Maa'raxia
Maa'raxia
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AC 13 · HP 142 · 30 ft.Saving throws
Skills
- ArcanaINT
- HistoryINT
- InvestigationINT
- ReligionWIS
Weapons
Tools
Languages
Features
22 featuresAction
- Breath WeaponDragonbornOnce per turn when you take the Attack action, you can replace one attack with an exhalation of poisonous energy. Choose a 15-foot cone or a 30-foot line. Creatures in the area make a Constitution save against DC 18. On a failure they take 4d10 poison damage, or half as much on a success. You can use this trait a number of times equal to your proficiency bonus per Long Rest.
Bonus action
- Spell BreakerLevel 10
When When she chooses to unravel enemy magic
She casts Dispel Magic as a Bonus Action and adds her proficiency bonus to the ability check.
- Arcane WardLevel 3
When she casts an Abjuration spell with a spell slot, she can create a magical ward on herself that lasts until a Long Rest. The ward has 46 hit points, equal to twice her wizard level plus her Intelligence modifier. Damage is applied to the ward first, after resistances and vulnerabilities are applied. When she casts an Abjuration spell with a spell slot, or spends a spell slot as a Bonus Action, the ward regains 2 hit points per spell level expended.
- Draconic FlightDragonbornOnce per Long Rest, as a Bonus Action, you gain a flying speed for 10 minutes. The spectral wings resemble draconic energy matching your Breath Weapon.
Reaction
- Projected WardLevel 6
When A visible creature within 30 feet takes damage
She can interpose her Arcane Ward to absorb damage from an ally within 30 feet as a Reaction.
Always on
- Breath Weapon
When When she takes the Attack action
She exhales a cone or line of caustic poison energy, shaped by ancient draconic instinct and reinforced by battle-honed magic.
- Draconic Flight
When Once per Long Rest
She manifests spectral wings of green arcane force and gains a flying speed for up to 10 minutes once per Long Rest.
- Abjuration Reserve
When When maintaining defenses in combat
She casts Shield or Absorb Elements with perfect economy, replenishing her ward while preserving tactical control.
- SpellcastingLevel 1
You know the wizard spellcasting rules, use Intelligence as your spellcasting ability, can prepare wizard spells from your spellbook, and can use an Arcane Focus or your spellbook as a spellcasting focus. At level 20, your prepared spell list normally contains 26 level 1+ wizard spells, not counting always-prepared subclass or feat spells.
- Ritual AdeptLevel 1
You can cast any spell with the Ritual tag as a ritual if that spell is in your spellbook, even if it is not prepared, provided you read from the book.
- Arcane RecoveryLevel 1
After a Short Rest, you can recover expended spell slots whose combined levels are up to 10, but none higher than 5th level. You can do this once per Long Rest.
- Wizard Subclass: AbjurerLevel 3
Choose one Wizard subclass. Maa'raxia's school is Abjuration, the study of barriers, banishment, and magical defense.
- Abjuration SavantLevel 3
Choose two Wizard spells from the Abjuration school, each no higher than 2nd level, and add them to your spellbook for free. Maa'raxia's free choices are Shield and Absorb Elements. Whenever she gains access to a new spell slot level, she adds one Abjuration spell of that level to her spellbook for free.
- Spell ResistanceLevel 14
She has Advantage on saving throws against spells and Resistance to damage from spells.
- Epic BoonLevel 19
At 19th level, she gains an Epic Boon feat. Maa'raxia takes Boon of Spell Recall, reflecting her mastery over conserving and reclaiming arcane power.
- Signature SpellsLevel 20
At 20th level, she chooses two 3rd-level wizard spells in her spellbook as signature spells. Maa'raxia's signature spells are Counterspell and Dispel Magic. Each is always prepared and can be cast once at 3rd level without expending a spell slot, refreshing after a Short or Long Rest.
- SizeDragonbornMedium
- SpeedDragonborn30 feet
- DarkvisionDragonborn60 feet
- Damage ResistanceDragonbornPoison
- Draconic AncestryDragonbornGreen. Her draconic power manifests as poison and viridian shadow.
- ResearcherSage
You know where and from whom you can obtain information about a wide variety of lore, especially arcane, scholarly, and historical matters. In practice, your old academic contacts and library habits always seem to open at least one door.
Spells
38 spellsSpellcasting. Maa'raxia casts with Intelligence (spell save DC 20, to hit with spell attacks).
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Gear
10 itemsWeapons
- QuarterstaffA sturdy wizardly staff used as both focus and walking aid.
Armor
- Rune-Black PaudronA rune-inscribed black pauldron forged to reinforce her left shoulder.
Tools
- Calligrapher's SuppliesCalligrapher's tools used to copy sigils, warding formulas, and planar diagrams.
Gear
- Arcane FocusA backup arcane focus carried among her ritual tools.
- SpellbookA well-worn tome containing the first and most foundational spells of her apprenticeship.
- Book of HistoryA book of history and obscure scholarship from her years of study.
- 8×ParchmentLoose parchment sheets for notes, diagrams, and copied spell forms.
- RobeA plain scholar's robe adapted to draconic proportions and ritual work.
- Arcane HarnessA braided leather harness that holds vials of reagents, inks, and powdered components.
Purse
- 8×Gold PiecesCoin kept for travel between libraries, markets, and hidden archives.
Appearance
Maa'raxia is a towering green dragonborn with midnight-forest scales that shimmer with an oily iridescence under violet light. Dark verdigris edges each scale, and a long, powerful tail coils with practiced stillness when she is at rest. Her elongated draconic face bears a heavy brow ridge, sharp ivory teeth, and large eyes with molten-gold slit pupils set in moss-green sclera. Ram-curved horns sweep back from her temples, etched with glowing abjuration runes. She wears no ordinary clothing, instead draping herself in shadow-forged vestments, a braided leather harness with reagent vials, a black rune-inscribed pauldron, obsidian bracers marked with protective circles, and a violet scale-mail loincloth that catches the light like a living ward. Her claws are polished and tipped in silver, as if even her violence has been subjected to careful ritual.
Mannerisms
She speaks slowly, each sentence measured as if it were being carved into stone. When considering a problem, she taps one filed claw against the other in a precise rhythm. She rarely blinks, and when she does, it is deliberate, like the closing of a ward. In conversation she often turns her head slightly, as though listening for a hidden resonance beneath the words.
Personality
Maa'raxia is patient, exacting, and intensely curious, with the stillness of a predator and the caution of a living ward. She prefers observation to interruption, and she trusts systems more readily than sentiment. Yet beneath her controlled exterior lies a fierce protectiveness toward those she has accepted into her circle. Once she decides someone is hers to guard, she becomes immovable, and her loyalty is as enduring as any rune carved into adamant.
Ideals
Control. Power without discipline is merely disaster waiting for a name. The wise use magic to bind what should not roam free, protect the vulnerable, and ensure that knowledge serves life instead of devouring it.
Bonds
She carries the last surviving folio of her enclave's planar research, wrapped in sealed oilcloth and guarded more fiercely than treasure. She will not allow its knowledge to be lost, stolen, or misused.
Flaws
Her need for control can become obsession, and she sometimes values containment over compassion. In a crisis she may withhold crucial truths until she has tested every consequence, even when honesty would be kinder. When confronted with reckless magic, she becomes cold, severe, and frighteningly uncompromising.
Quirks
Background
Maa'raxia was born into a secluded dragonborn enclave that treated magic as both scholarship and sacred duty. Her people built their libraries into the bones of old stone vaults, and their greatest studies concerned the spaces between planes, where names, wards, and boundaries mattered more than steel. As a young scholar she proved unusually gifted, not for raw destructive power, but for precision. She memorized warding diagrams, cataloged planar conjunctions, and learned to think like a lock before she learned to think like a blade. The catastrophe came when the enclave attempted a ritual meant to seal a breach beyond the world. The circle failed, the boundary broke, and something vast and hungry answered the call. Maa'raxia survived where all others perished, but not unchanged. Shadow fused with scale, and the abortive containment rite tangled itself through her flesh and soul. She became both vessel and prison, a living arcane engine sustained by the same abjurations that keep her from unraveling into the dark between worlds. Since that night she has wandered as scholar, guardian, and reluctant weapon, perfecting the disciplines of abjuration and transmutation so that no disaster like her own can ever be repeated. She does not seek redemption. She seeks containment, control, and the one equation that might let her exist without becoming a calamity.
“As a young scholar she proved unusually gifted, not for raw destructive power, but for precision.”
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Dragonborn
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