A traumatic event in your people's past has driven them from their home and lands. Your people have become wanderers, scattered to the winds, surviving by their wits and a weather eye for danger. You have not seen another of your kin for a long. long time.
- Skill Proficiencies: Survival, Perception
- Languages: As someone who has travelled long and far you have developed a knack for languages.
- Equipment: A torn map fragment of your home land, a [Tooltip Not Found], and a handful of strange coins from distant realms worth 10 gp.
A terrible doom drove your people forth. Roll 1d6 and name this scourge!
| d6 | What Befell your Home |
|---|---|
| 1 | Dragged into the sea as cosmic punishment for the wickedness of your kin. |
| 2 | Razed by a warlord whose first child is now ruler of a nearby land. |
| 3 | Overrun by foul creatures, a blight brought on by foul necromancies. |
| 4 | Consummed by the desert in a single night. What mortal can tell why these things happen? |
| 5 | Raiders captured your people and took them far past the borders of your maps. |
| 6 | A powerful daemon cursed your kin to wander until truly lost. Only the utterly lost can return home. |
You have wandered far and wide and have acquired tidbits of knowledge of great cities, peoples and their customs of far off places. The GM should offer you additional rumours during play that deal with foreign lands, whenever appropriate. These rumours should be true most of the time.
Suggested Characteristics
By nature a loner and by necessity self sufficient your outlook has been shaped by years of solitude, with time to contemplate the past and the future.
| d8 | Personality Trait |
|---|---|
| 1 | I'm often gloomy and despondent with a dislike for the past and a weary eye on the future. |
| 2 | I can't stay in any place too long before I need to hit the road again. |
| 3 | I'm interested in new peoples and cultures and I am filled with questions about them. |
| 4 | I am filled with a desire for revenge for what has happened to my kin and it drives my every action. |
| 5 | I am watchful of others and have learned the hard way to let them make the first mistake. |
| 6 | I live for today and I accept that I have little control over what tomorrow will bring. |
| 7 | "The past is a road oft travelled without a map." I'm full of helpful idioms I've picked up along the way and am eager to share them. |
| 8 | I am usually quiet but when I find something funny I laugh hard and long. |
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