Oru Kantu
Oru Kantu
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AC 12 · HP 8 · 30 ft.Saving throws
Skills
- AcrobaticsDEX
- Animal HandlingSTR
- ArcanaINT
- AthleticsSTR
- DeceptionCHA
- HistoryINT
- InsightWIS
- IntimidationCHA
- InvestigationWIS
- MedicineWIS
- NatureINT
- PerceptionWIS
- PerformanceCHA
- PersuasionCHA
- ReligionINT
- Sleight of HandDEX
- StealthDEX
- SurvivalWIS
Weapons
Tools
Languages
Features
18 featuresAlways on
- Fire Bolt
When When a creature or object within 120 feet is targeted
You thrust your hand forward and launch a mote of fire at a creature or object within range, dealing 1d10 fire damage on a hit.
- Mage Hand
When When an unattended object within 30 feet can be manipulated
You create a spectral hand that can manipulate objects, open doors, retrieve items, or stow objects within 30 feet.
- Minor Illusion
When When you need a simple distraction or sensory trick
You create a harmless sensory effect, such as a sound, image, scent, or brief mark, within range.
- Guidance?
When When touching a willing creature before an ability check
A creature you touch gains advantage on one ability check of its choice before the spell ends, but has disadvantage on Wisdom checks for the duration.
- Longstrider
When When you touch a willing creature before travel or combat
You gain advantage on initiative rolls for the duration.
- Mage Armor
When When touching a willing creature without armor
You surround a creature with a protective magical force, increasing its AC by 3 until the spell ends.
- Disguise Self
When When you need to appear as another person or creature
A creature you touch gains a deceptive, altered appearance for the duration, including changes to clothing, equipment, and physical features.
- Unseen Servant
When When you need a tireless invisible helper
You instantly create a floating, spectral hand that can manipulate objects and perform simple tasks at a distance.
- Color Spray
When When several nearby creatures are vulnerable to dazzling magic
You create a sphere of colored light that flashes brightly when a creature enters its area, potentially blinding it briefly.
- SpellcastingLevel 1
You have begun studying wizardly magic. You know three cantrips, and your spellbook contains six 1st-level wizard spells. Intelligence is your spellcasting ability. You can use an arcane focus or a component pouch as a spellcasting focus.
- Arcane RecoveryLevel 1
Once per day when you finish a short rest, you can recover expended spell slots with a combined level of 1. You can recover one expended 1st-level spell slot.
- DarkvisionHalf-OrcYou can see in dim light within 60 feet as if it were bright light, and in darkness as if it were dim light.
- MenacingHalf-OrcYou gain proficiency in the Intimidation skill.
- Relentless EnduranceHalf-OrcWhen reduced to 0 hit points but not killed outright, you can drop to 1 hit point instead. This feature can be used once per long rest.
- Savage AttacksHalf-OrcWhen you score a critical hit with a melee weapon attack, you can roll one of the weapon's damage dice one additional time and add it to the extra damage.
- LanguagesHalf-OrcYou can speak, read, and write Common and Orc.
- Ability Score IncreaseHalf-OrcYour Strength increases by 2 and your Constitution increases by 1.
- Military RankSoldier
You belong to an army, mercenary company, or other organized military force. You can use your former rank and the respect it carries to exert influence over soldiers and recognize military structures, ranks, and customs.
Spells
10 spellsSpellcasting. Oru Kantu casts with Intelligence (spell save DC 12, to hit with spell attacks).
Cantrips (at will): , , ,
1st level (2 slots): , , , , ,
Gear
9 itemsWeapons
- QuarterstaffA polished length of ash wood reinforced with a steel ferrule, used as both walking staff and weapon.
Tools
- Gaming setA set of bone dice carved from the knuckles of a battlefield commander.
Gear
- Component pouchA leather pouch containing the material components required for spells that do not consume them.
- Scholar's packA pack containing a bedroll, mess kit, tinderbox, ten torches, ten days of rations, a waterskin, and fifty feet of hempen rope.
- SpellbookA leather-bound spellbook containing Oru's six 1st-level wizard spells, annotated with battlefield diagrams and enemy weaknesses.
- Insignia of rankA bronze insignia from the army she served, deliberately scratched until its original allegiance is difficult to identify.
- Trophy taken from a fallen enemyA broken enemy standard taken from the war where she was abandoned.
- Common clothesSimple, durable clothing suitable for travel and military camp life.
Purse
- 10×Gold piecesLoose coin kept in a stitched leather purse.
Appearance
A lean, broad-shouldered half-orc woman with iron-gray skin, a blunt lower tusk, and long black hair bound with strips of red war cloth. Her amber eyes are sharp and restless, constantly measuring distance, weakness, and escape routes. Old scars cross her ribs and left cheek, while precise ink markings resembling claw tracks run from her collarbone to her wrist. She wears a weathered scholar's robe beneath a soldier's harness, carrying a spellbook wrapped in wolf-hide and marked with the names of enemies she has defeated.
Mannerisms
Oru studies people's hands before their faces, watching for calluses, tremors, and hidden weapons. When thinking, she taps a silent rhythm against her spellbook, imitating marching feet. She refers to close companions as packmates only after they have survived danger together.
Personality
Oru is intensely observant, competitive, and startlingly patient when studying an enemy. She speaks softly because she wants others to lean closer, then remembers every word they say. Beneath her hunger for superiority is a fierce desire to become impossible to abandon, someone whose survival is so certain that even enemies must acknowledge it.
Ideals
Supremacy. Every strength has a counter, and every champion has a weakness. I will find both, master the counter, and become the one warrior no people can surpass.
Bonds
She carries the stolen spellbook of the mage who died on the battlefield, and she will risk anything to learn the identity of its original owner. She also keeps one red cord from her former pack, not as a symbol of belonging, but as a reminder that no one will ever decide whether she lives again.
Flaws
She cannot tolerate being outperformed, corrected, or treated as ordinary. When someone displays a skill she lacks, she becomes obsessed with mastering it, even when doing so is reckless or cruel. She also mistakes fear for respect and may escalate a situation simply to prove that she remains the most dangerous person present.
Quirks
Background
Oru Kantu was born among a wandering half-orc war band that called itself a pack, though its loyalty lasted only as long as she remained useful. During a disastrous winter campaign, the pack abandoned her beneath the bodies of fallen soldiers, assuming the enemy would finish what the battle had begun. She survived by drinking melted snow, eating whatever could be trapped, and listening to the distant commands of the army that had defeated them. Each night, while the victors celebrated, Oru practiced with a broken spear and memorized the movement of their campfires. Her first victory was not won with strength. It came when she stole a dying mage's spellbook and learned that knowledge could turn a battlefield into a weapon. Oru taught herself enough magic to collapse a watchtower, scatter an entire patrol, and escape into the mountains. She eventually hunted down the war band that abandoned her, but revenge left her hollow. Now she travels to master every form of power used by every people she encounters. To Oru, being the ultimate warrior does not mean wielding the largest blade. It means becoming the one opponent no weapon, spell, culture, or bloodline can overcome. She calls this ideal The Alpha, though she has never explained whether it is a title, a threat, or a promise to herself.
“She survived by drinking melted snow, eating whatever could be trapped, and listening to the distant commands of the army that had defeated them.”
- Background
- Soldier
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Species
Half-Orc
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