Your soul is hundreds, or possibly thousands of years old. It is constantly being reborn into a new body whenever the one it occupied prior reached the end of its life. You have the ability to gain knowledge from your past lives through your dreams, where you see visions of things your soul has witnessed in the past. Your dreams are so frequent, long, and detailed that it is often easy to absorb the events of them. Your past lives may have been drastically different from your current life, from your race and gender to your personality and life events.
- Skill Proficiencies: Your past lives give you an increased understanding of history, simply from the variety of things that have been imprinted on your soul. You can also pick another proficiency in another wisdom or intelligence skill, excluding perception and insight.
- Tool Proficiencies: You at one point had a dream that vividly described how to use a certain set of tools. Pick a tool proficiency.
- Languages: One language appears so frequently in your dreams that you have begun to learn it. Pick a language.
Living through so many lives, even if you do not remember them, has aged you mentally. Your "old soul" causes you to act as though you've seen more than you may actually have seen, behaving with more maturity. Reborn souls who are especially attached to their past lives may have an admiration for past times. You may connect more with people of older generations rather than people your own age or younger. However, you may also entirely separate your past lives and your current life. This depends on the reborn soul them-self.
Suggested Characteristics
Below are characteristics you can consider for a character with this background.
| d8 | Personality Trait |
|---|---|
| 1 | I act mature, wise beyond my years. |
| 2 | I am often calm and collected. |
| 3 | I am confident in my historical knowledge to the point of being stuck up. |
| 4 | My thoughts are all over the place and I can be very spastic. |
| 5 | I think things through thoroughly before going through with them. |
| 6 | I prefer to spend my time alone. |
| 7 | I pretend like I know whats going on even when I have no idea. |
| 8 | I am always on edge and can be quite 'jumpy.' |
| d4 | Ideal |
|---|---|
| 1 | I care greatly about the preservation of history. |
| 2 | It's important to me that I honor my past lives in my current one. |
| 3 | I strive to understand my past lives. |
| 4 | I greatly value the upholding of old traditions. |
| d4 | Bond |
|---|---|
| 1 | I greatly enjoy things that were before my time. |
| 2 | I make easy friends with the elderly and find their presence comforting. |
| 3 | I easily understand history and have an affinity for it. |
| 4 | Old technology doesn't confuse me and I can pick it up easily. |
| d5 | Flaw |
|---|---|
| 1 | I love my dreams so much that all I want to do is sleep. |
| 2 | I can be incredibly distant as a result of pondering on all the information I have to process. |
| 3 | I'm obsessed with gaining knowledge to the extent that I may not focus on anything else. |
| 4 | I automatically assume that others are wrong. |
| 5 | I'm confused about the legitimacy of my dreams, and I find it very distressing. |
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