You worked in a Biomancer lab in Tanmaa. You see biology as mutable and always open to improvement.

Skill Proficiencies: Choose 2 from: Animal Handling, Medicine, or History.

Tool Proficiencies: Alchemist’s Supplies or Poisoner’s Kit

Languages: Soumi, Luari

Equipment: A set of tools corresponding to proficiency, set of commoner’s clothes, a long coat, 10 vials, a scholar’s pack, and a pouch containing 10 GP (Tanmaan Trumpets)

Suggested Characteristics

Working all day with various creatures and thinking about their characteristics, strengths, and flaws affects the way Bio-engineers see the world and people around them, sometimes seeing others as potential experiments or wanting to help them improve.

d8	Personality Trait
1	I think of everyone as some kind of animal.
2	I’m always looking for ways to improve myself and everything around me.
3	I like to put my own limits to the test.
4	I see all wild animals as potentially dangerous and prefer them far away or dead.
5	I tend to explain things using analogies that only people who know my profession would understand.
6	I prefer my environment as clean as possible and will take reasonable steps to make it that way.
7	I’m always looking to explore new environments.
8	I worry that trying something new may have catastrophic consequences.

d6	Ideal
1	Potential. Everything can become better, which gives it value. (Neutral)
2	Power. Knowledge is power that can be used to benefit me. (Evil)
3	Coexistence. We’re all different, so we need to accept others. (Good)
4	Classification. Everything is understood by classification. (Lawful)
5	Variety. Something different is better than the same old thing. (Chaotic)
6	Discovery. There’s always more to learn. (Any)

d6	Bond
1	I would give my life for a specific former colleague.
2	A certain kind of creature is a thing of beauty, and I could never allow one to come to harm.
3	I helped create a horrible creature that got loose, and I feel a duty to capture or kill it.
4	I lost someone close to me, because I kept pointing out their flaws. I desperately want to get them back.
5	When I see someone in pain, I feel compelled to soothe them however I can.
6	I’m obsessed with biological discovery.

d6	Flaw
1	I’m always trying to improve people.
2	I’m pessimistic of others’ ability to succeed, because I always notice shortcomings that will be obstacles to their success.
3	I like beasts more than people, and it’s noticeable.
4	I tend to describe people and things by their component parts instead of the whole.
5	When I see a dead creature, I want to examine it.
6	I’m curious about pain thresholds of various people and creatures and forget that they don’t appreciate being tested.