Through genuine vision or outright deception, you have found a skill in telling fortunes to those with the coin to pay you. Your visions can prove to be correct and you feel compelled to give succour or hope to those your visions include, but more often than not, they are fabrications to be pushed onto paying customers too stupid to realise they are being tricked. Tarot cards, knuckle bones, gem stones: these are some of the tools of your trade. So it has been for years of your life, that fortunes told can bring calm or calamity, sacks of coin or hostility, for it is the burden of all of see of the future and fates, to be both enamoured of and loathed by, those people who seek use of your gifts.
- Skill Proficiencies: Deception, Religion
Languages: 1 of your choice
Equipment: A set of common clothes, a set of tarot cards or similar fortune telling equipment, a small crystal orb, a small circular rug and a pouch containing 10 gp
As your gift gives you small glimpses into the future, you can use them to twist things in your favour. People are usually scared of or intrigued by what you can tell them, whether it's about them or not. By making a prediction or prophecy aloud, you can sometimes get things such as a free night's stay at an inn, information, or discounts at shops and markets. Be discerning of whom you tell futures to, and what knowledge you give them, however, as not all knowledge is happily known.
Suggested Characteristics
D8 Personality Trait:
1. I wholeheartedly believe that knowledge is the most important thing in the world.
2. I see omens in every event, action and vision. The gods try to speak to us, we just need to listen.
3. I'm self conscious about my visions and sharing them.
4. I am tolerant (or intolerant) of other faiths and respect (or condemn) the worship of other gods.
5. I keep multiple holy symbols on me and invoke whatever deity might come in useful at any given moment.
6. Flattery is my preferred trick for getting what I want.
7. I lie about almost everything, even when there's no good reason to.
8. I often change details about my visions. It's not as if they need to know, right?
D6 Ideal:
1. Fairness. I never target people who can't afford to lose a few coins. (Lawful)
2. Charity. I distribute the money I acquire to the people who really need it. (Good)
3. Independence. I am a free spirit – no one tells me what to do. (Chaotic)
4. Knowledge. I must learn all about my visions and what knowledge they hold. (Neutral)
5. Change. These visions are a message from the gods telling us what must be changed in this world. (Chaotic)
6. Tradition. These visions are a message from the gods telling us what must be maintained in this world. (Lawful)
D6 Bond
1. I swindled and ruined a person who didn't deserve it. I seek to atone for my misdeeds but might never be able to forgive myself.
2. I fleeced the wrong person and must work to ensure that this individual never crosses paths with me or those I care about.
3. Everything I do is for the common people.
4. I want to spread my knowledge to all.
5. I've been searching my whole life for the meaning of a particular vision.
6. I've seen horrors that would destroy the sanity of others, but I have made it through.
D6 Flaw
1. I can't resist swindling people who are more powerful than me.
2. I'm convinced that no one could ever fool me the way I fool others.
3. My visions make me arrogant in matters I have foreseen. It's not as if the visions can be wrong.
4. My piety sometimes leads me to blindly trust those that profess faith in my god.
5. I can't accept someone criticizing my visions. I know what I saw!
6. Once I foresee something, I become obsessed with it to the detriment of everything else in my life.
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