The Verdigris Codex: Chronicles of the Jade Breath
A collection of acidic incantations and forest manipulations transcribed onto cured wyrm-hide.
Spellbook · Draconic Sorcerer · Level 4
The Verdigris Codex: Chronicles of the Jade Breath
A collection of acidic incantations and forest manipulations transcribed onto cured wyrm-hide.
Ex librisVoraun the Toxin-TouchedDraconic Bloodline
At a glance
Level
4
Draconic Sorcerer
Spells
10
4 cantrips, 3 signature
Spell slots
1st level
2nd level
At the table
A margin note
Plot hook
Spells
10 spellsCantrips
4- You hurl a bubble of acid at one or two targets.
- Duration
- Instantaneous
- Target
- One creature or two creatures within 5 feet of each other
- Components
- V, S
- Save or attack
- Dexterity Save
- Damage
- acid
- Higher levels
- Damage increases to at 5th level.
- Source
- Player's Handbook
- You extend your hand and puff a noxious gas at a nearby foe.
- Duration
- Instantaneous
- Target
- One creature
- Components
- V, S
- Save or attack
- Constitution Save
- Damage
- poison
- Higher levels
- Damage increases to at 5th level.
- Source
- Player's Handbook
- You create a line of wind that pushes a creature 5 feet or moves a light object.
- Duration
- Instantaneous
- Target
- One creature or object
- Components
- V, S
- Save or attack
- Strength Save
- Higher levels
- No level scaling.
- Source
- Xanathar's Guide to Everything
- You manipulate loose earth to excavate it, change its color, or create difficult terrain.
- Duration
- Instantaneous or 1 hour
- Target
- 5-foot cube of loose earth
- Components
- S
- Higher levels
- No level scaling.
- Source
- Xanathar's Guide to Everything
1st level
4- You gain resistance to the incoming energy type and store it for your next melee attack.
- Duration
- 1 round
- Target
- Self
- Components
- S
- Damage
- Higher levels
- Damage increases by for each slot above 1st.
- Source
- Xanathar's Guide to Everything
- A greenish beam of energy strikes a target, dealing poison damage and potentially sickening them until your next turn.
- Duration
- Instantaneous
- Target
- One creature
- Components
- V, S
- Save or attack
- Ranged Spell Attack / Constitution Save
- Damage
- poison
- Higher levels
- Damage increases by for each slot above 1st.
- Conditions
- poisoned
- Source
- Player's Handbook
- You create a heavily obscured area of fog.
- Duration
- Concentration, up to 1 hour
- Target
- 20-foot radius sphere
- Components
- V, S
- Higher levels
- Radius increases by 20 feet for each slot above 1st.
- Source
- Player's Handbook
- The ground quakes, damaging and knocking nearby creatures prone while creating difficult terrain.
- Duration
- Instantaneous
- Target
- All creatures in range
- Components
- V, S
- Save or attack
- Dexterity Save
- Damage
- bludgeoning
- Higher levels
- Damage increases by for each slot above 1st.
- Conditions
- prone
- Source
- Xanathar's Guide to Everything
2nd level
2- The target can use an action to exhale a 15-foot cone of elemental energy (choose poison).
- Duration
- Concentration, up to 1 minute
- Target
- One willing creature
- Components
- V, S, M (a hot pepper)
- Save or attack
- Dexterity Save
- Damage
- poison
- Higher levels
- Damage increases by for each slot above 2nd.
- Source
- Xanathar's Guide to Everything
- You summon a small whirlwind that can move and batter creatures with debris.
- Duration
- Concentration, up to 1 minute
- Target
- 5-foot cube
- Components
- V, S, M (a pinch of dust)
- Save or attack
- Strength Save
- Damage
- bludgeoning
- Higher levels
- Damage increases by for each slot above 2nd.
- Source
- Xanathar's Guide to Everything
In the margins
4 notes
WarningNever exhale fully when the reagent is active or you will blister your own lips.
DiagramA drawing of a human lung turning into a porous sponge-like structure.
FormulaEqual parts hemlock and sulfur make the mist cling to the skin much better.
DiaryThe Master says the forest is not our home, it is our larder.
The book itself
The text is written in Draconic shorthand with notes on leaf patterns.
The vellum changes color to a darker brown when blood is spilled nearby.
The book is heavy and feels warm when it is in direct sunlight.
The caster
Draconic BloodlineVoraun the Toxin-Touched
Studies: Venom and ErosionManner: Voraun is predatory and soft-spoken, watching others with a gaze that never seems to blink.Focus: A jagged emerald set into a silver dragon-talon.Quirk: He constantly wipes his hands with a cloth as if cleaning off invisible ichor.Wants: To refine a poison potent enough to put a dragon into a permanent slumber.Once a servant to an ancient green dragon, Voraun fled with a fragment of the hoard and a spark of the wyrm's own power.
The book
Bound in overlapping forest-green scales with a spine of petrified oak. The pages are thick vellum that smell faintly of chlorine and wet pine needles.
Its wards · GM only
About the book
Formatscale-bound codex
ThemeGreen Draconic Elementalism
Written by aDraconic Sorcerer
Caster level4
SystemDungeons & Dragons 5e
Plot hooks
1A rival cult of the Blue Dragon has stolen the first volume of this codex and is trying to reverse the toxicity.
2Voraun's emerald focus has begun to glow with an eerie light, and he will pay handsomely for someone to take the book into the Deep Forest to commune with a spirit.
3An alchemist accidentally ingested a page of the codex and is now slowly turning into a plant, needing an antidote described on the hidden back cover.
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