These druids commune with ancient spirits of the nature that was before man. Known as witches, druids of this circle use the knowledge they gain from these beings of the oldest magic to bind pieces of their souls to items that become tied to their very essence, acting as lightning rods for the energies of the universe. Many consider these practices reckless, but witches rely on their knowledge of these old magic's to never take things too far.
(This is the druid variant of a wizard subclass I made called "Witch". If that intrigues you, feel free to look it up.)
Witches Talismen
At 2nd level, you choose a witch talisman. Your witch talisman counts as an arcane focus for the purpose of casting spells. your talisman is a highly personal item that you imbued with a part of your soul, acting as a channel to the ambient magical energies of the universe.
Talismans, regardless of type, have hit points equal half your max HP and an AC equal to your spell save DC. It can only be hit if targeted specifically and cannot be included in areas of effect. If your talisman is destroyed, you lose the ability to cast spells and any ongoing spells you are concentrating on immediately end. You also immediately take damage equal to half your maximum HP. You can create a new talisman or restore your own talisman to full hit points over the course of a long rest. When you die, your talisman is destroyed in a spectacular display of magical power. It cracks, streams of light pouring from it until it shatters and explodes in a cloud of glittering dust, elemental energy, shrapnel and arcane force. One piece of it always remains: the burned husk of a witch’s broom, the blackened crystal from a gorgeous necklace, the broken hilt of a cruel knife.
Your choice of talisman also gives you a special ability associated with it, based on its type as listed below. This choice cannot be changed.
Amulet
Your talisman is a magical amulet with a design unique and iconic to you. (Examples: A lucky coin, a shiny button that replaces a button on anything you wear, a scarab beetle necklace, a silver belt buckle, a four leaf clover that never wilts, a bone pentacle.)
While you wear it you gain a +2 bonus to your AC.
Athame
Your talisman is an ornate or rustic magical weapon. This weapon takes the form of a dagger, short sword or any other one-handed melee weapon.(Examples: A black glass dagger, a silver longsword, a stone handaxe, a bone spear, a gleaming glove that produces a deadly blade, a barbed scourge.)
You are proficient with your athame, and you can add your Wisdom modifier to attack and damage rolls made with your athame. Over the course of a long rest, you can choose to change your athame into a different weapon.
Focus
Your talisman is a magic wand, broom, staff, crystal, tome or rod with a design unique to you. (Examples: A carved wand of bone, a twined ivy bracelet, a crystal ball that floats above your hand, a tome of fairy tales and poems, a staff made from a single ancient oak branch, a gnarled broom, or a giant pestle.)
While you wield it, you receive a +2 bonus to you spell attack and spell save DC.
Headpiece
Your talisman is a hat, pendant, barrette, hairband, headband or head piece of some sort with a design unique to yourself, generally with a jewel or bone centerpiece.(Examples: A pointed, conical hat, a gem that hangs from a chain on the center of the forehead, a butterfly barrette, or a beautiful sapphire pin.)
While you wear it, you gain proficiency in any 2 skills of your choice.
Ring
Your talisman is a ring of power with a unique design. It could be chased metal, fine wire with a jewel or bone setting, a thick band, a wedding ring, a cage ring, a claw ring or any other finger adornment. While you wear your ring, you can speak, read, and write Abyssal, Draconic, Infernal, Primordial, and Sylvan.
Witchcraft Spells
Your knowledge of the old magics allows you access to certain spells at 3rd, 5th, 7th, and 9th level.
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.
Witchcraft Spells
| Druid Level | Spells |
|---|---|
3rd | |
5th | |
7th | |
9th |
Witches Familiar
Starting at 6th level, you gain enough power to enact a special ritual to create your own magical familiar. You learn the find familiar spell and can cast it with the following changes:
- When you cast this spell, you can select a beast from your wild shape list instead of the normal list provided by the spell to become your familiar. You must be able to wild shape into the beast to choose it as your familiar.
- Your familiar shares your Intelligence, Wisdom, and Charisma scores, as well as your saving throw proficiencies.
- Your familiar adds your Wisdom modifier to it's AC.
- As an action, you can spend 1 use of your wild shape to imbue your familiar with feral might. For a number of rounds equal to your Wisdom modifier, your familiar can take the Attack action on its turns.
Your familiar is created with a fraction of your soul, similar to your talisman, and follows the same rules as your talisman. If your familiar is reduced to 0 hit points, you immediately take damage equal to half your maximum hit points.
Witches Hex
Starting at 6th level, you can put a shapechanging hex on allies and enemies. As an action, you can spend 1 use of your Wild Shape feature and choose a creature within 30 feet of you. If the creature is friendly to you and willing, you can transform the creature into any beast you have access to via your Wild Shape feature. If the creature is hostile to you, they must make a Wisdom saving throw against you spell save DC. If the creature succeeds on the save, you cannot target that creature with this feature again for 24 hours. A creature transformed by this feature follows the same rules as your Wild Shape, except you now concentrate on it as if concentrating on a spell. While a creature is transformed in this way, you cannot use your Wild Shape feature.
A creature transformed by this feature is incapable of reverting back into their normal form unless you spend a bonus action to end the effect, their beast form is reduced to 0 hit points, you lose concentration, or the time they spend transformed exceeds the max duration of your Wild Shape.
Witch's Conveyance
Starting at 10th level, you can spend 7 days to create a magical item that, as long as you are mounted on it, gives you a flying speed of 40 feet. This item could be a broom, a giant mortar, a cauldron, a pony-sized swan made out of ivory, a fey stallion, a giant bat or any other mount or conveyance. The conveyance works only for you and can carry a single passenger. If you are within 1 mile of your conveyance you can call it to your side at its flying speed. Your conveyance can shrink down to the size of a 6 inch figurine to fit in a pack or belt pouch. Your conveyance has limited animation when away from you, even if it is in the form of a living creature. It can take no actions unless it is within 60 feet of you, in which case it can only move its flying speed or interact with objects. Your conveyance cannot take the attack action or any other combat action.
The item is made of your own magic, has a piece of your soul imbibed to it, and follows the same rules as your talisman. Your conveyance has hit points equal to half of your max hit points and an AC of 20. If your conveyance is reduced to 0 hit points, it is destroyed and you take damage equal to half your max HP.
Witch's House
Starting at 14th level, you can create a magical home in 7 days time. It can be no less than 30 feet long and 10 feet tall on each side on the outside, but is no more than 80 feet long and 40 feet tall on each side. It could be a fine wooden house, a tower of stone, a hut standing on chicken legs, a ramshackle mansion of clockwork and magic, a garden enclosed in a fence of black thorns or any other domicile. This class feature otherwise works as the spell magnificent mansion except it has an unlimited duration and a physical presence in the real world. The home’s banquet of food regenerates once every 24 hours and never spoils. The home can be moved once per week in a ritual that takes one hour to a location within 10 miles. Each time it is moved the outer dimensions of the house can be altered to fit the new location, but the inner dimensions remain as the spell magnificent mansion