I mean she is pretty heavily an evocation wizard, not sure what she might have in addition to that maybe some Cleric for a touch of healing, that's actually a tough one.
Also although not a perfect match bladesinger kinda has some of the right support abilities, maybe In conjunction with shadow blade with a little reskinning could do a good job.
"Where words fail, swords prevail. Where blood is spilled, my cup is filled" -Cartaphilus
"I have found the answer to the meaning of life. You ask me what the answer is? You already know what the answer to life is. You fear it more than the strike of a viper, the ravages of disease, the ire of a lover. The answer is always death. But death is a gentle mistress with a sweet embrace, and you owe her a debt of restitution. Life is not a gift, it is a loan."
Most of the magic she uses is straight up evocation so evoker wizard is the first thing to come to mind. Sorcerer could work (Storm Sorcerer comes immediately to mind with how she likes to fly around on gusts of wind) except for how Sypha is also an accomplished researcher and good at learning new spells, which is definitely a wizard thing.
The tricky thing about Sypha as a character is that her spell-choices are based directly on her spells from Castlevania III, where she can conjure either flames, Ice Shards, or balls of Lightning. The Netflix Anime seems to favor Ice over the other two, at least partially (I assume) because it's more "visceral" than the other two... flames can incinerate a monster, but ice can be a a massive blade that stabs gorily into one instead.
It's possible to find a spellcaster class that favors one or more of those elements, there isn't really one that focuses on all three. I feel like it's the least interesting response, since it's not really a great facsimile of her specific abilities, but Evocation Wizard seems to be the class that most easily accomplishes the skills she specializes in. She doesn't really use much healing magic... any healing she does is more medical than magical, so I think she'd more likely have the Healer feat and proficiency with an herbalist's kit.
Although one class that works surprisingly well for her, but still isn't ideal, would be a 4-Elements monk. Sypha is a fairly skilled martial fighter, although she still doesn't quite work as a monk... it would require a lot of reflavoring. She's strong enough to fight some people physically, but you'd have to reflavor her unarmed strikes as like... momentarily conjuring ice chunks that strike her opponents. Still, the biggest problem is the limits of the class itself... it gives so few abilities and such limited uses of them, that it might accomplish the right feel for one fight or maybe 2 in a day, but only once you're fairly high level.
Hi, everyone
How would you make the Speaker; Sypha from the anime, Castlevania?
I think she would be fun to make and write her story and stuff, so I want to make her even if I don't get to play her yet.
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I mean she is pretty heavily an evocation wizard, not sure what she might have in addition to that maybe some Cleric for a touch of healing, that's actually a tough one.
Also although not a perfect match bladesinger kinda has some of the right support abilities, maybe In conjunction with shadow blade with a little reskinning could do a good job.
"Where words fail, swords prevail. Where blood is spilled, my cup is filled" -Cartaphilus
"I have found the answer to the meaning of life. You ask me what the answer is? You already know what the answer to life is. You fear it more than the strike of a viper, the ravages of disease, the ire of a lover. The answer is always death. But death is a gentle mistress with a sweet embrace, and you owe her a debt of restitution. Life is not a gift, it is a loan."
I personally think that Oder of scribe works best
Most of the magic she uses is straight up evocation so evoker wizard is the first thing to come to mind. Sorcerer could work (Storm Sorcerer comes immediately to mind with how she likes to fly around on gusts of wind) except for how Sypha is also an accomplished researcher and good at learning new spells, which is definitely a wizard thing.
The tricky thing about Sypha as a character is that her spell-choices are based directly on her spells from Castlevania III, where she can conjure either flames, Ice Shards, or balls of Lightning. The Netflix Anime seems to favor Ice over the other two, at least partially (I assume) because it's more "visceral" than the other two... flames can incinerate a monster, but ice can be a a massive blade that stabs gorily into one instead.
It's possible to find a spellcaster class that favors one or more of those elements, there isn't really one that focuses on all three. I feel like it's the least interesting response, since it's not really a great facsimile of her specific abilities, but Evocation Wizard seems to be the class that most easily accomplishes the skills she specializes in. She doesn't really use much healing magic... any healing she does is more medical than magical, so I think she'd more likely have the Healer feat and proficiency with an herbalist's kit.
Although one class that works surprisingly well for her, but still isn't ideal, would be a 4-Elements monk. Sypha is a fairly skilled martial fighter, although she still doesn't quite work as a monk... it would require a lot of reflavoring. She's strong enough to fight some people physically, but you'd have to reflavor her unarmed strikes as like... momentarily conjuring ice chunks that strike her opponents. Still, the biggest problem is the limits of the class itself... it gives so few abilities and such limited uses of them, that it might accomplish the right feel for one fight or maybe 2 in a day, but only once you're fairly high level.
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