You have spent your life in the kitchen. You know good ingredients from bad, and you know how to spice things up. You have a keen sense of taste and are prized for the foods and drinks you create and serve.
- Skill Proficiencies: You are largely influenced by nature and your training in ingredients.
- Tool Proficiencies: You know your way around a kitchen or cookfire, as well as the tools used in those places.
- Languages: You have picked up culinary terms and colloquial words from the most common cooking cultures.
Feature: Spice of Life
No matter what the starting ingredients are, you are acutely aware of how to make a particular dish or drink better. Your food and drinks are prized, and people will go out of their way to get something you made. Whenever you cook, people around will praise you and even offer ingredients for you to make things. This has the added benefit of being loved by the masses. People who have been served by you will protect you, if they can, if you are in immediate danger.
Suggested Characteristics
Cooks are shaped by their experiences with food and drinks, as well as those they serve. They tend to love people, love food and drinks, and love seeing people happy.
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I idolize a particularly gifted cook or brewer from history.
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I can provide something good for anyone's palette.
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3
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The gods speak through food and drink. I am but a messenger.
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4
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Nothing I make is bad.
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5
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I have recipes from the farthest reaches.
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6
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I’ve enjoyed fine food, drink, and high society among my temple’s elite. Rough living grates on me.
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7
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I can cook or brew anywhere - the world is my kitchen.
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8
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I will do anything to get my hands on rare spices or ingredients.
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Ideal |
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Tradition. There are recipes for a reason. Who am I to change them? (Lawful)
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Creativity. It is my place to make new foods and new drinks. (Chaotic)
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Aspiration. I strive to be the best cook or brewer that has ever lived. (Any)
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4
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Greater Good. I often give away my creations to those who need them most. (Good)
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5
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Selectivity. Only the best deserve what I have to offer. (Evil)
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6
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Art. Cooking is an artform that helps me express myself. (Neutral)
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Bond |
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I was an assistant cook to one of the great chefs.
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2
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Everything I do is for the common people.
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3
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I seek to preserve a sacred recipe that others seek to destroy.
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4
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I worked the land, I love the land, and I will protect the land.
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5
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I wish my childhood sweetheart had come with me to pursue my destiny.
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6
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The common folk must see me as a hero of the people.
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Flaw |
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I judge others harshly, and myself even more severely.
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I turn tail and run when things look bad.
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3
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I have a weakness for the vices of the city, especially hard drink.
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4
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I secretly believe that everyone is beneath me.
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5
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I can’t keep a secret to save my life, or anyone else’s.
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6
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I overlook obvious solutions in favor of complicated ones.
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