Nei
Lvl 1 Wizard | Changeling | Chaotic Neutral | Charlattan
Combat Stats
Armor Class: 10
Initiative: +2
Hit Points: 7 [1d6]
Speed: 30ft
General Stats
Strength 11 [0]
Dexterity 11 [0]
Constitution 12 [+1]
Intelligence 12 [+1]
Wisdom 7 [-2]
Charisma 18 [+4]
Proficiencies
Proficiency Bonus: +2
Passive Perception: 8
Proficient Saving Throws: Intelligence, Wisdom
Proficient Skills: Deception, Investigation, Medicine, Persuasion, Sleight of Hand, Stealth
Proficient Weapons: Daggers, Darts, Slings, Quarterstaffs, Light Crossbows
Proficient Armor: N/A
Other Proficiencies: Disguise Kit, Forgery Kit
Languages: Common, Undercommon, Dwarven
Attacks & Spellcasting
Dagger, melee| +2 |
1d4 PiercingDagger, thrown| +2 |
1d4 PiercingRay of Frost| 0 |
1d8 ColdWitch Bolt| 0 |
1d12 Lightning
Features
ChangelingChange Appearance: As an action, you can transform your appearance and your
voice.You determine the specifics of the changes, including your coloration, hair length and sex. You can also change your height and weight, but not so much that your size changes. You can make yourself appear as a member of another race, but none of your game statistics change. You can’t duplicate the appearance of a creature you’ve never seen, and you must adopt a form that has the same basic arrangement of limbs that you have. Your clothing and equipment aren’t changed by this trait.
You stay in your new form until you use an action to revert to your new form or until you die.
Changeling Instincts: You gain proficiency with two of the following skills of your choice: Deception, Intimidation, Insight, and Persuasion.
WizardCantrips: At 1st level, you know three cantrips of your choice from the wizard spell list. You learn additional wizard cantrips of your choice at higher levels, as show
Spellbook: Starting at 1st level, you have a spellbook containing six 1st-level wizard spells of your choice.
The spells that you add to your spellbook as you gain levels reflect the arcane research you conduct on your own, as well as intellectual breakthroughs you have had about the nature of the multiverse. You might find other spells during your adventures. You could discover a spell recorded on a scroll in an evil wizard's chest, for example, or in a dusty tome in an ancient library.
Copying a Spell into the Book. When you find a wizard spell of 1st level or higher, you can add it to your spellbook if it is of a level for which you have spell slots and if you can spare the time to decipher and copy it.
Copying a spell into your spellbook involves reproducing the basic form of the spell, then deciphering the unique system of notation used by the wizard who wrote it. You must practice the spell until you understand the sounds or gestures required, then transcribe it into your spellbook using your own notation.
For each level of the spell, the process takes 2 hours and costs 50 gp. The cost represents material components you expend as you experiment with the spell to master it, as well as the fine inks you need to record it. Once you have spent this time and money, you can prepare the spell just like your other spells.
Replacing the Book. You can copy a spell from your own spellbook into another book-for example, if you want
to make a backup copy of your spellbook. This is just like copying a new spell into your spellbook, but faster and easier, since you understand your own notation and already know how to cast the spell. You need spend only 1 hour and 10 gp for each level of the copied spell.
If you lose your spellbook, you can use the same procedure to transcribe the spells that you have prepared into a new spellbook. Filling out the remainder of your spellbook requires you to find new spells to do so, as normal. For this reason, many wizards keep backup spellbooks in a safe place.
The Book's Appearance. Your spellbook is a unique compilation of spells, with its own decorative flourishes and margin notes. It might be a plain, functional leather volume that you received as a gift from your master, a finely bound gilt-edged tome you found in an ancient library or even a loose collection of notes scrounged together after you lost your previous spellbook in a mishap.
Ritual Casting: You can cast a wizard spell as a ritual if that spell has the ritual tag and you have the spell in your spellbook. You don't need to have the spell prepared.
Spellcasting Focus: You can use an arcane focus as a spellcasting focus for your wizard spells.
Arcane Recovery: You have learned to regain some of your magical energy by studying your spellbook. Once per day when you finish a short rest, you can choose expended spell slots to recover. The spell slots can have a combined level that is equal to or less than half your wizard level (rounded up), and none of the slots can be 6th level or higher.
CharlatanFalse Identity: You have created a second identity that includes documentation, established acquaintances, and disguises that allow you to assume that persona. Additionally, you can forge documents including official papers and personal letters, as long as you have seen an example of the kind of document or the handwriting you are trying to copy.
Spells
Cantrips (at will):
Ray of Frost, Friends, Prestidigitation1st level (2):
Find Familiar [Ritual], Mage Armor, Charm Person, Sleep, Identify [Ritual], Witch Bolt
Personality
Personality TraitsBoot-Licker- I will sing praises, I will worship whatever you desire, I will eat grass if you serve it to me on a plate and call it gourmet cuisine, all to earn your favor. The only thing I will not do is harm others, as that would make it harder to get their favor in turn.
Dedicated- If I commit to doing something, I will do it without a fault. I shall persist in the face of failure, but of course will try to adapt and learn from my mistakes. If there is no way to fix my failure, then I shall find a way to atone.
Trickster- Trickery and subterfuge is my go-to solution to conflict. I don't mind playing dirty, and especially when confronted I will hide in a web of lies, hoping that if I just make it dense enough I can keep the danger away. Until then, keep a smile on your face, remain invisible, unless your role requires you do otherwise.
Collector- Albeit not excessively or compulsively, Nei likes to collect many different things, including scraps from magical research, torn book pages, old toys and various other things. She especially likes things that remind her of herself, or the opposite, which are adaptable to different roles she might come to wear.
IdealsReliability- It is those you can count on who are really worth keeping around you. Nomatter what you do, if you can't at least live up to the expectations of those you deal with, then what's the point of you? And if you betray those you owe, then certainly you are the lowest kind of scum.
Lawless- The law is a trade and breaking it is an investment. You give up freedom for security, and you incur a risk to earn something when you lose that security. Neither one is more valid, but neither gets to complain about their choices either.
Affection- Bliss is to have people who truly care for you, who will be there for you nomatter what. If you want that happiness, you need to work for it, and if others give you a bit of it, you better show gratitude for such an act.
BondsLord- The only friend I ever had for long ever since I was a child, who stuck with me throughout my childhood. It seems other people can't hear him though, which is kind of weird, but he doesn't mind, he's a cool guy. He even casts spells for me!
Dain Fireforge- This kindly wizard is the dwarf that took me in after I was chased out of my hometown and even aided me in getting my own occupation. He also was my first real introduction to magic, and Lord's too. I really miss him, but I also understand I was such a bother to him back then that he probably doesn't want to see me again. Still, I'll show him what gratitude I can by at least taking the job he managed to find for me with all my heart!
The Little Hut- My own little home, earned by my own means (albeit with a little help), one of the few places where I feel safely being myself...if I even know who "I" am anymore.
FlawsNaiveté- My knowledge and understanding of other people is very limited and thus I’m easily tricked and have trouble understanding people truly, despite my efforts at researching the matter.
Shameless- For my ultimate goal of attaining affection for myself, no depth is too low. Whether it be committing crimes for someone or resorting to brainwashing, I will do whatever it takes to get people to like me. Because of my obsession, I can lose sight of where the boundaries are normally supposed to be around other people, and my sense of shame is next to non-existent.
Low Self-Esteem- I hold myself in very low regard, and thus don’t believe I am truly capable of doing great things on my own. Each failure only furthers how mentally dependent I am of others.
HistoryEven disregarding Nei's pale appearance, the trauma was too much for Nei's mother embrace motherhood. She was a fickle, noble woman who fell for the charms of the first soft-spoken guy weighing less than their horse who put moves on her. She had, after all, been pampered all her life, how was this any different? But pregnancy was an arduous process, and birthing more painful than anything she could conceive of. Just the thought of keeping around the
creature that caused her so much pain was beyond her. With some coins to hire a nanny, Nei and her father were kicked out, lucky enough that their true species was not outted.
Nei's father, however, while willing to raise the child out of a sense of guilt was never one for commitment. He left Nei to a competent nanny who was too well-known, and thus often times too busy looking after a herd of children to give special attention to any single one. Changelings age fast though, and as such Nei's father would soon come to stop leaving her in the care of a nanny, or anyone's for that matter.
Despite his nature, her father was an honest and honorable person. He repaid favors, refused to outright lie and more often than not attempted to keep to the spirit of things. The person he was the most honest to was himself, thus he lived a life of hedonism as he pleased, but the second person he was most honest to was without a doubt Nei. Never once did he bother sugarcoating things for her, albeit he never attempted to be harsh either. He brought her food, he answered her questions, he tried teaching her a few things even. Always straight, always direct, always so distant. She didn't even know how to express it. Sometimes her father came back and was a she, and Nei was confused, but she didn't really know how to tell him, what was wrong exactly?
During this time, her only friend was Lord, a stuffed dragon she received from her father, as even her trips out only resulted in her finding out how much her normal appearance weirded people out. One day, however, her father asked her to come with him after he came home. He had her infiltrate a birthday party, telling Nei strictly that nomatter what, they couldn’t find out she was a changeling while she was there. Albeit just barely, Nei was able to do as told, and her father congratulated her on proving she could be independent.
Nei was so happy for the praise that she never realized what it actually meant, until she noticed her father was gone the next day.
It seemed her outings had led to rumors spreading of a changeling being in town. As beings who can copy the appearance of others, changelings naturally cause suspicion and paranoia where they go, as anyone could be them. As a result of the tightening environment, her father had opted to leave as soon as he could have, for himself. some reassurance that Nei would be able to be on her own as a changeling.
As any child in her position would, she immediately proceeded to attempt to find her father, futile though she, deep down, knew it was. She didn’t forget to wear a form as a disguise, but (fearing it might appear too odd to see someone suddenly and without reason running around frantically) she opted to shift shape periodically. This backfired, leading people to realize she was a changeling and pursuing her. Although she managed to get away, Nei had been chased out of her hometown.
She was discovered by a kindly wizard dwarf, who sought her for her abilities as a changeling. The dwarf took Nei in, under the condition that she took the form of a certain child in a portrait he showed her. Times were happy for a while, but over time the wizard closed themselves off more and more in their own chambers, even as Nei became more increasingly clingy. After they had a fight in which she was called a ‘pest’, in which Nei realized she had been a bother to the dwarf (albeit she was unable to understand why), he proposed she find some form of job. Nei, however, knew very little of the ways of the world, and so the dwarf aided her in finding a profession with some of his connections.
What Nei sold was a dream, a lie, to those who wanted to deceive themselves or their families. She would take the role of an unfulfilled crush or of missing or even dead loved ones. She would stand-in for people who did menial work and on rare occasions go to a duel on someone’s behalf (and inevitably take a beating). While at such a job, she attempted to understand what could make people finally like having her around, but she soon learned not to reveal her true nature. She grew more and more desperate...
Eventually, she moved out of the dwarf’s home and onto a small hut of her own, partially subsidized by her former caretaker. Once alone, the shame and fear of repercussion for more extreme methods of finding ‘friends’ was greatly lowered, and little by little, she began exploring paths for it, from medicine to (most recently) magic. She's furnished with little bits of a collection she began piling up, including some old basic magic tomes. Learning the "Prestidigitation" cantrip allowed her to convince many of her clients she was simply a wizard under an illusion, thus thwarting more panic due to her being a changeling.
She was recently contacted by a local prodigal sorcerer who wished to hire her to go to a meeting at a certain tavern while taking her shape, and conducting whatever business the other party wanted in her stead.
Equipment
PP0
GP12
EP0
SP10
CP50
-Dagger
-Disguise Kit
-1 Con Tool:
(sold) Set of Fine Clothes ----> 1 Costume, 1 Set of Traveller's Clothes, 3 Sets of Common Clothes, 1 Robe, 2 Sack, 1 Backpack
-Lord, a stuffed dragon.
-Spellbook
-Forged Documentation
-3 days worth of rations
*Scholar's Pack
-Backpack
-
Accidents and Curiosities of Western Faerûn, Vol 3 (Book of Lore)
-Bottle of Ink
-Ink Pen
-10 Sheets of Parchment
-Little Bag of Sand
-Small Knife
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