Akarna Awakens

Game Master Prosperum

• 1) She’s already been an adventurer, growing up on a pirate ship, but now she wants to go north to discover her father’s ship’s fate.
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• 3) The Spellweaver boasts a crew of about 50 men, but it was mostly her father (the captain) and brothers who she spent a lot of time with. She got to know some of the ship’s officers as well because the captain would often dine with his officers in his quarters.
• 4) She always looked forward to her visits to Eredorn (the port she visited most often). It did not affect her choice of class (it chose her) but it definitely shaped the training of her class.
• 5) Her being endowed with elemental energy in the storm.
• 6) Her father growing up, but nowadays it is Maheem, the sha’ir whom her father paid to train her. (Even if the sha’irs using elemental magic isn’t quite the same as kineticism, there’s probably enough overlap to prove somewhat helpful.) He is a demanding teacher because he strives to bring out the best in his pupils. He does not tolerate sloppy thinking or laziness, and in that way he is like her father, who also runs a tight ship, at least as far as pirates go.
• 7) Her father, brothers, and Maheem.
• 8) She faced her share of negative treatment from the crew, most often just being utterly ignored as a child even when she wanted or was ordered to help out, but as she grew, she also had to learn to defend herself from the advances of drunk pirates.
• 9) Greed. Being the daughter of a pirate captain, that was bound to rub off on her a little, and she was always eager for every bit of pirate loot she could get her hands on. She often pilfered things aboard the ship when she thought she could get away with it.
• 10) The Free Isles, basically here and there all over anywhere with a port in the “inner” sea (but most often Yshoka, Rivermeet, Conrnyria, Omrinth).
• 11) Dry land. She was born a salty sailor but with the elemental energies of water and air coursing through her, she longs even more fiercely for the sea.
• 12) Surprisingly, storms. They are always a sailor’s constant worry, and even though she controls the power of the storm within her, she can’t help but be a bit afraid of that power even as she uses it.
• 13) As a tween, she baited a crewman who was well-respected among the crew but who she found annoying for some petty reason into taking some of the captain’s jewels (which she had pilfered herself) and then tattled on him. It ruined the man’s career, got him a fierce beating, and he was dishonorably thrown off-board at the nearest port.
• 14) What happened to the Stormweaver.
• 15) As I said before, I’d love to bring in a new character and rejoin the campaign.
• 16) She had a few secret trysts on board her father’s ship with men her age aboard the ship, but given how anyone who got caught would likely be keelhauled, there weren’t many takers. She’s had several boyfriends in Eredorn since she moved there, but is currently single. Not open to NPC relationships at this time.
• 17) She loves to make little trinkets out of bits and bobs she finds around ships to give as good luck charms. By the time she left her father’s ship, probably at least a third of the crew had at least one of her “luckies” as she called them.

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• 1) She has been studying with the sha’ir Maheem to control her powers, but she’s learned about as much as she can and is eager to join the sea once more to track down her father.
• 2) She rents a room in the attic of a boarding house near the Majlis al-Sha’ir.
• 3) Her father gives her an allowance, but since his ship went missing she’s down to her last 15 gold coins.

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• 1) Battlefield control and some healing with Ocean’s Balm. I plan to stay out well out of melee range, give other party members (and/or me) free movement with Four Winds, and blast anything I can.
• 2) Talisman dabbler, I think. It goes well with a superstitious pirate background, just giving her luckies actual magic power.
• 3) Talisman dabbler, as I said. She doesn’t use weapons (so no martial archetypes) and doesn't qualify for spellcaster archetypes with her mental attribute modifiers. Depending on how extensively this campaign uses Drive mechanics, Trick Driver could make me an excellent pilot, giving me free progression for Driving Lore, which can substitute for Piloting or Sailing Lore, and use Dex (+3) instead of Int (+0) when making piloting checks.
• 4) Gate attenuators are a kineticist’s best friend. They give an item bonus to impulse attack rolls and allow you to attune it to one element when you invest them and then once a day you can cast a specific spell based on which element it is currently attuned to. If I decide to take Kinetic Activation, I could activate scrolls, wands, and staves which have one of my elements as a trait. Other than that, just standard armor runes
• 5) Just pretty much any battle, especially at sea, is going to be pretty cinematic and awesome with a mini storm swirling around as her aura and shooting off lightning blasts and water waves.
• 6) See previous answer.

• Name: Jade Morrow
• Pronouns: she/her
• Ancestry: Human (Versatile), Level 1 Feat: Natural Ambition [Class Feat: Ocean’s Balm]
• Versatile Heritage Free General Feat: Incredible Initiative
• Background: Deckhand, trained in Acrobatics & Sailing Lore, Skill Feat: Cat Fall
• Class Build: Kineticist (Dual Gate: Water & Air),
• Attributes: Str +1, Con +4, Dex +3, Int +0, Wis +1, Cha +0
• Water Impulse Feat: Deflecting Wave
• Air Impulse Feat: Four Winds
• Class Feat: Winter's Clutch
• Trained Skills: Acrobatics (background), Athletics, Nature (Kineticist), Sailing Lore, Survival, Thievery
• Weapons: Dagger, Armor: Studded Leather
• Gear:
  
• Backstory: Jade grew up on the decks of the Stormweaver, the brigantine her father captains, working alongside the pirate crew and her two brothers to ply the seas from the Free Isles. It wasn’t a safe life, but their mother died with the birth of Jade and, having no other family in the Free Isles, Captain Jep Morrow reluctantly brought his children aboard to learn the trade, though he would make them hide in the captain’s quarters during raids while they were young. As she grew up, she learned to fight alongside her brothers, although she didn’t progress beyond hand-to-hand fighting and simple weapons. Her father taught her navigation and how to pilot the ship.
  Everything was going swimmingly (pun intended) until in her early teens, the ship encountered a heavy storm and a conflux of elemental energies poured into her in a flash of lightning and rain. Her strange new powers gave her control over both air and water, and while initially the crew thought that her abilities might be a boon from Kassasi (especially given her ability to heal with water), the swirling aura of raindrops and lightning sparks which came to life spontaneously around her frequently and preceded her use of her abilities began unnerving the crew. Her father reluctantly dropped her off in Eredorn until she could develop better control under the tutelage of a sha’ir in the Majlis al-Sha’ir. She’s lived in Eredorn for 5 years now, honing her abilities.
  Her father’s ship is now a month overdue for its promised arrival in Eredorn. She heard of sightings of storms near its likely course up north of the Themis Reaches. She can’t give up hope that her father and brothers are still alive somehow, and she’s eager to find a ship north to discover their fate. Problem is, the allowance her father had given her to provide for her living is running out. Good news is she hears about an expedition north which requires sailing experience…
  
• Image & Appearance She is a redhead with jade green eyes, wearing studded leather armor.