Mara Venn
Mara Venn
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AC 18 · HP 94 · 30 ft.Saving throws
Skills
- AcrobaticsDEX
- Animal HandlingWIS
- ArcanaINT
- AthleticsSTR
- HistoryINT
- InsightWIS
- IntimidationCHA
- InvestigationINT
- PerceptionWIS
- ReligionINT
- StealthDEX
- SurvivalWIS
Armor
Weapons
Tools
Languages
Features
23 featuresAction
- Extra AttackLevel 5
You can attack twice, instead of once, whenever you take the Attack action on your turn.
- Extra Attack (2)Level 11
When you take the Attack action, you can attack three times instead of once.
Bonus action
- Second WindLevel 1
When you finish a Short Rest, you can regain hit points as a bonus action by using your Second Wind, restoring 1d10 + your Fighter level hit points. You can use this feature twice between Long Rests at this level, and regain all uses when you finish a Long Rest.
Always on
- Fighter TrainingLevel 1
You gain proficiency with all armor, shields, simple weapons, and martial weapons. Your training makes you a capable front line combatant from the start.
- Weapon MasteryLevel 1
Choose weapon masteries for weapons you are proficient with. You can apply mastery properties to those weapons and switch prepared masteries when you finish a Long Rest.
- Tactical MindLevel 2
If you fail an ability check, you can expend a use of Second Wind to add 1d10 to the roll, potentially turning failure into success.
- Action SurgeLevel 2
You can take one additional action on your turn. Once you use this feature, you must finish a Short or Long Rest before you can use it again. At level 15, you can use it twice between rests.
- Champion SubclassLevel 3
Choose the Champion subclass. Your martial prowess is honed toward reliable critical hits and athletic excellence.
- Improved CriticalLevel 3
Your weapon attacks score critical hits on a roll of 19 or 20.
- Remarkable AthleteLevel 3
You add half your proficiency bonus, rounded up, to any Strength, Dexterity, or Constitution check you make that does not already include your proficiency bonus, and your jump distance increases. You also gain a burst of speed after initiative is rolled.
- Origin FeatLevel 4
You gain an Origin feat from your background. For this character, the feat is Magic Initiate, granted by the Acolyte background.
- Additional Fighting StyleLevel 7
You gain the benefits of a second Fighting Style.
- IndomitableLevel 9
You can reduce a failed saving throw by expending a use of this feature, potentially turning it into a success. You regain uses when you finish a Long Rest.
- Heroic WarriorLevel 10
Your martial skill becomes inspiring to allies, and you excel at driving a fight forward when you are in the right position.
- Indomitable ImprovementLevel 13
You gain an additional use of Indomitable.
- Superior CriticalLevel 15
Your critical hit range expands again, making your decisive blows even deadlier.
- SizeHumanMedium
- SpeedHuman30 feet
- TraitHumanDarkvision 60 feet
- TraitHumanResourceful, you gain Inspiration after a Long Rest if you do not already have Inspiration
- TraitHumanSkillful, you gain proficiency in one skill of your choice
- TraitHumanVersatile, you gain an additional Origin feat from your species if your campaign uses that option
- Shelter of the FaithfulAcolyte
You and your companions can expect to receive free healing and care at a temple, shrine, or other place of worship dedicated to your faith, though the exact aid depends on the temple and the situation.
Spells
6 spellsSpellcasting. Mara Venn casts with Wisdom (spell save DC 17, to hit with spell attacks).
1st level (4 slots): , ,
2nd level (3 slots): ,
3rd level (3 slots):
4th level (3 slots): no spells
5th level (2 slots): no spells
Gear
11 itemsWeapons
- LongswordA reliable one handed martial weapon used as the character's main blade.
- Light CrossbowA ranged backup weapon with ammunition.
- DaggerA small utility blade.
Armor
- Chain MailHeavy armor that provides strong protection and is part of the fighter starting kit.
- ShieldA sturdy shield bearing a faded holy emblem.
Gear
- 20×BoltsAmmunition for the light crossbow.
- Explorer's PackExplorer's gear for travel and field duty.
- Holy SymbolThe symbol of a chosen faith.
- Prayer BookA devotional text carried from temple life.
- 8×Incense SticksIncense used in prayer and ritual observance.
- Common ClothesSimple travel clothing.
Appearance
A broad shouldered human woman with weathered skin, close cropped dark hair, and calm gray eyes that seem to weigh every room before she enters. She wears polished chain mail beneath a faded white tabard marked with a simple sunburst, and carries herself like a temple sentinel who has learned to sleep lightly. A scar crosses one knuckle, and her shield is covered in tiny devotional scratches made with the tip of a dagger during long nights on watch.
Mannerisms
Speaks softly before battle, as though checking her resolve rather than boasting. Touches two fingers to the sunburst on her tabard before making a promise. Counts exits, windows, and the distance to cover without seeming to move her eyes.
Personality
Patient, resolute, and quietly devotional. Mara listens more than she speaks, but when she chooses a course she follows it with stubborn grace. She is kind without being sentimental, practical without being cold, and surprisingly gentle with children, wounded soldiers, and anyone carrying grief they do not know how to name.
Ideals
Mercy through strength. The weak deserve defenders who do not flinch, and power is only noble when it is spent to shield others.
Bonds
I still carry the chapel bell rope from the place where I was raised, and I ring it whenever I camp near the road. I have sworn to find the bandit captain who destroyed my village on a storm season night. I will not abandon someone who has asked me for protection, even if it costs me victory, comfort, or sleep.
Flaws
I am slow to trust anyone who speaks with polished certainty, because zeal and lies can sound alike. I will overextend myself to protect a stranger, even when a wiser fighter would step back and live to guard another day. When I feel helpless, I become rigid and controlling, as if discipline alone can keep tragedy from happening again.
Quirks
Background
Mara Venn was raised in the shadow of a road chapel where tired travelers left mud on the floor and prayers in the rafters. She was never the most devout voice in the choir, but she was the one who stayed after services to stack chairs, mend banners, and stand watch while the priests slept. When raiders burned a nearby hamlet, Mara took up the chapel's practice sword and discovered that her faith was not made only of candles and quiet words. It was made of endurance, of putting herself between danger and the helpless, and of returning again and again to the line she had sworn to hold. She spent the next years wandering from shrine to shrine as a sworn guardian, learning that piety can look like discipline, and mercy can look like a shield raised at the right moment. Her blade arm grew steady, her prayer became practical, and strangers began to call her a knight even though she never sat a saddle in her life. At fifteen years of service she is less a wandering cleric than a living bulwark, a woman who believes that every life protected is a sermon delivered in steel. Now she travels where the need is greatest, carrying a small chapel's worth of hope in her pack and the certainty that no darkness is strong enough to justify surrender.
“It was made of endurance, of putting herself between danger and the helpless, and of returning again and again to the line she had sworn to hold.”
- Background
- Acolyte
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Species
Human
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