Maa'raxia
Maa'raxia
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AC 13 · HP 142 · 30 ft.Saving throws
Skills
- ArcanaINT
- HistoryINT
- InvestigationINT
- ReligionINT
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Languages
Features
16 featuresAlways on
- SpellcastingLevel 1
Maa'raxia can cast wizard spells, prepare a number of spells from her spellbook equal to her wizard level plus her Intelligence modifier, and use Intelligence as her spellcasting ability. She also maintains a spellbook and can replace spells by study.
- Arcane RecoveryLevel 1
She can recover expended spell slots once per day during a short rest, restoring a limited amount of magical energy without needing to sleep until long rest.
- Arcane Tradition: School of AbjurationLevel 3
She chose the School of Abjuration. Her magic specializes in defense, barriers, and countering hostile spells.
- Arcane WardLevel 3
She creates a magical ward whenever she casts an abjuration spell of 1st level or higher. The ward absorbs damage, and she can replenish it by casting additional abjuration spells.
- Projected WardLevel 6
She can use her ward to protect nearby allies, redirecting some of the damage they would take to her Arcane Ward instead.
- Improved AbjurationLevel 10
Her abjuration spells are easier to maintain and stronger at resisting interference, improving her ability to counter and dispel magic.
- Spell ResistanceLevel 14
Her body and magic are hardened against hostile spells, granting notable resistance to spell effects and increasing her resilience against magical assault.
- Signature SpellsLevel 20
She can cast one 1st-level and one 2nd-level wizard spell without expending spell slots as signature spells, refreshing them after a rest.
- Spell MasteryLevel 18
At 18th level she can cast certain wizard spells repeatedly with mastery, using them without expending spell slots when applicable to her chosen spell mastery options.
- Feat or Ability Score ImprovementLevel 4
She has earned the class improvement feature at levels 4, 8, 12, 16, and 19, representing feats or ability improvements under 2024 rules.
- TraitDragonbornDarkvision 60 ft.
- TraitDragonbornDraconic Ancestry, green, granting poison damage resistance and a poison breath weapon.
- TraitDragonbornBreath Weapon, a powerful exhalation shaped by her draconic ancestry, usable as a magical attack.
- TraitDragonbornDamage Resistance to poison.
- TraitDragonbornHumanoid with the dragonborn creature type and a towering draconic physique.
- ResearcherSage
Years of study have taught Maa'raxia how to uncover obscure lore, identify where secrets are hidden, and recognize the value of a promising archive, mentor, or patron. When she seeks information, she knows how to begin the search and often knows who can point her toward the right shelf, ruin, or seal.
Spells
22 spellsSpellcasting. Maa'raxia casts with Intelligence (spell save DC 20, to hit with spell attacks).
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Gear
8 itemsWeapons
- QuarterstaffA quarterstaff carved with ward circles and iron inlays.
- DaggerA dagger with a silvered tip, used for rituals and emergency defense.
Tools
- Ink and QuillA set of ink, a quill, and note sheets for copying formulas and field observations.
Gear
- SpellbookA spellbook containing her prepared and learned wizard spells.
- Component PouchA component pouch holding inks, salts, chalk, and minor ritual materials.
- Scholar's PackA scholar's pack with tools for travel and study.
- Arcane FocusAn arcane focus fashioned as a rune-inscribed obsidian bracer.
- Field CodexA worn index of planar correspondences, seal diagrams, and containment notes.
Appearance
Maa'raxia is a towering female green dragonborn, her scales the deep iridescent green of a forest canopy at midnight. They shimmer with a faint oily sheen under violet light, edged in darker verdigris. Her frame is powerfully built with broad shoulders and a long sinuous tail, and her elongated draconic face bears a prominent brow ridge, sharp ivory teeth, and eyes like molten gold slit through mossy green. Curved ram-like horns sweep back from her temples, etched with glowing abjuration runes. She wears no conventional clothing, instead draped in arcane vestments of shadow and starlight, with a black pauldron, obsidian bracers, a braided harness of reagents, and violet scale-mail at her hips. Her claws are polished and silver-tipped, and her whole presence feels like a ward given a body.
Mannerisms
She speaks in measured phrases and often pauses before answering, as if arranging invisible wards between each word. When thinking, she taps one claw against an orb, book, or bracer in a slow and exact rhythm. She rarely gestures broadly, preferring small precise motions that resemble the drawing of sigils in air.
Personality
Patient, meticulous, and quietly formidable, Maa'raxia treats every conversation like a negotiation with reality itself. She is intensely curious about magical theory, especially abjuration and transmutation, but her curiosity is disciplined rather than whimsical. She respects competence, keeps promises exactly, and values people who can explain their reasoning. Her humor is dry, ancient, and delivered with the solemnity of a court verdict.
Ideals
Knowledge is a responsibility, not a trophy. Power without restraint is only a faster road to catastrophe, and every spell should leave the world safer than it found it.
Bonds
She will not abandon anyone who has entrusted their safety to her wards, nor will she let another archive, temple, or enclave fall to a breach she might have prevented.
Flaws
She trusts containment more readily than mercy, and in a crisis she may choose the safest seal over the most compassionate answer. She can become coldly obsessed with a magical problem, ignoring sleep, food, or social ties until the theory is solved.
Quirks
Background
Maa'raxia was born in a reclusive dragonborn enclave that treated the planes as a set of locks to be picked, not frontiers to be feared. Her clutch was raised among tablet vaults, ward circles, and sealed laboratories, where she learned that a spell was not merely power, but a question answered with structure. While others of her line took pride in conquest or lineage, Maa'raxia found reverence in precision. Abjuration became her first true devotion, because it was the art that turned chaos into an intelligible shape. The catastrophe came when her people attempted a rite to map the spaces between worlds. Something answered from the dark between the measures, a force that did not wish to be summoned and could not be banished by ordinary means. The enclave fell. Maa'raxia survived only because she finished the warding sequence in the instant before the ritual collapsed, binding the intruding shadow to her own flesh. The fusion saved her life and ruined it in equal measure. Since then she has traveled as a scholar, exile, and prison keeper, perfecting containment spells, studying transmutation to understand what was done to her, and building a life around the unbearable truth that she is both the jailer and the captive.
“While others of her line took pride in conquest or lineage, Maa'raxia found reverence in precision.”
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