Lysandra SilverTongue
Lysandra SilverTongue
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AC 13 · HP 143 · 30 ft.Saving throws
Skills
- ArcanaINT
- DeceptionCHA
- HistoryINT
- InsightWIS
- InvestigationINT
- PerformanceCHA
- PersuasionCHA
- StealthDEX
Armor
Weapons
Tools
Languages
Features
21 featuresReaction
- Cutting WordsLevel 3
When When a creature she can see within range makes a roll
She can reduce enemy attack rolls, ability checks, or damage rolls with a sharp burst of cutting commentary.
Always on
- Bardic InspirationLevel 1
When As a bonus action, when she chooses a creature within range
Bardic Inspiration allows allies to add an inspiration die to key rolls, with the die size improving over time.
- SpellcastingLevel 1
When On her turn or when a spell's casting time allows
She can inspire confidence and reshape battlefield choices with a broad magical toolkit, including any spell she has learned through Magical Secrets.
- Spellcasting and Bard ProficienciesLevel 1
She has proficiency with light armor, simple weapons, hand crossbows, longswords, rapiers, and shortswords.
- Spellcasting Focus of PerformanceLevel 1
She can perform for up to 1 minute, charming nearby humanoids of her choice who hear her performance. They must make a Wisdom save or become charmed by her, and she can maintain the effect through continued performance.
- ExpertiseLevel 3
She gains expertise in two of her skill proficiencies, doubling her proficiency bonus for those skills.
- Bardic Inspiration ImprovementLevel 3
She learns to use cutting remarks, sly mockery, and literary precision to undermine enemies with vicious verbal sparring.
- Bardic Inspiration TimingLevel 3
Lysandra can add her Bardic Inspiration die to one of a creature's ability checks, attack rolls, or saving throws after seeing the roll, but before knowing whether it succeeds.
- Bonus ProficienciesLevel 3
As a College of Lore bard, she gains proficiency with three additional skills of her choice, representing her prodigious breadth of study.
- Additional Magical SecretsLevel 6
She can learn two spells of her choice from any class's spell list, expanding her repertoire with cross-disciplinary magical secrets.
- Superior InspirationLevel 20
She can use her reaction to inspire herself when she rolls initiative and has no uses of Bardic Inspiration remaining, regaining one use.
- Font of InspirationLevel 5
At higher bard levels, her Bardic Inspiration die becomes more potent, enabling her support magic to influence more rolls and more often.
- Magical SecretsLevel 10
At higher bard levels, she gains more Magical Secrets, learning two additional spells from any class at level 10, again at 14, and again at 18.
- TraitElfDarkvision
- TraitElfKeen Senses
- TraitElfFey Ancestry
- TraitElfTrance
- TraitElfHigh Elf Cantrip
- TraitElfElf Weapon Training
- TraitElfExtra Language
- ResearcherSage
If Lysandra does not know a piece of lore, she usually knows where and from whom to learn it. Thanks to old academic contacts, archives, and scholarly networks, she can often locate information, books, or people with relevant expertise.
Spells
28 spellsSpellcasting. Lysandra SilverTongue casts with Charisma (spell save DC 18, to hit with spell attacks).
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8th level (1 slot):
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Gear
5 itemsGear
- Writer's SatchelA fine notebook, fountain pen set, and organized manuscript pages, reflavored from a bardic instrument kit to fit her writerly life.
- Travel ClothingA light, practical set of dark modern clothes suited to city travel and long hours of writing.
- Document CaseA leather notebook case and document folder for drafts, notes, and research clippings.
- Keepsake RingA silver signet ring used as a personal keepsake and writing charm.
- Traveler's WardrobeA set of elegant travel clothes and a spare coat for rainy city nights.
Appearance
Lysandra is a striking high elf woman with an androgynous, refined look, tall and lean with athletic musculature. Her skin is pale ivory, her hair is silver-white and worn to her shoulders in loose waves, and her eyes are a piercing crystalline blue. She favors modern 2025 clothing, usually charcoal or navy trousers, soft linen shirts, and practical layers like an open cardigan or fitted vest with pockets for notebooks, pens, and reference cards. Her expression is usually observant, composed, and faintly amused, with an enigmatic half-smile that makes people feel she is already a few steps ahead of them.
Mannerisms
She pauses before answering as if editing her thoughts into polished prose. When intrigued, she tilts her head and taps a pen against her lip. She rarely raises her voice, but when she is irritated her words become exquisitely precise. She unconsciously smooths the edges of notebooks, cards, or napkins into neat stacks.
Personality
Lysandra is witty, observant, and gently guarded, with the calm intensity of someone who is always editing a sentence in her head. She can be warm and encouraging in private, but in public she wears composure like tailored armor. She loves elegant language, stubbornly inconvenient truths, and any conversation that reveals the hidden architecture of a person. She is not naturally sentimental, yet once she claims someone as hers in the language of trust, she becomes fiercely protective.
Ideals
Freedom. A person should be able to choose who they become, even if that choice disappoints their elders or unsettles tradition. She believes stories can loosen the chains that facts alone cannot break.
Bonds
She keeps every notebook she has ever filled, because she believes her scattered drafts are a map of who she has been and who she may yet become. She remains quietly devoted to a few scholars from her old life who treated her with kindness rather than obedience, and she sends them anonymous copies of her published work under different names.
Flaws
She can become so devoted to perfecting a line, an argument, or a story beat that she ignores sleep, food, and common sense. She also distrusts inherited authority so deeply that she sometimes resists good advice simply because it sounds too much like a rule.
Quirks
Background
Lysandra was born into a secluded elven enclave where memory was preserved like a sacred relic and curiosity was often mistaken for disloyalty. Her family expected her to become another careful archivist, a quiet guardian of approved histories. Instead, she fell in love with the living chaos of stories, especially the kind that blurred truth and invention. She found that the most honest tales were often the ones that dared to be embellished, and by the time her peers were debating citations, she was already sneaking out to write strange, romantic urban fantasies in the margins of her lecture notes. She left the enclave for Atrix Isle with nothing but a satchel of books, a sharp wit, and a stubborn belief that a life should be chosen, not assigned. There she built a second identity as SilverTongue, a freelance writer whose columns, essays, and serialized fiction moved through the digital world like rumor made elegant. As a bard, she treats language like both instrument and weapon, though she prefers to use it as a lantern, shining light into hidden corners of the world. Her work draws on old elven scholarship, modern city life, and the private ache of someone learning how to be grown without becoming rigid. Now she balances deadlines, rent, and the strange pressure of being talented enough that people expect her to be effortless. She writes at coffee shops, on rooftops, and in the back corners of midnight train stations, always listening for the next line that might become a spell, a confession, or a love scene. Beneath her composed exterior, she is still the same exile who left home to become herself, only now she has learned to do it in public.
“Her family expected her to become another careful archivist, a quiet guardian of approved histories.”
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