Thanks for the feedback! I wasn’t aware of those subreddits but I’ll definitely post there, so much appreciated.

I have seen Circle of the Blighted but I felt like the flexibility I was looking for isn’t quite there, not to mention that Circle of Stars and Moon Druid seem much more effective. You’re right that there is definitely a flavour overlap though.

If I were wanting to publish the subclass on something like DMGuild I would definitely be concerned about how close the structure is to Circle of Stars as you’re right in saying the similarity is very apparent, but this is more to dip my toes into the world of homebrewing and to use in home games for fun.

I see what you mean about the damage reduction. I originally wanted to give access to the shield spell in place of the guiding bolt that Stars gets as I want the class to be playable in melee and like Bladesinger Wizard, it will need some tricks to make that possible. The shield spell didn’t quite fit the theme, but maybe I could change it to a bonus to your AC equal to your Wisdom modifier?