Kaelis
Kaelis
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AC 11 · HP 24 · 30 ft.Saving throws
Skills
- AcrobaticsDEX
- ArcanaINT
- AthleticsSTR
- DeceptionCHA
- HistoryINT
- InsightWIS
- InvestigationINT
- MedicineWIS
- NatureINT
- PerceptionWIS
- PerformanceCHA
- PersuasionCHA
- ReligionINT
- Sleight of HandDEX
- StealthDEX
- SurvivalWIS
Weapons
Tools
Languages
Features
14 featuresAlways on
- Awakened MindLevel 1
When Choose a creature within 30 feet that you can see.
Kaelis projects a telepathic message to a creature he can see within 30 feet. The creature does not need to share a language, though it must understand at least one language.
- Repelling Blast
When A creature is hit by Eldritch Blast.
When Kaelis hits a creature with Eldritch Blast, he can push it up to 10 feet away from himself in a straight line.
- Agonizing Blast
When Kaelis casts Eldritch Blast.
When Kaelis casts Eldritch Blast, he adds his Charisma modifier to the damage of one beam.
- SpellcastingLevel 1
You can cast prepared Warlock spells using Charisma as your spellcasting ability. You regain all expended Pact Magic spell slots when you finish a Short or Long Rest.
- Eldritch InvocationsLevel 2
You learn two Eldritch Invocations of your choice. You can replace one invocation whenever you gain a Warlock level.
- Pact of the TomeLevel 2
You can choose the Book of Shadows invocation, which grants a magical grimoire containing additional cantrips and ritual spells.
- Otherworldly Patron: Great Old OneLevel 3
You have made a pact with an otherworldly patron. Your patron is the Great Old One, granting additional spells and psychic-themed magic.
- Great Old One Patron SpellsLevel 3
You always have certain patron spells prepared. At Warlock level 3, the Great Old One grants Dissonant Whispers, Phantasmal Force, Detect Thoughts, and Hunger of Hadar as patron spells available through the appropriate spell levels.
- TraitElfDarkvision, you can see in dim light within 60 feet as if it were bright light and in darkness as if it were dim light.
- Elven Lineage, choose a lineageElfKaelis is a High Elf and knows the Prestidigitation cantrip. At level 3, he can cast Detect Magic once per Long Rest without a spell slot.
- TraitElfFey Ancestry, you have Advantage on saving throws you make to avoid or end the Charmed condition.
- TraitElfKeen Senses, you have proficiency in the Perception skill.
- TraitElfTrance, you do not need to sleep and can finish a Long Rest in 4 hours by entering a meditative trance.
- ResearcherSage
You have studied extensively and know how to find or recall information. If you do not know a piece of information, you know where and from whom you can obtain it. Usually, this comes from a library, a learned person, a scholarly institution, or another sage.
Spells
11 spellsSpellcasting. Kaelis casts with Charisma (spell save DC 12, to hit with spell attacks).
Cantrips (at will): , , , , , ,
1st level:
2nd level (2 slots): ,
3rd level:
Gear
11 itemsWeapons
- DaggerA light one-handed weapon suitable for emergencies.
Tools
- Ink PenA small knife useful for writing, cutting, and practical tasks.
Gear
- Arcane FocusA focus for channeling eldritch magic, often a crystal, rod, or other arcane object.
- Scholar's PackA weathered scholar's garment with many inner pockets.
- InkA vial of black ink.
- 10×ParchmentSheets used for notes, diagrams, and spell research.
- Common ClothesA simple scholarly robe.
- Book of ShadowsA magical book created through the Pact of the Tome. It contains three additional cantrips and ritual magic granted by the invocation.
- SpellbookA personal grimoire containing Kaelis's notes on impossible geometries and forbidden languages.
- Brass Observatory LensA brass lens worn on a cord, used as a focus for examining magical writing.
Purse
- 8×Gold PiecesA small pouch containing starting coins.
Appearance
Kaelis is a tall, lean high elf with bronze skin, long ash-brown hair, and luminous gray-green eyes that seem to focus on something just beyond the visible world. He wears dark blue scholar's robes beneath a weathered leather coat, with silver thread sewn into the cuffs in geometric patterns that resemble constellations. His spellbook is chained to his belt, and a small brass lens hangs around his neck. Kaelis takes up more physical space than he realizes, leaning close when listening and gesturing broadly when explaining obscure subjects. He constantly adjusts the brass lens at his throat, even when it is already perfectly centered.
Mannerisms
Kaelis leans forward until he is uncomfortably close when someone says something interesting. While thinking, he traces invisible diagrams in the air with one finger and repeatedly centers the brass lens hanging at his throat.
Personality
Kaelis is intensely curious, patient with books, and only intermittently patient with people. He treats every conversation as a possible research interview and has a habit of asking precise follow-up questions at socially inappropriate moments. Despite his unsettling patron and scholarly arrogance, he is compassionate toward frightened people and genuinely believes that knowledge should be used to reduce suffering.
Ideals
Knowledge should be shared, but dangerous knowledge must first be understood by someone willing to bear its consequences.
Bonds
Kaelis is bound to the observatory where he was trained, and he will risk almost anything to protect its archives from destruction or misuse. He also feels responsible for the apprentice who followed him into the sealed archive and never returned.
Flaws
Kaelis cannot leave a mystery alone, even when solving it would endanger innocent people. He also mistakes intellectual certainty for wisdom and becomes defensive when someone challenges a conclusion he has spent years developing.
Quirks
Background
Kaelis spent much of his long life in the upper galleries of an elven observatory, cataloging star charts, translating dead languages, and copying fragments of magical correspondence. He was especially fascinated by references to a soundless presence said to dwell between thoughts. His fellow scholars dismissed the material as poetic metaphor, but Kaelis noticed that the same impossible symbols appeared in records separated by centuries and continents. His obsession eventually led him to a sealed archive beneath the observatory, where a book with no title opened itself to a page bearing his name.
“He was especially fascinated by references to a soundless presence said to dwell between thoughts.”
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Elf
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