Change Appearance. As an action, Avhexa can change her appearance and voice. She determines the specifics of the changes, including her coloration, hair length, and sex. She can also adjust her height and weight, but not so much that her size changes. She can make herself appear as a member of another race, though none of her game statistics change. She can’t duplicate the appearance of a creature she’s never seen, and she must adopt a form that has the same basic arrangement of limbs that she has. Her clothing and equipment aren’t changed by this trait. She stays in the new form until she uses an action to revert to her true form or until she dies.
Innate Spellcasting. Avhexa's innate spellcasting ability is Charisma. She can innately cast the following spells (spell save DC 15), requiring no material components:
At will: detect magic, jump, levitate, mage armor (self only), speak with dead, thaumaturgy
1/day each: arcane gate, inflict wounds, true seeing
Spellcasting. Avhexa is a 14th-level spellcaster. Her spellcasting ability is Charisma (spell save DC 15, +7 to hit with spell attacks). She regains her expended spell slots when she finishes a short or long rest. Avhexa knows the following warlock spells:
Cantrips (at will): fire bolt, light, mage hand, prestidigitation
1st-5th level (3 5th-level slots): armor of Agathys, arms of Hadar, crown of madness, clairvoyance, contact other plane, detect thoughts, dimension door, dissonant whispers, dominate beast, telekinesis, vampiric touch
Whispering Aura. At the start of each of Avhexa's turns, each creature of her choice within 5 feet of her must succeed on a DC 15 Wisdom saving throw or take 10 (3d6) psychic damage, provided that Avhexa isn't incapacitated.
Dagger. Melee or Ranged Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, reach 5 ft. or range 20/60 ft., one target. Hit: 4 (1d4 + 2) piercing damage.
Description
A changeling warlock has infiltrated House Cannith, and has taken the identity of Avhexa d’Cannith, a so-called lost granddaughter of the great Merrix d’Cannith the senior, creator of the warforged. This opportunistic changeling, cursed—or blessed, from her point of view—with an aberrant dragonmark, wants to turn the incredible power of House Cannith to her own whims. She longs to enrich herself by reigniting the Last War and selling weapons of cataclysmic power to the highest bidder. She cares little if all of Khorvaire is destroyed in the process, as long as her own personal whims are met.
In order to do so, she has posed as a credible leader of House Cannith and used her charms to wrap some of House Cannith’s most powerful diplomats and artificers around her finger. With her newfound allies, she established a secret base in the Labyrinth and set some of the greatest artificers in Khorvaire to constructing airships that can travel at unthinkable speed, allowing them to launch devastating attacks unannounced. She plans to keep the Lune d’Or as her personal flying mansion, but the other ships of this class will go to anyone who can afford them—and Khorvaire’s leaders will be scrambling to buy once the first arcane bombs of the new war are dropped.
Avhexa sees the cataclysmic destruction of Khorvaire as a sad but unavoidable side effect of her desire to enrich herself. Little does she know that her warlock patron, a kalaraq quori of nigh-unstoppable eldritch power, is using her to weaken the world so that it might be taken over by the Dreaming Dark.
Personality Trait. "I give out false compliments like candy to ingratiate myself to others."
Ideal. "I will destroy of Khorvaire if it means my own personal whims are met."
Bond. "I long to become rich by reigniting the Last War and selling weapons of cataclysmic power to the highest bidder."
Flaw. "Beneath my smiling exterior is the cold heart of a narcissistic sociopath."