Sheshka Saarinen
Sheshka Saarinen
Sheet
AC 13 · HP 24 · 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
- SurvivalCHA
Armor
Weapons
Tools
Languages
Features
18 featuresAction
- Divine Domain, Preserve Life UtilityLevel 2
Sheshka can use an action to end one effect on herself or one willing creature that is causing the blinded, deafened, paralyzed, or poisoned condition.
Bonus action
- Spiritual Weapon
When Bonus action after casting the spell; repeat as a bonus action on later turns
Sheshka makes a melee spell attack with a spectral weapon within 60 feet. On a hit, the target takes 1d8 plus her Wisdom modifier force damage. The weapon can move 20 feet as a bonus action and attack again.
Always on
- Cure Wounds
When Action, touch a creature
Sheshka restores 1d8 plus 3 hit points to a creature she touches. Because of Disciple of Life, the target regains 3 additional hit points when cast using a 1st-level slot.
- Turn UndeadLevel 2
When Action, undead within 30 feet
Sheshka presents her holy symbol and forces undead within 30 feet that can see or hear her to make a Wisdom saving throw or flee for up to 1 minute.
- Preserve Life
When Action, creatures within 30 feet
Sheshka distributes a healing pool equal to 15 hit points among creatures within 30 feet, restoring no creature above half its hit point maximum.
- SpellcastingLevel 1
Sheshka can cast cleric spells using Wisdom as her spellcasting ability. She knows the cleric cantrips listed in her spell list and prepares a number of cleric spells equal to her Wisdom modifier plus her cleric level, in addition to her Life Domain spells.
- Divine Domain, Life DomainLevel 1
Sheshka gains proficiency with heavy armor. Her Life Domain grants the domain spells bless and cure wounds at 1st level, and lesser restoration and spiritual weapon at 3rd level. These spells are always prepared and do not count against her number of prepared cleric spells.
- Disciple of LifeLevel 1
Whenever Sheshka uses a spell of 1st level or higher to restore hit points to a creature, that creature regains additional hit points equal to 2 plus the spell's level.
- Divine Domain Spellcasting FocusLevel 1
Sheshka can use a holy symbol as a spellcasting focus for her cleric spells.
- Channel Divinity, 1/restLevel 2
Sheshka can invoke divine energy to fuel magical effects. She can use Channel Divinity once between rests. She gains the Turn Undead option.
- Channel Divinity, Preserve LifeLevel 2
Sheshka can use Channel Divinity to restore hit points to creatures within 30 feet. She presents her holy symbol and chooses any number of creatures within range, dividing a pool of healing equal to five times her cleric level among them. This healing cannot restore a creature to more than half its hit point maximum.
- Ability Score IncreaseHumanAll ability scores increase by 1.
- AgeHumanHumans reach adulthood in their late teens and commonly live less than a century.
- AlignmentHumanHumans tend toward no particular alignment, though individual communities and cultures often shape strong moral traditions.
- SizeHumanMedium.
- SpeedHuman30 feet.
- VersatileHumanHumans speak Common and one extra language of the player's choice.
- DiscoveryHermit
Sheshka has discovered a unique and powerful truth during her seclusion, the knowledge that illness, grief, and spiritual corruption often leave traces in the same places. She can identify signs of common diseases and recognize when a seemingly natural affliction may have a supernatural cause. She may also receive modest hospitality from religious communities and healers who respect her devotion.
Spells
10 spellsSpellcasting. Sheshka Saarinen casts with Wisdom (spell save DC 13, to hit with spell attacks).
Cantrips (at will): , ,
1st level (4 slots): , , , ,
2nd level (2 slots): ,
Gear
10 itemsWeapons
- MaceA plain iron-headed mace used both as a weapon and as a ritual tool.
- Light crossbowA light crossbow with a case of twenty bolts.
Armor
- Leather armorStudded leather-style treated hide armor with reinforced seams and a fitted leather cuirass.
- ShieldA round wooden shield painted with a simple golden sun and marked with repair scratches.
Gear
- 20×Crossbow boltsA case containing twenty crossbow bolts.
- Priest's packA priest's pack containing a backpack, blanket, ten candles, tinderbox, alms box, two blocks of incense, censer, vestments, and waterskin.
- Holy symbolA small iron bowl used as her holy symbol and as a vessel for healing water.
- Scroll case of notesA scroll case containing notes from her years of solitude and observations about disease and curses.
- Hermit's belongingsA winter blanket, a set of common clothes, and a small herbalism kit.
Purse
- 5×Gold piecesCoin retained from her former life and occasional offerings from those she has aided.
Appearance
Sheshka is a sturdy human woman of average height, with weather-browned skin, gray-green eyes, and dark brown hair worn in two practical braids bound with red thread. A pale scar crosses her left palm, a remnant of the winter fever she survived as a child. She wears worn leather armor beneath a cream-colored wool cloak, carries a round wooden shield painted with a simple golden sun, and keeps her holy symbol, a small iron bowl, at her throat.
Mannerisms
She touches the rim of her iron bowl before beginning any prayer, speaks in a low measured voice, and pauses to listen whenever someone mentions a sickness, wound, or recurring nightmare.
Personality
Sheshka is patient, observant, and quietly warm. She notices small signs of distress that others overlook, such as a hand held too tightly or a cup left untouched. She prefers practical kindness to grand speeches, but when someone is threatened she becomes unexpectedly forceful and direct.
Ideals
Mercy is a discipline, not a feeling. The strong are obligated to preserve life until every honest chance of healing has been exhausted.
Bonds
The people of her home village survived because of the divine revelation she received, and she will protect them even if doing so costs her life. She also keeps her mother's handwritten herb ledger, the last family possession left to her.
Flaws
Sheshka is slow to trust anyone who dismisses suffering as weakness or bad luck. She can become rigid and judgmental when frightened, and she sometimes withholds important information because she believes she alone can carry the burden responsibly.
Quirks
Background
Sheshka was born in a remote human settlement at the edge of a vast northern woodland, where winter lasted longer than most prayers and every household kept herbs drying above the hearth. Her mother taught her the old remedies, while the village shrine keeper taught her that healing was not merely the mending of flesh. It was the keeping of promises, the sharing of burdens, and the refusal to abandon anyone simply because their suffering was inconvenient. When a wasting sickness struck the settlement, Sheshka withdrew into an abandoned watch hut to study the disease and seek divine guidance. Months of solitude became years. In that silence, she experienced a vision of a radiant presence speaking through the crackle of the fire, showing her that life was a sacred charge entrusted to the living. She returned with a cure, but also with a troubling discovery, the sickness had been worsened by a forgotten curse beneath the village shrine. Now she travels as a cleric of the Life Domain, carrying her iron bowl and field journal from town to town. She heals where she can, investigates hidden causes of suffering, and believes that no community is truly safe while one person is left unseen.
“Her mother taught her the old remedies, while the village shrine keeper taught her that healing was not merely the mending of flesh.”
- Background
- Hermit
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Species
Human
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