As a soul guide, it is your sacred duty to help people cross peacefully from this life to the next. While you generally perform the same day to day activities of a priest, you are also fully trained in many aspects of physical and emotional end of life care. You can offer counsel and guidance to those at the end of their lives, and will perform the ritual preparations for burial and funeral services according to your deity.
- Skill Proficiencies: Medicine, Religion
- Tool Proficiencies: Herbalism Tools
- Languages: One of your choice
- Equipment: A holy symbol (a gift to you when you entered the priesthood), a prayer book or prayer wheel, 5 sticks of incense, vestments, a set of common clothes, and a pouch containing 15 gp.
Suggested Characteristics
Soul Guides are shaped by their views of death and the dark side of the world they have witnessed. This may take form in many ways, from having a darker view of the world, to see life as fleeting but beautiful. You decide in what way this lifestyle has altered your character. Their work may also affect their opinions of the undead. Are they abominations? Are they the victims of evils of necromancy? Are they messengers, or omens of the gods?
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I idolize a particular hero of my faith, and constantly refer to that person’s deeds and example.
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2
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I can find common ground between the fiercest enemies, empathizing with them and always working toward peace.
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3
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I see omens in every event and action. The gods try to speak to us, we just need to listen.
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4
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Nothing can shake my optimistic attitude.
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5
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I quote (or misquote) sacred texts and proverbs in almost every situation.
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6
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I am tolerant (or intolerant) of other faiths and respect (or condemn) the worship of other gods.
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7
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I’ve enjoyed fine food, drink, and high society among my temple’s elite. Rough living grates on me.
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8
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I’ve spent so long in the temple that I have little practical experience dealing with people in the outside world.
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Ideal |
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Tradition. The ancient traditions of worship and sacrifice must be preserved and upheld. (Lawful)
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2
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Charity. I always try to help those in need, no matter what the personal cost. (Good)
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3
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Change. We must help bring about the changes the gods are constantly working in the world. (Chaotic)
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4
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Power. I hope to one day rise to the top of my faith’s religious hierarchy. (Lawful)
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5
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Faith. I trust that my deity will guide my actions. I have faith that if I work hard, things will go well. (Lawful)
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6
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Aspiration. I seek to prove myself worthy of my god’s favor by matching my actions against his or her teachings. (Any)
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Bond |
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1
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I would die to recover an ancient relic of my faith that was lost long ago.
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2
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I will someday get revenge on the corrupt temple hierarchy who branded me a heretic.
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3
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I owe my life to the priest who took me in when my parents died.
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4
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Everything I do is for the common people.
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5
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I will do anything to protect the temple where I served.
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6
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I seek to preserve a sacred text that my enemies consider heretical and seek to destroy.
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Flaw |
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I judge others harshly, and myself even more severely.
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2
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I put too much trust in those who wield power within my temple’s hierarchy.
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3
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My piety sometimes leads me to blindly trust those that profess faith in my god.
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4
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I am inflexible in my thinking.
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5
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I am suspicious of strangers and expect the worst of them.
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6
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Once I pick a goal, I become obsessed with it to the detriment of everything else in my life.
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