Kanessa Snitch

The Blind Eye

Kanessa Snitch is an astrumancy wizard played by Damien and is a part of the Wayfaring Strangers.

## **Intro**

*Kanessa is a outgoing member of the Wayfaring Strangers and is happy to be around anyone in her party. She tries to bring laughs to her party by playing tricks and pranks. Her playful outer presence hides the difficult life she's had before joining the Wayfaring Strangers.*

## **Description**

### **Appearance**

Kanessa has brown hair along with light red skin, she has fairly big wigs that look similar to a bat. She wears a red dress with a similar colored mantle that has gold edges. The wears thick red boots along with her crown. She wields her mimic spellbook as well as a rod as her arcane focus.

### **Personality**

She typically acts pretty outgoing, but can be too extroverted which makes her have a bad time trying to explain her feelings. She likes playing tricks on her party using illusion magic just for a laugh. She enjoys drink by herself or with the party drinking is just something she likes. She also has a weird fascination with mimics that no one can explain.

## **Biography**

### **Background**

Kanessa Snitch was a ex-student at Felentine's Discovery and while her time there she was a member in the Starry Knights. In her time at the Starry Knights she was praised for being a powerful wizard but her girlfriend Esten who is a hornless and tailless Tiefling who was bullied by the Starry Knights which Kanessa didn't like. During a mission that the Starry Knights did they came across a beholder and began to fight it. When things looked bleak for the party Kanessa's fear overcame her and she ended up running away and leaving her party to die. And the day after this happening Esten left Kanessa and Kanessa left both the Starry Knights and Felentine's Discovery as a whole.

### **The Wayfaring Strangers**

A shop keeper told the party that there was a Tiefling girl who was looking for a party. The party swiftly looked for her. When finding her Kanessa walked away and asked her cat Fait if it is a good idea to join and hearing the meow she prominently joined the Wayfaring Strangers.

Throughout her time with the Wayfaring Strangers she began to find herself through her magic. Her love for explosive magics was beginning to get channeled into her other interest, saving her friends. Upon her reuniting with Esten, she decided she truly had something to fight for.

Eventually in her travels, she would meet a powerful archmage known as Astrumancer Vessir Or'inel. This wizard taught Kanessa magic beyond her comprehension. What was a simple fireball when she could manipulate the weight of the cosmos and beyond within her grasp? Thus, Kanessa began to follow the way of Astrumancy in her attempts to become strong enough to take on The Grasp of Oblivion.

During her fight with The Grasp of Oblivion, Kanessa was disintegrated. It was only by making a deal with the Matron of Ravens that the Wayfaring Strangers were able to restore her to life. Through a trade of The Grasp of Oblivion's Book of Vile Darkness, the Matron agreed to return her to life.

### Life After The Wayfaring Strangers

Kanessa and Esten had both taken in the orphaned child of Neorda Quaaint, a girl named Rose Snitch-Orlios who would eventually go on to be trained by Archmage Or'inel. Kanessa and Esten would be married in a wedding along with Ulysses and Aster. Kanessa eventually took up the mantle as a headmaster of Felentine's Discovery living a long life and passing away in the year 1029.

## Relationships

### Neorda Quaaint

She is a cool artificer and helped Kanessa make her rod with a mimic on it. She was one the few really nice people in the Starry Knights mostly because she didn't care and worried about her studies.

### Esten Orlios

The hornless tiefling who was bullied by the Starry Knights for being a healer and hornless. Who was at the time also Kanessa girlfriend who broke up with her after the beholder situation, but randomly appeared after the party came from a sky city and ended up getting back with Kanessa.

### Fait

This is Kanessa's familar typically it is a siamese cat with a purple cape and carries a lantern with her tail. Ass for what the party know this cat has always been with Kanessa.

## **Notable Items**

### **Current Items**

* Rod of the Draconic Oracle
* Cape of the Mountebank
* Silkweaver Dress
* Spell Scroll of Hidden Chest
* Vicious Dagger
* Illusionist's Bracers

### **Former Items**

* Broom of Flying (given to and received back from Takarr to pass through a trial of The Cobalt Cretin)
* Beholder Crown (taken from Il'van Harkness and stolen back by him after Kanessa's death)
* Tome of Clear Thought (read by Kanessa and given to Archmage Or'inel for safekeeping)
* Robe of Useful Items (used completely and eventually discarded due to its perceived uselessness)
* Periapt of Wound Closure
* Rod of mimics (*created by Neorda and Kanessa*)
* Arcane Grimoire, +1 (bought from Tortuga's finest)

## **Abilities**

### **Tiefling Abilities**

* Darkvision
* Hellish Resistance
* Winged

### **Feats**

* Flames of Phlegethos
* Telekinetic (Charisma)
* Mobile
* Gift of the Chromatic Dragon

### **Wizard Abilities**

* Arcane Recovery
* Arcane Tradition: Astrumancy Magic
* Spatial Manipulation
* Skillful Scholar
* Disrupting Retort
* Sharpened Mind
* Manipulate Reality
* Spell Mastery (Mage Armor, Misty Step)
* Signature Spells (Haste, Sending)

### **Wizard Spells**

Cantrips

* Fire Bolt
* Mending
* Prestidigitation
* Thunderclap
* Toll the Dead

1st level

* Burning Hands
* Comprehend Languages
* Detect Magic
* Feather Fall
* Find Familiar
* Identify
* Mage Armor
* Magic Missile
* Shield
* Tasha's Hideous Laughter
* Witch Bolt

2nd level spells

* Aganazzar's Scorcher
* Darkness
* Dragon's Breath
* Enlarge/Reduce
* Flaming Sphere
* Flashbang
* Mirror Image
* Misty Step
* Scorching Ray

3rd level spells

* Astrid's Alter Outcome
* Blink
* Counterspell
* Dispel Magic
* Fireball
* Fly
* Haste
* Life Transference
* Melf's Minute Meteors
* Sending
* Slow
* Tongues

4th level spells

* Black Tentacles
* Blight
* Fabricate
* Gravity Sinkhole
* Ice Storm
* Snitch's Sonic Scream

5th level spells

* Bigby's Hand
* Dominate Person
* Modify Memory
* Seeming
* Skill Empowerment
* Snitch's Volcanic Shower
* Steel Wind Strike
* Teleportation Circle

6th level spells

* Chain Lightning
* Disintegrate
* Mental Prison
* Programmed Illusion

7th level spells

* Delayed Blast Fireball
* Magnificent Mansion
* Simulacrum
* Teleport

8th level spells

* Feeblemind
* Illusory Dragon

9th level spells

* Imprisonment
* Meteor Swarm
* True Polymorph
* Wish

## **Quotations**

"You'll never be as scary as a beholder!" (Kanessa says while killing the cobalt dragon)

## **Trivia**

* Kanessa was initially a War Magic wizard before changing subclasses late into the campaign.