You have traveled across the planes to come to your current location, encountering wonders and perils along the way. You might have grown up in another plane, or perhaps you spent a long time away from home in another plane. You could have fallen into a strange portal and searched constantly for a way home, or you might have gone exploring intentionally. Regardless of the reasons for your planar travels, they have shaped you into the adventurer that you are today.
This background is common among crystalkin, bright elves, ember dwarves, and stone dwarves, along with other races such as genasi, aarakocra, and tieflings.
- Skill Proficiencies: Arcana, Survival
- Languages: Two of your choice out of Abyssal, Celestial, Draconic, Deep Speech, Infernal, Primordial, or Sylvan.
- Equipment: A bedroll, a waterskin, a 10-foot pole, 50-feet of silk rope, a steel mirror, a piece of a broken metal tuning fork used for the plane shift spell that was attuned to the Material Plane, a trinket from another plane, a set of traveler's clothes, and a belt pouch containing two gemstones each worth 10 gp
Though you have traveled far, you once spent a great deal of time in a particular plane or realm, growing familiar with it. You can roll on the following table to determine the plane or realm that you spent so much time in, or choose one that best fits your character.
| d8 | Main Plane |
|---|---|
| 1 | The Feywild |
| 2 | The Shadowfell |
| 3 | An Elemental Plane |
| 4 | An Upper Plane |
| 5 | A Lower Plane |
| 6 | A Plane of Chaos |
| 7 | A Plane of Law |
| 8 | The Far Realm |
You are as familiar with your main plane as someone who had lived there for hundreds of years, in addition to the basic familiarity with the Material Plane that most player characters have. You know your main plane's general inhabitants, geographies, cultures, and so on. Also, you always recognize a magical portal that leads to your main plane.
Suggested Characteristics
Your journey across the planes has informed much of your current personality because of its difficulty. Your personality traits are also likely responsible for some of your journey -- only certain kinds of people seek to make this perilous trek across the planes as you have.
Use the tables for the sage or hermit background in the Player 's Handbook as the basis for your traits and motivations, modifying the entries when appropriate to suit your identity as someone who has ventured across the planes to reach your current location. For example, if you are using the hermit tables, you might change any mention of your seclusion to be your reason for traveling the planes.
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