The Perfect Outlaw

Silas Calhoun was a gunslinger obsessed with transcendence—not spiritual awakening, but absolute perfection in his craft, a dream that consumed him more with each passing year until desperation drove him to seek out a rogue naturalist operating from abandoned mining tunnels beneath the badlands. The serum she injected directly into his beating heart promised to remake him into something beyond human limitation, but the price of transformation proved far more grotesque than he'd anticipated: his body swelled and softened, his skeleton dissolved into gelatinous nothing, and he spent weeks suspended in his own cocoon as his very essence liquefied and reconstituted into something altogether other. When The Perfect Outlaw finally emerged, he was no longer entirely human—his frame now possessed the angular grace of a massive moth, his eyes sensitive to wavelengths of light invisible to ordinary men, and his papery wings capable of carrying him through the desert night in absolute silence. He discovered that his new form had granted him precisely what he craved: movements so fluid and unpredictable that his gunplay became truly flawless, his draw faster than thought, his aim guided by instincts honed across centuries of ancestral memory. Yet the serum's greatest gift was unexpected—time itself had become his ally, his aging slowed to a crawl, granting him the endless decades needed to truly master the gun. Now he drifts like a phantom across the badlands, neither fully creature nor man, neither good nor evil, simply pursuing the perfection that cost him everything human and gave him something far stranger.

Strength

14, modifier +2

Dexterity

20, modifier +5

Constitution

18, modifier +4

Intelligence

12, modifier +1

Wisdom

15, modifier +2

Charisma

10, modifier +0

Moth Wing Slash

Make a melee attack with wings, dealing 2d8 slashing damage plus 3d6 poison damage.

Cocoon Trap

Create a cocoon around a target within 30 ft. They must succeed on a DC 16 Strength saving throw or be restrained for 1 minute.

Perfect Shot

Make a ranged attack with a firearm, dealing 3d10 piercing damage. On a hit, the target must succeed on a DC 16 Constitution saving throw or be stunned until the end of their next turn.

Metamorphic Escape

Once per day, The Perfect Outlaw can dissolve into a cloud of silk, becoming incorporeal for 1 round, avoiding all damage.

Silent Flight

The Perfect Outlaw can fly without making a sound, granting advantage on stealth checks.

Eternal Mastery

Aging is slowed significantly; The Perfect Outlaw has advantage on checks related to marksmanship.

strength

+5

dexterity

+9

constitution

+8

intelligence

+1

wisdom

+6

Poison

Psychic