Maa'raxia
Maa'raxia
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AC 13 · HP 142 · 30 ft.Saving throws
Skills
- ArcanaINT
- HistoryINT
- InvestigationINT
- ReligionWIS
Weapons
Tools
Languages
Features
30 featuresAlways on
- Breath Weapon
When When she takes the Attack action
Exhale poison in a 15-foot cone or 30-foot line, forcing creatures in the area to make a Dexterity saving throw. On a failure they take poison damage, half on a success. She can use this a number of times equal to her proficiency bonus per Long Rest.
- Sculpt SpellsLevel 6
When When she casts an Evocation spell affecting other creatures she can see
Cast an Evocation spell so that selected allies automatically succeed on their saving throws and avoid damage from the spell's area.
- OverchannelLevel 14
When When she casts a damaging Wizard spell of level 1 to 5
Infuse one Evocation spell with overpowering arcane force, maximizing its damage on the turn it is cast.
- Signature Spell
When Once per Short or Long Rest per chosen spell
Cast a signature level 3 spell once without expending a spell slot, using her most refined battlefield formulas.
- Arcane RecoveryLevel 1
When After a Short Rest
Restore a lost spell slot after a Short Rest by meditating on her spellbook and reordering the logic of her studies.
- SpellcastingLevel 1
You gain the Wizard spellcasting features, preparing spells from your spellbook and using Intelligence as your spellcasting ability. You know three Wizard cantrips at level 1, gain additional cantrips at levels 4 and 10, and your prepared spells are drawn from your spellbook.
- Ritual AdeptLevel 1
You can perform certain Wizard spells as rituals from your spellbook without expending spell slots, even if you do not have them prepared.
- ScholarLevel 2
Choose one skill from Arcana, History, Investigation, Medicine, Nature, or Religion in which you are proficient. You gain Expertise in that skill.
- Wizard SubclassLevel 3
You gain a Wizard subclass. Maa'raxia is an Evoker, specializing in destructive spellcraft and forceful arcane shaping.
- Evocation SavantLevel 3
Choose two Wizard spells from the Evocation school, each no higher than level 2, and add them to your spellbook for free.
- Potent CantripLevel 3
Your damaging cantrips deal half damage even when you miss with an attack roll or a target succeeds on its saving throw.
- Ability Score ImprovementLevel 4
You gain the Ability Score Improvement feat or another feat of your choice for which you qualify. Maa'raxia's final ability scores already reflect her chosen advancement path.
- Memorize SpellLevel 5
Whenever you finish a Short Rest, you can replace one prepared level 1+ Wizard spell with another level 1+ Wizard spell from your spellbook.
- Ability Score ImprovementLevel 8
You gain the Ability Score Improvement feat or another feat of your choice for which you qualify. Maa'raxia's final ability scores already reflect her chosen advancement path.
- Cantrip ImprovementLevel 10
You learn another Wizard cantrip of your choice.
- Empowered EvocationLevel 10
Whenever you cast a Wizard spell from the Evocation school, you can add your Intelligence modifier to one damage roll of that spell.
- Ability Score ImprovementLevel 12
You gain the Ability Score Improvement feat or another feat of your choice for which you qualify. Maa'raxia's final ability scores already reflect her chosen advancement path.
- Ability Score ImprovementLevel 16
You gain the Ability Score Improvement feat or another feat of your choice for which you qualify. Maa'raxia's final ability scores already reflect her chosen advancement path.
- Spell MasteryLevel 18
Choose one level 1 spell and one level 2 spell in your spellbook that have a casting time of an action. You always have those spells prepared and can cast each once at its lowest level without expending a spell slot, refreshing on a Long Rest.
- Epic BoonLevel 19
You gain an Epic Boon feat or another feat of your choice for which you qualify. Maa'raxia's final build reflects a high-level arcane master with a defensive, knowledge-hungry style.
- Signature SpellsLevel 20
Choose two level 3 spells in your spellbook as signature spells. You always have them prepared, and can each be cast once at level 3 without expending a spell slot, refreshing on a Short or Long Rest.
- Creature TypeDragonbornHumanoid
- SizeDragonbornMedium
- SpeedDragonborn30 feet
- DarkvisionDragonborn60 feet
- TraitDragonbornDraconic Ancestry, Green, which determines poison damage for Breath Weapon and Resistance
- TraitDragonbornBreath Weapon, a 15-foot cone or 30-foot line that deals poison damage and scales with level
- Damage ResistanceDragonbornPoison
- TraitDragonbornDraconic Flight, gained at level 5, allowing brief magical flight
- ResearcherSage
Maa'raxia can usually find a place among scholars, archivists, and keepers of lore, and can often secure access to libraries, records, or learned circles through her reputation as a serious student of the arcane.
Spells
26 spellsSpellcasting. Maa'raxia casts with Intelligence (spell save DC 20, to hit with spell attacks).
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Gear
10 itemsWeapons
- QuarterstaffA finely kept staff etched with warding sigils, used as a walking staff, arcane focus, and ritual implement.
- 2×DaggersTwo utility daggers carried for cutting components, carving sigils, and emergency defense.
Tools
- Calligrapher's SuppliesA set of calligrapher's tools chosen through her Sage background, useful for copying wards, circles, and magical notation.
Gear
- Arcane FocusA crystal focus suspended on a dark cord, used to channel precise arcane formulae.
- RobeA robe adapted into layered arcane vestments and component harnesses, fitted around her draconic frame.
- SpellbookA spellbook containing her accumulated research, ward formulas, and planar notes.
- Scholar's PackA pack of scholarly travel supplies for long expeditions and field research.
- Book of HistoryA meticulous history tome filled with copied fragments from ruined libraries, planar theories, and dragonborn lore.
- 8×ParchmentParchment sheets for copying spells, notes, and containment diagrams.
Purse
- 8×Gold PiecesGold pieces carried from her background equipment.
Appearance
Maa'raxia is a towering green dragonborn with midnight-forest scales that glimmer with an oily iridescence under violet light. Her broad, powerfully built frame carries a long sinuous tail, curved ram-like horns etched with faintly glowing abjuration runes, and molten-gold eyes with moss-dark sclera. She wears no conventional clothing, instead wrapped in shadow-forged arcane trappings, obsidian bracers, a rune-black pauldron, a leather harness of reagents, and a violet scale-mail loincloth. Her claws are polished and silver-tipped, and a living shimmer of warding magic seems to cling to her like a second skin.
Mannerisms
She speaks after long pauses, as if translating thought into exact mathematical form. When uncertain, she taps one claw against the edge of her bracer in a steady rhythm, like a metronome for a private calculation. She tilts her head slightly when listening, then answers in a low, resonant rumble that never wastes a syllable.
Personality
Maa'raxia is patient, exacting, and unnervingly calm. She treats every promise as a binding equation and every problem as a structure to be solved, not survived. Her curiosity is immense, but never reckless, because she has already seen what happens when scholarship outruns restraint. She respects competence, honors debts, and is quietly tender toward the vulnerable, though she rarely expresses that tenderness in any way softer than logistics and protection.
Ideals
Containment before catastrophe. Power is only noble when it is understood, bounded, and made answerable to discipline.
Bonds
She carries the last legible fragments of her enclave's grand library, preserved in a spellbook bound in black leather and green rune-thread. She will not allow the names of her dead to be forgotten, and she seeks a way to rebuild their knowledge without repeating their doom.
Flaws
She trusts systems more easily than people, and when her wards fail, she can become coldly obsessive, willing to sacrifice comfort, sleep, or even allies' patience to restore control. She also underestimates how frightening her silence and size can be, which sometimes turns a simple conversation into an interrogation.
Quirks
Background
Maa'raxia was born in a secluded dragonborn enclave that believed the multiverse could be mapped, measured, and contained through disciplined study. While other hatchlings learned ceremony and kinship, she was trained among tablets, glass lenses, and ward-scribed floors, where the oldest scholars taught that every mystery had a shape and every shape had a boundary. Her gift was not merely intellect, but patience. She could sit motionless for hours, listening to the hum of a protective rune until she understood how it failed and how it might be made to endure. That patience became salvation when her people attempted a ritual to peer between planes and harness the shadows there. The spell cracked open something vast and wrong. The enclave was consumed, and Maa'raxia survived only because she turned the failing rite inward, binding the catastrophe to her own body with a lattice of abjurations and desperate transmutations. The shadow did not leave her, it nested in her scales and breath. Since then she has wandered as both scholar and sealed vault, refining the wards that keep her alive and studying every art that might one day free her without unleashing the darkness she carries. She is now a guardian of forbidden knowledge, hunting answers with the same cold precision that once preserved her life.
“She could sit motionless for hours, listening to the hum of a protective rune until she understood how it failed and how it might be made to endure.”
- Background
- Sage
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Dragonborn
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