Heli Moltenshield

Heli Moltenshield

Battlesmith Artificer

Languages	Common, Gnomish, Primordial
Marital Status	Single
Place of Birth	Uknown
Species	Genasi
Gender	Female
Height	3'
Weight	40lbs
Eye Color	Orange

Heli Moltenshield is Fire Genasi Battlesmith Artificer hoping to make a name for herself by offering her trade skills to the Tempest Brothers Expeditionary Company.

Physical Appearance

Heli is a diminutive human-looking genasi who stands at only 3' tall but she appears a little shorter as she tends to walk with a hunch. Her ashen gray skin covers well toned muscles developed over a life of manual labor. Her hair naturally grows in a flame-like pattern, the roots a bright red/orange that grows out and transitions into black, the very tips fading to a smoky grey. Whenever she is channeling her magic or experiencing strong emotions her hair seems to dance like an open flame.

From both of her wrists sprout red and orange crystalline clusters that seem to dance with firelight. Her right arm terminates in a stump that seems to have grown over with those same crystals which seem to have grown into and over her metal hand. Her custom made prosthetic hand is made of sheets of blackened metal covering crystalline braided wires that act as stand-ins for muscle.

The previously mentioned crystals seem to be the main outlet for her natural fire affinity and dance with inner flames whenever she channels her fire-based abilities or is close to an open flame.

Personality

Heli has difficulty with social interactions, spending her formative year being kept at a distance by most people due to her proclivity for accidentally setting things on fire has made life difficult and because of this her life as been consumed by her trade. She does her best to be kind whenever she can but can easily be overwhelmed in social situations yet if you get her focused on a project or her creations and she can babble for hours.

History

Heli has no idea where she originally came from. Through her life she has managed to piece together than as an infant she was pulled from the ashes of what was assumed as her human mother's home. Due to frequently starting fires by accident she had assumed that it was her that started the fire that destroyed the house. She was eventually adopted by a family of gnomes who were part of a crafting guild and thankfully stone and metal aren't as flammable so she didn't accidentally start any other town fires.

Thankfully as she grew up she learned to contain the flames. Accidental fires became a rarity as she came of age and started to grow the crystals on her wrists. But even though she had gotten control of herself, the stigma of her history remained. Being a, quote: "Oversized freak" made it extremely difficult to fit in. Which was fair as being 5' tall in a gnome community made it a little too literal.

Years passed, and Heli built a name for herself as a craftswoman and magical tinkerer, and she decided that she wanted to turn her tinkering skills towards being an adventurer and began combat training... Which was where she eventually earned her moniker "Moltenshield"... During her training she had attempted to enchant her shield and made a few serious errors... The moment it was struck her inner fire flared, pouring more heat into the metal than she had ever realized she could and turning it into molten slag. Thankfully the crystals had managed to stave off the worst of the damage to her left arm, but as she tried to tear the molten shield free she severely damaged her right hand. Unable to get healing in time there was no saving the hand and she had to have it removed, derailing her plans for another couple of years as she constructed a new one, as well as her new best friend: Brokkr.

After rebuilding herself and building a friend, she finally left to adventure on her own, primarily traveling to regions that had suffered natural disasters or monster attacks to help them rebuild, only rarely encountering the monsters herself. During one such adventure, she had inadvertently rescued a Djinni who granted her one of the greatest gifts any mortal could receive: A Wish. Not knowing what to use it for, she attempted to save it... Returning home to avoid accidentally saying the words "I wish" which just hastened her doom. Within an hour of returning to her adoptive gnomish parents home, she bashed her head on a doorframe, and in a fit of rage screamed that she "wished she wouldn't have to duck so damn low!" and in a blinding flash of light found herself suddenly standing at only 3 feet tall.

Languages

Common, Gnomish, Primordial.

Powers and Abilities

Heli's primary approach to combat is simple: Ride Brokkr, and stab whatever needs killing in the face.

As for what other abilities she has, her current known fusions are: Returning Weapon, Enhanced defense, Homunculus Servant, and Replicate: Bag of Holding. Her known cantrips are Mending, and Green-Flame Blade, and she can naturally cast Produce Flame and Burning Hands due to her race.

As for spells, she regularly keeps gadgets on hand that replicate the abilities of: Detect magic, Cure light wounds and heroism, but has assorted gadgets to replicate other spells.

Attacks and Weapons 

Her favorite weapon is her custom crafted spear, the head and grip made of the same blackened steel as her prosthetic hand, with a crystal lattice up the length of the shaft to allow her to channel her powers through it.