Archivist's Codex

The Archivist's Codex is a collection of new character options inspired by the Archive, a library in which the Archivists do not collect books, but rather have interred fallen heroes, scholars, mages, and leaders in the hopes of best preserving the knowledge they possessed in life. Powerful necromancers and practitioners of magic that effects the liminal spaces between life and death, the Archive is the home to many who have mastered a variety of necromantic arts to collect, commune with, and guard the spirits of the dead.

Four new subclasses each incorporate a unique role in shepherding the dead. The Archive Domain Cleric uses a reliquary to collect and store souls to learn what they knew in life, while the Medium Sorcerer speaks with, and walk among, the souls of the dead, together these two serve as the primary vessels to commune with the souls of the departed. To collect these bodies the Archive will send Pale Keeper Monk animates the bodies of the dead and fights along side them, while the Spiritwalker Druid enters a trance to conjures the souls back from beyond the veil to protect these Archives.

Inspired by the duties of the Archive, you will also find the new Archivist background dedicated to the cataloguing the heads of the fallen to preserve their knowledge. A new item that contains wisdom of the spirits called a Record of the Dead. Two talents called the Apostle of Death that has gained mastery over death and is very difficult to kill and the Spare the Dying Adept that is particularly gifted at keeping people from crossing the threshold of death. Finally, you will find 6 new spells ranging from the 1st circle Vital conduit to the 5th circle Echoing Reliquary.