Skalen
Skalen
Sheet
AC 18 · HP 13 · 30 ft.Saving throws
Skills
- AcrobaticsDEX
- Animal HandlingWIS
- AthleticsSTR
- DeceptionCHA
- HistoryINT
- InsightWIS
- IntimidationCHA
- InvestigationINT
- MedicineWIS
- NatureINT
- PerceptionWIS
- PerformanceCHA
- PersuasionCHA
- ReligionINT
- Sleight of HandDEX
- StealthDEX
- SurvivalWIS
Armor
Weapons
Tools
Languages
Features
7 featuresBonus action
- Second WindLevel 1
When On Skalen's turn when he needs to recover hit points
Skalen can use a bonus action to regain 1d10 + 1 hit points. This ability can be used once per rest.
Always on
- Fighting Style: DefenseLevel 1
Skalen adopts the Defense fighting style. While wearing armor, he gains a +1 bonus to Armor Class.
- Draconic AncestryDragonbornRed dragon ancestry, granting resistance to fire damage.
- Breath WeaponDragonbornSkalen can exhale fire in a 15-foot cone. Each creature in the area must make a DC 13 Dexterity saving throw, taking 2d6 fire damage on a failed save, or half as much on a successful one. After using this trait, he cannot use it again until he finishes a short or long rest.
- Damage ResistanceDragonbornSkalen has resistance to fire damage.
- LanguagesDragonbornSkalen can speak, read, and write Common and Draconic.
- Ship's PassageSailor
Skalen can secure free passage on sailing ships for himself and his adventuring companions in exchange for passage and service. He is familiar with ships and sea travel, and expects to perform duties as part of the crew.
Gear
11 itemsWeapons
- LongswordA versatile martial weapon with which Skalen is proficient. It deals 1d8 slashing damage one-handed, or 1d10 slashing damage when wielded with two hands.
- Light CrossbowA simple ranged weapon that deals 1d8 piercing damage and has a normal range of 80 feet and a long range of 320 feet.
- Belaying PinA stout wooden club once used as a belaying pin aboard ship.
Armor
- Chain MailHeavy metal armor that grants an Armor Class of 16. It imposes disadvantage on Dexterity (Stealth) checks and requires Strength 13 to avoid reduced speed.
- ShieldA shield that grants a +2 bonus to Armor Class when wielded.
Gear
- 20×Crossbow BoltsAmmunition for the light crossbow.
- Dungeoneer's PackA pack containing a backpack, a bedroll, a mess kit, a tinderbox, 10 torches, 10 days of rations, and a waterskin. The pack also has 50 feet of hempen rope strapped to its side.
- 50×Hemp RopeStrong hempen rope useful for climbing, securing cargo, and shipboard work.
- Lucky CharmA small charm made from a fishhook, a polished tooth, and a fragment of crimson sailcloth.
- Common ClothesPlain, practical clothing suitable for travel and shipboard labor.
Purse
- 10×Gold PiecesStarting money saved from years of honest work aboard ships.
Appearance
Skalen is a broad-shouldered dragonborn with deep crimson scales, a powerful build, and swept-back black horns scarred from years of salt wind and shipboard labor. His amber eyes are unusually expressive for a dragonborn, often bright with curiosity or narrowed in suspicion. He wears battered chain mail beneath a weather-stained navy coat, carries a broad-bladed longsword and shield, and keeps a faded scrap of crimson sailcloth tied around one horn as a reminder of the family he seeks.
Mannerisms
Skalen frequently tests the air with a slow breath before entering a room, as though checking the wind. He taps the rim of his shield in a steady sailor's rhythm when thinking, and instinctively braces his feet whenever the ground shifts or someone raises their voice.
Personality
Skalen is warm-hearted, direct, and intensely curious about the wider world. He treats sailors, dockworkers, and other outsiders as family, but remains wary of nobles and scholars who speak confidently about curses they have never endured. He is quick to laugh, quicker to defend someone being bullied, and fascinated by maps, old ship names, and stories of dragons.
Ideals
Freedom. No curse, captain, kingdom, or bloodline has the right to decide what someone becomes. Every creature deserves the chance to choose its own course.
Bonds
The torn crimson sailcloth found with him is the only surviving clue to his lost family, and he will risk almost anything to discover the ship and people connected to it.
Flaws
Skalen cannot resist chasing rumors about his lost family, even when the trail is clearly a trap. He also becomes reckless when someone suggests that his curse makes him less than a true dragon.
Quirks
Background
Skalen was found as an infant on a lonely stretch of coast, wrapped in a torn crimson sail and left beneath the shadow of a ruined lighthouse. He was unmistakably dragonborn, yet the old sailors who discovered him swore that something was wrong. As he grew, his body remained strangely small and humanoid compared with the visions he sometimes saw in dreams, visions of vast wings, burning skies, and a family whose voices called him by a name he did not understand. A wandering curse, placed upon him before he could remember his true life, had forced his draconic nature into a humanoid form. Raised among sailors who took pity on him, Skalen learned to climb rigging, read changing winds, mend sails, and fight with the discipline of a deck guard. The sea became both his home and his map. Every port offered another rumor about dragon clans, cursed bloodlines, or a vessel bearing crimson sailcloth. Now he travels as a fighter and sailor, using his strength to protect crews who remind him of the family he lost. He believes that somewhere beyond the horizon are the people who abandoned him, and he intends to find them, learn the truth of the curse, and decide for himself whether they deserve his forgiveness.
“He was unmistakably dragonborn, yet the old sailors who discovered him swore that something was wrong.”
- Background
- Sailor
Connections
Species
Dragonborn
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