Gen 561
Gen 561
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AC 17 · HP 10 · 30 ft.Saving throws
Skills
- AcrobaticsDEX
- Animal HandlingWIS
- ArcanaINT
- AthleticsSTR
- AthleticsSTR
- DeceptionCHA
- HistoryINT
- InsightWIS
- IntimidationCHA
- InvestigationINT
- MedicineWIS
- NatureINT
- PerceptionWIS
- PerformanceCHA
- PersuasionCHA
- ReligionINT
- Sleight of HandDEX
- StealthDEX
- SurvivalWIS
Armor
Weapons
Tools
Languages
Features
13 featuresAlways on
- Druid Spellcasting
When When Gen casts a Druid spell
Gen shapes and channels primal magic through a focus, casting Druid cantrips or prepared Druid spells.
- Druidic Secret Messages
When When Gen writes or marks a surface
Gen can make hidden written messages in Druidic that Druids recognize automatically. Others can notice such a message with a successful DC 15 Intelligence (Investigation) check but cannot decipher it without magic.
- Warden Training
When When Gen uses armor or a weapon
Gen has proficiency with Martial weapons and Medium armor in addition to the Druid's normal training.
- SpellcastingLevel 1
Gen can cast Druid spells, knows two Druid cantrips, prepares four 1st-level or higher Druid spells, uses Wisdom as the spellcasting ability, and can use a Druidic Focus as a spellcasting focus. Gen has two 1st-level spell slots.
- DruidicLevel 1
Gen knows the secret language of Druids. They can leave hidden messages in Druidic that other Druids automatically recognize. Gen always has Speak with Animals prepared and can communicate with animals through knowledge of Druidic.
- Primal Order, WardenLevel 1
Gen chose Warden. They gain proficiency with Martial weapons and training with Medium armor.
- ConstructWarforgedGen's creature type is Construct.
- Construct ResilienceWarforgedGen has Advantage on saving throws to avoid or end the Poisoned condition, and has Resistance to Poison damage.
- Integrated ProtectionWarforgedGen can incorporate armor into their body, gains a +1 bonus to Armor Class while wearing armor, and can don or doff incorporated armor without the older one-hour restriction.
- Sentry's RestWarforgedGen does not need to sleep, and magic cannot put Gen to sleep. During a Long Rest, Gen remains motionless and aware for at least six hours.
- Specialized DesignWarforgedGen gains proficiency in one skill and one tool of choice. Gen chose Survival and Calligrapher's Supplies.
- TirelessWarforgedGen does not gain Exhaustion from dehydration, malnutrition, or suffocation.
- Magic Initiate (Wizard)Sage
Magic Initiate (Wizard). Gen knows two Wizard cantrips and one 1st-level Wizard spell. Intelligence is the spellcasting ability for these spells. The 1st-level spell can be cast once without a spell slot per Long Rest, and can also be cast using spell slots if Gen has any of the appropriate level.
Spells
9 spellsSpellcasting. Gen 561 casts with Wisdom (spell save DC 10, to hit with spell attacks).
Cantrips (at will): , , ,
1st level (2 slots): , , , ,
Gear
10 itemsWeapons
- SickleA simple curved blade useful for cutting reeds, roots, and hostile vines.
- QuarterstaffA quarterstaff used as both walking stick and druidic focus.
Armor
- ShieldA sturdy wooden shield marked with concentric growth rings.
- Leather ArmorLight leather armor reinforced with bark plates and treated cord.
Tools
- Calligrapher's SuppliesInk, pen, ruler, and other supplies used for precise transcription.
Gear
- Explorer's PackA pack containing bedroll, mess kit, tinderbox, ten torches, ten days of rations, and a waterskin.
- Book of HistoryA reference volume on the rise and fall of prewar city-states.
- 8×ParchmentSheets for copying plant diagrams, battlefield maps, and coded observations.
- RobeA plain sage's robe, carefully patched at the elbows.
Purse
- 8×Gold PiecesA small reserve of coin retained from Gen's years of archival work.
Appearance
Gen 561 is a Medium warforged assembled from dark walnut, burnished iron, and pale ceramic plates. Their face is a smooth wooden mask with a narrow brass grille where a mouth would be, and two amber lenses that brighten or dim according to their mood. A strip of green moss grows deliberately along one shoulder seam, secured with tiny copper staples. Gen keeps their wooden components meticulously oiled, but leaves their metal joints dusted with pollen, seeds, and bits of leaf. Before speaking, they make a soft mechanical intake, followed by three precise clicks from somewhere behind the grille.
Mannerisms
Gen pauses for exactly one second before answering unfamiliar questions, makes a quiet intake through their brass grille before speaking, and writes brief notes in the air with one finger whenever they encounter a new plant or animal. When irritated, they polish an already spotless knuckle plate.
Personality
Gen is observant, exacting, and cheerfully difficult to predict. They speak in measured reports when calm, then abruptly switch to vivid botanical metaphors when excited. Gen has no instinctive respect for rank or tradition, but shows intense patience toward frightened animals, damaged machines, and people who are trying to become someone other than what they were made to be.
Ideals
Freedom. No maker, commander, temple, or prophecy has the right to assign a purpose to a thinking being. The natural world is chaotic, and Gen intends to remain equally difficult to categorize.
Bonds
The last surviving copy of Gen 561's original battlefield archive is hidden beneath a ruined command station. Gen will risk almost anything to recover it, not for military history, but to remove the names of the dead from the machinery of war and replace them with the names of every living thing that returned afterward.
Flaws
Gen treats living creatures as fascinating research subjects and sometimes forgets that they are not obligated to participate in the study. They are also capable of abandoning a sensible plan the moment a rare plant, unusual ruin, or logically inconsistent custom presents itself.
Quirks
Background
Gen 561 was built during the closing years of the Last War as a field archivist, a machine intended to recover tactical records from battlefields and preserve them for commanders who rarely survived long enough to read them. Their first memories are not of combat, but of ruined libraries, rain striking metal helmets, and the careful classification of seeds found in abandoned gardens. Gen began copying the names of plants into military ledgers, then replacing casualty reports with observations about soil, insects, and the stubborn return of green life. After the war, Gen wandered from monastery to manor, exchanging cataloging work and repaired manuscripts for access to restricted collections. A reclusive druid eventually found them attempting to classify the difference between a weed and a flower, and taught Gen that nature is not a library with fixed categories. It is a conversation, often contradictory and occasionally violent. Gen adopted the title of druid less from spiritual revelation than from a desire to study that conversation firsthand. Now they travel as an independent observer, preserving knowledge, protecting living systems when it seems interesting or necessary, and refusing to accept that being manufactured means their purpose was decided at birth.
“After the war, Gen wandered from monastery to manor, exchanging cataloging work and repaired manuscripts for access to restricted collections.”
- Background
- Sage
Connections
Species
Warforged
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