DND Original Character Tuesday #22 Lightning Clash Taima-Rai

Taima-Rai was a young firbolg child who constantly looked to the clouds of the skies while her fellows spent their time amongst the trees of the land. She watched lighting streak across the sky, and squeeled at the peel of thunder in the clouds. It was no suprise that when she came of age she decided to wander the lands, finding her calling in the church of the tempest. It was during her time as cleric that her own spark of electricity manifested inside of her. Now she channels arcane and divine lightning to overcome any obstacle that stands in her way.

Taima-Rai

Race: Firbolg, +2 Wis, +1 Str, Firbolg Magic, Hidden Step, Powerful Build, Speech of Beast and Leaf

Stats (27- point buy)

Str 12 Dex 10 Con 14 Int 8 Wis 15 Cha 13 (base stats)

Str 13 Dex 10 Con 14 Int 8 Wis 18 Cha 13 (racial and feat adjustment)

The three things that I wanted to achieve with this build are:

1. Harnassing lightnings wrath.
2. Mobilility of the raging winds
3. Communicative power of the Gods.

Race

For the Race of this build I went with Firbolg. This race gives her Firbolg Magic, Hidden Step, Powerful Build, Speech of Beast and Leaf, and the langugages of Common, Elvish and Giant.

Background

For Background I chose Far Traveler for her. This gives her Perception, Persuasion, Pan Flute Tool proficincy, the langugae of Celestial and the Background Feature of All Eyes on You.

Class

For the Class make up of this build I went Cleric 5 (Tempest Domain)/ Sorcerer 1 (Storm Sorcery). This combination of classes gives Taima-Rai the ability to channel the power of the storm. She gains a ton of lightning effects and powers, a ton of mobilility options from her racial and sorcerer options, and multiple ways to communicate with all forms of life. I would take the sorcerer level at level 2 to gain the movement from Tempestous Magic as quickly as possible.

Cleric 1 gives her the skills of Insight, History, Spellcasting, Bonus Proficinies of martial weapons and heavy armor and Wrath of the Storm.

Cleric 2 gifts her Channel Divinity and the secondary option of Destructive Wrath. Destructive Wrath allows her to maximize lighting or thunder damage when you have to roll for damage.

Cleric 3 allows her to cast 2^nd level spells.

Cleric 4 is where she picks up the feat Telepathic (Wisdom). This increases her Wis by 1 and gives her access to telepathy and detect thoughts.

Cleric 5 gives her Destroy Undead as a feature.

Sorcerer 1 is where she picks up Wind Speaker and Tempestous Magic.

With this combination of skills, feat and class features she now has access to catastrophic lighting spellcasting, mobile, and multiple abilities to communicate with various forms of life.

Spells

Firbolg Magic

Detect Magic

Disguise Self

Telepathic (Wisdom)

Detect Thoughts

Cleric

Cantrip

Light

Sacred Flame

Spare the Dying

Thaumaturgy

1^st Level

Command

Fog Cloud

Guiding Bolt

Healing Word

Thunderwave

2^nd Level

Blindness/Deafness

Calm Emotions

Gust of Wind

Hold Person

Shatter

3^rd Level

Animate Dead

Call Lightning

Revivify

Sleet Storm

Spirit Guardians

Sorcerer

Cantrip

Chill Touch

Mending

Shocking Grasp

Thunderclap

1^st Level

Thunderwave

Witch Bolt

Equipment

Standard Cleric Equipment with a focus on Warhammer and Spear.

Character sheet from DND Beyond

https://ddb.ac/characters/64713026/TPx41T