Bubu Sh'Bunka
Bubu Sh'Bunka
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AC 15 · HP 46 · 30 ft.Saving throws
Skills
- Animal HandlingWIS
- AthleticsSTR
- IntimidationCHA
- NatureINT
- PerceptionWIS
- SurvivalWIS
Armor
Weapons
Tools
Languages
Features
23 featuresBonus action
- Storm Rage
When When Bubu begins a serious fight
Bubu enters a rage as a bonus action, gaining her rage benefits and activating her storm aura.
- Breaker of Masts
When While raging, as a bonus action
Bubu activates the sea effect of her storm aura. One creature within 10 feet makes a DC 13 Dexterity saving throw, taking 2d6 lightning damage on a failure or half on a success.
- RageLevel 1
Bubu can enter a battle fury as a bonus action. While raging, she has advantage on Strength checks and Strength saving throws, gains a +2 bonus to melee weapon damage using Strength, and has resistance to bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing damage. She can rage three times per long rest, and the rage lasts up to 1 minute if maintained through combat.
- Storm Aura: SeaLevel 3
Whenever Bubu enters a rage, she creates a storm aura extending 10 feet from her until the rage ends. As a bonus action while raging, she can activate the aura's sea effect, forcing one creature of her choice in the aura to make a DC 13 Dexterity saving throw or take 2d6 lightning damage, taking half damage on a success. She can use this effect once per rage.
Always on
- Double Thrust
When When Bubu takes the Attack action while wielding her trident
Bubu makes two melee weapon attacks with her trident, or combines one trident attack with another permitted attack.
- Reckless Lunge
When When she needs to break an enemy's formation
Bubu makes a Strength-based melee attack with advantage, accepting advantage on attacks against her until her next turn.
- Cast the Spear
When When an enemy is out of reach
Bubu can throw her trident at a target within 20 feet, or up to 60 feet with disadvantage.
- Unarmored DefenseLevel 1
While not wearing armor, Bubu's Armor Class equals 10 + her Dexterity modifier + her Constitution modifier. Her shield is included in her current Armor Class.
- Weapon and Armor ProficiencyLevel 1
Bubu is proficient with martial weapons, including her trident, and with shields.
- Reckless AttackLevel 2
On her turn, Bubu can attack recklessly, gaining advantage on Strength-based melee weapon attack rolls that turn, while attack rolls against her have advantage until her next turn.
- Danger SenseLevel 2
Bubu has advantage on Dexterity saving throws against effects she can see, such as traps and spells. She cannot benefit from this feature while blinded, deafened, or incapacitated.
- Primal Path: Storm HeraldLevel 3
Bubu follows the Path of the Storm Herald. Her storm-fueled rage manifests as violent coastal weather and a primal connection to thunder, saltwater, and lightning.
- Extra AttackLevel 5
Bubu can attack twice, instead of once, whenever she takes the Attack action on her turn.
- Fast MovementLevel 5
Bubu's speed increases by 10 feet while she is not wearing heavy armor.
- Ability Score IncreaseHuman (Variant)+1 Strength and +1 Constitution.
- AgeHuman (Variant)Humans reach adulthood in their late teens and commonly live less than a century.
- AlignmentHuman (Variant)Humans tend toward no particular alignment.
- SizeHuman (Variant)Medium.
- SpeedHuman (Variant)30 feet.
- FeatHuman (Variant)Alert. Bubu gains +5 to initiative, cannot be surprised while conscious, and unseen attackers do not gain advantage against her merely for being unseen.
- SkillHuman (Variant)Proficiency in Intimidation.
- LanguagesHuman (Variant)Common and one additional language, here represented by the Tarelos coastal dialect.
- Ship's PassageSailor
Bubu can secure free passage on sailing vessels for herself and her companions, provided she is willing to serve as crew. She knows ships, coastal routes, weather signs, and the practical customs of sailors.
Gear
10 itemsWeapons
- TridentA martial melee weapon chosen in place of the barbarian's greataxe. Bubu uses it one-handed with her shield.
- 2×HandaxeThrown weapons used when closing distance or hunting from shore.
- 4×JavelinA throwing spear suitable for hunting, boarding actions, and coastal defense.
- Belaying pinA sailor's club used as a belaying pin, improvised weapon, and reminder of shipboard labor.
Armor
- Wooden shieldA sturdy round shield acquired from a coastal warband after a wreck. It grants +2 AC when wielded.
Gear
- Explorer's packA compact pack containing bedroll, mess kit, tinderbox, ten torches, ten days of rations, and a waterskin.
- Silk ropeA short length of strong rope with a weighted belaying pin attached.
- Lucky charmA small storm-smoothed shell wrapped in blue thread, carried as a lucky charm.
- Common clothesPlain coastal clothing suitable for travel and shipboard work.
Purse
- 10×Gold piecesMoney remaining from her sailor's starting funds.
Appearance
Bubu is a powerfully built human woman with deep brown skin, broad shoulders, and the corded muscle of a lifelong swimmer and pearl diver. Her black hair is cropped close on one side and gathered into rough salt-stiffened braids on the other. Pale scars mark her wrists and ankles, while a jagged white scar crosses her left eyebrow. She wears layered coastal leathers, a weathered blue sash, a lightning-shaped charm on a cord around her neck, and a wave-shaped iron bracelet. Her trident is nicked from hard use, and her round wooden shield bears a faded spiral representing a storm seen from above.
Mannerisms
Bubu tastes the air before making decisions, especially when rain is coming. She rolls her shoulders like a swimmer preparing to dive, taps the rim of her shield when impatient, and laughs loudly at danger. When angry, she stops blinking and speaks in a calm whisper until the rage breaks through.
Personality
Bubu is fiercely optimistic, treating every sunrise as proof that the world has not beaten her yet. She is generous with food, protective of the frightened, and fascinated by ordinary luxuries such as clean blankets, unlocked doors, and people who sing while working. Beneath that warmth is a sudden, tidal violence that emerges whenever she sees shackles, cages, or someone being cornered.
Ideals
Freedom is not a gift granted by kind rulers. It is something living beings seize, defend, and pass to the next person who needs it.
Bonds
The Tarelos coast is still her home, even if the people there no longer remember her. She will protect anyone trapped behind a locked door, chained wrist, or guarded gate. Her lightning charm belonged to her mother, and losing it would feel like losing the path home.
Flaws
Bubu mistakes captivity for a personal failure and reacts badly to anyone who suggests she was helpless. She is quick to answer cruelty with violence, even when patience would serve her better. She secretly fears that returning home will reveal she has become more comfortable as a weapon than as a daughter.
Quirks
Background
Bubu Sh'Bunka was born among the Tarelos coastal tribes, where children learned to read tides before they learned letters. She became a pearl diver and spear fisher, comfortable beneath black water and beneath skies split by lightning. At fourteen, she swam toward a stranded ship to help its crew, only to be seized by pirates and sold in Dabu'l. For three years she belonged to a wealthy household, where silence was treated as obedience and every locked door became a lesson. Fellow slaves taught her how to move unseen, hide food, recognize guards by their footsteps, and wait for the instant when fear could become action. At seventeen, that instant came. Bubu escaped in a burst of violence that left her hands bleeding and her captors behind her. For six years she has traveled as an outlaw, following coastlines, storms, rumors, and half-remembered stars toward the Tarelos lands. She acquired her trident and shield from a wrecked coastal warband, claiming that the sea had returned them to her. In recent days she joined other adventurers at Fochene Manor, where she roared into a rage against the ravens attacking the High Summermoon Ball, then led the assault on the bandit camp after Amaci Epree's warning. Bari, the bandit leader, died beneath her trident. Bubu now wonders whether every fight on the road is bringing her home, or teaching her how to become something her homeland will fear.
“She became a pearl diver and spear fisher, comfortable beneath black water and beneath skies split by lightning.”
- Background
- Sailor
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Species
Human (Variant)
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