Andorial the Speaker for the Dead
Andorial the Speaker for the Dead
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AC 15 · HP 13 · 30 ft.Saving throws
Skills
- AcrobaticsDEX
- Animal HandlingWIS
- ArcanaINT
- AthleticsSTR
- DeceptionCHA
- HistoryINT
- InsightWIS
- IntimidationCHA
- InvestigationINT
- MedicineWIS
- PerceptionWIS
- PersuasionCHA
- ReligionINT
- Sleight of HandDEX
- StealthDEX
- SurvivalWIS
Armor
Weapons
Tools
Languages
Features
15 featuresAlways on
- Twin Sickle Assault
When When Andorial takes the Attack action while wielding two eligible light weapons.
Andorial makes a melee weapon attack with a sickle. If she is wielding two eligible light weapons, she can make an additional attack with her other sickle as permitted by her two-weapon fighting feature.
- Grave Hex
When When a suitable creature is within range of an available Witch hex.
Andorial marks a creature with occult malice, imposing the effects of one of her prepared Witch hexes according to the Witch class rules.
- Witch SpellcastingLevel 1
When When she has an available spell slot or cantrip-like Witch magic available.
Andorial invokes a prepared spell using Intelligence as her spellcasting ability and the vampire skull as her spellcasting focus.
- HexesLevel 1
You can place supernatural curses on creatures through Witch hexes. Hexes use the rules and save DCs provided by the Witch class. Andorial is especially practiced in weakening foes and disrupting their defenses.
- FamiliarLevel 1
You can create or employ a familiar through Witch magic. The familiar assists with occult investigation, delivers certain spells when permitted, and serves as a supernatural companion.
- Crafted Fetishes and Eerie TokensLevel 1
You can create crafted fetishes and eerie tokens through Witch practices. These objects serve as occult implements and may provide the benefits specified by the Witch class.
- WitchfireLevel 1
You gain the Witchfire feature, allowing you to manifest the Witch's signature supernatural offensive magic as described by the Witch class.
- Two-Weapon FightingLevel 2
You gain a fighting style emphasizing rapid paired attacks. When fighting with two eligible light weapons, you can use the two-weapon fighting rules granted by this feature, including adding your ability modifier to the damage of the additional attack when applicable.
- The Deathened FocusLevel 3
You gain a death-marked focus, represented by Andorial's polished vampire skull. It can serve as her spellcasting focus for Witch spells. The focus also carries the Gravesinger's funerary significance. The additional choice granted by this feature is not yet available because Andorial has not reached Witch level 3.
- TraitElfDarkvision, allowing sight in darkness as specified by the 2014 elf rules.
- TraitElfKeen Senses, granting proficiency in Perception.
- TraitElfFey Ancestry, granting advantage on saving throws against being charmed and preventing magic from putting her to sleep.
- TraitElfTrance, allowing a meditative form of rest instead of ordinary sleep.
- TraitElfElf weapon training, granting proficiency with the longsword, shortsword, shortbow, and longbow.
- Shelter of the FaithfulAcolyte
Andorial can usually secure shelter and basic aid from temples, shrines, and members of her faith. Religious attendants recognize her authority as a funerary representative of Morvane's coven and may provide modest assistance, provided her requests do not endanger the institution.
Spells
6 spellsSpellcasting. Andorial the Speaker for the Dead casts with Intelligence (spell save DC 14, to hit with spell attacks).
Cantrips (at will): , , ,
1st level (3 slots): ,
Gear
12 itemsWeapons
- 2×SickleA pair of curved sickles used as paired occult weapons
- HandaxeA brutal handaxe carried for close combat and ritual chopping
- Ritual daggerA ceremonial dagger used in funerary rites and bone-carving
- 6×Bone javelinBone javelins carried in a rack decorated with small imp skulls
Armor
- Armored coatA reinforced armored coat worn over bone-stitched leather
Tools
- Spirit bellA funerary bell used to call spirits and mark the passage between life and death
Gear
- Vampire skull focusA polished vampire skull that functions as Andorial's death-marked spellcasting focus
- Component pouchA component pouch containing grave dust, black salt, thread, wax, bone splinters, and other Witch materials
- Holy symbolA holy symbol of Morvane's Threefold Goddess, carved from dark bone
- Prayer bookA prayer book containing funerary hymns, names of the dead, and coven rites
- Vestments and clothingA set of common clothes and a dark funerary robe
Purse
- 15×Gold piecesA belt pouch containing 15 gold pieces
Appearance
Andorial is a weathered female elf with white, pupil-less eyes that sometimes briefly reflect the identity of a dead spirit speaking through her. Her dark hair is gathered into thickening dreadlocks decorated with teeth, finger bones, and tiny carved charms. She wears an armored coat over bone-stitched leather, with a rack of bone javelins decorated with imp skulls across her back. Two sickles hang ready in her hands, while a brutal handaxe and ritual dagger rest at her belt. Her death-marked focus is a polished vampire skull, worn smooth where her thumb repeatedly passes over its brow. Her body bears numerous old battle scars, though her most unsettling features are her elongated canines, intense gaze, and the deliberate pause she takes before answering any living person. Her vampiric corruption is not true undeath, but she craves blood, is harmed by healing magic, and finds necrotic energy strangely restorative.
Mannerisms
Before speaking to the living, Andorial pauses as though waiting for another voice to finish. She clears her throat softly, touches the vampire skull with her thumb, and speaks in a low, measured tone. When addressing the dead, however, her voice becomes warmer and more intimate. She rings her bell once before entering a crypt, twice before questioning a spirit, and three times when she intends to bind one.
Personality
Grim, patient, and unexpectedly compassionate, Andorial listens more carefully to the dead than to the living. She gives practical advice without softening it, remembers the names of strangers who died in her presence, and treats funerary customs as sacred law. She is difficult to shock, but not difficult to offend. Desecration, careless necromancy, and mocking the dead can bring out a cold fury that her usual restraint barely contains.
Ideals
The dead deserve to be heard, named, and honored. Commanding a corpse is acceptable only when it prevents greater desecration, protects the living, or fulfills the dead creature's own final purpose.
Bonds
Andorial is bound to the Morvane coven and to the dead whose final words she has sworn to carry. Her vampire-skull focus belonged to an ancient predator that massacred one of the coven's sacred communities. She believes the skull still contains an unanswered confession, and she will pursue any lead that may reveal the full truth. She is also fiercely protective of apprentices who are frightened by their first encounter with a ghost.
Flaws
Andorial's hunger for blood is a constant private battle. She fears that restraint is merely the first stage of surrender, so she keeps strict personal rituals that can become controlling and cruel. She also distrusts easy healing, believing that anyone who accepts comfort without paying a price has not yet understood death. When frightened or emotionally cornered, she can treat the living as temporary vessels and the dead as more trustworthy companions.
Quirks
Background
Andorial was born beneath the boughs of an ancient elven burial grove, where the dead were not considered silent, only patient. She entered the Morvane witches' coven after demonstrating an uncanny ability to hear the final thoughts clinging to old bones. Over decades of ritual study, she became the coven's grim but wise speaker for the dead, responsible for questioning the newly departed, preserving their names, and determining which spirits required comfort, justice, or binding. As the second oldest witch in the coven, she embodies the crone aspect of the Threefold Goddess, the keeper of memory, endings, and the wisdom that comes after loss.
“She entered the Morvane witches' coven after demonstrating an uncanny ability to hear the final thoughts clinging to old bones.”
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Elf
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