Liliruca Arde, a supporter and battlefield commander for the Hestia familia. Originally of the Soma familia, Liliruca was orphaned on the streets after her parents attempted the dungeon but failed to return. She was maltreated and bullied by fellow members of her familia giving her the thirst to get out of her familia at all costs. First trying her hand at being an adventurer but lacking talent, she switched to a supporter. After multiple times being abused by adventurers she grew to hate them and used all of her talents and tricks to swindle them. It wasn’t until she spent time with Bell Cranel that she began to question her long-held beliefs about adventures. After being saved by Bell she joined his party officially and then joined the Hestia familia after many trials and tribulations. During the War Games arc is where Liliruca learned to become a commander, using every skill she had to disrupt the Apollo familia defenses to help secure victory for the Hestia familia. She has the tactical mindset of a commander with the manipulative skills to undermine anyone who would make a foe of her newfound family. This build of Liliruca is here at the beginning of Hestia Familia’s expedition to the Great Falls level of the dungeon.
Liliruca Arde Stats
Str 11 Dex 12 Con 13 Int 12 Wis 12 Cha 14 (27 point buy)
Str 12 Dex 14 Con 14 Int 12 Wis 12 Cha 14 (after racial and feat mod)
Class Rogue 4(Mastermind)/Warlock 2(The Celestial)
The three things that I wanted to achieve in this build are:
- Commanding Assistance.
- Mistress of Manipulation.
- Supreme Supporter Skills.
Background
For Background I chose Urchin. She gains the Skill of Sleight of Hand, Stealth, Tool Proficiencies of Alchemist’s Supplies, Poisoner’s Kit, and the Background Feature of City Secrets.
Race
For Race, I chose Stout Hafling but you could also go with Custom Lineage. With this race, she gains + 2 Dex and +1 to Con, Size: Small, Lucky, Brave, Hafling Nimbleness, and Stout Resilience.
Class
Liliruca’s class breakdown is two classes, Rogue 4(Mastermind)/Warlock 2(The Celestial). It is with these classes that Liliruca gains access to strong skills in thievery and manipulation, the ability to support and enhance her party’s actions with ranged help action and spells, extremely skilled in disguise and skullduggery, capable defensive abilities and strong range options from select spells and equipment choices. This combination of classes and feats is the best attempt to consolidate his abilities and talents at this level.
Rogue 1 is the starting class for Liliruca. This gives her the skills of Acrobatics, Deception, Persuasion and Investigation, Expertise in Deception and Sleight of Hand, Sneak Attack, and Thieves’ Cant.
Warlock 1 is where she picks up Otherworldly Patron: The Celestial, Pact Magic, Bonus Cantrip of Light and Sacred Flame, and Healing Light. This represents her joining the Soma Familia as well as some of the spells representing some of her equipment like her little catapult.
Warlock 2 grants her access to Eldritch Invocations: Mask of Many Faces and Armor of Shadows. The key feature is Mask of Many Faces since it gives her magic the ability to transform her appearance like her magical power of Cinder Ella. Armor of Shadows represents her Goliath Robe protecting her from attacks.
Rogue 2 is where she gains the feature Cunning Action. This gives her the ability to take the Dash Disengage, or Hide action as a bonus action. This is perfect for making a quick getaway with stolen adventure gear.
Rogue 3 is the next step in Liliruca’s rise to becoming a skilled commander, with the Roguish Archetype: Mastermind. It is with this subclass that she gains Master of Intrigue which gifts her Dice Set as a gaming set and the languages of Elvish and Undercommon and the ability to unerringly mimic the speech patterns and accents of a creature she hears speak for 1 minute. She also gains Master of Tactics. It is with this key feature that Liliruca gains the ability to use the help action as a bonus action and if her ally attacks a creature she can use it up to 30 feet away from herself.
Rogue 4 is the final level for Liliruca with the feat: Martial Adept: Commander’s Strike and Evasive Footwork.
With full use of Liliruca’s powers, she can perform the following techniques via job features and abilities:
- Commander- Master of Tactics + Commander’s Strike
- Cinder Ella- Eldritch Invocation: Mask of Many Faces + Master of Tactics
- Artel Assist- Heward’s Handy Haversack
- Command Call– Master of Tactics: Help Action
- Abnormal Resistance– Stout Resilience
This combination of feats, stats, and spells makes this DND build of Liliruca Arde a battlefield commander, supporting and assisting her fellow party members in undermining and confounding any foe in Six levels or Less.
Spells
Sorcerer
Cantrip
Eldritch Blast
Green-Flame Blade
Sacred Flame
Light
1st Level
Guiding Bolt
Hex
Unseen Servant
Equipment
Standard Rogue equipment with a rapier, shortbow, and 20 arrows, burglar’s pack, leather armor, 2 daggers, thieves’ tools, and urchin kit. Eldritch Blast can represent Little Ballista/Sciurus Walnut, Green-Flame Blade can represent her fire magic sword Rikka, and Mage Armor can represent her Goliath Robe. For actual equipment Rikka can be a Flame Tongue Rapier, Cloak of Protection can be a Goliath Robe, Hand Crossbow can be Little Ballista and a Heward’s Handy Haversack can represent her Backpack: Hermes Special.
Shout out to https://danmachi.fandom.com/wiki/DanMachi_Wiki and AniNews for their amazing information in making this amazing character as well as DNDBeyond for its character creation platform. I will be continuing to create members of the Hestia familiar. The next member is Welf Crozzo the blacksmith adventure of flame! Until later Tale-Tellers!
