Lysandra
Lysandra
Sheet
AC 13 · HP 105 · 30 ft.Saving throws
Skills
- ArcanaINT
- DeceptionCHA
- HistoryINT
- InsightWIS
- InvestigationINT
- MedicineWIS
- PerceptionWIS
- PerformanceDEX
- PersuasionCHA
- StealthDEX
Armor
Weapons
Tools
Languages
Features
22 featuresAction
- Performance of CreationLevel 14
When Action
As an action, you can create an intangible, nonmagical object of Large size or smaller that lasts for 1 hour and can be manipulated briefly, empowering your creativity and problem solving.
- Animating PerformanceLevel 3
As an action, you can inspire a creature with a performance, granting it temporary hit points and causing it to make an immediate attack or move, depending on the feature's options and your available uses.
Always on
- Bardic InspirationLevel 1
When Bonus Action
You can inspire allies with words or performance, granting Bardic Inspiration that can alter rolls and outcomes.
- Magical SecretsLevel 18
When When selecting spells
You can use your magical secrets to reshape encounters with spells drawn from beyond the bard list.
- SpellcastingLevel 1
You can use an instrument, performance, or any suitable expression as a spellcasting focus for your bard spells.
- Jack of All TradesLevel 2
You can add half your proficiency bonus, rounded down, to any ability check that uses a skill or tool proficiency you lack.
- Song of RestLevel 2
You learn to recover during a short rest. A creature of your choice regains extra hit points when spending Hit Dice, equal to your Bard level plus your Charisma modifier.
- ExpertiseLevel 3
Choose three skills to become experts in. Your proficiency bonus is doubled for those skills.
- Bard CollegeLevel 3
You gain proficiency with light armor, a selection of weapons, and three skills of your choice.
- Font of InspirationLevel 5
When a creature fails a saving throw against your bardic inspiration, it can reroll.
- CountercharmLevel 6
You can use music or words to disrupt charms and fear, granting allies advantage against such effects while you perform.
- Bardic Inspiration ImprovementLevel 5
Your Bardic Inspiration die becomes a d8.
- Bardic Inspiration ImprovementLevel 10
Your Bardic Inspiration die becomes a d10.
- Bardic Inspiration ImprovementLevel 15
Your Bardic Inspiration die becomes a d12.
- Superior InspirationLevel 20
When you roll initiative and have no Bardic Inspiration uses left, you regain one use.
- TraitElfDarkvision, 60 ft.
- TraitElfFey Ancestry, advantage on saving throws against being charmed, and magic cannot put you to sleep.
- TraitElfTrance, you meditate for 4 hours instead of sleeping.
- TraitElfKeen Senses, proficiency in Perception.
- TraitElfHigh Elf Cantrip, you know one wizard cantrip of your choice.
- TraitElfExtra Language, you can speak, read, and write one extra language of your choice.
- ResearcherSage
You have access to a broad network of scholarly contacts, libraries, archives, and institutions. When you seek information, you often know where and from whom to get it.
Spells
31 spellsSpellcasting. Lysandra casts with Charisma (spell save DC 21, to hit with spell attacks).
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Gear
7 itemsWeapons
- RapierA rapier, carried as part of standard bard equipment but often left sheathed or stored away
- DaggerA dagger
Armor
- Leather ArmorA leather armor set, typically worn only when she expects danger
Tools
- InstrumentA lute or other musical instrument
Gear
- Annotated Book of LoreA well-worn hardback book filled with marginalia, notes, and copied fragments of lore, used as her constant companion and spell focus by preference
- Diplomat's PackA diplomat's pack
- Letter of IntroductionA letter of introduction from a sage's network
Appearance
Lysandra is a tall high elf with a lithe, athletic build and a pale, luminous complexion. Her silver-white hair falls straight to the middle of her back, and her crystalline blue eyes are sharp, observant, and almost unsettling in their focus. Her features are aristocratic and precise, with high cheekbones, a narrow nose, and long pointed ears adorned with simple silver hoops. She favors modern ordinary clothes, usually charcoal or deep navy trousers, a pale shirt with rolled sleeves, and a soft cardigan or vest. In every setting she carries herself like someone used to being watched, yet somehow more comfortable alone in a quiet apartment with a book in hand.
Mannerisms
She speaks in precise, measured sentences and often pauses as if arranging her thoughts on invisible shelves. When thinking, she taps the edge of a book with one finger or adjusts the silver hoops at her ears. She rarely raises her voice, but when she is excited, her calm becomes brisk and almost musical.
Personality
Lysandra is composed, curious, and quietly formidable. She prefers observation before intervention, but once she decides a thing matters, her resolve is nearly impossible to shake. She is kind in practical ways, remembering details others forget, leaving books on friends' desks, and solving problems with patient inventiveness rather than grand speeches. Her humor is dry, understated, and sometimes devastatingly sharp.
Ideals
Freedom. Knowledge is meant to be shared, questioned, and remade. No institution, family, or tradition should own the future simply because it owns the past.
Bonds
She keeps every notebook she has ever filled, because each one proves she chose a life of her own. She remains fiercely loyal to a small circle of city friends who treated her like a person instead of a relic or an ornament. Deep down, she still hopes to publish one work so original that even her estranged family must admit she was right to leave.
Flaws
She can become so absorbed in analysis that she forgets what people are feeling in the moment. She dislikes asking for help and often masks uncertainty with dry wit. When criticized by scholars or family, she becomes cutting and stubborn, even when it would be wiser to listen.
Quirks
Background
Lysandra was born into a secluded elven enclave where knowledge was guarded like treasure and tradition was treated as law. She excelled in archives, debate, and the careful preservation of old stories, but the longer she lived among her people, the more suffocating their certainty became. They valued memory, yet feared novelty, and she came to believe that a life devoted only to preservation was another form of burial. So she left, carrying little more than notebooks, a sharp mind, and the stubborn conviction that a story could be both inherited and reinvented. Atrix Isle became her unlikely sanctuary. In the city she found a modern apartment, ordinary clothes, late-night deadlines, and the freedom to observe people without being assigned to classify them. She earns her living as a freelance writer, drafting essays, articles, and speculative pieces that smuggle wonder into the mundane. As a College of Creation bard, she treats inspiration like architecture, building beauty out of language, memory, and impossible patterns. Her magic is quiet but unmistakable, a force that turns imagination into something tangible enough to change the room around her.
“They valued memory, yet feared novelty, and she came to believe that a life devoted only to preservation was another form of burial.”
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Elf
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