You are a powerful Lich with a destructive burden of death and decay that has taken its toll on you, isolating you from most people and making you question your sanity, but that is of no concern to you. You're only desire is to aquire a mass amount of knowledge in your new found form of undeath. To become a legend of Terrifying power that which none will over take you. You thought to yourself how would you gain such knowledge, by asking gods? By taking and reading eldritch tomes?
- Skill Proficiencies: Choose two from among Arcana, Investigation, Insight, Intimidation, History, or Deception
- Languages: Choose two, one of which must be Abyssal, Celestial, Deep Speech, Infernal, Primordial, Sylvan, or Undercommon.
- Equipment: One trinket of special significance (choose one or roll on the Horror Trinkets table after this background), a set of fine clothes, a tattered journal and 10 pp.
The Path of Darkness
Prior to becoming a lich, your path in life was defined by one dark moment, that one fateful decision that lead you to become a Lich. Now you feel a darkness growing within you and madness threatening to consume you, but that's the price for power and knowledge right? Losing your humanity and sanity as you slowly become the definition of Fear and Death to ascend into Divinity and Godhood. Choose a Dark Path that inspires you and your wicked mind, or roll one on the Path of Darkness table.
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You were a well known necromancer that slaughtered dozens of innocent people, A large bounty was placed on your head and a group of skilled naive adventurers attacked your tower slaughtering your fellow colleagues along the way, you carefully rush the process of transcending to a lich as they venture through your tower. By the time the adventures finally reach your lab, you're body is laying their limp and still. They consider you dead and take your ring to confirm your death to the kingdom.
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2
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As a infant, your parents discarded you near a dusty labyrinth, Where a dark lich has found you and something sparked in it's mind whether it was a fleeting memory or a feeling it used to love, it took you in as it's own and with it's vast knowledge of all things good and evil it raised you and taught you everything it knew. To pay respect to your undead family, you join them in transcendence of becoming a lich.
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3
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You are way past saving by any form of gods, you have haunted your family for generations now. You don’t know why you won’t leave them alone; Maybe it's because you were once a voice of reason that now only tells them lies or that you are now a darkness that cascades over them and you do so enjoy watching the game of torment you plague over them.
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4
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Your family has a history of practicing the dark arts. You have countlessly studied your families dark magic and are now searching for more new ways to master all forms of this vile dark magic to try and ascend to god hood, but you didn't have enough time so at a early age you decided to become a Lich.
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5
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An oni took your sibling one cold, dark night, and you were unable to stop it. You kept replaying that moment over and over in your mind on how to stop it. It drove you mad and your only way to get back at the oni is to become something worse. A Lich filled with vengeance and a lust for knowledge.
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6
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You opened an eldritch tome and saw things unfit for a sane mind. You kept the book, it's words and images are burned into your psyche, the knowledge it held was the path of transcending into a lich. The idea of it intrigued you and you began down the dark path of becoming a lich.
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Feature: Heart of Undeath
Those who look into your eyes can see that you have faced unimaginable horror and that you are no stranger to darkness. Though they might fear you, commoners will extend you every courtesy and do their utmost to help you just so they don't occupy your dark chilling gaze. The commoners are deathly terrified of you and they aren't sure why. Your heavy dark aura that surrounds you, fills them with fear. Many commoners will come to your aid in a fight against an enemy hoping their service to you changes your gaze and whatever dark power you wield away from them.
Suggested Characteristics
You have learned to live with the terror and fear that you place upon others. Even though you lack empathy and care for other people, you can be very protective of those who are valuable assets that choose to help complete your conquest of war and unlife. Though they maybe brave enough to follow you through your new found darkened path, but are worthy of being trusted?
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I feel at home within the darkest and most evil of places
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Even as a lich, I like to read and memorize poetry. It keeps me calm and brings me fleeting moments of happiness from my life before becoming a lich.
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3
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I tend to be friendly and nice to everyone despite what I am, cause no one ever expects the monster to be one of your closest friends.
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4
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I spend most of my time studying curses and reading eldritch tomes to further enhance my knowledge of the dark arts and control over evil manifestations.
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I offer those without a place to call home to join my ranks and become a follower of my new established order that will rule over all plains of existence.
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I enjoy destroying established order and structure, watching everything burn as it all melts into pure utter chaos.
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I put no trust in living or divine beings of holy or good nature.
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Ideal |
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Introduce a little bit of death and pain. Break the established order, and everything becomes chaos. I'm an agent of chaos. (Chaotic)
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I will follow my personal code above all else and I will eliminate others for personal gain and to advance my order. (Lawful Evil)
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I’m a villain with different intentions, and I'll destroy anything that gets in my way even allies if needed. (Evil)
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Their morals, their code; it's a bad joke. Dropped at the first sign of danger. They're only as good as the world allows them to be. You'll see, I'll show you. When the gold coins are down these civilized people. They'll kill each other. (Chaotic Evil)
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Bond |
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I would sacrifice all innocent lives and souls to learn any and all dark magic and secrets.
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2
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I strive to kill all gods that oppose Darkness and Chaos, all good natured and holy beings will cease to exist!
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3
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There’s evil in me, I can feel it writhing and swelling inside me. I must Corrupt and spread this plague of undeath to all living things and create a new world where only death and decay exists.
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I am a harbinger of death and darkness! all living things shall die or fall under my control. Nothing is equal in power to death and decay.
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Flaw |
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I keep my plans and thoughts in a tattered journal.
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I sometimes forget to hide my dark nature and accidentally reveal myself as a Lich
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3
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I feel no compassion for the living and tend to disregard them and there needs or cry's for help.
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4
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I tend to collect the pieces (body parts) of enemies that I have killed after battle.
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5
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I talk to spirits that no one else can see and I can't tell them apart from the living.
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