★cal

• scars and freckles all over body. don't forget nicked right ear
• magic appears like blood or viscera
• can have 3 tails, usually when fighting
• eyes surrounding their head are optional
• got blown up. burn scars optional
• ears move with mood

cal was born in a coastal town--at least, as coastal as you can get when an endless void replaces every ocean in the world. their parents were renowned adventurers, although retired, both powerful and magical in their own regard. cal aspired to be just like them when they grew up. they tried their damnedest to spark magic between their fingertips, studying and taking classes and being tutored by their own father. but they never could cast even the smallest cantrip, so instead, they learned to fight.

becoming an adventurer was easy in their hometown. they joined a guild, traveled to different continents with mysterious folk and friends alike, they did mercenary work to earn a bit of gold for themself. the years passed quickly as they explored and fought and never quite found what they were looking for. things were good. aside from the guilt they felt for failing their parents, aside from the looming existentialism of what exactly they were supposed to be doing. things were good.

until an old friend called them down to the guild hall.

the friend had gathered a group of confident adventurers they'd traveled with before to take on the tomb located in the cursed forest on their home continent. the tomb was something of an urban legend--explorers who dove into it were never heard from again, and the older residents of town acted skittish when the topic was brought up. cal and the gathered party were confident in their skills, though. they agreed together to unveil the secrets of that tomb.

they should've been more afraid.

traps littered the corridors. nothing the group couldn't handle, of course, it just made every step a living hell, every corner a paranoid guess. and the automatons that stepped out of chambers in the walls were easy enough to fight, ignoring the blood oozing into their clothes. at the end of the tomb, the group stumbled into a dark chamber. a necklace sat on a pedestal at the center of the room, just behind the looming figure of a devil twelve feet tall.

safe to say, not all of them made it out alive. in fact, as far as Cal knew, they were the only one to survive. their party was torn apart in front of them, and in a last ditch effort they swiped the necklace from the pedestal and ran. with their mouth tasting of blood and their lungs burning and a heartbeat pounding in their ears, they almost didn't hear the whispered offer for help at the back of their mind. but they did. and in desperation, they took it.

DARKVISION
you can see in the dark up to 60 ft

FEY ANCESTRY
you have advantage on saves against being charmed, and magic can't put you to sleep

TRANCE
you enter a meditative trance instead of sleeping, which only lasts 4 hours

AWAKENED MIND
you can telepathically communicate with a creature that knows at least 1 language within 30 ft of you

ELDRITCH INVOCATIONS
agonizing blast
gift of the ever-living ones
investment of the chain master
shroud of shadows
witch sight
chains of carceri
minions of chaos

PACT OF THE CHAIN
you know find familiar. your familiar may take the form of an imp, psuedodragon, quasit, or sprite
you can forego one of your attacks to allow your familiar to make one using its reaction

ENTROPIC WARD
using your reaction, you can impose disadvantage on attacks made against  you. if the attack misses, you gain advantage on your next attack against that opponent until the end of your turn

THOUGHT SHIELD
you're immune to mind reading unless you allow it
you have resistance to psychic damage, and a creature dealing psychic damage to you takes the same amount you do

MYSTIC ARCANUM
you know one 6th level spell that you can cast once per long rest

BLOODLETTING FOCUS
when using a 1st level spell or higher to inflict damage, you deal an extra 2 + the spell's level necrotic damage

CHANNEL DIVINITY
turn undead
blood puppet

eldritch blast
minor illusion
toll the dead
spare the dying
guidance
thaumaturgy

find familiar
hex
hellish-rebuke
sleep
ray of sickness
(cleric spells are prepared daily)

crown of madness
invisibility*
suggestion
(cleric spells are prepared daily)

counterspell
sending

banishment
dimension door
raulothim's psychic lance
sickening radiance

conjure elemental*
dream
hold monster*
telekinesis

mental prison

crown of stars