Storm Sorcery

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Your innate magic comes from the power of elemental air. Many with this power can trace their magic back to a near-death experience caused by the Great Rain, but 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 vaati or djinn. 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.

Wind Speaker

(1st level feature)

The arcane magic you command is infused with elemental air. You can speak, read, and write Primordial. Knowing this language allows you to understand and be understood by those who speak its dialects: Aquan, Auran, Ignan, and Terran.

Storm Magic

(Improved 1st level "Sorcerous Origins" feature)

You learn additional spells when you reach certain levels in this class, as shown on the Tempestuous Spells table. Each of these spells counts as a sorcerer spell for you, but it doesn't count against the number of sorcerer spells you know.

Whenever you gain a sorcerer level, you can replace one spell you gained from this feature with another spell of the same level. The new spell must be an evocation or conjuration spell from the sorcerer, druid or wizard spell list that doesn't restore hit points.

Storm Spells

Sorcerer Level Spells
1st Feather Fall, Thunderwave
3rd Shatter, Warding Wind
5th Call Lighting, Wind Wall
7th Storm Sphere, Summon Elemental (air only)
9th Control Winds, Maelstrom

Sky Bound

(Re-written 1st level "Tempestous Magic" feature)

At 1st level, you can use a bonus action on your turn to cause whirling gusts of elemental air to briefly surround you, immediately before or after you cast a spell of 1st level or higher. When you do so, you gain a temporary flying speed equal to your remaining movement speed that lasts until the end of your current turn.

You fall if you end your movement in the air and you do not provoke opportunity attacks while flying.

Tempest Spell

(Added 2nd level feature)

When you cast a spell that deals damage, you can spend 1 sorcery point.
When you do so, one target of the spell must make a Constitution saving throw. On a failed save, they are stunned until the start of their next turn.

Heart of the Storm

(Improved 6th level feature)

At 6th level, you gain resistance to lightning and thunder damage.

In addition, whenever you start casting a spell of 1st level or higher that deals lightning or thunder damage, stormy magic erupts from you. This eruption causes creatures of your choice that you can see within 15 feet of you to take lightning or thunder damage (choose each time this ability activates) equal to half your sorcerer level.

Storm Guide

(6th level feature)
At 6th level, you gain the ability to subtly control the weather around you.

If it is raining, you can use an action to cause the rain to stop falling in a 20-foot-radius sphere centered on you. You can end this effect as a bonus action.

If it is windy, you can use a bonus 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

(Improved 14th level feature)

Starting at 14th level, when you are hit by a melee attack, you can use your reaction to deal lightning damage to the attacker. The damage equals your sorcerer level. The attacker must also make a Strength saving throw against your sorcerer spell save DC. On a failed save, the attacker is pushed in a straight line up to 20 feet away from you, knocking them prone

Wind Caller

(18th level feature)

At 18th level, you gain immunity to lightning and thunder damage.

You also gain a magical flying speed of 60 feet. As an action, you can reduce your flying speed to 30 feet for 1 hour and choose a number of creatures within 30 feet of you equal to 3 + your Charisma modifier. The chosen creatures gain a magical flying speed of 30 feet 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.