You have decades of experience concocting various hoodoo brews and tinctures, and have developed a natural affinity for healing through natural means. You have studied the myriad illnesses and ailments of the mortal body as well as the treatments for each. Sometimes you provide physical treatments while other times you have to treat the souls of your patients. You sometimes partake in practices that are seen as unsavory or unconventional, but these strange methods prove quite effective more often than not.
- Skill Proficiencies: Medicine and one of either Arcana, Religion, or Nature
- Tool Proficiencies: Herbalism kit, Alchemist's Supplies
- Languages: One of your choice
- Equipment: An herbalism kit, a set of alchemist's supplies made of bone, 3 voodoo dolls, a set of needles, a vial of white powder, and a vial of clear liquid.
Feature: Occultist
You have a reputation as a voodoo practitioner and a shaman. You are knowledgeable on topics of the dark arts. This tends to make people avoid you until there are no other options. The only people who tend to seek the guidance of a witch doctor as their first option either believe in the world's natural healing properties or have been dabbling in areas of magic that they would be shunned for otherwise.
Suggested Characteristics
Witch doctors have reputations as healers of the sick but also have been known to be spirit mediums. They have been known to tap into the spiritual energies of life and death in order to aid those who are in pain. They hear voices and bridge the afterlife to the physical world.
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Personality Trait |
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I am definitely completely and utterly sane.
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2
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The elements are beautiful to watch in the world. The wind, the water, the fire, the earth. All of it acts so musically.
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3
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The spirits tell me stories of their lives at night. They make for wonderful stories to tell.
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4
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If you listen carefully, the trees speak and the grass sings.
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5
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I’m oblivious to etiquette and social expectations.
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6
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I connect everything that happens to me to a grand, cosmic plan.
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7
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I often get lost in my own thoughts and contemplation, becoming oblivious to my surroundings.
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8
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Everything in life is in balance, that is how I live.
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Ideal |
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Life. While the world deems death as necessary, I will save those I can. (Good)
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2
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Oath. It is my duty to treat those who has no one else to turn to. (Lawful)
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3
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Enlightened. Society at large is too close minded to try and understand what I do. (Chaotic)
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4
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Death. The world holds both life and death closely. I seek to bring a balance to life. (Evil)
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5
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Efficiency. I am not emotionally invested in those I aid; to act otherwise would compromise my work. (Neutral)
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6
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Nature. What is alive can bring us either to good health, or bring us to ailment. (Any)
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Bond |
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I give my aid to those who have no one else.
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2
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The elements have a natural order, which I must enforce.
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3
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I still speak to the spirit of my dead mentor.
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4
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I seek a cure to a mysterious disease that afflicts one of my loved ones.
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5
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I gave my oath to protect the lands of my homeland.
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6
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The spirits talk to me, and I shall act on their desires.
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Flaw |
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The elements do not care for the life and death of others, and neither will I.
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2
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The spirits use my body and mind as a channel of their will. I do not always have control during a trance.
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3
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I refuse to give aid to those of a certain species or nationality, no matter how desperately they need it.
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4
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I don't always save the lives of those who ask for help.
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5
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I’d risk too much to uncover a lost bit of knowledge.
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6
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I like keeping secrets and won’t share them with anyone.
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