You originate from a place that transcends any length of distance — whether feet, miles or entire continents. You hail from the past; a remnant of a bygone era. For one reason or another, you experienced a strange phenomena that debarred you from the effects of time’s passage. Perhaps this phenomenon was intentional, or an unfortunate side effect of an experiment gone wrong.
Though the new world you find yourselves in might be strange and unsettling, you can’t help but notice fragments of your own time rearing their heads out like echoes of your own memories; cities and buildings that yet remain, languages that haven’t changed and perhaps even other people who you knew in your past.
- Skill Proficiencies: History and one of your choice
- Tool Proficiencies: An instrument or gaming set of your choice
- Languages: One of your choice
- Equipment: A book or scroll from your time, an instrument or gaming set of your choice, a small hourglass, a set of dated common or fine clothes, and a pouch containing coins from a bygone era worth 15 gp.
You hail from a bygone era, several years in the past. Through strange circumstances you’ve been catapulted into the future, finding a world totally unfamiliar to you. While this event might not have put you in a literal stasis, it had an equivalent effect on your life. Choose the nature of your stasis, or roll on the table below.
| d6 | Stasis |
|---|---|
| 1 | You were petrified, perhaps via a spell or by a medusa. |
| 2 | You died, but were resurrected. |
| 3 | A mishap with a teleportation spell launched you several years into the future. |
| 4 | You suffered the effects of the True Polymorph spell, and weren’t able to leave your form until now. |
| 5 | You put yourself under the effects of the Sequester spell. |
| 6 | You were frozen in ice, but were uncovered and thawed out. |
While others are forced to look to old tomes and scrolls for historical knowledge, you have firsthand experience to turn to, instead of relying on faulty relics and incomplete texts. You can accurately recall any information from your time period before you went into stasis, provided that the information was either common knowledge at the time, or something that involved you directly.
Suggested Characteristics
Most who find themselves in a new era will struggle to find their place within it; they might be doing their best to fit in, or denounce its ways and ideals daily.
| d8 | Personality Trait |
|---|---|
| 1 | I joke about my life-changing circumstances regularly. |
| 2 | I adore seeing structures and other elements from my time still being admired and respected. |
| 3 | I keep talking about things that were common knowledge in my time, but that have lost all meaning in the present. |
| 4 | I sneer at the way people dress, talk and act in the present. |
| 5 | I often use new words and phrases incorrectly. |
| 6 | Though I’d never admit it, I much prefer living in the present. |
| 7 | I smile and nod when others use words I do not understand. |
| 8 | I keep forgetting that my age is contradictory to my birthday. |
| d6 | Ideal |
|---|---|
| 1 | Apathy. I built a life in my past that I will never see again; I can’t be bothered to salvage it. (Any) |
| 2 | Family. Though my family may be lost to time, our bloodline will not end with me. (Any) |
| 3 | Guile. No one knows about my past; I will use this to my advantage. (Evil) |
| 4 | Curiosity. Everything is new here; I must explore it all. (Neutral) |
| 5 | Tradition. I wish to preserve the ideals and beliefs of my time before I die. (Lawful) |
| 6 | Redemption. I was a completely different person before my stasis. If I can change, anyone can. (Good) |
| d6 | Bond |
|---|---|
| 1 | I am the sole survivor of my family, and I will make sure our legacy survives when I’m dead. |
| 2 | I have a token from my past that I never let leave my person. |
| 3 | I revere a deity of my time that has since been forgotten. |
| 4 | My family remains alive somewhere out there, I’m sure of it. |
| 5 | I’ll never forget the ones who broke me free from my stasis. |
| 6 | I have fallen in love with every strength and flaw of this new world. |
| d6 | Flaw |
|---|---|
| 1 | I am terrified of going into stasis again, and will do whatever I can to avoid situations that may result in it happening. |
| 2 | I loathe a new god that has taken the place and portfolio of one of my old gods. |
| 3 | I believe my own time was better, no matter the evidence to the contrary. |
| 4 | I am reluctant to form bonds in the present, worrying that I may lose them in time once more. |
| 5 | I stubbornly use old words and phrases that have lost meaning or gotten new ones. |
| 6 | I am naive and will believe even the most outrageous things, thinking they’re just the new norm. |
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