Lysandra
Lysandra
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AC 12 · HP 162 · 30 ft.Saving throws
Skills
- AcrobaticsDEX
- Animal HandlingWIS
- ArcanaINT
- DeceptionCHA
- HistoryINT
- History of CitiesINT
- InsightWIS
- IntimidationCHA
- InvestigationINT
- MedicineWIS
- NatureINT
- PerceptionWIS
- PerformanceCHA
- PersuasionCHA
- ReligionWIS
- Sleight of HandDEX
- StealthDEX
- SurvivalWIS
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Features
28 featuresBonus action
- Bardic InspirationLevel 1
When Bonus Action
As a bonus action, she inspires a creature within 60 feet that can hear her, granting it a Bardic Inspiration die.
Always on
- CountercharmLevel 2
When Action
She can use a performance to end charm and fright on herself and nearby allies for as long as she maintains the effect.
- Performance of CreationLevel 6
When Action
She can create a temporary nonmagical object through performance, then direct it with her magic and imagination.
- SpellcastingLevel 1
Lysandra is a 20th level bard and can inspire allies with words, song, and artistry. She knows 22 bard spells, has 4 cantrips, and can cast from the bard spell list using Charisma.
- Bardic ProficienciesLevel 1
She is proficient in light armor, simple weapons, hand crossbows, longswords, rapiers, and shortswords.
- ExpertiseLevel 3
She can choose 3 skills to gain expertise at 3rd level, doubling proficiency bonus for those skills.
- Jack of All TradesLevel 2
She can restore a Bardic Inspiration die when she finishes a short or long rest and has no uses remaining.
- Song of RestLevel 2
She can add half her proficiency bonus, rounded down, to any ability check that does not already include her proficiency bonus.
- Song of RestLevel 2
A soothing performance helps allies regain extra hit points when they spend Hit Dice during a short rest.
- College of CreationLevel 3
At 3rd level she chooses the College of Creation, gaining magical artistic power that shapes matter and inspiration itself.
- Mote of PotentialLevel 3
When she gives Bardic Inspiration, the die can later be turned into a mote of possibility that adds extra effects to the roll.
- Animating PerformanceLevel 3
She can animate a Tiny nonmagical item, making it dance, sing, or assist for a time in response to her inspiration.
- Ability Score ImprovementLevel 4
At 4th, 8th, 12th, and 16th level she gained Ability Score Improvements or feats. Her scores here reflect the supplied base scores plus elf bonuses.
- Font of InspirationLevel 5
At 5th level her Bardic Inspiration die increases to d8 and she can inspire more reliably in tense moments.
- Font of InspirationLevel 5
She regains all expended uses of Bardic Inspiration on a short or long rest instead of only on a long rest.
- Expertise ImprovementLevel 10
At 10th level, her Bardic Inspiration die becomes a d10 and she gains two additional choices for Expertise.
- Magical SecretsLevel 10
At 10th level she also learns Magical Secrets, borrowing spells from other classes and adding two of them to her repertoire.
- Magical SecretsLevel 14
At 14th level, her Bardic Inspiration die becomes a d12 and she gains two more spells from any class.
- Creative CrescendoLevel 14
At 14th level she also gains Creative Crescendo, allowing her animated creations to become stronger when she directs them with intent.
- Superior InspirationLevel 15
At 15th level she gains Superior Inspiration, regaining one Bardic Inspiration die when she rolls initiative and has none left.
- Magical SecretsLevel 18
At 18th level she gains two final Magical Secrets spells, letting her expand beyond the limits of the bard list.
- Superior Bardic MasteryLevel 20
At 20th level she can use her Bardic Inspiration even in moments where lesser performers would fail, embodying the full mastery of her college and craft.
- TraitElfDarkvision 60 ft.
- TraitElfFey Ancestry, advantage on saving throws against being charmed, magic cannot put her to sleep
- TraitElfTrance, she meditates instead of sleeping for 4 hours
- TraitElfKeen Senses, proficiency in Perception
- TraitElfElf Weapon Training, proficiency with longsword, shortsword, shortbow, and longbow
- ResearcherSage
If Lysandra does not know a piece of lore, she usually knows where and from whom she can learn it.
Spells
35 spellsSpellcasting. Lysandra casts with Charisma (spell save DC 17, to hit with spell attacks).
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Gear
7 itemsGear
- Annotated scholarly bookA well loved hardcover book with handwritten marginal notes, carried and consulted constantly.
- Writer's journalA journal for drafts, citations, and field notes.
- Writing kitInk, quills, and wax for correspondence and manuscript work.
- Scholar's notesA collection of research notes, clipped articles, and copied references from years of study.
- Common clothesA set of common modern city clothes suited to work, reading, and travel.
- Component pouchA component pouch containing spellcasting materials and practical focus items.
- Scholar's packA backpack with travel necessities, suitable for a scholar moving between apartment and archive.
Appearance
Lysandra is a tall, slender high elf with a lithe athletic build and an ethereal presence. Her skin is pale luminous ivory, her face sharp and aristocratic with high cheekbones and a narrow straight nose. Her hair is a cascade of silver white, straight and fine, falling to the middle of her back with a moonlit sheen. Her eyes are piercing crystalline blue, observant and intelligent. She usually wears modern ordinary clothes, dark tailored trousers, a pale shirt with rolled sleeves, and a soft cardigan or fitted vest. She is often seen with a book in hand, and her overall presence is composed, precise, and quietly magnetic.
Mannerisms
Lysandra speaks carefully and rarely wastes a word. She taps the edge of her book when thinking, rewrites sentences in the air with one finger, and pauses before answering as though weighing a citation. When she is pleased, a faint, private smile appears only at one corner of her mouth.
Personality
Quietly brilliant, observant, and self-possessed, Lysandra prefers analysis before assertion and precision before drama. She is compassionate in a practical way, showing care by solving problems, organizing chaos, and turning scattered ideas into something usable. Under her cool exterior is a stubbornly romantic belief that beauty and knowledge are both forms of resistance.
Ideals
Truth should be tested, not embalmed. Knowledge has value only when it can move people, heal them, or challenge the lies that trap them. Art is not a luxury, it is a way of telling the world what it could become.
Bonds
Her traveling library of annotated books and copied notes is irreplaceable, and she would risk much to recover a lost volume or protect a rare text. She remains quietly devoted to a few estranged mentors from her enclave, even when she disagrees with them. She feels responsible for using her gifts to make the city kinder, stranger, and more honest than the world she left behind.
Flaws
She can become insufferably exacting when people misuse words or dismiss evidence, and she sometimes values correctness over comfort. Her independence can harden into isolation, especially when she fears being pulled back into her family’s expectations. When a mystery catches her interest, she may neglect sleep, food, and common sense until the problem is solved.
Quirks
Background
Lysandra was raised in a secluded elven enclave where scholarship was treated as both inheritance and obligation. Her family kept archives, copied histories, and guarded the shape of memory as if it were sacred law. She excelled in those halls, but the older she grew, the more she felt the weight of all that careful preservation. Knowledge was prized there, yet only if it confirmed tradition. Lysandra wanted questions, contradiction, and the dangerous freedom to imagine something new. She left for Atrix Isle with little more than a trunk of books, a notebook full of half finished observations, and the stubborn conviction that a life could be built from curiosity alone. In the city she found work as a freelance writer, shaping essays, reviews, civic notices, and commissioned histories while learning the rhythms of apartment windows, neon rain, and crowded streets. Her magic blossomed alongside her craft, turning analysis into artistry and thought into living form. As a College of Creation bard, she now treats inspiration as a practical force, something that can mend a room, lift a spirit, or give shape to an idea before the world is ready to admit it exists.
“Her family kept archives, copied histories, and guarded the shape of memory as if it were sacred law.”
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