Mysterious Mask Merchant Image

You are a person who cannot be explained besides the fact that you make a living selling odd masks that make the wearer feel more better. You make these masks by your unknown means, then sell them for an oddly specific price. While others may question your often odd ways, you will experience joy from selling your faces to allow others to make a new person.

 
Skill Proficiencies: Perception, Survival
Tool Proficiencies: You can work a set of Woodcarver's Tools to make your masks with.
Languages: Choose a language that most of your customers wouldn't know.
Equipment: A set of fine clothes, a hooded lantern to travel forth with, a set of woodcarver's tools to make more masks, the mask that conceals your true face, and a belt pouch containing 15 gp.
 
Mask Design

There are many shapes and from that your odd face hider could come in. It could be anything from a frog to a humanoid to a stained face. Choose the mask that conceals your true nature, or roll on the table below.

d10 Mask Design
1 Cat
2 Fox
3 Humanoid
4 Bird
5 Plague
6 Reptile
7 Frog
8 Unnatural
9 Cartoon
10 Theater
 
Feature: The Lack of Emotion

Because of your mask, people will often stare at you for they cannot tell what is going on underneath. While this may be great for some occasions, people may stray away from your ever present smile due to the cold lack of feeling your mask has. Most people will keep their distance if you look at them for long enough, and even some villains will feel the creeps upon trying to have a conversation with you.

 
Suggested Characteristics

As a mask salesman without an obvious reason, you enjoy being mysterious. You don't feel the urge to make a profit, but you take joy in giving these masks away for a price. Most disguised entrepreneurs will wonder to find a person who is need of their wears, even if it means that they are travelling for years. To be mysterious and benevolent at the same time is truly the the goal that you seek.

d8 Personality Trait
1 I stare blankly at people when not doing anything.
2 I always chuckle before every sentence.
3 When asked about my true face, I always give a different answer.
4 I like to imitate the noises my mask would make.
5 Shadows and darkness make me feel comfortable.
6 I never part with my mask, even if it is broken beyond recognition.
7 I will often stand, even when offered a seat.
8 Animals seem to understand me better than people.
d6 Ideal
1 Fulfillment. I ought to give the same gift that improves my face. (Good)
2 Secrecy. I give so that those who cause evil can cause evil as a new person. (Evil)
3 Apathy. I give my wares because I can. (Neutral)
4 Persona. I spread the masks to sow confusion and chaos. (Chaotic)
5 Emotions. I make the mask so the struggling can be someone they wish to be. (Lawful)
6 Association. I give my unique trait to others to make it more common place. (Any)
d6 Bond
1 The first town I sold at is still one of my favorite places to return.
2 The people who are comfortable around me as a whole are good people.
3 I used to have a mask prior to the one I wear now, and wish to reclaim the original.
4 A person who feels that my presence is a bad omen tries to rid themselves of me at every chance they get.
5 I was once greeted in kind manners from a lesser species which I now hold in the highest regards.
6 I make a mask in resemblance of fallen allies to commemorate them, and will carry these masks with me until I meet my terrible fate as well.
d6 Flaw
1 I get too much enjoyment out of the suffering of my colleges.
2 I will often starve and dehydrate myself because I don't want to remove my mask.
3 I respond with apathy so often that others worry that I lack other emotions.
4 I am socially inept that I will often need others to communicate for me.
5 I will often drive others mad with my nonsensical motivations.
6 I will take care of my mask better than I do my own well being.
 
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