Teferi
Teferi
Sheet
AC 16 · HP 48 · 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
Armor
Weapons
Tools
Languages
Features
16 featuresAlways on
- Eldritch Blast
When Action
Teferi fires a beam of crackling eldritch energy at a creature within 120 feet. On a hit, the target takes 1d10 force damage plus 4 from Agonizing Blast.
- Awakened Mind
When No action, during communication
Teferi telepathically communicates with a creature he can see within 30 feet that understands at least one language.
- Healing Hands
When Action
Teferi restores 5 hit points to a creature he touches. Once used, this power recharges after a long rest.
- Otherworldly Patron, The Great Old OneLevel 1
Teferi has entered into a pact with an enigmatic Great Old One whose thoughts brush against his mind. He gains the ability to communicate telepathically with any creature he can see within 30 feet, provided the creature understands at least one language. The creature does not need to share a language with him.
- Pact MagicLevel 1
Teferi can cast eldritch blast and other warlock spells using Charisma. He knows three warlock cantrips and six warlock spells at 5th level. His pact magic uses two 3rd-level spell slots, which recharge after a short or long rest.
- Eldritch InvocationsLevel 2
Teferi knows the Agonizing Blast and Book of Ancient Secrets eldritch invocations. Agonizing Blast adds his Charisma modifier to the damage of eldritch blast. Book of Ancient Secrets grants a Book of Shadows containing three additional cantrips and allows him to record and cast ritual spells.
- Pact Boon, Pact of the TomeLevel 3
Teferi has chosen the Pact of the Tome. His patron gives him a Book of Shadows containing three additional cantrips from any class spell list. The book serves as a conduit for his occult research and ritual magic.
- Ability Score ImprovementLevel 4
Teferi can improve his ability scores. His exceptional mental gifts represent his manual ability score choices and the aasimar's Charisma increase.
- Pact Magic ImprovementLevel 5
Teferi's pact magic slots are now 3rd level. He has two pact magic spell slots, regained after a short or long rest.
- TraitAasimarDarkvision, 60 feet.
- TraitAasimarCelestial Resistance, resistance to necrotic damage and radiant damage.
- TraitAasimarHealing Hands, once per long rest, restore hit points equal to your level with a touch.
- Light, cast the light cantripAasimarCharisma is the spellcasting ability for it.
- TraitAasimarCelestial and Common languages.
- TraitAasimarAbility score increase, Charisma increases by 2.
- ResearcherSage
Teferi can usually identify where obscure or lost knowledge can be found, including libraries, archives, sages, monasteries, and other repositories of learning. He knows how to petition scholars for assistance, though such requests may require favors or payment.
Spells
15 spellsSpellcasting. Teferi casts with Charisma (spell save DC 15, to hit with spell attacks).
Cantrips (at will): , , , , ,
1st level: , , , ,
2nd level: ,
3rd level (2 slots): ,
Gear
13 itemsWeapons
- QuarterstaffA finely balanced wooden staff used for travel, spellwork, and self-defense.
- Light crossbowA light crossbow with a case of standard bolts.
Armor
- Leather armorStudded leather armor reinforced with discreet metal rivets.
Tools
- InkA vial of black ink used for copying spells and annotating ancient texts.
- QuillA fine quill suitable for writing magical formulae.
- Small knifeA small knife used for sharpening quills and preparing ritual components.
Gear
- 20×BoltsAmmunition for the light crossbow.
- Component pouchA pouch containing rare inks, chalk, vellum, and small ritual components.
- Scholar's packA backpack containing books, parchment, food, tinder, and basic scholarly supplies.
- Book of ShadowsA blank book containing three additional cantrips and space for ritual spells.
- Letter from a dead colleagueA letter from a dead colleague containing an unresolved historical question.
- Common clothesSimple but well-maintained travel clothing.
Purse
- 10×Gold piecesLoose coin kept in a worn leather pouch.
Appearance
Teferi is a tall, lean aasimar man with dark bronze skin, silver-white hair, and luminous violet eyes that brighten when he invokes his patron's power. Faint golden markings circle his wrists and throat, resembling intricate celestial script. He wears carefully maintained leather armor beneath a scholar's blue coat, carries a black iron tome chained to his belt, and keeps a polished quarterstaff close at hand.
Mannerisms
Teferi pauses before answering difficult questions, as though listening to a distant voice. He annotates nearly everything, including tavern menus, battle plans, and personal letters. When excited, he traces glowing geometric shapes in the air with one finger.
Personality
Teferi is relentlessly curious, warm toward outsiders, and incapable of treating a mystery as a mere inconvenience. He speaks with precise academic language until confronted with injustice, at which point his scholarly restraint gives way to bold improvisation. He enjoys teaching others and prefers clever solutions over displays of force.
Ideals
Knowledge should be free. No king, church, archmage, or cosmic power has the right to hoard truth while ordinary people suffer from ignorance.
Bonds
He is sworn to recover and protect the lost library of his childhood observatory, which was destroyed after his pact became known. He also feels responsible for every apprentice who was harmed by knowledge he uncovered too soon.
Flaws
Teferi cannot resist forbidden knowledge, even when learning it is dangerous, cruel, or strategically unwise. He is also quietly convinced that he can understand and control the alien intelligence behind his pact.
Quirks
Background
Teferi was raised in a quiet observatory where his aasimar mother catalogued celestial movements and his human foster father preserved forbidden histories. From childhood, Teferi could read forgotten scripts after only a few minutes of study, and his dreams were filled with distant stars that seemed to whisper answers to questions no living scholar had asked. His talent made him a prized researcher, but his curiosity repeatedly carried him beyond the boundaries approved by the observatory's masters. While investigating a sealed manuscript recovered from a drowned ruin, Teferi encountered a consciousness beyond the stars. The entity offered no name, only impossible knowledge and a pact sealed by a single question: whether truth belonged to those who discovered it or those who controlled it. Teferi accepted, believing that knowledge hidden from the world was a form of tyranny. Now he travels as a wandering sage and warlock, liberating dangerous secrets from tyrants, cults, and dead civilizations. His celestial heritage urges him toward compassion, while the alien presence in his mind constantly tempts him to value understanding over human limits.
“His talent made him a prized researcher, but his curiosity repeatedly carried him beyond the boundaries approved by the observatory's masters.”
- Background
- Sage
Connections
Species
Aasimar
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