Ex-Acolyte

You have spent most of your life in the service of a temple to a specific god or pantheon of gods. You acted as an intermediary between the realm of the holy and the mortal world, performing sacred rites and offering sacrifices in order to conduct worshipers into the presence of the divine. Except something made you denounce your religion so heavily you may condemn all other religions and religious believers. For whatever reason you've turned your back on your religion, but still retain it's gifts. You're not calm, peaceful or holy, but you have knowledge that only such people were supposed to have.

Choose a god, a pantheon of gods, or some other quasi-divine being, and work with your DM to detail the nature of your previous religious service. Were you a lesser functionary in a temple, taken and raised from childhood to assist the priests in the sacred rites? Or were you a high priest who suddenly experienced your change and decided to scorn god? Perhaps you were the leader of a small cult outside of any established temple structure, or even an occult group that served a fiendish master that you now deny. 

Skill Proficiencies: Insight, Religion, Survival,

Languages: Two of your choice

Equipment: A holy symbol (a gift to you when you entered the priesthood), a prayer book or prayer wheel, 5 sticks of incense, vestments, a set of common clothes, and a pouch containing 15 gp.

Suggested Characteristics

Ex-Acolytes are shaped by their past experience in their temple and religious community. Their study of the history and faith and their broken relationships to temples, shrines, or hierarchies affect their mannerisms and ideals. Their flaws might be the extremity of their new views, or their hell-bent focus on revenge and the past.

d8	Personality Trait
1	I hate a particular hero of my faith, and constantly talk about them.
2	I find it hard to empathize with enemies after all I've seen.
3	I see omens in every event and action. I believe everything is working against me.
4	Nothing can shake my pessimistic attitude.
5	Without reliance on my faith I now enjoy handling situations myself and often am not a good team-player.
6	I am often intolerant of other faiths and condemn the worship of gods.
7	I’ve enjoyed fine food, drink, and high society among my temple’s elite. Rough living grates on me.
8	I’ve spent so long in the temple that I have little practical experience dealing with people in the outside world.

d6	Ideal
1	Justice. Those who lie must be brought to justice and proper lawful values must be upheld. (Lawful)
2	Empathy. I always try to help those in need, no matter what the personal cost, as I can relate. (Good)
3	Change. We must bring about the changes the gods will not bring for us. (Chaotic)
4	Revenge. I believe those who wronged me previously deserve to be punished. (Evil)
5	Anti-Faith. I distrust deities and dislike faiths, I know they will not protect me or others. Anyone who believes in them are foolish. (Chaotic)
6	Aspiration. I seek to build myself back up and prove that I don't need faith. (Any)

d6	Bond
1	I would die to make sure a ancient relic of my old faith is destroyed or taken.
2	I will someday get revenge on the corrupt temple hierarchy who branded me a traitor.
3	I will do anything to get revenge on the priest who took me when I was a child.
4	Everything I do is to prove myself and further denounce my faith.
5	I will do anything to destroy the temple where I served.
6	I seek to take or destroy a sacred text that my enemies consider holy when I know it is harmful.

d6	Flaw
1	I judge others harshly, and myself even more severely.
2	I have almost completely lost my trust in people and authorities.
3	My anger and extreme views often lead me to offending someone important.
4	I am inflexible in my thinking.
5	I am suspicious of strangers and expect the worst of them.
6	Once I pick a goal, I become obsessed with it to the detriment of everything else in my life.