Bonus Proficiencies
While bound to Dyogena, you gain proficiency with shields, as well as with battleaxes, longswords, spears, tridents, and warhammers.
Legion Tactics
While you are wielding a shield in one hand and a versatile weapon in the other, you can use the
weapon’s two-handed damage die.
Coup de Grâce
When you take the Attack action on your turn, you can use your bonus action to make one additional melee weapon attack. On a hit, this attack deals extra damage equal to your binder level. Once you use this feature, you can’t use it again until you finish a short or long rest.
Trait: Bloodstained
You are stained with the blood of saints, which never washes off. Immediately after you take damage from a melee attack, you can use your reaction to gain 5 temporary hit points, which last until the end of your next turn. The amount of the temporary hit points you gain increases by 5 for each vestige other than Dyogena you have bound.
A trained warrior of a bygone empire, Dyogena grants her binders skill with sword, shield, and spear.
Legend
Thousands of years ago, a great empire spanned the continents, unifying its many territories under an unshakable banner. Oracles spoke of the empire’s demise at the hands of a wrathful prophet, an instrument of the gods’ disdain for the wicked regime. In response, the paranoid emperor ordered his
governors to execute all holy men that did not swear fealty to him alone. Thousands of priests were slain, and the gods themselves wept at the bloodbath.
Dyogena was one of a legion of soldiers ordered to carry out the massacre. However, when she was to
impale and disembowel the martyr Nezare, her heart softened, and she instead thrust her spear into his heart, mercifully sparing him of all suffering.
Historians, however, recall a different story. They paint Dyogena as a cruel warden that tormented Nezare
for weeks before his inevitable demise. They even misremember her gender, portraying her as a male
soldier. As such, Dyogena’s vestige is an effigy of her sins: a twisted creature in soldier’s armor divided down the middle, with a noble celestial woman on the left and a diabolic male fiend on the right.
Flaw
While bound to this vestige, you gain the following flaw: “I always feel irreconcilable guilt when I must take a life.”
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