Mateo Vellacero
Mateo Vellacero
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AC 13 · HP 23 · 30 ft.Saving throws
Skills
- AcrobaticsDEX
- Animal HandlingWIS
- ArcanaINT
- AthleticsSTR
- DeceptionCHA
- HistoryINT
- InsightWIS
- IntimidationCHA
- InvestigationINT
- MedicineWIS
- NatureINT
- PerceptionWIS
- PerformanceCHA
- PersuasionCHA
- Sleight of HandDEX
- StealthDEX
Armor
Weapons
Tools
Languages
Features
13 featuresBonus action
- Bardic InspirationLevel 1
When A creature within 60 feet that can hear you makes an ability check, attack roll, or saving throw.
As a bonus action, grant a Bardic Inspiration d6 to a creature within 60 feet that can hear you. The creature can add the die to one ability check, attack roll, or saving throw within 10 minutes.
Reaction
- Cutting WordsLevel 3
When A creature you can see within 60 feet makes an attack roll, ability check, or damage roll.
As a reaction, expend a Bardic Inspiration die to subtract its result from a creature’s attack roll, ability check, or damage roll made within 60 feet.
Always on
- SpellcastingLevel 1
You can use a musical instrument or your voice as a spellcasting focus for your bard spells. Charisma is your spellcasting ability. You know two bard cantrips and seven bard spells, and you can use a spellbook-free casting method based on memory and performance.
- Jack of All TradesLevel 2
You can add half your proficiency bonus, rounded down, to any ability check you make that does not already include your proficiency bonus.
- Song of RestLevel 2
You can use music to revitalize your allies during a short rest. Any friendly creatures who hear your performance regain extra hit points when spending Hit Dice, equal to 1d6.
- ExpertiseLevel 3
Choose two skills in which you are proficient. Your proficiency bonus is doubled for ability checks using those skills. Expertise applies to Deception and Performance.
- Bonus ProficienciesLevel 3
You gain proficiency with three additional skills of your choice: Investigation, Perception, and Persuasion.
- Ability Score ImprovementLevel 4
You increase your Charisma score by 2, raising it from 17 to 19.
- TraitHalf-ElfDarkvision, 60 feet.
- TraitHalf-ElfFey Ancestry, advantage on saving throws against being charmed, and magic cannot put you to sleep.
- TraitHalf-ElfSkill Versatility, proficiency in two additional skills.
- TraitHalf-ElfLanguages, Common, Elvish, and one additional language. Mateo speaks Nahuatl.
- False IdentityCharlatan
You have a false identity and forged documents that support it. You can also create other identities and establish yourself in a community using your knowledge of deception, disguise, and social manipulation.
Spells
9 spellsSpellcasting. Mateo Vellacero casts with Charisma (spell save DC 14, to hit with spell attacks).
Cantrips (at will): ,
1st level (4 slots): , , , ,
2nd level (3 slots): ,
Gear
9 itemsWeapons
- RapierA slender blade kept polished enough to serve as a mirror during disguise work.
- DaggerA compact backup blade concealed in his boot.
Armor
- Leather armorA finely made but travel-worn leather coat reinforced with hidden stitching, suitable for performances and light protection.
Tools
- Disguise kitA disguise kit containing cosmetics, wigs, clothing pieces, and other tools for altering his appearance.
- Disguise or gaming kitA set of weighted cards and marked dice used for games of chance and confidence tricks.
Gear
- LuteA polished wooden lute with a warm, resonant tone and several repaired strings.
- Diplomat’s packA diplomat’s pack containing a chest, two cases for maps and scrolls, a set of fine clothes, a bottle of ink, an ink pen, a lamp, two flasks of oil, five sheets of paper, a vial of perfume, sealing wax, and soap.
- Fine clothesA set of elegant but practical clothes associated with his false identity as Tomas Corazón.
Purse
- 15×Gold piecesA small purse containing the remainder of his starting adventuring funds.
Appearance
A slender half-elf man with warm brown skin, softly pointed ears, dark hazel eyes, and thick black hair worn just past his jaw. A narrow scar crosses his left eyebrow, and a small silver hoop rests in one ear. He dresses in a well-cut but travel-worn burgundy coat over a cream shirt, with a green scarf tucked loosely at the throat. His movements are graceful and practiced, though his smile always seems to arrive a moment before his trust.
Mannerisms
Mateo rolls a coin across his knuckles when thinking, tilts his head slightly before answering difficult questions, and instinctively hums the last few notes of any song he hears. When lying, he becomes unusually polite and uses a person’s full name.
Personality
Mateo is warm, observant, and effortlessly conversational. He treats every stranger as a possible audience member and every conversation as a duet. Beneath his easy charm is a cautious man who studies exits, watches hands instead of faces, and offers genuine affection only after testing whether it can survive a small lie.
Ideals
Freedom. No one should be trapped by the name, station, or story forced upon them. A person deserves the chance to become someone else.
Bonds
He keeps a cracked copper pendant that belonged to his mother, and he will risk almost anything to protect performers, street children, and other people exploited by the powerful.
Flaws
He cannot resist improving a lie once it has begun, even when silence would be safer. He also assumes that anyone offering unconditional kindness must eventually demand payment.
Quirks
Background
Mateo Vellacero was raised between two worlds and never allowed to forget it. His elven mother taught him old songs in a riverside inn, while his human father made a living selling painted saints, lucky charms, and convincing lies to travelers. Mateo inherited his mother’s ear for melody and his father’s talent for making strangers believe exactly what they hoped to hear. By adolescence, he was performing under borrowed names, offering heartfelt ballads, counterfeit blessings, and carefully staged miracles to anyone with more coin than caution. His most successful identity was a traveling musician named Tomas Corazón, a gentlehearted performer supposedly collecting money to rebuild a village destroyed by bandits. The village existed, but the money never reached it. When Mateo discovered that the local magistrate had been stealing the donations, he turned the entire scheme against him, exposing the magistrate through a public performance that left the crowd laughing and the official disgraced. Mateo fled before the authorities could decide whether to arrest him or recruit him. Now he adventures under his birth name, at least for the moment, using music, charm, and selective honesty to help people who remind him of the family he abandoned. He still lies easily, but he has begun to wonder whether a life built on false names can contain anything true.
“Mateo inherited his mother’s ear for melody and his father’s talent for making strangers believe exactly what they hoped to hear.”
- Background
- Charlatan
Connections
Species
Half-Elf
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