Caelion Vaelorath
Caelion Vaelorath
Sheet
AC 14 · HP 75 · 30 ft.Saving throws
Skills
- DeceptionCHA
- HistoryINT
- InsightWIS
- PerceptionWIS
- PersuasionCHA
Armor
Weapons
Tools
Languages
Features
23 featuresAction
- CountercharmLevel 6
You can use an action to play a song that bolsters allies against fear and charm. For 1 minute, friendly creatures who can hear you have advantage on saving throws against being frightened or charmed.
Bonus action
- Bardic InspirationLevel 1
You can inspire others through stirring words or music. As a bonus action, you can give one creature other than yourself one Bardic Inspiration die, a d10. The creature can add it to one ability check, attack roll, or saving throw within 10 minutes. You have 5 uses, regained after a long rest.
Reaction
- Cutting WordsLevel 3
When a creature you can see within 60 feet makes an attack roll, an ability check, or a damage roll, you can use your reaction to expend one use of Bardic Inspiration, subtracting the die from the roll.
Always on
- SpellcastingLevel 1
You can cast bard spells using Charisma as your spellcasting ability.
- Ritual CastingLevel 1
You can use a musical instrument as a spellcasting focus for your bard spells.
- Three Skill ProficienciesLevel 1
You gain proficiency in any three skills of your choice.
- Jack of All TradesLevel 2
You can add half your proficiency bonus, rounded down, to any ability check you make that doesn't already include your proficiency bonus.
- Song of RestLevel 2
You can use a musical performance to help keep allies from losing morale. During a short rest, any friendly creature who can hear your performance regains extra hit points equal to one Bardic Inspiration die.
- Bard CollegeLevel 3
Choose a bard college. You gain its 3rd-level features.
- ExpertiseLevel 3
Your mastery in certain skills deepens. Choose two of your skill proficiencies, your proficiency bonus is doubled for any ability check you make with them.
- Bonus ProficienciesLevel 3
You gain proficiency with three additional skills of your choice.
- Font of InspirationLevel 5
Beginning at 5th level, you regain all expended Bardic Inspiration uses when you finish a short or long rest.
- Additional Magical SecretsLevel 6
You can choose two spells from any class list. They count as bard spells for you and do not count against your number of bard spells known.
- Superior InspirationLevel 10
Your Bardic Inspiration die increases to d10.
- Magical SecretsLevel 10
Choose two more spells from any class list. They count as bard spells for you and do not count against your number of bard spells known.
- TraitHigh ElfAbility Score Increase, your Dexterity score increases by 2 and your Intelligence score increases by 1.
- TraitHigh ElfDarkvision, you can see in dim light within 60 feet of you as if it were bright light, and in darkness as if it were dim light.
- TraitHigh ElfKeen Senses, you have proficiency in the Perception skill.
- TraitHigh ElfFey Ancestry, you have advantage on saving throws against being charmed, and magic can't put you to sleep.
- TraitHigh ElfTrance, you don't need to sleep and can meditate for 4 hours to gain the same benefit a human does from 8 hours of sleep.
- TraitHigh ElfElf Weapon Training, you have proficiency with longswords, shortswords, shortbows, and longbows.
- TraitHigh ElfCantrip, you know one extra cantrip of your choice from the wizard spell list.
- Position of PrivilegeNoble
Due to his noble birth, he is received as an equal among other aristocrats, and he can usually secure an audience with local nobles.
Spells
19 spellsSpellcasting. Caelion Vaelorath casts with Charisma (spell save DC 14, to hit with spell attacks).
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5th level (2 slots): ,
6th level (1 slot): ,
Gear
8 itemsWeapons
- RapierA rapier, elegant and well cared for, carried more as a symbol of rank than a weapon of habit.
- DaggerA dagger with a filigreed pommel, hidden in a sleeve sheath.
Armor
- Leather ArmorLeather armor fitted for agility and travel.
Tools
- LuteA lute of dark rosewood with silver inlay, used as a spellcasting focus.
Gear
- Diplomat's PackA diplomat's pack containing gear for travel, formal presentation, and safe lodging.
- Letter of IntroductionA letter of introduction from his house, still useful in the right circles.
- Fine ClothesA set of fine clothes suited to noble gatherings.
- Signet RingA signet ring from House Vaelorath, worn openly but never explained.
Appearance
An elegant high elf with pale gold skin, sharp cheekbones, and long silver hair worn in a single braided cord threaded with black pearls. He dresses like a minor court savant in midnight velvet, lacquered gloves, and a silver brooch shaped like a broken halo. His lute is etched with faint devotional script, and a subtle air of incense and cold iron follows him wherever he goes.
Mannerisms
He speaks with impeccable courtesy even while threatening someone, and he never raises his voice if a measured phrase will wound more deeply. When thinking, he taps two fingers against his ring as if counting invisible applause.
Personality
Polished, urbane, and chillingly composed, Caelion treats every conversation like a performance in which he already knows the ending. He is charming to allies, devastating to enemies, and privately fascinated by signs of weakness, because he believes weakness reveals what can be remade.
Ideals
Power should belong to those disciplined enough to wield it without hesitation. Mercy is a luxury of the secure, and faith is only worthy when it rewards strength.
Bonds
He will protect the hidden cult and its agents, especially anyone who helped him defect from his family faith. He keeps a signet ring from his house, and one day he intends to use it to ruin or redeem his lineage, though he would never admit which he prefers.
Flaws
He mistakes cynicism for wisdom, and can rationalize almost any cruelty if it serves his patron's rise. He is secretly offended when common folk see through his elegance, and he may overreact to anyone who reminds him of the faith he abandoned.
Quirks
Background
House Vaelorath was raised on old prayers and older pride. As a youth, Caelion was taught that the gods were patrons of civilization, and that the high elf nobility existed to preserve their favor. He served at shrines, sang in marble halls, and was praised for a voice that could make even the most guarded court fall silent. But when a family scandal exposed the cruelty hidden beneath his house's sanctimonious piety, Caelion began to doubt the deity his bloodline had served for centuries. He did not lose faith in divinity, only in mercy. That doubt became devotion when he heard the first whisper of a rising dark god, a power patient enough to reward ambition and cruel enough to deserve it. Caelion forsook his ancestral god in secret, offering his talents, name, and courtly access to the new faith. Now he travels as a bard of refinement and ruin, flattering the powerful, undermining the virtuous, and turning every salon, cathedral, and battlefield hymn toward his patron's ascent. He tells himself he is helping history choose the stronger hand, but in the quiet after applause, he still remembers the taste of the old prayers he spat out.
“As a youth, Caelion was taught that the gods were patrons of civilization, and that the high elf nobility existed to preserve their favor.”
- Background
- Noble
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Species
High Elf
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