Lysandra
Lysandra
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AC 13 · HP 181 · 30 ft.Saving throws
Skills
- ArcanaINT
- HistoryINT
- InsightWIS
- PerceptionWIS
- PerformanceCHA
- PersuasionCHA
Armor
Weapons
Tools
Languages
Features
24 featuresBonus action
- Bardic InspirationLevel 1
When Bonus action
As a bonus action, she grants a creature an inspiration die that can be used on an ability check, attack roll, or saving throw.
Always on
- Performance of CreationLevel 3
When Action or performance, as appropriate to the feature
She can create a nonmagical item of modest size from magical artistry, provided it is not valuable and matches the scope of the feature.
- Animating PerformanceLevel 6
When Action
She can animate an unattended object into a useful construct for a short time.
- CountercharmLevel 6
When Action
She can interrupt hostile magic, charm, or fear with a sharp cadence and poised presence.
- SpellcastingLevel 1
She can cast bard spells using her Charisma as her spellcasting ability.
- Bardic Instrument ProficiencyLevel 1
She gains proficiency with three musical instruments of her choice. She has also chosen the lute, flute, and harp as her signature tools of performance.
- Jack of All TradesLevel 2
She can add half her proficiency bonus, rounded down, to any ability check that does not already include her proficiency bonus.
- ExpertiseLevel 3
She can choose two skill proficiencies and double her proficiency bonus for them. She has specialized in Persuasion and Insight.
- Song of RestLevel 2
Her performances bolster allies, letting them recover additional hit points when they finish a short rest if she spends a performance die.
- Font of InspirationLevel 5
Her Bardic Inspiration die improves to a d8.
- Improved Bardic InspirationLevel 10
Her Bardic Inspiration die improves to a d10.
- Magical SecretsLevel 10
Her masterful study allows her to choose magical secrets from any class spell list, expanding her repertoire beyond normal bard limits.
- Additional Magical SecretsLevel 14
She has gained two additional spells from any class, deepening the breadth of her magic and scholarship.
- Superior Bardic InspirationLevel 15
Her Bardic Inspiration die improves to a d12.
- Superior InspirationLevel 20
She can inspire others even in a way that restores a use of Bardic Inspiration when she has none left at the start of an encounter.
- Mote of PotentialLevel 3
She can shape intangible motes of potential into wonder. When she inspires a creature, it can also gain an additional effect based on the die rolled, such as a burst of force, temporary hit points, or improved mobility.
- Creative CrescendoLevel 14
Her creation magic blooms into a spectacular surge of creative force, multiplying the power and duration of animated objects and strengthening her control over living performances.
- TraitElfDarkvision 60 ft.
- TraitElfFey Ancestry
- TraitElfTrance
- TraitElfKeen Senses, proficiency in Perception
- TraitElfCantrip, one wizard cantrip of choice from the wizard spell list
- TraitElfExtra Language
- ResearcherSage
If Lysandra does not know a piece of lore, she usually knows where and from whom to learn it. She can often identify the keepers of obscure knowledge and the best places to seek records, libraries, or academic aid.
Spells
26 spellsSpellcasting. Lysandra casts with Charisma (spell save DC 17, to hit with spell attacks).
Cantrips (at will): , , ,
1st level (4 slots): , , , , , ,
2nd level (3 slots): , ,
3rd level (3 slots): , , ,
4th level (3 slots): no spells
5th level (3 slots): ,
6th level (2 slots): ,
7th level (2 slots): ,
8th level (1 slot):
9th level (1 slot):
Gear
9 itemsWeapons
- DaggerA dagger kept mostly for utility, not as a favored weapon.
Armor
- Studded LeatherA studded leather traveling coat chosen for mobility and style, though Lysandra often prefers to go without armor when circumstances allow.
Tools
- LuteA lute, used for performance, composition, and spell focus through learned technique.
- FluteA flute, compact enough to carry in a satchel during travel.
- HarpA harp, reserved for more formal performances and refined salons.
Gear
- Scholar's PackA scholar's pack containing useful travel and study gear.
- Book of LoreA book of lore and copied annotations from her years of study.
- Writing KitInk, quill, and parchment for writing essays, poems, and field notes.
- Research NotesA pouch of assorted notes, citations, and personal references tied with colored thread.
Appearance
Lysandra is a high elf with a lithe, athletic build and an ethereal presence. She stands tall and slender, with pale ivory skin, sharp aristocratic features, high cheekbones, a narrow straight nose, and long pointed ears tipped with simple silver hoops. Her hair falls in a straight silver-white curtain to the middle of her back, and her crystalline blue eyes hold a measured, intelligent intensity. She favors modern high fantasy clothing, loose dark trousers, pale shirts with rolled sleeves, and practical layers that make her look like a scholar who wandered out of a metropolitan atelier.
Mannerisms
Lysandra speaks with precise diction and habitually pauses before answering, as if weighing the shape of each sentence. She smooths the edge of a page with one thumb when thinking, and when inspired she taps out silent rhythms on the nearest surface. She rarely raises her voice, but when she does, it is calm enough to feel dangerous. She keeps her posture immaculate, even at rest, like someone trained to look composed in rooms that were never designed to welcome her.
Personality
Lysandra is composed, incisive, and quietly theatrical. She likes clean arguments, well-ordered shelves, fresh ink, and rooms where people are brave enough to disagree with her. She is friendly in a restrained way, offering competence before affection and wit before vulnerability. Around people she trusts, her dryness gives way to dry humor and a startling warmth, but she still tends to observe first and reveal herself slowly.
Ideals
Freedom. Knowledge has no value if it is locked away from the living world. Truth should move, grow, and create something better than the tradition that preserved it.
Bonds
She keeps a sealed journal of every place that welcomed her when her own people turned away, and she will cross any distance to protect the libraries, editors, and oddball patrons who gave her a place to belong. She also carries the unfinished notes of her first great theory, that creation magic can be taught as a discipline of storytelling, not only as a talent of blood or instinct.
Flaws
She trusts ideas more readily than people, and she can become condescending when others dismiss careful study. When challenged, she sometimes hides uncertainty behind elegant words instead of admitting she needs help. Her pride in being self-made can make it difficult for her to accept guidance from family or institutions that once constrained her.
Quirks
Background
Lysandra was born in a secluded elven enclave where every shelf was sacred and every question had an approved answer. She learned to read before she learned to gambol through the boughs, and by the time she was grown, the elders had already decided what sort of scholar she would become. That certainty suffocated her. She wanted stories that were still being written, not archivists polishing the same old truths for another century. So she left the enclave behind, carrying little more than a sharp mind, a walking satchel of notes, and the stubborn belief that knowledge should be lived as well as preserved. Atrix Isle gave her exactly what her birthplace never could. It gave her crowded streets, strange customs, impossible inventions, and the chance to become a freelance writer who could chase rumors as easily as citations. Somewhere along the way, her scholarship changed shape into bardic art. She found that words could build as surely as they could describe, and that a well-placed story could summon wonder, courage, or laughter in the span of a breath. As a College of Creation bard, she treats every performance, essay, and carefully chosen sentence as an act of making, a way to prove that beauty is not a relic locked in a vault, but something that can be built, revised, and shared.
“She wanted stories that were still being written, not archivists polishing the same old truths for another century.”
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