Maa'raxia
Maa'raxia
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AC 13 · HP 104 · 30 ft.Saving throws
Skills
- ArcanaINT
- HistoryINT
- InsightWIS
- InvestigationINT
- PerceptionWIS
- ReligionINT
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Languages
Features
17 featuresAlways on
- Projected WardLevel 3
When When you cast an Abjuration spell
Choose one creature you can see within range and briefly reinforce its defenses with layered warding force.
- Improved AbjurationLevel 6
When When using abjuration to interrupt or unmake magic
Your study of abjuration makes your wards unusually efficient and lets you add your proficiency bonus to checks made with Counterspell or Dispel Magic.
- Signature SpellsLevel 20
When At level 20
At high mastery, you can cast your chosen signature spells without spending spell slots, maintaining constant magical readiness.
- SpellcastingLevel 1
You can prepare wizard spells from your spellbook, cast spells using Intelligence, and ritual cast wizard spells you have in your spellbook.
- SpellbookLevel 1
You maintain a spellbook containing your prepared wizard magic and can copy spells into it when you discover them.
- Ritual AdeptLevel 1
You can cast wizard ritual spells from your spellbook without expending a spell slot if the spell has the Ritual tag.
- Arcane RecoveryLevel 1
You recover expended spell slots after a short rest, regaining a portion of your arcane stamina each day.
- Arcane Tradition: School of AbjurationLevel 3
You choose the School of Abjuration, gaining magical specialization in wards, countermeasures, and protective magic.
- Abjuration SavantLevel 3
You learn and can cast Abjuration spells with exceptional efficiency, reinforcing your role as a master of containment and defense.
- Arcane WardLevel 3
When you cast an Abjuration spell, you can create a ward that grants temporary protection to yourself or an ally.
- Spell MasteryLevel 18
You can cast certain spells without expending spell slots, reflecting intense study and magical efficiency.
- DarkvisionDragonbornYou can see in dim light within 60 feet of yourself as if it were bright light, and in darkness as if it were dim light.
- Draconic AncestryDragonbornYou are descended from green dragons, and your breath weapon deals poison damage.
- Breath WeaponDragonbornYou can exhale destructive draconic energy in a 15-foot cone, dealing poison damage to creatures in the area, with the damage scaling as you gain levels.
- Damage ResistanceDragonbornYou have resistance to poison damage.
- Draconic PresenceDragonbornYour draconic bearing is imposing, and you can project that force of personality when needed.
- ResearcherSage
Maa'raxia knows how to uncover obscure lore, locate relevant records, and identify the scholars, vaults, and forbidden archives most likely to hold answers.
Spells
16 spellsSpellcasting. Maa'raxia casts with Intelligence (spell save DC 20, to hit with spell attacks).
Cantrips (at will): , ,
1st level (4 slots): , , , ,
2nd level (3 slots): no spells
3rd level (3 slots): , ,
4th level (3 slots):
5th level (3 slots):
6th level (2 slots): no spells
7th level (2 slots):
8th level (1 slot):
9th level (1 slot):
Gear
7 itemsWeapons
- QuarterstaffA quarterstaff carved with abjuration sigils, used as both focus and walking staff.
Gear
- SpellbookA spellbook containing your prepared wizard spells and notes on containment theory.
- Arcane FocusAn arcane focus fashioned from obsidian and silver wire.
- Scholar's PackA scholar's pack with writing supplies, reference materials, and travel necessities.
- Worn VestmentsA set of fine robes adapted into shadow-forged arcane vestments.
- Component PouchesA collection of reagents, inks, and ritual components secured in vials and pouches.
- Research NotesA ring-bound folio of field notes, diagrams, and planar measurements.
Appearance
Maa'raxia is a towering green dragonborn with deep midnight-canopy scales that shimmer with a faint oily sheen, each edged in dark verdigris. Her frame is broad and powerful, with a long coiled tail, a pronounced brow ridge, ramlike horns carved with glowing abjuration runes, and large molten-gold eyes. She wears no ordinary clothing, instead draping herself in shadow-forged arcane vestments, black leather harnesses, vials of reagents, obsidian bracers, and a violet scale-mail loincloth. Her claws are polished and tipped in silver, and a constant veil of shadow clings to her like living smoke.
Mannerisms
She speaks in measured, resonant sentences and pauses before every important word as if testing the shape of the idea. When thinking, she taps one claw against her wrist bracer in a slow, ritual rhythm. She rarely blinks, and when she is displeased her tail tightens into a deliberate coil instead of lashing.
Personality
Patient, analytical, and intensely self-controlled, Maa'raxia treats every conversation like a problem to be solved and every room like a ward to be mapped. She is not unkind, but her concern is expressed as precise action rather than warm sentiment. Curiosity drives her as strongly as duty, and once she grants trust, it becomes a fierce and almost ceremonial loyalty.
Ideals
Order. Magic is not merely power, it is structure. If reality is a flood, then disciplined knowledge is the wall that keeps civilization standing. She believes the strong have an obligation to build barriers that protect the fragile, even when those barriers are made from sacrifice.
Bonds
She carries the last set of ward-schematics from her fallen enclave, and will not let them be lost, stolen, or misunderstood. She feels responsible for every soul that died when the ritual failed, and she will endure any burden if it gives her a chance to prevent such a disaster from recurring.
Flaws
She trusts systems more readily than people, and may choose containment over compassion when forced to decide quickly. Her certainty can become obsession, especially if she believes a hidden pattern will explain a threat. She also carries the dangerous habit of treating her own body and soul as acceptable collateral if the ward survives.
Quirks
Background
Maa'raxia was born in a secluded dragonborn enclave devoted to studying the borders between planes, where every library was a warded chamber and every lesson began with a warning. Her people believed that knowledge was a wall strong enough to hold back the dark, and she became one of their foremost scholar-arcanists, obsessing over abjuration, transmutation, and the geometry of containment. She learned that a true spell does not merely unleash power, it imposes order upon reality, and that insight made her both revered and feared. The final ritual was meant to seal a breach their diviners had discovered in the spaces between worlds. Instead it called something back, or perhaps invited it in. The enclave died in light and shadow, and Maa'raxia survived only because her own warding circle fused with the catastrophe and remade her. Her body became a vessel of bound darkness, her scales threaded with the residue of the spell that should have been her tomb. Since then she has wandered as a living containment engine, using her wizardry to reinforce the prison inside herself while searching for the truth of what answered her people’s call. She is guardian, experiment, and warning sign all at once.
“She learned that a true spell does not merely unleash power, it imposes order upon reality, and that insight made her both revered and feared.”
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Dragonborn
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