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==Skaati :: Dvergr Hexblade==
 
==Skaati :: Dvergr Hexblade==
:''"The words of the gods became people. What then shall our words become?"''
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:''"The words of the gods became people. What then shall '''our''' words become?"''
[[File:Skaatifinal0002.png|300px]]
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==Base Matrix==
 
==Base Matrix==
 
'''Warlock''' (Hexblade) L5 | '''Alignment''' LN
 
'''Warlock''' (Hexblade) L5 | '''Alignment''' LN
  
'''AC''' 15 | '''HP''' 43 | '''Initiative''' +2 | '''Proficiency''' +3 | '''Size''' M | '''Speed''' 25 | '''Devil Sight''' 120'
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'''AC''' 15 | '''HP''' 43 | '''Initiative''' +2 | '''Proficiency''' +3 | '''Size''' M | '''Speed''' 25 | '''Devil's Sight''' 120'
  
 
==Abilities/Saves==
 
==Abilities/Saves==
'''STR''' 10 / '''+0''' / Save (+0) || '''DEX''' 14 / '''+2''' / Save (+2) || '''CON''' 16 / '''+3''' / Save (+3) || '''INT''' 8 / '''-1''' / Save (-1) || '''WIS''' 10 / '''+0''' / Save (+2) || '''CHA''' 18 / '''+4''' / Save (+7)
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'''STR''' 10 / '''+0''' / Save (+0) || '''DEX''' 14 / '''+2''' / Save (+2) || '''CON''' 16 / '''+3''' / Save (+3) || '''INT''' 8 / '''-1''' / Save (-1) || '''WIS''' 11 / '''+0''' / Save (+2) || '''CHA''' 18 / '''+4''' / Save (+7)
  
 
==Combat==
 
==Combat==
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==Magic==
 
==Magic==
'''Sp Att:''' +7 | '''Sp DC:''' 15 | '''Spell Slots:''' 2/L3
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'''Sp Att:''' +7 | '''Sp DC:''' 15 | '''Spell Slots:''' 2/L3  
  
==Feats/Features==
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'''Boon:''' Pact of the Blade '''| Patron:''' The All Seeing Dark (Hexblade)
'''Telepathic:''' 60'/LOS/Creature must know your language to understand.
 
:: '''Detect Thoughts:''' Once per Long Rest
 
  
'''Deft Explorer:''' Canny | '''Favorite Enemy:'''  Orcs/Goblins
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'''Cantrips:''' Eldritch Blast 2x1d10 Force | Green Flame Blade wp+1d8/1d8+3 Fire | Prestidigitation
  
'''Note:''' The feat is from Tasha's [p81]. The character sheet version is written in shorthand, but I am aware of the limitations described in the full text.
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'''L1:''' Witchbolt 3d12 | Comprehend Languages | Inflict Wounds 3d10 (1/LR no slot)
  
'''Note:''' Most of my class and race features (ability bonuses, languages, etc) are wherever they make most sense on the character sheet, and they pretty much all come from the PHB except that I would rather use '''Deft Explorer''' [Tasha's p56] in place of the original '''Natural Explorer''' [PHB p91], but I'd like to ''keep'' the original '''Favored Enemy''' feature from the PHB rather than '''Favored Foe''' from Tasha's - if that's ok.
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'''L2:''' Darkness | Misty Step |Shatter | Spider Climb | Invisibility (1/LR no slot)
  
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'''L3:''' -
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'''Incantations:''' Armor of Shadows | Devil's Sight | Thirsting Blade | Gift of the Depths
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==Feats==
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'''Eldritch Adept | Shadow Touched'''
  
 
==Skills/Tools/Tongues==
 
==Skills/Tools/Tongues==
'''Str >>''' '''Athletics''' [+4]
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'''Str >>''' Athletics [+0]
  
'''Dex >>''' Acrobatics [+2] | Sleight of Hand [+2] | '''Stealth''' [+4]
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'''Dex >>''' Acrobatics [+2] | Sleight of Hand [+2] | Stealth [+2]
  
'''Int >>''' Arcana [+1] | History [+1] | '''Investigation''' [+3/ <u>'''P'''13</u>] | Nature [+1] | Religion [+3]  
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'''Int >>''' Arcana [-1] | History [-1] | Investigation [-1] | Nature [-1] | Religion [-3]  
  
'''Wis >>''' Animal Handling [+2] | '''Insight''' [+4] | Medicine [+2] | '''Perception''' [+6/ <u>'''P'''16</u>] | Survival [+2]  
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'''Wis >>''' Animal Handling [+0] | '''Insight''' [+3] | Medicine [+0] | Perception [+0] | Survival [+0]  
  
'''Cha >>''' '''Deception''' [+3] | '''Intimidation''' [+3] | Performance [+1] | Persuasion [+1]
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'''Cha >>''' '''Deception''' [+7] | '''Intimidation''' [+7] | Performance [+4] | '''Persuasion''' [+7]
 
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'''Gaming Set:''' Dice | '''Tools:''' Cartographer
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'''Tools:''' Smith
 
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'''Spoken/Written Languages:''' Common | Dwarvish | Elvish | Gnomish | Goblin | Halfling | Orcish
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'''Spoken/Written Languages:''' Common | Dwarven | Giantish
 
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'''Note:''' The '''Bolded Skills''' are proficient skills. Athletics and Intimidation are from the Soldier Background [PHB 140]. Insight, Investigation, and Perception are from the Ranger Class Skills [PHB p90], but Perception gets double proficiency per ''Canny'' under Deft Explorer [Tasha's p56]. Deception and Stealth are player picks per half elf Racial Features [PHB p39]
 
 
'''Note:''' Because of his specific specialty/role as a Scout (Soldier Background) I swapped out Tool: Land Vehicles for Tool: Cartographer's Tools (mapmaking) if you're ok with that.
 
 
'''Note:''' I got aggressive with the languages for this character concept. Common, Dwarf, and Elf are all half elf features [PHB p39]. Gnomish and Halfling are from ''Canny'' under Deft Explorer [Tasha's p 56]. And finally, Goblin and Orc are from Favored Enemy [PHB p91]. I'm guessing these will likely see very little in the way of practical use, but they're part of my headcannon tying his feat into his background (below).
 
 
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==Wealth/Equipment==
 
==Wealth/Equipment==
Battleaxe (carried) | Hand Axe (belt) | Dagger (belt) | Scale Armor (worn) | Wooden Shield (carried) | Explorer's Pack (bedroll, mess kit, tinder box, torches [10], rations [10d], waterskin, 50' hempen rope, spare clothes) | Iron Sergeant's Bars (worn) | Burnt and Torn War Flag of the Ur'Kai'Na clan (Orc) who slew Yancy's captain in his tent in the night (bottom of pack) | Bone Dice (pouch) | '''23 gp''' (pouch)
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Longsword (belt) | Dagger (belt) | Explorer's Pack (bedroll, mess kit, tinder box, torches [10], rations [10d], waterskin, 50' hempen rope, spare clothes) | Smith tools (pack) | Potion of Healing 2d4+2 [8] (pouch) '''|| 102 gp''' (pouch)
  
'''Note:''' I used standard gear by class [PHB p90-91] but found the choices heavily presumed Archer/Dual Wield Ranger builds, which my character is neither. So I sold the 2 short swords, the longbow, and the 20 arrows back to the house at half their listed value [45g] and used those funds (plus the 10g from background) to procure a battleaxe, a hand axe, a dagger, and a shield. The rest of the list came from class or background with 23g left over. Armor, weapon, and ammo values PHB [p145-150].
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==Background==
 
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'''Dvergren Craftsman''' || '''Specialty:''' Smith/Metalworker || '''Rank:''' Master
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==Background==
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:<u>'''Feature:''' Dvergr Reputation</u>
'''SOLDIER''' || '''Specialty:''' Scout | '''Feature:''' Military Rank [Sergeant]
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:As a Dvergr Craftsman, you may stamp your own work as certified crafted by an artisan of your rank (Apprentice/Journeyman/Master) without the presence of a higher ranked craftsman. At need, you may generally assume access to tools and workspace from any race's Craftsman on the weight of the professional respect they hold for artisans of your kind.
 
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:'''Trait:''' I'm not just a bastard by birth and inclination. I've had professional training.
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:'''Trait:''' I'd rather work for farmers than kings.
 
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:'''Ideal:''' Fight for what's important. Let the rest take care of itself.
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:'''Ideal:''' It doesn't matter that the pay is shite. Do good work anyway.
 
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:'''Bond:''' I am the eyes that see, the ears that hear, the voice that speaks.
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:'''Bond:''' I fight for what's important. The rest can take care of itself.
 
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:'''Flaw:''' I don't particularly like killing . . . but the lure of its wisdom is pervasive.
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:'''Flaw:''' I'd rather work for farmers than kings.
 
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===Backstory===  
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===Backstory===
:My mother is an elf, old by human standards, but still in her prime as her people count such things. She lies and tells me my father was a human soldier - a captain - who perished in a war on the border, and I let her believe I believe her, because I am a good son.
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Skaati was a metalsmith of some skill, and he never intended to be anything more, until the day the tall, armorless stranger entered his forge with a broken longsword and a sack of coin worth twice its weight if Skaati could make it whole again.
  
:But my hair grows wild and paints the sky like fire in a way that no human's would, and my beard writhes earthward as if it longs to find and feel bedrock no mater how I trim it.
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Skaati took the job and set to work by the dark of night, such was the stranger's urgency, and that was the night he was approached by the All Seeing Dark.
  
:My eyes are black as a vein of iron before it's been mined.
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It's voice whispered through the flame with every push of the bellows, rang in his skull every time the hammer fell, hissed dark secrets as heat and steel found voice in the tempering oil.
  
:I joined the army as a scout as much to escape my mother's lies as to honor them, but despite my prominent elvish ears - the one feature I inherited from her - none of my fellow soldiers ever saw me as a half elf. To them I was the ''halfdwarven''.
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The stranger never returned for the blade, and Skaati bears it to this day. He still smiths, but he also fights. Wielding the great blade that sometimes lashed out with green fire, wearing no armor after the fighting style of the berserker, Skaati finds ways to stand against the Black Winter.
  
:Not to my face. I was respected in the ranks. Yancy or Blue to my peers and superiors. Sergeant to those beneath me in rank.
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Following the Stone Wolves as their smith gave him opportunities to do that. It was there he met and befriended Hrókr and Grimnar - and survived with them that fateful day it all went to shite.
 
 
:My life as a soldier is over, but I learned much during my time as a scout. Not just that I am a good tracker, but that I am good with people, learning their languages and customs like one born among them - even those I would as soon bury my axes in as look at.
 
 
 
:See, I can see into their minds. I saw into my mother's mind. I know my father's name. I know why she lies about him. I know . . . well, maybe I don't know ''that'', precisely, but I know what I ''intend''. . . should the day ever come.
 
 
 
'''Note:''' The halfdwarven thing is narrative flavor with no mechanical weight. Yancy is statted out as a Half Elf (but using the Ability Score Increase option from Tasha's [p7] to swap Charisma for Strength as his primary (+2) ability as mentioned above).
 
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==Appearance==
 
'''Race:''' Half Elf | '''Gender:''' M | '''Age:''' 58 | '''Height:''' 5'10" | '''Weight:''' 180 | '''Build:''' Stocky | '''Skin:''' Tan/Weathered | '''Hair:''' Flame Red/Long/Full Beard (no moustache) | '''Eyes:''' Black
 
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Latest revision as of 10:28, 24 December 2023

Skaati :: Dvergr Hexblade[edit]

"The words of the gods became people. What then shall our words become?"

Skaatifinal0002.png

Base Matrix[edit]

Warlock (Hexblade) L5 | Alignment LN

AC 15 | HP 43 | Initiative +2 | Proficiency +3 | Size M | Speed 25 | Devil's Sight 120'

Abilities/Saves[edit]

STR 10 / +0 / Save (+0) || DEX 14 / +2 / Save (+2) || CON 16 / +3 / Save (+3) || INT 8 / -1 / Save (-1) || WIS 11 / +0 / Save (+2) || CHA 18 / +4 / Save (+7)

Combat[edit]

Armor Proficiencies: Light Armor, Medium Armor, Shield

Armor of Shadows [AC 15]

Weapon Proficiencies: All Martial, All Simple

Weapons Carried:

Longsword: +7 [to hit] | 1d8+4 [damage] | Versatile (1d10)
Dagger: +5 [to hit melee/thrown] | 1d4+2 [damage melee/thrown] | Finesse/Light/Thrown [20/60]

Magic[edit]

Sp Att: +7 | Sp DC: 15 | Spell Slots: 2/L3

Boon: Pact of the Blade | Patron: The All Seeing Dark (Hexblade)

Cantrips: Eldritch Blast 2x1d10 Force | Green Flame Blade wp+1d8/1d8+3 Fire | Prestidigitation

L1: Witchbolt 3d12 | Comprehend Languages | Inflict Wounds 3d10 (1/LR no slot)

L2: Darkness | Misty Step |Shatter | Spider Climb | Invisibility (1/LR no slot)

L3: -

Incantations: Armor of Shadows | Devil's Sight | Thirsting Blade | Gift of the Depths

Feats[edit]

Eldritch Adept | Shadow Touched

Skills/Tools/Tongues[edit]

Str >> Athletics [+0]

Dex >> Acrobatics [+2] | Sleight of Hand [+2] | Stealth [+2]

Int >> Arcana [-1] | History [-1] | Investigation [-1] | Nature [-1] | Religion [-3]

Wis >> Animal Handling [+0] | Insight [+3] | Medicine [+0] | Perception [+0] | Survival [+0]

Cha >> Deception [+7] | Intimidation [+7] | Performance [+4] | Persuasion [+7]


Tools: Smith


Spoken/Written Languages: Common | Dwarven | Giantish


Wealth/Equipment[edit]

Longsword (belt) | Dagger (belt) | Explorer's Pack (bedroll, mess kit, tinder box, torches [10], rations [10d], waterskin, 50' hempen rope, spare clothes) | Smith tools (pack) | Potion of Healing 2d4+2 [8] (pouch) || 102 gp (pouch)

Background[edit]

Dvergren Craftsman || Specialty: Smith/Metalworker || Rank: Master

Feature: Dvergr Reputation
As a Dvergr Craftsman, you may stamp your own work as certified crafted by an artisan of your rank (Apprentice/Journeyman/Master) without the presence of a higher ranked craftsman. At need, you may generally assume access to tools and workspace from any race's Craftsman on the weight of the professional respect they hold for artisans of your kind.

Trait: I'd rather work for farmers than kings.

Ideal: It doesn't matter that the pay is shite. Do good work anyway.

Bond: I fight for what's important. The rest can take care of itself.

Flaw: I'd rather work for farmers than kings.


Backstory[edit]

Skaati was a metalsmith of some skill, and he never intended to be anything more, until the day the tall, armorless stranger entered his forge with a broken longsword and a sack of coin worth twice its weight if Skaati could make it whole again.

Skaati took the job and set to work by the dark of night, such was the stranger's urgency, and that was the night he was approached by the All Seeing Dark.

It's voice whispered through the flame with every push of the bellows, rang in his skull every time the hammer fell, hissed dark secrets as heat and steel found voice in the tempering oil.

The stranger never returned for the blade, and Skaati bears it to this day. He still smiths, but he also fights. Wielding the great blade that sometimes lashed out with green fire, wearing no armor after the fighting style of the berserker, Skaati finds ways to stand against the Black Winter.

Following the Stone Wolves as their smith gave him opportunities to do that. It was there he met and befriended Hrókr and Grimnar - and survived with them that fateful day it all went to shite.