Eco Crusader

You are a true lover of nature, so much that you would do anything to protect her from the destruction of encroaching progress. You do not see wildlife and humanoid life as separate, you see them as inherently holding the same value. For years you have honed your skills and harboring your hate, cultivating new plant and animal life in the wilderness. You are at once an activist (or extremist depending on the point of view,) and a scholar. You study the depths of natural knowledge both in order to protect all things wild and to utilize the secrets the natural world tells. You, unlike most however, go to extremes. Due to your zealous crusade you have become an outsider, shunned by those who claim you to be an enemy of society. 

Skill Proficiencies: Skill Proficiencies: Choose from 2 Survival, Nature, Animal Handling, Medicine, Investigation

Tool Proficiencies: Tool Proficiencies: Choose 2 from Herbalism Kit, Poisoner's Kit, Alchemist's Supplies, Brewer's Supplies

Equipment: Equipment:  A set of neutral tone common clothes, two sets of tools you are proficient with, a journal filled with your natural discoveries, a pouch of various rare seeds, and 5 gp.

 

Suggested Characteristics

Eco Crusaders live lives outside the law. They are passionate rebels who care about what they believe to be they greater good. Their beliefs ostracize them and deems them criminals– whether they've used their beliefs to inflict harm to people or not. They're vocal, they're determined, and they're a perhaps just little unhinged. 

d8	Personality Trait
1	Plants, animals, and the elements are just as much family as those I'm bound to by blood. They are my children.
2	I'm passionate, fiery, and highly motivated to change hearts and minds.
3	I feel a sense of solidarity with all living things that can not defend themselves from the destruction of progress.
4	I collect rare seeds, spores, and pollen to sow new life wherever I go.
5	I prefer the company of animals and plants to people, to sleep in a tree rather than a bed.
6	I'm slow to trust people. Their motives may not align with my cause.
7	I have no problem getting my hands dirty, in fact I'll volunteer.
8	I become absorbed in my work, nurturing plants and animals and studying them. I can become lost for hours and it's hard to reel me back.

d6	Ideal
1	Everything decays eventually. After civilization is gone nature will remain, who am I to stop the process? (Neutral)
2	All life is important. It is up to us to protect the balance. (Good)
3	Whatever it takes, I will make sure natural life finds a way. (Chaotic)
4	Humanity is callous and cruel and doesn't deserve the fruits of the earth. I'll make sure they get the message. (Evil)
5	Justice. All living things deserve justice for the wrongs done to them. (Lawful)
6	I want to make my mark on this world, even if the only ones grateful are plants and animals. (Any)

d6	Bond
1	An act of violence against the natural world is violence inflicted onto me.
2	My cause is important, more important than any dissenters.
3	Violence towards nature hurt someone I deeply loved. I can never let it happen again.
4	The forests I came from will always be home, they are special to me and I will make sure they remain that way.
5	Those who show nature kindness will have an ally in me.
6	Those who destroy nature will feel my unrelenting rage rain down on them.

d6	Flaw
1	I am slow to trust other people. I don't know their intent towards my beloved natural world.
2	The belief in the importance of my cause hinders my ability to see to associated risks as threatening.
3	When faced with a choice between nature or friends, I might just choose nature.
4	I'm obsessive, about my ideals, inflexible when it comes to my goals, and paranoid that people will try to stop me.
5	I don't care about the consequences of my actions, as long as they serve my vision of the greater good.
6	I used my power and command of nature to destroy encroaching industrialization. I'm now on the run.