Storm Sorcery
Your innate magic is fueled by the power of the storm. Some with this power can trace their magic back to a near-death experience caused by a great flood, or perhaps you were born during a howling gale so powerful that folk still tell stories of it, or your lineage might include the influence of potent air creatures such as a sylph. Whatever the case, the magic of the storm permeates your being.
Storm sorcerers are invaluable members of a ship’s crew. Their magic allows them to exert control over wind and weather in their immediate area. Their abilities also prove useful in repelling attacks by sahuagin, pirates, and other waterborne threats.
Branch Features
Bonus Spells
Once you can cast spells of a given level, select two spells of that spell level from the list below as bonus spells . Once you gain a bonus spell, you always know it and it doesn’t count against the number of spells that you know.
If you have a bonus spell that doesn’t appear on the arcane spell list, that spell is nevertheless an arcane spell for you.
| Spell Level | Spells |
|---|---|
| 1st | Create or Destroy Water, Fog Cloud, Thunderous Smite, Thunderwave |
| 2nd | Gust of Wind, Levitate, Shatter, Warding Wind |
| 3rd | Call Lightning, Lightning Bolt, Thunder Step, Tidal Wave, Water Walk |
| 4th | Control Water, Ice Storm, Storm Sphere, Watery Sphere |
| 5th | Control Winds, Destructive Wave, Maelstrom |
Talents
| Talent | CP | Prerequisites |
|---|---|---|
| Tempestuous Magic | 5 | - |
| Heart of the Storm | 5 | 3nd Level Spells and Tempestuous Magic |
| Storm Guide | 5 | 3rd Level Spells and Tempestuous Magic |
| Storm’s Fury | 50 | 7th Level Spells, Heart of the Storm and Storm Guide |
| Wind Soul | 80 | 9th Level Spells and Storm’s Fury |
Tempestuous Magic
Cost: 5 Character Points
Actions: 1
The winds carry you to safety.
Immediately before or after you cast a spell using mana, you cause a gust of wind to briefly surround you, allowing you to fly up to 10 feet without provoking attacks of opportunity.
Heart of the Storm
Cost: 5 Character Points
Prerequisite: 3rd Level Spells and Tempestuous Magic
Your body holds back the storm until it’s unleashed by your magic.
Whenever you cast a spell using mana that deals electric or sonic damage, the elements of the storm explode from within. This eruption causes creatures of your choice that you can see within 10 feet of you to take electric or sonic damage (choose each time you use this ability) equal to your maximum spell level.
In addition, you gain resistance to electric and sonic damage.
Storm Guide
Cost: 5 Character Points
Prerequisite: 3rd Level Spells and Tempestuous Magic
Actions: 1, 2
You can subtly control the weather around you.
If it is raining, you can use 2 Actions to cause the rain to stop falling in a 20-foot-radius sphere centered on you. You can end this effect using 1 Action.
If it is windy, you can use 1 Action each round to choose the direction that the wind blows in a 100-foot-radius sphere centered on you. The wind blows in that direction until the end of your next turn. This feature doesn’t alter the speed of the wind.
Storm’s Fury
Cost: 50 Character Points
Prerequisite: 7th Level Spells, Heart of the Storm and Storm Guide
Actions: Free
Trigger: You are hit by a melee attack.
The tempest confined inside you is released against your attackers.
When a creature hits you with a melee attack, you automatically deal electric or sonic damage (choose each time you use this ability) to the attacker. The damage equals two times your maximum spell level. The attacker must also make a Strength defense check vs your evocation skill. On a fail, the attacker is pushed in a straight line up to 20 feet away from you.
This ability triggers once per round and automatically on the first attack to hit you each round, unless you declare on your turn or when you roll initiative that it will trigger from attacks by a specified creature, or not to use it at all.
Wind Soul
Cost: 80 Character Points
Prerequisite: 9th Level Spells and Storm’s Fury
Actions: 2
Your control over the elements of air allows you and your allies to take to the skies.
You gain a magical flying speed equal to twice your speed. Using 2 Actions, you can reduce your flying speed to be equal to your speed for 1 hour and choose a number of creatures within 30 feet of you equal to 3 + your spellcasting modifier. The chosen creatures gain a magical flying speed equal to their speed for 1 hour. Once you reduce your flying speed in this way, you can’t do so again until you finish a short or long rest.
Additionally, you gain immunity to electric and sonic damage.