Sacrificefated

For a long period of your life, you have attended and participated in rituals requiring sacrifice. Perhaps the gaze of a god, a demon, or its priest was upon you at birth, condemning you to a daily or weekly routine for moons, shaping your mind to become the perfect sacrificial minister, or its atoning victim.

A diviner may have predicted that a repeated prayer by your spirit (willing or unwilling) on the day of the full moon fifteen years, three days and two hours after the stars align and your noodle-lined body would trigger the apocalypse or the advent of the new world order.

You may be the one to carry out the sentence, conclude the ritual, and you have trained a lifetime with the sacrificial dagger. Unless you are the keeper of the pit where the chosen futures spend their last day, you cook their last meal, you collect their last words. Or you are the jailer who takes pity on the condemned since you spend your days with them until you guide them along the green line.

You can be happy with your task or your destiny... or you can do anything to escape it. Adventure can be a way to put a distance between the final day and you, or to bring it closer voluntarily.

Skill Proficiencies: Two of your choice from Arcana, History, Nature or Religion

Tool Proficiencies: one of your choice from a kit (Poisoner's kit, Herbalism kit, Disguise kit) or Artisan's tools Alchemist's supplies, Brewer's supplies, Tinker's tools, Carpenter's tools).

Languages: Abyssal

Equipment: A stick, an instrument of torture, handcuffs, liturgical vestments and a pouch containing 15 gp

Suggested Characteristics

Sacrificefated spend their lives trying to avoid or provoke a ritual.

d8	Personality Trait
1	I use polysyllabic words that convey the impression of great erudition.
2	I’ve read every book in the world’s greatest libraries—or I like to boast that I have.
3	I’m used to helping out those who aren’t as smart as I am, and I patiently explain anything and everything to others.
4	There’s nothing I like more than a good mystery.
5	I’m willing to listen to every side of an argument before I make my own judgment.
6	I … speak … slowly … when talking … to idiots, … which … almost … everyone … is … compared … to me.
7	I am horribly, horribly awkward in social situations.
8	I’m convinced that people are always trying to steal my secrets.

d6	Ideal
1	Knowledge. The path to power and self-improvement is through knowledge. (Neutral)
2	Beauty. What is beautiful points us beyond itself toward what is true. (Good)
3	Logic. Emotions must not cloud our logical thinking. (Lawful)
4	No Limits. Nothing should fetter the infinite possibility inherent in all existence. (Chaotic)
5	Power. Knowledge is the path to power and domination. (Evil)
6	Self-Improvement. The goal of a life of study is the betterment of oneself. (Any)

d6	Bond
1	It is my duty to protect my students.
2	I have an ancient text that holds terrible secrets that must not fall into the wrong hands.
3	I work to preserve a library, university, scriptorium, or monastery.
4	My life’s work is a series of tomes related to a specific field of lore.
5	I’ve been searching my whole life for the answer to a certain question.
6	I sold my soul for knowledge. I hope to do great deeds and win it back.

d6	Flaw
1	I am easily distracted by the promise of information.
2	Most people scream and run when they see a demon. I stop and take notes on its anatomy.
3	Unlocking an ancient mystery is worth the price of a civilization.
4	I overlook obvious solutions in favor of complicated ones.
5	I speak without really thinking through my words, invariably insulting others.
6	I can’t keep a secret to save my life, or anyone else’s.