Lamis Hecate
Lamis Hecate
Sheet
AC 16 · HP 68 · 30 ft.Saving throws
Skills
- AcrobaticsDEX
- Animal HandlingWIS
- ArcanaINT
- AthleticsSTR
- DeceptionCHA
- HistoryINT
- InsightWIS
- IntimidationCHA
- InvestigationINT
- MedicineWIS
- NatureINT
- PerceptionWIS
- PerformanceCHA
- PersuasionCHA
- Sleight of HandDEX
- StealthDEX
- SurvivalWIS
Armor
Weapons
Tools
Languages
Features
17 featuresAlways on
- Magical TinkeringLevel 1
When When touching a Tiny nonmagical object
Lamis produces a quick magical adjustment to a small nonmagical object, causing it to glow, emit a sound, display a message, or produce a harmless sensory effect.
- Experimental ElixirLevel 3
When As an action, or when an ally can drink it
Lamis throws or administers a prepared alchemical elixir, granting a beneficial magical effect such as healing, boldness, resilience, increased speed, or flight.
- Restorative ReagentsLevel 5
When When casting an artificer spell using alchemist's supplies as the focus
Lamis uses alchemist's supplies to enhance a spell's damage or healing for one affected creature.
- Infuse ItemLevel 2
When At the end of a long rest, when touching a suitable object
Lamis uses a prepared infusion to improve an object, such as granting armor a bonus, strengthening a weapon, enhancing a focus, or creating a homunculus servant.
- SpellcastingLevel 1
Lamis uses Intelligence as her spellcasting ability. She can prepare a number of artificer spells equal to her Intelligence modifier plus half her artificer level, rounded down. She can use thieves' tools or artisan's tools as a spellcasting focus.
- Tool ExpertiseLevel 6
Lamis gains double proficiency with any ability check made using a tool with which she is proficient.
- Artificer Specialist, AlchemistLevel 3
Lamis has chosen the Alchemist specialist. She gains proficiency with alchemist's supplies and always has certain alchemist spells prepared.
- Alchemist SpellsLevel 3
Lamis always has Healing Word and Ray of Sickness prepared at 3rd level, Flaming Sphere and Melf's Acid Arrow prepared at 5th level, and additional Alchemist spells at higher levels.
- Alchemist's Supplies ProficiencyLevel 3
Lamis gains proficiency with alchemist's supplies if she did not already have it and can use them as a spellcasting focus for artificer spells.
- Ability Score ImprovementLevel 4
Lamis gains an Ability Score Improvement. Her exceptional physical and intellectual scores already reflect her manual ability choices, so this improvement is represented as an additional feat-like refinement of her practiced technique at the table's discretion.
- Alchemist Spell ProgressionLevel 5
Lamis's alchemical spells include Heat Metal and Elemental Weapon at 9th level, though these are not yet available to her at artificer level 6.
- TraitAasimarDarkvision out to 60 feet
- TraitAasimarCelestial Resistance, resistance to necrotic damage and radiant damage
- TraitAasimarHealing Hands, once per long rest, restore hit points equal to character level by touch
- TraitAasimarLight Bearer, know the Light cantrip using Charisma as the spellcasting ability
- TraitAasimarCelestial heritage, descended from an angelic or celestial being
- ResearcherSage
If Lamis does not know a piece of information, she usually knows where and from whom it can be obtained. She can often locate libraries, archives, scholars, guilds, and other knowledgeable individuals willing to share what they know.
Spells
13 spellsSpellcasting. Lamis Hecate casts with Intelligence (spell save DC 16, to hit with spell attacks).
1st level (4 slots): , , , , , ,
2nd level (2 slots): , , , , ,
Gear
10 itemsWeapons
- QuarterstaffA plain wooden staff useful for walking, defense, and measuring chemical mixtures.
Armor
- Scale mailProtective medium armor made from overlapping metal scales, worn over padded clothing.
Tools
- Thieves' toolsA compact kit of picks, files, tension tools, and delicate probes.
- Alchemist's suppliesA complete set of alchemist's supplies, including glassware, burners, powders, and reagent jars.
- Small knifeA small knife used for cutting parchment, herbs, and laboratory materials.
Gear
- Dungeoneer's packA sturdy pack containing rope, torches, rations, pitons, and basic adventuring gear.
- Scholar's packA scholarly satchel containing parchment, books, ink, quills, and reference materials.
- Common clothesSimple travel clothes suitable for a researcher and archivist.
- Ink and quillA small bottle of ink and a quill for recording observations.
- Letter from a dead colleagueA letter from a deceased colleague containing an unresolved question about a historical mystery.
Appearance
Lamis is a tall, powerfully built aasimar woman with warm bronze skin weathered by years spent outdoors and a crown of tightly braided white hair threaded with copper wire. Her eyes glow faintly gold when she concentrates. Within a minute of meeting her, most people notice her broad, strong jaw and unusually pointed incisors, which show whenever she laughs or bites into tough food. Her hands are stained with permanent blue reagent marks, and the cuffs of her practical coat are darkened by smoke, acid, and machine oil. She wears reinforced scale mail beneath a long sage-green artificer's coat, with vials, tiny tools, and folded diagrams arranged in precise rows across her belt.
Mannerisms
She taps a metal stylus against her teeth while thinking, counts steps under her breath when entering unfamiliar rooms, and explains complicated ideas with whatever objects are nearest. When annoyed, she silently rearranges nearby items into symmetrical rows.
Personality
Lamis is precise, patient, and intensely curious. She speaks to machines as though they are shy animals and gives every important object a name. She is generous with practical help, especially repairs and medicine, but becomes visibly uncomfortable when praised for compassion rather than intellect. Her humor is dry and unexpectedly warm, often delivered while she is elbow-deep in a malfunctioning device.
Ideals
Knowledge should protect the vulnerable, not merely elevate the learned. Every truth deserves to be preserved, tested, and placed in the hands of those who can use it responsibly.
Bonds
The celestial astrolabe entrusted to her must be repaired and its erased warning restored. She is devoted to the monastery archivists who raised her and will risk herself to protect its library and its people.
Flaws
She treats uncertainty as a personal failure and can become dismissive when people rely on intuition instead of evidence. Lamis also hoards dangerous curiosities in labeled compartments, insisting that she is the only person responsible enough to study them.
Quirks
Background
Lamis Hecate was born beneath an unusual meteor shower, and the elderly archivists of her remote monastery took it as a sign that celestial purpose and mortal curiosity had met in one child. Her aasimar heritage manifested quietly at first, as a faint radiance in her eyes and an instinctive talent for restoring injured creatures. The monastery's library became her true home. She learned to read forgotten scripts, repair damaged instruments, and reconstruct lost mechanisms from fragments that other scholars dismissed as useless debris. Her transformation into an artificer began when she discovered a sealed celestial astrolabe in the monastery vaults. The device contained a map of planar disturbances and a warning that someone was deliberately erasing evidence of them from historical records. Lamis built alchemical instruments to study the astrolabe, then developed restorative elixirs after a laboratory accident nearly destroyed her research team. She now travels as a researcher, healer, and relentless investigator, seeking the missing pages of the astrolabe's history. She believes knowledge is a form of guardianship, and that every mystery left unsolved gives cruelty another place to hide.
“Her aasimar heritage manifested quietly at first, as a faint radiance in her eyes and an instinctive talent for restoring injured creatures.”
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Aasimar
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