Shiseth Otsana
Shiseth Otsana
Sheet
AC 16 · HP 121 · 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
22 featuresBonus action
- Second WindLevel 1
When As a bonus action
Shiseth can use a bonus action to regain 1d10 + 13 hit points, with three uses per Short or Long Rest.
- Action SurgeLevel 2
When On their turn
Shiseth can take one additional action on their turn, followed by a possible bonus action, once per Short or Long Rest.
Reaction
- Mage SlayerLevel 8
When a creature within 60 feet casts a spell, you can use your Reaction to make a melee weapon attack against that creature if it is within your weapon's reach. On a hit, the target has Disadvantage on Concentration saves caused by that attack until the end of your next turn. You also have Advantage on saving throws against spells cast by creatures within 5 feet of you.
- Defensive DuelistLevel 12
When a creature you can see hits you with a melee attack, you can use your Reaction to add your Proficiency Bonus to your Armor Class against that attack, potentially causing it to miss. You must be wielding a Finesse weapon or a light weapon to use this feat. Shiseth carries a rapier as a compatible sidearm.
Always on
- Extra AttackLevel 5
When When taking the Attack action
After taking the Attack action, Shiseth can make two attacks instead of one.
- IndomitableLevel 9
When After failing a saving throw
Shiseth can reroll a failed saving throw and must use the new result.
- Tactical ShiftLevel 5
When When using Second Wind
When Shiseth uses Second Wind, they can move up to half their Speed without provoking Opportunity Attacks.
- Fighting StyleLevel 1
You gain proficiency with all armor, shields, simple weapons, and martial weapons.
- Weapon MasteryLevel 1
You can use the Mastery property of two kinds of Simple or Martial weapons. You can change one selected weapon whenever you finish a Long Rest.
- Improved CriticalLevel 3
You score a Critical Hit on a roll of 19 or 20 on the d20 for an attack roll.
- Remarkable AthleteLevel 7
You gain proficiency in one skill of your choice. You can also add half your Proficiency Bonus to any Strength, Dexterity, or Constitution check that does not already use your Proficiency Bonus.
- Additional Fighting StyleLevel 10
You gain a second Fighting Style feat. Shiseth selects Archery, gaining a +2 bonus to attack rolls with ranged weapons.
- Ability Score ImprovementLevel 4
You gain an Ability Score Improvement or another feat for which you qualify. Shiseth has selected Alert at Fighter level 4, Observant at Fighter level 6, Mage Slayer at Fighter level 8, and Defensive Duelist at Fighter level 12.
- AlertLevel 4
You have a +5 bonus to Initiative rolls. Immediately after rolling Initiative, you can swap your Initiative with a willing ally in the same combat who is not Incapacitated.
- ObservantLevel 6
You gain a +5 bonus to passive Perception and passive Investigation, and can decipher nonmagical writing by spending 1 minute examining it.
- TraitElfDarkvision, you can see in dim light within 60 feet as if it were bright light and in darkness as if it were dim light.
- TraitElfFey Ancestry, you have Advantage on saving throws to avoid or end the Charmed condition.
- TraitElfKeen Senses, you have proficiency in the Insight skill.
- TraitElfTrance, you do not need to sleep and can finish a Long Rest in 4 hours by entering a meditative state.
- TraitElfHigh Elf lineage, you know one Wizard cantrip of your choice. At level 3, you can cast Detect Magic once per Long Rest, and at level 5, you can cast Misty Step once per Long Rest, using the same spellcasting ability chosen for this lineage.
- TraitElfElven lineage spells do not require spell slots and are always prepared for you. Shiseth uses Intelligence as the spellcasting ability for them.
- ResearcherSage
You have studied extensively and can recall lore about subjects connected to your scholarly training. If you do not know a piece of information, you often know where and from whom it can be obtained. Your Sage background grants the Magic Initiate origin feat, Arcana and History skill proficiency, Calligrapher's Supplies proficiency, and two additional languages.
Gear
11 itemsWeapons
- GreatswordA heavy two-handed martial weapon, used by Shiseth as the armor's primary power-conducting weapon.
- FlailA martial flail carried as a backup weapon.
- RapierA light Finesse weapon used with Defensive Duelist.
- 8×JavelinThrown martial weapons for ranged attacks.
- QuarterstaffA wooden staff used for travel, demonstrations, and emergency defense.
Armor
- Magitech chain mailMagitech-enhanced chain mail with brass plates, ceramic insulation, crystal conduits, and a functional arc-core. It uses the statistics of chain mail.
Tools
- Calligrapher's SuppliesInk, pens, parchment, and tools for copying diagrams, making notes, and producing calligraphic text.
Gear
- Dungeoneer's PackContains a backpack, bedroll, mess kit, tinderbox, torches, rations, waterskin, and rope.
- Scholar's PackContains a book of lore, bottle of ink, quill, small knife, parchment, and a pouch.
- Scholar's RobeA practical travel robe worn beneath or over the armor when conducting research.
Purse
- 8×Gold PiecesThe character's remaining starting coin and personal research funds.
Appearance
A tall, lean high elf with warm copper-brown skin, long black hair threaded with silver wire, and pale green eyes that reflect blue sparks when they concentrate. Their magitech armor is built from overlapping brass, steel, and dark blue ceramic plates, with fine crystal conduits running along the limbs and a softly glowing arc-core set beneath the breastplate. The armor is practical rather than ornamental, scarred by field repairs and engraved with tiny mathematical notations. A weathered scholar's satchel hangs at their hip, alongside a greatsword modified with a narrow induction coil near the guard.
Mannerisms
Shiseth tilts their head toward any unfamiliar sound, as if listening for a machine beneath it. They tap two fingers against the armor's breastplate while thinking, and quietly count under their breath before making a difficult decision.
Personality
Shiseth is patient, observant, and intensely curious, with the calm focus of a researcher examining a delicate mechanism. They prefer precise questions to declarations and are surprisingly gentle with frightened people, injured animals, and damaged objects. In battle, their demeanor changes into quiet efficiency, as though every motion has already been diagrammed.
Ideals
Knowledge is a shield. If understanding a danger can prevent even one death, then no secret is too difficult, too old, or too frightening to study.
Bonds
The unfinished magitech armor contains the final notes of Shiseth's lost mentor. They will risk almost anything to recover the missing components and learn whether the mentor died or became part of the machine network.
Flaws
Shiseth treats every mystery as an obligation and every warning as an invitation to investigate. They can become coldly argumentative when someone dismisses evidence, and they often continue testing a dangerous device long after a sensible person would have walked away. Their armor's dependence on rare replacement crystals also makes them secretive about damage and reluctant to admit when they are exhausted.
Quirks
Background
Shiseth studied the old machines beneath the elven city of Tashiroth, where the remains of a vanished civilization still hummed beneath roots and foundations. Their specialty was battlefield application, not ancient history for its own sake. Shiseth believed knowledge was only useful when it could keep someone alive, and they spent decades translating damaged schematics into practical armor designs. When a subterranean reactor awakened, the research expedition was attacked by autonomous guardians. Shiseth survived only by sealing themself inside an unfinished suit of magitech armor and manually redirecting the reactor's energy through its frame. The armor saved their life, but it also exposed a pattern hidden in the machine's operating language. The reactor was not a relic. It was one node in a network that was slowly restarting across the world. Shiseth now travels as a soldier-scholar, repairing the armor with battlefield salvage while following the network's scattered signals. They joined adventurers because ruins cannot be safely studied from a library, and because every recovered fragment may reveal whether the ancient network can be shut down before it chooses its next target.
“Their specialty was battlefield application, not ancient history for its own sake.”
- Background
- Sage
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Species
Elf
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