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Ketek Vardani

Dwarf (Hill) · Wizard (School of Abjuration) · Level 5 · Acolyte

Ketek Vardani

Ketek is patient, dutiful, and intensely observant.
AC10
HP22/22
Init
STR
DEX
CON
INT
WIS
CHA
ConditionsNone

Sheet

AC 10 · HP 22 · 25 ft.
AlignmentLawful GoodGenderMaleAge126 years old
STR
DEX
CON
INT
WIS
CHA

Saving throws

STRDEXCONINTWISCHA

Skills

  • AcrobaticsDEX
  • Animal HandlingWIS
  • ArcanaINT
  • AthleticsSTR
  • DeceptionCHA
  • HistoryINT
  • InsightWIS
  • IntimidationCHA
  • MedicineWIS
  • NatureWIS
  • PerformanceCHA
  • PersuasionCHA
  • ReligionWIS
  • Sleight of HandDEX
  • StealthDEX
  • SurvivalWIS

Weapons

Daggers,
Darts,
Slings,
Quarterstaffs,
Light crossbows,
Battleaxes,
Handaxes,
Light hammers,
Warhammers

Tools

Smith's tools,
Brewer's supplies,
Mason's tools

Languages

Common,
Dwarvish,
Celestial,
Infernal

Features

15 features

Always on

  • Arcane WardLevel 2

    When Ketek casts an abjuration spell of 1st level or higher.

    Ketek creates a magical ward around himself when he casts an abjuration spell of 1st level or higher. The ward has 6 hit points and absorbs damage before Ketek does.

  • Arcane RecoveryLevel 1

    When After completing a short rest once per day.

    Ketek regains expended spell slots during a short rest, up to a combined spell level of 3 once per day.

  • Wizard Spellcasting

    When As required by the spell.

    Ketek can use his action to cast any prepared wizard spell, provided he has an available spell slot and meets its components.

  • SpellcastingLevel 1

    Ketek is a 5th-level wizard. His spellcasting ability is Intelligence. He has a spellbook containing his known wizard spells and can use an arcane focus or material components as required.

  • Arcane Tradition: School of AbjurationLevel 2

    Ketek chooses the School of Abjuration as his arcane tradition. He emphasizes protective, warding, and countering magic.

  • Abjuration SavantLevel 2

    The gold and time Ketek must spend to copy an abjuration spell into his spellbook is halved.

  • Ability Score ImprovementLevel 4

    Ketek increases two ability scores by 2, or one ability score by 2 and another by 1. He has not yet applied this optional improvement, preserving the provided ability scores.

  • Third-Level SpellcastingLevel 5

    Ketek can cast 3rd-level wizard spells and has access to 3rd-level spell slots.

  • DarkvisionDwarf (Hill)Ketek can see in dim light within 60 feet as if it were bright light, and in darkness as if it were dim light, treating darkness as shades of gray.
  • Dwarven ResilienceDwarf (Hill)Ketek has advantage on saving throws against poison and resistance to poison damage.
  • Dwarven Combat TrainingDwarf (Hill)Ketek is proficient with battleaxes, handaxes, light hammers, and warhammers.
  • Dwarven Tool ProficiencyDwarf (Hill)Ketek is proficient with smith's tools, brewer's supplies, and mason's tools.
  • StonecunningDwarf (Hill)Whenever Ketek makes an Intelligence (History) check related to the origin of stonework, he is considered proficient in the History skill and adds double his proficiency bonus instead of his normal proficiency bonus.
  • Dwarven ToughnessDwarf (Hill)Ketek's hit point maximum increases by 1, and it increases by 1 whenever he gains a level. This increase is included in his hit points.
  • Shelter of the FaithfulAcolyte

    Ketek can usually find shelter, food, and basic assistance at temples and shrines devoted to his faith. Fellow adherents recognize his service and are inclined to help him, provided his requests do not endanger them.

Spells

14 spells

Spellcasting. Ketek Vardani casts with Intelligence (spell save DC 11, to hit with spell attacks).

Cantrips (at will): , , ,

1st level (4 slots): , , , , ,

2nd level (3 slots): , ,

3rd level (2 slots):

Gear

12 items

Weapons

  • Quarterstaff
    A carved dwarf-sized quarterstaff used as both walking stick and arcane focus.
  • Light crossbow
    A light crossbow with 20 bolts, carried for emergencies when magic is impractical.

Gear

  • Component pouch
    A leather spell component pouch containing mundane components used in Ketek's spells.
  • Scholar's pack
    A scholar's pack containing a backpack, a book of lore, ink, a pen, ten sheets of parchment, a little sand, and a small knife.
  • Spellbook
    A spellbook containing 14 wizard spells: six gained at 1st level and eight gained through leveling.
  • Holy symbol
    A holy symbol representing the protective aspect of Ketek's dwarven faith.
  • Prayer book
    A prayer book containing liturgical passages and memorized rites from Ketek's monastery.
  • 5×
    Incense
    Five sticks of incense used in daily observances.
  • Vestments
    Vestments worn during worship and formal ceremonies.
  • Common clothes
    A common set of clothes for travel outside the monastery.
  • Belt pouch
    A purse containing starting funds from the acolyte background.

Purse

  • 15×
    Gold pieces
    Starting funds from the acolyte background.

Appearance

Ketek is a broad-shouldered hill dwarf with copper-brown skin, a square face, and a carefully braided black beard threaded with small brass prayer rings. His left eyebrow bears a pale scar from a collapsing shrine wall. He dresses in soot-dark gray robes reinforced with leather at the elbows and wears a round iron holy symbol beneath his collar. His spellbook is bound in reddish hide and clasped with a dwarven iron latch.

Mannerisms

Ketek taps the iron clasp of his spellbook three times before casting a defensive spell. When thinking, he silently counts on his fingers in Dwarvish, then states his conclusion as if delivering a formal prayer.

Personality

Ketek is patient, dutiful, and intensely observant. He listens without interrupting, remembers small details about people's injuries and worries, and approaches danger with the same careful attention he gives a damaged inscription. Beneath his restraint is a dry sense of humor that appears most often when he is exhausted.

Ideals

Preservation. Knowledge and life are both sacred. Magic is honorable when it shields the vulnerable and keeps hard-won wisdom from being destroyed.

Bonds

The monastery that raised Ketek is still endangered, and he will risk much to recover its lost reliquary and uncover who caused the collapse.

Flaws

Ketek distrusts improvisation and can become paralyzed when a situation refuses to follow a sensible plan. He is also quietly judgmental toward people who treat sacred places casually, even when their intentions are harmless.

Quirks

He labels every potion, scroll, and unidentified object with a temporary paper tag.
He refuses to step over books, tools, or religious objects, even during an emergency.
He gives protective spells names based on monastery hymns.
He collects fragments of broken masonry from important ruins.
He ends private prayers by touching two fingers to the ground.

Background

Ketek was raised beneath the stone halls of a hill-dwarf monastery built around an ancient spring. His family expected him to become a mason like his mother and uncles, but Ketek was drawn to the prayer tablets kept in the monastery archive. He discovered that the oldest hymns were written in patterns that resembled arcane formulae, and he began copying them obsessively, first as an act of devotion and later as genuine magical study. The monastery's senior priest eventually admitted that Ketek possessed little natural force of personality, but an unusual patience for careful research and exact repetition. When a cave-in damaged the monastery's lower shrine, Ketek was trapped for three days beside a sealed reliquary. He survived by reciting protective prayers and testing small wards against falling stones. The experience convinced him that faith and magic were not rivals, but two methods of preserving what mattered. He left the monastery with its blessing, tasked with recovering scattered fragments of the reliquary and learning whether the collapse was natural. Ketek now travels as a cautious wizard and servant of the sacred, protecting companions with barriers, studying every ruin he encounters, and quietly suspecting that someone deliberately weakened the monastery's foundations.

“His family expected him to become a mason like his mother and uncles, but Ketek was drawn to the prayer tablets kept in the monastery archive.”
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Dwarf (Hill)

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