Rilira Fl'wr
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Rilira Fl'wr

Governor of Na'Ka'Ve
PC A Taste of Evil Leannan NPC
Na'Ka'Ve

Rilira Fl'wr (nee Tóibín) was born in the tiny village of Shan Diamon (now part of the city of Na'Ka'Ve) to a pair of Snow Elf farmers. Much of her past is somewhat ordinary; she married a Trollish lawmaker named To'bn Fl'wr, they had one son named Lon and she was a farrier for a local stable. 

On the evening of the 15th of Equal 3A 203, she and her family were attacked by members of a Troll supremacist group as they walked home from the theatre. The group, called the Imperial Watchmen, had been mentioned on multiple occasions and recommended for arrest by her husband during local government meetings over the past few months due to a rash of beatings and stabbings in the areas that had formerly been Elven villages. Her husband and son were hacked to death with shortswords, and while Rilira herself survived, she required a hysterectomy, the removal of a kidney and the amputation of her right arm just above the elbow due to infection caused by a substance that had been spread on the swords. During her recovery, she attempted several times to report the full events and the identities of the individuals to the authorities but due to interference, possible corruption, or red tape the local law enforcement did nothing about it and the case involving her brutal assaulting and the murders of her husband and son were dropped.

Two nights after Rilira's release from the local hospital and the night before they were to go to trial for an unrelated much lesser crime, the three men accused of attacking her were found hanging by their necks over the side of a bridge, their entrails torn out of their stomachs as if by a wild animal. Where Rilira was at the time remains unknown to the public. Around the same time, an apparent vigilante referred to by the press as the Grey Maiden first appeared, who to date has been connected to the brutal and animalistic killings of eighteen other people, all of whom are connected to the Imperial Watchmen and other Troll supremacist hate groups, and three of which were city watchmen.

What everyone, bar a few members of a local extremist Oglaigh na Tír contingent who have been assisting her and her closest friends, do not know is that the Grey Maiden and Rilira Fl'wr were one and the same; something inside her apparently snapped after she realised that justice was not coming for her family, and so she made a pact with a lesser Elder Being named Irascor who granted her immense magical and physical power to exact her own form of justice in exchange for feeding on both her rage and her victims' fear. The two, despite sharing a body, did not agree on anything and so Irascor attempted to slowly convince her to do things his way, resulting in the assassination of an innocent man, numerous civilian deaths including several of her friends, the public lynching of a notorious human trafficker and large amounts of damage to public property (though the latter was not always entirely her fault.) The ultimate culmination of this was Rilira leading an angry mob into Na'Ka'Ve City Hall, leading to at least six deaths, a great number of arrests and an explosion that destroyed nearly the entire top floor of the building. 

Thanks to the efforts of Master Ba'Jar of the Fa Ram though, she was able to cast out Irascor and experience a moment of clarity for the first time in three years which led to a near-total re-evaluation of her life and her dedicating it to undoing the damage she caused and righting the wrongs that she initially saw with life in the city. Following the death of Brant the Lost, she was entered into the running to become the new Governor of the City, which she won by a landslide, and has so far proven to be exceptionally capable and just in her position, despite her own self-doubt and bouts of depression. Her current profession outside of this is as a local business owner, owning both the Golden Goose Inn and formerly a brothel called The Floating Veil, whose deed she gave to Audra. She is also notable for being the first Governor of Na'Ka'Ve to be of the indigenous Snow Elf population.

Appearance

Notable Features
Right arm totally missing at elbow (usually wears a prosthetic), burn scars across several parts of body, large gnarled scar across abdomen

Title
Governor of Na'Ka'Ve

Type
NPC (originally PC)

Races
Snow Elf

Age
157

Gender
Female

Pronouns
She/Her

Appearance

Notable Features
Right arm totally missing at elbow (usually wears a prosthetic), burn scars across several parts of body, large gnarled scar across abdomen

Personality

Mental State
Rilira suffers from a combination of severe depression and unchecked psychosis both stemming from extremely severe PTSD, both from the attack that left her crippled and her family dead, and from her time as Irascor's puppet. For a long time, this left her with frequent suicidal ideation, near-constant insomnia, paranoia, issues forming attachments to people and a lot of unchecked rage that occasionally seeped through; none of these severe mental health issues were helped by Irascor not only feeding off her emotions but actively sabotaging her life for the sake of his own amusement. It was only her need for revenge against the Imperial Watchmen and others like them that prevented her from taking her own life.
Following Irascor's removal, many of these mental scars have begun to slowly heal, but she still suffers from frequent bouts of depression and insomnia as well as near-constant survivor's guilt. However these are now focused into her work as Governor, with her goal being to make the city the safe place that she knows it can be.

Abilities

Unorganised

Warlock - Class

Warlocks (or witches, as female warlocks are called) are seekers of the knowledge that lies hidden in the fabric of the multiverse. Through pacts made with mysterious beings of supernatural power, warlocks unlock magical effects both subtle and spectacular.

You must have a Charisma score of 13 or higher in order to multiclass in or out of this class.

The Warlock
Level Proficiency Bonus Features Cantrips Known Spells Known Spell Slots Slot Level Invocations Known
1st +2 Otherworldly Patron, Pact Magic 2 2 1 1st -
2nd +2 Eldritch Invocations 2 3 2 1st 2
3rd +2 Pact Boon 2 4 2 2nd 2
4th +2 Ability Score Improvement 3 5 2 2nd 2
5th +3   3 6 2 3rd 3
6th +3 Otherworldly Patron feature 3 7 2 3rd 3
7th +3   3 8 2 4th 4
8th +3 Ability Score Improvement 3 9 2 4th 4
9th +4   3 10 2 5th 5
10th +4 Otherworldly Patron feature 4 10 2 5th 5
11th +4 Mystic Arcanum (6th level) 4 11 3 5th 5
12th +4 Ability Score Improvement 4 11 3 5th 6
13th +5 Mystic Arcanum (7th level) 4 12 3 5th 6
14th +5 Otherworldly Patron feature 4 12 3 5th 6
15th +5 Mystic Arcanum (8th level) 4 13 3 5th 7
16th +5 Ability Score Improvement 4 13 3 5th 7
17th +6 Mystic Arcanum (9th level) 4 14 4 5th 7
18th +6   4 14 4 5th 8
19th +6 Ability Score Improvement 4 15 4 5th 8
20th +6 Eldritch Master 4 15 4 5th 8

Class Features

As a warlock, you gain the following class features.

Hit Points

Hit Dice: 1d8 per warlock level
Hit Points at 1st Level: 8 + your Constitution modifier
Hit Points at Higher Levels: 1d8 (or 5) + your Constitution modifier per warlock level after 1st

Proficiencies

Armor: Light armor
Weapons: Simple weapons
Tools: None
Saving Throws: Wisdom, Charisma
Skills: Choose two from Arcana, Deception, History, Intimidation, Investigation, Nature, and Religion

Equipment

You start with the following equipment, in addition to the equipment granted by your background:

  • (a) a light crossbow and 20 bolts or (b) any simple weapon
  • (a) a component pouch or (b) an arcane focus
  • (a) a scholar's pack or (b) a dungeoneer's pack
  • Leather armor, any simple weapon, and two daggers

 

Otherworldly Patron

At 1st level, you have struck a bargain with an Elder Being of your choice.

Subclass - Client of Jezail

Subclass - Client of Jieunia

Subclass - Client of Lues

Subclass - Client of Nox

Subclass - Client of Primus

Subclass - Client of Proelium

Subclass - Client of the Fathomless

Subclass - Client of the Forgotten Elders

Subclass - Client of the Immortal Governor

Subclass - Client of the Striped Cat 

Subclass - Client of Thgirb Amall

Pact Magic

Your arcane research and the magic bestowed on you by your patron have given you facility with spells.

Cantrips

You know two cantrips of your choice from the warlock spell list. You learn additional warlock cantrips of your choice at higher levels, as shown in the Cantrips Known column of the Warlock table.

Spell Slots

The Warlock table shows how many spell slots you have. The table also shows what the level of those slots is; all of your spell slots are the same level. To cast one of your warlock spells of 1st level or higher, you must expend a spell slot. You regain all expended spell slots when you finish a short or long rest.

For example, when you are 5th level, you have two 3rd-level spell slots. To cast the 1st-level spell Witch Bolt, you must spend one of those slots, and you cast it as a 3rd-level spell.

Spells Known of 1st Level and Higher

At 1st level, you know two 1st-level spells of your choice from the warlock spell list.

The Spells Known column of the Warlock table shows when you learn more warlock spells of your choice of 1st level or higher. A spell you choose must be of a level no higher than what's shown in the table's Slot Level column for your level. When you reach 6th level, for example, you learn a new warlock spell, which can be 1st, 2nd, or 3rd level.

Additionally, when you gain a level in this class, you can choose one of the warlock spells you know and replace it with another spell from the warlock spell list, which also must be of a level for which you have spell slots.

Spellcasting Ability

Charisma is your spellcasting ability for your warlock spells, so you use your Charisma whenever a spell refers to your spellcasting ability. In addition, you use your Charisma modifier when setting the saving throw DC for a warlock spell you cast and when making an attack roll with one.

Spell save DC = 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Charisma modifier

Spell attack modifier = your proficiency bonus + your Charisma modifier

Spellcasting Focus

You can use an arcane focus as a spellcasting focus for your warlock spells.

 

Eldritch Invocations

In your study of occult lore, you have unearthed eldritch invocations, fragments of forbidden knowledge that imbue you with an abiding magical ability.

At 2nd level, you gain two eldritch invocations of your choice. When you gain certain warlock levels, you gain additional invocations of your choice, as shown in the Invocations Known column of the Warlock table.

Additionally, when you gain a level in this class, you can choose one of the invocations you know and replace it with another invocation that you could learn at that level.

A level prerequisite in an invocation refers to warlock level, not character level.

 

Pact Boon

At 3rd level, your otherworldly patron bestows a gift upon you for your loyal service.

If this change makes you ineligible for any of your Eldritch Invocations, you must also replace them now, choosing invocations for which you qualify.

  • Pact of the Blade
    • You can use your action to create a pact weapon in your empty hand. You can choose the form that this melee weapon takes each time you create it. You are proficient with it while you wield it. This weapon counts as magical for the purpose of overcoming resistance and immunity to nonmagical attacks and damage.
    • Your pact weapon disappears if it is more than 5 feet away from you for 1 minute or more. It also disappears if you use this feature again, if you dismiss the weapon (no action required), or if you die.
    • You can transform one magic weapon into your pact weapon by performing a special ritual while you hold the weapon. You perform the ritual over the course of 1 hour, which can be done during a short rest.
    • You can then dismiss the weapon, shunting it into an extradimensional space, and it appears whenever you create your pact weapon thereafter. You can't affect an artifact or a sentient weapon in this way. The weapon ceases being your pact weapon if you die, if you perform the 1-hour ritual on a different weapon, or if you use a 1-hour ritual to break your bond to it. The weapon appears at your feet if it is in the extradimensional space when the bond breaks.
  • Pact of the Chain
    • You learn the Find Familiar spell and can cast it as a ritual. The spell doesn't count against your number of spells known.
    • When you cast the spell, you can choose one of the normal forms for your familiar or one of the following special forms: imp, pseudodragon, quasit, or sprite.
    • Additionally, when you take the Attack action, you can forgo one of your own attacks to allow your familiar to use its reaction to make one attack of its own.
  • Pact of the Tome
    • Your patron gives you a grimoire called a Book of Shadows. When you gain this feature, choose three cantrips from any class's spell list. While the book is on your person, you can cast those cantrips at will. They are considered warlock spells for you, and they needn't be from the same spell list. They don't count against your number of cantrips known.
    • If you lose your Book of Shadows, you can perform a 1-hour ceremony to receive a replacement from your patron. This ceremony can be performed during a short or long rest, and it destroys the previous book. The book turns to ash when you die.
  • Pact of the Talisman
    • Your patron gives you an amulet, a talisman that can aid the wearer when the need is great. When the wearer fails an ability check, they can add a d4 to the roll, potentially turning the roll into a success. This benefit can be used a number of times equal to your proficiency bonus, and all expended uses are restored when you finish a long rest.
    • If you lose the talisman, you can perform a 1-hour ceremony to receive a replacement from your patron. This ceremony can be performed during a short or long rest, and it destroys the previous amulet. The talisman turns to ash when you die.

 

Mystic Arcanum

At 11th level, your patron bestows upon you a magical secret called an arcanum. Choose one 6th-level spell from the warlock spell list as this arcanum.

You can cast your arcanum spell once without expending a spell slot. You must finish a long rest before you can do so again.

At higher levels, you gain more warlock spells of your choice that can be cast in this way: one 7th-level spell at 13th level, one 8th-level spell at 15th level, and one 9th-level spell at 17th level. You regain all uses of your Mystic Arcanum when you finish a long rest.

 

Eldritch Master

At 20th level, you can draw on your inner reserve of mystical power while entreating your patron to regain expended spell slots. You can spend 1 minute entreating your patron for aid to regain all your expended spell slots from your Pact Magic feature. Once you regain spell slots with this feature, you must finish a long rest before you can do so again.

Warlock

Subclass - Client of the Forgotten Elders - Subclass

You have made a pact with a weaker, lesser Elder Being that has grown attached to your form - literally. Allowing you and it to have a symbiotic relationship, instead of a parasitic one. You have agreed to meet its needs, in order to preserve your life, and it has agreed to grant you help from inside. You make an awesome team, as well as a freak of nature. Though be careful as you may have no idea as to what its actual aims are...

Expanded Spell List

Your symbiotic lesser Elder Being lets you choose from an expanded list of spells when you learn a warlock spell. The following spells are added to the warlock spell list for you.

Spell LevelSpells
1stThorn Whip, Shield
2ndAlter Self, See Invisibility
3rdFear, Vampiric Touch
4thBlack Tentacles, Death Ward
5thAntilife Shell, Bigby's Hand
Enhanced Body

Your parasite is able to pull the strings of your body functions and increase focus in one area by micro managing. Beginning at 3rd level, you can ask your patron to change certain body functions priority, granting you vulnerabilities and resistances per choice. You can increase your body's temperature, granting you resistance to cold damage, however vulnerability to fire damage. Or cool it to have the opposite effect. It can increase liver function to grant poison resistance, and adv on saves for poison, but gaining a variability to acid damage. or decrease its function to increase sodium levels in your blood to have the vise versa. If you have resistance to something you gain a vulnerability in, the vulnerability overtakes. The change between each state takes one full turn, (Action, Bonus Action, And movement), or 1 min out of combat.

Parasitic Standards

Beginning at 7th level, you consumption of food increases to 4x the original amount, to sustain both of you. This can be avoided by consuming one body once a week. You and the parasite can communicate telepathically, while awake or unconscious. If it is removed in any way you die.

Re-Enforced Mind

Your patron has increased your body and mind tolerance tremendously. Beginning at 10th level, You gain resistance to physic damage, as well as advantage Against being charmed, being knocked unconscious, and having your mind entered. Additionally you gain immunity to magical sleep, and diseases.

Backup

You've formed a bond with your parasite, it now makes attempts to protect you if necessary. Beginning at 15th level, when at half health and below, you make Dexterity saves with advantage and gain a + 2 to your Armor Class. As well as a + 4 to attack rolls and +3 necrotic damage to an attack of any type. Furthermore, when making a death save you can add your Charisma Modifier to the roll.

Symbiosis

You've reached a sate of harmony with your parasite, allowing perfectly timed reactions to stop most punishes. Beginning at 18th level you gain a second reaction in combat. Additionally you can use these reactions for the following; if you were going to be moved back, you can use your reaction to stay where you are. If you were going to knocked prone, you can use your reaction to stay standing. Furthermore, when you are knocked unconscious, or incapacitated by any means you're HP is set to half and your parasite takes control of your body. you tell your parasite how to act and it does accordingly. While in this state you can feel no pain, and automatically pass all constitution saves. or checks, and are immune to being frightened.

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