You are drawn to the study of life and death. You are part of the Witherbloom college of Essence Studies. You likely either use your studies to heal the sick or to bring about rot, death, and diease.

Skill Proficiencies: You are proficient in Nature and can choose either Medicine or Arcana.

Tool Proficiencies: Choose either Herbalism Kit or Poisoner's Kit

Languages: One of any language.

Spell List

For you, the spells on the Witherbloom Spells table are added to the spell list of your spellcasting class. (If you are a multiclass character with multiple spell lists, these spells are added to all of them.)

Spell Level	Spells
Cantrip	druidcraft, spare the dying
1st	cure wounds, detect poison and disease, entangle
2nd	lesser restoration, ray of enfeeblement
3rd	plant growth, revivify, vampiric touch
4th	blight, giant insect
5th	enervation, greater restoration

Witherbloom spells are often accompanied by green spectral vines, leaves, and thorns. Your Magic may suck the vitality or blood from those it affects.

Suggested Characteristics

Students of Witherbloom tend to be strange and most comfortable in the swamp around nature. You likely have a unique view of nature and either see nature for all it can do to support life or admire the strange and rotting aspects. 

d8	Personality Trait
1	All nature is beautiful, even the parts that are rotting and smelly.
2	I'd much rather spend my time out in the swamp playing with the animals.
3	I take a lesson from every piece of nature.
4	What most people find ugly, I find beautiful.
5	I have a remedy for just about everything.
6	Most people find my cold and detached, but I'm just telling the truth.
7	I'm usually collecting or foraging for something unique and interesting.
8	I only take life to give life. That is my creed.

d6	Ideal
1	Life. I use my connection to nature to heal the sick and protect life. (Good)
2	Nature. It is my duty to protect the natural world from those that would destroy it. (Neutral)
3	Balance. The forces of life and death must be honored and balance maintained. (Neutral)
4	Power. I harness nature's power because it is truly endless. (Evil)
5	Death. Bending life and death to my will suits me. (Evil)
6	Wilderness. Being one with nature means expecting change and fun. (Chaotic)

d6	Bond
1	My ultimate goal in life is brew an elixir of life so that I may live forever.
2	The swamps where I study is under threat of attack and I am hear to defend it.
3	I am here to preserve an endangered species that very few people care about.
4	I tend a garden where I grow all my most potent herbs and plants.
5	I very much want to impress one of the powerful witches of Witherbloom.
6	I truly joined WItherbloom to find a cure for a loved one's illness.

d6	Flaw
1	I struggle to connect with people. I'm much more comfortable with plants and animals.
2	I share things that other people find gross or inappropriate.
3	I am easily distracted by seeing a cool bug or plant.
4	If you've angered me, I've already thought of five plans to kill you.
5	I am naive about people and society.
6	I'm rarely concerned about the death of another person, even my own.