Inquisitor Paroka
Inquisitor Paroka
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AC 14 · HP 143 · 30 ft.Saving throws
Skills
- ArcanaINT
- HistoryINT
- InsightWIS
- InvestigationINT
- PerceptionWIS
- StealthDEX
Armor
Weapons
Tools
Languages
Features
18 featuresBonus action
- Cunning ActionLevel 2
She is trained to slip away from danger with uncanny ease, allowing her to Dash, Disengage, or Hide as a bonus action.
- Eye for DetailLevel 3
Her eyes catch details others miss. She can use a bonus action to make a Wisdom or Intelligence check to inspect a creature or object, gaining advantage in circumstances tied to careful observation and reading concealed behavior.
Always on
- Sneak AttackLevel 1
Paroka has learned to strike where foes are unprepared. Once per turn she deals an extra 10d6 damage to a creature she hits with an attack if she has advantage on the attack roll, or if another enemy of the target is within 5 feet of it and she does not have disadvantage.
- Insightful FightingLevel 3
When she can hear a creature and understand it, she can study its mannerisms and determine whether it is a liar or truthful. If she succeeds on the contest, she can make a special attack that uses Wisdom instead of Dexterity for attack and damage against that target for 1 minute.
- Uncanny DodgeLevel 5
Her reflexes defy ordinary reaction. She can use her reaction to halve the damage from one attack that hits her.
- EvasionLevel 5
When subjected to an effect that allows a Dexterity saving throw for half damage, she takes no damage on a success and only half on a failure.
- Reliable TalentLevel 11
Her mastery of skills is extraordinary. Any ability check she makes with a skill or thieves' tool proficiency she lacks proficiency in uses a minimum d20 roll of 10.
- Steady EyeLevel 9
She has learned to move with remarkable poise and caution. If she remains still or moves no more than half her speed on her turn, she can gain advantage on her next Wisdom Perception check made on that turn.
- Unerring EyeLevel 13
Her vision pierces concealment. She can spend a use of this feature to see through a magical or physical barrier of concealment in a limited area for a short time, revealing hidden creatures and objects.
- Eye for WeaknessLevel 17
Her precision exposes weak points. Once per turn, when she hits a creature with Sneak Attack, that creature has disadvantage on attack rolls against targets other than her until the start of her next turn.
- ElusiveLevel 18
She has learned to avoid even impossible odds. No attack roll has advantage against her while she is not incapacitated, unless she is incapacitated.
- Stroke of LuckLevel 20
Once per short or long rest, she can turn a failed ability check, attack roll, or saving throw into a 20. She can also use this feature to force a hit that deals Sneak Attack damage or to force a successful key maneuver when absolute certainty is required.
- Thieves' CantLevel 1
She understands the secret slang of rogues, thieves, and underworld informants.
- TraitTabaxiDarkvision, 60 ft.
- TraitTabaxiCat's Claws, her claws are natural weapons dealing 1d4 slashing damage and can be used to make unarmed strikes.
- TraitTabaxiCat's Talent, proficiency in Perception and Stealth.
- TraitTabaxiFeline Agility, once per turn she can double her speed for the turn, then cannot use this trait again until she moves 0 feet on one of her turns.
- ResearcherSage
Her years of research have earned her a wide scholarly network. She knows where to find libraries, archives, and experts, and can usually secure access to specialized information by invoking professional courtesy, old favors, or institutional obligations.
Gear
13 itemsWeapons
- RapierA finely balanced blade favored for silent work and precise duels.
- ShortbowA compact bow suited to covert ranged attacks.
- 2×DaggerA pair of concealed backup blades.
- Small knifeA blade kept for utility, ritual, and last resort.
Armor
- Leather armorA suit of supple dark armor tailored for stealth.
Tools
- Thieves' toolsA lockpicking and infiltration kit used for bypassing seals and wards.
Gear
- Quiver of arrowsA bundle of twenty arrows for the shortbow.
- Burglar's packA practical traveling pack containing adventuring supplies.
- Bottle of black inkA field-reference pouch from scholarly work, including black ink.
- QuillA writing implement for notes, reports, and annotations.
- Letter from a dead colleagueA letter from a dead colleague who trusted her judgment.
- Common clothesWell-made official attire for travel or academic use.
Purse
- Pouch of goldA pouch of coins for incidental expenses.
Appearance
Inquisitor Paroka is a Tabaxi woman of lean, lethal elegance, standing 5'10" with the coiled grace of a predator trained to wait. Her fur is a dense, short-cropped coat of smoky charcoal marked with vivid jagged leopard spots of deep obsidian, a pattern that seems to drink in low light. Her face is a sharp triangular mask, framed by tall pointed ears tipped in black, with vertically slitted eyes the color of tarnished gold. Her muzzle is short, her nose black, and her expression is usually a severe, measured line. She wears a sharply tailored deep navy uniform, a crisp white high-collared shirt, black fitted trousers, polished mid-calf boots, and a wide leather belt bearing a ceremonial blade and matte black data-clipboard. Every inch of her presentation is exacting, sterile, and deliberately intimidating.
Mannerisms
She speaks with clipped precision, rarely wastes a word, and lets silence do the work of pressure. When listening, her ears make tiny, constant adjustments as though weighing every sound in the room. She folds her hands behind her back when thinking, taps one claw once against a clipboard when displeased, and turns her head only a few degrees when someone tries to surprise her. In moments of rare irritation, the tip of her tail goes perfectly still.
Personality
Cold, exacting, and relentlessly observant, Paroka treats every interaction like an interview whose outcome already matters. She values competence above charm, evidence above sentiment, and results above promises. She is not openly cruel, but she is utterly unsentimental, and her respect is difficult to earn but nearly impossible to lose once secured.
Ideals
Order is not a luxury, it is the thin barrier between civilization and chaos. Truth must be extracted, classified, and enforced, because lies always become permission for worse lies. She believes mercy is only justified when it preserves a greater stability, and that the strong have a duty to impose structure on the dangerous.
Bonds
The Arcane Containment Directorate is her chosen structure of meaning, and she will not allow its authority to be shamed by incompetence or corruption. She keeps the original case file of her first major investigation, a dossier that exposed a senior official and cost her several allies. She also preserves the letter left by a dead colleague who once trusted her judgment when no one else did. She will bring the truth to light, even if it strips away the last comfortable lie in her life.
Flaws
Paroka confuses certainty with virtue, and when evidence is incomplete she often treats her own conclusions as finished law. She struggles to forgive incompetence, especially in subordinates, and can become chillingly dismissive of anyone she considers emotionally compromised. Her need for control makes her vulnerable to manipulation through procedural necessity, because she will sometimes obey a system she trusts even when her instincts warn her that the system is rotten.
Quirks
Background
Paroka was born with a mind that noticed what other people tried to hide. As a kit, she was already cataloguing patterns, names, and inconsistencies, and the temple archivists who first educated her mistook her cold attention for simple talent. It was not talent alone. It was hunger. She devoured ledgers, case files, and forbidden treatises with the same patience other Tabaxi reserved for stalking prey. When the Arcane Containment Directorate recruited her, they found a creature perfectly shaped by discipline, a scholar who could enter a warded vault, read the residue on a shattered seal, and identify the guilty before the witnesses had finished lying. Her rise through the Directorate was built on three things, precision, discretion, and an almost inhuman refusal to doubt her own verdicts. Paroka learned to move through institutions like a blade through cloth, quiet, efficient, and impossible to ignore once the damage was done. She does not enjoy cruelty, but she accepts it as a legitimate instrument when directed toward order. Over the years she became the Directorate's favored inquisitor for anomalous breaches, political occultism, and cases where evidence had been carefully buried beneath procedure. In the field, she is a hunter. In the office, she is an executioner of forms, reports, and inconvenient truths. She believes the world survives because someone is willing to name what others fear to see, and she has appointed herself that someone.
“She devoured ledgers, case files, and forbidden treatises with the same patience other Tabaxi reserved for stalking prey.”
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