Maa'raxia
Maa'raxia
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AC 13 · HP 142 · 30 ft.Saving throws
Skills
- ArcanaINT
- HistoryINT
- InsightWIS
- InvestigationINT
- MedicineWIS
- NatureWIS
- ReligionWIS
Weapons
Tools
Languages
Features
27 featuresBonus action
- Draconic Flight
When Bonus Action, 1/Long Rest
As a Bonus Action, sprout spectral wings and gain a Fly Speed equal to your Speed for 10 minutes, or until you end it or become Incapacitated.
- Spell BreakerLevel 10
Counterspell and Dispel Magic are always prepared for her. Her Dispel Magic can be cast as a Bonus Action, and if either spell fails, the spell slot is not expended.
Always on
- Poison Breath
When Action, when taking the Attack action
Breathes a poisonous exhalation in a 15-foot cone or a 30-foot line that is 5 feet wide. Creatures in the area make a Dexterity saving throw against your Breath Weapon DC, taking poison damage on a failed save or half as much on a success.
- Projected WardLevel 6
When Reaction
Redirect damage from a creature you can see within 30 feet to your Arcane Ward.
- Arcane RecoveryLevel 1
When Short Rest
Recover spell slots after a Short Rest.
- SpellcastingLevel 1
You can cast Wizard spells, prepare a number of them after each Long Rest, and use Intelligence as your spellcasting ability. Your spellbook is the core of your practice, and you can use your spellbook or an Arcane Focus as a spellcasting focus.
- Ritual AdeptLevel 1
You can cast any ritual-tagged spell in your spellbook as a ritual, even if you have not prepared it.
- ScholarLevel 2
Choose two skills from the Wizard list. Maa'raxia takes Arcana and History. She has Expertise in Arcana, reflecting a lifetime of obsessive study and perfect recall.
- Wizard Subclass: AbjurerLevel 3
At 3rd level and higher, you gain the features of your Wizard subclass. Maa'raxia is an Abjurer, a specialist in wards, counterspells, and protective magic.
- Memorize SpellLevel 5
You can replace one prepared level 1+ Wizard spell with another from your spellbook whenever you finish a Short Rest, allowing constant tactical refinement.
- Ability Score ImprovementLevel 4
You gain an Ability Score Improvement or feat at Wizard levels 4, 8, 12, 16, and 19. Maa'raxia uses these opportunities to deepen her mastery and defenses.
- Ability Score ImprovementLevel 8
You gain an Ability Score Improvement or feat at Wizard levels 4, 8, 12, 16, and 19. Maa'raxia uses these opportunities to deepen her mastery and defenses.
- Ability Score ImprovementLevel 12
You gain an Ability Score Improvement or feat at Wizard levels 4, 8, 12, 16, and 19. Maa'raxia uses these opportunities to deepen her mastery and defenses.
- Ability Score ImprovementLevel 16
You gain an Ability Score Improvement or feat at Wizard levels 4, 8, 12, 16, and 19. Maa'raxia uses these opportunities to deepen her mastery and defenses.
- Epic BoonLevel 19
You gain an Ability Score Improvement or feat at Wizard levels 4, 8, 12, 16, and 19. Maa'raxia uses these opportunities to deepen her mastery and defenses.
- Arcane WardLevel 2
As an Abjurer, Maa'raxia can form an Arcane Ward that protects her from damage, and she can reinforce it by spending spell slots. Her ward is a visible lattice of green-black force layered over her scales.
- Improved WardLevel 14
Her ward becomes exceptionally resilient, granting further protection against spells and magical effects. Maa'raxia has turned defensive magic into an almost architectural discipline.
- Spell MasteryLevel 18
Choose one level 1 Wizard spell and one level 2 Wizard spell from your spellbook that have a casting time of an action. Maa'raxia favors Longstrider and Mirror Image, reflecting her measured battlefield control and uncanny survivability.
- Signature SpellsLevel 20
Choose two level 3 Wizard spells in your spellbook. Maa'raxia's signature spells are Counterspell and Dispel Magic, giving her decisive control over enemy magic.
- TraitDragonbornCreature Type Humanoid
- TraitDragonbornSize Medium
- TraitDragonbornSpeed 30 ft.
- TraitDragonbornDarkvision 60 ft.
- TraitDragonbornDraconic Ancestry Green, poison damage and poison resistance
- TraitDragonbornBreath Weapon, poison damage, 15-foot cone or 30-foot line, usable a number of times equal to Proficiency Bonus per Long Rest
- TraitDragonbornDraconic Flight at level 5, spectral wings and fly speed equal to walking speed for 10 minutes, 1/Long Rest
- Magic Initiate (Wizard)Sage
Magic Initiate, Wizard. Maa'raxia learned to pluck at small threads of magic even before her formal apprenticeship. She knows two Wizard cantrips and can cast one 1st-level Wizard spell once without expending a spell slot, and then by expending spell slots as normal thereafter if her table uses the feat's rules.
Spells
25 spellsSpellcasting. Maa'raxia casts with Intelligence (spell save DC 20, to hit with spell attacks).
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3rd level (3 slots): , ,
4th level (3 slots): ,
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6th level (2 slots):
7th level (2 slots): ,
8th level (1 slot):
9th level (1 slot):
Gear
11 itemsWeapons
- QuarterstaffA sturdy quarterstaff used as both walking staff and arcane focus.
- 2×DaggerTwo daggers carried for emergencies and close quarters.
Tools
- Calligrapher's SuppliesA set of precision tools for copying seals, circles, and spell diagrams.
Gear
- Book of HistoryA carefully penned compendium of esoteric notes, ward-diagrams, and planar observations.
- 8×ParchmentFine parchment sheets for copying runes, field notes, and formulas.
- RobeA practical robe suited to a scholar and battlefield mage.
- Arcane Focus (Quarterstaff)An arcane focus shaped as a quarterstaff.
- SpellbookA spellbook containing her prepared magical research.
- Scholar's PackA scholar's pack containing tools for travel, study, and survival.
Purse
- 8×8 GPA pouch of coin for immediate use.
- 5×5 GPHer accumulated coin reserve from years of study and service.
Appearance
A towering female green dragonborn with midnight-forest scales and a faint oily sheen, each scale edged in dark verdigris. Her elongated draconic head carries a heavy brow ridge, curved ramlike horns etched with glowing abjuration runes, and molten-gold slit pupils. She wears no conventional clothing, only arcane trappings, shadow-forged vestments, obsidian bracers, a rune-inscribed pauldron, and a violet scale-mail loincloth. Her silver-tipped claws are immaculate, her long tail coils with measured patience, and a soft green wardlight often shimmers over her body like a second skin.
Mannerisms
She speaks in measured, deliberate phrases, often pausing as if she is aligning invisible runes before each sentence. When considering a problem, she taps one silvered claw against her pauldron in a slow, metronomic rhythm. She circles rooms clockwise, as though mapping their invisible boundaries, and instinctively inspects thresholds, windows, and floor seams before she sits.
Personality
Maa'raxia is patient, exacting, and quietly intimidating. She is intensely curious about magical theory, but her curiosity is not playful, it is surgical. She respects competence, keeps her promises without embellishment, and treats emotional displays as useful data only when they reveal hidden motives. Yet beneath her severity is a strange, almost parental protectiveness toward apprentices, scribes, and anyone standing too close to disaster.
Ideals
Containment through understanding. Power is not virtue, but disciplined power can keep the multiverse from devouring itself. Knowledge should be preserved, tested, and used to protect the vulnerable from the consequences of ignorance.
Bonds
The wards that keep her bound are also the last testament of her lost enclave, and she guards their surviving formulas as if they were her own eggs. She will not allow another ritual circle to fail under her watch, and she has sworn to destroy any entity that seeks to weaponize the breach that made her.
Flaws
She trusts sealed systems more than living beings, and when a plan depends on improvisation she becomes coldly impatient. Her obsession with preventing another catastrophe can turn into control, secrecy, and an almost inhuman willingness to sacrifice comfort, reputation, or relationships for the sake of certainty.
Quirks
Background
Maa'raxia was once a scholar-arcanist of a secluded dragonborn enclave that built its libraries in the thin places between worlds. Her people studied wards, seals, and the architecture of reality itself, believing that any door could be opened if one first understood the wall. Maa'raxia excelled where others hesitated. She did not merely read formulae, she tested them against living fire, patient hunger, and the cold logic of planar pressure. Even as a hatchling she was more comfortable with sigils than with kinship, and more at home in a circle of glowing chalk than in a feast hall. The final ritual was meant to bind a trespass of shadow and turn it into a source of power. Instead, the rite cracked open, the enclave burned, and Maa'raxia alone survived. Her body became a vessel for the very darkness she had tried to cage, and the containment spells they forged became a prison she now maintains with her own genius. In the decades since, she has perfected shadowbinding and abjuration into twin disciplines. She is not merely trying to escape. She is trying to prove that the catastrophe can be mastered, that the monster and the scholar can inhabit the same form without either consuming the other.
“Her people studied wards, seals, and the architecture of reality itself, believing that any door could be opened if one first understood the wall.”
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Dragonborn
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