Maa'raxia
Maa'raxia
Sheet
AC 13 · HP 142 · 30 ft.Saving throws
Skills
- ArcanaINT
- HistoryINT
- InsightWIS
- InvestigationINT
Weapons
Tools
Languages
Features
30 featuresAction
- Breath WeaponDragonbornWhen you take the Attack action, you can replace one attack with a 15-foot cone or 30-foot line, forcing a Dexterity save against 8 + proficiency bonus + Constitution modifier, dealing 4d10 poison damage on a failed save, half on a success
Bonus action
- Draconic FlightDragonbornAt level 5, gain spectral wings as a bonus action for 10 minutes, giving you a fly speed equal to your speed once per long rest
Always on
- Poison Breath
When When you take the Attack action
Exhale a line or cone of magical poison in place of one attack when taking the Attack action. The energy is shaped with cold precision rather than fury.
- Draconic Flight
When Bonus Action, once per long rest
Manifest spectral draconic wings and gain a fly speed equal to your speed for 10 minutes.
- Spell MasteryLevel 18
When At will
Cast a level 1 or level 2 spell mastered for at-will use without expending a spell slot.
- Signature Spell
When Once per short or long rest per spell
Cast one of your two signature level 3 spells at its base level without expending a spell slot.
- SpellcastingLevel 1
You cast wizard spells using Intelligence. Your spellbook contains the arcane formulae you have mastered, and you prepare a number of wizard spells after each long rest. You can cast rituals from your spellbook even if the spell is not prepared. You can use an Arcane Focus or your spellbook as a spellcasting focus.
- Arcane RecoveryLevel 1
After a Short Rest, you can recover expended spell slots with a combined level equal to no more than half your wizard level, rounded up, and none of the slots can be level 6 or higher.
- Ritual AdeptLevel 1
You can cast any ritual spell in your spellbook as a ritual, even if it is not prepared, provided you read from the book while casting it.
- ScholarLevel 2
Your study of magic has made you a specialist in scholarly analysis. You gain Expertise in one of the following skills in which you are proficient: Arcana, History, Investigation, Medicine, Nature, or Religion.
- Wizard Subclass, School of AbjurationLevel 3
Abjuration tradition. Maa'raxia specializes in wards, seals, and countermeasures against hostile magic. Her training emphasizes protection, denial, and the elegant mathematics of containment.
- Ability Score ImprovementLevel 4
You gain the Ability Score Improvement feat or another feat of your choice for which you qualify.
- Memorize SpellLevel 5
Whenever you finish a Short Rest, you can replace one prepared level 1+ wizard spell with another level 1+ spell from your spellbook.
- Arcane WardLevel 3
A defensive ward surrounds and protects you. You can use your ward to absorb damage and shield yourself from harm. The ward is the heart of Maa'raxia's survival magic.
- Projected WardLevel 6
You can project your ward to protect another creature, interposing your magic against incoming harm.
- Ability Score ImprovementLevel 8
You gain the Ability Score Improvement feat or another feat of your choice for which you qualify.
- Improved AbjurationLevel 10
Your abjuration magic is especially forceful and precise. When you cast an abjuration spell, its protections and counters are reinforced by your deep understanding of magical structure.
- Ability Score ImprovementLevel 12
You gain the Ability Score Improvement feat or another feat of your choice for which you qualify.
- Spell ResistanceLevel 14
Your long study of protective magic hardens your defenses against spellcraft itself. You can withstand hostile magic with uncanny composure.
- Ability Score ImprovementLevel 16
You gain the Ability Score Improvement feat or another feat of your choice for which you qualify.
- Epic BoonLevel 19
You gain an Epic Boon feat or another feat of your choice for which you qualify. Maa'raxia favors a boon that sharpens spell recall and reinforces endurance in prolonged arcanic duels.
- Signature SpellsLevel 20
Choose two level 3 spells in your spellbook as signature spells. You always have these spells prepared, and each can be cast once at level 3 without expending a spell slot between short or long rests.
- Creature TypeDragonbornHumanoid
- SizeDragonbornMedium
- SpeedDragonborn30 feet
- DarkvisionDragonborn60 feet
- Draconic AncestryDragonbornGreen, granting poison damage for your breath weapon and poison resistance
- Breath Weapon UsesDragonbornEqual to proficiency bonus per long rest
- Damage ResistanceDragonbornPoison
- Magic Initiate (Wizard)Sage
Magic Initiate (Wizard). Maa'raxia learned a fragment of practical wizardry during her years among archives and monastic scriptoria. She knows two wizard cantrips and always has one 1st-level wizard spell prepared, which she can cast once without expending a spell slot each long rest.
Spells
10 spellsSpellcasting. Maa'raxia casts with Intelligence (spell save DC 20, to hit with spell attacks).
1st level (4 slots):
2nd level (3 slots): no spells
3rd level (3 slots): , , ,
4th level (3 slots): ,
5th level (3 slots): ,
6th level (2 slots): no spells
7th level (2 slots): no spells
8th level (1 slot): no spells
9th level (1 slot):
Gear
9 itemsWeapons
- QuarterstaffA balanced quarterstaff used as a walking staff, focus, and emergency defense.
Tools
- Calligrapher's SuppliesCalligrapher's tools for precise transcription of sigils and notes.
Gear
- Arcane Focus, QuarterstaffBraided spell harness, scribed with warding circles and fitted with vials and pouches.
- RobeA dark robe used as ceremonial study-wear and a sign of learned rank.
- SpellbookA spellbook containing her practiced formulae, seals, and planar notes.
- Scholar's PackA scholar's pack for travel, research, and field investigation.
- 8×ParchmentFine parchment sheets used for copying ward diagrams and lost formulae.
- Book of HistoryA book of local history kept as a reference and source of ciphers.
Purse
- 8×Gold PiecesEight gold pieces kept from her scholarly travels.
Appearance
A towering green dragonborn with midnight-forest scales that shimmer with a faint oily sheen, darker verdigris edging each scale. Her broad, powerfully built frame is wrapped in shadow-forged arcane vestments, a black rune-inscribed pauldron on one shoulder, obsidian bracers glowing green, and polished claws tipped in silver. Her ram-like horns are etched in abjuration runes, her molten-gold eyes watchful and ancient, and a long tail coils with controlled patience beneath her. The overall impression is of a living ward, a prison, and a scholar all at once.
Mannerisms
She speaks in low, measured sentences and often pauses before answering, as though weighing each word against a hidden balance. When thinking, she traces invisible circles in the air with one claw. She never sits fully relaxed, always coiled like a seal awaiting pressure, and she instinctively positions herself between danger and the vulnerable.
Personality
Patient, analytical, and unnervingly calm. Maa'raxia rarely wastes words, but when she speaks, she is exact and impossible to dismiss. She is intensely curious about magical structures, especially wards, transmutation, and the way reality can be persuaded to obey. Beneath her discipline lies a fierce protectiveness toward sanctuaries, archives, and anyone entrusted to her care.
Ideals
Knowledge must be preserved, but knowledge without restraint is catastrophe. Power is not redeemed by its beauty, only by the discipline of its use. A ward is a promise, and a promise is sacred.
Bonds
She bears the last true seal-key of her enclave, hidden within her spellbook and guarded more fiercely than her own life. She will preserve any library, archive, or warded sanctuary that still holds living knowledge. If she swears protection over a person or place, that promise becomes iron, and she will cross worlds to keep it.
Flaws
She trusts systems more readily than people, and assumes that every problem has a correct containment protocol, even when mercy or improvisation would serve better. Her patience can curdle into obsession, especially when faced with forbidden lore. When threatened, she may become coldly utilitarian, willing to sacrifice comfort, reputation, or even allies if she believes the larger seal must hold.
Quirks
Background
Maa'raxia was born into a secluded dragonborn enclave that treated knowledge as both inheritance and weapon. Her people were not conquerors, but researchers, ward-makers, and keepers of hidden thresholds. They mapped planar seams, studied the geometry of containment, and built great libraries where the margins of reality could be safely annotated. She excelled early, not in spectacle but in discipline, and her teachers praised her patience, her precision, and the uncanny calm with which she sealed dangerous things that others feared even to name. That careful civilization ended in a single ritual meant to anchor a breach between worlds. Something answered that should not have been answered. The enclave was consumed in shadow, its wards inverted, its vaults torn open like paper. Maa'raxia alone survived, fused with the darkness she had tried to bind. She spent decades learning to live as both prisoner and jailor, weaving abjurative lattices through her own body and will. Now she wanders the world as a scholar of ruin and a master of containment, seeking the lost names of the force that destroyed her people, and quietly ensuring it never escapes her again.
“Her people were not conquerors, but researchers, ward-makers, and keepers of hidden thresholds.”
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Dragonborn
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