Ilyon - Hidden Moon of Time, Fate, and Recursion

ILYON – HIDDEN MOON OF TIME, FATE, RECURSION

From your bible:

• “Time, fate, recursion.”
• Part of the Hidden Triad; barely known; key to future plot.
• Intertwined with Broken Crown, shifting celestial mechanics, and misread prophecies.

Themes:

• Time: moments, durations, aging, delay and acceleration
• Fate: convergences, “fixed points,” the weight of choices
• Recursion: loops, second chances, patterns re‑playing with variations

An Ilyon Cleric is:

• A chronicle‑priest, omen‑reader, “clock‑mender” of history
• Sometimes a predestination zealot, sometimes a rebel against “inevitable” outcomes
• In play: rerolls, initiative/turn order manipulation, limited rewinds, and “you get one more try” effects

Visually: Ilyon has no agreed‑on disc; cults describe an invisible clockwork halo or a “ghost moon” only seen in certain auroral veils. Symbols: hourglasses, ouroboros rings, spiral sigils, broken clocks re‑forged.

ILYON DOMAIN FEATURES BY LEVEL

These stack with your base Lunar Cleric chassis.

Level 1 – Domain Spells & Chronicle‑Marked

Domain Spells

Always prepared; don’t count against prepared spells.

• 1st:guiding bolt, feather fall
• 3rd:augury, misty step
• 5th:haste, slow
• 7th:divination, dimension door
• 9th:legend lore, modify memory

This list focuses on tempo, foresight, and rewriting how events land.

Chronicle‑Marked

You carry Ilyon’s mark as a living timeline‑annotator.

• You gain proficiency in History or Insight (your choice).
• You have advantage on Intelligence (History) checks to:
• Recognize repeating patterns (wars, plagues, dynastic cycles).
• Recall prior instances of “this has happened before” in lore.
• Moment’s Glimpse:
• A number of times per long rest equal to your Wisdom modifier (minimum 1), when you or a creature you can see within 30 ft:
• Makes an attack roll, ability check, or saving throw,
• You can use your reaction to see a heartbeat into the future:
• The creature rolls the d20 twice and uses the higher result (like granting advantage after the fact, before the result is known).

This is your baseline “nudge fate” feature.

Level 2 – Channel Divinity: Slipstream Rewind

You gain an Ilyon‑specific Channel Divinity that rewinds a single moment, not entire combats.

Channel Divinity: Slipstream Rewind

You pull one instant backward along its thread.

• As a reaction, when:
• A creature you can see within 30 ft:
• Fails a saving throw, or
• Is hit by an attack, or
• Fails an ability check crucial to the scene (GM adjudication),
• You can expend your Channel Divinity to rewind that moment:
• Treat the original roll as if it never happened.
• The creature immediately rerolls the saving throw, the attacker rerolls the attack, or the creature rerolls the check.
• The new result must be used, even if it’s worse.

Limitations:

• You can’t use this on:
• Death saving throws, or
• Rolls that are themselves already rerolls from another effect (no infinite chains).
• You cannot rewind your own Lunar Intervention or Confluence activation roll; those are “fixed points.”

This is your big, clutch “no, not that timeline” button.

Level 3 – (Base: Secondary Moon Influence I)

No Ilyon‑specific feature here; you choose your first secondary moon.

Level 4 – (Base ASI)

Level 5 – Warp the Turn

At 5th, you gain leverage over initiative and turn order.

Warp the Turn

You can slightly re‑index whose actions land when.

• When initiative is rolled, you can choose up to two creatures you can see (including yourself).
• As part of that same reaction (after seeing all initiative rolls):
• You can swap their initiative scores or
• Move one up or down in the order by up to 5 points (e.g., from 10 to 15 or 5).

In addition:

• Once per short rest, during combat, as a bonus action, you can:
• Choose one ally within 30 ft.
• That ally can immediately use their reaction to take one weapon attack or cast a cantrip.

This keeps fights feeling “Ilyon‑touched”: turns don’t always go in the order enemies expect.

Level 6 – Channel Divinity: Temporal Anchor

At 6th, you gain a second Channel option: tagging a state and snapping back to it.

Channel Divinity: Temporal Anchor

You “save” the current state of one creature, to restore it shortly after.

• As a bonus action, choose one willing creature you can see within 30 ft (including yourself).
• You Anchor that creature for 1 minute (concentration).

While Anchored:

• Once, during the duration, when that creature:
• Is reduced to 0 HP, or
• Fails a saving throw, or
• Suffers a debilitating condition (charmed, frightened, paralyzed, petrified, or stunned),
• You can use your reaction to snap them back to the Anchored state:
• Restore them to the hit points, position, and conditions they had when you created the Anchor (not spell slots or expended abilities).
• The triggering damage or effect is negated as though it never happened.

The Anchor then ends.

Notes:

• You can maintain only one Temporal Anchor at a time.
• If your concentration ends before it’s used, the Anchor dissipates with no effect.

This is your “save scum” moment for one ally in a dangerous scene.

Level 7 – (Base: Secondary Moon Influence II)

No extra Ilyon feature.

Level 8 – (Base ASI)

Level 9 – Threads of Inevitability

At 9th, you become better at steering which futures are “likely.”

Threads of Inevitability

• When you finish a long rest, you roll two d20s and record the results as your Fate Dice.
• You can have at most two Fate Dice stored at any time; new ones overwrite old ones.
• At any time, when you or a creature you can see within 30 ft:
• Makes an attack roll, ability check, or saving throw,
• You can use your reaction to replace the d20 roll with one of your stored Fate Dice (before the result is known).
• You then erase that Fate Die; it is spent.

Additionally:

• You have advantage on Intelligence (Religion) checks to interpret omens, prophecies, and celestial alignments in your setting (which matters with your Hidden Triad/Silent Void plot).

This is your mini‑Portent, tuned to your system.

Level 10 – Lunar Intervention (Base)

Mechanically unchanged; under Ilyon, interventions might be:

• A crucial NPC arriving a round earlier than they “should.”
• A bridge holding one more second before collapsing.
• A prophetic phrase suddenly making sense in the moment you need it.

Level 11 – Recurring Echo

You can make an action “echo” across a few heartbeats.

Recurring Echo

• Once per short rest, when a creature you can see within 30 ft:
• Hits with an attack, or
• Succeeds on a spell attack or a spell that requires an attack roll,
• You can use your reaction to create a Temporal Echo:
• Immediately after that action resolves, the creature can repeat the same actionone additional time as part of the Echo:
• Same target or a different one (your choice).
• No additional action required; it rides on your reaction.

Limitations:

• The repeated action must be identical in type:
• Same spell slot level, same attack type, etc.
• You cannot Echo a spell that has a casting time longer than 1 action.

Additionally:

• While you are conscious, allies within 10 ft of you have advantage on initiative rolls, as their timelines are “sharpened.”

At 18th, this aura improves.

Level 12 – (Base ASI)

Level 13 – Law of the Spiral

You understand that events recur in spirals, not circles—and can twist them.

Law of the Spiral

• The first time each day you:
• Fail a saving throw, or
• Miss with an attack roll that is crucial to the current scene (GM discretion),
• You can choose to treat the d20 roll as a 10 instead of what you rolled, before adding modifiers.

You also gain:

• Advantage on saving throws against spells or effects that:
• Alter time (slow, time stop‑like effects),
• Force visions of the future or past,
• Or trap you in loops/dreams (Noctis/Ilyon/Silent Void stuff).

In addition:

• When you witness an event that repeats (a ritual, a political coup, a recurring monster pattern), the GM can give you:
• A one‑time +2 bonus on any roll directly tied to breaking the loop or ensuring it completes, your choice.

Level 14 – (Base: Third Moon / Deeper Influence)

No additional Ilyon‑specific feature.

Level 15 – Nightwatch Zenith (Base)

With Ilyon, Nightwatch might manifest as:

• You waking exactly when a patrol passes by or an assassin is about to strike.
• Dreams of “this same night over and over” that let you prepare for tonight’s version.

Mechanics remain as per the base Nightwatch.

Level 16 – (Base ASI)

Level 17 – Ilyon’s Confluence

At 17th, your Lunar Confluence gains an Ilyon‑specific rider.

Ilyon’s Confluence

While Lunar Confluence is active (1 minute):

• You and allies within 30 ft:
• Can add +1d4 to one attack roll, ability check, or saving throw each round (no reaction needed; they decide when they roll).
• Enemies within 30 ft:
• Treat natural 20s as 19s on d20 rolls (criticals still possible, but “perfect” rolls are slightly dulled; GM can choose whether this blocks crits based on your crit rules).

In addition, once during each Confluence:

• You can cast one of the following without expending a spell slot:
• time stop (heavily flavored: you step outside the spiral briefly),
• foresight (on yourself or an ally), or
• mass heal but reflavored as “temporal rollback of wounds” (if you want a big support option here).
• To keep things sane, I recommend:
• Time Stop (Ilyon‑tuned):
• Lasts 1d4+1 turns as normal, but:
• You cannot leave the current location (no long‑range teleporting during it).
• You cannot use it to refresh long‑rest resources.
• Foresight:
• Duration reduced to 1 hour if cast via Confluence, not 8.

Also, once during each Confluence:

• You can declare a Minor Reset as a bonus action:
• Choose up to three willing creatures (including you) within 30 ft.
• Each can:
• Regain one expended spell slot of 3rd level or lower, or
• Regain one expended use of a class feature that refreshes on a short rest (e.g., Channel Divinity, Warlock slot, etc.).

This makes Ilyon Confluence a mythic “second wind for the whole party” moment.

Level 18 – Axis of the Spiral

You become a fixed point around which small timelines bend.

Axis of the Spiral

• Your initiative aura from Recurring Echo expands to 30 ft, and:
• Allies in the aura:
• Have advantage on saving throws vs being surprised.
• Cannot be moved to below you in initiative by enemy effects (no “you act last now” tricks).
• Once per long rest, you gain access to Major Reset (limited):Major Reset (Limited)
• As an action, you declare: “We take the other path.”
• You roll 1d4; the result is the number of rounds you rewind (1–4).
• The scene rewinds in the following way:
• Positions, hit points, and conditions of all creatures revert to their state that many rounds ago.
• Spell slots and class features expended remain expended—you don’t get those back.
• Knowledge and memories of what just happened remain for you and any creatures you choose (up to your Wisdom modifier in number). Others feel only déjà vu.
• You cannot use Major Reset:
• To undo your own Lunar Intervention results or Confluence activation.
• More than once per long rest.

This is a narrative sledgehammer with mechanical constraints: you can fix a tactical disaster, but not abuse it to fish for perfect resource usage.

Level 19 – (Base ASI)

Level 20 – Lunar Avatar (Base)

Your Lunar Avatar capstone applies as normal. For Ilyon, it might appear as:

• Faint after‑images of yourself lagging or leading your movements by a heartbeat.
• Clockwork halos and recursive sigils spinning slowly behind your head.
• Enemies feeling like they’ve “been here before,” realizing too late this is the one version they don’t survive.

Mechanics remain those of the base Lunar Avatar; this is all flavor.