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Summoners that specialize in drawing fiends from the pits of a hellscape created through unknowable occult magic, hellcrafters are brutal summoners and powerful commanders. By imbuing a corpse with the spirit of a fiend, hellcrafters create hellspawn, powerful minions that enforce their masters' will. As a hellcrafter, you can develop your talents summoning a multitudinous swarm of hellspawn, summon one powerful hellspawn champion, or cultivate your skills as a ritualist. You might also embrace the path of the hellbound, suffusing your Essence with energy from hell.

'''Champion Track:''' Summon a powerful spirit from Hell to imbue into a mighty corpse. By twisting occult magic to your will, you augment this hellspawn with great power to fight as your champion.

'''Hellbound (see previous):''' Having descended into Hell and emerged with an otherworldly command of fire, fuel your weapon’s strikes with wrathful brimstone.

'''Hordemaster Track:''' You specialize in summoning scores of hellspawn. By ripping fiends from Hell and binding them to dozens of corpses, you can raise a terrifying army in a matter of moments.

'''Ritualist Track:''' Through dark machinations and sinister incantations, you have become an expert in occult ritualism. Your capacity to manipulate occult rituals is nothing to be trifled with.

<blockquote>Note: This subclass track is shared by the zealot class. </blockquote>Having clawed their way from the very pits of the inferno, the Hellbound walks a thin line between zeal and sacrilege; empowered to act by the brand of Hell upon their soul. Through sheer will and command of darker forces these warriors supplant the divine with the profane, yet they seek ever to redeem themselves from the misdeeds of their past lives, freed now from the grip of damnation, and determined to break that hold upon not only their own whims but of others cursed by the denizens of Hell.

 

|Whenever you fail a CHA check, or a creature makes a successful attack against your WILL, you may reroll that check or force that creature to reroll their attack, taking the new result. (2/Rest)

|You gain Resist Fire 3.

'''Fire Scion.''' When you take any fire damage, you can spend 1 Reactive AP to gain Affinity to it (including the damage you just took) for 1 minute. The first time you deal any damage after using this ability, you deal +1d6 fire damage. (½ CHA/Rest)

'''Flameblade.''' For 2 AP you set a melee weapon in your hands ablaze for 1 minute, converting all of your damage done with that weapon to fire. While active, this is considered your Flameblade and you may choose to attack a creature’s REF instead of their AR, and you may choose to use your CHA for attacks and damage with your Flameblade. (2/Rest)

|Flameblade becomes ½ CHA/Rest. Once you have taken 10 talents with the hellbound tag, you regain +1 use of Flameblade whenever you Recoup.

|Whenever you hit a creature with your Flameblade while ablaze, they gain Burning 1d4 for 1 minute. (½ CHA/Rest)

|While your Flameblade is ablaze, you deal +1d4 fire damage with your Flameblade. Additionally, when you apply the Burning condition it is increases by one die size (e.g. 1d4 becomes 1d6).

'''Fiendish Fervor.''' When you hit a creature with the fiend tag you may spend 1 AP to unnerve that creature. Make a magic attack against the WILL of the struck creature. On a hit, that creature is Shaken until the end of your next turn. On your subsequent turns, if you hit the same Shaken creature again, you may spend 1 AP to continue the Shaken duration. (2/Rest)

'''Crushing Fervor.''' When you hit a creature that is currently Shaken you may spend 1 AP to terrify them. Make a magic attack against the WILL of the Shaken creature. On a hit, that creature becomes Frightened of you until the end of your next turn. On your subsequent turns, if you hit the same Frightened creature again, you may spend +1 AP to continue the Frightened duration. This also continues the duration of Shaken from Fiendish Fervor.

'''Breaking Fervor.''' When you hit a creature that is both Shaken and Frightened you may spend 1 AP to break them. Make a magic attack against the WILL of the afflicted creature. On a hit, that creature becomes Broken until the end of your next turn.

'''Terrifying Fervor.''' When you reduce a creature afflicted with the Broken condition to 0 HP you may spend 2 Reactive AP to terrify their allies. Make a magic attack against the WILL of each hostile creature of an equal or lower ML of the creature you have slain. On a hit, the creature is Broken for 1 minute or until they take damage. On a miss, the creature is Broken until the end of their next turn or until they take damage. (½ CHA/Rest)

'''Resolute Bastion.''' When a creature makes an attack against you or one of your ally’s mental defenses you can add +1d4 to that defense. If that attack misses, you activate your Focused Resolve talent on that creature. (2/Rest)

|You may spend 2 AP to activate Focused Resolve against a single creature. If that creature is afflicted with the Engaged or Broken condition then this only costs you 1 AP. (½ CHA/Rest)

|Should you reduce a creature to 0 HP from a crit while benefiting from Focused Resolve you regain HP equal to 1d10+CHA. (2/Recoup)

'''Redemptive Strike.''' If you have TA against a creature subject to Fiendish Fervor, you may automatically crit that creature (2/Rest). If that TA resulted from Focused Resolve, and your crit reduces the creature to 0 HP, you regain +1 use of Redemptive Strike. (2/Rest)

'''''Level 30:''''' The final cap for your CHA increases from 12 to 14 and you may now use Redemptive Strike 2/Recoup.

Gain the Destroyer's Strike ability.

'''Destroyer's Strike.''' If you hit a target that is Frightened of you, you may cause the creature to become Broken. (2/Rest)

'''''Level 30:''''' Your Hellfire fire damage and Destroyer's Strike psychic damage both increase to 1d10.

|''Hellbound, '''Capston'''''