Blood Hunters always make a trade for their power and work hard for their skills. They are quite driven individuals who have given up much to rout out evils
(Wanted something specific for my Blood Hunter and thought I'd go the extra mile and make a full background. Mercer did a good job leaving most aspects of the class open ended, which is better for most people. I'm just weird.)
- Skill Proficiencies: Every Hunter is given extensive training to prepare them for any situation. Whether that be discovering a shape shiftier, killing a hulking zombie, or talking down a lycanthrope. Choose 3 out of the given skill proficiencies.
- Languages: You learn the languages of evil races and planer threats. Learn two exotic languages.
- Equipment: Signifier of your Order(small statue, a badge, anything small) , a small book containing lessons of your Order(or a personal journal), a set of common clothes, and a pouch containing 15 gp
Each Order has specific histories and practices that could be entirely unique. Your order could be a storied and secretive school, that has existed for a thousand years and will for a thousand more. Or a splinter group of a different Order with new practices and powers. Maybe you are the first of a new type of hunter and an order will blossom from your legend. (Here are some suggestions based on Mercer's writing and my own ideas. If you don't like the feel of something ignore it, change it, or use something else )
Orders of the Ghostslayer: These Orders tend to be the oldest and most established of any of the others. They were the first of the Hunters and most Orders can trace their history to them. They might even be an official group recognized by a king as his personal hunters. They could be the easiest to find but too caught up in there own politics and traditions to do anything.
Orders of the Lycan: These Orders are the second oldest groups. Less numerous than the Ghost Slayers, but with larger memberships and stronger bonds between members. Since their power holds some calculated risk to it they are also quite driven. The members of these Orders might treat each other as a type of extended family considering their shared curse.
Orders of Mutant: These are the newest of the established groups and are even more secretive than the rest. They treat their power with a distance provided to them by the almost scientific nature of their abilities. They are the least caught up in tradition and are the most professional to deal with.
Orders of the Profane Soul: These Hunters are outcasts among outcasts. Their power has the highest cost and can make them subservient to great evils. If they are established then they would be of the celestial variety. Or if not celestial then maybe an outright evil organization, or part of some larger cult. Lone Hunters could be good no matter what.
As a Blood Hunter your existence is an inconvenient necessity, your profession is talked about only in hushed whispers. People and organizations with power understand that your darker powers serve a purpose, and will not chain you for just having them. All who know of you understand what those abilities are used for, killing monsters. When it comes to dealing with a problem related to those said monsters, they trust you with more info, more gold and know you will finish the job.
Suggested Characteristics
Try to make a hunter who values others, lone wolves seldom ever work in a co-operative setting.
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