Madam Repentence
Madam Repentence
Sheet
AC 18 · HP 36 · 30 ft.Saving throws
Skills
- AcrobaticsDEX
- Animal HandlingCHA
- ArcanaINT
- AthleticsSTR
- DeceptionSTR
- HistoryINT
- InsightWIS
- IntimidationINT
- InvestigationINT
- MedicineWIS
- NatureINT
- PerceptionWIS
- PerformanceCHA
- PersuasionCHA
- ReligionINT
- Sleight of HandDEX
- StealthDEX
- SurvivalWIS
Armor
Weapons
Tools
Languages
Features
16 featuresAction
- Extra AttackLevel 5
When On your turn when you take the Attack action.
Make two melee weapon attacks when taking the Attack action.
- Lay on HandsLevel 1
When As an action when touching a creature.
Restore up to 25 total hit points per long rest through touch, or spend 5 points to cure one disease or neutralize one poison.
- Sacred Weapon
When As an action while holding a melee weapon.
Imbue one melee weapon with a +3 bonus to attack rolls for 1 minute and cause it to shed bright light, using Channel Divinity.
- Turn the Unholy
When As an action while displaying your holy symbol.
Force fiends and undead within 30 feet to make a Wisdom saving throw or flee for up to 1 minute, using Channel Divinity.
- Divine SenseLevel 1
As an action, sense the presence of strong celestial, fiendish, or undead forces within 60 feet until the end of your next turn. You know the type and location of any such presence, unless behind total cover. You can use this feature a number of times equal to 1 plus your Charisma modifier, regaining all uses after a long rest.
Always on
- Divine SmiteLevel 2
When After hitting with a melee weapon attack.
Make a melee weapon attack, adding 3d8 radiant damage by expending a 1st-level spell slot, or 4d8 by expending a 2nd-level spell slot. Add 1d8 to the damage against a fiend or undead.
- Fighting Style, DefenseLevel 2
You adopt the Defense fighting style, gaining a +1 bonus to AC while wearing armor.
- SpellcastingLevel 2
You can cast prepared paladin spells using Charisma as your spellcasting ability. You can use a holy symbol as a spellcasting focus.
- Divine HealthLevel 3
You are immune to disease.
- Sacred Oath, Oath of DevotionLevel 3
You swear the Oath of Devotion, gaining oath spells and Channel Divinity options. Oath spells are always prepared and do not count against your prepared spells.
- Channel DivinityLevel 3
You can use Channel Divinity once per short or long rest. Sacred Weapon lets you add your Charisma modifier to attack rolls with one weapon for 1 minute, and causes it to emit bright light. Turn the Unholy forces fiends and undead within 30 feet to flee on a failed Wisdom saving throw.
- TraitHalf-ElfDarkvision, you can see in dim light within 60 feet as if it were bright light, and in darkness as if it were dim light.
- TraitHalf-ElfFey Ancestry, you have advantage on saving throws against being charmed, and magic cannot put you to sleep.
- TraitHalf-ElfSkill Versatility, you gain proficiency in two skills of your choice, Arcana and Religion.
- TraitHalf-ElfLanguages, you can speak Common, Elvish, and one additional language, Celestial.
- DiscoveryHermit
Madam Repentence discovered a unique and powerful truth during her secluded years, the belief that mercy is not the opposite of justice, but its most demanding form. She can provide the necessities of a simple life for herself and companions, and usually receives a respectful hearing when sharing her spiritual insight.
Spells
9 spellsSpellcasting. Madam Repentence casts with Charisma (spell save DC 14, to hit with spell attacks).
1st level (4 slots): , , , , ,
2nd level (2 slots): , ,
Gear
10 itemsWeapons
- LongswordA finely balanced longsword used as her primary sacred weapon.
- 5×JavelinBalanced spears suitable for throwing or close defense.
Armor
- Chain mailA suit of chain mail, worn beneath a weather-stained cloak.
- ShieldA polished wooden shield bearing a simple open-hand symbol.
Tools
- Herbalism kitA kit containing the tools and ingredients needed to identify and prepare medicinal herbs.
Gear
- Priest's packA pack containing a blanket, tinderbox, mess kit, ten torches, ten days of rations, and a waterskin.
- Scroll case with notesA case containing a spiritual text written in several hands and annotated by Madam Repentence.
- BlanketA woolen blanket for cold nights in the wilderness.
- Common clothesSimple, durable clothing suited to a hermit's life.
Purse
- 5×Gold piecesStarting money kept in a small leather purse.
Appearance
Madam Repentence is a striking half-elf woman with warm bronze skin, dark auburn hair braided into a severe crown, and bright green eyes that seem perpetually amused by solemnity. She keeps her polished armor meticulously clean, but wears a weather-stained hermit's cloak over it, fastened with a brass clasp shaped like a small open hand. Her movements are unusually deliberate and economical. She stands perfectly still when listening, then advances with a long, purposeful stride that makes her armor softly chime. Her smile is quick, crooked, and disarming.
Mannerisms
She addresses nearly everyone as Madam or Sir, including enemies. When considering a difficult choice, she rubs the brass open-hand clasp on her cloak. Before drawing her sword, she quietly asks, "Have you reconsidered?"
Personality
Madam Repentence is warm, irreverent, and intensely attentive. She listens as if every confession is a sacred text, but she refuses to flatter people who are clearly behaving badly. She prefers practical kindness to grand gestures, and will mend a stranger's boot while delivering an uncompromising sermon about their choices.
Ideals
Mercy. The purpose of justice is to make a better world, not to provide an audience with a satisfying punishment.
Bonds
She is devoted to the nameless villagers whose lives were nearly destroyed by the lord she defied. She also protects the remote woodland shrine where she found her calling, and considers its elderly keeper her spiritual parent.
Flaws
She is impatient with people who use humility as an excuse for cowardice, and her judgment can become harsh when someone refuses an offered chance to do better. She also has a talent for turning a private disagreement into a public moral lesson.
Quirks
Background
Madam Repentence was born at the edge of two worlds, the daughter of a human magistrate and an elven pilgrim who disliked both courts and temples. Her parents gave her a name meant to remind her that remorse should be an action, not a feeling. She spent her youth mediating quarrels between villagers, wandering elves, and the occasional offended priest, learning early that people often call something justice when they simply want permission to be cruel. When a corrupt local lord condemned an entire hamlet to make an example of one thief, Repentence openly defied the sentence and helped the villagers escape. The act made her a fugitive, but it also brought her to the attention of a wandering paladin. She later withdrew to a remote woodland shrine, where she lived as a hermit for seven years. There, through fasting, gardening, argument with old texts, and long conversations with travelers who thought solitude made her harmless, she came to a revelation: redemption cannot be demanded from the guilty, but it can be offered to everyone. She took up the oath of devotion not to obey institutions, but to protect the possibility of goodness in people. Now Madam Repentence travels again, carrying a sword, a healer's satchel, and a pointed suspicion of anyone who claims that compassion makes them weak.
“Her parents gave her a name meant to remind her that remorse should be an action, not a feeling.”
- Background
- Hermit
Connections
Species
Half-Elf
Media
0 imagesNo images yet.
Turn Madam Repentence into a sheet
A high-res, share-ready sheet you can post or print.