Zawadi Kétembe
Zawadi Kétembe
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AC 13 · HP 54 · 30 ft.Saving throws
Skills
- AcrobaticsDEX
- Animal HandlingSTR
- ArcanaINT
- AthleticsSTR
- DeceptionCHA
- HistoryINT
- InsightWIS
- IntimidationCHA
- InvestigationINT
- MedicineWIS
- NatureINT
- PerceptionWIS
- PersuasionCHA
- ReligionINT
- Sleight of HandDEX
- StealthDEX
- SurvivalWIS
Armor
Weapons
Tools
Languages
Features
25 featuresBonus action
- Otherworldly Patron, The HexbladeLevel 1
Zawadi has a pact with a mysterious Hexblade patron, a sentient force associated with shadow, cursed weapons, and the distant realm of the Shadowfell. She gains proficiency with medium armor, shields, and martial weapons. She can use Charisma for attack and damage rolls with one chosen weapon, and she can curse one creature per short or long rest as a bonus action, gaining bonuses against it and restoring hit points when it dies.
- Hex WarriorLevel 1
Zawadi can use a bonus action to touch one weapon that lacks the two-handed property and establish a magical bond with it. She can use Charisma instead of Strength or Dexterity for its attack and damage rolls. The bond lasts until she rests or dies, and she can change the weapon after a long rest.
- Improved Pact WeaponLevel 5
Zawadi can use a bonus action to magically summon her pact weapon into her hand. The weapon counts as magical, and she can use it as a spellcasting focus. She can also use it to create a longbow, shortbow, light crossbow, or heavy crossbow as her pact weapon, and she gain proficiency with it if needed.
- Pact Weapon MasteryLevel 7
Zawadi can use an action to cause her pact weapon to disappear into an extradimensional space. She can then summon it again as a bonus action. While her pact weapon is on her person, she can summon it as a bonus action if it is in that space.
Always on
- Eldritch Blast
When Action
Zawadi makes a ranged spell attack, dealing 1d10 force damage on a hit. At 10th level, the spell fires two beams, each of which can target the same or different creatures.
- Thirsting BladeLevel 8
When Action
Zawadi makes two attacks with her pact weapon when she takes the Attack action.
- Hexblade's CurseLevel 1
When Bonus action
Zawadi curses one creature within 30 feet for 1 minute, improving her damage and critical range against it and healing her when it dies.
- Radiant Soul
When Action
Zawadi manifests luminous wings and gains a flying speed of 30 feet for 1 minute. Once on each of her turns, she deals extra radiant damage equal to her level when she deals damage with an attack or spell.
- Pact MagicLevel 1
Zawadi can cast warlock spells using Charisma. She knows four cantrips and ten warlock spells, and her spellcasting focus can be a component pouch or arcane focus.
- Eldritch InvocationsLevel 2
Zawadi can invoke eldritch powers through five chosen invocations: Agonizing Blast, Devil's Sight, Eldritch Sight, Improved Pact Weapon, and Mask of Many Faces.
- Pact Boon, Pact of the BladeLevel 3
Zawadi has formed a Pact of the Blade. She can summon a pact weapon, dismiss it, and use it as a spellcasting focus. Her pact weapon is a black, slightly curved saber called Nsumba.
- Ability Score ImprovementLevel 4
Zawadi gains two Ability Score Improvements. Both have been spent increasing Charisma, raising it from 12 after her aasimar bonus to 16.
- Pact Magic, 5th-Level SlotsLevel 9
Zawadi can now cast one warlock spell of 5th level using each of her two Pact Magic slots. Both slots recover after a short or long rest.
- Accursed SpecterLevel 6
When Zawadi reduces a creature to 0 hit points with her pact weapon, she can use her reaction to force its spirit to serve her. The spirit rises as a specter under her control, lasts until the next long rest, and cannot be used again until she finishes a long rest.
- Mask of Many FacesLevel 2
Zawadi can cast Disguise Self at will without expending a spell slot.
- Eldritch SightLevel 2
Zawadi can cast Detect Magic at will without expending a spell slot.
- Devil's SightLevel 2
Zawadi can see normally in darkness, both magical and nonmagical, to a distance of 120 feet.
- Agonizing BlastLevel 2
Zawadi adds her Charisma modifier to the damage of each beam of Eldritch Blast.
- Improved Pact WeaponLevel 5
Zawadi can use her pact weapon as a spellcasting focus, gains a +1 bonus to its attack and damage rolls, and can summon ranged pact weapons.
- TraitAasimar, ProtectorDarkvision to 60 feet
- TraitAasimar, ProtectorCelestial Resistance, resistance to necrotic damage and radiant damage
- TraitAasimar, ProtectorHealing Hands, restore hit points equal to level once per long rest
- TraitAasimar, ProtectorLight Bearer, know the Light cantrip
- TraitAasimar, ProtectorRadiant Soul, once per long rest, gain a 30-foot flying speed for 1 minute and deal extra radiant damage equal to level once per turn
- Position of PrivilegeNoble
Zawadi can secure an audience with local nobility, and common people often make room for her because of her bearing, name, and apparent social standing. She may also receive hospitality from other nobles who recognize her family or reputation.
Spells
17 spellsSpellcasting. Zawadi Kétembe casts with Charisma (spell save DC 15, to hit with spell attacks).
Cantrips (at will): , , ,
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4th level: ,
5th level (2 slots):
Gear
10 itemsWeapons
- Nsumba, pact saberA pact weapon in the form of a black saber, used as a simple melee weapon when its supernatural bond is not invoked.
- Light crossbowA light crossbow with a waxed leather case.
Armor
- Leather armorA fitted leather cuirass and reinforced leather bracers, worn beneath her coat.
Gear
- 20×Crossbow boltsBolts for the light crossbow.
- Component pouchA leather pouch containing arcane reagents and marked components.
- Scholar's packA backpack containing parchment, ink, pens, small candles, a tinderbox, a hooded lantern, oil, rations, waterskin, and a small book of historical notes.
- Fine clothesFine travel clothes in subdued noble colors.
- Signet ringA family signet ring bearing a stylized sun over a closed eye.
- Scroll of pedigreeA scroll listing her genealogy and the family's legal claims.
Purse
- 25×Gold piecesCoins kept in a small hidden purse sewn into her coat lining.
Appearance
Zawadi Kétembe is a tall, copper-brown-skinned aasimar woman with dark auburn hair worn in meticulous rows of small braids, each tipped with a different brass bead. Her eyes are deep brown in their ordinary state, but flare with warm gold when she invokes her celestial heritage. She dresses like a minor aristocrat who has spent too long on the road, wearing a well-cut burgundy coat over practical leather armor, polished riding boots, and a silver signet ring turned inward against her palm. Her hands are especially distinctive, with ink-stained fingertips, callused palms from sword drills, and carefully maintained nails. A faint geometric pattern of luminous freckles appears across her shoulders and collarbones when her Radiant Soul manifests.
Mannerisms
Zawadi tilts her head as if listening to a second conversation whenever someone makes a promise. In formal company, she smooths one braid behind her ear before delivering an insult. She keeps her signet ring turned inward, rubbing its face with her thumb when she is tempted to return home.
Personality
Zawadi is charming, observant, and difficult to embarrass. She enjoys elegant conversation, petty rule-breaking, and making pompous people explain themselves. She is generous toward servants, travelers, and outsiders, but becomes coldly competitive around people who assume her cooperation is guaranteed.
Ideals
Freedom. No bloodline, prophecy, patron, or institution has the right to decide what a person becomes.
Bonds
She still wears her family's signet ring, not from affection, but because she intends to return one day and decide what the Kétembe name is worth. She is fiercely protective of anyone who has been used as a symbol by people in power.
Flaws
She treats sincerity as a tactical disadvantage and will lie reflexively when the truth would make her vulnerable. Zawadi is also dangerously curious about forbidden magic, especially when someone tells her that a door should remain closed.
Quirks
Background
Zawadi Kétembe was born into a prosperous house that purchased its nobility through generations of trade, marriage, and carefully timed loyalty. Her celestial bloodline made her both a family blessing and a family embarrassment. Relatives displayed her at formal gatherings as proof that the heavens favored them, then quietly blamed her whenever her temper, curiosity, or refusal to flatter the right people threatened their reputation. She learned early that privilege was less a moral quality than a language, and she became fluent in it while privately despising the rules beneath it. At nineteen, Zawadi discovered an antique black sword sealed in the family chapel, a weapon said to have belonged to an ancestor who made a bargain with a sentient shadow from beyond the mortal world. When she touched its hilt, the blade spoke without words, offering power in exchange for freedom from the family's expectations. Zawadi accepted before she had decided whether the voice was a savior, a parasite, or simply an interesting opportunity. She left home with the sword's pact branded into her shadow, taking work as a negotiator, relic hunter, and occasional duelist. Her celestial radiance and eldritch magic now pull her in opposite directions, and she has made a career of pretending that contradiction is deliberate.
“Her celestial bloodline made her both a family blessing and a family embarrassment.”
- Background
- Noble
Connections
Species
Aasimar, Protector
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