Bonded Armor
At 3rd level, your training allows you to bond to a
specific set of armour by investing it with a shard of
your soul. This process takes 24 hours in which you
must wear the armor continuously. Bonding to a set
of armor has the following benefits:
- You are no longer hamperered by any movement penalties you would incur as a direct result of wearing said armor, such as a reduced swim speed.
- You can use a bonus action to instantly don your armor, which teleports onto your body piece by piece regardless of where it was located.
- Whilst wearing your bonded armor, your speed increases by 10 feet, and you are treated as one size category larger for the purposes of calculating how far you can jump, and how much you can carry, push, drag or lift. This stacks with racial bonuses to that effect.
If your bonded armor is destroyed, you gain a level
of exhaustion which persists until you replace it with
a new set.
Animated Assistant
At 7th level, your armor gains a level of sentience.
When you remove your armor, it is treated as an
animated armor, and you have a telepathic bond
with it as long as you remain on the same plane of
existence. If you fall unconscious inside your armor, it
can act as if you had removed it, carrying your body
inside it at no penalty.
Surge Carapace
At 10th level, your armor responds to the rhythm of
battle. When you use your Action Surge, your armor
class increases by a number equal to your proficiency bonus until the end of your next turn.
Magic Resistance
At 15th level, your armor can deflect the strongest
of blows. When you are hit by an attack, before damage is rolled, you can use your reaction to ignore all
damage from that attack. You must finish a short rest
before using this ability again.
Resurgence
At 18th level, if you are killed whilst wearing your
Bonded Armor, it is not the end. Your bond to your
armor ends, and you return to life at the start of
the next round inside the armor with 1 hit point. If
your body was destroyed or so heavily damaged as
to make resurrection impossible, your armor transmutes into a new body for your soul to inhabit.
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