Lysandra
Lysandra
Sheet
AC 13 · HP 143 · 30 ft.Saving throws
Skills
- AcrobaticsDEX
- ArcanaINT
- DeceptionCHA
- HistoryINT
- InsightWIS
- InvestigationINT
- MedicineWIS
- PerceptionWIS
- PersuasionCHA
Armor
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Languages
Features
25 featuresBonus action
- Bardic InspirationLevel 1
When Bonus action
As a bonus action, grant a creature a Bardic Inspiration die to add to one ability check, attack roll, or saving throw.
Always on
- Performance of CreationLevel 3
When Action or special use of Bardic Inspiration
Create a Tiny nonmagical object in an unoccupied space you can see, or reinforce a performance with constructive magic.
- Animating PerformanceLevel 6
When Action
Animate a created object into a helpful temporary ally for a short duration.
- Magical SecretsLevel 10
When During level advancement
Use magical secrets to prepare powerful spells from outside the bard list.
- Bardic SpellcastingLevel 1
You know two cantrips of your choice from the bard spell list.
- SpellcastingLevel 1
You can use a musical instrument or any improvisational performance as the focus for your magic. For this character, this is represented by a book and spoken recital rather than a literal instrument, in keeping with the concept.
- Jack of All TradesLevel 2
You can add half your proficiency bonus, rounded down, to any ability check that does not already include your proficiency bonus.
- ExpertiseLevel 3
Choose one skill proficiency you have. Your proficiency bonus is doubled for any ability check you make that uses it.
- ExpertiseLevel 3
Choose one skill proficiency you have. Your proficiency bonus is doubled for any ability check you make that uses it.
- Song of RestLevel 2
You can inspire others in performance and recuperation. At the end of a short rest, friendly creatures who can hear you regain hit points equal to one roll of your Bardic Inspiration die.
- CountercharmLevel 2
You have advantage on saving throws against being frightened. You can also perform a short ceremony to counter magical fear effects.
- Font of InspirationLevel 5
You gain additional Bardic Inspiration uses whenever you finish a short or long rest.
- ExpertiseLevel 3
You double your proficiency bonus for two skills of your choice.
- ExpertiseLevel 10
You double your proficiency bonus for two skills of your choice.
- Bardic Inspiration ImprovementLevel 10
Your Bardic Inspiration die becomes a d10.
- Mote of PotentialLevel 3
You can magically create one nonmagical item of medium or smaller size, such as a musical instrument, within an unoccupied space you can see. The object is temporary and can be made permanent with additional effort and expenditure of spell slots, according to the feature.
- Bardic Inspiration ImprovementLevel 15
Your Bardic Inspiration die becomes a d12.
- Creative CrescendoLevel 14
Whenever you cast a spell that creates or summons a creature or object, you can amplify the result in a spectacular burst of creative power.
- TraitElfDarkvision, 60 ft.
- TraitElfKeen Senses, proficiency in Perception.
- TraitElfFey Ancestry, advantage on saving throws against being charmed, and magic cannot put you to sleep.
- TraitElfTrance, you meditate for 4 hours to gain the same benefit a human gains from 8 hours of sleep.
- TraitElfElf Weapon Training, proficiency with longsword, shortsword, shortbow, and longbow.
- TraitElfCantrip, you know one wizard cantrip of your choice.
- ResearcherSage
When you attempt to learn or recall a piece of lore, if you do not know that information, you usually know where and from whom you can obtain it.
Spells
28 spellsSpellcasting. Lysandra casts with Charisma (spell save DC 17, to hit with spell attacks).
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2nd level (3 slots): , , ,
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4th level (3 slots): ,
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6th level (2 slots): ,
7th level (2 slots): ,
8th level (1 slot): ,
9th level (1 slot):
Gear
8 itemsTools
- Ink and quillA set of writing tools for drafting articles and notes.
Gear
- Personal reference bookA worn book of essays, copied lore, and private notes, kept in hand whenever possible.
- Component pouchA component pouch for spells that require material components.
- Scholar's packA scholar's traveling pack with ink, parchment, sealing wax, and other essentials for research and writing.
- Traveler's clothesSimple modern city clothes chosen for comfort and movement.
- Writing suppliesA small ink bottle and spare papers inherited from academic work.
- Letter from a colleagueA letter from a former mentor who believed she would return to the enclave.
Purse
- Coin purseA purse containing 10 gold pieces.
Appearance
Lysandra is a tall, lithe high elf with a pale ivory complexion, sharp aristocratic features, and an ethereal stillness that makes her seem half a step removed from the room around her. Her silver-white hair falls straight to the middle of her back, faintly metallic in the light, and her crystalline blue eyes watch everything with calm precision. She wears modern, understated city clothes, usually dark trousers, a pale shirt, and a soft cardigan or vest with pockets for notes. Her pointed ears are ringed with simple silver hoops, and she prefers to keep a well-worn book in hand instead of a weapon.
Mannerisms
She pauses before answering, as if composing each reply in her head like a paragraph she may later edit. When thinking, she unconsciously smooths the edge of a page with her thumb or adjusts the silver hoop at her ear. Her voice stays soft and measured, but her eyes sharpen whenever a conversation turns to old lies, lost histories, or the ethics of art.
Personality
Quietly sardonic, intensely observant, and surprisingly protective once trust is earned. Lysandra speaks with deliberate clarity, prefers facts to gossip, and treats beauty as something constructed rather than merely admired. She can seem aloof at first, but that distance is usually concentration, not contempt. Beneath her composure is a restless creative spirit that never stops revising the world in her head.
Ideals
Creation is a moral act. If a cruel world can be described, it can be revised, and if a life can be revised, it can be redeemed. She believes knowledge should liberate people from inherited silence.
Bonds
She keeps every handwritten draft from her first year in Atrix Isle, and she will risk embarrassment, money, or sleep before she lets those pages be lost. She feels responsible for the young writers and curious outsiders who remind her of who she once was. Her deepest bond is to the idea that knowledge should be shared, not hoarded, and she quietly funds or mentors anyone trying to escape a suffocating life like the one she left behind.
Flaws
She can be infuriatingly precise, correcting wording, dates, and assumptions even when silence would serve her better. Her pride is wrapped in intellect, so criticism of her work can wound her more deeply than open insult. When frightened, she retreats into analysis and control, sometimes forgetting that people are not problems to be solved.
Quirks
Background
Lysandra was raised in a secluded enclave of elven archivists, a place where every thought was cataloged, every poem preserved, and every deviation from tradition politely discouraged. She learned early that memory could be a cage as easily as a gift. While other children were taught to recite the old histories, she was fascinated by the spaces between the official records, the unfiled emotions in old letters, the patterns hidden in the margins. That curiosity eventually became defiance, and defiance became departure. She left with a stack of copied manuscripts, a formal resignation nobody asked her to write, and a private certainty that a life spent only preserving the past was no life at all. Atrix Isle gave her noise, crowds, weathered alleyways, and apartments stacked one atop another like unfinished sentences. There she reinvented herself as a freelance writer, producing essays, criticism, essays disguised as fiction, and fiction that smuggled in dangerous truths. Her bardic magic did not bloom in taverns or on stage, but in quiet rooms, in the rhythmic scratch of a pen, in the way language could build a world so vividly that it briefly became real. As a College of Creation bard, she came to believe that art is not decoration, but architecture. She writes to make meaning, to give shape to grief, and to prove that creation is a form of rebellion no archive can fully contain.
“She learned early that memory could be a cage as easily as a gift.”
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