The Wildward Edge
A swift elemental duelist carries a living shield and calls the untamed world to guard every step.
Spellbook · Elemental-Sword, a custom half-caster using Paladin spell-slot progression · Level 1
The Wildward Edge
A swift elemental duelist carries a living shield and calls the untamed world to guard every step.
Ex librisIlyra FenElemental-Sword
At a glance
Level
1
Elemental-Sword, a custom half-caster using Paladin spell-slot progression
Spells
10
2 signature
At the table
A margin note
Plot hook
Spells
10 spells1st level
10- Up to three creatures of your choice add to attack rolls and saving throws for the duration.
- Duration
- Instantaneous
- Target
- Up to three creatures within range
- Components
- V, S, M (a strip of cloth)
- Higher levels
- When cast with a slot of level 2 or higher, one additional creature can be targeted for each slot level above 1.
- Source
- Player's Handbook (2024)
- A creature you touch regains Hit Points equal to plus your spellcasting ability modifier.
- Duration
- Instantaneous
- Target
- One creature
- Components
- V, S
- Damage
- + spellcasting ability modifier, Radiant
- Higher levels
- Healing increases by for each slot level above 1.
- Source
- Player's Handbook (2024)
- Until the spell ends, your weapon attacks deal an extra Radiant damage on a hit.
- Duration
- Concentration, up to 1 minute
- Target
- Self
- Components
- V, S
- Damage
- Radiant on a hit with a weapon attack
- Source
- Player's Handbook (2024)
- For the duration, you sense the presence of magic within 30 feet. You can take the Magic action to see a faint aura around a visible creature or object bearing magic, and learn its school, if any.
- Duration
- Concentration, up to 10 minutes
- Target
- Self; magical presences within 30 feet
- Components
- V, S, M (a sprig of mistletoe)
- Source
- Player's Handbook (2024)
- Immediately after you hit a target with a Melee weapon, deal Radiant damage to it.
- Duration
- Instantaneous
- Target
- The creature hit by the triggering weapon attack
- Components
- V
- Save or attack
- The triggering weapon attack must hit
- Damage
- Radiant
- Higher levels
- Damage increases by for each slot level above 1. The extra damage to Fiends or Undead is , rather than .
- Source
- Player's Handbook (2024)
- A willing creature you touch is immune to the Frightened condition and gains Temporary Hit Points equal to your spellcasting ability modifier at the start of each of its turns.
- Duration
- Concentration, up to 1 minute
- Target
- One willing creature
- Components
- V, S
- Higher levels
- You can target one additional creature for each slot level above 1.
- Source
- Player's Handbook (2024)
- Until the spell ends, one willing creature you touch is protected against Aberrations, Celestials, Elementals, Fey, Fiends, and Undead. Those creatures have Disadvantage on attack rolls against it, and it can't be possessed, Charmed, or Frightened by them.
- Duration
- Concentration, up to 10 minutes
- Target
- One willing creature
- Components
- V, S, M (a flask of Holy Water worth 25+ GP, which the spell consumes)
- Source
- Player's Handbook (2024)
- A shimmering field surrounds one creature of your choice within range, granting it a bonus to AC.
- Duration
- Concentration, up to 10 minutes
- Target
- One creature within range
- Components
- V, S, M (a prayer scroll)
- Source
- Player's Handbook (2024)
- Immediately after you hit a target with a Melee weapon, the target takes Thunder damage. On a failed Strength save, it is pushed 10 feet away and knocked Prone.
- Duration
- Instantaneous
- Target
- The creature hit by the triggering weapon attack
- Components
- V
- Save or attack
- The triggering weapon attack must hit; the target makes a Strength saving throw or is pushed 10 feet away and knocked Prone
- Damage
- Thunder
- Higher levels
- Damage increases by for each slot level above 1.
- Conditions
- Prone
- Source
- Player's Handbook (2024)
- Immediately after you hit a target with a Melee weapon, the target takes Psychic damage. On a failed Wisdom save, it is Frightened of you until the end of your next turn.
- Duration
- Instantaneous
- Target
- The creature hit by the triggering weapon attack
- Components
- V
- Save or attack
- The triggering weapon attack must hit; the target makes a Wisdom saving throw or is Frightened of you until the end of your next turn
- Damage
- Psychic
- Higher levels
- Damage increases by for each slot level above 1.
- Conditions
- Frightened
- Source
- Player's Handbook (2024)
In the margins
3 notes
WarningWhen the leaves turn silver, the ward is listening. When they blacken, something else is listening too.
DiaryThe stream bent around my blade tonight. I think the old wood remembers my name.
FormulaGuard first, strike second. The wild has no patience for a beautiful mistake.
The book itself
The blade is both weapon and focus, never a substitute for a spell's listed verbal or somatic components.
At level 1, the Paladin progression grants two 1st-level spell slots. This codex offers ten 1st-level options, but the swordbearer prepares only two after a Long Rest.
A shortsword can serve as this character's spellcasting focus under the provided Elemental-Sword rules.
The caster
Elemental-SwordIlyra Fen
Studies: Elemental swordplay, protective wards, and wild-land magicManner: Alert and quietly warm, with the stillness of someone who has learned to watch the wind before moving.Focus: A balanced shortsword with a riverstone pommel, used as a spellcasting focus under the Elemental-Sword's rules.Quirk: She tests the air with two fingers before drawing her sword, even indoors.Wants: Find the source of a spreading blight that is turning ancient groves against their protectors.Ilyra Fen grew up guiding travelers through storm-cut passes. After a wildfire drove her village from its valley, she learned to wield a blade while listening for the land's answer.
The book
A weatherworn field grimoire bound in green hide, with a bronze shortsword clasp and pressed leaves tucked between its pages. Its ink shifts from river-blue to ember-red near the spell diagrams.
Its wards · GM only
About the book
FormatField codex
ThemeA quick blade, a living shield, and the wild world at your command.
Written by aElemental-Sword, a custom half-caster using Paladin spell-slot progression
Caster level1
SystemDungeons & Dragons 5th Edition (2024)
Plot hooks
1A forest shrine has gone silent, and the living shield woven into the codex wilts whenever its bearer travels toward the shrine.
2The bronze clasp bears the mark of a vanished sword-circle. A rival claims the book was stolen from their oath-bound ancestors.
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