Kaelen Vance, a Protector Aasimar Warlock — D&D 5e NPC portrait
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Kaelen Vance

"The Harvester of Hushed Truths"

Protector Aasimar Warlock (The Great Old One) LN Lvl 7 Farmland Cosmic Groundskeeper

Male (He/Him) · Early 40s (looks like a weathered farmer with celestial grace)

Ability Scores

STR
14
+2
DEX
12
+1
CON
15
+2
INT
10
+0
WIS
16
+3
CHA
18
+4

Combat

Armor Class
13
Heavy Leather Overalls (Studded Leather)
Hit Points
52
Hit Dice: 7d8
Initiative
+1
Speed
30 ft.
Proficiency
+3
Passive Perception
13

Attacks

Eldritch Trowel+71d6+4 slashing + 2d6 psychic
Eldritch Blast (2 beams)+71d10+4 force

Personality

Personality

Kaelen speaks in slow, measured rural idioms, often comparing complex metaphysical threats to livestock or weather patterns. He is perpetually wiping dirt (or shimmering stardust) off his hands onto his heavy leather overalls.

Ideal

Equilibrium. Everything has a season to grow and a season to be cut down; the stars are no exception to the harvest.

Bond

The 'Perfect Yield'—a theoretical state of the multiverse where the Far Realm and the Material Plane coexist without tearing one another apart.

Flaw

He is terrifyingly indifferent to 'divine' authority; he once told a Solar to move because it was casting too much shade on his violet-glass wheat.

Backstory

Kaelen Vance was once a man of simple rhythms: the spring sowing, the summer rain, and the autumn reaping. He tended a humble plot of barley in a valley where the air always smelled of dry earth and coming storms. That changed the night the sky didn't just rain—it shattered. While his neighbors hid under their beds as the stars began to blink like unblinking eyes, Kaelen stood in his field, hoe in hand, annoyed that the cosmic rift was trampling his crop. He didn't hear a voice of madness; he heard a resume. A vast, silent intelligence, an architect of the void, recognized the man's singular, stubborn dedication to order. It didn't want a priest or a puppet—it wanted a gardener.

Now, Kaelen travels the world as a cosmic groundskeeper. Where others see the intrusion of the Far Realm as an apocalypse, Kaelen sees it as an invasive species. He approaches gibbering horrors with the same grim patience he once used against a locust swarm, 'pruning' reality back into its proper shape. He carries a rusted hand-trowel that can slice through the fabric of the planes, believing that even the Great Old Ones must respect a well-kept fence. To Kaelen, the universe is just a very large farm, and entropy is merely a lack of proper weeding.

Abilities & Actions

The Gardener's Pruning (Recharge 5–6)

As an action, Kaelen targets a creature or an ongoing magical effect within 30 feet. If it is a creature, it must succeed on a DC 15 Charisma saving throw or be 'pruned,' taking 4d10 force damage and being teleported 20 feet to an unoccupied space of Kaelen's choice as reality reasserts itself. If it is a magical effect of 4th level or lower, the effect is instantly dispelled.

Eldritch Trowel

Kaelen uses his signature rusted hand-trowel to perform a melee spell attack (+7 to hit). On a hit, it deals 1d6 + 4 slashing damage plus 2d6 psychic damage. If the target is an aberration or an elemental, Kaelen has advantage on the attack roll.

Radiant Soul (1/Day)

As a bonus action, Kaelen transforms, his eyes glowing with pale starlight and two skeletal, translucent wings of shimmering grain sprouting from his back. For 1 minute, he has a fly speed of 30 feet, and once on each of his turns, he can deal an extra 7 radiant damage to one target when he deals damage with an attack or spell.

Apathy of the Void

Kaelen is immune to the frightened condition. His mind is adjusted to the 'Perfect Yield,' making him resistant to psychic damage.

DM Notes

Kaelen should be played with 'aggressive normalcy.' He isn't impressed by the party's epic quest unless it involves a 'infestation' he needs to clear. Sample dialogue: 'Right then. That's a nasty bit of non-Euclidean rot you've got on your boots. Best let me scrape that off before it seeds.' Gesture: He constantly checks the 'soil' of the reality around him, even in stone dungeons, poking at cracks with his trowel.