Unspoken Red Summoners bind a quiet spirit to a length of red thread, borrowing its hands, eyes, and stubborn presence. They are not battlefield commanders of great hosts: one fragile companion, careful positioning, and a little supernatural utility are their stock in trade. Their power is intimate, costly, and strongest when they and their summon act as one.
One red thread. One borrowed hand. No promise that the dead will obey.
Low-power summoner, scout, and cautious protector
At a glance
Red Marks
Hit die d8
Intelligence
ConstitutionYou gain the class’s saving throw and skill proficiencies, learn to speak, read, and write one language of your choice, and gain Red Thread and Bound Companion. You can bind one companion spirit; it follows the Bound Companion rules in your class features.
When you or your companion fails an ability check to notice or investigate a nearby creature or object, you can expend one Red Mark to add 1d4 to the check, potentially turning it into a success. You decide after seeing the roll but before the DM says whether it succeeds.
Choose an Unspoken Red Summoner subclass. Your choice grants features at levels 3, 6, 10, and 14.
Ability Score Improvement
Your companion’s attacks count as magical for overcoming resistance and immunity to nonmagical attacks. When you summon it, you can choose its form to be Tiny, Small, or Medium.
You gain a feature from your Summoner Calling subclass.
When your companion is within 30 feet of you, you can use a Bonus Action to perceive through its senses until the start of your next turn. While doing so, you are Blinded and Deafened to your own surroundings.
Ability Score Improvement
When your companion takes damage, you can take a Reaction to reduce that damage by 1d10 + your Summoner level. You can use this feature a number of times equal to your Proficiency Bonus, regaining all uses when you finish a Long Rest.
You gain a feature from your Summoner Calling subclass.
When you roll Initiative and have no Red Marks remaining, you regain one Red Mark. You can also summon your companion as a Bonus Action instead of an Action.
Ability Score Improvement
When you summon your companion, it gains Temporary Hit Points equal to your Summoner level. These Temporary Hit Points last until it is dismissed or disappears.
You gain a feature from your Summoner Calling subclass.
When you roll Initiative, you can summon your companion without expending a Red Mark, provided it has disappeared or been dismissed. Once you do so, you can’t do so again until you finish a Long Rest.
Ability Score Improvement
When you use Take the Tether, the damage you reduce becomes 1d10 + twice your Summoner level. You can use that feature once without expending a use, regaining that free use when you finish a Long Rest.
Your companion’s attacks deal an extra 1d6 damage of their normal type when it hits a creature that is within 5 feet of you.
Ability Score Improvement, Epic Boon
When your companion is reduced to 0 Hit Points, it can instead drop to 1 Hit Point. Once it does so, it can’t do so again until you finish a Long Rest. When you roll Initiative with no Red Marks remaining, you regain two Red Marks instead of one.
IntelligenceConstitutionHit pointsHit Point Die: D8 per Unspoken Red Summoner level. Hit Points at Level 1: 8 + your Constitution modifier. Hit Points at Higher Levels: (or 5) + your Constitution modifier per Unspoken Red Summoner level after 1st.
Saving throwsProficient in Intelligence and Constitution saving throws. The class relies on positioning, light armor, and limited damage prevention rather than strong defenses.
ArmorLight armor.
WeaponsSimple weapons.
ToolsNone.
Saving ThrowsIntelligence, Constitution.
SkillsChoose two from Arcana, Insight, Investigation, Medicine, Nature, Perception, and Religion.
Skill choicesArcana, Insight, Investigation, Medicine, Nature, Perception, Religion
ResourceRed Marks: You have a number of Red Marks equal to your Proficiency Bonus, and regain all expended marks when you finish a Long Rest. You expend one mark to summon your companion or use a feature that says it costs a Red Mark.
MulticlassingPrerequisite: Intelligence 13. When you multiclass into this class, you gain Light armor proficiency and one skill proficiency from the class skill list. You do not gain the class’s starting equipment.
Let the unseen look ahead.
Stand where the living are most exposed.
Give the silence a sharp edge.
Unspoken Red Summoners bind a quiet spirit to a length of red thread, borrowing its hands, eyes, and stubborn presence.
They are not battlefield commanders of great hosts: one fragile companion, careful positioning, and a little supernatural utility are their stock in trade. Their power is intimate, costly, and strongest when they and their summon act as one.
You play a capable but vulnerable adventurer supported by one modest companion, not a commander of a second full character.
Use the companion to scout, take the Help action, guard a lane, or make a single commanded attack; conserve Red Marks for dangerous scenes, and keep it near enough for your defensive features. Your own action remains important every round.
A prospective summoner learns burial customs, spirit etiquette, and the discipline of listening before binding.
Initiation is usually a solitary vigil with a length of red cord and an object connected to a willing or unclaimed spirit; success is recognized when the cord moves without a living hand touching it. Responsible teachers insist that a binding can be refused or ended.
Most people find a quiet, helpful companion comforting until they realize it is bound to a spirit.
Communities that honor their dead may welcome a summoner; others fear that the practice disturbs graves or invites misfortune. Even sympathetic people may expect the summoner to solve every haunting.
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