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World Codex

Artificer: Alchemist

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An Alchemist is an expert at combining reagents to produce mystical effects. Alchemists use their creations to give life and to leech it away.
Artificer: Armorer

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An artificer who specializes as an Armorer modifies armor to function almost like a second skin. The armor is enhanced to hone the artificer's magic, unleash potent attacks, and generate a formidable defense.
Artificer: Artillerist

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An Artillerist specializes in using magic to hurl energy, projectiles, and explosions on a battlefield. This destructive power is valued by armies.
Artificer: Battle Smith

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Armies require protection, and someone has to put things back together if defenses fail. A combination of protector and medic, a Battle Smith is an expert at defending others and repairing both materiel and personnel.
Barbarian: Path of the Earthbreaker

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The Earthbreakers stand imperious; barbarians with a natural affinity for the void, capable of leveling buildings in their rage, these living titans are coveted prizes.
Barbarian: Path of the Lightning Vessel

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A Lightning Vessel is a brute, a monster of battle. Their bodies overflowing with lightning, they arrive unexpectedly, often dropping from buildings or leaping impossible distances, before crashing down amidst the fight.
Bard: College of the Apocalypse

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Apocalypse bards are masters at conjuring forth the ancient powers of eldritch gods, summoning forth their otherworldly might to wreak havoc on the mortal realm.
Cleric: Guardian Domain

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Clerics of the Radiant Church are venerated as saint-like figures, and those who walk the path of the guardian even more so.
Druid: Circle of Symbiosis

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The Circle of Symbiosis allows druids devoted to Nature to become one with it—in the most real sense of the word. These druids have mastered osteomancy and use it to sever their own limbs and replace them with fragments of the natural world.
Fighter: Blood Archer

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Blood archers are cursed beings that should not exist. Birthed from nightmarish experiments by the Obitus Scholare, these hunters use a cursed method of archery, weaving their own blood into attacks to produce supernatural effects.
Fighter: Living Nightmare

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First it was an accident, a hunter dying on a battlefield, in dire need of a transplant. The clerics used what they could find and unknowingly grafted accursed flesh onto the dying man, yet, not only did he survive, he rose again stronger than ever before
Jaeger: Absolute Chapter

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Jaegers of the Absolute Chapter aim for the perfect hunt: to kill their prey without suffering a single hit.
Jaeger: Heretic Chapter

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Through blasphemous rituals, strange ingestions, and direct grafting of powers onto their souls, heretics bind the powers of greater beings to their will.
Jaeger: Marauder Chapter

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A jaeger of the Marauder Chapter embodies raw slaughter. Vengeance, wrath, and death, all rolled into one swing that never ceases, endlessly scything through monsters, leaving a bloody wake of destruction.
Jaeger: Salvation Chapter

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A divine force endows jaegers of the Salvation Chapter with the ability to defend the world from the horrors, purging evil with one hand while saving the innocent with the other.
Jaeger: Sanguine Chapter

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In order to strengthen themselves, jaegers of the Sanguine Chapter rely on the essential essence that is blood. They achieve resilient states of unnatural life and feed their powers with the fruits of their violence.
Monk: Way of the Fire Dancer

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The fire dancers carry an almost extinct tradition. Once a trading group, they considered themselves a family of a single creed: “Those who harm us will bathe in flames."
Paladin: Oath of the Eldritch Hunt

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The Oath of the Eldritch Hunt is sworn to the eradication of the unnatural, the aberrant, and the alien. These hunters tread a fine line, enhancing themselves with their prey’s powers whilst trying to maintain their own sanity.
Ranger: Lunar Warden

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Lunar Wardens hold a deep fascination for the enigmatic powers of the moons, forming a profound bond with the ever-changing celestial bodies, drawing upon their forms to enhance their abilities.
Ranger: Torturer Conclave

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In the throes of battle, these rangers bring their torturous expertise with them, employing it with merciless precision to break their enemies, methodically subjecting them to unspeakable agony.
Rogue: Blade of Radiance

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The Blades of Radiance, also called Steel Saints, are known to be one of the most lethal orders of the Church. In order to become a blade, one must be a devout follower of the faith, as only those who would die for the cause are deemed worthy.
Rogue: Shadow

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The origin of the Shadows is shrouded in mystery. Some say that it was first created by a group of nobles who stole a tome of forbidden magic from an errant cursed-blood scholar.
Sorcerer: Scion of Madness

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The eldritch powers that lurk beyond the veil of the moon have plunged the world into chaos. This chaos is what gives you might; there isn't any form of power more pure nor more potent than this eldritch insanity.
Warlock Patron: The Void

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These warlocks have made a pact with an eldritch being from the deepest depths of the Cosmos—a being that devours energy, holds the secrets of creation, and paves the way to the apocalypse.
Wizard: Osteomancer

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Osteomancers are powerful wizards who understand the power that can be harvested from bones. Often said to be cursed and talked about under cover of night, this sort of magic makes the uneducated shiver and the scholar morbidly curious.

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