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Serzza Kraine

Tiefling · Monk (Way of the Living Canvas) · Level 11 · Sage

Serzza Kraine

Serzza is an exuberant aesthete with a patient scholar’s mind and a street performer’s flair.
AC14
HP79/79
Init
STR
DEX
CON
INT
WIS
CHA
ConditionsNone

Sheet

AC 14 · HP 79 · 50 ft.
AlignmentChaotic GoodGenderMaleAge34 years old
STR
DEX
CON
INT
WIS
CHA

Saving throws

STRDEXCONINTWISCHA

Skills

  • AcrobaticsDEX
  • ArcanaINT
  • AthleticsSTR
  • HistoryINT
  • InsightWIS
  • IntimidationCHA
  • InvestigationINT
  • MedicineWIS
  • NatureINT
  • PerceptionWIS
  • PerformanceCHA
  • PersuasionCHA
  • ReligionINT
  • Sleight of HandDEX
  • StealthDEX
  • SurvivalWIS

Weapons

Simple weapons,
Martial weapons with the Light property

Tools

Painter’s Supplies,
Calligrapher’s Supplies

Languages

Common,
Infernal,
Undercommon,
Draconic

Features

31 features

Action

  • Extra AttackLevel 5

    You can attack twice instead of once whenever you take the Attack action on your turn.

Bonus action

  • Flurry of Blows

    When After taking the Attack action or using an action that includes an Unarmed Strike

    Make three Unarmed Strikes as a Bonus Action after spending 1 ki point.

  • Step of the Wind

    When On your turn

    Spend 1 ki point to take the Disengage and Dash actions as a Bonus Action.

  • Patient Defense

    When On your turn

    Spend 1 ki point to take the Disengage action as a Bonus Action and gain Temporary Hit Points equal to 2d10.

  • Heightened FocusLevel 10

    Flurry of Blows makes three Unarmed Strikes instead of two, Patient Defense grants Temporary Hit Points equal to two rolls of your Martial Arts die, and Step of the Wind lets you take both Disengage and Dash as a Bonus Action.

Reaction

  • Ink ReweavingLevel 6

    When When you take damage

    Spend 1 ki point as a Reaction when you take damage to reduce the damage by 1d10 + 2 + 11, with the additional positional-redraw clause pending the complete homebrew text.

  • Deflect AttacksLevel 3

    When an attack roll hits you and deals Bludgeoning, Piercing, or Slashing damage, you can use your Reaction to reduce the damage by 1d10 + your Dexterity modifier + your Monk level. If the reduction lowers the damage to 0, you can spend 1 ki point to redirect force to a creature within the feature’s range, forcing a Dexterity saving throw.

  • Slow FallLevel 4

    When you fall, you can use your Reaction to reduce the falling damage by an amount equal to five times your Monk level.

Always on

  • Stunning StrikeLevel 5

    When When you hit a creature with a Monk weapon or Unarmed Strike

    Spend 1 ki point once per turn after hitting with a Monk weapon or Unarmed Strike. The target makes a DC 14 Constitution saving throw.

  • Masterwork Body

    When When you fail a saving throw

    Spend 3 ki points when you fail a saving throw to reroll it, taking the new result. Once used, this feature cannot be used again until you finish a Long Rest.

  • Martial ArtsLevel 1

    Your martial arts training grants a bonus-action Unarmed Strike, lets you use your Dexterity modifier for Unarmed Strikes and Monk weapons, and lets you use a d10 Martial Arts die for eligible attacks and damage.

  • Unarmored DefenseLevel 1

    While not wearing armor or wielding a Shield, your Armor Class equals 10 + your Dexterity modifier + your Wisdom modifier.

  • Monk’s FocusLevel 2

    You have 11 ki points, regained when you finish a Short or Long Rest. Ki save DC: 14. You know Flurry of Blows, Patient Defense, and Step of the Wind.

  • Unarmored MovementLevel 2

    Your Speed increases by 20 feet while unarmored and without a Shield, giving you a Speed of 50 feet.

  • Uncanny MetabolismLevel 2

    When you roll Initiative, you can regain expended ki points equal to your proficiency bonus, up to your normal maximum. Once used, this benefit refreshes when you finish a Long Rest.

  • Monk SubclassLevel 3

    You gain a Monk subclass, Way of the Living Canvas.

  • Ability Score ImprovementLevel 4

    You gain the Ability Score Improvement feat or another feat for which you qualify.

  • Empowered StrikesLevel 6

    Your Unarmed Strikes can deal Force damage instead of their normal damage type.

  • EvasionLevel 7

    When you make a Dexterity saving throw to take only half damage from an effect, you take no damage on a success and half damage on a failure. You cannot benefit from this feature while Incapacitated.

  • Ability Score ImprovementLevel 8

    You gain the Ability Score Improvement feat or another feat for which you qualify.

  • Acrobatic MovementLevel 9

    While unarmored and without a Shield, you can move along vertical surfaces and across liquids during your turn without falling during that movement.

  • Self-RestorationLevel 10

    You can end the Charmed or Frightened condition on yourself at the end of every turn. You also have Advantage on saving throws against being Charmed or Frightened.

  • Living CanvasLevel 3

    You gain proficiency with Painter’s Supplies and Calligrapher’s Supplies. You can use either as a spellcasting focus for your subclass features. Your tattoos are magical and cannot be removed against your will.

  • Gallery of MotionLevel 10

    Your body becomes a gallery of practiced motion. You have Advantage on saving throws against being Charmed or Frightened. In addition, when you spend a ki point as part of your turn, you can move across the battlefield according to the complete subclass feature text.

  • Creature TypeTieflingHumanoid.
  • SizeTieflingMedium.
  • SpeedTiefling30 feet before Monk features.
  • DarkvisionTieflingYou can see in dim light within 60 feet as if it were bright light and in darkness as if it were dim light.
  • Infernal Fiendish LegacyTieflingYou know Thaumaturgy. At character level 3, you can cast Hellish Rebuke once per Long Rest. At character level 5, you can cast Darkness once per Long Rest. Choose Wisdom as the spellcasting ability for these species spells.
  • TraitTieflingLiving Canvas tattoos are magical and visually shift across his skin, an expression of his subclass training.
  • ResearcherSage

    You spent years studying lore, manuscripts, magical art, and the history of hidden civilizations. When you do not know a piece of information, you often know where and from whom it can be obtained. Your Origin feat is Magic Initiate, Wizard.

Spells

3 spells

Spellcasting. Serzza Kraine casts with Wisdom (spell save DC 14, to hit with spell attacks).

Cantrips (at will):

1st level:

2nd level:

Gear

11 items

Weapons

  • Spear
    A simple spear used for defensive forms and ceremonial painting rituals.
  • 5×
    Dagger
    Light throwing weapons balanced for precise martial techniques.

Tools

  • Painter’s Supplies
    A portable kit containing pigments, brushes, palettes, and mixing tools.
  • Calligrapher’s Supplies
    Ink, pens, brushes, and fine materials used to create magical calligraphy and tattoo designs.

Gear

  • Explorer’s Pack
    A pack containing basic adventuring necessities.
  • Black Ink
    A bottle of black ink.
  • Quill
    A fine quill for scholarly notes and tattoo designs.
  • Small Knife
    A small knife used for cutting parchment, preparing pigments, and emergencies.
  • Unanswered Letter
    A letter from a dead colleague posing a question Serzza has never answered.
  • Common Clothes
    Practical clothing suitable for travel and monastery work.

Purse

  • 21×
    Gold Pieces
    Coins saved from his scholarly work and early travels.

Appearance

Serzza Kraine is a lean, graceful male tiefling with cornflower blue skin, swept-back black horns, a long expressive tail, and luminous golden eyes. His body is covered in magical tattoos resembling flowing murals of Underdark fungi, crystal formations, subterranean rivers, and surface wildflowers. The tattoos shift subtly when he moves, as if alive, and occasionally rearrange themselves into calligraphic patterns. He wears loose charcoal monk’s clothing with blue and gold accents, a sleeveless traveling coat, and ink-stained wrappings around his hands and forearms.

Mannerisms

He pauses before entering any room to study its lines, light, and color. When thinking, he traces invisible brushstrokes in the air with two fingers. He speaks softly about art and architecture, but his voice becomes startlingly sharp when cruelty is praised as strength.

Personality

Serzza is an exuberant aesthete with a patient scholar’s mind and a street performer’s flair. He notices overlooked details, treats every fight as a composition, and believes even a dangerous place may contain something worth saving. He is warm toward outsiders, suspicious of institutions, and delighted by anyone who can show him a new color, pattern, song, or craft.

Ideals

Beauty is not a luxury. It is proof that life can be more than survival, and every person deserves a world shaped with care rather than fear.

Bonds

He carries a half-finished design for a future Underdark city, and he will risk almost anything to complete it. He is devoted to the monastery that taught him to make his body a living work of art. He also protects a collection of sketches made by a dead mentor who believed beauty could reform even the cruelest society.

Flaws

He can become so absorbed in preserving or creating beauty that he underestimates immediate danger. Serzza is contemptuous of brutalist authority and may provoke powerful people simply because their symbols offend his sense of proportion. He also hides his fear that the cruelty he escaped is part of him, waiting to emerge whenever he chooses efficiency over compassion.

Quirks

He names particularly beautiful gemstones and plants as if they were old friends.
He sketches architectural improvements in the margins of official documents.
His tattoos ripple toward sources of interesting color or magical energy.
He refuses to call a ruined building ugly, preferring 'unfinished.'
He collects fallen petals, mineral flakes, and unusual inks in labeled vials.

Background

Serzza Kraine was born beneath the earth in a tiefling kingdom carved into black stone. His people built immense halls, severe towers, and fortress-like avenues that valued intimidation over grace. Serzza found beauty elsewhere, in the glowing gardens that clung to cavern walls, in gemstones that caught the light of underground rivers, and in the delicate movement of blind cave moths. As a young scholar, he filled forbidden pages with sketches and calligraphy, documenting wonders that his rulers dismissed as useless or weak. His studies eventually brought him into contact with wandering martial artists who taught him that art was not merely something to observe. It could be carried in the body, protected through discipline, and made powerful through motion. Serzza fled to the overworld after refusing to help decorate a monument celebrating one of his kingdom’s cruelest rulers. He emerged beneath an open sky and was nearly overwhelmed by the colors, distances, weather, and living movement of the surface world. He joined a monastery of artists and sages, where he learned to turn tattooing into a form of ki practice. Each mark on his skin became a memory, a promise, or a living composition. Now Serzza travels as a scholar, protector, and wandering artist. He seeks rare pigments, forgotten techniques, and beautiful places threatened by greed or tyranny. One day, he intends to return to the Underdark and help build a society whose architecture, customs, and laws are as beautiful as its natural wonders.

“His people built immense halls, severe towers, and fortress-like avenues that valued intimidation over grace.”
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