Asuka
Asuka
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AC 18 · HP 165 · 30 ft.Saving throws
Skills
- AthleticsSTR
- HistoryINT
- InsightWIS
- PersuasionCHA
Armor
Weapons
Languages
Features
20 featuresAction
- Cleansing TouchLevel 14
She can use an action to end one spell on herself or one willing creature she touches.
Always on
- Divine SenseLevel 1
As a paladin, Asuka can detect celestial, fiend, and undead presences with her divine sense a number of times per long rest equal to 1 plus her Charisma modifier.
- Lay on HandsLevel 1
She can heal wounds with a pool of positive energy totaling 100 hit points per long rest, and she can spend that pool to restore health to herself or others.
- Paladin TrainingLevel 1
She is proficient with all armor, shields, simple weapons, and martial weapons.
- Divine SmiteLevel 2
She can expend spell slots to deal radiant damage on a melee weapon hit, adding 2d8 radiant damage for a 1st-level slot plus 1d8 per spell level above 1st, with extra damage against fiends and undead.
- SpellcastingLevel 2
She learns to focus divine magic through prayer and discipline, preparing paladin spells each day and using Charisma as her spellcasting ability.
- Fighting Style, Great Weapon Fighting not assumedLevel 2
When she hits with a weapon attack, she can decide to deal extra radiant damage, and her righteous strikes become a persistent source of holy harm.
- Sacred OathLevel 3
She has sworn the Oath of Devotion, binding herself to honesty, courage, compassion, honor, and duty. She gains the oath spells, sacred oath, and channel divinity features.
- Channel Divinity, Turn the UnholyLevel 3
She can turn fiends and undead in an area, forcing them to flee or be destroyed by her divine conviction.
- Channel Divinity, Sacred WeaponLevel 3
She can imbue a weapon with radiant power, granting advantage on attack rolls with that weapon and causing it to shed bright light for 20 minutes.
- Aura of ProtectionLevel 6
She can help allies resist fear, granting them protection against being frightened while they remain within her aura.
- Aura of CourageLevel 10
She and friendly creatures within 10 feet of her cannot be frightened while she is conscious.
- Improved Divine SmiteLevel 11
Her divine smites become more efficient, dealing 1d8 radiant damage on every weapon hit in addition to normal weapon damage.
- Aura of DevotionLevel 7
As a Devotion paladin, she gains protection from charm, and allies near her are harder to charm as well.
- Purity of SpiritLevel 15
Her devotion can shield her mind from magical compulsion, making her immune to charm while conscious.
- Holy NimbusLevel 20
She can project a holy blaze that sheds bright light, causes enemies in the area to be blinded by brilliance, and empowers her radiant presence for 1 minute.
- TraitHumanAbility Score Increase, +1 to all ability scores.
- TraitHumanExtra Language, one additional language of choice.
- TraitHumanHuman versatility and adaptability.
- Position of PrivilegeNoble
Due to her noble status, Asuka is welcomed in high society, and people of rank are inclined to treat her as a peer. She can secure audiences, lodging, and certain privileges that common folk cannot easily obtain.
Spells
19 spellsSpellcasting. Asuka casts with Charisma (spell save DC 19, to hit with spell attacks).
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Gear
9 itemsWeapons
- LongswordA versatile martial blade suited to disciplined melee fighting.
- 5×JavelinBalanced throwing spears carried for ranged support.
Armor
- Chain MailA suit of heavy armor worn as her standard protective gear, used to represent the paladin's starting chain mail in a modernized training context.
- ShieldA sturdy shield bearing her personal crest.
Gear
- Explorer's PackTravel gear appropriate to a hardened paladin.
- Holy SymbolA symbol of her faith and oath, used as a spellcasting focus.
- Signet RingProof of noble lineage and formal standing.
- Scroll of PedigreeA scroll confirming her lineage and legal status.
- Fine ClothesFormal attire suitable for court, ceremony, or high society.
Appearance
Asuka is a tall Japanese woman with a slender, tightly controlled build, standing about six feet tall with a fighter's balance and a paladin's composure. Her skin is pale, her face refined yet severe, with high cheekbones, a strong jawline, and dark eyes that seem to measure every detail in the room. Her black hair is cropped short in a practical style that stays out of her way, and a thin white scar runs from her left temple toward her jaw. In modern training attire, she favors tight black pants, a fitted black tank top, and a dark gray tactical jacket, with sturdy black leather boots that look ready for sparring or a breach.
Mannerisms
She speaks sparingly and with deliberate pauses, as if every word has been weighed before release. When listening, she keeps her posture still and her gaze fixed, making others feel examined rather than merely heard. She often folds her hands behind her back while thinking, and when tension rises, she centers herself with a brief inhale through the nose and a slow exhale through the mouth.
Personality
Quiet, disciplined, and exacting, Asuka carries herself like a weapon that has learned restraint. She is calm under pressure and expects the same from those around her. She values effort over excuses, composure over theatrics, and consistency over talent. She is not unkind, but her compassion is expressed through rigorous training, honest correction, and unwavering standards.
Ideals
Self-mastery. The body obeys the mind, the mind obeys the code, and the code is what keeps a person from becoming a slave to fear, anger, or grief. Strength without discipline is meaningless, but disciplined strength can protect the helpless and endure any ordeal.
Bonds
She still carries the memory of her fallen clan as a silent vow, and she will not allow their suffering to be forgotten. She is fiercely protective of students who show genuine resolve, because she sees in them the chance to forge something better than what was lost. Her sword, her training hall, and the routines she has built are the last living structure of the life she chose after exile.
Flaws
She demands too much, too quickly, and she often mistakes endurance for virtue. Her restraint can become severity, and her severity can become cruelty if she believes weakness is being indulged. She struggles to trust institutions, because betrayal taught her that banners and oaths are only as strong as the people who keep them.
Quirks
Background
Asuka was born into an old samurai lineage, raised in a household where silence was expected to be purposeful and every movement carried intent. From childhood she was taught that the mind must master the body before the body can ever be trusted in crisis. She learned etiquette beside sword forms, meditation beside footwork, and the weight of inherited duty beside the sting of relentless correction. Her family believed that discipline was a form of mercy, because a person who cannot govern herself will eventually be governed by fear. That certainty shattered when betrayal reached her clan. An enemy faction, aided by trusted hands, broke her family apart and turned honor into ash. Asuka survived by enduring what others could not. She trained through grief, hunger, sleeplessness, and pain until her will became an instrument as sharp as her blade. When she finally left her homeland, she carried no family name as ornament, only as burden. In the years since, she has transformed her private code into a sacred discipline, teaching others to stand unmoved in the face of terror, fatigue, and humiliation. Now she serves as a paladin not of a distant god, but of an uncompromising ideal, the mastery of self.
“From childhood she was taught that the mind must master the body before the body can ever be trusted in crisis.”
- Background
- Noble
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Human
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