Marcelline Qazbek
Marcelline Qazbek
Sheet
AC 12 · HP 121 · 30 ft.Saving throws
Skills
- AcrobaticsDEX
- Animal HandlingWIS
- ArcanaINT
- AthleticsSTR
- DeceptionSTR
- HistoryINT
- InsightWIS
- InvestigationINT
- MedicineWIS
- NatureWIS
- PerceptionWIS
- PerformanceCHA
- PersuasionCHA
- ReligionINT
- Sleight of HandDEX
- StealthDEX
- SurvivalCHA
Weapons
Languages
Features
22 featuresReaction
- Emergency Deflection
When She is hit by an attack or fails a saving throw.
She snaps a protective ward into place, gaining +2 AC against an attack or +4 to a failed saving throw.
Always on
- Magical Hands
When A hostile creature approaches or threatens a patient.
Marcelline conjures spectral hands that strike or shove a nearby enemy, dealing force damage and manipulating objects with surgical precision.
- Arcane Intercession
When An enemy damages an ally she is protecting.
She brands a creature with a glowing sigil that punishes it when it harms one of her chosen allies.
- SpellcastingLevel 1
Marcelline can cast wizard spells using Intelligence as her spellcasting ability. She has a spellbook containing her known wizard spells and can prepare a number of wizard spells equal to her Intelligence modifier plus her wizard level.
- Arcane RecoveryLevel 1
Marcelline can recover expended spell slots of a combined level of 10 or less during a short rest once per day.
- Arcane Tradition, War MagicLevel 2
Marcelline has chosen the School of War Magic. She has learned the Arcane Deflection and Tactical Wit features.
- Arcane DeflectionLevel 2
When Marcelline is hit by an attack or fails a saving throw, she can use her reaction to gain +2 AC against that attack or +4 to that saving throw. Until the end of her next turn, she can cast only cantrips.
- Tactical WitLevel 2
Marcelline adds her Intelligence modifier to initiative rolls.
- Power SurgeLevel 6
Marcelline can copy a wizard spell into her spellbook at half the normal time and gold cost when the spell belongs to the abjuration, evocation, or necromancy schools.
- Power Surge, Expanded UseLevel 6
Marcelline can store up to her Intelligence modifier in power surges. When she deals damage with a wizard spell, she can expend one surge to deal extra force damage equal to half her wizard level.
- Durable MagicLevel 10
When Marcelline uses Arcane Deflection, she can cause a creature she can see within 60 feet to take force damage equal to half her wizard level.
- Durable MagicLevel 10
While concentrating on a wizard spell, Marcelline gains +2 AC and +2 to all saving throws.
- Deflecting ShroudLevel 14
Marcelline can add her Intelligence modifier to one damage roll of any wizard spell she casts.
- Deflecting ShroudLevel 14
When Marcelline uses Arcane Deflection, she can deal force damage to up to three creatures she can see within 60 feet, with each creature taking force damage equal to half her wizard level.
- TraitVariant HumanAbility Score Increase, +1 Intelligence and +1 Wisdom.
- TraitVariant HumanAge, humans reach adulthood in their late teens and commonly live less than a century.
- TraitVariant HumanAlignment, humans tend toward no particular alignment.
- TraitVariant HumanSize, Medium.
- TraitVariant HumanSpeed, 30 feet.
- TraitVariant HumanFeat, Healer.
- TraitVariant HumanSkill Versatility, proficiency in Insight.
- ResearcherSage, medical scholar
If Marcelline does not know a piece of information, she usually knows where and from whom it can be obtained. Her old tutors, hospital contacts, mine officials, and fellow researchers can provide obscure lore, introductions, or access to libraries and laboratories.
Spells
28 spellsSpellcasting. Marcelline Qazbek casts with Intelligence (spell save DC 19, to hit with spell attacks).
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Gear
7 itemsWeapons
- DaggerA dagger balanced for throwing and close defense.
Gear
- WandA plain wooden wand used as an arcane focus and marked with anatomical diagrams.
- SpellbookA leather-bound spellbook containing Marcelline's prepared and learned wizard spells.
- Component pouchA pouch containing bat guano, powdered iron, pearl dust, thread, chalk, and other spell components.
- Scholar's packA pack containing a bedroll, mess kit, tinderbox, ten torches, ten days of rations, waterskin, and fifty feet of hempen rope.
- Pearl carbonation jarA small jar of crushed pearls, used to carbonate wine and occasionally as a spell component.
- Bernard's watch badgeA folded watch badge belonging to Bernard Veshar.
Appearance
Marcelline Qazbek is a young human woman with light skin, almond-shaped blue eyes, and short, wavy copper-colored hair combed back from her forehead. Smallpox scars mark both cheeks. She wears a white kimono with open shoulders over a gray halter bodysuit, although the kimono is stained with travel dust, old herbs, and blood. A simple brown corset serves as her belt, with plain brown forearm braces, dark leather pants, and long boots. Numerous rings and earrings glitter against her otherwise practical clothing. A half-mask covers her chin and cheeks, partly concealing her scars and giving her a cool, clinical appearance. Her spellbook is wrapped in oilcloth and kept close to her ribs, while a pearl-filled wine jar hangs beside it.
Mannerisms
She checks people's pupils while they speak, straightens medical supplies into exact rows, and touches the rim of her half-mask whenever Bernard is mentioned. She addresses injured people in a calm, almost parental tone, then becomes visibly irritated when they refuse instructions. Before casting a protective spell, she flexes her fingers as though washing invisible blood from them.
Personality
Marcelline is observant, dryly humorous, and relentlessly practical. She remembers symptoms, family histories, and the exact location of every useful herb within a day's travel. Her kindness is genuine but often delivered as an order. She dislikes theatrical heroism, wasted supplies, and anyone who treats healing as an act of weakness. Beneath her controlled demeanor is a woman terrified of helplessness, especially the helplessness she felt in the cave where Bernard died.
Ideals
Competence is mercy. A healer has no right to demand gratitude, but does have a duty to know enough to keep people alive.
Bonds
Bernard Veshar's old watch badge is sewn inside her corset. She will protect wounded travelers, abused patients, and anyone abandoned by a richer or more powerful person. She also feels responsible for proving that her expensive education was not wasted.
Flaws
When frightened, Marcelline becomes controlling and quietly patronizing. She gives orders disguised as medical advice, assumes refusal is proof of ignorance, and becomes especially cold toward people who decline her help. She is also capable of staying calm in front of gore while panicking at the possibility that someone might die because she made an imperfect decision.
Quirks
Background
Marcelline Qazbek was born into a wealthy human family whose mine produced a fortune in silver and pale blue gemstones. Her parents purchased her admission to a prestigious wizarding academy, where her tuition was quietly supported by grants renewed for the entire duration of her studies. She was never the brilliant prodigy they hoped to display at dinner, but she was diligent, precise, and unusually interested in the boundary between magic and bodily suffering. Her average grades concealed a talent for abjuration, anatomical theory, and the practical use of magical hands to restrain, stabilize, and protect the injured. She graduated with a respectable spellbook, a bruised pride, and a firm decision to become a traveling healer rather than return to the family estate. During her first years on the road, Marcelline became engaged to Bernard Veshar, a watchman and warrior whose patience balanced her controlling habits. Their adventuring party was ambushed by cannibals and paralyzed with a drugged ritual. Marcelline survived by forcing a minor ward through her own failing nerves. Bernard did not. She found him in a cave chamber, hanged upside down like a butchered pig, his throat and wrists cut, his blood drained into clay bowls. Since then, healing has become both vocation and accusation. She travels from village to village offering aid, studying poisons and paralysis, and quietly collecting every rumor about the cannibal band that killed him. She insists that she is seeking justice, not revenge, but she has stopped correcting people who confuse the two.
“She graduated with a respectable spellbook, a bruised pride, and a firm decision to become a traveling healer rather than return to the family estate.”
- Background
- Sage, medical scholar
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Species
Variant Human
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