Michael Spellweaver
Michael Spellweaver
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AC 17 · HP 9 · 30 ft.Saving throws
Skills
- AcrobaticsDEX
- ArcanaINT
- AthleticsSTR
- DeceptionCHA
- HistoryINT
- InsightWIS
- IntimidationCHA
- InvestigationINT
- MedicineWIS
- NatureWIS
- PerceptionWIS
- PersuasionCHA
- ReligionINT
- Sleight of HandDEX
- StealthDEX
- SurvivalWIS
Weapons
Languages
Features
15 featuresAlways on
- Fire Bolt
When When Michael targets a creature within 120 feet
Michael releases a mote of flame that streaks toward a creature within 120 feet, making a ranged spell attack and dealing 1d10 fire damage on a hit.
- Mage Hand
When When Michael needs to manipulate an unattended object within 30 feet
Michael conjures an invisible arcane hand at a point within 30 feet. The hand can manipulate objects, open containers, retrieve items, or stow objects, but cannot attack or carry more than 10 pounds.
- Minor Illusion
When When Michael creates a sensory distraction within 30 feet
Michael creates a sound or image within range that lasts for up to 1 minute and can distract, deceive, or conceal his actions.
- Prestidigitation
When When Michael performs a minor magical trick
Michael performs minor magical tricks, such as cleaning or soiling an object, creating a harmless sensory effect, lighting or snuffing a flame, or marking a surface.
- Shield
When When Michael is hit by an attack or targeted by magic missile
Michael casts a reactive barrier when hit by an attack. Until the start of his next turn, his AC increases by 5, including against the triggering attack, and he takes no damage from magic missile.
- Chromatic Orb
When When Michael targets a creature within 90 feet and has a diamond worth at least 50 gp
Michael launches a multicolored bolt of elemental energy at a creature within 90 feet, choosing acid, cold, fire, lightning, poison, or thunder damage. The target makes a Dexterity saving throw and takes 3d8 damage of the chosen type on a failure, or half as much on a success.
- SpellcastingLevel 1
Michael is a 1st-level spellcaster. His spellcasting ability is Charisma. He knows four sorcerer cantrips and two 1st-level sorcerer spells. He can use an arcane focus as a spellcasting focus for his sorcerer spells.
- Sorcerous Origin, Draconic BloodlineLevel 1
Michael's innate magic comes from a dormant draconic bloodline. He has chosen red dragon ancestry, associated with fire. He can speak, read, and write Draconic, and he gains access to the Draconic Resilience feature.
- Draconic ResilienceLevel 1
Michael's hit point maximum increases by 1, reflecting his supernatural vitality. When he is not wearing armor, his base AC is 13 + his Dexterity modifier.
- Ability Score IncreaseHumanEach ability score increases by 1.
- SizeHumanMedium.
- SpeedHuman30 feet.
- LanguagesHumanCommon and one extra language. Michael also knows Draconic through his Draconic Bloodline origin and Elvish through his Sage background.
- TraitHumanVersatile and adaptable, with no additional racial features under the standard 2014 human rules.
- ResearcherSage
Michael can usually recall lore he has studied, and when he does not know a piece of information, he knows where and from whom it can be obtained. Fellow scholars, sages, libraries, and institutions of learning are generally willing to help him access obscure knowledge.
Spells
6 spellsSpellcasting. Michael Spellweaver casts with Charisma (spell save DC 13, to hit with spell attacks).
Cantrips (at will): , , ,
1st level (2 slots): ,
Gear
8 itemsWeapons
- 2×DaggerA light, finely balanced blade used as a backup weapon.
Gear
- Crystal arcane focusA small clear crystal used as Michael's arcane focus.
- Scholar's packA 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.
- InkA bottle of black ink.
- QuillA quill suitable for copying notes and magical formulae.
- Letter from a dead colleagueA letter from a dead colleague posing a question Michael has not yet solved.
- Common clothesPlain but respectable clothing suitable for academic travel.
Purse
- 10×Gold piecesUnspent starting currency.
Appearance
Michael is a tall, lean human man with warm brown skin, dark auburn hair worn loosely tied at the nape, and alert gray-green eyes. He dresses in layered scholar's robes beneath a weathered traveling coat, with copper thread sewn into the cuffs and a small crystal arcane focus hanging at his chest. Within a minute of meeting him, people notice that he pauses before answering difficult questions, drawing a quiet breath through his nose as though arranging invisible words in the air. He moves with controlled precision, often standing unnervingly still until suddenly turning or reaching for a spell component.
Mannerisms
Before speaking, Michael often inhales softly and pauses as though consulting an internal index. When concentrating, he traces small geometric shapes against his palm with one finger. He rarely raises his voice, but when angered, a faint heat shimmers around his hands and his words develop a subtle resonant echo.
Personality
Michael is thoughtful, patient, and genuinely kind, but his kindness is expressed through preparation. He notices missing supplies, remembers obscure preferences, and quietly solves practical problems before anyone asks. Around unfamiliar magic he becomes intensely focused and almost impossible to interrupt. He enjoys earnest debate, distrusts easy certainty, and is more comfortable explaining a theory than admitting that he is afraid.
Ideals
Knowledge should serve the living. Learning has value only when it is used to prevent suffering, expose lies, and give people better choices.
Bonds
Master Elian Voss gave Michael his first real chance and disappeared while investigating the same draconic texts. Michael is determined to find him, alive or dead, and recover the missing manuscript pages.
Flaws
Michael cannot resist correcting an inaccurate quotation, even when doing so is tactically foolish. He also tends to treat emotional problems as research questions, which can make his attempts at comfort feel clinical or distant.
Quirks
Background
Michael Spellweaver was born to a family of ordinary human mapmakers who traveled between city archives and remote noble estates. As a child, he possessed an unusual memory for written words, but his talent became unmistakably magical when a shelf of drying manuscripts lifted from the floor and rearranged itself according to subject. The incident ruined three priceless books, yet it also drew the attention of Master Elian Voss, an aging scholar who recognized raw sorcery beneath Michael's disciplined intellect. Under Voss's guidance, Michael learned to treat magic as both a language and a responsibility. His studies led him to a sealed collection of pre-imperial texts describing the first dragons and the mortal bloodlines touched by them. While translating a fragment, Michael awakened a dormant draconic inheritance. Heat rippled through his veins, his voice briefly carried an echo like distant thunder, and a burst of red-gold flame consumed the page. Since then, he has left the academy to investigate the origin of his power, recover the lost portions of the collection, and ensure that dangerous knowledge does not fall into cruel hands. He adventures because books cannot answer every question, and because protecting people sometimes requires stepping beyond the library door.
“Under Voss's guidance, Michael learned to treat magic as both a language and a responsibility.”
- Background
- Sage
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Species
Human
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