Aspect Codex
Mentor
Mentor is an imported aspect from the Jericha Aspect Data sheet. Its full lore and named powers can be expanded here as the canon text is added.
What This Aspect Does
Mentor defines a character's supernatural focus, training profile, resource model, and power family. This page is structured so each separate power can become its own linked entry instead of being buried inside a character sheet.
Power Links
Guidance
Touch one willing creature and choose one skill. Until the effect ends, the target adds 1d4 to the next ability check it makes using that skill.
Helpful Correction
When a willing creature you can see within range makes an ability check using a skill, add 1d4 to the roll after it is rolled but before the outcome is known.
Heroism
Touch one willing creature. Until the effect ends, the target is immune to being frightened and gains temporary hit points equal to your INT modifier at the start of each of its turns.
Tactical Advice
Choose one willing creature that can hear or see you within range. The next attack roll or saving throw it makes before the start of your next turn gains a bonus equal to 1d4.
Ancestral Communion
Invoke remembered teachers, ancestors, or prior lessons. When you use this power and at the start of each of your turns for the duration, gain Heroic Inspiration if you do not already have it.
Field Lesson
Choose one willing creature within range and one skill or tool proficiency you have. For the duration, the target adds your INT modifier to checks using that skill or tool, provided it can hear or see you.
Aid
Choose up to three creatures within range. Each target’s current and maximum hit points increase by 5 for the duration.
Enhance Ability
Touch one willing creature and choose STR, DEX, CON, INT, WIS, or CHA. For the duration, the target has advantage on ability checks using the chosen ability.
Invigorate
Choose up to three creatures within range. Each target gains 10 temporary hit points. A target loses any remaining temporary hit points from this power when the duration ends.
Correct the Stance
When a willing creature you can see within range is hit by an attack or fails a STR, DEX, or CON saving throw, add 2d4 to its AC against the attack or to the saving throw, potentially changing the outcome.
Motivational Speech
Address up to five creatures within range that can hear you. Each target gains 5 temporary hit points, has advantage on WIS saving throws, and gains advantage on its next attack roll after it is hit. The effect ends for a target when the temporary hit points are gone.
Coached Opening
Choose one creature you can see within range. The next willing ally who attacks that creature before the start of your next turn has advantage on the attack roll and adds your INT modifier to the damage roll on a hit.
Shared Expertise
Touch one willing creature and choose one skill or tool proficiency you have. For the duration, the target is proficient with that skill or tool. If the target is already proficient, it instead adds 1d4 to checks using it.
Get Up
When a willing creature you can see within range is knocked prone, frightened, charmed, or reduced to 0 hit points, it may immediately stand without spending movement, end frightened or charmed if the effect is Tier 3 or lower, or regain hit points equal to 3d8 + your INT modifier.
Battlefield Curriculum
Choose one skill, saving throw type, weapon category, or tactical lesson. Willing creatures of your choice in the emanation that can hear or see you add your INT modifier to the first relevant roll they make each round.
No One Falls Behind
When a willing creature you can see within range takes damage, reduce the damage by 4d8 + your INT modifier. If the target is below half its hit point maximum after the damage, it may move up to half its speed without provoking opportunity attacks.
Study the Enemy
Choose one creature you can see within range. For the duration, you know whether one of its ability scores, AC, current hit points, or saving throw bonuses is higher, lower, or equal to yours. Once per round, a willing ally who can hear you adds 1d6 to an attack roll or save against the target.
Rallying Lesson
Choose up to six willing creatures within range that can hear or see you. Each target gains temporary hit points equal to 4d8 + your INT modifier and may immediately end one frightened effect of Tier 4 or lower on itself.
Skill Empowerment
Touch one willing creature and choose one skill it is proficient in. For the duration, it doubles its proficiency bonus for checks using that skill unless it already benefits from doubled proficiency.
Coordinated Strike
Choose up to three willing creatures within range that can hear or see you. Each target may use its reaction to make one weapon attack or use one Tier 2 or lower power that targets one creature. Each attack or power gains a bonus to damage equal to your INT modifier.
Emergency Instruction
When a willing creature you can see within range fails a saving throw or ability check, it may reroll the d20 and add your INT modifier. It must use the new result.
Practical Demonstration
Demonstrate one Tier 3 or lower power you know that does not require a unique body, deity, pact, permanent companion, or story resource. One willing creature within range can use that power once during the duration, using your save DC and INT modifier.
Master Class
Choose one ability score, skill, saving throw, or weapon category. Willing creatures of your choice in the emanation that can hear or see you gain advantage on the chosen roll type for the duration. Once a creature benefits from this advantage three times, the effect ends for that creature.
Mentor's Dominion
Your Mentor powers can affect creatures that can see you even if they cannot hear you. Once per round when a willing creature within 60 ft. succeeds on a roll aided by one of your Mentor powers, it gains temporary hit points equal to your INT modifier.
Perfect Timing
When a willing creature you can see within range makes an attack roll, ability check, or saving throw, treat the d20 roll as a 10 if it rolled lower. If the roll was already 10 or higher, add your INT modifier instead.
Shared Recovery
Choose up to six willing creatures within range. Each target may spend one Hit Die and regain additional hit points equal to 6d8 + your INT modifier. A target with no Hit Dice remaining instead gains temporary hit points equal to your INT modifier plus your proficiency bonus.
Legendary Pep Talk
Choose up to six willing creatures within range that can hear or see you. Each target gains 30 temporary hit points, immunity to frightened while the temporary hit points remain, and advantage on the first attack roll or saving throw it makes each combat.
Teach the Impossible
Touch one willing creature and choose one Tier 4 or lower power you know that is not story-bound. The target can use that power once before the duration ends, using your save DC and INT modifier. The target must provide any required action and must be physically capable of the power’s basic form.
Tactical Network
For the duration, willing creatures of your choice in the emanation can communicate telepathically with you and each other. Once per round when one affected creature hits or succeeds on a save, another affected creature gains a 1d8 bonus to its next attack roll, ability check, or saving throw before the start of its next turn.
Turn Failure Into Lesson
When a willing creature you can see within range fails an attack roll, ability check, or saving throw, it gains Heroic Inspiration and temporary hit points equal to 7d8 + your INT modifier. If the failed roll was against a creature, the next willing ally to roll against that creature before your next turn has advantage.
Grand Strategy
Choose up to twelve willing creatures that can hear your briefing. For the duration, each target adds 1d6 to initiative rolls, cannot be surprised while conscious, and gains advantage on the first saving throw it makes during each combat.
Perfect Formation
For the duration, willing creatures of your choice in the emanation gain +2 AC while within 10 ft. of another affected creature, and once per round when one affected creature takes damage, another affected creature may use its reaction to reduce that damage by 8d8 + your INT modifier.
Greater Demonstration
Touch one willing creature and choose one Tier 6 or lower power you know that is not story-bound. The target can use that power once before the duration ends, using your save DC and INT modifier. If the power has a duration longer than 1 minute, its duration becomes 1 minute for this use.
Master's Intervention
When a willing creature you can see within range would take damage, fail a saving throw, or miss an attack, reduce the damage to 0, turn the failed save into a success, or turn the missed attack into a hit if the triggering effect is Tier 8 or lower.
Sovereign Mentor
Whenever a willing creature within 120 ft. can hear, see, or telepathically receive your instruction, it can add your INT modifier to one attack roll, ability check, or saving throw it makes each round. A creature can benefit from this passive once per round.
Rewrite the Lesson
When a willing creature you can see within range dies, drops to 0 hit points, or suffers a catastrophic failure, it instead drops to 1 hit point, succeeds on the triggering save or check, or treats the triggering attack against it as a miss. The creature also gains Heroic Inspiration.
Paragon Training
Train one willing creature in a skill, saving throw, weapon category, armor category, or tool. For the duration, the target gains proficiency in that choice. If already proficient, it gains expertise or a +2 bonus, whichever fits the choice. A creature can benefit from one Paragon Training at a time.
Command the Moment
Choose up to six willing creatures within range. Each target may immediately move up to its speed and take one of the following actions: Attack, Dash, Disengage, Dodge, Help, Hide, Search, or Use an Object. A target that attacks adds your INT modifier to one damage roll.
Archmentor
For the duration, your Mentor powers affect targets within 300 ft. that can hear, see, or telepathically receive you. Once per turn when a willing creature benefits from one of your Mentor powers, it may add 2d8 to one attack roll, ability check, saving throw, damage roll, or healing roll.
Perfect Lesson
Touch one willing creature and choose one Tier 8 or lower power, proficiency, or tactical specialty you know that is not story-bound. For the duration, the target can use that power once, or gains the chosen proficiency or specialty. Powers use your save DC and INT modifier.
No Student Lost
When a willing creature you can see or telepathically reach within range would die, fail a saving throw, be reduced to 0 hit points, or be removed from the battlefield, it instead remains at 1 hit point, succeeds on the save, or appears in an unoccupied space within 30 ft. of you. The creature gains 55 (10d10) temporary hit points.
Found a School
Establish a legendary school, doctrine, fighting style, magical discipline, or mentorship lineage. Choose up to twelve willing creatures who train with you during the hour. Each gains one permanent GM-approved lesson: a skill proficiency, tool proficiency, language, weapon proficiency, minor aspect technique, or narrative boon appropriate to your teaching. The school may carry obligations, rivals, or story consequences.