Nova V'Ger

Nova V'Ger
Race	Air genasi
Class	Hexblade Warlock
Gender	Female
Family	Breeze V'Ger (Mother) Wade V'Ger (Father)Tornado V'Ger (Brother)Aurora V'Ger (Little Sister)
Residence	Vartonsar[spelling?]
First Appearance	HighRollers: Aerois/Episode 1
Status	Alive

"Nova is a happy-go-lucky scholar who dreams of travelling into space. She travels with Tiangong; a mysterious sword that gives her the powers of a Hexblade Warlock. Fiercely intelligent, but not very world wise!"

Nova V'Ger (pronounced 'vi: \jur\) is Kim Richards' character in the High Rollers D&D for the Aerois campaign. She is an air genasi hexblade warlock.

Nova goes on an adventure together with Aila, Lucius, Qillek and Sentry in the world of Aerois.

Stats

Race		Class & Level		Alignment
Air Genasi		Warlock, Level 15 The Hexblade		-
Background		Patron		Armour Class	Hitpoints
Cloistered Scholar		Tiangong		19	134
Ability Scores
STR	DEX	CON	INT	WIS	CHA
7	16	16	15	8	20
For spells, features, traits, equipment and proficiencies, click here.

Note 1: Hitpoints correct as of Episode 17.
Note 2: Ability Scores correct as of Episode 17.

Note 3: Level, HItpoints and AC updated as of Episode 41

Note 4: Level, Hitpoints, AC and ability scores correct as of episode 55

Note 5: Level, hitpoints, AC and ability scores correct via dndbeyond. In addition, the background name can be found by hovering over the languages section on her dndbeyond character sheet.

Appearance

Nova is an air genasi with blue skin and star-shaped white freckles. Her hair is semi-translucent and light blue. It acts like, and has a texture similar to, a cloud. When exposed to humid and hot temperatures, her hair nearly disappears, becoming “almost like a crew cut.” Her eyes are a similar shade of light blue to her hair.

Her clothes are scholarly, with many pouches for scrolls and books. They have a deep blue color scheme with gold and black highlights.

In Episode 50, Nova sacrificed a portion of her life to maintain power on Aegis IV. As a result, her arm rapidly decomposed; however, the necrosis did not spread any further than her elbow. Though she can still use her arm as normal, it is entirely skeletal. She often tries to conceal the skeletal arm with gloves or a gauntlet.

Personailty

Nova is an enthusiastic, bubbly and friendly. She would only fight to defend herself. She is a home girl and have strong ties with her family. She is studious and is passionate of the stars. Her dream is to explore space, largely driven by the Vartonsar^[spelling?].

History

The genasi city of Vartonsar^[spelling?] was originally not from Aerois but from another planet. Ages ago, an elven Aerois city was experimenting on planar magic despite such experiment was forbidden. The experiment goes wrong, causing the entire city to vanish. Like a swap, Vartonsar^[spelling?] instead took its space and the genasi are first introduced to Aerois. Being an alien race, the event caused initial strife and contention with the indigenous races of Aerois as the genasi are conflicted, now that they are stuck on Aerois and are unable to leave.

Over many years, the genasi eventually integrate with the local races. However, the younger generation, whom have never experienced the conflict and never seen their original home planet, have begun to question why the elders have stopped researching on planar magic to bring them back home; Nova, driven by curiosity, one of those people.

Relationships

TBA

Abilities and Powers

Note: This section only lists prominent spells, features, traits, equipment and proficiencies. See Player's Handbook for more information of the character's race and class.

Link To Character Sheet

Proficiencies;

Skills;

• Arcana - Obtained from her Warlock proficiencies.
• History - Obtained from her Cloistered Scholar background
• Nature - Obtained from her Cloistered Scholar background
• Religion - Obtained from her Warlock proficiencies.

Languages;

• Common - All races gain this language unless otherwise discussed with the DM.
• Primordial - Gained from being a Genasi, as this is the language or elementals and genasi are elemental-kin.
• Draconic - Gained from her Cloistered Scholar background
• Elvish - Gained from her Cloistered Scholar background

(In addition to this, Nova has proficiency with writing tools, where this comes from is unknown. She also has proficiency with weapons and tools as stated in the Hexblade warlock's hex warrior feature)

Tiangong

Main article: High Rollers D&D/Homebrew#Tiangong

Nova carries a distinctive blue and black sword named Tiangong. Besides being a weapon, it also serves as a arcane focus for some of her spellcasting. It's exact nature and origin was originally unknown, even by Nova, but she discovered it during an archaeological exploration in a crashed skiff that had belonged to the Court of Shadows. Her descriptions suggested it may have some kind of sentience or spirit inhabiting it, as it can "speak" to her through images and feelings, including in dreams, which is how she learned it's name. Nova's bond with the sword is very deep in that she speaks of it as though it were a living being, and she can vaguely sense it's location when not in her possession.

Later developments revealed that Tiangong is actually the physical form of a being called an Eterna.  Eterna are sentient beings from a distant planet that have mutable forms, often taking the shape of exotic-looking weapons and armour.  They were allegedly tricked by Kalus Starbane into helping him invade Aerois, and were enslaved to power his various ships and war machines.  Tiangong in particular was said to be one of the Eternal Triumvarate (the Eterna's greatest leaders), and was so powerful that he was split into multiple pieces to be used to power multiple ships and weapons. At least one of these pieces is with Kalus Starbane (as revealed in Episode 41). 

Nova can sense fragments of Tiangong within a certain range: this range can vary greatly, as she sensed a fragment north of Goldthrone from Rosehall, but only felt the fragment in the Nighteye when a few days travel from it.

Tiangong has several forms that it will most likely go through as it begins to collect each of its pieces, Nova collected a piece from Zax Ravos, which transformed Tiangong into its "Echo of the Galaxy" form, this form is capable of speaking to Nova using either the affirmative or negative (Yes or No), but is unable to verbally communicate otherwise.

Shard Shield - As a bonus action, Nova can summon or dismiss the shard shield by pulling it from Tiangong itself, While wielding a "Tier 3" Tiangong shard. In addition, while wielding this shield, Nova has advantage on initiative and Wisdom(perception) checks. In addition, Tiangong's intelligence is increased by 1 and can now communicate with additional, simple, one-word responses.

Energy Crossbow, + 2

This weapon acts as a normal Heavy crossbow, with the changes that it gains a +2 to attack and damage rolls as well as deals radiant damage rather than piercing damage.

Translator Earring

This small brass cuff clips around a creatures ear, and translates other languages they hear into something they can understand (usually common).

The item can translate the following languages: Aarakocra, Elvish, Dwarvish, Common, Giant, Gnomish, Goblin, Halfling and Orc.

Aetherforged Breastplate

This suit of Breastplate has been partially made with Aetherium alloy, making it lighter than normal. The Max Dex bonus for this armour is increased by 1 to a total of 3.

Feats

War Caster

This feat allows Nova to cast spells even when her hands are not free as well as granting her advantage on concentration checks. In addition, when a creature provokes an attack of opportunity from Nova, she can cast a spell that targets only them as a reaction(as long as the spell takes only an action to cast).

Trivia

• Nova was revealed in Day 6 video of the 10 Days of Aerois series to the start off the Aerois campaign.
• Kim revealed that Nova's design drew inspiration from Jillian Holtzmann, a character from the 2016 Ghostbusters movie.
• The name Tiangong means 'Heaven's Palace' or 'Celestial Palace' and likely comes from the Chinese space station of the same name.
• Kim has said that the reason she will not take agonising blast as an eldritch invocation is due to the constant pressuring of her to take it to "optimise" her hexblade, which she finds unnecessary as that isn't how she has fun. D&D is about having fun and playing the way you want to play, harassing a player will only lead to them not wanting to play because people keep telling them they are playing the game "wrong".
• So far, Nova has the highest Charisma of any player character, tying with Trellimar Aleath and Balythas Gerak
• Nova is the first Genasi character in all of High Rollers. The second being Pyri who was played by Tom when Qillek had died, each of these Genasi were also connected by the academy they went to.
• Mark allowed Nova a one time, rule of cool use of Tomb of Levistus that allowed for Nova to freeze her opponent in combat with her.
• Nova has the lowest strength and wisdom out of all of the Aerois crew.
• Idle champions has put Nova's Alignment down as Chaotic Good, however, Mark and the HR crew don't usually use alignment to a huge degree.
• Depending on DM discretion, Nova's War Caster feat allows for her to cast eldritch blast on a creature that provokes an attack of opportunity from her.