Lysandra
Lysandra
Sheet
AC 14 · HP 163 · 30 ft.Saving throws
Skills
- AcrobaticsDEX
- ArcanaINT
- DeceptionCHA
- HistoryINT
- InsightWIS
- PerceptionWIS
- PerformanceCHA
- PersuasionCHA
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Features
32 featuresAlways on
- SpellcastingLevel 1
Lysandra can weave magic through speech, gesture, and artistry. She learns bard spells, prepares nothing, and casts using Charisma.
- Bardic InspirationLevel 1
She can inspire allies with a die of d12. A creature can add this die to one ability check, attack roll, or saving throw it makes within 10 minutes. Uses equal Charisma modifier per long rest.
- Bonus ProficienciesLevel 1
She gains proficiency in two skills of her choice.
- Jack of All TradesLevel 2
She can add half her proficiency bonus, rounded down, to any ability check that does not already include proficiency.
- Song of RestLevel 2
She can use song, rhythm, or recitation to help wounded allies recover extra hit points during a short rest.
- ExpertiseLevel 3
She gains expertise in two skills of her choice, doubling her proficiency bonus for those skills.
- College of CreationLevel 3
She joins the College of Creation, learning to shape wonder into being.
- Mote of PotentialLevel 3
She can inspire a creature to create a mote of potential. The next time it rolls a die for an ability check, attack roll, or saving throw, it can roll the Bardic Inspiration die and choose to add the result or use the mote's special benefit.
- Performance of CreationLevel 3
She can use a performance to create an object of nonmagical, Medium or smaller size out of no more than a cubic foot of material, following the feature's limitations.
- Ability Score ImprovementLevel 4
She gains an ability score improvement or feat.
- Font of InspirationLevel 5
She regains all uses of Bardic Inspiration on a short or long rest, and can keep one use in reserve after initiative rolls when appropriate.
- CountercharmLevel 6
She can use words and music to disrupt fear and charm effects on allies nearby.
- Magical SecretsLevel 10
She gains a magical secret, adding spells from any class to her spell list.
- ExpertiseLevel 10
She gains expertise in two additional skills of her choice.
- Animating PerformanceLevel 6
She can animate one nonmagical Large or smaller object into a dancing construct that helps her in battle until reduced to 0 hit points or dismissed.
- Magical SecretsLevel 14
She gains another magical secret, widening her mastery beyond bardic tradition.
- Bardic Inspiration ImprovementLevel 10
Her Bardic Inspiration die becomes a d10, and she can inspire more often as her legend grows.
- Bardic Inspiration ImprovementLevel 15
Her Bardic Inspiration die becomes a d12.
- Superior InspirationLevel 15
Her Bardic Inspiration die becomes a d12 and can be used more freely in battle as her mastery deepens.
- Magical SecretsLevel 18
She gains a final magical secret, allowing her to pluck one more impossible truth from beyond the bardic tradition.
- Superior InspirationLevel 20
Her Bardic Inspiration refreshes whenever she rolls initiative and has no uses remaining.
- Ability Score ImprovementLevel 8
She gains one more ability score improvement or feat.
- Ability Score ImprovementLevel 12
She gains one more ability score improvement or feat.
- Ability Score ImprovementLevel 16
She gains one more ability score improvement or feat.
- Ability Score ImprovementLevel 19
She gains one more ability score improvement or feat.
- Creative CrescendoLevel 14
She can create a powerful performance that inspires allies and overwhelms foes with impossible artistry.
- TraitElfDarkvision
- TraitElfFey Ancestry
- TraitElfTrance
- TraitElfKeen Senses
- TraitElfElf Weapon Training
- ResearcherSage
If Lysandra does not know a piece of lore, she usually knows where and from whom it can be learned. She can often locate hidden libraries, scholarly contacts, or forgotten records relevant to a topic.
Spells
29 spellsSpellcasting. Lysandra casts with Charisma (spell save DC 19, to hit with spell attacks).
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2nd level (3 slots): , ,
3rd level (3 slots): , , ,
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5th level (3 slots): , , ,
6th level (2 slots): ,
7th level (2 slots): ,
8th level (1 slot):
9th level (1 slot): no spells
Gear
5 itemsGear
- Book of LoreA well-used scholarly tome, chosen as her focus and favored possession.
- Set of fine clothesA set of fine clothes suitable for travel and civic society.
- Belt pouchA belt pouch containing 15 gp from her scholarly work and travel stipend.
- Scholar's Pack and background gearA bottle of ink, ink pen, a small knife, a letter from a dead colleague, and a suit of common clothes assembled from her sage background.
- Research folioA collection of copied notes, city clippings, and reference cards tied with ribbon.
Appearance
Lysandra is a tall high elf with a lithe, athletic build and an ethereal, precise beauty. Her skin is pale ivory, her cheekbones sharp, her nose narrow and elegant, and her silver-white hair falls to the middle of her back like moonlit snow. Her crystalline blue eyes are keen and analytical, often giving the impression that she is silently annotating the world around her. She favors practical, understated clothing in dark trousers, pale shirts, and well-made layers with many pockets for notebooks and papers. She always carries a well-worn book, often held as if it were both shield and instrument, and wears simple silver hoops at the tips of her ears.
Mannerisms
She pauses before speaking as if selecting the exact right word from a private archive. When thinking, she lightly taps the edge of her book with one finger. She makes eye contact with quiet intensity, then glances aside only after she has fully recorded a person's expression. She is precise with her hands, even when turning a page or folding a note.
Personality
Quietly incisive, disciplined, and surprisingly warm once trust is earned. Lysandra speaks carefully, rarely wasting words, and prefers observation before judgment. She is patient with questions, impatient with arrogance, and deeply moved by unexpected acts of kindness. Her humor is dry, her standards are high, and her curiosity is inexhaustible.
Ideals
Truth, not tradition, deserves loyalty. Knowledge should be shared, tested, and used to make the world more honest and more beautiful. Wonder is not a luxury, it is a form of resistance.
Bonds
She keeps a private archive of letters, field notes, and unfinished essays about the people who helped her build a life beyond exile. She is fiercely protective of a small, hidden collection of books rescued from neglect, and she intends to one day return to her enclave as a guest, not a supplicant, with proof that its narrow doctrines were never the full shape of elven greatness.
Flaws
Lysandra can become so absorbed in proving a point that she forgets to notice when a conversation has turned personal, dangerous, or simply unkind. She is slow to trust institutions, especially those that claim tradition is enough reason to obey. When afraid, she hides behind precision, correction, and cold politeness, which can make her seem distant even when she is trying desperately to care.
Quirks
Background
Lysandra was born in a secluded elven enclave where memory was treated as law and tradition as a sacred chain. Her family served as archivists and keepers of lineage, and from an early age she was expected to preserve the old truths without question. She learned quickly, read obsessively, and asked the kind of dangerous questions that made elders narrow their eyes. The more she studied, the more she saw that her people mistook repetition for wisdom. She left before that certainty could become her own cage, taking only a few books, a satchel of notes, and a vow to discover whether truth could survive outside the walls that had guarded it for centuries. In the city of Atrix Isle, she found an answering world, loud, strange, and alive with invention. There she discovered that knowledge need not sit still in a vault. It could be sung into being, argued over in taverns, copied by lamplight, or shaped into wonder with a word and a gesture. Her work as a freelance writer grew naturally from that revelation. She began chronicling civic scandals, lost histories, and the quiet heroics of ordinary people. As a College of Creation bard, she treats language as architecture and story as craft. Where others perform with lute or flute, Lysandra performs with page and voice, making books, ideas, and impossible shapes answer her call. She now travels with a scholar's curiosity and an artist's defiance, determined to prove that imagination can be every bit as real as steel.
“Her family served as archivists and keepers of lineage, and from an early age she was expected to preserve the old truths without question.”
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