Lysandra
Lysandra
Sheet
AC 13 · HP 164 · 30 ft.Saving throws
Skills
- AcrobaticsDEX
- ArcanaINT
- DeceptionCHA
- HistoryINT
- InsightWIS
- PerceptionWIS
- PerformanceCHA
- PersuasionCHA
Armor
Weapons
Tools
Languages
Features
27 featuresAction
- Bardic InspirationLevel 1
When Action
As an action, she can grant Bardic Inspiration to a creature within range, using a growing pool of dice that refresh on a short or long rest.
Reaction
- CountercharmLevel 6
She can use a reaction to grant herself and allies advantage on saving throws against being frightened or charmed, and can neutralize those effects with performance.
Always on
- Mote of PotentialLevel 3
When When Bardic Inspiration is used
When a creature within range uses her Bardic Inspiration, the die creates a mote of potential that can aid damage, healing, checks, or movement depending on the roll.
- Performance of CreationLevel 3
When Action
She can create a Tiny object as a magical performance, turning art into temporary reality.
- Animating PerformanceLevel 6
When Action
She can direct animated creations to move and act as a group, turning composition into motion.
- SpellcastingLevel 1
She knows a selection of bard spells and can cast them using Charisma as her spellcasting ability.
- Bardic SpellcastingLevel 1
She can learn and use bard cantrips and spells, and can prepare none, since bards know a fixed number of spells.
- Three Skill ProficienciesLevel 1
She gains proficiency with three skills of her choice from the bard list.
- 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.
- Song of RestLevel 2
She can roll a Bardic Inspiration die and add the result to the healing restored by a short rest.
- ExpertiseLevel 3
She gains expertise in two of her skill proficiencies, doubling her proficiency bonus for those skills.
- College of CreationLevel 3
Lysandra joins the College of Creation, learning to shape raw possibility into temporary art and practical effects.
- Font of InspirationLevel 5
She gains another use of Bardic Inspiration after a short or long rest rather than only a long rest.
- Bardic Inspiration ImprovementLevel 5
Her Bardic Inspiration die becomes a d8.
- Bardic Inspiration ImprovementLevel 10
She can use her Bardic Inspiration dice in more potent ways, and her die improves to a d10.
- Magical SecretsLevel 10
She gains additional Magical Secrets, learning spells from any class list.
- Bardic Inspiration ImprovementLevel 15
Her Bardic Inspiration die becomes a d12.
- Magical SecretsLevel 14
She can use two extra spells from any class list, broadening her magical repertoire further.
- Creative CrescendoLevel 14
Her creative magic can produce a powerful resonant image that inspires and empowers allies.
- Magical SecretsLevel 18
She gains a final pair of Magical Secrets from any class list.
- Superior InspirationLevel 20
Whenever she rolls initiative and has no Bardic Inspiration uses left, she regains one use.
- TraitElfDarkvision
- TraitElfKeen Senses
- TraitElfFey Ancestry
- TraitElfTrance
- TraitElfElf Weapon Training
- ResearcherSage
Lysandra can usually identify the general location of a piece of lore, a scholar, a library, or a hidden archive. She knows who can provide information, and she can often secure access to records others overlook.
Spells
23 spellsSpellcasting. Lysandra casts with Charisma (spell save DC 18, to hit with spell attacks).
1st level (4 slots): , , ,
2nd level (3 slots): , , ,
3rd level (3 slots): , , ,
4th level (3 slots): , ,
5th level (3 slots): , ,
6th level (2 slots): ,
7th level (2 slots):
8th level (1 slot):
9th level (1 slot):
Gear
7 itemsWeapons
- DaggerA simple blade kept more for utility than violence.
Armor
- Leather ArmorProtective light armor suitable for travel and performance.
Gear
- Scholar's PackA refined set of travel gear with writing supplies, useful for study and city life.
- Research TomeA well-bound volume of notes, essays, and copied arcane references that she keeps close at hand.
- Writing KitInk, quill, and parchment for field notes and formal correspondence.
- Letter of IntroductionA letter of introduction and recommendation from an old scholar.
- Travel ClothesCommon travel clothes in dark, practical colors.
Appearance
Lysandra is a tall, lithe high elf with an ethereal, refined presence, pale luminous ivory skin, sharp aristocratic features, and long silver-white hair that falls to the middle of her back. Her crystalline blue eyes are alert and analytical, framed by fine pale lashes. She favors modern, practical clothing in dark charcoal and deep navy, usually loose trousers, a pale shirt with rolled sleeves, and a soft open cardigan or vest. In her hand she often carries a well-worn book or research folio, as if ready to annotate the world itself.
Mannerisms
She speaks with measured precision, often pausing as if selecting the exact word from a private archive. When thinking, she taps the edge of her book against her palm. She stands very straight, listens more than she interrupts, and only smiles when something is either genuinely beautiful or deeply absurd.
Personality
Reserved, observant, and quietly theatrical, Lysandra treats every conversation like a text worth annotating. She is patient with sincere curiosity, merciless toward lazy thinking, and unexpectedly gentle with people who feel out of place. Her confidence is real, but it is built on discipline rather than vanity, and she prefers a clean argument, a clean page, and a clean room. She rarely raises her voice, yet somehow still dominates the emotional shape of a space.
Ideals
Truth should be discovered, not inherited. Knowledge must remain alive, usable, and shared, because locked-away wisdom slowly becomes a cage. She believes art should make people see the world differently, and that a single elegant idea can be more revolutionary than a thousand shouted commands.
Bonds
She keeps a sealed folio of notes, letters, and copied fragments from her old enclave, and she will not let it be lost or altered. She also feels responsible for every young scholar she meets who has been taught to fear their own questions.
Flaws
She can be dismissive of traditions she considers intellectually stagnant, and her dry wit can cut deeper than she intends. When she believes a system is dishonest, she has a bad habit of treating rules as suggestions, even when that creates new complications. Under stress, she retreats into analysis and may withhold her feelings until they become impossible to ignore.
Quirks
Background
Lysandra was born among high elf archivists in a secluded enclave where memory was treated as sacred law and curiosity was tolerated only when it confirmed tradition. She learned to read before she learned to sing, and she learned both because the elders believed that knowledge, once ordered correctly, could never become dangerous. Lysandra disagreed. She found the archives beautiful, but also suffocating, a place where every question had already been answered in the same polished voice. When her gifts for shaping performance into living creation first manifested, the elders praised her talent and quietly urged restraint. She took that as a warning, not a compliment. She left for Atrix Isle with little more than a stack of books, a sharp mind, and a refusal to let anyone else decide what wonder should look like. In the city she became a freelance writer, researcher, and occasional scandal for the polite circles that hire her. Her College of Creation magic lets her turn thought into motion, sketches into substance, and ideas into tools that exist for only a fleeting moment, which suits her perfectly. She does not merely document history, she argues with it. Every article she writes, every theory she records, is another small rebellion against the silence of her upbringing, and another promise that beauty can be practical, disruptive, and free.
“She found the archives beautiful, but also suffocating, a place where every question had already been answered in the same polished voice.”
- Background
- Sage
Connections
Species
Elf
Media
0 imagesNo images yet.
Turn Lysandra into a sheet
A high-res, share-ready sheet you can post or print.