NEREUS
The Frostfather

The Frostfather

Alignment

• Lawful Neutral
  
  

Aspects 

• Time, Preservation, Memory, Winter, Undead
  
  

Ethos

Traditions

• Followers of Nereus keep journals to record events in their life and regularly will reflect on important memories each night before they sleep.
  
  

Symbiology

•  Associated with crystalline spheres, mirrors, hourglasses, and snow globes

1. Aegis of Memory - Reaction that allows the user to reroll a saving throw against mental effects

2. Crystalline Guard - Provides temporary hit points to the target

3. Temporal Echo - Protects the target against essence damage and exhaustion

4. Nostalgia / Remorse -  Force a creature to feel a deep desire to relive an old memory or avoid it at all costs

5. Inner Citadel -  Provides a large amount of temporary hit points and improved mental defenses

Domain Spells

1. Bane, Aegis of Memory 

2. Rime’s Binding Ice, Crystalline Guard 

3. Slow, Temporal Echo

4. Death Ward, Nostalgia / Remorse

5. Modify Memory, Inner Citadel  

Disciplined Mind

At 1st level, through rigorous effort your mind has become extremely adept at retaining information with minimal effort. You gain advantage on all intelligence-based ability checks.

Enduring Ward

At 1st level, you gain the ability to bolster your allies with magic.  Each time you cast a spell targeting one or more allies, choose one ally affected by the spell.  They gain temporary hit points equal to your wisdom modifier.  If the triggering spell would grant temporary hit points, increase the amount of temporary hit points the spell provides by your wisdom modifier instead.

Channel Divinity: Defy Destruction

At 2nd level, you gain the ability to mitigate the most powerful attacks. As a reaction when you or an ally that you can see within 30 feet of you suffers a critical hit, you can expend your channel divinity to turn that attack into a normal hit. Any effects triggered by a critical hit are canceled.

Crystallize Memory

At 6th level, once per day you can take a memory or spell from yourself or a willing creature you touch and implant it into a shimmering crystalline sphere called a memory sphere. 

Creating a Memory Sphere

To create an empty memory sphere, you must focus for one hour and expend one fist of chroma.  It forms into a crystalline orb about 1 foot in diameter that is cold to the touch.  While it is dormant, the sphere is dull and gray.  When it is instilled with a memory it glows blue-white.  When imprinted with a spell, its color relates to the school of magic contained within.  A memory sphere can store spells of a level corresponding to the level of Chroma used to create the sphere.

You may possess a number of memory spheres equal to your proficiency modifier.  A memory sphere may be destroyed by the caster as action.  Destroying a memory sphere in this way creates one fist of Shadowpast, regardless of type of Chroma used to create the sphere.

Imprinting a Memory Sphere

Choose one creature you can touch, including yourself.  That target focuses their mind on a specific memory or spell they currently have prepared for 1 minute while you lay your hand upon them.  The memory or spell is then stored in the sphere.  Only spells that take one action or bonus action to cast may be instilled in a memory sphere.  If the caster and target repeat this process daily for one year, the memory is permanently imbued in the sphere.

Activating a Memory Sphere

• As an action, a creature can activate a sphere you are currently holding.  If it is a memory, you immediately experience the entire memory in an instant.  If it is a spell, you may cast the spell.  In either case, the sphere is rendered empty afterward.

• Not everyone can cast spells from memory spheres. Casting a spell requires the user expend the appropriate level spell slot and any requisite material components.
  
  

Potent Spellcasting

Starting at 8th level, you add your Wisdom modifier to the damage you deal with any cleric cantrip.

TBD

At 17th level, you can do some more cool stuff