The Black Sheep

Born the seventh son of a disgraced noble house, The Black Sheep was surrendered to the militant Order of the Eternal Flame as penance for his family's heretical sympathies, marking him as cursed from birth. Desperate to prove his faith and purge the stain upon his bloodline, he became the Order's most zealous instrument of divine judgment, leading crusades across foreign lands with such brutal efficiency that enemy commanders spoke his name in whispered terror and his own brothers began calling him a monster wearing a holy mask. During a catastrophic ambush in the Levantine wastes, he discovered the bracers—ancient artifacts of unknown origin—fused to his wrists by dying sorcerer, and realized with horrified wonder that they did not merely protect him but imprisoned his very suffering within their cursed metal, freezing his body in perpetual stasis as the years passed and his comrades aged into dust. The Order deemed him an abomination when he returned unchanged after decades of war, ordering his execution as a demon-touched heretic, yet none could kill what had become an immortal vessel of contained anguish. Exiled and alone, The Black Sheep understood the terrible bargain he had made—freedom from death but slavery to an eternity of escalating torment locked within iron, knowing that any attempt to remove the bracers would unleash a catastrophic cascade of all accumulated pain and obliterate him instantly. He wanders now as a hollow instrument of violence, compelled to seek ever-greater conflicts and suffering to fill the infinite void within his cursed armor, a man-shaped monument to the price of faith twisted into fanaticism.

Strength

20, modifier +5

Dexterity

14, modifier +2

Constitution

20, modifier +5

Intelligence

10, modifier +0

Wisdom

16, modifier +3

Charisma

8, modifier -1

Holy Smite

Make a melee weapon attack. On a hit, deal 2d10 + 5 radiant damage and blind the target until the end of its next turn.

Crusader's Fury

Make two melee attacks. Each hit deals 1d12 + 5 slashing damage. If both hit, the target must succeed on a DC 18 Wisdom saving throw or be frightened until the end of its next turn.

Reflective Agony

As a reaction, reflect 1d10 + 5 damage back to the attacker when hit by an attack. This damage type matches the original attack.

Zealot's Charge

Dash up to double your speed. If you end your turn within 5 ft. of an enemy, make a melee attack that deals an additional 2d6 damage.

Endless Torment

Once per long rest, unleash all stored damage from the bracers in a 30 ft. radius. Each creature must make a DC 20 Constitution saving throw, taking 10d10 necrotic damage on a failed save, or half as much on a success.

Cursed Bracers

Absorbs all incoming damage, storing it within the bracers.

strength

+10

dexterity

+7

constitution

+10

wisdom

+8

Psychic

Necrotic