Mairen ap Dafi
Mairen ap Dafi
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AC 12 · HP 46 · 30 ft.Saving throws
Skills
- AcrobaticsDEX
- Animal HandlingWIS
- ArcanaINT
- AthleticsSTR
- DeceptionSTR
- HistoryINT
- InsightWIS
- IntimidationCHA
- InvestigationINT
- MedicineWIS
- NatureINT
- PerceptionWIS
- PerformanceCHA
- PersuasionCHA
- ReligionINT
- Sleight of HandDEX
- StealthDEX
- SurvivalWIS
Weapons
Tools
Languages
Features
19 featuresAction
- Fey PresenceLevel 1
When Action
As an action, force one creature in a 10-foot cube originating from you to make a Wisdom saving throw. On a failure, it is charmed or frightened until the end of your next turn.
Reaction
- Misty EscapeLevel 6
When Reaction when damaged
When you take damage, turn invisible and teleport up to 60 feet as a reaction. The invisibility lasts until the start of your next turn or until you attack or cast a spell.
Always on
- Eldritch Blast
When Action
You can cast eldritch blast as a ranged spell attack. On a hit, the target takes 1d10 force damage, plus 4 from Agonizing Blast. Repelling Blast can push the target up to 10 feet away from you when hit.
- Mask of Many Faces
When Action
You can disguise your appearance at will by casting disguise self without expending a spell slot.
- Misty Visions
When Action
You can cast silent image at will without expending a spell slot.
- Book of Ancient Secrets
When Ritual casting
You can cast detect magic and comprehend languages as rituals from your Book of Shadows. You can also add ritual spells from any class's spell list to the book when you find them.
- Otherworldly PatronLevel 1
You can use an arcane focus as a spellcasting focus for your warlock spells. Charisma is your spellcasting ability.
- Eldritch InvocationsLevel 2
You learn two eldritch invocations of your choice. You learn additional invocations at later warlock levels.
- Pact Boon, Pact of the TomeLevel 3
You gain the Pact of the Tome. Your patron gives you a grimoire called a Book of Shadows. Choose three cantrips from any class spell list. While the book is on your person, you can cast those cantrips at will. They count as warlock cantrips for you but do not count against your number of cantrips known.
- Ability Score ImprovementLevel 4
You can choose one ability score to increase by 2, or two ability scores to increase by 1. Mairen increased Charisma by 2, from 15 to 17.
- Mystic Arcanum ProgressionLevel 5
You can now choose a fourth-level spell when learning or replacing a warlock spell. Your number of known spells increases to eight.
- Additional Eldritch InvocationLevel 7
You learn one additional eldritch invocation of your choice.
- TraitElfDarkvision, you can see in dim light within 60 feet as if it were bright light, and in darkness as if it were dim light.
- TraitElfKeen Senses, proficiency in the Perception skill.
- TraitElfFey Ancestry, advantage on saving throws against being charmed, and magic cannot put you to sleep.
- TraitElfTrance, you do not need to sleep and can finish a long rest in 4 hours by meditating.
- TraitElfHigh Elf Cantrip, one cantrip of your choice from the wizard spell list, Intelligence is your spellcasting ability for it.
- TraitElfHigh Elf Weapon Training, proficiency with longswords, shortswords, shortbows, and longbows.
- Criminal ContactCriminal
You have a reliable and trustworthy contact who acts as your liaison to a network of other criminals. You know how to get messages to and from your contact, even over great distances, though you do not know where they live or their true identity.
Spells
15 spellsSpellcasting. Mairen ap Dafi casts with Charisma (spell save DC 14, to hit with spell attacks).
Cantrips (at will): , , , , , ,
1st level: ,
2nd level: ,
3rd level: , ,
4th level (2 slots):
Gear
9 itemsWeapons
- Light CrossbowA light crossbow with 20 bolts, suitable for quiet ranged attacks and travel.
- 2×DaggerA dagger kept in an inside sleeve for emergencies and close work.
Tools
- CrowbarA crowbar used for forced entry and as a lever.
Gear
- 20×Crossbow BoltsA case containing 20 crossbow bolts.
- Component PouchA component pouch used to provide mundane spell components.
- Scholar's PackA scholar's pack containing a backpack, a book of lore, a bottle of ink, an ink pen, ten sheets of parchment, a little bag of sand, and a small knife.
- Book of ShadowsA black leather Book of Shadows granted by the Pact of the Tome.
- Common ClothesA set of common dark clothing suitable for blending into alleys, taverns, and servant passages.
- Belt PouchA pouch containing 15 gp, the standard criminal background starting wealth.
Appearance
A lean high elf with weather-browned skin, long copper-brown hair usually tied with a strip of blue cloth, and alert gray-green eyes. His hands are callused from climbing, lockwork, and years of handling rough rope. He smells faintly of lamp oil, cedar shavings, and rain-soaked wool, a scent he insists is only noticeable in close quarters. He dresses in a dark wine-colored coat beneath a travel-stained gray cloak, with silver thread stitched into the cuffs in patterns that resemble curling branches. His spellbook is a black leather-bound tome with no title, while his pact grimoire is a smaller book of pale green vellum that seems to breathe when opened.
Mannerisms
Mairen tilts his head before answering difficult questions, as though listening to a distant melody. He counts door hinges, windows, and exits whenever he enters a room. When nervous, he smooths the edge of his pact grimoire with his thumb and quietly mutters fragments of old elven nursery rhymes.
Personality
Mairen is warm, observant, and difficult to intimidate. He treats every conversation as a negotiation, but he genuinely prefers solutions where nobody has to lose face. He enjoys elegant deception, dislikes needless cruelty, and has an irritating habit of complimenting people's security measures immediately before bypassing them.
Ideals
Freedom. No law deserves obedience merely because someone powerful wrote it. People should be judged by the harm they prevent, not by the rules they break.
Bonds
When an old partner was arrested after taking responsibility for one of Mairen's schemes, Mairen promised to uncover the official who engineered the betrayal and free every prisoner condemned because of it. His pact with the Archfey known as the Briar Regent began when he stole a sealed green book from a moonlit vault, and the fey patron now considers that theft an unfinished conversation.
Flaws
He cannot resist opening a locked door, reading a sealed letter, or learning what someone clearly wants kept secret. He also mistakes cleverness for wisdom and becomes reckless when an authority figure tells him something is impossible.
Quirks
Background
Mairen ap Dafi was raised among the quiet service corridors of a wealthy elven estate, where his family maintained lamps, locks, and hidden passageways. He learned early that the people who built a house understood it better than the people who owned it. By adolescence, he was opening sealed rooms for couriers, hiding ledgers beneath loose floorboards, and carrying messages for a criminal network that treated his pointed ears as useful camouflage. He never thought of himself as a thief so much as a person who corrected the direction of property.
“He learned early that the people who built a house understood it better than the people who owned it.”
- Background
- Criminal
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Species
Elf
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