Terri-Leigh Kelly
Terri-Leigh Kelly
Sheet
AC 11 · HP 107 · 30 ft.Saving throws
Skills
- AcrobaticsDEX
- Animal HandlingWIS
- ArcanaINT
- AthleticsSTR
- InsightWIS
- InvestigationINT
- MedicineWIS
- NatureINT
- PerceptionWIS
- PerformanceCHA
- PersuasionCHA
- ReligionINT
- Sleight of HandDEX
- StealthDEX
- SurvivalWIS
Armor
Weapons
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Languages
Features
23 featuresReaction
- Cutting WordsLevel 3
When A creature within 60 feet succeeds on an attack roll, ability check, or damage roll.
She turns a foe's own arrogance into hesitation, subtracting a Bardic Inspiration die from a visible creature's attack roll, ability check, or damage roll.
- CountercharmLevel 7
When She or a creature within 30 feet fails a save against Charmed or Frightened.
She invokes a calming counter-melody that lets an ally reroll a failed save against Charmed or Frightened with Advantage.
- Peerless SkillLevel 14
When She fails an ability check or attack roll.
Terri-Leigh adds a Bardic Inspiration die to a failed ability check or attack roll, attempting to turn failure into success.
Always on
- Kindling Courage
When An ally within 60 feet needs help with an attack roll, ability check, or saving throw.
Terri-Leigh punctuates encouragement with a bright fiddle phrase, granting an ally a Bardic Inspiration die.
- Bardic InspirationLevel 1
Terri-Leigh can use a musical instrument or her voice to inspire another creature within 60 feet. The creature gains a Bardic Inspiration die, a d10, which it can expend to add the roll to an ability check, attack roll, or saving throw. She has 5 uses, and regains them on a Long Rest or through Font of Inspiration.
- SpellcastingLevel 1
Terri-Leigh can cast Bard spells using Charisma. She can use a musical instrument or arcane focus as a spellcasting focus.
- ExpertiseLevel 2
Terri-Leigh gains Expertise in two proficient skills, Arcana and Persuasion. At Bard level 9, she gains Expertise in two additional proficient skills, Nature and Performance.
- Jack of All TradesLevel 2
Terri-Leigh adds half her proficiency bonus, rounded down, to ability checks using a skill or tool in which she lacks proficiency. This does not apply to initiative checks or other saving throws.
- College of Lore, Bonus ProficienciesLevel 3
Terri-Leigh gains proficiency in three additional skills through her Lore training: Animal Handling, Survival, and Nature.
- Ability Score ImprovementLevel 4
Terri-Leigh gains an Ability Score Improvement feat. She chose Inspiring Leader.
- Font of InspirationLevel 5
Terri-Leigh's Bardic Inspiration now returns after a Short or Long Rest. She may also expend a spell slot without an action to regain one expended use.
- Magical DiscoveriesLevel 6
Terri-Leigh learns two additional spells from the Cleric, Druid, or Wizard spell lists. She always has them prepared. She chose Aid and Pass without Trace.
- Ability Score ImprovementLevel 8
Terri-Leigh gains an Ability Score Improvement feat. She chose War Caster.
- Expertise ImprovementLevel 9
Terri-Leigh gains Expertise in two additional proficient skills, Nature and Performance.
- Magical SecretsLevel 10
Terri-Leigh learns two additional spells from any class's spell list, provided they are cantrips or spells for which she has spell slots. She chose Revivify and Wall of Stone.
- Ability Score ImprovementLevel 12
Terri-Leigh gains an Ability Score Improvement feat. She chose Skilled, gaining proficiency in Medicine, Stealth, and Investigation.
- ResourcefulHumanWhen Terri-Leigh finishes a Long Rest, she gains Heroic Inspiration.
- SkillfulHumanShe gains proficiency in one skill of her choice, Medicine.
- VersatileHumanShe gains one additional Origin feat of her choice, Alert.
- Creature TypeHumanHumanoid.
- SizeHumanMedium.
- SpeedHuman30 feet.
- ResearcherSage
Terri-Leigh can usually identify a library, archive, scholar, monastery, druid circle, or other source where unknown information may be found. The information may still require travel, favors, or an adventure to obtain.
Spells
26 spellsSpellcasting. Terri-Leigh Kelly casts with Charisma (spell save DC 15, to hit with spell attacks).
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Gear
14 itemsWeapons
- 2×DaggerA simple blade kept for emergencies and utility work.
Armor
- Leather ArmorLight protective armor suitable for traveling through villages and wilderness.
Tools
- ViolTerri-Leigh's favored instrument, a compact fiddle with a warm, carrying tone.
- Pan FluteA second instrument used for quiet woodland melodies and animal-calming tunes.
- DrumA small hand drum used for marching songs and rallying frightened communities.
- Calligrapher's SuppliesA complete set used to copy maps, transcribe lore, and repair damaged manuscripts.
- Small KnifeA practical travel knife, separate from her weapons.
Gear
- Book of HistoryA collection of historical accounts, annotated with Terri-Leigh's observations and corrections.
- 8×ParchmentEight sheets reserved for letters, maps, field notes, and urgent messages.
- RobeA plain scholarly robe worn when entering libraries, monasteries, and formal archives.
- Bottle of Black InkInk used for copying documents and marking field observations.
- QuillA fine writing instrument with a carefully carved wooden shaft.
- Scholar's PackA weatherproof satchel containing a mess kit, tinderbox, torches, rations, and other ordinary traveling supplies.
Purse
- 8×Gold PiecesCoins remaining from her Sage starting equipment.
Appearance
Terri-Leigh is a warm-faced human woman of average height with a sturdy, travel-seasoned build. Her chestnut hair is kept in two long practical braids threaded with colored cord, small wooden beads, and occasional feathers gathered respectfully from the ground. She dresses in well-mended green, russet, and cream clothing beneath light leather armor, with a weatherproof scholar's cloak covered in stitched pockets. Her most immediately noticeable feature is the amount of space she gives others, always stepping aside, lowering herself to speak with children, and making room for frightened animals before anyone asks. Her expression is gentle but becomes quietly formidable when someone abuses power or harms the helpless.
Mannerisms
Terri-Leigh listens with her whole body, leaning forward and lowering her voice as though every speaker has entrusted her with a secret. She taps a quiet rhythm against her thumb when thinking, automatically names nearby birds and plants, and pauses before entering a room to check whether any animal is hiding or distressed. When angry, she becomes exceptionally polite, precise, and soft-spoken.
Personality
Terri-Leigh is gentle, loyal, patient, and openly generous with her time. She treats a stable hand's knowledge as seriously as a scholar's theory and judges people by how they treat those with less power. She is wary around Orcs, rogues, and warlocks, but she refuses to condemn anyone without giving them a chance to demonstrate their character. Around children and animals she becomes especially attentive and playful. Around cruel aristocrats and status-obsessed officials, her kindness sharpens into fearless defiance.
Ideals
Knowledge is a lantern, not a throne. Learning matters only when it is used to protect the vulnerable, challenge cruelty, and help people understand one another.
Bonds
She carries a damaged field journal belonging to her first teacher, a natural philosopher who disappeared while investigating the destruction of a protected woodland. Terri-Leigh has sworn to find the truth, preserve the surviving notes, and ensure that no child or creature is abandoned because powerful people find them inconvenient.
Flaws
Terri-Leigh gives too many chances to people who have not earned them, especially when she suspects fear or poverty is behind their cruelty. Her distrust of Orcs, rogues, and warlocks can make her guarded and unfairly suspicious, even though she consciously fights that prejudice. She also finds it nearly impossible to walk away from a threatened child, abused animal, or damaged natural place, regardless of the danger or the cost.
Quirks
Background
Terri-Leigh Kelly was raised in a family of itinerant copyists who moved between monasteries, manor libraries, village archives, and remote observatories. She learned early that knowledge was not meant to make one person feel superior to another. Her mother taught her letters, her father taught her patient research, and a kindly groundskeeper taught her the names of local birds, medicinal plants, and the quiet signs by which animals ask for help. Terri-Leigh became a capable scholar, but she was never content to remain behind a desk. Whenever a famine, feud, plague, or missing child appeared in the margins of a report, she followed the trail in person.
“She learned early that knowledge was not meant to make one person feel superior to another.”
- Background
- Sage
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Species
Human
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