Inspired by the themes of World of Warcraft’s Death Knight and the 5E Paladin, Mythic Manuscripts’ Death Knight is the dark mirror of the Paladin. Rather than the divine power and righteousness, the Death Knight fights using unholy energies. Rather than supporting their allies with powerful auras, the Death Knight grinds their foes down with horrific auras. This class book provides you with the ability to play both a servant of evil and the anti-hero who fights evil with evil. Summon the undead, steal the lifeforce of your enemies, or freeze their bodies to better smash them to pieces, all are options available to a Death Knight.
This class includes three subclasses, the Path of the Unholy, the Path of Frost, and the Path of Blood. Each subclass is based on the themes presented by World of Warcraft’s classes though altered to be in line with Dungeons and Dragons mechanics. Nothing presented in this class will make you learn a new mechanic or alter the basics of how 5e plays. If you’ve played a Paladin in 5e before, you should be able to pick up this class and run with it after a short perusal of the features. In essence, this is our Anti-Paladin, an inverse of what the Paladin represents both thematically and mechanically.
- from the publisher's blurb