Heretic's Codex

Heretics are those who go where others fear to tread: exploring forbidden magics, worshiping taboo gods, or turning their back on the conventional pantheon all together and spreading heretical doctrine that calls for the destruction of the gods or worship of an idol. Heretic is not a phrase many choose for themselves, but is rather something they are branded with by those who work against them, a way of labeling their actions and the masters they serve as evil.

All sorts of heretics exist, from the apostate flamekeeper sharing seizing divine flames for themselves rather than worshiping gods they scorn, to idolatrous half-divine mage's who believe that they themselves should be worshiped as gods. Some are marked as heretics for simply espousing beliefs that others fear, prophets of dark tidings whose warnings are branded as heretical rather than heeded; while others worship dark, fledgling gods who the followers of more established pantheons wish to smother in the cradle before they have a chance to establish themselves.

This codex presents the collected knowledge many such heretics, forbidden from seeing the light of day but preserved for those daring enough to crack its seal witness the dark magicks within.

Heretic Subclasses

In this section, you will find four new subclasses, each with their own unique flavor of heresy. The prophetic Apocalypse Warlock whose patron has given them visions of the end-to-come, the divinely-empowered Idol Sorcerer who is either a god's gift to man or a new god themselves, the secretive Occult Domain Cleric who worships a dark master, and the promethean Flamekeeper Paladin who has turned their back on their oath and the divine and stolen a Flame of divinity for themselves.

Heretical Items

In this section, you will find four items stolen from the holy vaults of a sacred order meant to keep such powerful and dark magicks from ever resurfacing.