Nyoka, Former Familiar

[Kavonde]

Nyoka, Former Familiar
Poppet Cleric of Mazludeh 1

 

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

Fortitude	+4
Reflex	+5
Will	+9
Perception	+7
Speed	25'
Senses	Darkvision

 

 

 

 

 

Acrobatics	T	+5
Arcana	T	+5
Athletics	U	+0
Crafting	U	+2
Deception	T	+3
Diplomacy	U	+0
Intimidation	U	+0
Lore (Nantambu)	T	+5
Medicine	T	+7
Nature	T	+7
Occultism	U	+2
Performance	U	+0
Religion	T	+7
Society	T	+5
Stealth	U	+2
Survival	T	+7
Thievery	U	+2

Ancestry: Poppet

Heritage: Toy Poppet

Ancestry Feat: Helpful Poppet

Ancestry Paragon: Harmless Doll

Constructed

Flammable

Background: Sponsored By Teacher Ot

Background Skill Feat: Survey Wildlife

Divine Font: HealingHealing Font: You gain additional spell slots each day at your highest level of cleric spell slots. You can prepare only heal spells in these slots, and the number of slots is equal to 1 plus your Charisma modifier.

Doctrine: Cloistered Cleric

Deity: Mazludeh

Deity's Favored Weapon: Shield boss

Class Feat 1: Domain Initiate (Family)

 

GEAR

Backpack	Caltrops
Healer's Tools	Religious Symbol (Wooden)
Bedroll	Chalk x10
Flint and steel	Rations x2
Rope (50 ft.)	Varnish (a.k.a. Poppet Soap)
Torch x5	Waterskin
Writing Set	Hourglass
Light mace	Steel shield w/ boss

SPELLS PREPARED

Cantrips	1st Rank
Daze	Heal
Divine Lance	Bless
Prestidigitation	Sanctuary
Shield
Stabilize
Dancing Lights (Innate Primal)

DESCRIPTION

Nyoka is a foot-and-a-half-tall wooden doll, created as a toy for a young Nantambu girl who grew up to became a wizard and enchanted her childhood companion to serve as her familiar. Nyoka's design is simple but appealing, with big, wide eyes and a large head. Her hair is a puff of thick curls, and she favors unadorned robes and dresses in shades of green. Since becoming fully self-aware, she's mastered the art of shaping her facial expressions, and her exaggerated features make it very easy to read her moods, thoughts, and opinions even from several feet away (and up).

Her voice is high and sweet--one might call it doll-like--and often squeaks when she's frustrated or frightened. She typically uses formal structures of speech, but she falls into less academic language when she's angry. She always wears a tiny wooden pendant carved with the symbol of Mazludeh (an ouroboros enclosing a clutch of seven eggs) and carries a wee little mace and reinforced shield when she travels outside the city.

BACKSTORY

About eighteen years ago, a woodworker in Nantambu put the finishing touches on a doll he made for his daughter's second birthday. The toy was tall for a doll, a foot and a half from her feet to the top of her head, but with beautifully articulated joints, even at the hands and ankles. The little girl loved her new toy, named it Nyoka, and took it with her wherever she went.

As the little girl grew up, she discovered she had a talent for magic. That talent was honed and refined by a kind man named Teacher Ot who took the girl under his wing and helped prepare her to enroll in the Magaambya once she was old enough. One of the first things the girl learned was how to create simple constructs called poppets, and her first poppet was her beloved childhood doll, Nyoka.

The girl learned much and began to grow in power, and she further enchanted Nyoka, making the poppet her familiar and embuing in her the rudimentary foundations of the personality she had always imagined the doll to have. The poppet served the girl ably, helping her with her studies and fetching her meals when she forgot to eat.

And then the girl, lured by the promise of lost knowledge and power, decided to go on an adventure.

Only Nyoka returned. Teacher Ot found her outside his door, curled into a ball and sobbing, though her wooden eyes could produce no tears. Ot cared for her and comforted her as best he could, cried with Nyoka over the loss of his beloved student, and allowed the poppet--a familiar who should have perished with her master--to live with him.

And the teacher began to suspect something: that some part of the girl remained with her doll. Some part of her soul had become the foundation for Nyoka's own. And so, despite the unorthodox nature of the situation, he resolved that Nyoka should take the girl's place at the Magaambya.

In the meantime, though Nyoka had been a wizard's familiar, she found herself drawn more to faith than the arcane. She became obsessed with protecting others and preventing them from wandering off into dangerous situations where they might meet the same fate as the girl who had loved her. Her need to safeguard others became so strong that, to her shock, Mazludeh, Mother of Hearth and Wall, responded to her earnest desires and granted her the ability to channel divine power in her name.

Nyoka is just beginning her first term at the Magaambya. She is studious, serious, and prone to anxiety, and--being both a poppet and a priest--unsure if she even truly belongs here. Still, she knows that Teacher Ot fought for her to be here, and that the girl had dreamed of attending this school all her life. She will not allow herself to disappoint either of them.

 

Edited April 25 by Kavonde (see edit history)