Kathos
Kathos
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AC 12 · HP 38 · 30 ft.Saving throws
Skills
- AcrobaticsDEX
- Animal HandlingSTR
- ArcanaINT
- AthleticsSTR
- DeceptionCHA
- HistoryINT
- InsightWIS
- InvestigationINT
- MedicineWIS
- NatureINT
- PerceptionWIS
- PerformanceCHA
- PersuasionCHA
- ReligionINT
- Sleight of HandDEX
- StealthDEX
- SurvivalWIS
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Languages
Features
14 featuresAlways on
- MetamagicLevel 2
When When casting a qualifying spell
When Kathos casts a spell with a range of 5 feet or greater, he can spend 1 Sorcery Point to double its range, or he can spend 1 Sorcery Point to cast a spell without verbal or somatic components when the spell permits.
- Innate SorceryLevel 1
When As a Bonus Action
Kathos can briefly surround himself with controlled sorcerous power, improving his spell save DC and adding his Charisma modifier to one damage roll of a sorcerer spell.
- SpellcastingLevel 1
Kathos can cast sorcerer spells using Charisma as his spellcasting ability. He can use an arcane focus as a spellcasting focus and has four sorcerer cantrips and nine prepared sorcerer spells at this level.
- Font of MagicLevel 2
Kathos has 7 Sorcery Points. He regains all expended points when he finishes a long rest. He can convert spell slots to Sorcery Points or create spell slots by spending Sorcery Points according to the sorcerer table.
- Sorcerous OriginLevel 3
Kathos has chosen Draconic Sorcery as his sorcerous origin. His magic manifests as ember-bright energy and the resonant, almost musical cadence of an ancient red dragon.
- Ability Score ImprovementLevel 4
Kathos gains one feat at this level. He has chosen Ability Score Improvement, increasing Charisma from 16 to 17 as reflected in his final ability scores.
- Sorcery RestorationLevel 5
Kathos can regain expended Sorcery Points by finishing a short rest once per long rest. He can also temporarily alter the damage type of a spell by spending Sorcery Points when permitted by his sorcerer features.
- Draconic ResilienceLevel 6
Kathos's draconic magic grants him a draconic resilience. His hit point maximum increases by 7, and when he is not wearing armor, his AC equals 10 plus his Dexterity modifier plus his Charisma modifier.
- Metamagic ImprovementLevel 7
Kathos has learned to turn unstable magic into deliberate variations through his four chosen Metamagic options: Careful Spell, Distant Spell, Empowered Spell, and Subtle Spell.
- TraitTieflingDarkvision, Kathos can see in dim light within 60 feet as if it were bright light and in darkness as if it were dim light, though he sees darkness in shades of gray.
- Fiendish Legacy, InfernalTieflingKathos has resistance to fire damage and knows Thaumaturgy. At character level 3, he can cast Hellish Rebuke once per long rest without a spell slot, and at character level 5, he can cast Darkness once per long rest without a spell slot. He can also cast these spells using available spell slots.
- TraitTieflingThaumaturgy, Kathos can create minor supernatural effects such as altering his voice, opening or slamming unlocked doors, making flames flicker, or causing harmless tremors.
- TraitTieflingFiendish appearance, Kathos has horns, a tail, and other features associated with his infernal heritage. His species does not grant ability score increases under the 2024 rules.
- ResearcherSage
Kathos has studied extensively and can usually recall useful information about academic subjects, obscure histories, magical traditions, and scholarly institutions. If he does not know a fact, he generally knows where and from whom it can be learned.
Spells
17 spellsSpellcasting. Kathos casts with Charisma (spell save DC 14, to hit with spell attacks).
Cantrips (at will): , , , ,
1st level (4 slots): , , , ,
2nd level (3 slots): , , ,
3rd level (3 slots): ,
4th level (1 slot):
Gear
8 itemsWeapons
- 2×DaggerA simple melee weapon suitable for emergencies and ceremonial use.
- QuarterstaffA quarterstaff used as a walking stick and pointer while lecturing.
Tools
- Calligrapher's SuppliesCalligrapher's supplies including ink, quills, sealing wax, and a small sand shaker.
Gear
- Arcane Focus CrystalA small crystal mounted in a silver setting, used as Kathos's arcane focus.
- Explorer's PackA pack containing bedroll, mess kit, tinderbox, ten torches, ten days of rations, waterskin, and rope.
- Book of LoreA scholarly book containing notes on planar theory and annotated references to lost magical traditions.
- RobesA set of plain but well-kept scholar's robes.
Purse
- 8×Gold PiecesLoose change left from his years of archival work.
Appearance
Kathos is a lean, copper-red tiefling with swept-back black hair, short swept horns, amber eyes, and a narrow face softened by an almost perpetually thoughtful expression. He wears a dark blue scholar's coat that is slightly too large through the shoulders, its cuffs reinforced with mismatched strips of burgundy cloth. His carefully maintained brass spectacles hang from a cord around his neck, and a crystal arcane focus is sewn into the coat's left lapel. Within a minute of meeting him, people notice his unusually precise diction and the faint scent of old paper and woodsmoke that follows him.
Mannerisms
Kathos speaks in measured, carefully structured sentences, then accelerates into a rapid whisper when excited. He adjusts his spectacles even when they are not on his face, taps the edge of a book three times before opening it, and takes a slow breath through his nose whenever his temper rises. When startled, his voice briefly gains a warm, echoing resonance like distant thunder.
Personality
Kathos is patient, observant, and instinctively helpful. He treats conversations like research, asking precise questions and remembering small details that others forget. He is gentle with frightened people, suspicious of confident authorities, and quietly delighted whenever someone proves one of his assumptions wrong. Beneath his academic calm is a fierce protective streak that surfaces whenever knowledge, libraries, or vulnerable people are threatened.
Ideals
Knowledge should be a lantern, not a locked vault. If learning something can prevent suffering, then keeping that knowledge hidden is its own kind of cruelty.
Bonds
The archive that raised him is still vulnerable to the people who once tried to burn its forbidden collection. Kathos will risk almost anything to recover lost books, protect young scholars, and ensure that dangerous knowledge is preserved rather than monopolized by tyrants.
Flaws
Kathos cannot resist correcting an inaccurate quotation, even when doing so is tactically foolish or socially disastrous. He also believes that every dangerous mystery can be made safe through enough study, a conviction that has repeatedly brought him closer to dangers he should have left alone.
Quirks
Background
Kathos was raised in a small archive attached to a temple library, where his tiefling heritage made him an object of suspicion until his talent for preserving damaged manuscripts proved too valuable to dismiss. He learned to read before he learned to fight, and he spent his childhood copying protective formulae, cataloging forbidden fragments, and listening to elderly scholars argue about whether magic was a language, a force, or a wound in the world. His sorcery first manifested when a fire threatened the archive. Instead of destroying the books, the flames curled around him and gathered into a silent red halo, leaving every page untouched.
“His sorcery first manifested when a fire threatened the archive.”
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Tiefling
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