Anastasia Koshka

Nastya Koshka is a tabaxi wizard featured in The The Oneshot. She is the head archivist at the Litany City Observatory of the Heavens and a member of the famous band of adventurers, The Legion of Lilies.

As a PC she is played by Finley.

## Background

Nastya was born in the underground and was never able to see the night sky. Despite this, she was always interested in old folks' stories of the the stars or books on Astral's Elves' visions. She vowed to someday see the stars.

Nastya graduated top of her class and was accepted to work at the Litany City Observatory of the Haven's, a prestigious institution funded by the royal family to document the celestial bodies above ground and preserve history. Most of her coworkers were Astral Elves who were able to trance and see the stars, whereas Nastya had to rely on doing calculations to see how the night sky may have changed in the last hundreds of years. Nastya continuously pushed the royal family for an expedition to the surface to see the stars in person, but was repeatedly denied.

Eventually Nastya switched over the archives where she intended to research the past. With her strong work ethic, she was quickly promoted to the head arhivist of the observatory. Nastya was still unhappy with her research as it wasn't actually helping her meet her goal of actually seeing the stars in person as she had always dreamed about. In addition to that, with conflict among the Drow, the royal family was beginning to cut funding to the observatory, leaving Nastya with more and more dull tasks unrelated to her desires.

During this time, Nastya started going to taverns far more regularly, either drinking herself into a stupor or hooking up with anyone and everyone just to forget her woes at work. During this time, she met Gemini would would quickly become a drinking buddy and friend with benefits. Rarely did they see each other outside of their daily bar visits until one day three new faces appeared in the bar.

Malady, Mud, and Sorrel were all residents of The Bramble who were forced to escape after there had been trouble with some evil forces. There wasn't much to be done about it, so they ended up dislocated. Gemini wanted to be the one to fix it, as he knew it would mean he would get glorified the people, and Nastya drunkenly agreed to go with him. Malady, Mud, and Sorrel joined them on their mission to save their home.

Somehow, they group was successful in their mission and decided to continue adventuring together. Eventually, per Sorrel's request, they became known as the Legion of Lilies, and even received royal recognition.

Nastya now has a full time job as the head archivist at the Litany City Observatory of the Heavens, and works part time adventuring with her friends.

## Personality

Nastya is stressed, overworked, and chronically exhausted. Whenever she is not adventuring, she leads an impossibly mundane life tarnished by unappreciated coworkers in a dead end job that used to excite her. Despite this, she treats those people in her life very kindly and tries to go along with her friends much more upbeat and whimsical antics.

Nastya is drawn to activities that can make her feel alive. This is what drew her to become a part time adventurer. This is also what has drawn to sleep with most of her party members. These breaks from the mundane make her feel more important and understood.

## Appearance

Like most tabaxis from The The universe, Nastya is more humanoid than cat, with her main feline feature being her cat ears.

Nastya has medium brown skin, messy brown hair in a bob, and reddish-brown eyes. She has an hourglass figure and a double piercing on her ears. She often is seen with large bags under her eyes.

When not adventuring, Nastya is often seen in her work uniform. It's ill-fitting and far too loose in most places, giving her an untidy appearance. It's a navy blue high collared suit with large star buttons, and matching pants.

Nastya has castoff armor that she dons when she wants to use Tenser's Transformation. It is rather revealing plate male that fits her far better than her work uniform does.

## In Game Stats and Items

Nastya currently has the following ability scores:

* Strength: 20 (+5)
* Dexterity: 14 (+2)
* Constitution: 18 (+4)
* Intelligence: 16 (+3)
* Wisdom: 10 (+0)
* Charisma: 9 (-1)

### Feats

* Metamagic Adept-
* Skill Expert-
* Tough-
* Warcaster-

### Notable Items

* Castoff armor (legendary)- Armor that can be doffed as an action. After this item was upgraded to legendary status, it can now also be donned as an action.
* +2 Star maul- A large, magical maul that emits sparks like stars when swung.
* Sorrel's Glaive- A gift from Sorrel after Nastya was unable to reach the dragon with any of her own weapons.
* Sunforger- Purchased for 5,000 gp.
* ~~Ruby of the War Mage-~~ Sold because it didn't provide anything for her. She got extra gold on it due to her celebrity status.

### Spellcasting

Nastya is a spellcaster as a wizard, making her a intelligence caster. Her Spell Save DC is 16 and she has a +8 spell attack bonus.

Typically, Nastya doesn't focus too much on her spells, casting Tenser's Transformation on herself and then donning her armor. If she breaks concentration on Tenser's Transformation, she doffs her armor to start blasting spells. Before she had the ability to don her armor as an action she would try and scout out when a battle was going to take place so she could use a sorcery point for *Extended Spell* (so Tenser's Transformation wouldn't wear off before she was done donning her armor) and then don her armor.

In addition to the spells she has learned herself, she has copied all of the ritual spells from Sorrel's spellbook.

* *Cantrips-* Booming Blade, Light, Minor Illusion, Sword Burst
* *1st Level*- Mage Armor, Shield, Silvery Barbs, Absorb Elements, Chromatic Orb, Jim's Magic Missile, Find Familiar, Comprehend Languages, Illusory Script, Unseen Servant
* *2nd Level*- Hold Person, Misty Step, Mirror Image, See Invisibility, Wither and Bloom, Blur, Nathair's Mischief, Shatter, Skywrite, Magic Mouth, Gentle Repose, Augory
* *3rd Level*- Counterspell, Mel's Minute Meteors, Fireball, Haste, Thunder Step, Leomund's Tiny Hut, Phantom Steed, Water Breathing, Fein Death
* *4th* *Level*- Fire Shield, Greater Invisibility, Hallucinatory Terrain, Sicken Radiance, Raulothim's Psychic Lance, Storm Sphere, Gravity Sinkhole, Divination
* *5th Level*- Scrying, Immolation. Creation, Dawn, Hold Monster, Geas, Negative Energy Flood, Synaptic Static, Contact Other Plane
* *6th Level*- Sunbeam, Tenser's Transformation, Drawmjis Instant Summon, Tasha's Otherworldly Guise
* *7th Level*- Crown of Stars, Reverse Gravity
* *8th Level*- Dark Star, Sunburst

## Relationships

### Sorrel

Sorrel is Nastya's main romantic interest. Like most of her party members, she's slept with him on numerous occasions. Sorrel unlike most people that Nastya has slept with has shown genuine interest in her passions and concern for her struggles to be noticed and recognized with in her profession.

They have developed a genuine friendship that goes beyond that of romantic or sexual. Both have a passion for all that is beautiful, and Sorrel takes interest in her knowledge about the stars, and Nastya is deeply interested in Sorrel's knowledge of flowers. In addition to that, whenever Nastya becomes too stressed about work or too impatient with a mission, Sorrel can calm her down by literally stopping to smell the flowers and admire the beauty that still remains in the world.

Sorrel is the only person that has made Nastya feel as if she could be monogamous.

### Mud

Mud is the only one of Nastya's party members that she hasn't slept with. While she would never pressure him into doing that, she has made him aware that she's alright with any advances he may make.

Mud tries to add whimsy into Nastya's life. While most of the time this falls flat, as Mud finds "whimsy" to be laying in dirt or putting insects in his hair, Nastya does appreciate the effort and occasionally humors him. While she would never admit it to him, this sort of spontaneity does add much to her life.

### Malady

Though Sorrel and Gemini often lump Malady, Mud, and Nastya under the umbrella of "complete slobs and generally untidy folks", Nastya resents that. She finds Malady's pestilence to be disturbing and unfortunate, going as far as to sanitize his workspace even while her own is covered in old papers and half empty coffee cups.

Despite the seemingly negative perceptions of Malady though, they both have a mutual respect for each other and enjoy spending time together. They with Sorrel as the party's front-liners spend quite a bit of time training together.

Nastya has slept with Malady several times, and has ranked him as the worst member of the party to sleep with.

### Gemini

Gemini was the first member of the Legion of Lilies that Nastya ever met, Nastya is deeply grateful for his support and his push to get her into adventuring. The two of them are regular drinking partners and often tavern crawl together.

Nastya has slept with Gemini on many occasions and has ranked him far below Sorrel but not too far above Malady.

## Trivia

* Nastya was created to fulfill a long running joke of how dumb it would be to play a strength based wizard
	+ It worked surprisingly well, though it was determined that the fact that the oneshot started at level 16 very much helped achieve the build.
* Nastya's favorite color is blue.
* Nastya identifies as genderfluid.