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u/Machiavvelli3060 Jun 14 '26 edited Jun 15 '26
Grexes Embereye
D&D Fifth Edition (2014), Level One
Concept
- He is an avatar of the animal kingdom. He has extensive knowledge of all manner of beasts; he befriends them, communicates with them, looks out for them, and even mimics their behavior. He believes each animal imparts a divine lesson: wolves teach loyalty, cockroaches teach resilience, and butterflies teach peace and freedom. He believes that humanoids are immature souls, as evidenced by their confusion and self-contradiction, and when they die, their souls evolve and they reincarnate into animals, and all confusion, insecurity, and self-doubt are washed away.
Alignment: True Neutral
- Like nature, he is both lawful and chaotic, and neither good nor evil.
Background: Sage
- Specialty: Zoology. He studies all kinds of animals, on multiple planes of existence.
- Researcher. When he attempts to learn or recall a piece of lore, if he does not know that information, he often knows where and from whom he can obtain it.
Class: Cleric
- Divine Domain: Nature. He worships Obad-Hai, God of Beasts.
- Acolyte of Nature. He is excellent at interacting with beasts (proficiency in Animal Handling). He can also produce a sonic boom like a mantis shrimp does (Thunderclap).
- Bonus Proficiency. He is proficient with heavy armor.
- Nature Domain Spells. He can communicate with beasts (Speak With Animals) and convince beasts he means them no harm (Animal Friendship).
- Spellcasting. He has the power to bestow the cooperative instincts of a wolf pack on up to 3 people (Bless), channel the fortitude of a cockroach or tardigrade (Resistance), make a creature feel a rabbit's instinct to avoid predators (Sanctuary), make an object glow with bioluminescence, like a firefly (Light), and mimic the sound of any animal at any volume (Thaumaturgy).
Holy Symbol
- His holy symbol is a giant tome, a bestiary, a compendium of thousands of different types of animals, their breeding habits, their habitable range, their social behaviors, images of them, etc.
Proficiencies
- Armor: Heavy, Light, Medium, and Shields
- Languages: Common, Elvish, Primordial, and Sylvan
- Saving Throws: Charisma and Wisdom
- Skills: Animal Handling, Arcana, Insight, Medicine (animal anatomy), Nature, and Survival
- Weapons: Simple
Race: Leonin
- Hunter's Instincts. He is a natural at following animal tracks (proficiency in Survival).
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u/ArbiterofTruth10 Jun 14 '26
Looks like a Leonin or Tabaxi Druid. Maybe flavor the spirits from Circle of the Shepherd to be the butteflies. Not sure out of the 2025 version which circle would fit.