Elias Ashwake
Elias Ashwake
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AC 14 · HP 123 · 30 ft.Saving throws
Skills
- ArcanaINT
- DeceptionCHA
- InsightWIS
- ReligionINT
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Features
27 featuresAction
- Thirsting BladeLevel 5
When you reach 5th level, you can attack twice, instead of once, whenever you take the Attack action on your turn.
Always on
- Eldritch Blast
When At will
A burst of crackling force lashes a target at range, with the blast of eldritch power made sharper by Elias's Charisma.
- Spare the Dying
When At will
Touches a creature, restoring a small amount of vitality and stabilizing the wounded when needed.
- Prestidigitation
When At will
Creates small magical effects and sensory flourishes that help with ritual work, comfort, and disguise.
- Healing Word
When Spell slot
Speaks with a radiant, restorative power that can rescue allies from danger at range.
- Otherworldly PatronLevel 1
You make a pact with an otherworldly being, gaining eldritch power and the ability to cast warlock spells using Charisma.
- The UndyingLevel 1
Your patron is the Undying, a power of persistence, healing, and refusal of death. You gain patron spells and features tied to surviving beyond mortal limits.
- Pact MagicLevel 1
You can cast warlock spells using Charisma, and you regain all expended spell slots when you finish a short or long rest.
- Eldritch InvocationsLevel 1
You know two cantrips from the warlock spell list.
- Among the DeadLevel 1
You gain a bonus cantrip from the warlock spell list, typically Spare the Dying, and your patron helps you resist the pull of death.
- Ability Score ImprovementLevel 4
You can replace one of your known warlock cantrips with another warlock cantrip whenever you gain a warlock level.
- Eldritch InvocationsLevel 5
You gain one additional Eldritch Invocation.
- Pact Boon, Pact of the TomeLevel 3
You can choose one cantrip from any class spell list, and you can add ritual spells to your Book of Shadows if you have the Book of Ancient Secrets invocation.
- Defy DeathLevel 6
You gain the ability to impose your patron's grim will on the dead and the dying, and you gain the patron spell Death Ward at later levels.
- Eldritch InvocationsLevel 7
You gain another Eldritch Invocation.
- Undying NatureLevel 10
Your patron protects you from aging and the need to eat, drink, or breathe lessens through supernatural resilience.
- Eldritch InvocationsLevel 9
You gain another Eldritch Invocation.
- Mystic Arcanum (6th level)Level 11
You gain a 6th-level Mystic Arcanum, one once-per-long-rest spell of 6th level.
- Eldritch InvocationsLevel 12
You gain another Eldritch Invocation.
- Mystic Arcanum (7th level)Level 13
You gain a 7th-level Mystic Arcanum, one once-per-long-rest spell of 7th level.
- Indestructible LifeLevel 14
You gain the ability to replenish your own vitality, regaining hit points when you roll initiative.
- Eldritch InvocationsLevel 15
You gain another Eldritch Invocation.
- Mystic Arcanum (8th level)Level 15
You gain an 8th-level Mystic Arcanum, one once-per-long-rest spell of 8th level.
- Eldritch InvocationsLevel 15
You have seven Eldritch Invocations at this level, shaping your magic into specialized talents and protections.
- TraitHumanAbility Score Increase, all ability scores increase by 1.
- TraitHumanLanguages, you can speak, read, and write Common and one extra language.
- Shelter of the FaithfulAcolyte
You and your companions can expect to receive free healing and care at a temple, shrine, or other established religious community of your faith, though the details depend on the local clergy and their expectations.
Spells
20 spellsSpellcasting. Elias Ashwake casts with Charisma (spell save DC 17, to hit with spell attacks).
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Gear
7 itemsWeapons
- Light CrossbowA light crossbow and 20 bolts, carried for emergencies and distant threats.
- 2×DaggerA simple melee weapon used as a backup when spellcasting is not enough.
Gear
- Component PouchA component pouch containing prayer knots, ash, herbs, and small funerary charms.
- Scholar's PackA scholar's pack with parchment, ink, and the tools Elias uses to copy rites and preserve treatments.
- Common ClothesA set of traveler and temple garments suited to desert roads and shrine work.
- Prayer BookA prayer book of prayers, funerary canticles, and healing liturgies.
- Temple TokenA small keepsake from the temple that raised them, worn as a reminder of duty and loss.
Appearance
Elias Ashwake is a feminine-presenting non-binary human with long, dark hair usually braided with silver thread and bone beads. Their skin is sun-warmed and wind-chapped from desert travel, their eyes are steady and glass-dark, and their clothing layers linen, prayer cloth, and traveler wraps in pale sand, ash, and muted lapis. They move with careful grace, carrying the calm of a bedside healer and the stillness of someone who has outlived far more than they were meant to.
Mannerisms
Elias speaks softly, often pausing as if listening to a voice only they can hear. They touch two fingers to their throat before offering healing, and they unconsciously count breaths when someone is injured. In tense moments they become almost ceremonial, smoothing cloth, straightening bandages, and setting objects in neat, careful lines.
Personality
Patient, observant, and gently severe, Elias treats suffering like a wound that should be cleaned rather than admired. They are warm to the frightened, respectful to the dead, and unexpectedly wry when someone assumes their soft voice means softness of will. They prefer steady usefulness over glory, and they trust careful hands more than bold promises.
Ideals
Mercy should outlast fear. Life is precious precisely because it is fragile, and any power worth bearing should be used to ease suffering, not to hoard survival for its own sake.
Bonds
Elias still keeps a cracked temple bowl filled with ash and salt, taken from the shrine where they were raised. They will cross any desert and bargain with any power to protect the few surviving members of that order, and to uncover what truly awakened beneath their home.
Flaws
Elias finds it almost impossible to let the dying go in peace, even when mercy would mean surrender. They sometimes treat their own body like a tool that can be spent, which makes them reckless about danger. When someone mentions undeath, burial rites, or the sanctity of the dead, their calm can turn sharply defensive.
Quirks
Background
Elias Ashwake was born beneath a white-hot desert sun, in a chain of oasis shrines where water, salt, and prayers were treated with equal reverence. As a child, they were taught to bind wounds, recite funerary rites, and tend the dying with the same calm hands. Their beauty was always a quiet thing, softened by veils and the dust of the road, but their true gift was stranger. People healed in Elias's presence when they should not have, and those who were beyond saving often found a few more precious breaths at their side. The priests called it a blessing. Elias suspected it was a bargain. That suspicion became certainty after a sandstorm opened an old tomb beneath the shrine and awakened something that had been waiting in the dark far too long. Elias survived where the others did not, and in the aftermath a patient, grave voice began answering their prayers. The patron that claimed them did not demand slaughter or obedience, only endurance, remembrance, and the tending of life in all its fragile forms. Elias learned to walk with death at their shoulder without surrendering to it. Now they travel as a healer, half saint and half necromantic relic, carrying restorative rites, forbidden comforts, and a stubborn faith that even the long-lived owe mercy to the living.
“As a child, they were taught to bind wounds, recite funerary rites, and tend the dying with the same calm hands.”
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