Nerissa Hearthfire
Nerissa Hearthfire
Sheet
AC 15 · HP 21 · 30 ft.Saving throws
Skills
- ArcanaINT
- DeceptionCHA
- IntimidationCHA
- InvestigationINT
- PerceptionWIS
- PersuasionCHA
- Sleight of HandDEX
- StealthDEX
Armor
Weapons
Tools
Languages
Features
17 featuresAlways on
- Eldritch Blast
When Action
A blast of crackling eldritch force lashes from her focus, often accompanied by a smug little bow to her patron.
- Hellish Rebuke
When Reaction
She can hurl a vicious retaliatory flare of hellfire when wounded by a foe.
- Hex
When Bonus Action
She can wreath herself in a spiteful enchantment that makes her prey easier to track and harm.
- Pact MagicLevel 1
You have formed a pact with a mysterious fiendish patron, gaining a warlock's magical power and access to Pact Magic spell slots that refresh on a Short or Long Rest.
- CantripsLevel 1
You know two warlock cantrips of your choice. Your cantrip list is part of your occult training and grows only when your class features allow it.
- Eldritch InvocationsLevel 1
You have one Eldritch Invocation of your choice. Invocations grant special occult benefits, and you can replace one when you gain a warlock level.
- Magical CunningLevel 2
You can perform an esoteric rite for 1 minute to regain expended Pact Magic spell slots, up to half your maximum slots, rounded up. You can use this once per Long Rest.
- Warlock SubclassLevel 3
At 3rd level, you gain a warlock subclass. Your patron is a Fiend, a power from the Lower Planes.
- Dark One's BlessingLevel 3
When you reduce an enemy to 0 hit points, or when another creature within 10 feet of you reduces an enemy to 0 hit points, you gain temporary hit points equal to your Charisma modifier plus your warlock level, minimum 1.
- Fiend SpellsLevel 3
You always have Burning Hands, Command, Scorching Ray, and Suggestion prepared as fiend spells. They count as warlock spells for you.
- TraitHumanResourceful, you gain Heroic Inspiration whenever you finish a Long Rest.
- TraitHumanSkillful, you gain proficiency in one skill of your choice.
- TraitHumanVersatile, you gain an Origin feat of your choice. This build selects Skilled, granting proficiency in three additional skills or tools.
- Creature TypeHumanHumanoid.
- SizeHumanMedium.
- SpeedHuman30 feet.
- Criminal ContactCriminal
You have a reliable contact in the underworld, a smuggler, fence, cutpurse, or fixer, who can provide information, introductions, or illicit assistance when the law is inconvenient.
Spells
10 spellsSpellcasting. Nerissa Hearthfire casts with Charisma (spell save DC 12, to hit with spell attacks).
Cantrips (at will): ,
1st level (2 slots): , , , , ,
2nd level: ,
Gear
13 itemsWeapons
- SickleA simple close-quarters weapon, often hidden in a boot or sleeve.
- 2×DaggerA backup blade for cutting purses, ropes, or throats if needed.
- 2×DaggerA pair of daggers carried from her criminal background.
Armor
- Leather ArmorLight armor for protection while traveling or working in the shadows.
Tools
- Thieves' ToolsTools used for opening locks, disarming traps, and making a quick exit.
Gear
- Arcane Focus (orb)A focus for channeling eldritch power through a polished orb.
- Book (occult lore)A lore-filled tome tied to her pact and occult study.
- Scholar's PackA sturdy adventuring kit with bedroll, rations, and basic travel necessities.
- CrowbarA metal bar useful for prying open doors, crates, or bad situations.
- 2×PouchSmall carrying pouches for valuables, documents, or stolen goods.
- Traveler's ClothesTravel-ready clothing suited to life on the road and in crowded alleys.
Purse
- 15×Gold PiecesCoin from her warlock starting package.
- 16×Gold PiecesCoin from her criminal starting package.
Appearance
A poised human woman with copper-brown skin, sharp green eyes, and glossy black hair often pinned up in a practical knot with a few rebellious strands escaping. She dresses like a merchant who refuses to look helpless, in a fitted dark leather coat over fine travel clothes, with subtle infernal accents, a silver signet ring from her family, and a dagger kept where a purse should be. A faint warmth clings to her hands and her smile is equal parts charm and threat.
Mannerisms
She talks with her hands as if every sentence were a contract being negotiated. When thinking, she taps one fingernail against a ring or coin, and when she is pleased she smiles without showing teeth.
Personality
Nerissa is sharp, polished, and difficult to intimidate. She treats danger like a negotiation, assuming every threat has a price and every ally has terms. Under pressure she becomes oddly cheerful, as if chaos itself were a familiar market stall she knows how to work.
Ideals
Freedom. No merchant prince, devil, or cultist gets to decide my worth. I belong to myself, and I will buy, bargain, or burn my way out of every cage.
Bonds
My family name still matters to me, even if I have started answering to a devil's whisper. I will not let my parents' business be destroyed by the people who tried to bury me in a ditch.
Flaws
I cannot resist a profitable angle, even when revenge would be wiser than bargaining. When I am angry, I get theatrical, and sometimes I make threats I am entirely prepared to honor.
Quirks
Background
Nerissa Hearthfire was raised in comfort, not opulence, among a prosperous merchant family in Waterdeep. Her parents taught her ledgers, bargaining, and the sacred art of keeping a smile while quietly winning the room. When she turned twenty-one, they sent her with a spice caravan toward Baldur's Gate, a final proving ground before she was trusted with serious contracts. If she could negotiate the extension of a shipping agreement, she would have earned her place in the family trade. The caravan never reached the city cleanly. In a quiet valley, raiders and cultists struck under cover of night, slaughtering the guards and scattering the spices like red-gold blood across the road. Nerissa was caged and nearly offered up in an infernal summoning, but she slipped free in the chaos and stole the cult leader's dagger at the exact moment the ritual turned. Something in the dark noticed. A succubus named Calliope, amused by Nerissa's nerve and insulted by the cultists' lack of style, made the bargain almost as an afterthought. The cult burned. The true enemies did not. Now Nerissa follows the trail back to the rival merchant clan that paid for the attack, a web of mortal greed tied fast to the Nine Hells. She plans to ruin them, expose them, and if possible, still salvage her family's contract. She is a merchant's daughter, after all, and she intends to collect what is owed.
“Her parents taught her ledgers, bargaining, and the sacred art of keeping a smile while quietly winning the room.”
- Background
- Criminal
Connections
Species
Human
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