Persephone Lapis

Persephone Lapis (she/her)

Wildborne Faerie Wizard (School of Knowledge) Level 1

Maximum Hope 6

Traits

• Agility +0 (Sprint, Dodge, Leap)
• Strength -1 (Lift, Smash, Grapple)
• Finesse +0 (Control, Hide, Tinker)
• Instinct +1 (Perceive, Sense, Navigate)
• Presence +1 (Charm, Perform, Deceive)
• Knowledge +2 (Recall, Analyze, Comprehend)

Experiences

• Academic Naturalist
• A Sympathetic Shoulder to Lean On

HP, Stress and Armor

Evasion 12

HP 0/5

Stress 0/6

Armor

Woven Chitin (as Gambeson, +1 Evasion)

Armor Slots 0/3

Damage Thresholds

• Major 6
• Severe 12

Weapons

• Primary - Sapphire Strands (as Wand) - Knowledge Far - d6+1 (Magic) - One-Handed
• Secondary - Small Dagger - Finesse Melee - d8 (Phy) - One-Handed - Paired: +2 to primary weapon damage when within Melee range.

Features

Class

• Prestidigitation - You can perform harmless, subtle magical effects at will.
• Strange Patterns - Choose a number between 1 and 12. When you roll that number on a Duality Die, gain a Hope or clear a Stress. You can change this number on a rest.
• Not This Time - Spend 3 Hope to force an adversary within Far range to reroll an attack or a damage roll.

Subclass

• School of Knowledge
  • Spellcast: Knowledge
  • Prepared - Take an additional Domain card of your level or lower from a Domain that you have access to.
  • Adept - When you Utilize an Experience, you can mark a Stress instead of clearing a Hope. If you do, double your Experience modifier for that roil.

Ancestry

• Luckbearer: Once per session, after you or a willing ally within Close range make an Action roll, you may spend 3 Hope to reroll the Duality Dice
• Wings: You can fly. While flying, you can mark a Stress after an adversary makes an attack against you to add +2 to your Evasion against that attack.

Community

• Lightfeet: Your movement is naturally silent. You have advantage on rolls to move without being heard

Domain Features

Codex

• Book of Illiat
  • Slumber: Make a Spellcast Roll against a target within Very Close range. On a success, they’re Asleep until they take damage or the GM spends a Fear on their turn to clear this condition.
  • Arcane Barrage: Once per rest, spend any number of Hope and shoot magical projectiles that strike a target of your choice within Close range. Roll a number of d6s equal to the Hope spent and deal that much magic damage to the target.
  • Telepathy: Spend a Hope to open a line of mental communication with one target you can see. This connection lasts until your next rest or you cast Telepathy again.
• Book of Tyfar
  • Wild Flame: Make a Spellcast Roll against up to three adversaries within Melee range. Targets you succeed against take 2d6 magic damage and must mark a Stress as flames erupt from your hand.
  • Magic Hand: You conjure a magical hand with the same size and strength as your own within Far range.
  • Mysterious Mist: Make a Spellcast Roll (13) to cast a temporary thick fog that gathers in a stationary area within Very Close range. The fog heavily obscures this area and everything in it.

Splendor

• Mending Touch - Spell - Spend 2 Hope to clear 1 Hit Point or Stress on a target. Once per long rest, when you spend this healing time to learn something new about them or reveal something new about yourself, clear 2 Hit Point or Stress instead.

Equipment

• Torch
• 50' Rope
• Basic Supplies
• Handful of gold
• Woven Chitin Armor - (Equivalent of Tier 1 Gambeson) : This is a long tunic and skirt of soft, overlapping chitinous scales in a dark blue color
• Sapphire Strands - Tier 1 - Magic - (Equivalent of Tier 1 Wand) : This is a woven network of silk strands fitting over the palm and back of the hand up to the wrist, into which are woven an number of tiny blue gemstones. Magical force can be channeled from the device to attack at up to Far range.
• Small Dagger - Tier 1 - Physical
• Minor Stamina Potion - Minor Stamina Potion - Immediately clear 1d4 stress.
• Lightning Bug - This is a tiny elemental pet formed from electricity. At rest it manifests into the form of a butterfly with shimmering wings, but in motion it zips from place to place like a spark.
• Magical Weavings - Persephone's "spell book" consists of geometric patterns of many-colored filaments woven around and through small assemblages of twigs. She carries them in a sturdy leather pouch hanging on her belt.

Details

Details

• Pronouns - She / her
• Persephone's clothes are close-fitting and woven out of silk, in dark blues, greens and black.
• Persephone's eyes are large, deep and piercing, formed from facets so small that they aren't readily obvious as such. In human terms their appearance is like a large dark pupil surrounded by blue
• When she prepared to go off to study with human tutors, Persephone molted from a grubling into a form that would appear more normal and aesthetic to non-faeries. Her form is long and limber with elegant butterfly-like wings patterned in black and blue; she has grown a mane of overlapping chitinous growth that from a distance looks like black hair, but on closer examination is closer to feathers.
• Her features are narrow and elegant and pale, a translucent white with dustings of blue scales along her jawline and brow.
• Persephone's manner is very much that of the analytical academic when confronted with a problem or new discovery, although she's easy to fluster.

Background

• What responsibilities did your community once count on you for? How did you let them down?
  • My aptitude for magic was identified when I was still a grubling, and it was expected that when I had mastered my Art I would return to brood many offspring and improve the magical potential of the swarm. After studying with the scholars in Clearharbor and developing a passion for studying the natural world, I opted not to return and to join with the Wildwardens... for now.
• You've spent your life searching for a book or object of great significance. What is it, and why is it so important to you?
  • My studies made it clear that my home swarm and the other major faerie enclaves each first arose from a Hive of genetic and magical potential. Old and fragmentary writings from long-ago naturalists suggest that in a primeval age there was a lost Great Hive of which the others are colonies and offshoots. There are many mutually exclusive clues as to the location of the Great Hive; Rekin's Refuge is one possible location but details are so scant that there are many other equally promising leads. I am in the course of building my master's thesis around the Great Hive theory, so finding some solid evidence to advance her thesis is a continuing preoccupation.
• You have a powerful rival. Who are they, and why are you so determined to defeat them?'
  • Ren Trefaran is a highly placed human academic and sorcerer among the Clearharbor faculty -- a loreborne Primal sorcerer. He was initially my assigned faculty adviser before we discovered that we didn't work well together. (He disliked my adoption of a humanlike appearance, among other things.) He has a wide range of contacts among the commercial interests that threaten Rekin's Refuge and has a number of projects in the works for ways to domesticate and exploit the Refuge, reshaping or destroying the natural habitats of many creatures in order to harvest them.

Connections

• What favor have I asked of you that you're not sure you can fulfill?
  • Rube - "You asked me to, if all else fails and we can do nothing more, protect the cocoon of the Great Golden Moth until the Moth itself emerges in its imago of glory. But I failed those who depended on me once before..."
• What weird hobby or fascination do we both share?
  • Ezekien - "Seph and me? Well, we met when we were both stalking the same barghest. Or more accurately, I tripped over her because I was too focused on shadowstepping to realize someone who was also still was there. Weird actually being friends with a fae after they're the source of why I'm not human anymore, but...well, she gets me. She gets why I just like...being at peace and watching. Both my man and cat sides."
• What secret about yourself have you entrusted only to me?