Callis Vesper

Artwork by SourFlowr

**Callis Vesper** is a guest player character in the *Vestige of Ophiuchus* continuity of Nat19. He is a timid, jetstone hádislin cleric and member of the Crystal Hunters, tasked with defending Vilthadon and the Crystal Sanctuary. He is portrayed by *Eric Embleton*.

## Personality

Callis is a socially-averse and timid person, but has a strong desire to protect the people around him. He has a dislike for being overly violent, preferring to kill with precision and speed over blunt force.

## Role in Plot

Twenty years ago, Callis and his fellow Crystal Hunters fought against the minions of Highgax and prevailed. Callis, while tending to people in the temple to Aymere in Celesfield, witnessed an intense steam rise from the nearby lake, catching a passing ship on fire and capsizing it. He alerted the other Crystal Hunters, who were all quickly summoned to the Crystal Sanctuary by Vilthadon and informed that Highgax's minions were making another attempt at reaching the sanctuary.

The steam cloud was revealed to be a fire giant named Gungirock, a minion of Highgax with whom the Crystal Hunters did battle and won. Gungriock's cohort, Creeta, then held before them a young howlite hádislin boy, and told them he was the key to the Crystal Sanctuary. He then made his way away from Celesfield. The Crystal Hunters pursued him, and after freeing the boy, realized they had been tricked as he was a doppelganger in disguise.

Meeting with their sometimes-enemy/sometimes-ally, the wandering Archeal Servia, he offered to teleport them back to town, where the fire giant had grown in size and begun digging beneath Celesfield toward the Crystal Sanctuary. Confronting the giant beneath the town, Callis and his friends put him down once more, thus successfully defending the Crystal Sanctuary, and preventing Highgax's return to the Prime Material Plane.

## Abilities

### Hádislin Abilities

* Darkvision *(60ft)*
* Planar Legacy
* Subrace: Jetstone
	+ Echoes of Dread *(1/long rest)*
	+ Ego Lock
	+ Planar Legacy Spells
		- Hex *(3rd level spell; 1/long rest)*
		- Shadow Blade *(3rd level spell; 1/long rest)*
	+ Shadowmind

### Cleric Abilities

* Channel Divinity *(2/short or long rest)*
	+ Turn Undead
	+ Destroy Undead *(CR 1/2)*
* Divine Domain: Twilight Domain
	+ Bonus Proficiencies
	+ Channel Divinity: Twilight Sanctuary
	+ Divine Strike
	+ Eyes of Night
	+ Steps of Night
	+ Vigilant Blessing
* Harness Divine Power
* Ritual Casting
* Spellcasting *(Wisdom-based ability)*

### Feats

* Hidden Potential *(Somnus Domina: Crystal Tiefling Race Expansion)*
* Shadow Touched
	+ Cause Fear
	+ Invisibility

### Spells

As a cleric, Callis has access to all spells on the Cleric Spell List and can prepare a number of them during a long rest. He also has access to his cantrips and his Domain Spells, the latter of which do not count against the number of spells he can prepare.

#### Cantrips

* Guidance
* Light
* Sacred Flame
* Spare the Dying

#### Domain Spells

##### Level 1 Spells

* Faerie Fire
* Sleep

##### Level 2 Spells

* Moonbeam
* See Invisibility

##### Level 3 Spells

* Aura of Vitality
* Leomund's Tiny Hut

##### Level 4 Spells

* Aura of Life
* Greater Invisibility

## Trivia

* Callis' original race, the Crystal Tiefling, is a third-party race created by *Logan Laidlaw*, which can be purchased as a PDF here.

## Gallery

Callis Vesper
(Artwork by SourFlowr)