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Burden of Mercy
Martyr: Subclass Feature
Source: Valda’s Spire of Secrets (2024)
Class and Feature Progression
Level PB Features 1st +2 2nd +2 3rd +2 Burden of Mercy 4th +2 5th +3 6th +3 Virtuous Blessings 7th +3 8th +3 9th +4 10th +4 11th +4 12th +4 13th +5 14th +5 Censuring Light 15th +5 16th +5 17th +6 18th +6 Anointed Healer 19th +6 20th +6
Heal the Sick and Wounded
When the suffering of the world grows too heavy and the cries of the anguished grow too loud, the gods deliver a Martyr to ease the strife and bring peace to the masses. This burden, however, has no end. A Martyr may spend all their days healing the sick and driving demons out of the possessed, but they will scarcely impact the world at large. Indeed, the onus upon them is not to mend every wound or comfort every widow, but to provide hope in the darkest of times that the gods have not forsaken their people, that peace will soon reign, and that light will be victorious.
Subclass Features
Burden of Mercy Spells (Level 3)
Your mortal burden ensures you always have certain spells ready. When you reach a Martyr level specified in the Mercy Spells table, you thereafter always have the listed spells prepared.
Mercy Spells
| Martyr Level | Spells |
|---|---|
| 3 | Cure Wounds, Protection from Evil and Good |
| 5 | Lesser Restoration, Prayer of Healing |
| 9 | Remove Curse, Revivify |
| 13 | Aura of Life, Death Ward |
| 17 | Mass Cure Wounds, Raise Dead |
| ^mercy-spells |
Balm (Level 3)
When you use your Miraculous Healing, you can choose one creature you can see within 60 feet of yourself. The target regains 1d8 for each Hit Point Die you expend with Miraculous Healing and you can end one of the following conditions on the target: Blinded, Deafened, or Poisoned.
Merciful Healing (Level 3)
You don’t take Radiant damage from casting spells listed on the Mercy Spells table.
Virtuous Blessings (Level 6)
When you finish a Long Rest, choose a number of creatures you can see up to your Wisdom modifier (minimum of 1) to receive one of the following blessings of your choice. Each creature need not receive the same blessing. An unused blessing is expended when a blessed creature finishes a Long Rest.
Blessing of Alacrity. The creature can expend this blessing to increase its Speed by 30 feet until the end of the current turn (no action required).
Blessing of Eloquence. The creature can expend this blessing to gain Advantage on a D20 Test using Wisdom or Charisma (no action required).
Blessing of Vigilance. The creature can expend this blessing to gain Advantage on an Initiative roll (no action required).
Censuring Light (Level 14)
As a Magic action, you emanate a radiant light in a 30-foot Emanation that lasts for 1 minute or until you have the Incapacitated condition. Choose Aberrations, Celestials, Elementals, Fey, Fiends, or Undead.
Whenever the Emanation enters the space of a creature of the chosen type and whenever such a creature enters the Emanation or ends its turn there, it takes 4d6 Radiant damage. A creature takes this damage only once per turn.
Additionally, while in the Emanation, creatures of your choice have Advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical effects created by creatures of the chosen type.
Once you use this feature, you can’t use it again until you finish a Short or Long Rest. You can also restore your use of it by taking 30 Radiant damage. This damage ignores Resistance and Immunity, and bypasses Temporary Hit Points.
Anointed Healer (Level 18)
Whenever you cast a spell that restores Hit Points to a creature, that creature regains additional Hit Points on the turn you cast the spell equal to your Martyr level. If this healing exceeds the creature’s Hit Point maximum, it gains Temporary Hit Points equal to excess healing, up to a maximum of your Martyr level.