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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.

|You may use Soulbind on the corpse of a beast when making your Hellspawn Champion. This creature has the stats of an appropriate beast of an ML that you can create using your Champion talents. It has the undead and fiend tags in addition to its normal tags.

Incompatibilities: Bull Head, Bat Head, Insect Head, Wolf Head

|When you summon a Hellspawn Champion, choose Iron Will, Steel Mind, Vigilant, or DR 2/Silvered or magical weapons. Your Hellspawn gains that monster trait.

|Your Hellspawn's vertical jump distance is tripled.

|Zealot Entry or Hellcrafter Entry

|You gain Resist Fire 3. 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 also deal 1d6 Fire damage. (½ CHA/Rest)

On taking Fire Scion, any Hellbound talent you take with the Fire tag counts as either an Arcane or Primal source talent for which you possess a Magic Entry talent, but may only apply to a single source (which you choose on taking Fire Scion, if relevant). This increases your SP by 5 and increases either Arcane or Primal Power by 1.

|Gain +5 SP. Learn 2 arcane spells or cantrips from the list below. They count as divine spells for you.

'''''Arcane spells and cantrips:''''' [[Beam of Fire]], [[Fan the Flames]], [[Fireball]], [[Fire Shield]], [[Illuminate]], [[Nova]], [[Wall of Fire]], [[Wave of Fire]]

|While your weapon is ablaze you ignore any Resistance to Fire damage. Additionally, you gain TA on attacks against a creature afflicted with the Burning condition.

|While your weapon is ablaze you ignore Immunity to Fire damage, treating a creature with such as if they only possessed Affinity, taking ½ the damage. You additionally gain +1 crit range against a creature that is on fire, and hitting such a creature continues their Burning duration by 1 round

|You develop a trait influenced by your time spent in Hell, as if you were a fiendblood. You may choose from the following traits: Ancestral Communion, Claws, Fiendish Endurance, Infernal Influence, or Occult Affinity.

During combat, the swarm cannot function unless you are within the swarm. While you are within the swarm, it is treated as a 5 ft radius aura that is centered on you. You may spend 2 AP on each of your turns to cause the swarm to make one of its attacks. You have +2 to your physical defenses and AR while your swarm is not Bloodied, and +1 to these defenses while your swarm is Bloodied.

|You may expend one of your uses of Soulbind to order an all-out assault. For the next 5 minutes, you may order your horde to make an attack for 1 AP, instead of 2. Whenever your horde kills a creature, your horde gains 1d10 Shield HP.

|Choose two arcane spells with the arcane ritual tag that have less than or equal to your maximum SP. You learn those spells, but can only cast them as rituals unless you learn them through another talent. They are considered occult rituals for you and have the 1/Rest recharge. They also have Dark Power as determined on the Demonomicon Dark Power table.

|Choose two divine rituals that do not have Prerequisites. Gain those rituals. They are considered occult rituals for you. They also have Dark Power as determined on the Demonomicon Dark Power table.

|Choose two psionic invocations that do not have Prerequisites. Gain those invocations. They are considered occult rituals for you with a 1/Rest recharge. They also have Dark Power as determined on the Demonomicon Dark Power table.

|Choose two arcane spells with the arcane ritual tag that have less than or equal to your maximum SP x 2. You learn those spells, but can only cast them as rituals unless you learn them through another talent. They are considered occult rituals for you and have the 1/Rest recharge. They also have Dark Power as determined on the Demonomicon Dark Power table.

Furthermore, when you cast an occult ritual that targets yourself, increase two of your attributes of your choice by 1 each for the next 1 hour as you are filled with unholy power.  You must still observe your attribute cap.

'''Dark Power:''' Roll for Dark Power. On a roll of 5 or lower, you suffer 1d6 necrotic damage. If this had the Nature or Weather tag, then the nature in the area withers a little or the weather grows sour and corrupt.