You have spent much of your life in deadlands, struggling to grow roses from metaphorical dust, where in reality the dust is hordes of shambling corpses and little sunlight. You've used your green thumb to cultivate flowers, produce, and hardy hybrids suited to a desolate world. Something of an herbalist, you've made discoveries of hidden nutrients and techniques that can nourish vegetation that has never seen a single day of sun. The patience and dedication this requires can be tedious and disheartening, but you've found it rewarding when the seeds you've sown begin to flourish.
- Skill Proficiencies: Choose 2 from Survival, Nature, Stealth, Arcana and Medicine
- Tool Proficiencies: Choose 1 from Alchemist's Supplies, Brewer's Supplies, Cook's Utensils, Woodcarver's Tools, Herbalism Kit and Poisoner's Kit
- Languages: One exotic language of your choice
- Equipment: a clear gemstone that grows dark and clouded when it nears a shadow crossing, a set of dark clothes and a worn black cloak with a full hood, a small, sour smelling pouch of seeds, a tool with which you're proficient, and 5 gp
Feature: Organic Benevolence
You have prolific knowledge of not only your inhospitable homeland, but also natural resources to be discovered in lands without sunlight or plagued by the dead. You can find twice as much food and water as you normally would when you seek nourishment there.
Additionally, members of druid circles, farmers, and caretakers of the natural world respect your intentions and will offer you their hospitality if you have not given them a reason to distrust you.
Suggested Characteristics
Midnight Botanists exist with the weight of despair and hope cycling like the lives of the plants they nurture. They've scoured ominous and shadowy deadlands for innovative methods of fostering durable flora that is just as determined to survive as they are.
| d8 | Personality Trait |
|---|---|
| 1 | I’m unaccustomed to conversation with other people, so I make my words count when I speak. |
| 2 | It takes a lot to rattle me. Not even death rattles do the trick. I'm used to those. |
| 3 | I'm passionate about nurturing others the same way that I nurture my plants. |
| 4 | I feel a quiet solidarity with anyone who has struggled simply to survive. |
| 5 | The idiosyncrasies of social interaction among living creatures can go over my head. |
| 6 | I can find value and meaning in situations that others see as lost causes. |
| 7 | I tend to become absorbed in my agricultural research, and it phases out the world around me. |
| 8 | I have an eccentric take on the importance of plants, and I'm not discouraged by those who disagree. |
| d6 | Ideal |
|---|---|
| 1 | Greater Good. My objective is bountiful nourishment, and that goes for all living things, not just plants. (Good) |
| 2 | Fairness. I never prioritize my own projects when it is a drain on the resources of others. (Lawful) |
| 3 | No Limits. No matter the obstacle, life finds a way. So will I. (Chaotic) |
| 4 | Might. Those who do not revere nature deserve to become the remains from which it is fertilized. (Evil) |
| 5 | Nature. The preservation of the natural order supersedes all other ambitions. (Neutral) |
| 6 | Aspiration. I seek to spread the abundance of the plantlife I've cultivated across all of the lands. (Any) |
| d6 | Bond |
|---|---|
| 1 | I provide for those who cannot provide for themselves. |
| 2 | The garden where my natural talents bloomed is the most important place in the world to me. |
| 3 | I will teach the evildoers who plague my gloomy homeland the true meaning of fear and despair. |
| 4 | I dedicate my deeds to someone who once gave me a shred of hope when my world was devoid of it. |
| 5 | Should the fruits of my research be exploited, it could bring doom to all living things. |
| 6 | I carry in my heart the weight of all those who passed without my aid. |
| d6 | Flaw |
|---|---|
| 1 | If my priorities do not align with those of my allies, I will secretly let them fail. |
| 2 | I harbor deep resentment for those who are too weak to survive on their own in this world. |
| 3 | I will state my thoughts cuttingly, in an effort to prune away the bad habits from my companions. |
| 4 | If people knew of what it has taken to cultivate my skills, they would never trust me. |
| 5 | I will overlook immediate danger if it means making a discovery that furthers my research. |
| 6 | I tend to find the charged emotions of other living creatures to be baffling and unnecessary. |
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