Fey Touched

Your exposure to the Feywild's magic has changed you, granting you the following benefits:

• Increase your Intelligence, Wisdom, or Charisma by 1, to a maximum of 20.
• You learn the misty step spell and one 1st-level spell of your choice. The 1st-level spell must be from the divination or enchantment school of magic. You can cast each of these spells without expending a spell slot. Once you cast either of these spells in this way, you can't cast that spell in this way again until you finish a long rest. You can also cast these spells using spell slots you have of the appropriate level. The spells' spellcasting ability is the ability increased by this feat.

SPECIAL: also granted the Elf Trance feature.

Gift of the Metallic Dragon

🔮 Spellcasting

Bastion is a 14th-level spellcaster. His spellcasting ability is Intelligence (spell save DC 18, +10 to hit with spell attacks). He regains spell slots after finishing a long rest. He knows the following Wizard spells:

Wizard Spellbook

• Cantrip: Ray of Frost, Mending, Green-Flame Blade, Booming Blade, Weapon's True Strike (5.5)
• 1st Level (4): Ice Knife, Tenser's Floating Disk, Identify, Shield, Magic Missile, Ray of Sickness, Witch Bolt, Unseen Servant, Find Familiar, Detect Magic
• 2nd Level (3): Shadow Balde, Scorching Ray, Gust of Wind, Melf's Acid Arrow, Mirror Image
• 3rd Level (3): Hypnotic Pattern, Haste, Glyph of Warding, Gaseous Form, Dispel Magic, Counterspell, Remove Curse, Fly
• 4th Level (3): Polymorph, Sickening Radiance, Dweomerflow
• 5th Level (2): Steel Wind Strike, Skill Empowerment, Teleportation Circle
• 6th Level (1): Contingency, Soul Cage
• 7th Level (1): Mordenkainen's Magnificient Mansion, Simulacrum

2014 All Spells, and Homebrew Allowed in Dierde

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Feats & Spellcasting

Quick Build

You can make a wizard quickly by following these suggestions. First, Intelligence should be your highest ability score, followed by Constitution or Dexterity. If you plan to join the School of Enchantment, make Charisma your next-best score. Second, choose the sage background. Third, choose the mage hand, light, and ray of frost cantrips, along with the following 1st-level spells for your spellbook: burning hands, charm person, feather fall, mage armor, magic missile, and sleep.

Your Spellbook

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.

A spellbook doesn't contain cantrips.

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 spell level you can prepare 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.

Copying from a Spell Scroll. A wizard spell on a spell scroll can be copied just as spells in spellbooks can be copied. When you copy a spell from a spell scroll, you must succeed on an Intelligence (Arcana) check with a DC equal to 10 + the spell's level. If the check succeeds, the spell is successfully copied. Whether the check succeeds or fails, the spell scroll is destroyed.

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.

Training in War and Song (Bladesinging)

When you adopt this tradition at 2nd level, you gain proficiency with light armor, and you gain proficiency with one type of one-handed melee weapon of your choice.

You also gain proficiency in the Performance skill if you don't already have it.

Bladesong

Starting at 2nd level, you can invoke a secret elven magic called the Bladesong, provided you aren't wearing medium or heavy armor or using a shield. It graces you with supernatural speed, agility, and focus.

You can use a bonus action to start the Bladesong, which lasts for 1 minute. It ends early if you are incapacitated, if you don medium or heavy armor or a shield, or if you use two hands to make an attack with a weapon. You can also dismiss Bladesong at any time you choose (no action required).

While your bladesong is active, you gain the following benefits:

• You gain a bonus to your AC equal to your Intelligence modifier (minimum of +1).
• Your walking speed increases by 10 feet.
• You have advantage on Dexterity (Acrobatics) checks.
• You gain a bonus to any Constitution saving throws you make to maintain concentration on a spell. The bonus equals your Intelligence modifier (minimum of +1).

You can use this feature a number of times equal to your proficiency bonus, and you regain all expended uses of it when you finish a long rest.

Extra Attack

Starting at 6th level, you can attack twice, instead of once, whenever you take the Attack action on your turn. Moreover, you can cast one of your cantrips in place of one of those attacks.

Song of Defense

Beginning at 10th level, you can direct your magic to absorb damage while your bladesong is active. When you take damage, you can use your reaction to expend one spell slot and reduce that damage to you by an amount equal to five times the spell's slot level.

Song of Victory

Starting at 14th level, you add your Intelligence modifier (minimum of +1) to the damage of your melee weapon attacks while your Bladesong is active.

Sage

• Skill Proficiencies: Arcana, History
• Languages: Two of your choice
• Equipment: A bottle of black ink, a quill, a small knife, a letter from a dead colleague posing a question you have not yet been able to answer, a set of common clothes, and a belt pouch containing 10 gp

Suggested Characteristics

Sages are defined by their extensive studies, and their characteristics reflect this life of study. Devoted to scholarly pursuits, a sage values knowledge highly—sometimes in its own right, sometimes as a means toward other ideals.

Background

Backstory

Birth: Fireyulí (7) 24, 1994

When Bastion was very young he lost both of his parents to a plague. He took care of himself as he taught himself how to use the rapier his father once wore. He lived in Dyrt and watched all of the great knights. He also had an interest in the ways of magic and he wished he could do both -- use swords and excel in magic -- like many elves he had heard about.

One day a very old human wizard came through town. He used to be an adventurer, and a royal wizard, and now he roamed Dierde on his last quest. He was jumped on the road by a bandit that had gotten the upperhand with the surprise, but Bastion was nearby and he was able to help. He scared off the bandit.

They talked and Grognard saw his boy in the visage of Bastion. He took him in as a surrogate and helped train him in the ways of magic. The kid liked the magic, but he really loved the swords. He grew up in a village near the Dyrt Knight Academies and so he looked up to the knights. He had a journal from his mother which went on about the bravery of his father, a knight and how they met. She was a wizard who had worked with a king. They fell in love, and kept a secret. A secret that was hard to keep when she got pregnant. She had to leave and so they settled in this town where the knight became a notable blacksmith in the town.

Then a plague hit the area and the young boy was left alone.

Until Grognard found him. He then spent his formative years with Grognard getting better with his magic, practicing his swordplay when in private, and learning of the world as they traveled. Grognard never really went too much into what he was looking for, but there were times his shield came down and the boy picked up pieces about some woman he loved and a boy they had. It seemed as if Grognard was seeking them or trying to find some way to help them.

Grognard sent him to a school in Towekind and that was where he learned the ways of the Sage and excelled in his magecraft. He researched more about the bladesinging and learned of how the best were from Huyla. He also found a book that went into how one of the best bladesingers, whose name was lost to the winds of time and yet he is remembered because he crafted a great relic. "Whistler", a dancing sword unlike any other. After that day he would hear a voice in his head from time to time "Find me young bladesinger -- I am Whistler and I can help you."

After he was done with his schooling he went back to Grognard. At some point they discussed his fascination with the bladesinging and for some reason Grognard blew up and they fought. He left Grognard at the library and went on his own. He planned to go to Huyla to see if he could find an elf to teach him more of the bladesinging. He also sought to find out more about this Whistler.

In anger and in a fit of angst he left and planned to visit Huyla, but on his way he got onto the wrong ship and ended up on Outding refuge about a month ago when his ship was attacked by the white dragon. He had been trying to find a way off the island and thought he would do some recon on the Baron Sahuagin, hoping that a reward might help him survive a bit longer. When he had left town he found himself captured in a Sahuagin net trap. They took him down and put him in a large burlap sack. They took him underwater and before he drowned he found himself back on dry ground. Still in the sack. They had left him in some room and he has been here for a few hours but, knocked out. As he stirs he hears a sound…