Elise Lapis

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Elise Lapis is an NPC character who is part of the Lapis Family. She is a Red Panda Shifter, a monk, and works as a florist and herbalist in Neridan. She is very prideful and protective of her flowers.

## **Appearance**

Elise is short, with long ginger hair, wearing large glasses. She has grey eyes, tanned skin, and when she shifts, she forms a mask across her face.

She is a Beasthide shifter, and even though she doesn’t look particularly tough, she can pack a punch and she has very sturdy sharp claws. She has a big fluffy red panda tail.

### **Attire**

Elise often wears overalls with a pocket for seeds, flowers, and little bottles to collect items in. Nearly always when she works she wears her gardening gloves to both protect her flowers from her claws, and to protect her hands from thorns and poisonous plants.

## **Personality**

Elise is often flippant, impatient, and aggressive, although she does her best to keep it under control. She’s no stranger to a fight but does not fight fair as she will bite, scratch and aim for the soft bits on an opponent. She is very proud of her garden and very proud of her huge wardrobe of ‘acquired’ clothes.

## **Equipment**

**Gardening Equipment**

* Edge Cutter
* Hoe
* Pitchfork
* Pruning Sheers
* Rake
* Scythe
* Secateurs

**Gardening Gloves**

* Reinforced Dinosaur leather gloves.

Seed & Berry Vials

## **Abilities**

* Hanakotoba – Flower Language.

Elise can send messages in the form of flowers and decode what they mean, as well as analyse what flowers have been used and why.

### **Racial**

**Beasthide Shifter**

* Ability Score Increase. Your Constitution score increases by 2.

* Tough. You have proficiency in the Athletics skill.

* Shifting Feature. Whenever you shift, you gain 1d6 additional temporary hit points, and while shifted, you have a +1 bonus to your AC.

### **Class**

**Way of Mercy Monk**

* **Hands of Healing**

At 3rd level, your mystical touch can mend wounds. As an action, you can spend 1 ki point to touch a creature and restore a number of hit points equal to a roll of your Martial Arts die + your Wisdom modifier.

When you use your Flurry of Blows, you can replace one of the unarmed strikes with a use of this feature without spending a ki point for the healing.

* **Hands of Harm**

At 3rd level, you use your ki to inflict wounds. When you hit a creature with an unarmed strike, you can spend 1 ki point to deal extra necrotic damage equal to one roll of your Martial Arts die + your Wisdom modifier. You can use this feature only once per turn.

* **Physicians Touch**

Starting at 6th level, you can administer even greater cures with a touch, and if you feel it's necessary, you can use your knowledge to cause harm.

When you use Hands of Healing on a creature, you can also end one disease or one of the following conditions affecting the creature: blinded, deafened, paralyzed, poisoned, or stunned.

When you use Hands of Harm on a creature, you can subject that creature to the poisoned condition until the end of your next turn

## **History**

Elise was abandoned young and was in the orphanage for years.

## **Relationships**

### **Dinosaurs**

* Braken – A Hypsilophodon, as small dog sized dino, which is red and black with orange spots under its belly. This usually remains outside or guarding her shop.

## **Quotes**

* “You get used to it, and then your aim improves every time you see it.” Elise talking about Inks

* “MY FLOWERS!”

## **Trivia**

* Elise’s name is based on Fleur-de-lis

* All of her clothes are stolen. She knows where the clothes are delivered and often sneaks a few crates away as she brings her flowers in to be made for perfumes.

* Elise looks small and young but she’s actually in her mid 20’s

* Gremlin Elise is a favourite cryptid