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You have spent years and years of your life digging six-foot deep holes in the ground and laying the dead to rest. You have learned the funerary practices of your area, and have likely led a few services yourself.

 
Skill Proficiencies: Athletics, and your choice of Religion or Medicine.
Tool Proficiencies: Herbalism Kit, Bagpipes
Equipment: A set of common clothing, a shovel, a prayer book filled with hymns for the dead, and a pouch containing 10 gp.
 
Feature: Funerary Service

You have been trained in how to prepare a corpse for burial, dig a proper grave, lay a body to rest, and conduct a funeral service, if the need arises. Your skill allows you to continue working throughout downtime, and you are quite effective at navigating a graveyard.

 
Suggested Characteristics

Your business is somewhat morbid, so you must find a way to cope with everything while you do your job.

d8 Personality Trait
1 I've dealt with death throughout my entire life. Nothing phases me anymore.
2 I've made it a habit that I don't rely on any person more than I rely on my shovel.
3 My work has shown me the fragility of daily life, so I try to treasure every day I have.
4 I've formed a sense of humor from my work, and I try to crack a joke now and then to break tense moments.
5 I enjoy reading prayers to the dead in my free time.
6 It pains me to see bodies left out to rot after battles, and I'll volunteer to bury the dead.
7 I talk to the bodies I prepare for burial, just to make sure that they don't start talking back.
8 I sometimes sneak a gemstone offering or piece of jewelry away from a body just before they're buried. They won't need it down there, after all.
d6 Ideal
1 Peace. It's my goal to help wayward spirits rest in peace. (Lawful)
2 Comfort. I always make sure to comfort the loved ones of my clients. (Good)
3 Secrets. I've buried more than just bodies, to make sure that dark secrets are kept as secrets. (Any)
4 Piety. I'll always include prayers to my gods in addition to those of my client's during a funeral. (Any)
5 Work. I just get paid to dig the holes, I don't care for much else. (Neutral)
6 Death. Most of the people I buried were alive when I buried them. (Evil)
d6 Bond
1 The graveyard I've worked in most of my life is very special to me - it's very comforting.
2 I try to stay friendly to every family I've led funerals for.
3 My shovel is my greatest companion.
4 I pray to my god every night to help my clients find peace.
5 The local executioner is my best friend.
6 I've already dug my own grave back home. I hope to enter it later than sooner.
d6 Flaw
1 My profession makes people uncomfortable around me.
2 The ways I've seen people die have made me superstitious about the strangest things.
3 My sense of humor can be described as depression, demoralizing, or just depraved.
4 I've woken up in empty graves that I've dug myself, and I'm not sure why.
5 I'm haunted by the time I saw a person I buried dig themselves out of their grave.
6 My sense of fashion is about on par with those that I bury.
 
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