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|Image=[[Image:Zan.jpg|center|350 px]]
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|Image=[[Image:Zan2.jpg|center|350 px]]
|CharacterName= Zan (Zanerith) Govind
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|CharacterName= Zan (Zanerith) Derlyn
|Race= Half-Elf Drow
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|Race= Half-Drow
|Class=Sorcerer 3/Warlock 2
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|Class=Sorcerer 4/Warlock 3
 
|Background=Smuggler (Variant)  
 
|Background=Smuggler (Variant)  
 
|Alignment=Chaotic Good
 
|Alignment=Chaotic Good
|Patron Deity=DEITY
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|Patron Deity= Eilistraee, the Dark Maiden
|Factions= Harpers
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|Factions= [[Harpers Faction|Harpers]] Renown 8
|Ability Scores=Strength 10 (+0), Dexterity 16 (+3), Constitution 12 (+1);<br> Intelligence 10 (+0), Wisdom 10 (+0), Charisma 17 (+3)
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|Ability Scores=Strength 10 (+0), Dexterity 16 (+3), Constitution 12 (+1);<br> Intelligence 10 (+0), Wisdom 10 (+0), Charisma 18 (+4)
 
|Bonus=x
 
|Bonus=x
|Saving Throws=Constitution & Charisma
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|Saving Throws=Strength +1, Dexterity +4, Constitution +5 (proficiency), Intelligence +1, Wisdom +1, Charisma +8 (proficiency)
|Skills=Insight +4, Perception +4, Persuasion +7, Stealth +7
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|Skills=Athletics +3, Deception +7, Perception +3 (with Advantage when holding Sentinel Shield), Performance +7, Persuasion +7, Stealth +6
|Tools= Forgery Kit
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|Tools= Disguise Kit, Hand Drum, Pan flute, Vehicles (Water)
|Languages=Common, Elvish, Orc, Undercommon
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|Languages=Common, Drowic, Goblin, Orc, Undercommon
 
|Armor=Light, Medium, Shields
 
|Armor=Light, Medium, Shields
 
|Weapons=Martial Weapons, Simple Weapons
 
|Weapons=Martial Weapons, Simple Weapons
|Traits=Darkvision, Fey Ancestry, Drow Magic, Sorcerous Origin: Divine Soul, Divine Magic: Chaos, Favored by the Gods, Font of Magic, Metamagic, Otherworldly Patron: The Hexblade, Pact Magic, Hexblade's Curse, Hex Warrior, Eldritch Invocations (Agonizing Blast, Devil's Sight)
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|Traits=Darkvision (120ft), Fey Ancestry, Drow Magic, Sorcerous Origin: Divine Soul, Divine Magic: Chaos, Favored by the Gods, Font of Magic, Metamagic (Quickened Spell, Twinned Spell), Otherworldly Patron: The Hexblade, Pact Magic, Hexblade's Curse, Hex Warrior, Eldritch Invocations (Agonizing Blast, Devil's Sight), Pact Boon: Pact of the Blade
|Attacks=• ''Dagger:'' +6, 1d4+3,• ''Rapier:'' +6, 1d8+3,• ''Eldritch Blast:'' +6, 1d10+3
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|Attacks=• ''Dagger:'' +6, 1d4+3,• ''Revenancer:'' +8, 1d8+5 (1d10+5)• ''Eldritch Blast:'' +7, 1d10+4
|Armor Class=16 (+1 against melee weapon attacks), +2 shield (+1 against ranged weapon attacks)
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|Armor Class= 16 (breastplate),+1 Cloak of Protection, +2 Sentinel Shield
|Initiative=+6
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|Initiative=+5 (with Advantage when holding Sentinel Shield)
|Speed=30 ft
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|Speed=30 ft (+5 feet with Boots of Advanced Speed)
|Feats=FEATS
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|Feats=Elven Accuracy (+1 to Charisma, reroll one dice when rolling an attack at advantage)
|Hit Points=32
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|Hit Points=44
|Hit Dice=3d6, 2d8
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|Hit Dice=4d6, 3d8
|Personality=I stretch the truth about almost everything, even when there’s no good reason to. • I’m a born gambler who can’t resist taking a risk for a potential payoff.
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|Personality= I enjoy doing things others believe to be impossible. • I’m a born gambler who can’t resist taking a risk for a potential payoff.
|Ideals=People. For all my many lies, I place a high value on friendship.  
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|Ideals= People. For all the ways I bend the rules and break the law, I place a high value on community and friendship.  
|Bonds=I owe everything to my mentor — but I know he's not the saint everyone thinks he is.
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|Bonds= I owe everything to my mentor — but I know he's not the saint everyone thinks he is.
|Flaws=I’m always in debt. I spend my ill-gotten gains on decadent luxuries faster than I bring them in.
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|Flaws= I don't know who my warlock patron is... but I'm sure everything will work out for the best.
 
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<div style="text-align: center; font-size: 125%">Character Relevant Links</div>
 
<div style="text-align: center; font-size: 125%">Character Relevant Links</div>
 
'''Harpers:''' [[Harpers Faction|Faction Info]] • [[Harpers of Waterdeep]] • [[Dusken Glade Cell]]<br>
 
'''Harpers:''' [[Harpers Faction|Faction Info]] • [[Harpers of Waterdeep]] • [[Dusken Glade Cell]]<br>
'''People & Places:''' [[Trades Point North|Local Neighborhood]] • [[Dusken Glade Inn]] • [[Dusken Glade Rivals|Rivals]] • [[Griffins Gang|Griffins]]<br>
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'''People & Places:''' [[Trades Point North|Local Neighborhood]] • [[Dusken Glade Inn]] • [[Dusken Glade Rivals|Rivals]] • [[Promenade-in-Exile]] • The [[Derlynn Estate]]<br>
 
'''Campaign Info:''' [[Dusken Glade House Rules|House Rules]] • [[Dusken Glade Treasury|Group Treasury]]
 
'''Campaign Info:''' [[Dusken Glade House Rules|House Rules]] • [[Dusken Glade Treasury|Group Treasury]]
 
</div>
 
</div>
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==Appearance==
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'''Age''': 36 <br>
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'''Gender''': Cisgender Male <br>
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'''Height''': 5'10" <br>
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'''Weight''': 170 lbs <br>
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'''Hair''': White/Silver<br>
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'''Eyes''': Amber<br>
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'''Skin''': Slightly ashen<br>
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Zan appears outwardly as a handsome, charismatic man.  Smooth slightly ashen skin covered in black tattoos.  Silver white hair that is usually kept shoulder length and often pulled back in a pony tail.  Amber, almost red eyes that sparkle with playfulness but somehow also hint at a deep well of anger laying just beneath the surface.  He often wears a black breastplate, leather breeches, and a black cloak of protection.
  
 
==Traits==
 
==Traits==
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===Racial Traits===
 
===Racial Traits===
 
*'''Ability Score Increase''' Charisma +2, Dexterity +1, Constitution +1
 
*'''Ability Score Increase''' Charisma +2, Dexterity +1, Constitution +1
*'''Languages''' Common, Elvish, Undercommon
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*'''Languages''' Common, Drowic, Goblin, Orc, Undercommon
*'''Darkvision''' See in dim light within 60 feet as if it were bright light, and in darkness as if it were dim light
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*'''Darkvision''' See in dim light within 60 feet as if it were bright light, and in darkness as if it were dim light (Due to Warlock Eldritch Invocation Devil's Sight can see see normally in darkness, both magical and nonmagical, to a distance of 120 feet.)
 
*'''Fey Ancestry''' Advantage on saving throws against being charmed, and magic can’t put you to sleep.
 
*'''Fey Ancestry''' Advantage on saving throws against being charmed, and magic can’t put you to sleep.
*'''Drow Magic''' A half-elf of drow descent can forgo Skill Versatility and instead choose the drow’s Drow Magic: You know the dancing lights cantrip. When you reach 3rd level, you can cast the faerie fire spell once with this trait and regain the ability to do so when you finish a long rest. When you reach 5th level, you can cast the darkness spell once with this trait and regain the ability to do so when you finish a long rest. Charisma is your spellcasting ability for these spells.
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*'''Drow Magic''' You know the Moonfire cantrip. When you reach 3rd level, you can cast the Faerie Fire spell once with this trait and regain the ability to do so when you finish a long rest. When you reach 5th level, you can cast the Darkness spell once with this trait and regain the ability to do so when you finish a long rest. Charisma is your spellcasting ability for these spells.
  
 
===Sorcerer Features===
 
===Sorcerer Features===
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**'''Divine Magic: '''  
 
**'''Divine Magic: '''  
 
***Your link to the divine allows you to learn spells from the cleric class. When your Spellcasting feature lets you learn or replace a sorcerer cantrip or a sorcerer spell of 1st level or higher, you can choose the new spell from the cleric spell list or the sorcerer spell list. You must otherwise obey all the restrictions for selecting the spell, and it becomes a sorcerer spell for you.  
 
***Your link to the divine allows you to learn spells from the cleric class. When your Spellcasting feature lets you learn or replace a sorcerer cantrip or a sorcerer spell of 1st level or higher, you can choose the new spell from the cleric spell list or the sorcerer spell list. You must otherwise obey all the restrictions for selecting the spell, and it becomes a sorcerer spell for you.  
***In addition, you learn the Bless spell, based on the Law affinity that is the source of your divine power. It is a sorcerer spell for you, but it doesn’t count against your number of sorcerer spells known. If you later replace this spell, you must replace it with a spell from the cleric spell list.
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***In addition, you learn the Cure Wounds spell, based on the Good affinity that is the source of your divine power. It is a sorcerer spell for you, but it doesn’t count against your number of sorcerer spells known. If you later replace this spell, you must replace it with a spell from the cleric spell list.
 
**'''Favored by the Gods: ''' Divine power guards your destiny. If you fail a saving throw or miss with an attack roll, you can roll 2d4 and add it to the total, possibly changing the outcome. Once you use this feature, you can’t use it again until you finish a short or long rest.
 
**'''Favored by the Gods: ''' Divine power guards your destiny. If you fail a saving throw or miss with an attack roll, you can roll 2d4 and add it to the total, possibly changing the outcome. Once you use this feature, you can’t use it again until you finish a short or long rest.
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*'''Font of Magic: '''
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**You have 4 sorcery points that you regain when you finish a long rest.
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**'''Creating Spell Slots:''' You can transform unexpended sorcery points into one spell slot as a bonus action on your turn. 1st Level = 2 points, 2nd Level = 3 points.  Any spell slot you create with this feature vanishes when you finish a long rest.
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**'''Converting a Spell Slot to Sorcery Points:'''As a bonus action on your turn, you can expend one spell slot and gain a number of sorcery points equal to the slot’s level.
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**'''Empowering Reserves:'''When you make an ability check on your turn, you can spend 2 sorcery points to gain advantage on the check
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**'''Inbuing Touch:'''As an action, you can touch one nonmagical weapon and spend 2 sorcery points to imbue it with magic for 1 minute.  For the duration, the weapon is considered magical for the purpose of overcoming immunity and resistance to nonmagical attacks.
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**'''Sorcerous Fortitude:'''As an action, you can spend any number of sorcery points to roll a d4 for each point expended.  You gain a number of temporary hit points equal to the total rolled.
 
*'''Metamagic: '''
 
*'''Metamagic: '''
 
**'''Quickened Spell: ''' When you cast a spell that has a casting time of 1 action, you can spend 2 sorcery points to change the casting time to 1 bonus action for this casting.
 
**'''Quickened Spell: ''' When you cast a spell that has a casting time of 1 action, you can spend 2 sorcery points to change the casting time to 1 bonus action for this casting.
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***The influence of your patron also allows you to mystically channel your will through a particular weapon. Whenever you finish a long rest, you can touch one weapon that you are proficient with and that lacks the two-handed property. When you attack with that weapon, you can use your Charisma modifier, instead of Strength or Dexterity, for the attack and damage rolls. This benefit lasts until you finish a long rest. If you later gain the Pact of the Blade feature, this benefit extends to every pact weapon you conjure with that feature, no matter the weapon’s type.
 
***The influence of your patron also allows you to mystically channel your will through a particular weapon. Whenever you finish a long rest, you can touch one weapon that you are proficient with and that lacks the two-handed property. When you attack with that weapon, you can use your Charisma modifier, instead of Strength or Dexterity, for the attack and damage rolls. This benefit lasts until you finish a long rest. If you later gain the Pact of the Blade feature, this benefit extends to every pact weapon you conjure with that feature, no matter the weapon’s type.
 
**'''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.  
 
**'''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.  
***'''Agonizing Blast:'''When you cast eldritch blast, add your Charisma modifier to the damage it deals on a hit.
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***'''Improved Pact Weapon:''' Your pact weapon can be your spellcasting focus, gains a +1 bonus to its attack and damage rolls (unless it already has a magic bonus), and can be a shortbow, longbow, light crossbow, or heavy crossbow.
 
***'''Devil's Sight:'''You can see normally in darkness, both magical and nonmagical, to a distance of 120 feet.
 
***'''Devil's Sight:'''You can see normally in darkness, both magical and nonmagical, to a distance of 120 feet.
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**'''Pact Boon:''' Your otherworldly patron has bestowed a gift upon you for your loyal service.
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***'''Pact of the Blade:''' As an action, you can create a pact weapon in your hand (you choose the form, you're proficient with it, and it counts as magical). You can also transform a magic weapon into your pact weapon by performing a special ritual.
  
 
===Smuggler Background Traits===
 
===Smuggler Background Traits===
 
On a rickety barge, you carried a hundred longswords in fish barrels right past the dock master’s oblivious lackeys. You have paddled a riverboat filled with stolen elven wine under the gaze of the moon and sold it for twice its value in the morning. In your more charitable times, you have transported innocents out of war zones or helped guide herd animals to safety on the banks of a burning river.
 
On a rickety barge, you carried a hundred longswords in fish barrels right past the dock master’s oblivious lackeys. You have paddled a riverboat filled with stolen elven wine under the gaze of the moon and sold it for twice its value in the morning. In your more charitable times, you have transported innocents out of war zones or helped guide herd animals to safety on the banks of a burning river.
 
*'''Skill Proficiencies:''' Perception, Stealth
 
*'''Skill Proficiencies:''' Perception, Stealth
*'''Tools:''' Forgery Kit, Vehicles (water)
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*'''Tools:''' Vehicles (Water)
*'''Down Low:'''
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*'''Languages:''' Goblin
**You are acquainted with a network of smugglers who are willing to help you out of tight situations. While in a particular town, city, or other similarly sized community (DM’s discretion), you and your companions can stay for free in safe houses. Safe houses provide a poor lifestyle. While staying at a safe house, you can choose to keep your presence (and that of your companions) a secret.
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*'''Shady Contact:'''
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**You have a reliable and trustworthy contact who acts as your liaison to a network of other smugglers and criminals. You know how to get messages to and from your contact, even over great distances; specifically, you know the local messengers, corrupt caravan masters, and seedy sailors who can deliver messages for you.
  
===Faction Traits===
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==Harper Faction Traits==
* '''Sponsor:''' You have a senior Harper who has not only brought you into the Harpers, but helps to train you. The time it takes to learn one of the mentor's proficiencies by the Training downtime activity is reduced in half. Any given mentor usually knows 1d6 languages and 1d6 tool proficiencies. They can also arrange training with other Harpers for proficiencies outside of their own baliwick.
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* '''Signs at Twilight:''' All Harpers learn the methods for contacting and getting information to the Harpers. The use of certain songs, signs to look for, identifying phrases - all the techniques that Harpers use to find one another in a cold and dangerous world. Harpers also learn the meaning, placement, and discovery of the specific Harper sigils.
 
* '''Song Training:''' By the time a Harper has spent some time as part of the organization, training in music is an inevitability. Harpers use music for a great many things - to subtly identify themselves to one another, to pass coded messages back and forth, and even the use of musical metaphor in their interactions.  A proficient Harper may play music that communicates something to other Harpers who hear it in a coded fashion, as well.  Proficiency - Drum
 
 
 
<div style="float: left; width: 300px; border: 1px black solid; margin: 3px; padding: 3px;">
 
 
<div style="text-align: center; font-size: 150%">'''Harper Pins'''</div>
 
<div style="text-align: center; font-size: 150%">'''Harper Pins'''</div>
 
<div style="text-align: center; font-size: 100%">''Wondrous Item, rare'' (attunement)</div>
 
<div style="text-align: center; font-size: 100%">''Wondrous Item, rare'' (attunement)</div>
 
[[Image:Harper-pin.jpg|center|200px]]
 
[[Image:Harper-pin.jpg|center|200px]]
 
Wrought by certain finesmiths and enchanted by Harper magicians, the Harper pin provides a number of benefits to the attuned wearer based on their standing within the Harpers as a faction. Pins manifest power based on their attunement to Harper bearers. An un-attuned pin is referred to as being dormant.
 
Wrought by certain finesmiths and enchanted by Harper magicians, the Harper pin provides a number of benefits to the attuned wearer based on their standing within the Harpers as a faction. Pins manifest power based on their attunement to Harper bearers. An un-attuned pin is referred to as being dormant.
* '''Basic Abilities:''' ''No ranking''. Harper pins, even those which are dormant, are themselves immune to divination magics. They never register as magical to spells or spell-like abilities.
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* '''Basic Abilities:''' ''No rank''. Harper pins, even those which are dormant, are themselves immune to divination magics. They never register as magical to spells or spell-like abilities.
* '''Rank 1+'''. The Harper attuned to the pin may, as a bonus action and mere act of will requiring neither speech nor gesture, command the pin to change its shape into another piece of jewelry. It never appears to be worth more than 5gp, although this value can be for a piece that is obviously costume jewelry. If the wearer is in any way targeted by a ''dispel magic'', even if the pin is not the target of that spell, it automatically reverts to its normal harp-and-moon shape.
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* '''Rank 1'''. The Harper attuned to the pin may, as a bonus action and mere act of will requiring neither speech nor gesture, command the pin to change its shape into another piece of jewelry. It never appears to be worth more than 5gp, although this value can be for a piece that is obviously costume jewelry. If the wearer is in any way targeted by a ''dispel magic'', even if the pin is not the target of that spell, it automatically reverts to its normal harp-and-moon shape.
* '''Rank 3+'''. In addition to the above abilities, the pin functions as a ''ring of mind shielding'', without the soul-retention property of that ring.
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* '''Rank 2'''. In addition to the above abilities, the pin functions as a ''ring of mind shielding'', without the soul-retention property of that ring. Harpers with some experience can learn to invest their pins with a fragment of personality. Instead of causing mind-reading to simply fail (which is suspicious), they can cause the pin to "loop" a set of thoughts of their choice, usually setting a cycle of thoughts appropriate to their current cover story. A pin's thought loop can be reset during a short rest.
* '''Rank 4+'''. Harpers with some experience can learn to invest their pins with a fragment of personality. Instead of causing mind-reading to simply fail (which is suspicious), they can cause the pin to "loop" a set of thoughts of their choice, usually setting a cycle of thoughts appropriate to their current cover story. A pin's thought loop can be reset during a short rest.
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** ''Renown 5''. The pin is capable of playing a counter-tune when the attuned Harper encounters spells that would charm them, granting the bearer advantage on all saves against such spells and abilities. The pin also drinks in the power behind ''magic missiles'', rendering the bearer immune to them. Either of these effects cause a shapechanged pin to revert to its normal, harp-and-moon shape.
* '''Rank 5+'''. The pin is capable of playing a counter-tune when the attuned Harper encounters spells that would charm them, granting the bearer advantage on all saves against such spells and abilities. The pin also drinks in the power behind ''magic missiles'', rendering the bearer immune to them. Either of these effects cause a shapechanged pin to revert to its normal, harp-and-moon shape.
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** ''Renown 6''. The pin protects the bearer from electrical attacks, granting resistance to lightning damage. This effect causes a shapechanged pin to revert to its normal, harp-and-moon shape.
* '''Rank 6+'''. The pin protects the bearer from electrical attacks, granting resistance to lightning damage. This effect causes a shapechanged pin to revert to its normal, harp-and-moon shape.
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* '''Rank 3'''. A shapechanged pin is now immune from reverting to its normal shape by any means.
* '''Rank 12+'''. A shapechanged pin is now immune from reverting to its normal shape by any means.
 
 
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* '''Magic Access:''' ''Rank 2+''. Harpers can get access to Common potions and scrolls at the cost it takes to create those items, and have them within 1d4 days.
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Harpers in good standing might receive the following benefits:
* '''Song Training:''' ''Rank 2+.'' By the time a Harper has spent some time as part of the organization, training in music is an inevitability. Harpers use music for a great many things - to subtly identify themselves to one another, to pass coded messages back and forth, and even the use of musical metaphor in their interactions. The Harper of this Rank may choose proficiency in a musical instrument or the Performance Skill for singing. A proficient Harper may play music that communicates something to other Harpers who hear it in a coded fashion, as well.
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* '''Harper's Pin:''' ''Rank 3+''. Fully acknowledged agents of the Harpers receive a ''Harpers pin'' magic item (see sidebar).
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===Apprentice (Rank 1)===
* '''[[Harper Cell]]:''' ''Rank 3+''. Harper agents are frequently put into a cell structure, giving them the support of allies without endangering the entire organization should they be compromised.
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'''Prerequisite:''' Harper renown 1+
* '''[[Harper Lore]]:''' ''Rank 4+''. Harpers gain access to repositories of arcane lore - spells known only to Harpers. These are taught by mentors or provided as spell-scrolls. These spells may be considered to be added to the spell-list of the character.
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* '''Sponsor:''' You have a senior Harper who has not only brought you into the Harpers, but helps to train you. The time it takes to learn one of the mentor's proficiencies by the Training downtime activity is reduced in half. They can also arrange training with other Harpers for proficiencies outside of their own baliwick. This benefit applies until the Harper achieves Rank 2. Zan's mentor is Zavelinda
* '''City Lore:''' ''Rank 4+'' A Harper gains familiarity with the backways and shortcuts of their main city of operation, or of any other city they spend at least a season (three months) in. These months do not have to be cumulative. You gain the "City Secrets" ability of the Urchin Background for those cities.
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* '''Signs at Twilight:''' All Harpers learn the methods for contacting and getting information to the Harpers. The use of certain songs, signs to look for, identifying phrases - all the techniques that Harpers use to find one another in a cold and dangerous world. Harpers also learn the meaning, placement, and discovery of the specific Harper sigils.
- City Secrets: You know the secret patterns and flow to cities and can find passages through the urban sprawl that others would miss. When you are not in combat, you (and companions you lead) can travel between any two locations in the city twice as fast as your speed would normally allow.
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* '''Magic Access:''' Harpers can get access to Common potions and scrolls at the cost it takes to create those items, and have them within 1d4 days.
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===Harper (Rank 2)===
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'''Prerequisite:''' Rank 1 and Harper renown 3+
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* '''Song Training:''' By the time a Harper has spent some time as part of the organization, training in music is an inevitability. Harpers use music for a great many things - to subtly identify themselves to one another, to pass coded messages back and forth, and even the use of musical metaphor in their interactions. The Harper of this Rank may choose proficiency in a musical instrument or the Performance Skill for singing. A proficient Harper may play music that communicates something to other Harpers who hear it in a coded fashion, as well. Proficiency - Performance
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* '''Harper's Pin:''' Fully acknowledged agents of the Harpers receive a ''Harpers pin'' magic item (see sidebar).
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* '''[[Harper Cell]]:''' Harper agents are frequently put into a cell structure, giving them the support of allies without endangering the entire organization should they be compromised.
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* '''[[Harper Lore]]:''' Harpers gain access to repositories of arcane lore - spells known only to Harpers. These are taught by mentors or provided as spell-scrolls. These spells may be considered to be added to the spell-list of the character.
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* '''Harper Trainers:''' Harpers make a point of providing access to training for its newer operatives. This includes tool proficiencies, languages, and Exploits; Harpers of this rank pay only half the normal cost for that training.
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* '''Magic Access:''' Harpers can get access to Common  potions and scrolls at half the cost it takes to create those items, and have them within one day. They can get access to Uncommon potions and scrolls at the cost it takes to create those items, and have them within 1d6 days.
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* '''Mentor:''' Full Harpers can bring others into the Harpers by acting as their sponsors. They are considered entirely responsible for their apprentices until such time as those apprentices are considered full Harpers themselves.
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* '''Continuing Training:''' ''Renown 6+''. Harpers of this degree of experience within the group have continued their training in music, choosing another musical instrument to be proficient in. They may also choose proficiency in a disguise kit, herbalism kit, or poisoner's kit. (Pan Flute and Disguise Kit)
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===Faction Role: Harpblade===
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Warriors and tacticians, harpblades are front-line fighters ready to come to the defense of Those Who Harp. Despite the name, anyone who is ready to defend their own - whether they use sword or spell - can operate as a harpblade.
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* '''Harpblade (Rank 2):''' A newly-made harpblade is expected to focus on their fighting skills, for you will be expected to put your life on the line for Harper goals almost immediately. Choose one Exploit from among the following 1st rank Exploits: Battlefront Shift or Heroic Effort.
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==Exploits==
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* '''Begin the Hunt:''' You quickly identify your prey and ready yourself to attack.
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** Once per long rest you may gain a +2 bonus to initiative and may designate one creature you can see within 100 feet as your quarry for 1 minute. You gain a +1d4 bonus on damage rolls against that creature until it is no longer your quarry.
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* '''Heroic Effort:''' On the brink of exhaustion, you still manage to rally your allies.
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**As a bonus action, while you are below half hit points, each ally within 50 feet of you who can see or hear you gains a +1d4 bonus on damage rolls until you are above half hit points. Additionally, you gain 2d10 temporary hit points.  This exploit can be used once per long rest.
  
 
==Feats==
 
==Feats==
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*'''Elven Accuracy:'''
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** +1 to Charisma
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** Whenever you have advantage on an attack roll using Dexterity, Intelligence, Wisdom, or Charisma, you can reroll one of the dice once.
  
 
==Resources==
 
==Resources==
* '''Coins:''' x cp • x sp • x ep • 215 gp • x pp • Other coins: x
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[[Image:Revenancer-art.jpg|right|350px]]
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[[Image:Revenancer.jpg|right|350px]]
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* '''Coins:''' 769 cp • 12,822 sp • 0 ep • 1,036 gp • 0 pp • Other coins: x
 
* '''Gems:''' x
 
* '''Gems:''' x
 
===Magic Items===
 
===Magic Items===
 
*'''Cloak of Protection (w/Guardian Quirk):''' You gain a +1 bonus to AC and saving throws while you wear this cloak and it whispers warnings to its bearer, granting a +2 bonus to initiative if the bearer isn't incapacitated.
 
*'''Cloak of Protection (w/Guardian Quirk):''' You gain a +1 bonus to AC and saving throws while you wear this cloak and it whispers warnings to its bearer, granting a +2 bonus to initiative if the bearer isn't incapacitated.
*'''Stone of Good Luck (Luckstone):''' While this polished agate is on your person, you gain a +1 bonus to ability checks and saving throws.
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*'''Sentinel Shield:''' While holding this shield, you have advantage on initiative rolls and Perception checks. The shield is emblazoned with a symbol of an eye. Wielding a shield increases your Armor Class by 2.
*'''Chain Shirt of Melee Weapon Resistance:'''  You have a +1 bonus to AC against melee weapons while wearing this armor. Has the Vanguard quirk.  
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*'''Winged Boots:'''  While you wear these boots, you have a flying speed equal to your walking speed. You can use the boots to fly for up to 4 hours, all at once or in several shorter flights, each one using a minimum of 1 minute from the duration. If you are flying when the duration expires, you descend at a rate of 30 feet per round until you land. The boots regain 2 hours of flying capability for every 12 hours they aren't in use.
*'''Deflecting Shield:''' You have a +1 bonus to AC against ranged weapons while using this shield. Has the Deflecting quirk.
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*'''Potion of Healing:''' (x3) 2d4+2 hp
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*'''Revenancer:''' +1 Longsword, finesse property, see side bar
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*'''Figurine of Wonderous Power - Silver Raven:''' This silver statuette of a raven can become a raven for up to 12 hours.  If you use an action to speak the command word and throw the figurine to a point on the ground within 60 feet of you, the figurine becomes a living creature. The creature is friendly to you and your companions. It understands your languages and obeys your spoken commands. If you issue no commands, the creature defends itself but takes no other actions. Once it has been used, it can't be used again until 2 days have passed. While in raven form, the figurine allows you to cast the animal messenger spell on it at will.
  
 
==Equipment==
 
==Equipment==
 
===Carried Equipment===
 
===Carried Equipment===
* '''In Hand:''' Rapier, shield, daggers (2)
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* '''In Hand:''' Revenancer, Sentinel Shield, daggers (2)
* '''Worn:''' Cloak of Protection, a Harper pin, chain shirt, luckstone, component bag
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* '''Worn:''' Cloak of Protection, a Harper pin, breastplate, Winged Boots
 
* '''Belt:''' component bag
 
* '''Belt:''' component bag
* '''Backpack:''' crowbar, flute, forgery kit, hammer, mess kit, pitons (10), playing card set, potion of healing (2), rations (1o days), rope - hempen (50ft), tinderbox, torch (10), waterskin,
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* '''Backpack:''' crowbar, hand drum, hammer, mess kit, pitons (10), playing card set, potion of healing (3), rations (10 days), rope - hempen (50ft), tinderbox, torch (10), waterskin,
  
 
===Stored Equipment===
 
===Stored Equipment===
* x
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* clothes - common, traveler's, fine
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* Boots of Advanced Speed
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===Lifestyle===
 
===Lifestyle===
 
* '''Modest:''' ''(1 gp/day)''.
 
* '''Modest:''' ''(1 gp/day)''.
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==Downtime Actions==
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'''Downtime:''' 60/{{DuskenGladeDowntimeTotal}}
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* '''Religious Service (Promenade-in-Exile):''' ''10 days'' Gain one Favor; gain one Hero Point. ''Complication?'' No.
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* '''Harper Cell Development (Build Cell Security):''' ''10gp + 10 days'' Gain +2 Security investment. ''Complication?'' No.
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* '''Harper Cell Development (Build Cell Allies):''' ''10gp + 10 days'' Gain +2 Allies investment. ''Complication?'' No.
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* '''Exploit Training (with Darkflame Sanolu Fezeera of the Promenade-in-Exile):''' ''50gp + 10 days'' Learn the Begin the Hunt Exploit ''Complication?'' No.
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* '''Carousing (among lower class in the Dock Ward):''' ''10gp + 10 days'' Gain one Contact (lower class). ''Complication?'' No.
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* '''Harper Cell Development (Build Cell Security):''' ''20gp + 10 days'' Gain +2 Security investment. ''Complication?'' No.
  
 
==Backstory==
 
==Backstory==
Heinrich doesn't know how to handle grief. He transitions it into anger, which isn't always healthy. And anger he channels into fighting. Outside of the fighting ring he has developed this dapper persona - something of a flirty lothario, willing to bed down with all manner of suitors but never dating anyone. In truth, this actually is an expression of his grief, whether he recognizes it or not.
 
  
Heinrich has had the idea since he was an adolescent that he wanted to be a gladiator, even going so far as training in one of the "youth leagues" where they teach youngsters fighting skills. (I'm picturing a Waterdeep version of modern martial arts and boxing schools that offer classes for youth as something of an athletics hobby). But when he came of age and went to sign up for participation in Waterdeep's gladiatorial games, they flatly refused to sign him up. The official policy is that the games are open to Bugbear participants, but individual racism blocked his attempt to sign up. He could have pursued the matter, but in his anger, he decided he didn't want to be a part of the establishment's organized games and instead found his way to the Griffin's non-sanctioned fighting matches. He started doing well, and the crowds there liked his style, calling him "The Dancing Beast". He also started to make friends. Sure, he knew that the Griffins were technically a gang, and that his new friends were involved in various illegal stuff, but they were his friends and he chose to ignore that. He also chose to ignore the cries of the guard to help stop who they were perusing as that person ran by him. That person being one of his new friends from the Griffins. Instead of trying to stop her, he stepped out of her way and let her past. It wasn't until several blocks later that he saw what had happened - as the pursuit continued, the Griffin had tried to hide behind some innocent bystanders, using their bodies as a shield. When that didn't work, the Griffin casually shot a crossbow into the neck of one of them, hoping to distract the guard long enough to escape. The distraction worked, but the bystander died. That bystander was Heinrich's Uncle Benjax, who had been coming to see Heinrich after a recent argument and to gift him with a family heirloom.
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Zanerith has never been entirely sure of how he came to be in custody of Arddeth Derlyn, the Half-Elf Harper who went on to raise him. Arddeth has been, and remains, tight lipped about that mission into the Underdark that saw him emerge with a Half-Drow infant. Zan has also never been sure why Arddeth didn’t hand him over to the Drow in the Ardeep Forest, where Arddeth’s estate rests beside.  The gods know that Arddeth wasn’t afraid to place the infants and children that he was known for “rescuing” in unconventional situations, like he did with that bugbear infant he placed with the Dwarven Mountainflowers in Waterdeep, so placing Zan with the Drow in the Ardeep would have seemed like a good fit. However, some of the children Arddeth came into possession of he ended up raising himself on his estate. The reasons why  Arddeth placed some children with others to raise, but raised some himself remained a mystery to Zan.
  
A pocket sized stone sundial with tiny gemstones at each hour. This was a Mountainflower family heirloom that Uncle Benjax had on him when he was killed by one of the Griffins who the City Watch had been pursuing. Uncle Benjax had been coming to find Heinrich and give the small sundial to him as a gift after the two of them had gotten in one of their larger arguments about Dwarf/Goblinoid conflicts and the plight of Goblinoids, who Heinrich feels have been discriminated against. Uncle Benjax hoped that by gifting Heinrich with something that had been passed down in the Mountainflower family, that he could somehow convey just how much he loves Heinrich and truly considers him to be a part of his family. Unfortunately, Benjax was killed before the sundial could be given to Heinrich. Heinrich's Aunt gave him the sundial instead and explained the significance.
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While Arddeth was gruff and a demanding disciplinarian, he was also not without love for his adopted charges. Zan spent his childhood and adolescence being well provided for. He enjoyed the company of his adopted brothers and sisters, of all races. But Arddeth also made sure his charges paid close attention to their studies and to their training in fighting and combat. For Zan that meant training in using his chosen weapon, the rapier, and that he was trained in the use of magic as it developed.
  
Having been raised in Waterdeep by a Dwarven couple amid a multitude of other races, Heinrich always knew he was a different kind of bugbear. He also knows that many, if not the majority, of bugbears out in the world fall under an evil alignment. And he also knows, "Not all bugbears..." BUT he also has something of a disconnect between what he knows intellectually and his desire to connect with his blood ancestry. The result is that he has something of a romanticized view of bugbear culture. Maybe they are aggressive and violent because other races are oppressing them. Maybe the dwarves are the ones who are aggressive in they way they are so uptight and rigid about everything and make enemies of the goblinoid races when they don't have to. This was a major source of arguments and discord between Heinrich and his adoptive father, Uncle Benjax, prior to his passing. He certainly has a fondness for Dwarven culture also, having been raised in it, but he wants Bugbear culture to be a little more noble than it probably actually is. He even practices something of a personal devotion to the Bugbear deity Grankhul, but it's a romanticized, watered down version of Grankhul that his clerics would probably sneer at, and Grankhul himself would take issue with if Heinrich ever had a true encounter with him.
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Arddeth had always assumed that natural magic in Zan was due to the Drow side of his heritage. However, that perception changed when Zan was 17. During that 17th year Arddeth decided it would be beneficial for Zan to experience some of his Drow cultural heritage and brought Zan, along with some of his other charges, into the Ardeep to participate in one of the festivals of the goddess Eilistraee hosted by her Drow followers living in that forest.   At that festival, Zan was introduced to one of Eilistraee’s priestesses who was also known for her proficiency for seership. She proclaimed Zan as one who has been directly touched by Eilistraee with the potential to become a powerful defender and advocate of her faith.  But there was more. The priestess also saw the touch of another.  She gave Zan the strange title of “the Doubly Chosen” and told him that it was unclear if his path would lie with the light or the dark. She advised him that his path through this uncertainty would lie in his ability to balance both these energies and find his own way.  
  
Heinrich has earned the moniker of "The Dancing Beast" in the fighting ring for his agile, quick, acrobatic fighting style. Despite his size, he manages a fluid, graceful movement. As a hobby, he has picked up quite a proficiency with a deck of cards, which he always has on him and is shuffling and reshuffling in a flashy, showy fashion. He's also learned several card tricks. His impressive stealth has saved his ass a number of times. Nobody expects the big guy to be able to hide in the way that he does.
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Zan didn’t know what to make of these proclamations.  They just sounded weird.  The future can’t be fixed.  He was in control of his own destiny and he wasn’t going to let some old Drow woman he just met dictate his life to him. At the same time, he felt a strange pull to this new faith. He had never heard of Eilistraee before, and he had never encountered Drow before despite himself being Half-Drow.  Meeting these Drow and seeing their joyous festival made him feel like he had a place to belong. And he wanted to learn more about Eilistraee.
  
Heinrich has always loved Midsummer and the variety of different holidays for the various gods and religious traditions that surround it. Since he was obviously discouraged from observing devotion to the bugbear deities he has done some cherry picking from the other festivals and part of the reason he likes Midsummer, and Midwinter to a lesser extent is that there are so many festivals to cherry pick from. In particular, he has very fond memories from his youth of The Grand Revel, which his parents focused on because of their connection to the Harpers, and also of the Dwarven festival of The Axe Held High.
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For Arddeth’s part, he took the seer’s words in a way that Zan wasn’t expecting.  Instead of embracing those words, Arddeth advised Zan that they would not be paying anymore visits to the Ardeep Drow, and he doubled down on Zan’s combat training, almost as if Zan might be able to fight off the outcome of the seer’s words. 
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The relationship between Zan and Arddeth started to become strained. Zan started to see his adopted guardian as a controlling taskmaster. There were many arguments. Zan also failed to heed Arddeth’s command not to associate with the Drow in the Ardeep. He regularly snuck away from the estate to meet up with the Drow and began learning about Eilistraee and her faith, participating in as many festivals as he could. He also began supplementing his  combat training from Arddeth with training from Eilistraee’s followers. In particular, the Drow wizard named Dalnyon Ki'ntriel began training him in the sorcerous magic that was blossoming in him. He found in Dalnyon a mentor, a friend, and sometimes a lover.
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As Zan’s training with Arddeth and the Ardeep Drow continued, He was brought into the Harpers. Arddeth started taking Zan on some missions, but never on any that involved rescuing and placing infants. Arddeth kept Zan off those missions. Zan knew they happened, but he assumed he was not yet high enough in the Harper organization to be trusted with that work. 
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One night, Zan overheard Arddeth and the Harper agent Zavalinda arguing. Zavalinda was chastising Arddeth, criticizing his methods, accusing him of manipulating the situations in which he was rescuing children from
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“I love all the children I save.  Sometimes they need me to move their situations along so that I’m able to rescue them. The outcome is never in question. We know these children will need saving eventually. It’s better that I hasten their situations so I can put them in a better place.” Arddeth declared.
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“Hasten?” Zavalinda replied. “There is a big difference between saving children and creating the situation from which they need saving.”
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Arddeth was indignant.  “I have provided some of the best Harper agents we have to this organization, as you well know!”
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Zan had heard enough. Had Arddeth “hastened” Zan’s need for saving also? How different would his life had been if he were allowed to experience the love of his mother and father and raised among his own kind?  This was the last straw.  The final proof of how controlling Arddeth had been in so many ways.  Zan decided that he wanted no part of Arddeth’s  manipulations.  Zan quickly and secretly gathered his things, left a brief note, and left that night.
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The next several months were difficult.  Zan made his way to several different cities, getting by as a he could.  He soon found that the most effective way for him to make coin was by selling his skill with the rapier. Sometimes this meant taking on the title of an “adventurer” and sometimes it meant something a little less savory. 
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Eventually he met Akshay, a Half-Orc who headed up a small crew of smugglers.  Zan found that it wasn’t his skill with the sword that made him useful, although that did come in handy from time to time, but he found that he was quite skilled with deception and stealth, and had a certain talent for persuading others to his point of view. All these skills combined, along with the fact that he and Akshay got along rather well in each other’s beds, made him an excellent addition to Akshay’s crew.
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He picked up additional skills from Akshay, and soon found himself with a growing reputation as someone who was able to move items quickly, efficiently, and secretly, from one location to another.  This did mean that at times he was working with criminals and moving things that were quite illegal, but just as often he found he was able to help people too by moving them out of dangerous places or by smuggling weapons to those who are oppressed. This helped justify the times he took on other, less noble jobs. And the coin didn’t hurt either.
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On one such job, the crew was tasked with sneaking a small group of people out of Thay. The group consisted of a young noblewoman, her guard, her much older maidservant, and several others. After they had successfully completed the job, Zan found a rapier with a jet black handle left in the compartment where the people had been hiding.  He assumed it had belonged to one of those they had just transported.  When he touched the blade, it whispered to him. “Chosen.” It whispered to Zan in his dreams all that night. In fact, it almost felt as if Zan had made some sort of agreement, or had bargained with those whispers in his dreams.  When he woke up the next morning, he couldn’t quite recall the details of those dreams, and the blade was gone. But he knew something had changed.  He felt that he had new power that he had not had previously.
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Several months ago, Akshay’s crew took on a job that involved smuggling a woman into Luskan. It soon became apparent that Zan and the woman knew each other.  Much to his surprise, their client was the Harper agent Zavalinda. After her successful mission, she reached out to Zan.  “Come back to us,” she requested.  “I know how angry you are with Arddeth.  Some of that is not without merit. But you’ve grown into a man of some skill. The Harpers can put those skills to good use.  Do something important with those skills.  Change our world for the better with those skills.  You are in control of your own destiny and the Harpers truly want to help you shape that destiny... apart from the influence of Arddeth.  We have a place for you if you want it.
  
 
==Important Individuals==
 
==Important Individuals==
 
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{| align="none" border="0" style="background: white"
| [[Image:Zavelinda.jpg|left|150px]] || '''Zavelinda'''<br>''Harper • Mentor''<br>Zavelinda is a monk of some skill
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| [[Image:Zavelinda.jpg|left|150px]] || '''Zavelinda'''<br>''Harper • Current Mentor''<br>Zavelinda is a monk of some skill
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|-style="background: gainsboro"
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| [[Image:Arddeth.jpg|left|150px]] || '''Arddeth Derlynn'''<br>''Foster Parent/Guardian • Former Mentor''<br>
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|-style="background: white"
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| [[Image:Chumley.jpg|left|150px]] || '''Chumley'''<br>''Loyal Companion • Mastiff''<br> Knows the guard trick
 
|-style="background: gainsboro"
 
|-style="background: gainsboro"
| [[Image:Benjax.jpg|left|150px]] || '''Uncle Benjax'''<br>''Adopted Father (deceased) • Bard''<br> xxx
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| [[Image:Akshay.jpg|left|150px]] || '''Akshay Govind'''<br>''Smuggler • Former Employer''<br>  
 
|-style="background: white"
 
|-style="background: white"
| [[Image:Maylephia.jpg|left|150px]] || '''Aunt Maylephia'''<br>''Adoptive Mother • Baker''<br>xxx
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| [[Image:Dalnyon-kintriel.jpg|left|150px]] || '''Dalnyon Ki'ntriel'''<br>''Hand of the Protectors • Friend/Lover/Magical Mentor''<br>  
 
|-style="background: gainsboro"
 
|-style="background: gainsboro"
| [[Image:Luchezga.jpg|left|150px]] || '''Luchezga'''<br>''Agent of the Waterdeep Watch''<br>The half-orc Luchezga is a pugilist and fighter of some talent. For many years, she was part of the cage-fighting circuit, and beat a good many folk in the ring with her unarmed fighting tactics. Eventually, though, it happened: the Watch raided one of the biggest Griffin Gathers during a big fight, and she was instrumental in seizing and arresting Valesta. As it turned out, Luchezga is a member of the Watch, and she'd been planted among the fight scene in order to identify and arrest the people involved. Luchezga escaped her apprehension on the way to gaol, though, which is a source of great frustration for the fighty half-orc. To this day, she still seeks to dismantle the gangs of Waterdeep. She is a student at the Monastery of the Sun, studying the Way of the Sun Soul with Abbot Alger.
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| [[Image:xxx.jpg|left|150px]] || '''xxx'''<br>''xxx • xxx''<br>  
 
 
Luchezga and Heinrich became friends as they were fighting in matches, sometimes pairing up and fighting as a duo against other pairs. They were always quite popular with the crowds when paired up this way. In fact, Luchezga was the more experienced fighter and took Heinrich under her wing when he first started fighting in the matches and trained with him, training him how to fight and please the crowds. Secretly, she was fond of him and hoped that he wouldn't really fall in with the Griffins and always encouraged him to seek something better. After Benjax died and Heinrich officially became a Harper and went back undercover with the Griffins, of course both Heinrich and Luchezga were unaware that the other was working undercover. When the inevitable raid by the watch happened, Heinrich would have been captured along with Valesta, but Luchezga let him go and warned him to straighten himself out or the next time he would get more than just a warning. Of course, Heinrich's mission keeps him with the Griffins, and he knows that he will at some point come back face to face with Luchezga.
 
 
|-style="background: white"
 
|-style="background: white"
| [[Image:Whorbi-worldthrone-older.jpg|left|150px]] || '''Whorbi Worldthrone'''<br>''Harper Wizardess''<br>The dwarven wizardess was one of the first apprentices of the renowned but reclusive Ahmadar of the Seven Runes, one of the earliest known dwarven wizards in the wake of the Thunder Blessing of the dwarven peoples. Whorbi is not merely a member of the noble dwarven Clan Worldthorne, and thus one of the most important members of the dwarven community in Waterdeep. She is also a Harper of some rank, and takes the responsibilities and traditions of the Harpers very seriously.
 
 
Whorbi comes across as a total hardass to Heinrich. She was close friends with Benjax and Mayliphia, especially Benjax. Ever since Benjax died she rides Heinrich HARD. She won't let up on him. Heinrich thinks she's a racist, cold hearted bitch who hates him because he's a bugbear and blames him for Benjax's death. The truth: She sees great potential in Heinrich and cares about him deeply, and despite the fact that he's a bugbear and Benjax was a dwarf, she sees Benjax's legacy living on in Heinrich and wants to push Heinrich to be the best he can be and honor the memory of his adopted father. Heinrich might be TOO much like his obstinate adopted guardian because he can't see the way Whorbi cares for him. Instead he fights against her, much as he did Benjax.
 
 
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Zan (Zanerith) Derlyn
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Race: Half-Drow, Class: Sorcerer 4/Warlock 3
Background: Smuggler (Variant), Alignment: Chaotic Good
Patron Deity: Eilistraee, the Dark Maiden
Factions: Harpers Renown 8
Ability Scores
Strength 10 (+0), Dexterity 16 (+3), Constitution 12 (+1);
Intelligence 10 (+0), Wisdom 10 (+0), Charisma 18 (+4)
Proficiencies
Bonus: x
Saving Throws: Strength +1, Dexterity +4, Constitution +5 (proficiency), Intelligence +1, Wisdom +1, Charisma +8 (proficiency)
Skills: Athletics +3, Deception +7, Perception +3 (with Advantage when holding Sentinel Shield), Performance +7, Persuasion +7, Stealth +6
Tools: Disguise Kit, Hand Drum, Pan flute, Vehicles (Water)
Languages: Common, Drowic, Goblin, Orc, Undercommon
Armor: Light, Medium, Shields
Weapons: Martial Weapons, Simple Weapons
Traits
Darkvision (120ft), Fey Ancestry, Drow Magic, Sorcerous Origin: Divine Soul, Divine Magic: Chaos, Favored by the Gods, Font of Magic, Metamagic (Quickened Spell, Twinned Spell), Otherworldly Patron: The Hexblade, Pact Magic, Hexblade's Curse, Hex Warrior, Eldritch Invocations (Agonizing Blast, Devil's Sight), Pact Boon: Pact of the Blade
Feats
Elven Accuracy (+1 to Charisma, reroll one dice when rolling an attack at advantage)
Combat
Attacks:Dagger: +6, 1d4+3,• Revenancer: +8, 1d8+5 (1d10+5)• Eldritch Blast: +7, 1d10+4
Armor Class: 16 (breastplate),+1 Cloak of Protection, +2 Sentinel Shield, Initiative: +5 (with Advantage when holding Sentinel Shield), Speed: 30 ft (+5 feet with Boots of Advanced Speed)
Hit Points: 44, Hit Dice: 4d6, 3d8
Social
Personality Traits: I enjoy doing things others believe to be impossible. • I’m a born gambler who can’t resist taking a risk for a potential payoff.
Ideals: People. For all the ways I bend the rules and break the law, I place a high value on community and friendship.
Bonds: I owe everything to my mentor — but I know he's not the saint everyone thinks he is.
Flaws: I don't know who my warlock patron is... but I'm sure everything will work out for the best.


Character Relevant Links

Harpers: Faction Info • Harpers of Waterdeep • Dusken Glade Cell
People & Places: Local NeighborhoodDusken Glade Inn • Rivals • Promenade-in-Exile • The Derlynn Estate
Campaign Info: House RulesGroup Treasury

Appearance

Age: 36
Gender: Cisgender Male
Height: 5'10"
Weight: 170 lbs
Hair: White/Silver
Eyes: Amber
Skin: Slightly ashen

Zan appears outwardly as a handsome, charismatic man. Smooth slightly ashen skin covered in black tattoos. Silver white hair that is usually kept shoulder length and often pulled back in a pony tail. Amber, almost red eyes that sparkle with playfulness but somehow also hint at a deep well of anger laying just beneath the surface. He often wears a black breastplate, leather breeches, and a black cloak of protection.

Traits

Racial Traits

  • Ability Score Increase Charisma +2, Dexterity +1, Constitution +1
  • Languages Common, Drowic, Goblin, Orc, Undercommon
  • Darkvision See in dim light within 60 feet as if it were bright light, and in darkness as if it were dim light (Due to Warlock Eldritch Invocation Devil's Sight can see see normally in darkness, both magical and nonmagical, to a distance of 120 feet.)
  • Fey Ancestry Advantage on saving throws against being charmed, and magic can’t put you to sleep.
  • Drow Magic You know the Moonfire cantrip. When you reach 3rd level, you can cast the Faerie Fire spell once with this trait and regain the ability to do so when you finish a long rest. When you reach 5th level, you can cast the Darkness spell once with this trait and regain the ability to do so when you finish a long rest. Charisma is your spellcasting ability for these spells.

Sorcerer Features

  • Proficiencies:
    • Armor: None
    • Weapons: Daggers, darts, slings, quarterstaffs, light crossbows
    • Tools: None
    • Saving Throws: Constitution, Charisma
    • Skills: Insight, Persuasion
  • Sorcerous Origin: Divine Soul Sometimes the spark of magic that fuels a sorcerer comes from a divine source that glimmers within the soul. Having such a blessed soul is a sign that your innate magic might come from a distant but powerful familial connection to a divine being.
    • Divine Magic:
      • Your link to the divine allows you to learn spells from the cleric class. When your Spellcasting feature lets you learn or replace a sorcerer cantrip or a sorcerer spell of 1st level or higher, you can choose the new spell from the cleric spell list or the sorcerer spell list. You must otherwise obey all the restrictions for selecting the spell, and it becomes a sorcerer spell for you.
      • In addition, you learn the Cure Wounds spell, based on the Good affinity that is the source of your divine power. It is a sorcerer spell for you, but it doesn’t count against your number of sorcerer spells known. If you later replace this spell, you must replace it with a spell from the cleric spell list.
    • Favored by the Gods: Divine power guards your destiny. If you fail a saving throw or miss with an attack roll, you can roll 2d4 and add it to the total, possibly changing the outcome. Once you use this feature, you can’t use it again until you finish a short or long rest.
  • Font of Magic:
    • You have 4 sorcery points that you regain when you finish a long rest.
    • Creating Spell Slots: You can transform unexpended sorcery points into one spell slot as a bonus action on your turn. 1st Level = 2 points, 2nd Level = 3 points. Any spell slot you create with this feature vanishes when you finish a long rest.
    • Converting a Spell Slot to Sorcery Points:As a bonus action on your turn, you can expend one spell slot and gain a number of sorcery points equal to the slot’s level.
    • Empowering Reserves:When you make an ability check on your turn, you can spend 2 sorcery points to gain advantage on the check
    • Inbuing Touch:As an action, you can touch one nonmagical weapon and spend 2 sorcery points to imbue it with magic for 1 minute. For the duration, the weapon is considered magical for the purpose of overcoming immunity and resistance to nonmagical attacks.
    • Sorcerous Fortitude:As an action, you can spend any number of sorcery points to roll a d4 for each point expended. You gain a number of temporary hit points equal to the total rolled.
  • Metamagic:
    • Quickened Spell: When you cast a spell that has a casting time of 1 action, you can spend 2 sorcery points to change the casting time to 1 bonus action for this casting.
    • Twinned Spell: When you cast a spell that targets only one creature and doesn’t have a range of self, you can spend a number of sorcery points equal to the spell’s level to target a second creature in range with the same spell (1 sorcery point if the spell is a cantrip).

Warlock Features

  • Proficiencies:
    • Armor:Light
    • Weapons: Simple
  • Otherworldy Patron: The Hexblade You have made your pact with a mysterious entity from the Shadowfell — a force that manifests in sentient magic weapons carved from the stuff of shadow. The shadowy force behind these weapons can offer power to warlocks who form pacts with it. Many hexblade warlocks create weapons that emulate those formed in the Shadowfell. Others forgo such arms, content to weave the dark magic of that plane into their spellcasting. Because the Raven Queen is known to have forged the first of these weapons, many sages speculate that she and the force are one and that the weapons, along with hexblade warlocks, are tools she uses to manipulate events on the Material Plane to her inscrutable ends.
    • Hexblade's Curse: You have the ability to place a baleful curse on someone. As a bonus action, choose one creature you can see within 30 feet of you. The target is cursed for 1 minute. The curse ends early if the target dies, you die, or you are incapacitated. Until the curse ends, you gain the following benefits. You can’t use this feature again until you finish a short or long rest.
      • You gain a bonus to damage rolls against the cursed target. The bonus equals your proficiency bonus.
      • Any attack roll you make against the cursed target is a critical hit on a roll of 19 or 20 on the d20.
      • If the cursed target dies, you regain hit points equal to your warlock level + your Charisma modifier (minimum of 1 hit point).
    • Hex Warrior:
      • You have acquired the training necessary to effectively arm yourself for battle. You gain proficiency with medium armor, shields, and martial weapons.
      • The influence of your patron also allows you to mystically channel your will through a particular weapon. Whenever you finish a long rest, you can touch one weapon that you are proficient with and that lacks the two-handed property. When you attack with that weapon, you can use your Charisma modifier, instead of Strength or Dexterity, for the attack and damage rolls. This benefit lasts until you finish a long rest. If you later gain the Pact of the Blade feature, this benefit extends to every pact weapon you conjure with that feature, no matter the weapon’s type.
    • 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.
      • Improved Pact Weapon: Your pact weapon can be your spellcasting focus, gains a +1 bonus to its attack and damage rolls (unless it already has a magic bonus), and can be a shortbow, longbow, light crossbow, or heavy crossbow.
      • Devil's Sight:You can see normally in darkness, both magical and nonmagical, to a distance of 120 feet.
    • Pact Boon: Your otherworldly patron has bestowed a gift upon you for your loyal service.
      • Pact of the Blade: As an action, you can create a pact weapon in your hand (you choose the form, you're proficient with it, and it counts as magical). You can also transform a magic weapon into your pact weapon by performing a special ritual.

Smuggler Background Traits

On a rickety barge, you carried a hundred longswords in fish barrels right past the dock master’s oblivious lackeys. You have paddled a riverboat filled with stolen elven wine under the gaze of the moon and sold it for twice its value in the morning. In your more charitable times, you have transported innocents out of war zones or helped guide herd animals to safety on the banks of a burning river.

  • Skill Proficiencies: Perception, Stealth
  • Tools: Vehicles (Water)
  • Languages: Goblin
  • Shady Contact:
    • You have a reliable and trustworthy contact who acts as your liaison to a network of other smugglers and criminals. You know how to get messages to and from your contact, even over great distances; specifically, you know the local messengers, corrupt caravan masters, and seedy sailors who can deliver messages for you.

Harper Faction Traits

Harper Pins
Wondrous Item, rare (attunement)
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Wrought by certain finesmiths and enchanted by Harper magicians, the Harper pin provides a number of benefits to the attuned wearer based on their standing within the Harpers as a faction. Pins manifest power based on their attunement to Harper bearers. An un-attuned pin is referred to as being dormant.

  • Basic Abilities: No rank. Harper pins, even those which are dormant, are themselves immune to divination magics. They never register as magical to spells or spell-like abilities.
  • Rank 1. The Harper attuned to the pin may, as a bonus action and mere act of will requiring neither speech nor gesture, command the pin to change its shape into another piece of jewelry. It never appears to be worth more than 5gp, although this value can be for a piece that is obviously costume jewelry. If the wearer is in any way targeted by a dispel magic, even if the pin is not the target of that spell, it automatically reverts to its normal harp-and-moon shape.
  • Rank 2. In addition to the above abilities, the pin functions as a ring of mind shielding, without the soul-retention property of that ring. Harpers with some experience can learn to invest their pins with a fragment of personality. Instead of causing mind-reading to simply fail (which is suspicious), they can cause the pin to "loop" a set of thoughts of their choice, usually setting a cycle of thoughts appropriate to their current cover story. A pin's thought loop can be reset during a short rest.
    • Renown 5. The pin is capable of playing a counter-tune when the attuned Harper encounters spells that would charm them, granting the bearer advantage on all saves against such spells and abilities. The pin also drinks in the power behind magic missiles, rendering the bearer immune to them. Either of these effects cause a shapechanged pin to revert to its normal, harp-and-moon shape.
    • Renown 6. The pin protects the bearer from electrical attacks, granting resistance to lightning damage. This effect causes a shapechanged pin to revert to its normal, harp-and-moon shape.
  • Rank 3. A shapechanged pin is now immune from reverting to its normal shape by any means.

Harpers in good standing might receive the following benefits:

Apprentice (Rank 1)

Prerequisite: Harper renown 1+

  • Sponsor: You have a senior Harper who has not only brought you into the Harpers, but helps to train you. The time it takes to learn one of the mentor's proficiencies by the Training downtime activity is reduced in half. They can also arrange training with other Harpers for proficiencies outside of their own baliwick. This benefit applies until the Harper achieves Rank 2. Zan's mentor is Zavelinda
  • Signs at Twilight: All Harpers learn the methods for contacting and getting information to the Harpers. The use of certain songs, signs to look for, identifying phrases - all the techniques that Harpers use to find one another in a cold and dangerous world. Harpers also learn the meaning, placement, and discovery of the specific Harper sigils.
  • Magic Access: Harpers can get access to Common potions and scrolls at the cost it takes to create those items, and have them within 1d4 days.

Harper (Rank 2)

Prerequisite: Rank 1 and Harper renown 3+

  • Song Training: By the time a Harper has spent some time as part of the organization, training in music is an inevitability. Harpers use music for a great many things - to subtly identify themselves to one another, to pass coded messages back and forth, and even the use of musical metaphor in their interactions. The Harper of this Rank may choose proficiency in a musical instrument or the Performance Skill for singing. A proficient Harper may play music that communicates something to other Harpers who hear it in a coded fashion, as well. Proficiency - Performance
  • Harper's Pin: Fully acknowledged agents of the Harpers receive a Harpers pin magic item (see sidebar).
  • Harper Cell: Harper agents are frequently put into a cell structure, giving them the support of allies without endangering the entire organization should they be compromised.
  • Harper Lore: Harpers gain access to repositories of arcane lore - spells known only to Harpers. These are taught by mentors or provided as spell-scrolls. These spells may be considered to be added to the spell-list of the character.
  • Harper Trainers: Harpers make a point of providing access to training for its newer operatives. This includes tool proficiencies, languages, and Exploits; Harpers of this rank pay only half the normal cost for that training.
  • Magic Access: Harpers can get access to Common potions and scrolls at half the cost it takes to create those items, and have them within one day. They can get access to Uncommon potions and scrolls at the cost it takes to create those items, and have them within 1d6 days.
  • Mentor: Full Harpers can bring others into the Harpers by acting as their sponsors. They are considered entirely responsible for their apprentices until such time as those apprentices are considered full Harpers themselves.
  • Continuing Training: Renown 6+. Harpers of this degree of experience within the group have continued their training in music, choosing another musical instrument to be proficient in. They may also choose proficiency in a disguise kit, herbalism kit, or poisoner's kit. (Pan Flute and Disguise Kit)

Faction Role: Harpblade

Warriors and tacticians, harpblades are front-line fighters ready to come to the defense of Those Who Harp. Despite the name, anyone who is ready to defend their own - whether they use sword or spell - can operate as a harpblade.

  • Harpblade (Rank 2): A newly-made harpblade is expected to focus on their fighting skills, for you will be expected to put your life on the line for Harper goals almost immediately. Choose one Exploit from among the following 1st rank Exploits: Battlefront Shift or Heroic Effort.

Exploits

  • Begin the Hunt: You quickly identify your prey and ready yourself to attack.
    • Once per long rest you may gain a +2 bonus to initiative and may designate one creature you can see within 100 feet as your quarry for 1 minute. You gain a +1d4 bonus on damage rolls against that creature until it is no longer your quarry.
  • Heroic Effort: On the brink of exhaustion, you still manage to rally your allies.
    • As a bonus action, while you are below half hit points, each ally within 50 feet of you who can see or hear you gains a +1d4 bonus on damage rolls until you are above half hit points. Additionally, you gain 2d10 temporary hit points. This exploit can be used once per long rest.

Feats

  • Elven Accuracy:
    • +1 to Charisma
    • Whenever you have advantage on an attack roll using Dexterity, Intelligence, Wisdom, or Charisma, you can reroll one of the dice once.

Resources

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  • Coins: 769 cp • 12,822 sp • 0 ep • 1,036 gp • 0 pp • Other coins: x
  • Gems: x

Magic Items

  • Cloak of Protection (w/Guardian Quirk): You gain a +1 bonus to AC and saving throws while you wear this cloak and it whispers warnings to its bearer, granting a +2 bonus to initiative if the bearer isn't incapacitated.
  • Sentinel Shield: While holding this shield, you have advantage on initiative rolls and Perception checks. The shield is emblazoned with a symbol of an eye. Wielding a shield increases your Armor Class by 2.
  • Winged Boots: While you wear these boots, you have a flying speed equal to your walking speed. You can use the boots to fly for up to 4 hours, all at once or in several shorter flights, each one using a minimum of 1 minute from the duration. If you are flying when the duration expires, you descend at a rate of 30 feet per round until you land. The boots regain 2 hours of flying capability for every 12 hours they aren't in use.
  • Potion of Healing: (x3) 2d4+2 hp
  • Revenancer: +1 Longsword, finesse property, see side bar
  • Figurine of Wonderous Power - Silver Raven: This silver statuette of a raven can become a raven for up to 12 hours. If you use an action to speak the command word and throw the figurine to a point on the ground within 60 feet of you, the figurine becomes a living creature. The creature is friendly to you and your companions. It understands your languages and obeys your spoken commands. If you issue no commands, the creature defends itself but takes no other actions. Once it has been used, it can't be used again until 2 days have passed. While in raven form, the figurine allows you to cast the animal messenger spell on it at will.

Equipment

Carried Equipment

  • In Hand: Revenancer, Sentinel Shield, daggers (2)
  • Worn: Cloak of Protection, a Harper pin, breastplate, Winged Boots
  • Belt: component bag
  • Backpack: crowbar, hand drum, hammer, mess kit, pitons (10), playing card set, potion of healing (3), rations (10 days), rope - hempen (50ft), tinderbox, torch (10), waterskin,

Stored Equipment

  • clothes - common, traveler's, fine
  • Boots of Advanced Speed

Lifestyle

  • Modest: (1 gp/day).

Downtime Actions

Downtime: 60/80 days

  • Religious Service (Promenade-in-Exile): 10 days Gain one Favor; gain one Hero Point. Complication? No.
  • Harper Cell Development (Build Cell Security): 10gp + 10 days Gain +2 Security investment. Complication? No.
  • Harper Cell Development (Build Cell Allies): 10gp + 10 days Gain +2 Allies investment. Complication? No.
  • Exploit Training (with Darkflame Sanolu Fezeera of the Promenade-in-Exile): 50gp + 10 days Learn the Begin the Hunt Exploit Complication? No.
  • Carousing (among lower class in the Dock Ward): 10gp + 10 days Gain one Contact (lower class). Complication? No.
  • Harper Cell Development (Build Cell Security): 20gp + 10 days Gain +2 Security investment. Complication? No.

Backstory

Zanerith has never been entirely sure of how he came to be in custody of Arddeth Derlyn, the Half-Elf Harper who went on to raise him. Arddeth has been, and remains, tight lipped about that mission into the Underdark that saw him emerge with a Half-Drow infant. Zan has also never been sure why Arddeth didn’t hand him over to the Drow in the Ardeep Forest, where Arddeth’s estate rests beside. The gods know that Arddeth wasn’t afraid to place the infants and children that he was known for “rescuing” in unconventional situations, like he did with that bugbear infant he placed with the Dwarven Mountainflowers in Waterdeep, so placing Zan with the Drow in the Ardeep would have seemed like a good fit. However, some of the children Arddeth came into possession of he ended up raising himself on his estate. The reasons why Arddeth placed some children with others to raise, but raised some himself remained a mystery to Zan.

While Arddeth was gruff and a demanding disciplinarian, he was also not without love for his adopted charges. Zan spent his childhood and adolescence being well provided for. He enjoyed the company of his adopted brothers and sisters, of all races. But Arddeth also made sure his charges paid close attention to their studies and to their training in fighting and combat. For Zan that meant training in using his chosen weapon, the rapier, and that he was trained in the use of magic as it developed.

Arddeth had always assumed that natural magic in Zan was due to the Drow side of his heritage. However, that perception changed when Zan was 17. During that 17th year Arddeth decided it would be beneficial for Zan to experience some of his Drow cultural heritage and brought Zan, along with some of his other charges, into the Ardeep to participate in one of the festivals of the goddess Eilistraee hosted by her Drow followers living in that forest. At that festival, Zan was introduced to one of Eilistraee’s priestesses who was also known for her proficiency for seership. She proclaimed Zan as one who has been directly touched by Eilistraee with the potential to become a powerful defender and advocate of her faith. But there was more. The priestess also saw the touch of another. She gave Zan the strange title of “the Doubly Chosen” and told him that it was unclear if his path would lie with the light or the dark. She advised him that his path through this uncertainty would lie in his ability to balance both these energies and find his own way.

Zan didn’t know what to make of these proclamations. They just sounded weird. The future can’t be fixed. He was in control of his own destiny and he wasn’t going to let some old Drow woman he just met dictate his life to him. At the same time, he felt a strange pull to this new faith. He had never heard of Eilistraee before, and he had never encountered Drow before despite himself being Half-Drow. Meeting these Drow and seeing their joyous festival made him feel like he had a place to belong. And he wanted to learn more about Eilistraee.

For Arddeth’s part, he took the seer’s words in a way that Zan wasn’t expecting. Instead of embracing those words, Arddeth advised Zan that they would not be paying anymore visits to the Ardeep Drow, and he doubled down on Zan’s combat training, almost as if Zan might be able to fight off the outcome of the seer’s words.

The relationship between Zan and Arddeth started to become strained. Zan started to see his adopted guardian as a controlling taskmaster. There were many arguments. Zan also failed to heed Arddeth’s command not to associate with the Drow in the Ardeep. He regularly snuck away from the estate to meet up with the Drow and began learning about Eilistraee and her faith, participating in as many festivals as he could. He also began supplementing his combat training from Arddeth with training from Eilistraee’s followers. In particular, the Drow wizard named Dalnyon Ki'ntriel began training him in the sorcerous magic that was blossoming in him. He found in Dalnyon a mentor, a friend, and sometimes a lover.

As Zan’s training with Arddeth and the Ardeep Drow continued, He was brought into the Harpers. Arddeth started taking Zan on some missions, but never on any that involved rescuing and placing infants. Arddeth kept Zan off those missions. Zan knew they happened, but he assumed he was not yet high enough in the Harper organization to be trusted with that work.

One night, Zan overheard Arddeth and the Harper agent Zavalinda arguing. Zavalinda was chastising Arddeth, criticizing his methods, accusing him of manipulating the situations in which he was rescuing children from.

“I love all the children I save. Sometimes they need me to move their situations along so that I’m able to rescue them. The outcome is never in question. We know these children will need saving eventually. It’s better that I hasten their situations so I can put them in a better place.” Arddeth declared.

“Hasten?” Zavalinda replied. “There is a big difference between saving children and creating the situation from which they need saving.”

Arddeth was indignant. “I have provided some of the best Harper agents we have to this organization, as you well know!”

Zan had heard enough. Had Arddeth “hastened” Zan’s need for saving also? How different would his life had been if he were allowed to experience the love of his mother and father and raised among his own kind? This was the last straw. The final proof of how controlling Arddeth had been in so many ways. Zan decided that he wanted no part of Arddeth’s manipulations. Zan quickly and secretly gathered his things, left a brief note, and left that night.

The next several months were difficult. Zan made his way to several different cities, getting by as a he could. He soon found that the most effective way for him to make coin was by selling his skill with the rapier. Sometimes this meant taking on the title of an “adventurer” and sometimes it meant something a little less savory.

Eventually he met Akshay, a Half-Orc who headed up a small crew of smugglers. Zan found that it wasn’t his skill with the sword that made him useful, although that did come in handy from time to time, but he found that he was quite skilled with deception and stealth, and had a certain talent for persuading others to his point of view. All these skills combined, along with the fact that he and Akshay got along rather well in each other’s beds, made him an excellent addition to Akshay’s crew.

He picked up additional skills from Akshay, and soon found himself with a growing reputation as someone who was able to move items quickly, efficiently, and secretly, from one location to another. This did mean that at times he was working with criminals and moving things that were quite illegal, but just as often he found he was able to help people too by moving them out of dangerous places or by smuggling weapons to those who are oppressed. This helped justify the times he took on other, less noble jobs. And the coin didn’t hurt either.

On one such job, the crew was tasked with sneaking a small group of people out of Thay. The group consisted of a young noblewoman, her guard, her much older maidservant, and several others. After they had successfully completed the job, Zan found a rapier with a jet black handle left in the compartment where the people had been hiding. He assumed it had belonged to one of those they had just transported. When he touched the blade, it whispered to him. “Chosen.” It whispered to Zan in his dreams all that night. In fact, it almost felt as if Zan had made some sort of agreement, or had bargained with those whispers in his dreams. When he woke up the next morning, he couldn’t quite recall the details of those dreams, and the blade was gone. But he knew something had changed. He felt that he had new power that he had not had previously.

Several months ago, Akshay’s crew took on a job that involved smuggling a woman into Luskan. It soon became apparent that Zan and the woman knew each other. Much to his surprise, their client was the Harper agent Zavalinda. After her successful mission, she reached out to Zan. “Come back to us,” she requested. “I know how angry you are with Arddeth. Some of that is not without merit. But you’ve grown into a man of some skill. The Harpers can put those skills to good use. Do something important with those skills. Change our world for the better with those skills. You are in control of your own destiny and the Harpers truly want to help you shape that destiny... apart from the influence of Arddeth. We have a place for you if you want it.”

Important Individuals

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Zavelinda
Harper • Current Mentor
Zavelinda is a monk of some skill
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Arddeth Derlynn
Foster Parent/Guardian • Former Mentor
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Chumley
Loyal Companion • Mastiff
Knows the guard trick
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Akshay Govind
Smuggler • Former Employer
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Dalnyon Ki'ntriel
Hand of the Protectors • Friend/Lover/Magical Mentor
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