Vaka Stoneheart
Vaka Stoneheart
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AC 18 · HP 202 · 30 ft.Saving throws
Skills
- AthleticsSTR
- InsightWIS
- IntimidationCHA
- PersuasionCHA
- ReligionINT
Armor
Weapons
Languages
Features
23 featuresAction
- Lay on HandsLevel 1
She has a pool of healing power equal to 5 times her paladin level, currently 90 hit points. She can spend this pool as an action to heal herself or touch a creature, and she can cure diseases and poisons by spending 5 points from the pool.
Bonus action
- TraitOrcAggressive, she can use a bonus action to move up to her speed toward a hostile creature she can see
Always on
- Divine SmiteLevel 2
When When Vaka hits with a melee weapon attack
A sacred burst of radiant force wrapped around a weapon strike, ideal for punishing fiends, undead, and heavily armored foes.
- Inspiring SmiteLevel 3
When When Vaka uses Divine Smite
A battle-charged burst of radiant wrath that empowers nearby allies with temporary hit points when she smites.
- Peerless AthleteLevel 3
When As a bonus action
A brief surge of perfect physical readiness, granting advantage on Strength checks and saves for 1 minute.
- Divine SenseLevel 1
She can sense celestials, fiends, and undead within 60 feet, and can detect consecrated or desecrated places and objects. Uses per day are limited by paladin level and are refreshed on a long rest.
- Fighting StyleLevel 2
She adopts a fighting style from paladin training. She uses Defense, gaining +1 bonus to AC while wearing armor.
- SpellcastingLevel 2
She can cast paladin spells using Charisma as her spellcasting ability. She prepares a number of spells equal to her Charisma modifier plus half her paladin level, rounded down, and regains all expended spell slots on a long rest.
- Divine HealthLevel 3
She no longer suffers disease.
- Sacred OathLevel 3
She has sworn the Oath of Glory, binding herself to tests of might, courage, and heroic deeds.
- Oath SpellsLevel 3
She always has the Oath of Glory spells prepared, and they do not count against the number of spells she can prepare.
- Extra AttackLevel 5
She can attack twice, instead of once, whenever she takes the Attack action on her turn.
- Aura of AlacrityLevel 7
She and friendly creatures within 10 feet of her gain a bonus to initiative equal to her Charisma modifier when she is conscious.
- Aura of ProtectionLevel 6
She can add her Charisma modifier to all saving throws for herself and friendly creatures within 10 feet of her, while she is conscious.
- Aura of CourageLevel 10
She can move through nonmagical difficult terrain without extra movement cost, and she can end the effect on herself as part of movement if needed.
- Improved Divine SmiteLevel 11
Her melee weapon attacks deal an extra 1d8 radiant damage.
- Cleansing TouchLevel 14
She can use her action to end one spell on herself or on a willing creature she touches.
- Glorious DefenseLevel 15
When a creature she can see within 10 feet of her hits a target with an attack, she can use her reaction to add her Charisma modifier to the attack roll or AC, potentially turning the blow aside or helping it strike true. Uses are limited and refresh on a long rest.
- Aura ImprovementsLevel 18
Her auras extend to 30 feet instead of 10 feet.
- TraitOrcDarkvision, 60 feet
- TraitOrcPowerful Build, she counts as one size larger when determining carrying capacity and the weight she can push, drag, or lift
- TraitOrcMenacing, proficiency in Intimidation
- Shelter of the FaithfulAcolyte
She can always find shelter, food, and modest support from temples and those who respect her faith, as long as she does not endanger their principles or betray their trust.
Spells
25 spellsSpellcasting. Vaka Stoneheart casts with Charisma (spell save DC 17, to hit with spell attacks).
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5th level (1 slot): ,
Gear
9 itemsWeapons
- LongswordA martial melee weapon chosen for battlefield reliability.
- 5×JavelinA second martial weapon for close combat.
Armor
- Chain MailA suit of armored protection worn as her primary battlefield gear.
- ShieldA sturdy shield used with her oathbound fighting style.
Gear
- Holy SymbolA holy symbol worn or displayed as a sign of her devotion.
- Prayer BookA prayer book or prayer wheel with devotional text and rites.
- 5×Parchment5 sheets of parchment.
- Common ClothesA set of common clothes suited to travel and temple life.
- Incense and OfferingsA pouch of sacred offerings and small devotional tokens.
Appearance
Vaka is a towering female orc, easily six and a half feet tall, with deep forest green skin, sharp amber eyes, and a broad, scarred face framed by coarse black hair shaved at the sides and worn long on top. Her thick ivory tusks curve upward from a powerful jaw, and old wounds mark her body, a jagged scar across her collarbone and a puckered bullet scar on one bicep. She dresses like a battlefield veteran from another age, in a battered leather jacket over a tight black tank top, heavy canvas pants, and thick combat boots, with a utility belt, pouches, and a holstered pistol completing the look. She carries herself like a woman used to command, violence, and surviving the next minute.
Mannerisms
She speaks in a rough, confident rumble, punctuating serious thoughts with dry jokes or battlefield slang. When thinking, she rolls her tusk between her thumb and forefinger or taps one boot heel against the floor. In conversation she holds eye contact a little too long, as if measuring whether someone is worth the next sentence.
Personality
Loud, brash, and unapologetically blunt, Vaka acts like she is one insult away from starting a bar fight, but the joke is that she is usually the most disciplined person in the room. She loves hard truths, hard liquor, and harder opponents. Under the swagger is a tactical thinker who notices weak points, body language, and lies with unsettling speed. She respects competence, rewards loyalty, and despises wasted motion.
Ideals
Glory is earned through action, not applause. A life is measured by the courage it can inspire in others, and by the burdens it can shoulder without breaking. Strength is sacred when it protects, and worthy only when it serves something bigger than the self.
Bonds
She owes her life to the war shrine that taught her restraint and purpose, and she still sends part of every reward to its keepers. Her greatest loyalty is to comrades who trust her with their backs, and she will cross any distance to repay a debt of blood or mercy.
Flaws
Vaka confuses caution with cowardice more often than she admits, and she hates being told to stand down. She can be needlessly blunt, especially when she thinks someone is wasting time with fear, philosophy, or excuses. When her pride is challenged in public, she may accept a fight she should have declined, just to prove she can.
Quirks
Background
Vaka was born into a life that expected her to be loud, brutal, and disposable, but she refused all three. As a young orc she learned quickly that raw strength got attention, yet discipline kept you alive. She found that discipline in a war shrine tended by soldiers who believed that glory was not the same thing as vanity, and that courage meant standing tall when the world wanted you kneeling. She took to the rites with the same ferocity she brought to the training yard, learning to treat the body as both weapon and vow, and the soul as something worth armoring. The priests saw an unusual thing in her, not a savage needing correction, but a warrior hungry for purpose. When war finally came, Vaka earned her scars in mud, smoke, and broken concrete, carrying wounded allies out of killing zones and meeting enemy champions head-on when fear would have been easier. She learned to pray with blood on her knuckles and to laugh in the face of catastrophe, because fear was useful only when it was mastered. In time she swore the Oath of Glory, choosing not just to survive battles but to become the sort of legend that made others stand a little straighter. Now she walks the world as a holy bruiser with a soldier's habits and a zealot's conviction, chasing worthy fights, protecting the people who fight beside her, and daring the impossible to meet her in the open.
“As a young orc she learned quickly that raw strength got attention, yet discipline kept you alive.”
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