You have spent years studying the stars and determining fates and fortunes. Predicting love for some, while far different fates for others. You study the stars, their alignments in the night’s sky, and how they represent the gods. You might have slipped a coin or two in your purse with a less than honest telling of a fortune, but you justified it by the necessity to make a living. After all it’s more about how you read their fate than what you tell them anyway. But something led you away from this life. Could it have been a reading gone wrong? Perhaps you were an apprentice and your master has passed on? Or maybe you discovered something more sinister in the stars upon your study?
- Skill Proficiencies: Performance, Religion
- Tool Proficiencies: Musical Instrument, Gaming Set
- Equipment: Set of Fortune cards (Gaming set/deck of cards), set of traveler’s clothes, a mysterious trinket, ink bottle, ink pen, and a book detailing basic constellations and their alignments, musical instrument of your choice, and a belt pouch containing 10 gp
Feature: Reading the Stars
Your devoted study to the stars, their signs, and the gods has made you a fair living in the past. Putting that to practical use has proven to be just as beneficial. When the night sky is at least partially clear you can spend 5 minutes or more studying the constellations of the night’s sky. If doing so, you always know which way is north.
Suggested Characteristics
Astrologists range from hustlers and gypsies to serious students of the stars and their relationship to the gods. Regardless, Astrologists always tend to lean towards a friendly demeanor as much of their vocation’s success revolves around buttering up their clients. Sometimes though, an astrologist might see something foreboding in the stars that may change them forever.
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Personality Trait |
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1
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Reading the stars has taught me one thing; everyone has something they’re hiding
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2
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I don’t mind lying to get what I want, if that’s what it takes
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3
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People will believe anything as long as you put on a good show
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4
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I tend to roam from town to town never quite able to stay in one place at a time for long
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5
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I tend to be agreeable in just about every situation, but I always realize there are two sides to every story
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6
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I take my craft and my work very seriously and don’t appreciate mocking and japes
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7
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The stars are much like life; a giant mystery to be discovered
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8
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I tend to take everything at face value and generally believe most people are honest until given a reason to think otherwise
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Ideal |
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1
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Self Preservation: I take care of me first and foremost.
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2
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Idealist: I hold strict to a firm code of loyalty and honor, even among thieves
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3
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Studious: I believe the answers to life’s greatest mysteries can be found by reading the stars and I spend a great deal of time trying to unlock their secrets
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4
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Wealth: Gold is the key to my happiness and tend to be greedy
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5
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Traveler: I travel to distant lands to unlock the world’s secrets
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6
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Opportunist: I live life to the fullest and don’t cling to the materialistic
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Bond |
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1
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My family was cursed and I’ll do anything to break it
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2
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My master left me a dying wish in a cryptic message and I must solve it
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3
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My friends are the most important thing to me and I’ll do anything to protect them
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4
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I’m sort of on the run from someone for a bad reading
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5
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I owe a great debt to a dangerous crime lord
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6
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A mysterious cosmic entity has bound me to service
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Flaw |
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1
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I tend to be overly dramatic
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2
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I often keep even my best friends at arm’s length
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3
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So I gamble once in a while. What’s the big deal?
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4
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I tend to be selfish and greedy
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5
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I never look directly at a certain star at night for fear of a cosmic entity’s power
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6
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I’m bull headed and stubborn sometimes
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