Although your services to your village or town are important and surprisingly specialized, people are far happier when they can just pretend that you simply
don't exist.
- Skill Proficiencies: Skill Proficiencies: Religion, Medicine
- Tool Proficiencies: Tool Proficiencies: Herbalism Kit
- Languages: One of your choice
- Equipment: Herbalism kit, a winter blanket, a shovel , rugged outerwear (traveller's clothes), scented herbs, and a coin pouch containing 10gp.
Feature: Séance
You can speak with the dead for a minute if it has been less than five days since they died. You can only do this once per day and you will only understand them if they speak a language you know as well. Furthermore, though commoners might fear you, they respect your position and will offer a place to hide, rest, or recuperate, unless you have shown yourself to be a danger to them.
Suggested Characteristics
Choose from the traits below
| d8 | Personality Trait |
|---|---|
| 1 | The dead are dead; they don’t need their stuff. I need their stuff. |
| 2 | I'm afraid of the dark and always make sure to have a source of light nearby. |
| 3 | I'm much happier than most and smile often. Being around death so much has made me appreciate life more. |
| 4 | I carry around an unusually large amount of charms, wards, trinkets and holy symbols to try and protect myself from foul creatures. |
| 5 | I have trouble interacting with the living; I prefer the solitude of the crypt. |
| 6 | I actually have a fantastic, if morbid, sense of humour. |
| 7 | I place no stock in wealth or manners. Money and status will not save you from death. |
| 8 | I have seen how we all end. Death does not scare me. |
| d6 | Ideal |
|---|---|
| 1 | Life is fleeting and death is ever looming; hypervigilance and self-preservation must always be kept to the fore. (Neutral) |
| 2 | Respect. I believe that all men are equal in death, and deserve respect. (Good) |
| 3 | The roll of a cosmic die, a bolt of azure lightning, a well-placed banana peel—it doesn’t really matter how or why life ends, now does it? Life can always end in an instant, so do what you must and let that be the whole of the law. (Chaotic) |
| 4 | My future is destined to be one of success, if not greatness. Until then, I do what I must do. And if called upon, I dig the graves. (Any) |
| 5 | Preservation. The dead are a resource; I merely preserve them for others to use. (Evil) |
| 6 | Tradition. Ritual and tradition bind the generations together, and should be preserved (Lawful). |
| d6 | Bond |
|---|---|
| 1 | As society scorned me, so I scorn it. I am dedicated to myself and myself alone. |
| 2 | Dishonouring the dead is a personal insult to me. |
| 3 | I used my position to fake someone's death. That person and I must keep each other's secret. |
| 4 | I secretly steal bodies to give to a medical school, and am paid handsomely for it |
| 5 | My friends are my bond; I am sometimes loyal to a fault, as they say. |
| 6 | I took up this job to protect my village from a necromancer. Someday, I will kill him. |
| d6 | Flaw |
|---|---|
| 1 | I keep a token or trophy from every body I bury. |
| 2 | I secretly harbour dark thoughts and strange scientific or eldritch ambitions |
| 3 | All these fools around me are already dead, they just don't realize it yet. |
| 4 | Years of social detachment and seclusion have made me over-analytical, eccentric, and suspicious. |
| 5 | My fascination with the dead and the afterlife goes well beyond some peoples’ sense of what is considered healthy. |
| 6 | Death is inevitable; I will not go out of my way to prevent someone else dying. |
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