Level 1 – Quarry Knowledge & Survivalist Gear

Quarry Knowledge
You have studied the strange anatomies and elusive behaviors of magical beasts. When you make an Intelligence (Arcana) or Wisdom (Survival) check related to tracking, identifying, or recalling knowledge about magical creatures or their harvested components, you gain advantage if you are proficient in the skill.

Additionally, you can assess the magical value of harvested parts at a glance. When examining a fresh or well-preserved corpse of a magical creature, you can make a DC 10 Arcana check to identify one high-value component, or a DC 15 check to identify a full set of valuable materials. You do not need to be a thaumaturge to understand preservation, but you may still require one to extract certain unstable components.

Survivalist Gear
You begin play with specialized tools suited to your chosen hunting style. Select one of the following:

• Preservation Kit – Includes bone saws, alchemical salves, salting powders, scalpels, and padded containers used to harvest and preserve magical organs and tissues. Grants advantage on Arcana checks to preserve materials under field conditions.

• Harpoon Kit – A heavy, slow-loading weapon used to tether prey. Includes a harpoon, 30 ft. of braided rope or chain, and a spike belt to anchor the line. The harpoon deals 3d10 piercing damage on a hit and restrains the target unless they win a contested Strength (Athletics) check.

• Net Kit – Includes a weighted net (see Net rules) modified with barbs or thaumaturgic dampeners. Deals no damage, but on a hit restrains a creature until it escapes or the net is destroyed. You are proficient with nets, and your nets have +2 to their escape DC.

Regardless of your choice, you also receive a mask, desert cloak, and a utility satchel with chalk, twine, rations, and skinning tools.

Level 2 Feature: Regional Adaptation

From blistering dunes to fetid jungle, frozen peaks to storm-churned coasts—no two Mwili Wavizi face the same challenges. Every hunter adapts to survive. At 2nd level, you choose a specific region type that reflects the terrain where you’ve trained, hunted, and survived. This specialization grants bonuses when navigating or fighting in that environment.

Environmental Specialization

Choose one of the following regional environments:

• Desert
• Jungle
• Forest
• Coast
• Ocean
• Mountain
• Swamp
• Tundra
• Urban Ruins
• Underground
• Grasslands
• Otherworldly (e.g., Planar, Fey, Eldritch Realms)

This region becomes your Primary Hunting Ground.

Regional Adaptation Benefits

While in your chosen environment:

• You have advantage on Survival checks to track creatures.
• You have advantage on Nature checks to recall lore about terrain, weather patterns, hazards, and local fauna.
• Difficult terrain does not slow your group’s travel.
• You can move at normal pace while tracking, and remain alert to danger even while doing so.
• You have resistance to natural hazards specific to your chosen environment (e.g., extreme heat in deserts, fungal poison in swamps, freezing exposure in tundra).
   

Expanding Your Expertise

You may gain additional environments as your career progresses:

• At 10th level, choose a second region.
• At 17th level, choose a third.

These regions represent not just survival—but mastery. A Mwili Wavizi who has hunted across multiple regions is often referred to as a Wavizi wa Dunia Nzima—a hunter of the whole world.

Level 3 Feature: Discipline

By 3rd level, every Mwili Wavizi has earned their first major kill—or nearly died trying. In the aftermath of that crucible, they begin to take on a distinct path within the hunting trade, aligning with one of the great Disciplines that define their craft.

Choose one of the following Disciplines: (For details on each Discipline and their associated features, see the Disciplines of the Mwili Wavizi section later in this document.)

The Crimson Trail

Blood-soaked and brutal, these hunters favor overwhelming force. Whether it’s brute strength, relentless aggression, or overwhelming firepower, those who walk the Crimson Trail are often the first in and last out of a hunt. Some say they carry a death wish; others call them the bravest of all.

• Emphasizes damage output and resilience.
• Can break harpoon tethers through force alone.
• Gains bonus damage when wounded.
• Thrives when outnumbered or facing massive prey.
   

The Feathered Eye

Careful, clever, and precise—Feathered Eye hunters lay traps, watch patterns, and strike only when the odds are perfect. They rarely engage head-on, instead manipulating terrain, baiting enemies, and using their surroundings to their advantage.

• Specializes in traps and ambushes.
• Gains bonuses to net and snare mechanics.
• Can mark prey to reveal weaknesses.
• Improves team survivability through tactical support.
   

The Deep Fang

Born of coastlines and sea-salt scars, Deep Fang hunters are masters of aquatic and shoreline prey. They are unmatched in underwater tracking, spearwork, and resisting drowning magic or aquatic curses. They're often seen in crews that specialize in beast-hunting beneath the waves or in flooded ruins.

• Gains bonuses to underwater movement and combat.
• Improves resistance to aquatic hazards.
• Specialized gear options like tethered spears, diving masks.
• Eventually learns to hold breath for hours.
   

The Bonehook Way

Silent and strange, the Bonehook hunters are preservers first, killers second. They are the ritualists, the field biologists, the ones who know how to keep a creature’s power intact. They are masters of the kill after it happens—ensuring that what is taken is never wasted.

• Excels at preservation, harvesting, and extraction.
• Improves the value and power of salvaged materials.
• Gains unique Thaumaturgic interactions.
• Unlocks special uses for harvested organs, bone, and glands.

Each Discipline grants a feature at the following levels:

• 3rd Level: Initial Specialization
• 7th Level: Enhanced Feature
• 14th Level: Signature Ability
• 18th Level: Mastery Feature

Level 4 — Ability Score Improvement

At 4th level, your hunter has proven their mettle and begins to refine their skills beyond raw survival.

When you reach 4th level, you can increase one ability score of your choice by 2, or two ability scores of your choice by 1.

As normal, you can’t increase an ability score above 20 using this feature.

Level 5 — Extra Attack

Beginning at 5th level, you can attack twice, instead of once, whenever you take the Attack action on your turn.

This applies whether you’re using melee weapons, thrown weapons like harpoons, or even unarmed strikes.

Level 6 — Contaminated Edge

Your prolonged exposure to magical blood, volatile organs, and thaumaturgic decay begins to change you. Not with sudden power, but through a slow, dangerous familiarity. You’ve handled too many cursed bones, too much raw essence—and your instincts have adapted.

Thaumaturgic Affinity.
Choose one type of magical damage: fire, cold, lightning, acid, poison, necrotic, radiant, psychic, thunder, or force. You gain resistance to this damage type.

Once selected, this choice is permanent. It reflects the cumulative hardening of your body and senses over time—not an active enchantment, but a lived immunity.

Contaminated Tools.
Your gear has been coated, seeped, or scarred by your work. You may spend one hour rubbing harvested magical fluids or powders into a melee weapon, giving it a magical property until your next long rest. This weapon now counts as magical for overcoming resistance and immunity.

Level 7 — Discipline Feature

You gain a feature specific to your chosen Discipline (subclass), representing a unique advancement in your hunting philosophy, technique, or specialization.

For details on each Discipline and their associated features, see the Disciplines of the Mwili Wavizi section later in this document.

Level 8 — Ability Score Improvement

With your survival sharpened by experience, your abilities continue to grow stronger, more precise, and more instinctive.

When you reach 8th level, you can increase one ability score of your choice by 2, or two ability scores of your choice by 1.

As normal, you can’t increase an ability score above 20 using this feature.

Level 9 — Advanced Tracking

You’ve learned to read the world like a map written in claw marks and bent grass. Your understanding of your quarry's movements, feeding patterns, and territorial instincts allows you to track with terrifying accuracy.

• You gain advantage on Wisdom (Survival) checks to track creatures you have previously encountered or studied.

• You can identify the type and approximate size of any creature that passed through an area within the last 24 hours.

If tracking a magical or extraplanar creature, you can sense lingering arcane traces—granting you a +1 bonus to the roll (this bonus increases to +2 at level 15).

Level 10 — Mask Feature / Regional Adaptation

At 10th level, your bond with your hunting mask deepens, and your familiarity with the world's harsh environments sharpens into expertise.

Mask Feature: Mark of the Veteran

Your mask now represents not only survival but seasoned dominance over the hunt. Choose one of the following mask upgrades:

• Grim Visage: You gain advantage on Intimidation checks while wearing your mask.
• Focused Lenses: Once per short rest, you can ignore disadvantage on a ranged attack made in dim light, fog, sandstorm, or other obscuring weather conditions.
• Reinforced Plate: Your mask’s armor bonus increases to +2. This stacks with light or medium armor, but not with magical helmets.
   

Regional Adaptation (2nd Selection)

You gain a second Regional Adaptation, reflecting your growing versatility in hostile environments. 

Level 11 — Contaminated Edge (Resistance Tier I)

By 11th level, your prolonged exposure to magical creatures and the dangerous fluids, spores, and tissues they carry has altered you in subtle, irreversible ways. This is not studied resistance — it is contamination, tolerated through grit, instinct, and the growing hardening of your body and mind.

When you reach this level, your experience processing magical beasts grants you resistance to a second type of magical damage, chosen from the same list available at level 6:

• Fire
• Cold
• Acid
• Lightning
• Poison
• Necrotic
• Radiant
• Psychic
• Thunder
• Force

This resistance reflects your growing attunement to the hidden hazards of your quarry — a passive toughness earned through exposure, not enchantment. You cannot change this damage type once chosen.

Hunters speak of the way their skin itches when necrotic blood is near, or how their nerves flare at the hum of psychic pressure. Some say it’s a curse — others call it proof that they’ve survived.

Level 12 — Ability Score Improvement

By 12th level, your relentless experience in the wilds and your growing familiarity with magical creatures has sharpened both body and instinct.

When you reach 12th level, you can increase one ability score of your choice by 2, or two ability scores of your choice by 1.

As normal, you can’t increase an ability score above 20 using this feature.

Level 13 — Expert Dissection

By this level, you’ve harvested from hydras, dissected demons, and walked away with both hands and your sanity intact. Your skill in identifying, extracting, and preserving magical components is unparalleled.

• Harvest Bonus: You gain advantage on all checks made to identify or extract magical organs, glands, or other components during post-combat harvesting.
• Preservation Mastery: When using a preservation kit, you double the effective duration before a harvested part begins to degrade.
• Marketplace Recognition: Thaumaturges, alchemists, and researchers recognize your skill. You gain advantage on Charisma (Persuasion) checks when negotiating the sale of preserved magical components, and your wares fetch up to 25% higher prices when sold to magical institutions or specialists.

Level 14 — Discipline Feature

You gain a feature specific to your chosen Discipline (subclass), representing a unique advancement in your hunting philosophy, technique, or specialization.

For details on each Discipline and their associated features, see the Disciplines of the Mwili Wavizi section later in this document.

Level 15 — Thaumaturgic Inurement

Your prolonged exposure to magical essences has hardened your body and mind against specific supernatural forces.

Choose one of your existing damage resistances gained from Resistance Tier I. You now gain advantage on saving throws against effects associated with that damage type as well as your resistance.

For example:

• If you have resistance to fire, you gain advantage on saving throws against being burned, scorched, or incinerated by magical flame (like Fireball, Wall of Fire, or a dragon’s breath).
• If you have resistance to psychic, you gain advantage against mind-altering spells like Charm Person, Dominate Beast, or Phantasmal Killer.

This marks a turning point in your character’s resilience — not only surviving contact with magic, but enduring it with unnatural fortitude.

Level 16 — Ability Score Improvement

At 16th level, your hunter refines their natural abilities to the peak of mortal potential.

You can increase one ability score of your choice by 2, or two ability scores of your choice by 1.
As usual, you cannot raise an ability score above 20 using this feature.

Level 17 — Monster Lore Mastery

By this level, the Mwili Wavizi has encountered the worst the world can throw at them—and walked away. They've tracked living tempests, dissected shapeshifting horrors, and emerged from the wild with secrets no scholar has ever recorded.

You gain the following features:

• Perfect Recall (Monsters): You have advantage on all Intelligence (Nature) and Wisdom (Survival) checks made to identify, track, or recall traits of magical creatures you've encountered before.
• Exploit Weakness: Once per long rest, when you hit a creature with an attack, you can force it to make a Constitution saving throw (DC = 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Wisdom modifier). On a failure, the creature becomes vulnerable to the damage type of the attack until the end of your next turn.
• Field Notes: You can spend 10 minutes studying the corpse of a magical creature you’ve helped slay to glean one of its special traits, resistances, or immunities. The next time you or a party member encounters that species, you gain advantage on your first saving throw against it.

Level 18 — Discipline Feature

You gain a feature specific to your chosen Discipline (subclass), representing a unique advancement in your hunting philosophy, technique, or specialization.

For details on each Discipline and their associated features, see the Disciplines of the Mwili Wavizi section later in this document.

Level 19 — Ability Score Improvement

At 16th level, your hunter refines their natural abilities to the peak of mortal potential.

You can increase one ability score of your choice by 2, or two ability scores of your choice by 1.
As usual, you cannot raise an ability score above 20 using this feature.

Level 20 — Arcane Hardening (Legendary Resistance)

After years of exposure to volatile essences, brutal encounters, and magical corruption, your body no longer flinches in the face of supernatural power. You don’t wield magic—you’ve endured it, absorbed it, and become something that can no longer be undone by it.

You now gain immunity to the damage types to which you already have resistance through Contaminated Edge.

This is not a gift—it’s the culmination of a life spent standing toe-to-toe with the impossible. At this point, you are no longer just a hunter. You are the storm that monsters fear.

Through relentless training, your hunterhood fuses with your weapons—not just in form, but in function. You learn to wield not just steel or bone, but to utter the language of armaments, coaxing out hidden potential in each strike.

Core Mechanic (2024/2025 PHB)

Weapon Mastery

Introduced in the 2025 (2024 revision) core rules, adapted for the Mwili Wavizi

Through relentless training and exposure to the creatures of the wild, you learn not only how to strike—but how to speak the language of weapons themselves.

• Mastered Weapons: You gain the Weapon Mastery feature. Choose two weapons you are proficient with; these are your Mastered Weapons.

• Mastery Properties: Each mastered weapon grants its Mastery property (a special effect tied to that weapon). You may apply that effect whenever you make an attack with the weapon and meet its trigger condition (e.g. on hit, on miss).

• Using Mastery: There is no per-rest limit—each time the trigger condition occurs, you may apply the effect.

• Swapping Mastery: After a long rest, you may swap one or both of your Mastered Weapons for others you’re proficient with.

• Interaction with Extra Attack: Weapon Mastery does not grant additional attacks. When you gain Extra Attack (at 5th level), each of your attacks may independently trigger its weapon’s mastery effect, if eligible.

• Weapon Switching in Combat: As part of the Attack action, you may draw or stow one weapon before or after an attack. This allows you to mix mastery effects by switching weapons mid-turn (once per attack) provided the weapons are mastered or eligible.

• Sayarii Hunting Synergy: If you strike a creature you’ve previously hunted, harvested, or “marked” via your class features, you may apply the weapon’s Mastery effect even if the weapon isn’t currently mastered. You can do this a number of times per long rest equal to your Wisdom modifier (minimum 1).

Sayarii Variant: Hunting Synergy + Improved Mastery

To tie Weapon Mastery more closely to the Monster Hunter flavor, we layer in a few additions:

• Improved Hunting Mastery (11th Level Upgrade):
    • You may increase the number of mastered weapons you can have from two to three.
    • When using a mastery effect on a creature previously hunted, you may roll your weapon damage dice twice, choosing which result to apply (for the mastery effect).

Equipment

Mwili Wavizi rely on specialized tools of their trade—equipment designed not only for survival, but for making a statement. These are not standard issue items; they are deeply personal, often crafted by the hunter themselves or inherited through bloody legacy.

Harpoons

Among the most iconic weapons of the Mwili Wavizi is the harpoon—designed not for war, but for the singular purpose of taking down beasts that defy swords and arrows. Some harpoons are mounted in heavy frames; others are hand-held launchers powered by spring, crank, or black powder. All are designed for a single devastating shot. Reloading is slow, dangerous, and rarely done mid-combat.

Survivalist Gear Feature: At 1st level, a Mwili Wavizi may choose the harpoon as part of their specialized hunting gear. This includes one harpoon launcher and a reinforced tether of up to 30 feet. Additional enhancements to harpoon performance are unlocked through class or subclass features.

• Damage: 3d10 piercing (on hit)
• Range: 30/90 ft. (disadvantage beyond 30 ft.)
• Special: Requires 2 actions to load. On a hit, the harpoon embeds in the target. The target must immediately make a contested Strength (Athletics) check against the Mwili Wavizi’s Strength (Athletics) or become Harpooned.
   

While Harpooned

• The creature is tethered and cannot move more than 30 feet from the Mwili Wavizi (or the tether’s fixed point).
• At the end of each of its turns, the creature may attempt another contested Strength (Athletics) check to break free.
• On a failed check, the target remains tethered.
• On a successful check, the harpoon tears free, dealing 2d6 additional slashing damage from barbed trauma.
• Alternatively, another creature may cut or destroy the tether using a slashing weapon (AC 15, 10 HP), ending the effect without triggering the tear damage.
   

Variants

Some Mwili Wavizi experiment with custom harpoons:

• Chymical Payloads: Infused with acids or tranquilizers.
• Thaumaturgic Payloads: Capped with essence-reactive tips.
• Tripline Harpoons: Designed to entangle or disable limbs.

Note: Enhanced harpoon features—such as increased DC, longer range, damage scaling, or added effects—are granted by specific subclass features (e.g., Crimson Trail or Bonehook).

These harpoons are prized by the Mwili Wavizi for their power, utility, and terrifying psychological impact. Even a miss sends a message: you are being hunted.

Nets

No serious Mwili Wavizi ventures into the field without a net. Whether used to entangle a beast mid-charge, restrain a downed quarry, or hoist a carcass onto a sled or sand-skiff, nets are an essential tool in the hunter’s arsenal. Unlike the standard adventurer’s net, those used by the Mwili Wavizi come in a variety of sizes and materials—tailored to suit the terrain, target, and tactic.

Base Net

• Damage: None
• Range: 15 ft. normal / 30 ft. at disadvantage
• Effect:
• On a successful hit, the target is restrained until it is freed. A creature can use its action to make a DC 10 Strength check to break free or Dexterity check to slip out.
• Size Limitation: Nets cannot restrain creatures of Huge size or larger (until discipline upgrades apply).
• Break Condition: The net has AC 10 and 5 HP (vulnerable to slashing damage).

• Standard Capture Net: Reinforced rope, 5 ft. radius. Follows standard D&D net mechanics (restrains on hit, DC 10 Strength check to escape).
• Weighted Throw Net: 10 ft. radius. Thrown as an action, this net imposes disadvantage on Dexterity saving throws when attempting to escape if used in open terrain.
• Collapsible Net Trap: A rigged version triggered by proximity. Requires a successful Trap check to set (see Discipline: Trapper). Effective for securing dens, choke points, or canyon paths.
• Heavy Hauling Net: Made from braided hide and bone pins. Used to haul larger bodies and limbs across sand or snow. Not a combat tool, but essential for long expeditions.

Many Wavizi decorate their nets with painted glyphs or carved sigils, believed to offer luck or still the wrath of the creature being taken. Some Thaumaturges even claim that nets which carry the blood of fallen quarry are more effective, though no one has proven it.

Preservation Kit

A specialized toolkit carried by Mwili Wavizi for harvesting, processing, and stabilizing magical creature components in the field. Each kit includes:

• Precision bone saw
• Hooked and curved knives
• Organ jars (glass or ceramic, shock-absorbent lined)
• Salt packets, spiritwax wraps, and binding cloth
• Preservation salts, antiseptics, and arcane stabilizers
• Tools for ritual etching or feather marking (when applicable)
   

Weight: 10 lbs
Cost: 100 gp
Usage: Allows the user to attempt Preservation checks (typically Arcana or Medicine) after harvesting a magical creature. Grants advantage on such checks if the hunter is proficient in the relevant skill.

Over time, more advanced kits or upgrades may become available—such as field-distillation modules, enchanted containment jars, or blood-cooling stones.

Mwavizi Masks

Just as crucial as the harpoon is the mask. Every Mwili Wavizi crafts or commissions their own—a deeply personal creation that serves as both armor and identity. Constructed from metal, bone, wood, leather, glass, and cloth, these masks are rugged tools as well as cultural symbols. Many Sayarii children grow up crafting makeshift masks from cloth, bark, or bone chips—playing Mwili Wavizi in the alleys and corridors of their cities. To don a Mwavizi mask is to embody courage, adventure, and wild defiance. Among the Mwili Wavizi, the mask is far more than just play—it’s a badge of honor, a mark of survival, and a link to one’s hunting lineage. Each mask grants a +1 bonus to Armor Class, stacking with light or medium armor. Designed for the harsh terrain of Sayarii, they shield the face from sun, wind, and abrasive sand, and often incorporate smoked lenses or built-in goggles. Their craftsmanship is as varied as the hunters themselves—some grotesque and fearsome, others elegant and sleek; some painted in vivid dyes or monster blood, others adorned with feathers, bones, or relics from past kills. A Mwili Wavizi is rarely seen without their mask. To remove it in public is either a sign of deep trust or a declaration of vulnerability few would risk.

Harvest & Preservation Procedure

“To cut wrongly is to wake a spirit. To delay is to waste its breath.” — Mwili proverb

Overview

When a magical creature dies, its remains hold Thaumaturgic Value (TV)—the organ-bound essence prized by Thaumaturges, alchemists, and hunters alike.
The Mwili Wavizi can extract and preserve this essence for trade, crafting, or temporary infusions.
Harvesting and preservation are separate acts, but both are time-sensitive and risky.

Core Concepts

Step 1 – Harvest

The corpse must be mostly intact; ash, acid, or disintegration ruin harvest potential.
Use Survival or Medicine; DC scales with size.

Failure Results

• Fail by ≤ 5 → Partial yield (½ TV)

• Fail by 6–10 → Spoiled; DC 12 Con save or minor contamination

• Fail by ≥ 11 → Thaumic Reaction (explosion, psychic echo, or curse—DM choice)

Step 2 – Preserve

Performed with a Preservation Kit, clean workspace, and stabilizers (salts, oils, cold stones).
Roll Arcana or Medicine.

Takes 30–60 min.
Success = stable sample.
Fail = 50 % TV loss; Fail by ≥ 5 = total spoilage.

Thaumaturgic Value (TV)

Typical sale value ≈ 50–200 gp × creature CR, modified by rarity and condition.

Environmental Modifiers

Assistance & Equipment

• Up to 2 allies may assist (+2 each or Advantage).

• Thaumic scalpels, resonance clamps, or stasis vials reduce DC by 2–5.

• Mask upgrades (Filter, Lens) grant resistance to exposure or +1 to checks.

Spoilage After Storage

Each week, roll 1d20 per specimen:
1–2 Spoils | 3–5 −25 % TV | 6–20 Stable.
Cold vaults or hermetic jars may negate this check.

Exposure (Option Rule)

After ten failed or partial harvests, roll on the Contaminated Edge table: luminescent veins, new resistances, or madness marks—the hunter’s body reflects what it has taken.

DM Quick Summary

1. Check Survival/Medicine to Harvest.

2. Check Arcana/Medicine to Preserve.

3. Apply time & environment modifiers.

4. Determine TV from success.

5. Optional infusion or sale.