Professional Assassin

You are, or were, a professional assassin or hit-man. Your job, possibly even your purpose in life, was to kill people without getting caught. By luck or talent, you must have been fairly successful- a famous assassin is a dead assassin after all. Were you born into the profession, or were you otherwise forced into it, or did you intentionally take up the dagger? Were you a solo act, or did you work for an agency/guild, organized crime group, or private individual? Did you work for money, personal beliefs, to avoid some threat from your employer or your own freedom? Were you brainwashed or tortured to do this type of work? Did you receive professional training as an assassin, or did you learn it by yourself? Did you hang up the hat, or are you still available for hire? Did you enjoy your work? How do you feel about your marks? What do you think of other assassins? Were there any really important people you were tasked to kill or were there any missions that were especially difficult or memorable?

Skill Proficiencies: Stealth and Deception

Tool Proficiencies: Thieves Tools or Poisioner's Kit

Languages: Thieves' Can't or Undercommon

Equipment:  A set of common clothes, traveler's clothes, and fine clothes, and a dark robe, each having a hidden pouch sewn into it. You also have several sheets of paper, an ink pen, and flacons of black, red, and invisible ink. 30 gp is hidden somewhere on you as well as a coin pouch containing 10 gp.

Suggested Characteristics

d8	Personality Trait
1	I enjoy gold a lot, but mostly that of other people.
2	I do not mind stabbing an ally in the back if it will benefit me in the long run.
3	I don't like killing at all, so I regularly question my work.
4	I don't react to death at all unless it's someone I care about.
5	I never take anything seriously and I'm always willing to joke around.
6	I'm a bit of a show-off.
7	I have killed so many that I have lost count.
8	I hunt people like animals.

D6	Ideal
1	Greed: You are only in it for the money. (Evil)
2	Self-Knowledge: If you know yourself, there is nothing left to know. (Neutral)
3	Aspiration: I work hard to be the best there is at my craft. (Any)
4	People: I help people who help me--that's what keeps us alive. (Good)
5	Master: I'm a predator, and everyone else is my prey. (Evil)
6	Death: Some people deserve to die. (Chaotic)

d6	Bond
1	I owe my guild a great debt for forging me into the person I am today.
2	A powerful person killed someone I love. Someday soon, I'll have my revenge.
3	I'm trying to pay off an old debt I owe to my teacher.
4	Someone I loved died because of a mistake I made. That will never happen again.
5	One day I will return to my guild and prove that I am the greatest assassin of them all.
6	My tools are symbols of my past life, and I carry them so that I will never forget my roots.

d6	Flaw
1	I love to own other people's gold- usually taken from their unsuspecting pocket or grave.
2	Secretly, I don't enjoy what I do, so I look at the world as if it's not real.
3	There's no room for caution in a life lived to the fullest.
4	Violence is my answer to almost any challenge.
5	Once someone questions my courage, I never back down no matter how dangerous the situation.
6	I judge others harshly, and myself even more severely.