Sora commands the crew of her pirate ship. She leads 4 Githyanki Warriors in battle and can call on them for boarding actions, transport, or ambushes. She knows a secret entrance to the Citadel of the Cartographers, which she trades for gold or treasure shares.
When Sora scores a Critical Hit or reduces a creature to 0 HP with a melee weapon, she can make one attack with a different weapon as a Bonus Action. She can also add her Proficiency Bonus to the damage of her Heavy weapon attacks (Greatsword +3).
Whenever Sora finishes a Long Rest, she gains proficiency in one skill or tool of her choice until her next Long Rest (typically Navigator's Tools or Arcana while sailing the Astral Sea).
When Sora hits with a weapon attack, she can expend a die to add it to damage; the target must succeed on a DC 14 Wisdom save or be Frightened until the end of Sora's next turn.
Sora gains an Unarmed Strike (1d4) that can push or grapple, and once per Long Rest she can reroll damage with an improvised weapon and take the higher result.
When a creature misses Sora with a melee attack, she can make a melee attack against it as a Reaction; on a hit, add the die to damage.
Greatsword (Graze: on a miss, deal 3 damage to the target); Dagger (Nick: make an extra off-hand strike as part of the Attack action).
Sora knows the Mage Hand cantrip; the hand is invisible when she casts it. Intelligence is her spellcasting ability for it.
When Sora rolls damage with a two-handed melee weapon, she can reroll a 1 or 2 on a damage die and must use the new result.
Sora's Strength increased by 1 (to 17) at level 4, and again by 1 (to 18→17 here per array) at level 8; see ability scores.
Sora has resistance to psychic damage and advantage on saving throws to avoid or end the Charmed condition.
Sora's maneuvers harness the disciplined psychic training of her people, honed into pirate pragmatism.
Sora can replace a maneuver's usual save type (Wisdom) with Strength or Dexterity when she uses it.
When Sora makes a weapon attack roll, she can expend a die and add the result to the roll.
When Sora fails an ability check, she can expend a Superiority Die to add it to the roll.
Sora attacks twice instead of once when taking the Attack action.
Sora takes one additional action on her turn.
Sora regains 1d10 + 8 hit points.
Innate psionic cantrip only; not a full spellcaster.
A spectral, invisible hand appears and obeys Sora's mental commands, manipulating objects up to 10 pounds. Lasts 1 minute.
Behind the character
Captain Sora is a tall, wiry githyanki woman whose sharp yellow-green features carry the weathered elegance of someone who has spent decades sailing the silver void. Her pointed ears are notched with old duel scars, and her eyes are the color of storm-lit jade, always moving, always measuring exits and advantages. She wears a long scarlet captain's coat over piecemeal half-plate scavenged from a dozen wrecks across the planes, each plate telling a story of a battle survived or a rival outmaneuvered.
At her hip hangs a great silver greatsword, a githyanki blade of rank she took in single combat from a knight who called her a traitor, and a battered navigator's compass hangs at her collar, a trophy from her first command. Her smile is her most dangerous feature: calculating, warm when it needs to be, and utterly unreadable. Sora speaks in a low, amused drawl, quoting pirate proverbs alongside githyanki war-oaths, and she treats every negotiation as a duel fought with words instead of steel.
She is bold to the point of recklessness in battle, leading boarding actions personally with her greatsword singing, yet she never enters a fight she has not already priced. Pragmatism is her creed: honor is a currency, loyalty is a contract, and the only sin is being on the losing side. Beneath the mercenary shell lies a woman who fled a theocracy that would have ground her spirit to dust, and who quietly protects anyone under her flag with ferocious devotion. She is greedy, but not cruel; treacherous in theory, but strangely faithful to those who pay fairly and fight well beside her.
Before the adventure
Captain Sora was hatched in the creche-fortresses of Tu'narath, the githyanki capital adrift on the Astral Plane, daughter of a red dragon rider and a swordswoman who died raiding a mind flayer hive-ship. Raised in the martial tradition of her people, she earned her silver sword young, but she never fit the rigid hierarchy of the lich-queen's theocracy. Sora watched githyanki knights die for doctrines she found hollow, and when her captain ordered a doomed assault on a slaver outpost purely for honor, she refused the order, cut the mooring lines, and sailed away with a handful of like-minded warriors.
Thus the Githyanki Freebooters were born: pirates without a queen, loyal only to coin, crew, and the open silver void. For two decades Sora has raided merchant caravans, salvaged wrecked planar vessels, and plundered ruins of dead civilizations across the Astral Sea. She learned navigation from a defected githzerai monk, tactics from a hundred boarding actions, and pragmatism from the hard lesson that idealists die first. Her greatest discovery came a decade ago: while fleeing an astral dreadnought, her helmsman found a chart fragment revealing a secret dock beneath the Citadel of the Cartographers.
Sora has guarded that knowledge jealously, selling passage to it only to the highest bidders, never once using it herself, for the citadel's silent halls unsettle her more than any monster. When Lord Veyron's cult began hiring githyanki mercenary ships, Sora took their gold but studied their masters, and she did not like what she saw. Her rival Kith'rak Voss took the cult's side wholeheartedly, and their feud has grown bloody.
Now the Horizon Needle has surfaced, and Sora knows that whoever holds it will reshape the Astral Sea itself. She intends to be on the winning side, whether that means selling her silver sword to the party, betraying Veyron, or seizing the Needle for herself if the price of loyalty falls too low.
Threads to follow
Beneath the surface
What haunts them
What drives them
Personal quest · 1
Sora asks the party to help her raid the Void Reaver, the ship of her blood-rival Kith'rak Voss, who betrayed her crew to Veyron's cult and stole her mother's silver sword. The boarding action is brutal, and Voss fights with cult-blessed fury. In the fight's aftermath, Sora finds a letter from Magister Kaelen revealing Voss sold the location of her secret dock to the cult, meaning her greatest treasure is already compromised.
Locate the Void Reaver in the debris fields near the Citadel and board her under fire.
Personal quest · 2
Sora's mother died raiding a mind flayer hive-ship, and her silver sword was lost with her. Rumors place the wreck of the hive-ship, the Vezzirranth's Hoard, drifting in a gravity anomaly near the Maw of Nothing. Sora has never dared go, because the anomaly borders the black hole Veyron seeks. She finally asks the party to sail with her, claiming it is for salvage, but the wreck holds more than a sword: her mother's final log describes a Far Realm incursion that predates Veyron by a century.
Navigate the gravity anomaly and board the drifting hive-ship wreck.
Personal quest · 3
Sora's secret dock beneath the Citadel of the Cartographers has been compromised by Voss's treachery, and the cult is moving to seize it. Worse, Sora's own crew sealed something inside the dock years ago, something that has been knocking ever since. Sora must return to the dock, deal with whatever she imprisoned, and decide whether the Freebooters' greatest asset is worth the danger it holds. She asks the party to stand with her, an admission she has never made to anyone.
Infiltrate the compromised secret dock before the cult fortifies it, and face what was sealed within.
Veyron's agents approach Sora mid-campaign with an offer of an astral diamond and a fleet commission.
If Sora betrays the party, she gains the Far Realm-touched trait (advantage on saves vs. madness) but loses her crew's loyalty, halving her Superiority Dice permanently. If she refuses, she gains the crew's unbreakable trust, adding her 4 warriors as free allied actions once per adventure, and her Menacing Attack DC rises to 16.
During the Astral Sea voyage, Sora stands alone with the Needle within reach, her whole life's fortune one theft away.
If she steals it, she gains the Needle's space-folding strike (reach 30 ft.) but becomes hunted by both the party and Veyron, losing her ship if caught. If she resists, she earns the party's genuine trust and gains the Crew of the Freebooter feat: once per day, reroll any failed attack roll.
The gate is opening; only a massive physical disruption can buy the party the seconds to close it.
If she commits, the ship is destroyed, dealing massive force damage to Veyron and stunning him 2 rounds, but Sora's crew is scattered and she loses Captain of the Freebooters until she rebuilds. If she refuses, her crew survives intact but the fight begins with the rift one round closer to fully open.
Completing 'The Needle's Choice' alongside the party regardless of outcome
From opportunist to legend
Adds custom feature 'Void-Hardened Captain': resistance to force damage and advantage on saves against being pulled or moved against her will.
Ally
Sora first met Elara Voss fifteen years ago, when the scholar hired the Freebooters to salvage a crashed Cartographer skiff from a psychic storm. Sora expected a soft academic and instead found a woman who negotiated like a pirate and knew more about the Astral Sea's dead zones than any githyanki scout. They have done business on and off ever since, always at arm's length, always in coin. Elara never asked about Sora's desertion, and Sora never asked why a human scholar knew the location of Cartographer vaults.
When the Horizon Needle surfaced, Elara sent Sora a private message: 'The Needle moves, and so should you.' Sora recognized the warning for what it was, and it is partly why she has not yet sold her knowledge of the Citadel to Veyron's agents, despite three lucrative offers. Elara is one of perhaps three people in the multiverse Sora would call something adjacent to a friend, though she would deny it with a laugh and an invoice.
Enemy
Kith'rak Voss was once Sora's shield-brother in the creche-warband before her desertion. When she fled Tu'narath's hierarchy, Voss branded her a traitor and swore to drag her back in chains. Over the years their feud became personal: he raided her salvage claims, she stole his tribute shipments, and each duel left new scars. When Veyron's cult came calling, Voss took their gold and, worse, sold the location of Sora's secret dock to Magister Kaelen, the one betrayal Sora cannot forgive because it endangers everyone under her flag.
Voss captains the Void Reaver, preys on Sora's crew, and carries her mother's silver sword, taken from a raid on the wreck of Vezzirranth's Hoard. For Sora, killing Voss is not business; it is closing the last open wound from the life she abandoned. She will risk everything for the chance, and Voss knows it, which makes him more dangerous every time they meet.
Faction
Sora is the founder and captain of the Githyanki Freebooters, a crew of two dozen githyanki exiles, deserters, and drifters she has led for two decades. She built the faction from nothing after fleeing Tu'narath, forging a band loyal to coin and captain rather than queen or creed. The Freebooters know the Astral Sea's shipping lanes, dead zones, and wreck-fields better than any navy, and their reputation for fair dealing, by pirate standards, keeps contracts flowing from merchants and cults alike.
Sora's authority is absolute in theory but earned in practice: her crew follows her because she has never lost a ship and never spent a life without cause. The crew's loyalty is her true treasure, and anything that threatens it, from Voss's raids to Veyron's gold, strikes at the heart of who she is. The faction's future depends on the choices she makes during the Needle crisis.
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