Abjuration — Sagor från Valoris

The Abjurer studies the magic of protection, banishment, and negation — the disciplined art of stopping things rather than starting them. Wards, barriers, dispellings, and counterspells are their trade, and they pursue them with the patience of someone who has decided that the surest victory is the blow that never lands. To an Abjurer, a shield perfectly placed is more elegant than any fireball, and a spell unmade in the casting is the finest work of all.

It is the most durable and defensive of the wizard schools, and the steadiest hand in a crisis. An Abjurer wraps themselves in a self-renewing arcane ward that soaks up harm and refills with every protective spell they cast, extends that shelter to allies across the field, and grows almost impossible to touch with magic at all. Where other wizards gamble their fragile bodies on winning fast, the Abjurer simply refuses to break — and outlasts.

Tradition Features

Wizard Level	Feature
3rd	Abjuration Savant, Arcane Ward
6th	Projected Ward
10th	Spell Breaker
14th	Spell Resistance

3rd Level

Abjuration Savant

Your specialty comes cheap and comes fast. Add two Abjuration spells (each level 2 or lower) to your spellbook for free, and whenever you reach a new tier of spell slots, you can scribe another Abjuration spell for free — building a library of wards and negations faster and more cheaply than any generalist ever could.

3rd Level

Arcane Ward

You wrap yourself in living protection. When you cast an Abjuration spell with a slot, you raise a ward with a Hit Point maximum of twice your Wizard level + your Intelligence modifier that takes your damage in your place. Every Abjuration spell you cast thereafter refills the ward by twice the slot's level — a shield you recharge simply by doing what you already do best.

6th Level

Projected Ward

Your shelter reaches beyond yourself. When a creature you can see within 30 feet takes damage, you can take a Reaction to have your Arcane Ward absorb it instead — throwing your own protection over an ally at range. If the ward runs out, the creature takes only whatever damage remains.

10th Level

Spell Breaker

You become a bane of other casters. You always have Counterspell and Dispel Magic prepared, and you can cast Dispel Magic as a Bonus Action. Better still, when you cast either with a slot and it fails to stop its target, the slot isn't expended — so trying to shut down enemy magic costs you nothing when it doesn't work.

14th Level

Spell Resistance

You become deeply, almost contemptuously proof against magic. You have Advantage on saving throws against spells, and Resistance to the damage that spells deal — the fireballs and lightning bolts that end other wizards merely inconveniencing you, exactly as your whole life's study intended.