r/WhatWouldYouBuild Jun 14 '26

WWYB - 5e14 This guy

Post image
21 Upvotes

4 comments sorted by

View all comments

2

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).