Revel of the Burning Dance

Lore Overview

“Do not follow the music. Become the place where it is going.”

The Burning Dance teaches that passion is motion. Its Revelers do not stand apart from the emotional current of an encounter; they move through it, building speed, confidence and intensity until performance and instinct become indistinguishable.

Their Crescendo is physical as much as emotional. Every turn, pivot and rush feeds the next. Resonance becomes momentum, momentum becomes pressure and pressure eventually erupts into release.

Subclass Features

Flowing Performance

3rd-Level Subclass Feature

The next step carries the next heartbeat.

Once per turn, when you expend a Resonance Die on a Technique, you may move up to 10 feet without provoking Opportunity Attacks. If you end within 5 feet of a willing creature, it may add your Charisma modifier (minimum +1) to one attack roll, ability check, or saving throw before the start of your next turn. You can grant this bonus only once per round.

Veiled Play. You or that creature may also gain 1 Arousal; choose only one willing recipient.

Unveiled Play. You and the willing creature may each reduce your own Arousal by 1. This grants no Arousal increase.

Passing Rhythm

3rd-Level Subclass Feature

Passion travels on a shared step.

Once on your turn after you move at least 20 feet using your movement, your next single-target Resonance Technique that turn may affect a second eligible creature within 15 feet of its target, subject to the Technique’s normal range and targeting requirements. Use one die result for both. This cannot add a target to a Technique already expanded by another feature. You can use this feature a number of times equal to your Proficiency Bonus per Long Rest.

Veiled Play. One willing affected creature may gain 1 Arousal while the other may reduce its Arousal by 1. Each decides independently.

Unveiled Play. One willing affected creature may transfer 1 Arousal to the other if both agree and the giver has at least 1 Arousal. If this triggers Climax, regain the Resonance Die spent on the Technique, at most once per round.

Rite of the Banked Flame

3rd-Level Subclass Feature

Steps slow until the flame can be carried safely.

Lead a 10-minute movement ritual. Choose up to your Proficiency Bonus willing participants; each gains Advantage on one Acrobatics or Performance check within the next hour. A participant can benefit once per Long Rest.

Veiled Play. Each chosen participant may reduce its Arousal by 1.

Unveiled Play. You may spend 1 Libido to restore 1 Libido to one other willing chosen participant, up to its maximum. This grants no Arousal reduction.

Escalating Tempo

6th-Level Subclass Feature

Hold the rhythm, then decide what the heat becomes.

While in Crescendo, once on each of your turns after moving at least 20 feet using your movement without reentering a space you occupied that turn, enhance the next Technique you use that turn: add your Proficiency Bonus to its Resonance Die result, or let one willing target move up to 10 feet without provoking Opportunity Attacks. This does not accumulate between turns.

Once per round while in Crescendo, when you or a willing creature within 30 feet Climaxes, you may use your Reaction after the Climax resolves to let that creature move up to half its Speed without provoking Opportunity Attacks. You cannot use this Reaction while Incapacitated.

Veiled Play. After enhancing a Technique, you may gain 1 Arousal.

Unveiled Play. When you use the Climax reaction, you may spend 1 Libido to let one other willing creature within 30 feet move 10 feet without opportunity attacks. This cost follows normal Climax resolution and grants no voluntary Arousal increase after a Technique.

Unbroken Motion

10th-Level Subclass Feature

A faltering step can become a turn.

While in Crescendo, difficult terrain costs you no extra movement, standing from Prone costs only 5 feet, and you have Advantage on checks and saves to avoid or escape Grappled or Restrained.

Once per round, when you pass within 5 feet of a willing creature during your movement, it may move up to 5 feet without provoking Opportunity Attacks. A creature cannot trigger this movement again through movement granted by this feature.

Veiled Play. The creature moved may reduce its Arousal by 1, once per Short or Long Rest.

Unveiled Play. The moving creature may transfer 1 Arousal to you if both agree, it has at least 1, and you can gain it within the normal per-turn limit. It can receive this benefit once per short or long rest; resolve Climax immediately at 6.

Rhythm Without End

14th-Level Subclass Feature

Release opens the road for everyone who hears it.

When you trigger Grand Crescendo, each willing creature affected may move up to half its Speed without provoking Opportunity Attacks. This movement does not stack with Crescendo of Motion; use either grant, not both. Choose up to your Charisma modifier affected creatures (minimum one). Each gains a temporary die equal to your Resonance Die, usable once on an attack roll, ability check, or saving throw before the end of its next turn. It cannot fuel Techniques or count as expending your class dice.

If at least two affected creatures actually move 15 feet or more through this feature, regain one expended Resonance Die, once per Grand Crescendo.

Veiled Play. After its movement, each affected creature may gain or reduce its Arousal by 1.

Unveiled Play. Once per long rest, when you regain a Resonance Die through this feature, you may also regain 1 Libido up to your maximum. This grants no Arousal adjustment.