Maeve
Maeve
Sheet
AC 18 · HP 184 · 30 ft.Saving throws
Skills
- AcrobaticsDEX
- AthleticsSTR
- HistoryINT
- InsightWIS
- IntimidationCHA
- PerceptionWIS
Armor
Weapons
Tools
Languages
Features
31 featuresAlways on
- Action SurgeLevel 2
When On her turn, when she needs a burst of decisive offense or utility.
When danger escalates, Maeve can commit fully to a decisive turn, using Action Surge to take an additional action and overwhelm the enemy before they can recover.
- Combat Superiority Maneuvers
When When a maneuver calls for superiority die use.
She can spend a superiority die to fuel maneuvers such as disarming strikes, ripostes, rallying allies, or forcing enemies off balance.
- Tactical MindLevel 2
When When she fails or risks failing an important ability check.
Maeve can steady herself in the middle of a crisis, adding Tactical Mind to ability checks when training and focus can win the day.
- Martial Pressure
When When taking the Attack action or controlling space in combat.
Her swordplay is built for controlled violence, combining multiple attacks, weapon mastery, and battlefield positioning to keep pressure on opponents.
- Fighting StyleLevel 1
Maeve has a Fighting Style, reflecting years of specialized martial training. She favors a style that supports relentless battlefield control and direct pressure.
- Second WindLevel 1
She can use Second Wind to recover in the thick of a fight, restoring her stamina with a surge of resolve.
- Weapon MasteryLevel 1
She has mastery over weapons, allowing her to use weapon mastery properties with practiced efficiency.
- Battle MasterLevel 3
Maeve becomes a Battle Master, learning to manipulate the flow of combat through trained maneuvers and superior battlefield judgment.
- Combat SuperiorityLevel 3
She gains Combat Superiority, including superiority dice and maneuvers that let her trip, disarm, protect allies, and punish openings with practiced precision.
- Student of WarLevel 3
Maeve adds expertise in an artisan or scholarly direction tied to military life, learning useful noncombat training from long campaigns and encampments.
- Martial Archetype FeaturesLevel 3
She can use Martial Archetype features granted by her Battle Master progression to refine her tactics, read enemies, and dominate the pace of engagement.
- Ability Score ImprovementLevel 4
Her training and hardening let her improve an ability score or take a feat, sharpening her already formidable physicality and battlefield discipline.
- Extra AttackLevel 5
Maeve can attack twice when she takes the Attack action, allowing her to overwhelm foes with repeated strikes.
- Tactical ShiftLevel 5
She can reposition herself and allies with Tactical Shift, moving with the fluidity of a veteran who always knows where the fight is going next.
- Ability Score ImprovementLevel 6
Maeve continues to refine her combat craft with another Ability Score Improvement or feat.
- Martial Archetype FeatureLevel 7
Her Battle Master training deepens, granting a further martial archetype feature and expanding her tactical dominance.
- Ability Score ImprovementLevel 8
Maeve hones herself yet again through an Ability Score Improvement or feat.
- IndomitableLevel 9
She can cling to her will through Indomitable, rerolling failed saving throws when sheer grit can still save the day.
- Martial Archetype FeatureLevel 10
Her Battle Master path grants another martial archetype feature, strengthening her control over the battlefield.
- Ability Score ImprovementLevel 12
Maeve gains another Ability Score Improvement or feat, further perfecting her fighting body and mind.
- IndomitableLevel 13
Indomitable strengthens, letting her refuse defeat with even greater resolve.
- Martial Archetype FeatureLevel 15
She gains another Battle Master archetype feature, sharpening the precision and impact of her maneuvers.
- Ability Score ImprovementLevel 16
Maeve receives another Ability Score Improvement or feat, representing the continuing perfection of her martial skill.
- IndomitableLevel 17
Her Indomitable feature improves again, making her incredibly difficult to incapacitate or control.
- Ability Score ImprovementLevel 19
Maeve gains a final Ability Score Improvement or feat before the capstone of her legend.
- Extra Attack improvement and Apex Fighter masteryLevel 20
She stands at the height of martial mastery, capable of a third use of Action Surge and a final surge of tactical dominance in extended battles.
- TraitHumanResourceful, Maeve gains Heroic Inspiration after each Long Rest, representing adaptable human grit.
- TraitHumanSkillful, she gains proficiency in one skill of her choice.
- TraitHumanVersatile, she gains an additional Origin feat from her species.
- TraitHumanHuman traits are defined by adaptability, determination, and breadth of training.
- Military RankSoldier
Maeve can reliably identify military structure, ranks, procedures, and the expectations of organized armed forces. She can usually secure modest support, information, or temporary access when dealing with soldiers, mercenaries, and veterans who respect her service.
Gear
7 itemsWeapons
- LongswordHer favored battlefield weapon, practical for both defense and brutal close-quarters fighting.
- LongbowA ranged weapon kept for training, sentry duty, and emergencies.
Armor
- Plate ArmorA suit of well-maintained plate armor adapted to her modern-warrior silhouette.
- ShieldA broad shield used when she expects missiles, numbers, or a duel that favors endurance.
Gear
- 20×ArrowsArrows carried in reserve for ranged engagements.
- Silver Ring on Leather CordA military keepsake from her service, worn as a reminder of duty and loss.
- Travel ClothingA soldier's practical travel clothing, including sturdy boots, belts, wraps, and spare layers for travel or downtime.
Appearance
Maeve is a towering human woman with an amazon-warrior build, standing about six feet tall with broad shoulders, a narrow waist, and heavily muscled arms, legs, chest, and back. Her pale skin is sun-warmed and marked by silvery battle scars, including a thin cut through her left eyebrow and a pale ring scar around her right wrist. She has a square jaw, high cheekbones, a slightly crooked nose, full firm lips, and sharp jade-green eyes under thick dark lashes. Her cropped crimson hair is usually spiked at the crown and perpetually slightly wild. She favors practical modern clothes in a fantasy world, dark tank tops and loose training pants, often barefoot when indoors. A small silver ring hangs from a leather cord at her neck.
Mannerisms
Maeve speaks sparingly, often after a long pause as if she is choosing the most exact word available. When assessing a room, she unconsciously positions herself with a clear view of doors and windows. She cracks her knuckles before a difficult decision, rolls one shoulder when annoyed, and taps the silver ring at her throat when she is thinking hard. In conversation, she tends to stand rather than sit, and if she does sit, she favors the chair that lets her see everyone else first.
Personality
Maeve is disciplined, direct, and intensely observant, with the calm confidence of someone who has survived worse than most people can imagine. She respects competence, hates needless theatrics, and has a dry sense of humor that appears only after she has decided someone is worth trusting. Despite her imposing presence, she is not needlessly cruel, and she will quietly go out of her way to shield the vulnerable from harm. She likes order, clear expectations, and a room where she can put her back to a wall and still watch the door.
Ideals
Duty. Strength exists to protect, not to boast. A soldier earns her place by standing where others cannot, and by doing the necessary work with a steady hand and an honest heart.
Bonds
Maeve still feels responsible for every soldier who served under her, especially the ones who came home changed, broken, or never came home at all. She keeps the silver ring as a memorial to someone she failed to save, and she will not abandon the helpless if there is any way left to stand between them and danger.
Flaws
Maeve trusts discipline more than affection, and she can become cold when others improvise badly or waste lives through carelessness. She measures herself by responsibility, so when something goes wrong she assumes she should have prevented it. Her need for control can make her stubborn, overbearing, and slow to admit that some problems cannot be solved with force, no matter how strong the force is.
Quirks
Background
Maeve was raised in a hard-edged garrison town where discipline was a language spoken more clearly than kindness. She learned early that strength without control was just another kind of weakness, so she trained until every motion became efficient and every breath had a purpose. Her body became her oath, forged through endless drills, bruising sparring matches, and campaigns that left her with the scars she wears like a ledger of survival. The silver ring at her throat is the only keepsake she kept from the old life she outgrew, a reminder that she was once someone who expected to come home instead of someone who learned how to endure. As a soldier, Maeve earned her name the old-fashioned way, by holding the line when others faltered and by striking with precision when the order came. She rose through command not because she was charming, but because she was dependable, brutally honest, and impossible to intimidate. In battle she became known for reading opponents like a drill manual, then breaking their rhythm with practiced counters, feints, and punishing ripostes. Now she moves through the world as a veteran of too many victories, carrying the disciplined violence of a battlefield captain into a modern-looking, fantasy-hued life where she still prefers simple clothes, clear rules, and a chair positioned where she can see every exit.
“She rose through command not because she was charming, but because she was dependable, brutally honest, and impossible to intimidate.”
- Background
- Soldier
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Species
Human
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