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ABOUT

Lilias Hollow

NAME

Female

GENDER

26

AGE

Human

SPECIES

Revelation

TEAM

Hex

CODE NAME

Eve Davenport

ALIAS

FIRST IMPRESSIONS

VISUAL: A narrow, keen-eyed woman standing at 5'6", seen most often in a wheeled chair or using a silver-headed walking stick to get around. Her hair is long and black, shaved on her left side. She tends to move deliberately to avoid bringing attention to her attenuated physical condition. Lilias dresses expensively in dark and often monochrome shades, with jewellery adorning her fingers and her ears. She usually wears a high collar and full-length sleeves, even in warm weather.

FEATURES: Her raven familiar, Belzath, is usually nearby. Beneath her clothes are extensive tattoos covering much of her body, forming a complex magical contract.

AURAL: Her speaking voice is cool, smooth, and medium-pitched. She enunciates well and projects like someone used to commanding attention.

OLFACTORY: Clean laundry, perfume, and magic. She also may smell of pipe-smoke or liquor.

DEMEANOUR: Confident and direct. She heads straight for what she wants and speaks as though she's used to having her demands fulfilled without question, although she's not particularly charming or persuasive. On a good day, she is inquisitive and even playful. When irritated, she goes from cool straight to frosty.

ABILITIES

FAMILIAR

Lilias is almost always attended by her familiar, a large raven named Belzath. Belzath acts as her personal spell library, and by communing with him she is able to prepare different spells from her repertoire on a day-to-day basis. He assists her with magic-item creation and can "deliver" spells for her by touching the spell's target in her place. He also has some minor magical abilities of his own, allowing him to act as his mistress's personal attendant by magically opening or closing things, heating or chilling her food and drink, and cleaning or drying her belongings. Belzath can speak, but rarely does so with anyone besides Lilias.

SPELLCASTING

Lilias is an arcane spellcaster with no particular specialty. She has a modest repertoire of spells, most of which have general utility or are used for protection. A full list of her spells and abilities is noted in the Expanded Abilities comment at the bottom of this journal entry.

HEXES

Lilias knows a few different hexes that she can use to her enemies' disadvantage. She can put a creature temporarily to sleep, or curse them with bad luck for a short time. She can mirror hostile effects targeting her so they also affect another creature. She can also fly or levitate for short periods, or simply slow her falling speed.

MAGIC ITEM CREATION

In addition to casting spells directly, Lilias can imbue magic into objects in order to create magic tools or clothing. Creating magic items is much more costly and time-consuming than spellcasting, which limits the number of these projects she can undertake in any given time period.

ALCHEMY

Lilias's knowledge of herbalism and alchemy allow her to identify various substances and poisons, though she is not generally in the habit of concocting anything more exciting than medicinal teas.

FENCING ABILITY

Lilias was trained in fencing and used to be a skilled swordfighter, but a leg injury and a magic-related chronic condition have prevented her from wielding a sword for the past year or two. Since LILITH repaired the injury to her leg, she has been practising her swordsmanship, though her stamina remains drained by the demands of her magic.

BACKGROUND

Born in 4681 AR, Lilias was raised as an only child in a minor noble family in the city-state of Magnimar. At age 19 she had a business marriage to a half-elven man named Basil Cantrill, and began to work with her husband to expand their interests within the city.

Over the following years, they found some success and attracted the attention of a rival noble house. After increasing pressure to sell their business, their winery mysteriously burnt down with Basil inside. Months later, after struggling to uncover the truth of the incident and pick up the pieces of her life, Lilias left to become a travelling swordswoman in a last-ditch effort to save her debt-laden family from bankruptcy.

About a year into her travels, her adventuring group suffered misfortune in an ancient ruin, and Lilias emerged as the sole survivor, now bearing a crippling leg injury and strange magical tattoos—an agreement with an otherworldly shadow patron, binding her to it in exchange for magic power. She applied herself as a fledgling magic user to continue her quest, and over the past few months she has been working in Sandpoint with a new group of adventurers, tackling troubles that are beyond the abilities of the town guard.

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Expanded Abilities

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FAMILIAR:

Lilias's familiar, Belzath, acts as her conduit to her magical patron, storing inside him the knowledge of all the spells Lilias can cast, like a small library. As long as he and Lilias are within 1 mile of each other, they can sense each other and share emotions through their bond.

Belzath acts as Lilias's valet by assisting her with both everyday tasks and magic-related endeavours. He is a capable item-crafting assistant, allowing her to create magic items more efficiently. If Lilias and Belzath are in contact when she casts a spell that requires her to touch her target, Belzath can touch the target to "deliver" the spell.

Belzath can also use a couple of spell-like abilities, though doing so does not require him to gesture or speak. Generally he has enough magical energy to use both abilities habitually throughout the day, though heavy use can deplete his magic until he's had a night's rest.

• Prestidigitation—Allows him to perform minor magical tasks, such as levitating, colouring, cleaning, soiling, chilling, warming, or flavouring small amounts of material. The spell can also create small objects, though they are always crude and fragile, and therefore useless as weapons or tools. All effects of the spell, beyond simply cleaning, soiling, or moving something, last only 1 hour.
• Open/Close—Opens or closes an unlocked door, window, or reasonably-sized object.

SPELLS:

Lilias chooses which spells to prepare at the beginning of each day by communing with her familiar. Unless otherwise stated, casting any spell on this list requires her to speak aloud (verbal component) and gesture with at least one free hand (somatic component). Some spells also require her to have a certain item or substance on hand (material component or focus).

cantrips:
Simple spells that are not magically taxing to cast. They can be cast several times each before exhausting the spell, although Lilias can only use four different cantrips on any given day.

• Arcane Mark—Inscribes Lilias's personal mark on a touched surface, either invisibly or softly glowing. For objects, lasts until dispelled; when placed on a creature, it fades after about a month.
• Dancing Lights—Creates a glowing silhouette or spheres which can be moved around freely. Lasts about a minute.
• Detect Magic—Detects spells and magic items within 60 feet, for up to 6 minutes per cast.
• Detect Poison—Detects poison in one creature, object, or 5-foot area within 40 feet.
• Light—Touched object shines like a torch for 60 minutes. Requires only a verbal component and a material component (a firefly).
• Mending—Repairs a small object that has been damaged or even destroyed, but cannot recreate missing pieces.
• Message—Facilitates whispered conversations over a distance of up to 160 feet. Requires a focus (a piece of copper wire).
• Stabilize—Causes a dying creature within 40 feet to become stable.

level 1 spells:
Lilias can cast up to five level 1 spells per day, which she can prepare from the following list:

• Brightest Night—Grants up to three creatures improved low-light vision for 6 hours.
• Cure Light Wounds—Heals a touched living creature or harms touched undead by a small amount.
• Enlarge Person—Makes one person within 40 feet about twice their original size in all dimensions (to a maximum of 10 feet), for up to 6 minutes. Requires a material component (a pinch of powdered iron).
• Mage Armour—Surrounds a touched creature with an invisible field of force, protecting them as though they were wearing armour, but without the weight or bulk. Lasts for 6 hours. Requires a focus (a piece of cured leather).
• Mount—Summons a saddled horse or pony which can be used as a willing steed for up to 12 hours. The mount disappears when the spell ends, or when it is "killed." Requires a material component (a bit of horse hair).
• Obscuring Mist—Creates a cloud of thick fog around Lilias's current position, spreading 20 feet in all directions. Lasts up to 6 minutes.
• Reduce Person—Makes one person within 40 feet about half their original size in all dimensions, for up to 6 minutes. Requires a material component (a pinch of powdered iron).
• Silent Image—Creates a visual illusion of a creature, object, or force within 640 feet. The illusion disappears when Lilias stops concentrating on the spell. The illusion cannot be felt, heard, or smelled. Requires a focus (a bit of fleece).
• Unseen Servant—Creates an invisible, shapeless force that can complete simple tasks when ordered. Lasts for 6 hours. Requires a material component (a piece of string and a bit of wood).

level 2 spells:
Lilias can cast up to four level 2 spells per day, which she can prepare from the following list:

• Blindness/Deafness—Causes a creature within 160 feet to become either blind or deaf. Lasts until dispelled. Requires only a verbal component.
• Darkness—Creates an area of darkness with a radius of 20 feet. Lasts up to 6 minutes. Requires a material component (bat fur and a piece of coal).
• Hold Person—Causes a person within 160 feet to become paralyzed and freeze in place. Lasts less than a minute. Requires a focus (a small, straight piece of iron).
• Vomit Swarm—This spell conjures a big swarm of spiders to attack enemies, with Lilias as the origin. The spiders vanish after less than a minute. Requires only a somatic component.
• Web—Conjures a large, sticky spiderweb filling a 20-foot-radius area. Lasts up to 60 minutes, unless destroyed earlier (such as by fire). Requires a material component (a spider web).

level 3 spells:
Lilias can cast up to three level 3 spells per day, which she can prepare from the following list:

• Deeper Darkness—Creates an area of deep darkness with a radius of 60 feet. If the surrounding light is dim or darker, the area is supernaturally dark (creatures who can see in darkness cannot see in it). Lasts up to 60 minutes. Requires a material component (bat fur and a piece of coal).
• Lightning Bolt—Discharges a 120-foot line of lightning from Lilias's hand, harming creatures and objects in its path. Requires a material component (fur and a glass rod).
• Remove Curse—Removes curses from a touched creature or object.
• Shroud of Innocuity—Makes Lilias and up to three other creatures appear to viewers as an ordinary member of the viewers' own race for 6 hours.
• Sleet Storm—Conjures a 40-foot-radius, 20-foot-high cylinder of intense sleet that blocks vision and makes the ground slippery. Lasts less than a minute. Requires a material component (dust and water).

HEXES:

Hexes are slightly different from spells in that Lilias doesn't need to prepare specific hexes at the beginning of each day, and she doesn't need to speak or gesture to activate them.

• Cackle—Extends the duration of the Misfortune hexe for creatures within 30 feet.
• Flight—Magic makes her body lighter, allowing her to stay afloat in water and slow her speed when falling for up to an hour each day. She can also levitate or fly for up to 6 minutes each.
• Gift of Consumption—When Lilias is subject to an effect that targets her vitality, curses a creature within 30 feet to suffer that effect as well. A creature can only be successfully affected by this hex once per day.
• Misfortune—Strikes a creature with bad luck for a few moments, making them more likely to mess up anything they attempt to do. What specific effect this has on other characters is up to player discretion. A creature can only be successfully affected by this hex once per day.
• Slumber—Puts a creature into a deep sleep for a short time. The magic is in effect for less than a minute, after which time they can wake normally. A creature can only be successfully affected by this hex once per day.

MAGIC ITEM CREATION:

Lilias is able to imbue her magic into physical objects in order to make magic items. Most of these items have small effects that work constantly (such as a cloak that makes you slightly more resistant to magic, or an amulet that makes your body more resistant to weapon damage). She can also make items that can "cast" spells she knows (such as a pipe that can summon an Unseen Servant when smoked). The items can be wearable, or be things like magic bags, cups that never spill, or figurines that move on their own. Magic items can have limited uses, either total or per day, or the magic can always be in effect (such as a magic bag that's permanently bigger inside).

Magic items require a significant amount of both time and expensive materials to create, requiring more of both the more advanced the effects of the item are. For example, an item that casts a single spell when used and then breaks would be easier and cheaper to make than an item that can cast a spell over and over before needing to be recharged. She cannot enchant weapons or armour.