Sera Vell
Sera Vell
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AC 16 · HP 8 · 30 ft.Saving throws
Skills
- DeceptionCHA
- HistoryINT
- InsightWIS
- MedicineWIS
- PersuasionCHA
- ReligionWIS
Armor
Weapons
Tools
Languages
Features
6 featuresAlways on
- SpellcastingLevel 1
You can cast cleric spells using Wisdom as your spellcasting ability. You know three cleric cantrips, and you can prepare four level 1 cleric spells after each Long Rest. You have two level 1 spell slots. You can use a holy symbol as your spellcasting focus.
- Divine Order, ThaumaturgeLevel 1
You have dedicated yourself to the Thaumaturge role. You know one extra cleric cantrip. In addition, you add your Wisdom modifier, minimum +1, to Intelligence (Arcana) or Intelligence (Religion) checks.
- TraitHumanResourceful, you gain Heroic Inspiration whenever you finish a Long Rest.
- TraitHumanSkillful, you gain proficiency in one skill of your choice.
- TraitHumanVersatile, you gain an Origin feat of your choice in addition to the one granted by your background.
- NoneAcolyte
This background grants no additional feature beyond its training, equipment, and Origin feat in the 2024 rules.
Spells
9 spellsSpellcasting. Sera Vell casts with Wisdom (spell save DC 10, to hit with spell attacks).
Cantrips (at will): , , ,
1st level (2 slots): , , , ,
Gear
12 itemsWeapons
- MaceA simple mace chosen for its reliability and symbolic weight.
- Light CrossbowA compact ranged weapon with ammunition for emergencies.
Armor
- Scale MailA reinforced shirt of overlapping metal plates and leather backing.
- ShieldA defensive shield bearing the temple's emblem.
Tools
- Calligrapher's SuppliesUsed to preserve temple records and send careful correspondence.
Gear
- RobeTemple vestments for travel and ritual, worn and well mended.
- Book of prayersA handwritten devotional book filled with copied prayers.
- 10×ParchmentSheets used for copying rites, notes, and letters of thanks.
- Holy SymbolA sacred emblem used as a spellcasting focus.
- 20×Crossbow BoltsBolts for the light crossbow.
- Priest's PackA priest's travel kit with supplies for short journeys.
Purse
- 8×Gold PiecesA modest purse kept from the background package.
Appearance
A lean human priest in practical scale mail, with ink-stained fingers, a clean-shaved face, and a small brass holy symbol worn over the breastplate. Their robes are neatly folded beneath the armor, as if ceremony and hard travel are equally sacred. They carry themselves with calm, attentive posture, and their eyes seem to be perpetually measuring where help is needed first.
Mannerisms
Speaks softly even in argument, as if in a chapel. Before making a promise, Sera touches the holy symbol at her chest. When thinking, she unconsciously traces tiny circles on her palm, like turning the pages of a prayer book.
Personality
Patient, observant, and quietly relentless. Sera listens longer than most people expect, then acts with sudden certainty once the need is clear. She can be warm in small ways, a cup of broth, a mended sleeve, a hand on a fevered brow, but she has little tolerance for cruelty dressed up as tradition.
Ideals
Compassion is not a feeling, it is a discipline. If someone is hurting and I can help, then I am already answering a prayer.
Bonds
The temple where Sera was raised still shelters the poor, and they send back coin, medicine, and news whenever they can. They also keep a prayer book copied in their own hand, containing the names of everyone who ever asked them for help, and they refuse to let that list be forgotten.
Flaws
Sera sometimes mistakes urgency for righteousness and can become judgmental of anyone who hesitates. They also struggle to ask for help, even when they are exhausted, because they fear being seen as less faithful if they admit weakness.
Quirks
Background
Sera learned the shape of holiness in a temple library, not at a throne or battlefield. They spent years copying prayers, sweeping incense ash, and listening to petitioners who came seeking miracles they could not afford. The senior clergy valued Sera for patience more than brilliance, because when strangers wept, Sera did not look away. When they were finally entrusted with a holy symbol and the first stirrings of divine power, they treated it not like a coronation, but like a burden to be carried carefully. When famine and fever reached the temple district, Sera discovered that faith without action felt like an empty bell. They left with a satchel of prayers, a novice’s training, and a stubborn conviction that mercy should be visible, practical, and often inconvenient. Now they travel from settlement to settlement, patching wounds, shielding the weak, and asking hard questions of gods, priests, and themselves. They believe every life is a sacred text worth reading to the end, and they intend to keep turning the pages until the last one is saved.
“They spent years copying prayers, sweeping incense ash, and listening to petitioners who came seeking miracles they could not afford.”
- Background
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Species
Human
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