Oona 'Stone-Singer' Thalwyn, a Firbolg Monk — D&D 5e NPC portrait
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Oona 'Stone-Singer' Thalwyn

"Guardian of the Echoes"

Firbolg Monk (Way of Mercy) NG Lvl 7 Archaeologist

Female (She/Her) · Middle-aged, 142 years

Ability Scores

STR
12
+1
DEX
14
+2
CON
13
+1
INT
14
+2
WIS
18
+4
CHA
14
+2

Combat

Armor Class
16
Unarmored Defense
Hit Points
45
Hit Dice: 7d8
Initiative
+2
Speed
40 ft.
Proficiency
+3
Passive Perception
17

Attacks

Unarmed Strike+51d6 + 2 bludgeoning
Quarterstaff+51d8 + 2 bludgeoning

Personality

Personality

She speaks to inanimate objects with the same gentle cadence she uses for children. Her laughter is a deep, rhythmic boom that sounds like heavy river stones rolling over one another. She often stops mid-sentence to fix a loose thread on a companion's cloak or to gently re-seat a dislodged paving stone.

Ideal

Continuity. If we remember where we came from, we are never truly lost to the dark.

Bond

I am the only scribe for a clan that does not want to be written down; I carry their existence in my sketches.

Flaw

I will risk my life to save a fragile ceramic bowl or a crumbling mural, often forgetting that my own life is just as breakable.

Backstory

Oona was raised in the deep, silent cradles of the Moonshae Isles, where her clan lived so harmoniously with the earth they were nearly indistinguishable from the mossy hills. Her 'awakening' came not from a scroll, but from a landslide. While trying to stabilize a collapsing cavern wall, Oona pressed her palms to the stone and felt a pulse—not of life, but of memory. She heard the faint, rhythmic chanting of the miners who had carved the wall centuries prior. In that moment, she realized that when the world forgets, it bleeds; a ruin is not just stone, but a patient in need of a physician.

She departed her clan with a heavy heart and a heavy pack, carrying the 'Echo-Stone Chimes'—a collection of resonant crystals that harmonize with historical sites. Since then, she has walked the 'Way of Mercy' across the continent, though her mercy is as much for the past as the present. She fears that her own people, who keep no written records and leave no scars on the land, will simply evaporate into myth unless she creates a legacy for them. Every copper she earns from adventuring is sent back to her forest to fund the 'Great Archive of the Small,' a library built into the roots of an ancient oak dedicated to the everyday stories of 'insignificant' folk.

Abilities & Actions

Stone-Singer's Triage (3/Day)

Oona can use an action to touch a non-magical object or structure and spend 1 Ki point to cast the Mending cantrip or restore 2d10 hit points to an object. If the object is a ruin or historical artifact, she gains a brief psychic vision of the person who last handled it or the moment it was broken.

Echo-Stone Chimes (Reaction)

When a creature within 30 feet of Oona takes damage, she can use her reaction and spend 1 Ki point to ring her belt-chimes. The resonance creates a localized field of 'temporal stability,' reducing the damage by 1d10 + 4. If this reduces the damage to 0, the target is also cleansed of one condition: blinded, deafened, paralyzed, poisoned, or stunned.

Physician's Touch

When Oona uses her Hand of Healing to restore hit points to a creature, she can also end one disease or one of the following conditions: blinded, deafened, paralyzed, poisoned, or stunned. When she uses her Hand of Harm, she can subject the target to the poisoned condition until the end of her next turn.

Stillness of Mind

Oona can use her action to end one effect on herself that is causing her to be charmed or frightened.

DM Notes

Oona should be played with a massive, grounding presence. She is never in a rush, unless something fragile is about to break. Sample Dialogue: 'Shhh, little wall. You've held up this ceiling for three hundred years; you're just tired. Let me find your rhythm again.' Gesture: She frequently uses a small archaeologist's brush to clean the shoulders of people she likes. She will never knowingly destroy a unique architectural feature, even if it's part of a trap.