Druids of the Circle of the Eternal Flame are keepers of the primal, cleansing force of fire. They see fire not as a force of destruction, but as a purifying and transformative energy vital for new growth. Often serving deities of fire, sun, or rebirth, these druids are a beacon of light in the darkest times.

Embers of Life

Starting at 2nd level, you can use your action to touch a dead small plant, reviving it and causing it to burst into a harmless, warm flame. You can maintain a number of these flame-lit plants equal to your Wisdom modifier. While within 10 feet of one or more of these plants, you and your allies gain temporary hit points equal to your Wisdom modifier at the start of each of your turns.

Pyrokinetic Shield

At 6th level, when you or an ally within 30 feet takes damage, you can use your reaction to summon a shield of fire around the target. The shield absorbs damage equal to your druid level + your Wisdom modifier, turning it into harmless light.

Ashes to Ashes

Starting at 10th level, whenever you deal fire damage to a creature, you can choose to turn the fire into a purifying blaze. The creature must make a Constitution saving throw against your spell save DC or be stunned until the end of its next turn as it’s momentarily consumed by cleansing fire.

Phoenix Rebirth

At 14th level, the first time you are reduced to 0 hit points but are not killed outright, you can choose to be engulfed in a fiery explosion. You revive with half of your hit points, and each creature within 20 feet must make a Dexterity saving throw against your spell save DC, taking fire damage equal to double your druid level on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one.

After you use your Phoenix Rebirth, you can’t use it again until you complete a long rest.

The Circle of the Land is made up of mystics and sages who safeguard ancient knowledge and rites through a vast oral tradition. These druids meet within sacred circles of trees or standing stones to whisper primal secrets in Druidic. The circle’s wisest members preside as the chief priests of communities that hold to the Old Faith and serve as advisors to the rulers of those folk. As a member of this circle, your magic is influenced by the land where you were initiated into the circle’s mysterious rites.

Bonus Cantrip

When you choose this circle at 2nd level, you learn one additional druid cantrip of your choice.

Natural Recovery

You can regain some of your magical energy by sitting in meditation and communing with nature. During a short rest, you choose expended spell slots to recover. The spell slots can have a combined level that is equal to or less than half your druid level (rounded up), and none of the slots can be 6th level or higher. You can’t use this feature again until you finish a long rest.

For example, when you are a 4th‑level druid, you can recover up to two levels worth of spell slots. You can recover either a 2nd‑level slot or two 1st‑level slots.

Circle Spells

Your mystical connection to the land infuses you with the ability to cast certain spells. At 3rd, 5th, 7th, and 9th level you gain access to circle spells connected to the land where you became a druid. Choose that land—arctic, coast, desert, forest, grassland, mountain, or swamp—and consult the associated list of spells.

Once you gain access to a circle spell, you always have it prepared, and it doesn’t count against the number of spells you can prepare each day. If you gain access to a spell that doesn’t appear on the druid spell list, the spell is nonetheless a druid spell for you.

Arctic Spells

Coast Spells

Desert Spells

Forest Spells

Grassland Spells

Mountain Spells

Swamp Spells

Land’s Stride

Moving through nonmagical difficult terrain costs you no extra movement. You can also pass through nonmagical plants without being slowed by them and without taking damage from them if they have thorns, spines, or a similar hazard.

In addition, you have advantage on saving throws against plants that are magically created or manipulated to impede movement, such those created by the entangle spell.

Nature’s Ward

When you reach 10th level, you can’t be charmed or frightened by elementals or fey, and you are immune to poison and disease.

Nature’s Sanctuary

Creatures of the natural world sense your connection to nature and become hesitant to attack you. When a beast or plant creature attacks you, that creature must make a Wisdom saving throw against your druid spell save DC. On a failed save, the creature must choose a different target, or the attack automatically misses. On a successful save, the creature is immune to this effect for 24 hours.

The creature is aware of this effect before it makes its attack against you.

Druids of the Circle of the Mirage master the art of illusion and environmental manipulation. By altering the perception of reality, they can create deceptive landscapes and phantasmal creatures, bending the boundary between what is real and what is imagined. These druids often serve deities of trickery, illusion, or nature, and they see illusion as another natural force, like wind or water.

Phantasmal Wilds

Starting at 2nd level, you can use your action to create a minor illusionary effect within a 30-foot radius around you. This could be anything from making small plants appear to shifting the terrain slightly. These illusions last for 1 minute and can be seen through with a successful Wisdom (Insight) check against your spell save DC.

Mirage Step

At 6th level, whenever an attack targets you and misses, you can use your reaction to teleport up to 30 feet to an unoccupied space that you can see. You can use this feature a number of times equal to your Wisdom modifier (minimum of once), and you regain all expended uses after a long rest.

Unsettling Terrain

Starting at 10th level, you can use your action to transform a 20-foot-radius area within 60 feet into difficult terrain for your enemies. You can choose to make it look like a bog, a tangle of roots, or some other natural hazard. This illusion lasts for 1 minute and requires concentration as if it were a spell.

Master of Illusion

At 14th level, your illusions become nearly indistinguishable from reality. When you cast a spell from your Circle Spells list, it requires an Investigation check against your spell save DC to see through it, rather than a Wisdom (Insight) check. Additionally, any attacks or abilities that originate from your illusions are treated as real, dealing psychic damage equivalent to the expected damage type.