Kaen Flame
Kaen Flame
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AC 16 · HP 8 · 30 ft.Saving throws
Skills
- AcrobaticsDEX
- Animal HandlingSTR
- ArcanaINT
- AthleticsSTR
- DeceptionCHA
- HistoryINT
- InsightWIS
- IntimidationCHA
- InvestigationINT
- MedicineWIS
- NatureINT
- PerceptionWIS
- PerformanceCHA
- PersuasionCHA
- ReligionINT
- Sleight of HandDEX
- StealthDEX
- SurvivalWIS
Armor
Weapons
Tools
Languages
Features
8 featuresAlways on
- Magical TinkeringLevel 1
When When touching a Tiny nonmagical object
Kaen creates one of several minor magical effects on a Tiny nonmagical object, including light, sound, scent, a brief message, or a visible mark. He can maintain up to three effects.
- Nyx, Temporal Revolver
When When Kaen attacks with his signature weapon
Kaen fires Nyx using the campaign's DM-approved firearm rules. Its supernatural origin and exact damage are intentionally left to the campaign's firearm system.
- SpellcastingLevel 1
Kaen has learned to cast artificer spells using Intelligence as his spellcasting ability. He can use thieves' tools or artisan's tools as a spellcasting focus. He knows two artificer cantrips and prepares three 1st-level artificer spells after each long rest.
- TraitTieflingDarkvision, 60 feet
- TraitTieflingHellish Resistance, resistance to fire damage
- TraitTieflingInfernal Legacy, knows the Thaumaturgy cantrip; at 3rd level can cast Hellish Rebuke once per long rest, and at 5th level can cast Darkness once per long rest
- LanguagesTieflingCommon and Infernal
- Military RankSoldier
Kaen can find the remnants of old military organizations, identify their insignia, and secure basic shelter and support from soldiers or veterans who recognize his rank, reputation, or symbols of authority.
Spells
5 spellsSpellcasting. Kaen Flame casts with Intelligence (spell save DC 13, to hit with spell attacks).
Cantrips (at will): ,
1st level (2 slots): , ,
Gear
11 itemsWeapons
- NyxA unique black-metal revolver from Kaen's lost era. Its exact statistics are campaign-specific and require the DM's firearm rules. It is the only weapon Kaen remembers possessing.
Armor
- Scale MailMedium armor reinforced with overlapping metal plates. Worn and maintained according to old military habit.
Tools
- Thieves' ToolsUsed for dismantling mechanisms, maintaining Nyx, and performing artificer work.
- Tinker's ToolsA collection of small tools, wire, clamps, lenses, and components used for Magical Tinkering and spellcasting.
- Artisan's ToolsA compact kit of supplies chosen from Kaen's forgotten military workshop tradition.
Gear
- Dungeoneer's PackIncludes a backpack, bedroll, mess kit, tinderbox, torches, rations, and a waterskin.
- Insignia of RankA small token bearing the insignia of the old empire's army.
- Trophy from a Fallen EnemyA broken ceremonial clasp taken from his wife's wedding attire.
- Bone DiceA worn set of bone dice from Kaen's former military unit.
- Common ClothesPlain clothing from the era before the temporal bubble, carefully folded despite its age.
- PouchContains 10 gold pieces and several obsolete imperial coins.
Appearance
Kaen is a tall, lean tiefling with ash-gray skin, swept-back black hair, and long crimson horns marked by faint silver scars. His eyes glow a muted amber, though his expression often carries the distant emptiness of someone who has awakened from a very long dream. He wears battered scale mail beneath a dark military coat, with brass artificer tools secured across his belt. Nyx, his strange revolver, is always within reach. Its black metal frame is etched with symbols resembling both funerary script and clockwork diagrams.
Mannerisms
Kaen inspects every doorway, window, and weapon before relaxing. He cleans Nyx after every fight, speaks to malfunctioning devices as though they were frightened soldiers, and unconsciously counts under his breath whenever he is anxious.
Personality
Kaen is quiet, observant, and unfailingly deliberate. He carries himself like a commander who expects danger even in peaceful rooms, yet his instinct is to protect rather than dominate. He is unexpectedly gentle with wounded animals, broken tools, and frightened people. Around monuments, old battlefields, or wedding customs, fragments of warmth and grief sometimes surface before vanishing behind his practiced restraint.
Ideals
Creation is redemption. Power is not defined by how much one can destroy, but by what one chooses to preserve, repair, and bring back from ruin.
Bonds
Nyx is the only thing that survived the temporal bubble, and Kaen will protect it until he learns whether it contains his wife's soul, his lost memories, or merely the echo of his greatest mistake.
Flaws
Kaen treats emotional pain as a mechanical problem to be solved, and he can become dangerously obsessive when confronted with death, lost memories, or anything connected to his wife. He also fears that the cold murderer he once was remains beneath the discipline his mentor taught him.
Quirks
Background
Hundreds of years ago, when the Seven Kingdoms were only two, Kaen Flame was a legendary general feared by his enemies and respected by the soldiers who served beneath him. He had once been a nameless street orphan, surviving through theft and murder before an elderly mentor took him in. The old soldier did not pretend Kaen was innocent. He taught him discipline, purpose, and the difference between killing out of necessity and killing by choice. Under that guidance, Kaen entered military life, rose through the ranks, and eventually became something more than a destroyer. He learned to build weapons, repair armor, and turn ingenuity toward preserving life. His campaigns ended with the two kingdoms united into a prosperous empire, and he secretly married the one person who made peace feel more meaningful than victory. The marriage was meant to remain unknown, but enemy agents discovered it. During the private ceremony, assassins struck, killing Kaen's wife and leaving him hollow. He disappeared into years of grief. As the empire fragmented without its founding general, Kaen sought a way to undo death. His experiments created the first necromantic magic, not from malice, but as a desperate love letter written in blood, memory, and impossible machinery. It worked. His wife returned, but the spell tore open a temporal bubble that trapped Kaen outside the flow of history. When the bubble finally broke, he awoke in an age of seven rival kingdoms with no memories of his life, no understanding of the world, and only Nyx in his hand. The revolver is his sole surviving weapon and perhaps the last key to recovering the truth.
“He had once been a nameless street orphan, surviving through theft and murder before an elderly mentor took him in.”
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- Soldier
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Species
Tiefling
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