Idealized Terror

The emotion of Terror is not simply dread—it is awareness, raw and visceral, of what lurks beyond the veil of certainty. To a Willsurger who idealizes Terror, fear is not an end but a crucible, refining instinct, forcing focus, and offering clarity through sheer survival. Those who follow this Ideal wield terror not only to drive enemies into retreat or madness, but to rouse allies into preternatural readiness. In their hands, fear becomes both weapon and warning—a shared heartbeat before the storm breaks.
While others recoil from fear, the Willsurger of Idealized Terror embraces it as the most honest of emotions. The scream of a commander can steel the nerves of faltering troops. The shadow of a predator can teach the prey to run faster, strike harder. This subclass makes you the embodiment of the battlefield’s nightmare—relentless, inevitable, and all-seeing.

Terrifying Surge

3rd-Level Willsurger (Idealized Terror) Feature
When you use your Ardent Surge feature, you sharpen the target's instincts through primal fear. Until the start of your next turn, the target gains a bonus to their AC and Dexterity saving throws equal to the number of d6s rolled.

Dreadwake Aura

6th-Level Willsurger (Idealized Terror) Feature
Your Empathic Range projects your own presence like the shadow of death. Whenever a hostile creature starts its turn within your Empathic Range or enters it for the first time on a turn, it must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw or become Frightened of you until the end of its next turn. A creature that succeeds is immune to this aura for 1 hour.
While a creature is Frightened of you in this way, creatures have advantage on attacks of opportunity against it, and its jittery, fearful movements allow creatures to make attacks of opportunity against it when it leaves their threatened space even if they lack the Attack of Opportunity feat.

Face What Follows

14th-Level Willsurger (Idealized Terror) Feature
You've learned how to turn the inevitability of doom into clarity. Whenever a creature within your Empathic Range fails a saving throw against the condition, you may immediately grant one creature within your Empathic Range the effects of Ardent Surge as a reaction.
In addition, you are immune to the Frightened condition, and Frightened creatures within your Empathic Range do not benefit against you from being Invisible or hidden from you, and you always know their exact position while they are within your Empathic Range.

Living Nightmare

18th-Level Willsurger (Idealized Terror) Feature
As an action, you can become a living embodiment of dread itself for 1 minute. During this time:

• The size of your Empathic Range doubles.
• When a creature starts its turn Frightened of you within your Empathic Range, it takes psychic damage equal to your Charisma modifier.
• All creatures lose their immunity to your Dreadwake Aura, and do not gain it as a result of passing their saving throw.
• Whenever a creature that was Frightened of you within your Empathic Range drops to 0 hit points, you may grant a creature the effects of your Ardent Surge without expending a use without using your reaction. You may use this feature only once per round.
• Creatures of your choice that start their turn within your Empathic Range and are not Frightened of you gain temporary hit points equal to your Charisma modifier.