varek valthoren
varek valthoren
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AC 11 · HP 26 · 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
Weapons
Tools
Languages
Features
16 featuresBonus action
- Font of MagicLevel 2
Varek has a wellspring of magic represented by 6 sorcery points. He can convert sorcery points into spell slots or sacrifice spell slots to regain sorcery points as a bonus action.
- Dragon WingsLevel 14
Varek can use a bonus action to spend 1 sorcery point and gain a flying speed of 30 feet for 1 hour. He cannot use this feature while wearing armor.
Reaction
- Careful Spell
When When casting a spell that forces other creatures to make a saving throw
Varek can cast a spell as a reaction with the chosen spell's normal casting time and range, but he must spend 1 sorcery point and can affect only one creature with the spell.
Always on
- Subtle Spell
When When casting a spell
Varek can cast a spell without verbal or somatic components by spending 1 sorcery point.
- SpellcastingLevel 1
Varek is a 6th-level spellcaster. Charisma is his spellcasting ability. He can use an arcane focus or component pouch as a spellcasting focus and knows five sorcerer cantrips and seven sorcerer spells.
- MetamagicLevel 3
Varek knows two Metamagic options, allowing him to alter the casting of spells by spending sorcery points. He knows Careful Spell and Subtle Spell.
- Ability Score ImprovementLevel 4
Varek gains an Ability Score Improvement. The supplied ability scores remain unchanged because no improvement was specified.
- Draconic ResilienceLevel 1
Varek's draconic origin grants him an affinity with one damage type. He has chosen lightning. He can speak, read, and write Draconic, and he gains resistance to lightning damage. He also gains one additional hit point at each sorcerer level.
- Draconic Resilience: Natural ArmorLevel 1
Varek's natural armor is reinforced by draconic magic, giving him an Armor Class of 13 plus his Dexterity modifier when he is not wearing armor. This feature does not stack with a higher AC calculation, so his current AC is 11 from the requested unarmored calculation.
- TraitElfDarkvision, Varek can see in dim light within 60 feet as if it were bright light, and in darkness as if it were dim light. He cannot see color in darkness, only shades of gray.
- TraitElfKeen Senses, Varek is proficient in the Perception skill.
- TraitElfFey Ancestry, Varek has advantage on saving throws against being charmed, and magic cannot put him to sleep.
- TraitElfTrance, Varek meditates deeply for 4 hours instead of sleeping and gains the same benefit a human gains from 8 hours of sleep.
- TraitElfElf Weapon Training, Varek is proficient with the longsword, shortsword, shortbow, and longbow.
- TraitElfDraconic Bloodline, Varek's sorcerous origin manifests as faint draconic scales, lightning resistance, and the ability to speak Draconic.
- ResearcherSage
When Varek does not know a piece of information, he usually knows where and from whom that information can be obtained. He can locate libraries, archives, scholars, sages, or other sources of obscure knowledge, though the information may require payment, favors, or further investigation.
Spells
13 spellsSpellcasting. varek valthoren casts with Charisma (spell save DC 13, to hit with spell attacks).
Cantrips (at will): , , , , ,
1st level (4 slots): , ,
2nd level (3 slots): , ,
3rd level (3 slots):
Gear
10 itemsWeapons
- Light crossbowA light crossbow suitable for ranged attacks, with a simple wooden stock and iron fittings.
Tools
- Small knifeA small knife used for cutting parchment, sharpening quills, and practical camp tasks.
Gear
- 20×Crossbow boltsAmmunition for the light crossbow.
- Component pouchA leather pouch containing the material components needed for Varek's spells.
- Explorer's packA pack containing a bedroll, mess kit, tinderbox, torches, rations, waterskin, and other travel supplies.
- InkA small glass bottle of black ink used for copying and annotating texts.
- QuillA sharpened writing instrument made from a dark feather.
- Letter from a dead colleagueAn unfinished letter from Varek's missing mentor, written in hurried and cryptic script.
- Common clothesPlain scholarly clothing suitable for travel and research.
Purse
- PouchMoney inherited from his academic work and travel stipend.
Appearance
Varek is a lean male elf with silver-white hair worn in a loose braid, angular features, pale bronze skin, and luminous green eyes flecked with gold. Fine draconic scales shimmer faintly along his collarbone and temples when his magic stirs. He dresses in layered scholar's robes beneath a weathered traveling cloak, with a crystal focus suspended from a leather cord around his neck.
Mannerisms
Varek pauses before answering ordinary questions, as though consulting an invisible index. When excited, he traces diagrams in the air with one finger, and when angry, his voice drops into a calm whisper while nearby flames burn blue.
Personality
Varek is soft-spoken, curious, and unfailingly polite, but his attention is easily captured by any unanswered question. He prefers careful observation to bravado, yet his confidence becomes startlingly intense when discussing magic, dragons, or lost civilizations. He keeps meticulous notes, despite routinely misplacing the notebooks in which he writes them.
Ideals
Knowledge should illuminate the world, not belong to a privileged few. Every secret has the potential to save a life, if it is placed in the right hands.
Bonds
Varek carries his mentor's unfinished letter and refuses to believe the old scholar is dead. He is also determined to protect the observatory that raised him, even if doing so requires exposing its secrets to the world.
Flaws
Varek is so determined to uncover hidden truths that he treats warnings as invitations. He can become condescending toward people who dismiss obscure knowledge, and he sometimes risks the safety of companions rather than abandon a promising mystery.
Quirks
Background
Varek Valthoren was raised in an elven observatory built into the cliffs above a storm-wracked coast. His family served as keepers of celestial charts and ancient magical records, and Varek showed little talent for disciplined wizardry. Instead, magic answered him emotionally. A frightened thought could make candles flare, while a burst of anger once cracked every window in the observatory. His elders eventually recognized the unmistakable signs of sorcerous power, but they could not agree on its origin. Varek became convinced that a fragment of draconic magic slept within his bloodline, inherited from an ancestor who had bargained with a forgotten dragon. Seeking proof, Varek studied under historians, astronomers, and occult scholars, earning the reputation of an absent-minded but relentless sage. His research uncovered references to a vanished dragon called Aesthyr, whose hoard was said to contain memories rather than gold. When Varek's mentor disappeared while pursuing that legend, the elf inherited a single unfinished letter and a warning to stop searching. Varek ignored the warning. He now travels as an adventurer, combining scholarly investigation with raw arcane power, determined to learn whether his magic is a gift, a curse, or the first breath of something ancient awakening inside him.
“His family served as keepers of celestial charts and ancient magical records, and Varek showed little talent for disciplined wizardry.”
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Elf
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