Balwyn Amberwheel

Balwyn Amberwheel was born during a temporal eclipse—a moment when the boundary between past and future grew gossamer-thin—and has lived ever since with stolen minutes threaded through their veins like silver wire. As a young apprentice to a chronometer maker, they discovered that by consuming fragments of other people's unlived moments, they could perceive paths through space and time that ordinary folk could never traverse, though each route came at a terrible price to whoever's future was borrowed. Their vest pockets, lined with ticking mechanisms salvaged from broken clocks, serve as both map-maker's tools and constant reminders of the debt they accumulate with each chart they draw, the soft sound a metronome counting down their own borrowed existence. Balwyn has become a guide for the desperate and the doomed, offering shortcuts through cursed forests, sealed kingdoms, and impossible distances—passages that exist only in the margins of moments, accessible only once before collapsing back into unreality. They stand always with their weight shifted to one side, perpetually braced as if ready to flee, knowing that one day the clocks will stop ticking and all the borrowed time will come due at once. Those who've taken Balwyn's maps rarely speak of what they saw along those strange paths, and fewer still return to ask for a second route, having learned too late what price their salvation actually cost.

Strength

12, modifier +1

Dexterity

16, modifier +3

Constitution

16, modifier +3

Intelligence

18, modifier +4

Wisdom

14, modifier +2

Charisma

15, modifier +2

Map of Shortcuts

As an action, Balwyn can create a temporary map, allowing allies to move 10 ft. extra this turn.

Temporal Displacement

Balwyn can teleport up to 30 ft. to an unoccupied space they can see as a bonus action.

Borrowed Moments

Balwyn can consume a fragment of time, dealing 4d6 psychic damage to one target within 60 ft. and gaining temporary hit points equal to half the damage dealt.

Ticking Vest

As a reaction, Balwyn can reduce damage taken by 1d10 + their Constitution modifier once per round.

Temporal Insight

Balwyn can perceive paths through time, granting advantage on initiative rolls.

Borrowed Time

Once per long rest, Balwyn can reroll a failed saving throw, but must take the new result.

strength

+1

dexterity

+3

constitution

+3

intelligence

+4

wisdom

+2

charisma

+2

Psychic