Adresin Elmanessen

Official art of Adresin Elmanessen.

Adresin Mandle Elmanessen is a wood elf, phoenix sorcerer. She is the head of the Elmanessen family, and also one of the four rulers of Eplia. She is the great grandmother to Zarira Elmanessen.

## Description

### Appearance

Adresin is an older wood elf, in her late years, though she still looks young in almost all humanoid eyes, just not in the eyes of elves. She has short red hair, long green eyes and almost always wears long yet tight green dresses. Under the dresses she always wear some hidden master crafted studded leather armor. She has a beautiful cloak, made from the scales of a green dragon and fine silk. She always wears her Elmanessen heirloom ring, and would rather die than give it up freely.

A very little known fact about her is she has a magical tattoo on her back. She has a tattoo of a mighty phoenix that engulfs her whole back and the wings spread to the elbows of her arms. It's made with red ruby ink.

### Personality

Adresin is a relaxed and well spoken person, who is great with other people because of her many years in politics. She grew up as a noble but has always hated the elven nobility and how every high class elves acted high and mighty. She treats everyone with respect and kindness, its also why she is well respected in all of Eplia. She has a deep love for her family and will literally move mountains for them, but cant always do it because she has a lot of duties and responsibilities, this can sometimes dampen her naturally good mood.
Adresin is a kind person, but because she is an Elmanessen she also has another side. She can because of her Phoenix blood become very angry and spiteful in a way that makes her a very dangerous political enemy. Because of her spitefulness she will go a long way to get her will done, but its always a focused well thought spitefulness. When she is in battle her blood boils with fire, making her dangerously angry, which only fuels her deadly phoenix powers.

## Biography

### Background

Adresin rules the wood elven city of Tirion and also manages the smaller towns of Igal Themar and Orellion. in the year 311 AS, When she was only 16 years old, her father assigned her as an temporary leader under the guidance of her fathers cousin, Strazco Elmanessen, to lead Orellion. She was assigned this duty because the former leader Darrik Everfist was corrupt and didn't care about anything else than his own very profitable mine. Darrik was also in cahoot with a gang called 'Mountain borns', who was destroyed by a mercenary named Ayda Nyana and her friends Galagan Kenton, Strazco Elmanessen and a dwarf named Balgrim Straystone.

While she was in Orellion, Adresin studied the history of Eplia and was taught dwarvish by Straszco. She got funding for a small school, a temple dedicated to Labelas Enoreth, the lord of continuum, a wall to keep out troublemakers and she with Strazcos help also founded a new guard unit named the 'Orellion owls', which bears a close resemblance to the guards in Tiriron named 'Owl Guards'.

When she was 60 in elf years, her father Adamar asked her to become a trainee in the politics of the realm, since her big brother Vellahef went away never to come back. After 20 more years, Adamar realized that she was a natural born leader. She was smart, wise, a great listener, could think straight under pressure and she could easily persuade the other ruling elf clans. She quickly got promoted to be the families ambassador where she could attend political meetings and live in Eplia's capital city. Talas, the last flying metropolis. She spent many of her years here and even found love. She got a set of twin children, a boy and a girl. The girl didn't survive childbirth. 5 years later, her husband, Theoden, died in a Orc ambush near the border between Themar Vandor and Gondolina Vandor.

In the year 568 AS, she had just turned 273. Her father went to war with Eplias army, but he fell in battle against an army of orc and goblin invaders. The clan needed another leader to take the title 'Prime of War'. Adresin took the responsibility, since she was next in line and was trained specifically for this by her father.

In the year 1121 AS, Adresin went to a grand meeting with kings and leaders from 6 countries, in the capital of Warkab. All the leaders had a similar problem, where portals had opened randomly everywhere, spewing out demons from the abyss and devils from the nine hells.

The public wasn't told the truth about this meeting, they were told they were meeting to discuss the recent disturbances with Blaitrea, and told the public that they would together send down armies to destroy Blaitrea. This of course was a smokescreen to the real plan, to hire a newly famed and formed adventure group called Demon Slayers, to take care of the problem. Later that evening Adresin was attacked and magically held in place by a red tiefling and a bald human man, with a scar over his right eye. They asked her about a hidden temple beneath the streets of Inerith, to learn of its location. She was quickly saved by her grandson Fenic who attacked them, but they both teleported away. In the next morning Adresin told the demon slayers about the attackers as they could be a potential clue to what is going on. And the Demon slayers found out. It was the first sighting of cultists from the cult of Hadar, in 500 years, and they were very strong.

## Relationships

**Zarira Elmanessen**

Zarira is Adresins favorite grand grandchild, since she sees a lot of her younger self in her. When Zarira was born to Fenic and Conradina, a human lady, she was born a half-elf. Most of the Elmanessen family shamed Fenic and didn't take too kindly to a half breed in the family. But Fenic and Adresin fought for her well being and education. Adresin almost sees Zarira as her own daughter and pupil who most be taught the Elmanessen traditions, just as she herself was taught by her father. She also wanted to give Zarira some space to learn who she is herself, which has led Zarira to become a proud member of the Demon Slayers.

## Character Information

### Notable Items

* Sending stone (zarira has the other)
* Cloak of protection +1
* Elmanessen Signet Ring (Ring of protection +1)
* Studded Leather Armor +2
* Silver Slicer (Silver dagger +3)

### Abilities

**(lvl 1) Ignite:** She has the ability to start fires with a touch. As an action, she can magically ignite a flammable object she touch with her hand—an object such as a torch, a piece of tinder, or thehem of drapes.

**(lvl 1) Mantle of Flame:** As a bonus action, she can magically wreathe herself in swirling fire, as her eyes glow like hot coals. For 1 minute, she gain the following benefits:

• She shed bright light in a 30-foot radius and dim light for an additional 30 feet.

• Any creature takes fire damage equal to her Charisma modifier if it hits her with a melee attack from within 5 feet of her or if it touches her.

• Whenever she roll fire damage on her turn, the roll gains a bonus to equal to her Charisma modifier. Once she use this feature, she can’t use it again until she finish a long rest.

**(lvl 6) Phoenix Spark:** The fiery energy within her grows restless and vengeful. In the face of defeat, it surges outward to preserve her in a fiery roar. If she is reduced to 0 hit points, she can use her reaction to draw on the spark of the phoenix. She is instead reduced to 1 hit point, and each creature within 10 feet of her takes fire damage equal to half her sorcerer level + her Charisma modifier.

If she use this feature while under the effects of her Mantle of Flame, this feature instead deals fire damage equal to her sorcerer level + double her Charisma modifier, and her Mantle of Flame immediately ends.

Once she use this feature, she can’t use it again until she finish a long rest.

**(lvl 14) Nourishing Fire:** Her fire spells soothe and restore her. When she expend a spell slot to cast a spell that includes a fire damage roll, she regain hit points equal to the slot’s level + her Charisma modifier.

**(lvl 18) Form of Phoenix:** Adresin had the ability to engulf herself in flames She has mastered the spark of fire that dances within her. While under the effect of her Mantle of Flame ability she gain additional benefits:

• she has a flying speed of 40 feet and can hover.

• She has resistance to all damage.

• If she uses her Phoenix Spark ability, it deals an extra 20 fire damage to each creature.

### Feats

* Mobile
	+ Speed increases by 10 feet.
	+ When she use the Dash action, difficult terrain doesn’t cost her extra movement on that turn.
	+ When she makes a melee attack against a creature, she doesn't provoke opportunity attacks from that creature for the rest of the turn, whether she hit or not.

### Proficiencies

Skills: Arcana, History, Insight, Perception, Persuassion

### Sorcerer abilities

* Font of Magic
	+ Sorcery Points: 8
	+ Flexible Casting

* Metamagic
	+ Twinned Spell
	+ Subtle Spell
	+ Empowered Spell
	+ Careful Spell

### Spells

**Cantrips**

* Firebolt
* Truestrike
* Prestidigation
* Blade Ward
* Mage Hand
* Mending

**1st level**

* Shield
* Expeditious Retreat

**2nd level**

* Flame Blade
* Knock
* See invisibility

**3rd level**

* Counterspell
* Fireball
* Tongues
* Waterbreathing

**4th level**

* Banishment
* Dimension Door
* Dominate Beast.

**5th level**

* Seeming

**6th level**

* True Seeing

**7th level**

* Fire Storm