Path of Melancholy Danced with the Darkness

At 3rd Level, your time spent with your dark emotions

Most barbarians get their rage from a primal fury deep
has granted you an understanding and resistance to
inside of them, but not you, your rages dont come from
mental effects. While youre raging, you have advantage
a fury, but instead a deep and inescapable depression.
on intelligence, wisdom and charisma saving throws.
In a range, instead of anger, they feel deep regrets and
self hatreds.
Melancholic Barbarians are often drawn to the dark,
Despairs Paranoia
At 6th Level, your depressions grant you an almost
the despairful, it is where they find the most comfort.
paranatural ability to understand and negate the
It is hard for them, in their depressions to not hate
would-be anger of others. When you enter a rage, until
themselves, and thus around the darkness they are most
the point that you inflict any sort of damage to a target,
able to feel normal. This is what will usually lead the
anyone targeting you with an attack or damaging spell
barbarian to their adventuring life, putting themselves
must succeed a wisdom saving throw equal to 8 + your
in the places that are most hurt with the intention of
proficiency + your constitution modifier. On a failiure,
helping them.
the attack instantly misses.
They are not without levity of course, in fact, their
connections to despair will often make them to quickest
to make a joke in the light of danger, and they are some
Empathy of the Depressed
At 10th Level, your understanding of the darkness has
of the most empathetic people you can meet.
granted you some magical understanding. As an action
on your turn, you can focus your senses on a creature
Despairs Rage
you can see within 30 feet of you. You instantly learn the
At 3rd Level, your rages become fundamentally changed
targets prevailing emotion, such as love, hate, lust, pain,
as you learn to draw on your depressions. When you
fear, calm, or something else. If the creature is immune
enter a rage, you can choose to enter a Depressive
to being charmed, you can only sense it as calm.
Rage instead. This rage grants you all the benefits of
a normal rage, except you cant make attack rolls while
it is active, it lasts for 10 minutes instead of 1, and it
Contagious Dread
At 14th, your dreads are contagious to those that try and
doesnt end if havent taken damaged or attacked on your
hurt you. During your rage, when a creature misses you
turn.
with an attack roll, or you succeed on a saving throw
Additionally, while youre in a rage, you gain advantage
that a creature forced you to make, you can use your
on all skill checks that use Insight or Persuasion while
reaction to make that creature take psychic damage
talking to someone sad or depressed.
equal to half your barbarian level.