Brenna Vale
Brenna Vale
Sheet
AC 15 · HP 165 · 30 ft.Saving throws
Skills
- AthleticsSTR
- HistoryINT
- InsightWIS
- PersuasionCHA
Armor
Weapons
Tools
Languages
Features
32 featuresAction
- Extra AttackLevel 5
When you take the Attack action, you can attack twice, instead of once.
- Extra AttackLevel 11
You can attack three times, instead of once, whenever you take the Attack action on your turn.
- Extra AttackLevel 20
You can attack four times, instead of once, whenever you take the Attack action on your turn.
Bonus action
- Second WindLevel 1
As a bonus action, you can regain hit points equal to 1d10 + your fighter level. You can use this feature once per short or long rest.
Always on
- Superiority Maneuvers
When On a weapon attack or as otherwise specified by the maneuver
When Brenna hits with a maneuver-enabled strike, she can add a superiority die to the damage and apply the maneuver’s extra effect.
- Fighting Style TrainingLevel 1
You gain proficiency with all armor, shields, and simple and martial weapons.
- Action SurgeLevel 2
You can push yourself beyond normal limits for one moment. On your turn, you can take one additional action. You can use this feature twice per short or long rest.
- Martial ArchetypeLevel 3
You adopt a martial archetype and gain its 3rd-level features.
- Combat SuperiorityLevel 3
Choose three maneuvers known. You have superiority dice to fuel them. Brenna’s maneuvers are flavored as expert drills and counter-techniques used to control an opponent’s body and momentum.
- Student of WarLevel 3
You gain proficiency with one type of artisan’s tools, gaming set, or musical instrument of your choice. Brenna uses this to represent formal instructional certification and training-room systems.
- Fighting Style, DuelistLevel 3
Your combat style is paired with a second preferred weapon technique. Brenna favors a duelist-minded, close-control style with a training blade or hand-to-hand strikes.
- Ability Score ImprovementLevel 4
You gain an Ability Score Improvement or feat. Brenna’s progression reflects years of relentless physical and tactical refinement.
- Extra AttackLevel 5
You gain a second use of Action Surge.
- Ability Score ImprovementLevel 6
You gain another Ability Score Improvement or feat.
- Know Your EnemyLevel 7
Your superiority dice and maneuvers improve, increasing the deadliness and reliability of your technique.
- Know Your EnemyLevel 7
As a minute of study, you can learn whether a creature is your equal, superior, or inferior in several combat-relevant categories, such as its Strength, Dexterity, Constitution, armor class, current hit points, and fighter levels, if any.
- Ability Score ImprovementLevel 8
You gain another Ability Score Improvement or feat.
- IndomitableLevel 9
You can reroll a failed saving throw once per long rest.
- Improved Combat SuperiorityLevel 10
Your combat superiority expands, increasing the number and potency of your maneuvers.
- Ability Score ImprovementLevel 12
You gain another Ability Score Improvement or feat.
- IndomitableLevel 13
You can use Indomitable twice per long rest.
- Ability Score ImprovementLevel 14
You gain another Ability Score Improvement or feat.
- RelentlessLevel 15
Your superiority dice become larger and your tactical control reaches a new peak.
- RelentlessLevel 15
When you roll initiative and have no superiority dice remaining, you regain one superiority die.
- Ability Score ImprovementLevel 16
You gain another Ability Score Improvement or feat.
- IndomitableLevel 17
You can use Indomitable three times per long rest.
- Ability Score ImprovementLevel 18
You gain another Ability Score Improvement or feat.
- Improved Combat SuperiorityLevel 18
Your martial prowess becomes legendary, granting an exceptional burst of endurance and discipline.
- Ability Score ImprovementLevel 19
You gain another Ability Score Improvement or feat.
- TraitHumanAbility Score Increase, +1 to all six ability scores
- TraitHumanExtra Language
- Position of PrivilegeNoble
Thanks to your noble birth, people are inclined to think the best of you. You are welcome in high society, and common folk make every effort to accommodate you and avoid your displeasure.
Gear
8 itemsWeapons
- 2×Two martial weaponsA pair of martial weapons chosen as starting gear, presented here as a training blade and a compact sidearm-style weapon in modern flavor.
Gear
- Modern training clothesA set of practical modern training clothes, worn and functional rather than decorative.
- Field jacketA faded olive field jacket adapted for movement and durability.
- Explorer's packA reliable adventuring pack with travel and maintenance essentials.
- Signet ringA sign of inherited status from a respectable line, though Brenna rarely wears it openly.
- Scroll of pedigreeFormal documentation of noble lineage and family history.
- Fine clothesFine clothes suitable for public or professional use.
Purse
- Purse with 25 gpPurse containing starting wealth associated with the Noble background.
Appearance
Brenna is a compact, powerful human woman with a dense, hard-trained build, broad shoulders, and thick calloused hands. She stands 5'6" with a sun-browned olive complexion crossed by old scars from blades, burns, and bullet wounds. Her face is severe, with a broken blunt nose, a wide mouth, and sharp hazel eyes that miss very little. Her dark brown hair is cut in a practical chin-length bob shot through with iron gray, usually tousled from habit. She wears a dark gray fitted tank top, a faded olive combat jacket, heavy black cargo pants, and scuffed steel-toed boots, all chosen for utility and freedom of movement.
Mannerisms
Brenna speaks in a low, gravelly rumble and rarely wastes words. She stands with her weight balanced and her hands still, like a coiled spring that has already measured the room. When thinking, she rubs her thumb over old knuckles or taps two fingers against her belt as if counting options. She tends to inspect exits, sightlines, and posture before she ever looks at a face.
Personality
Quiet, exacting, and hard to impress, Brenna values direct speech and useful action over charm. She is patient in the way a blade is patient, calm until the decisive moment. She respects competence, preparation, and honesty, and she has very little tolerance for theatrics, excuses, or cruelty dressed up as leadership. Under the hard edges, she is deeply protective of the people who earn her trust.
Ideals
Discipline. Strength is nothing without control, and control must be earned through repetition, honesty, and hard lessons.
Bonds
She keeps a small metal token from her father’s work locker and never lets it leave her pocket. She protects working-class trainees and anyone trapped by the kind of system that almost swallowed her family. She feels responsible for every student she disciplines, and takes failure personally when someone she trained gets hurt.
Flaws
Brenna’s competence can become contempt, and she is quick to write people off if they waste her time or hide behind excuses. She has trouble asking for help, even when she needs it, because dependency feels too much like the helplessness she grew up hating. When a plan is bad, she says so bluntly, sometimes in a way that wounds allies who were hoping for gentler words.
Quirks
Background
Brenna was born in the lower districts beneath the Spire, where the air tasted of metal dust and hot solvent and nobody expected a soft life. Her father worked the steel lines until an industrial accident took him, and the family’s world narrowed to her mother’s exhausted shifts, thin meals, and the constant arithmetic of survival. Brenna learned early that strength was not a virtue in her neighborhood, it was currency. She carried slag, hauled scrap, broke up fights, and by adolescence had the posture of someone who had already decided nobody was coming to save her. What turned survival into discipline was the training room. A contract instructor at a civic security annex saw a dangerous combination in her, raw power, patience under pressure, and an unnerving ability to notice every weak point in a room. Brenna took to structured violence the way other people took to prayer. She rose through the ranks by being the woman who never panicked, never wasted motion, and never lied about what could be done. Now she teaches others in a modern training facility, turning recruits, executives, and private security candidates into people who can hold a line when it matters. She still carries herself like a woman from the underside of the city, but the scars on her body and the authority in her voice tell a cleaner truth, she earned every inch of it.
“Brenna learned early that strength was not a virtue in her neighborhood, it was currency.”
- Background
- Noble
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Species
Human
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