Varenia
Varenia
Sheet
AC 16 · HP 143 · 30 ft.Saving throws
Skills
- AcrobaticsDEX
- Animal HandlingWIS
- ArcanaINT
- AthleticsSTR
- DeceptionCHA
- HistoryINT
- InsightWIS
- IntimidationCHA
- InvestigationINT
- MedicineWIS
- NatureINT
- PerceptionWIS
- PerformanceCHA
- PersuasionCHA
- ReligionINT
- Sleight of HandDEX
- StealthDEX
- SurvivalWIS
Armor
Weapons
Tools
Languages
Features
38 featuresAction
- BlindsenseLevel 14
You can use your action to discern the presence of hidden or invisible creatures within 10 feet of you.
Bonus action
- Fast HandsLevel 3
You can use your bonus action to manipulate objects, use thieves' tools, or take the Use an Object action.
Reaction
- Uncanny DodgeLevel 5
When an attacker you can see hits you with an attack, you can use your reaction to halve the attack's damage against you.
- EvasionLevel 7
If you fail a Dexterity saving throw, you can use your reaction to take no damage instead of half damage.
- Uncanny DodgeLevel 5
You can use your reaction to reduce the damage of a melee attack by half.
- Slippery MindLevel 15
You can use your reaction to reroll a failed Wisdom saving throw once per short or long rest.
Always on
- Sneak AttackLevel 17
When Once per turn when attacking with advantage or when an ally threatens the target.
Varenia slips through the edge of a fight, striking where enemies are distracted and disappearing before they can answer.
- Cunning ActionLevel 2
When Bonus action on her turn.
She darts, hides, or disengages with impossible speed, turning every alley into a weapon.
- Second-Story WorkLevel 3
When When moving or climbing in urban terrain.
She can cross difficult footing, ledges, and walls with uncanny ease, and she can use her hands in the middle of motion.
- ExpertiseLevel 1
You are proficient with thieves' tools and can use them to disarm traps, pick locks, and perform delicate illicit work. You also know thieves' cant, a secret mix of dialect, code, and signals used to pass hidden messages among rogues.
- Thieves' CantLevel 1
Your roguish training grants proficiency with thieves' tools and the ability to communicate in thieves' cant.
- Rogue ExpertiseLevel 1
Your skill in key areas is exceptional. You have expertise in Stealth, Sleight of Hand, Deception, and Perception, doubling your proficiency bonus on checks using those proficiencies.
- Roguish ArchetypeLevel 3
You choose a Roguish Archetype, gaining its 3rd-level features.
- Uncanny AimLevel 4
You can add your Wisdom modifier to initiative rolls.
- Ability Score ImprovementLevel 4
You can take an Ability Score Improvement or feat.
- Uncanny DodgeLevel 5
You can choose to forego your movement to make a ranged attack without disadvantage from melee, and once per turn when you hit with a finesse or ranged weapon attack, you can use Sneak Attack if the other conditions are met.
- ExpertiseLevel 6
Your expertise expands. You gain expertise in two additional proficiencies.
- EvasionLevel 7
You can forego a Dexterity saving throw to take no damage on a successful save and only half damage on a failed save.
- ASI or FeatLevel 8
You gain proficiency in Wisdom saving throws.
- Athletic mobilityLevel 8
You can move through the space of any creature that is of a size larger than yours.
- Reliable TalentLevel 8
You can give yourself a bonus to initiative equal to your Dexterity modifier if you are not already benefiting from it.
- Reliable TalentLevel 11
Any ability check you make that uses a skill or tool proficiency you are proficient in treats a d20 roll of 9 or lower as a 10.
- ExpertiseLevel 10
Your expertise expands again, granting expertise in two more proficiencies.
- BlindsenseLevel 14
If you can hear, you are aware of hidden or invisible creatures within 10 feet of you.
- ExpertiseLevel 15
Your expertise expands again, granting expertise in two more proficiencies.
- Supreme SneakLevel 9
When you use Cunning Action to Hide, moving no more than half your speed on the same turn doesn't impose disadvantage on the Dexterity (Stealth) check.
- ElusiveLevel 13
You can no longer be tracked except by magical means, unless you choose to leave a trail.
- ElusiveLevel 18
No attack roll has advantage against you while you aren't incapacitated.
- Use Magic DeviceLevel 13
You can use any magic item regardless of class, race, or level requirements by making an ability check.
- Stroke of LuckLevel 20
Once per turn, if you miss with an attack, you can turn the miss into a hit, and if you fail an ability check or saving throw, you can treat the d20 roll as a 20 instead. Once you use this feature, you cannot use it again until you finish a short or long rest.
- TraitElfDarkvision 120 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 instead of sleeping
- TraitElfDrow Magic, you know the dancing lights cantrip, and at higher levels faerie fire once per long rest and darkness once per long rest
- TraitElfSunlight Sensitivity, disadvantage on attack rolls and on Wisdom (Perception) checks that rely on sight when you, the target, or what you are trying to perceive is in direct sunlight
- TraitElfDrow Weapon Training, proficiency with rapiers, shortswords, and hand crossbows
- Rustic HospitalityFolk Hero
Since earning a local reputation for daring deeds against cruel and powerful figures, Varenia can usually find shelter, food, and basic aid among common folk who admire her or have heard her tale. She can call upon the hospitality of ordinary people, though not for unreasonable or dangerous favors.
Gear
15 itemsWeapons
- Curved daggerA sleek curved dagger worn at the small of her back.
- RapierA short, precise blade favored for close work.
- ShortbowLight ranged weapon kept ready for ambush and escape.
Tools
- Thieves' toolsVersatile tools for infiltration and delicate illicit work.
- Artisan's toolsA set of artisan's tools from the Folk Hero background.
- ShovelUseful for travel, repairs, and camp labor.
Gear
- Sleeveless black utility jacketA fine, dark modern jacket adapted to feel like light armor, worn for style and mobility. Used as her signature outerwear.
- Charcoal sleeveless shirtTight charcoal shirt for flexible movement and concealment.
- Tapered black trousersBlack tapered trousers designed for silent movement.
- Black leather bootsNoiseless knee-high boots suited to climbing, running, and rooftop movement.
- 20×ArrowsA bundle of arrows for the shortbow.
- Burglar's packA compact pack with adventuring necessities.
- Iron potA practical iron cooking vessel.
- Common clothesA set of common clothes in muted tones.
- Coin pouchA small pouch of starting coin and odds and ends.
Appearance
Varenia is a striking drow woman, 5'8" and lithe as a drawn blade, with polished obsidian skin, a sharp asymmetrical bob of silver-white hair, and luminous crimson eyes that seem to glow in darkness. Her long pointed ears carry multiple silver piercings, and she moves with silent, dancer-like precision. She favors matte black modern streetwear with Underdark-inspired elegance, including a sleeveless high-collared jacket, charcoal top, tapered trousers, noiseless boots, and a utility belt with subtle tools and a curved dagger. Her overall look is sleek, predatory, and impeccably controlled.
Mannerisms
She speaks softly and with careful precision, often pausing before the last word as if measuring its weight. In tense moments she goes perfectly still, then moves in sudden, efficient bursts. She rarely sits with her back to a door, and she unconsciously scans exits, rooftops, and reflective surfaces whenever she enters a room.
Personality
Varenia is calm, observant, and unnervingly patient, with the habit of studying a room the way other people read a face. She is dryly witty in private, curt in public, and unexpectedly gentle with children, laborers, and anyone who has learned to survive by being overlooked. She believes rules are useful only when they protect people, and she has no patience for authority that mistakes itself for virtue.
Ideals
Freedom. No one should live at the mercy of tyrants, predators, or the arrogant. The strong have a duty to protect the powerless, and the powerless deserve every tool they can steal back from the world that hurt them.
Bonds
She protects common people who remind her of the powerless families that once sheltered her, and she repays every kindness with fierce loyalty. She keeps a silver teardrop pendant from her first safe refuge, and she would risk almost anything to keep that promise of protection alive.
Flaws
Varenia has a hard time accepting help, and even kindness can make her suspicious. She sometimes mistakes secrecy for safety, cutting allies out of the truth until the lie becomes larger than the danger. When someone preys on the weak, her temper turns cold and surgical, and she may overcommit to vengeance even when a cleaner solution exists.
Quirks
Background
Varenia was born beneath a city that never saw the sun, in a place where mercy was weakness and fear was currency. Among the drow, she learned early that survival meant moving quietly, striking first, and never letting anyone see how much you cared. But while others in her house climbed through cruelty, she learned a different craft, slipping through cracks in authority, stealing from the cruel, and feeding the people the city had forgotten. The surface world called her a thief. The poor who hid her in their attics and back rooms called her a blessing. When a local power seized land from farmers and used hired blades to terrorize the district, Varenia became the shadow that answered. She forged a folk hero's legend out of sabotage, stolen ledgers, exposed secrets, and impossible rescues, then vanished before any grateful applause could pin her down. Now she lives by a private code, taking from the arrogant, protecting the vulnerable, and turning every alley, rooftop, and locked door into a battlefield of her own choosing. Her name has become a rumor in places where tyrants sleep uneasily.
“Among the drow, she learned early that survival meant moving quietly, striking first, and never letting anyone see how much you cared.”
- Background
- Folk Hero
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Elf
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