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Rémi de sorell

Half-Elf · Fighter · Level 2 · Folk Hero

Rémi de sorell

Rémi is polished, observant, and courteous, with the controlled confidence of a noble duelist.
AC18
HP19/19
Init
STR
DEX
CON
INT
WIS
CHA
ConditionsNone

Sheet

AC 18 · HP 19 · 30 ft.
AlignmentNeutral GoodGenderMaleAge27 years old
STR
DEX
CON
INT
WIS
CHA

Saving throws

STRDEXCONINTWISCHA

Skills

  • AcrobaticsDEX
  • Animal HandlingWIS
  • ArcanaINT
  • AthleticsSTR
  • DeceptionCHA
  • HistoryINT
  • InsightWIS
  • IntimidationCHA
  • InvestigationINT
  • MedicineWIS
  • NatureWIS
  • PerceptionWIS
  • PerformanceCHA
  • PersuasionCHA
  • Sleight of HandINT
  • StealthDEX
  • SurvivalWIS

Armor

All armor,
Shields

Weapons

Simple weapons,
Martial weapons

Tools

One type of artisan’s tools, woodcarver’s tools,
Vehicles, land

Languages

Common,
Elvish,
Sylvan

Features

14 features

Bonus action

  • Second WindLevel 1

    When Bonus action

    Rémi regains 1d10 + 2 hit points as a bonus action, once per short or long rest.

Always on

  • Action SurgeLevel 2

    When On his turn

    Rémi takes one additional action on his turn, once per short or long rest.

  • Silver Point Thrust

    When Action

    Rémi makes a precise, controlled strike with his rapier or shortsword, using agility and dueling footwork to exploit an opening.

  • Ampoule Shot

    When Action

    Rémi fires a hand crossbow bolt or sealed alchemical ampoule at a target.

  • Field Surgery

    When Action

    Rémi applies emergency treatment with his healer’s kit, stabilizing an ally and restoring health when the Healer feat is used.

  • Fighting Style: DuelingLevel 1

    Rémi chooses the Dueling Fighting Style. While wielding a melee weapon in one hand and no other weapons, he gains a +2 bonus to damage rolls with that weapon.

  • Light Blade MasteryLevel 2

    Rémi possesses the Light Blade Mastery feat as specified by the character concept. Its exact benefits depend on the campaign’s approved feat version and are represented narratively through his exceptional use of rapiers and shortswords.

  • HealerLevel 2

    Rémi possesses the Healer feat as specified by the character concept. He can use a healer’s kit to stabilize and restore a creature, following the 2014 feat’s normal benefits if the feat is permitted by the campaign.

  • TraitHalf-ElfDarkvision, 60 feet.
  • TraitHalf-ElfFey Ancestry, advantage on saving throws against being charmed, and magic cannot put Rémi to sleep.
  • TraitHalf-ElfSkill Versatility, proficiency in two additional skills, Investigation and Perception.
  • TraitHalf-ElfLanguages, Common, Elvish, and one additional language, Sylvan.
  • TraitHalf-ElfAbility Score Increase, +2 Charisma, +1 Dexterity, and +1 Wisdom.
  • Rustic HospitalityFolk Hero

    Common folk remember Rémi as one of their own and will shelter him, hide him from pursuers, and provide basic food and lodging when possible. He can usually find a place to hide, rest, or recover among ordinary people, unless he has directly endangered them.

Gear

12 items

Weapons

  • Shortsword
    A finely balanced silver shortsword made by Rémi’s grandfather.
  • Rapier
    A finely balanced silver rapier made by Rémi’s grandfather.
  • Hand crossbow
    A modified hand crossbow designed to launch sealed potion ampoules. It functions as a hand crossbow when used under standard rules.
  • Light crossbow
    A light crossbow and twenty bolts, retained as part of Rémi’s formal adventuring equipment.

Armor

  • Chain mail
    A suit of chain mail, worn beneath Rémi’s reinforced lilac-and-silver quilted vest.
  • Shield
    A sturdy shield bearing the subdued silver emblem of House de sorell.

Tools

  • Herbalism and alchemical supplies
    A scholar’s collection of labeled herbs, glass vials, brewing leaves, and field notes. It supports Rémi’s herbal extracts, teas, mutagens, and bombs, but any mechanical effects beyond normal equipment require the DM’s approval.

Gear

  • 20×
    Crossbow bolts
    Bolts suitable for the hand crossbow.
  • Common clothes
    A set of travel clothes in muted noble colors.
  • Belt pouch
    A belt pouch containing the starting wealth of a folk hero, 10 gp.
  • Folk hero equipment
    A shovel, iron pot, set of common clothes, and a small pouch containing 10 gp, from Rémi’s folk hero background.
  • Healer’s kit
    A healer’s kit containing ten uses.

Appearance

Rémi is a youthful, elegant half-elf with strawberry-blond hair worn long, carefully groomed, and usually left loose except during combat. His mismatched blue and green eyes are striking, though his most noticeable habit is the way he quietly studies every person, doorway, window, and possible escape route in a room. He wears a reinforced lilac-and-silver quilted vest over practical armor, decorated in the colors of House de sorell. A belt crowded with labeled vials, dried herbs, teas, surgical tools, and alchemical compounds hangs at his waist. At his side rests a beautifully balanced silver shortsword and rapier set crafted by his grandfather, while a modified hand crossbow is fitted to launch small potion ampoules.

Mannerisms

Rémi maintains impeccable grooming even after a hard journey, carefully retieing his hair before examining a wound or drawing a weapon. When entering a room, he counts exits under his breath. He tastes a drop of every unfamiliar tea before offering it to an ally, and he addresses plants as though they are quiet, patient tutors.

Personality

Rémi is polished, observant, and courteous, with the controlled confidence of a noble duelist. He speaks gently to frightened commoners and clinically to monsters. He enjoys identifying plants, improving recipes, and preparing elaborate teas for companions, but beneath his composure lies a persistent fear that his family name is merely a beautiful cover for inherited tragedy. He is compassionate toward the wounded and suspicious of anyone who treats suffering as inevitable.

Ideals

Protection. Nobility is not a title, it is the responsibility to stand between the vulnerable and the darkness. If Rémi inherits anything, it should be a duty rather than a privilege.

Bonds

Rémi carries an unspoken devotion to the memory of his mother, Juliette, and refuses to let Strahd’s corruption become the final story told about her. He is bound to the frightened villagers, wounded travelers, and abandoned survivors whose lives were dismissed as acceptable losses by those in power. He owes Raphael Ylto a debt for sending him into the world, yet suspects that the decision concealed obligations, secrets, or a fate his family never dared name. Rémi is determined to return to his ancestral home and uncover whether the de sorell legacy can be reclaimed without repeating the grief that shaped it. He protects his companions through careful preparation, measured counsel, and quiet acts of service, treating their trust as something sacred rather than owed. He also feels a fierce kinship with the living world, regarding every medicinal plant, wary animal, and scarred wilderness as evidence that corruption has not yet conquered everything worth saving.

Flaws

Rémi cannot easily accept that some suffering is beyond his ability to prevent, and this conviction drives him to intervene long after caution advises retreat. He is quietly vain about his discipline, refinement, and cultivated competence, becoming defensive when others expose a mistake or imply that his methods are merely elaborate affectation. His suspicion of inherited evil sometimes curdles into suspicion of inherited privilege, making him judge nobles, priests, and confident leaders more harshly than he judges himself. He has a habit of treating fear as a problem to be managed rather than a truth to be shared, so he hides his own doubts behind perfect manners, meticulous preparations, and an increasingly rigid need for control. Most dangerously, he is tempted by forbidden knowledge concerning vampirism, alchemy, and his mother’s transformation, telling himself that understanding corruption is the first step toward defeating it, even when curiosity begins to resemble obsession.

Quirks

Names every important plant he encounters and becomes irritated when others call them merely weeds.
Keeps a tiny notebook of monster weaknesses, tea recipes, and surgical observations.
Uses silver utensils whenever possible, even when eating humble camp food.
Collects unusual bottle shapes and assigns each one a specific future potion.
Whistles a soft three-note melody while preparing bandages or alchemical mixtures.

Background

Rémi de sorell was born into a family whose name had become more memorial than inheritance. His mother, Juliette de sorell, was once a noblewoman of grace and promise, until Strahd von Zarovich claimed her life and remade her as a vampire. Rémi was given the name of a cherished ancestor, an attempt to preserve the memory of a house already fading beneath sorrow, terror, and blood. From his mother’s fey-touched lineage, he inherited no obvious spellcraft, but he developed an uncanny sensitivity to the living world. He could recognize useful plants by scent alone, sense the temper of animals, and notice the minute changes in a person’s voice or presence when something unnatural drew near. At seventeen, Raphael Ylto sent Rémi away to forge a reputation before returning to claim what remained of his inheritance. Years on the road tempered his aristocratic upbringing without erasing it. He became a precise and disciplined duelist, adapting elegant footwork to rain-soaked roads, cramped alleys, ruined sanctuaries, and fields turned to mud by battle. Every monster he hunted taught him something new about fear, corruption, and the cost paid by those who lacked the means to defend themselves. Rémi’s reputation grew not solely from the creatures he killed, but from the survivors he refused to abandon. He learned to bind wounds in the field, identify medicinal herbs, distill restorative extracts, and prepare teas that steadied exhausted hands and frightened hearts. His experiments also produced harsher remedies: mutagens, pungent compounds, and volatile bombs designed to give an ordinary fighter an advantage against the unnatural. He approaches these preparations with the same care he gives to an elaborate tea, measuring each ingredient precisely and trusting observation over superstition. Now Rémi travels as a polished swordsman, witch hunter, and protector of the vulnerable. He speaks softly to frightened villagers and with detached efficiency to monsters, though his compassion is never absent from either encounter. Beneath his controlled confidence lies a private fear that his family name is only a beautiful veil concealing generations of tragedy. One day, he intends to return home and face the legacy that awaits him. Whether he will reclaim his title, redeem his mother, or destroy the evil that stole her remains a question only he can answer.

“His mother, Juliette de sorell, was once a noblewoman of grace and promise, until Strahd von Zarovich claimed her life and remade her as a vampire.”
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Folk Hero

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