You started out as a normal child but as you got older you started receiving whispers from an unknown deity. These sometimes came in the form of dreams but mostly they were just voices that spoke to you as if they were next to your ear, making a shiver run down your spine. They urged you to do good, protect the innocent, and always stand up for the underprivileged. While you've done this for most of your life, you start to wonder if it's really worth it. All of this selfless work left you feeling neglected, during all of this you have struggled to get by. Yet all this so-called god has asked of you is to do everything for others. If they don't care about your well-being, why should you listen? Maybe it's time to stop listening. Maybe you should rebel against everything you've ever been told is right. It's time for a change, let go and listen to the darkness building inside of you.
- Skill Proficiencies: Choose two from among Deception, Intimidation, Religion, Sleight of Hand or Stealth
- Tool Proficiencies: Choose one tool proficiencies from this list: Disguise Kit, Forgery Kit, Poisoner's Kit, or Thieves' Tools
- Languages: Choose one language that your character learned later in their life. Abyssal, Celestial, Common, Deep Speech, Draconic, Goblin, Infernal, or Undercommon
At some point in your life you experienced something difficult to live with or overcome. This could be in result of a good deed that your deity told you to do or it could be something that has happened to you that makes you feel like your deity abandoned you or won't reward you for doing it's work.
You have the ability to deal an extra 1d8 damage to celestial beings and races that are influenced by them once every long rest. You're either in the middle of renouncing your deity's hold over you or you already have. Either way you are intent on doing things that would be considered ungodly. You cant help but feel a disdain for people that still follow their gods like sheep. Sometimes you have an uncontrollable need to do something deemed wrong or illegal.
Suggested Characteristics
Your need to go against the deity that haunts you may destroy every ounce of good left in you. You feel abandoned by anything or anyone considered holy.
| d12 | Personality Trait |
|---|---|
| 1 | I resent anyone with a connection to a deity. |
| 2 | I'm not likely to be seen socializing with anyone but my party. |
| 3 | Sometimes I am consumed by an overwhelming rage. |
| 4 | I think there is nothing wrong with turning your back to those in need. |
| 5 | I feel stuck between being good and being evil. I'm not sure where I land at the moment. |
| 6 | I still feel the pull to listen to my deity. Whether I do what it says is a hard choice. |
| 7 | I feel no guilt for my wrong doings. |
| 8 | I feel a small amount of guilt when I commit an evil deed. |
| 9 | There is something seriously wrong with me, I feel broken. |
| 10 | There is a war inside of me that stirs my brain into an uncontrollable frenzy. |
| 11 | I am seeing the flaw in listening to my deity. |
| 12 | I have decided to prioritize myself even at the expense of others. |
| d6 | Ideal |
|---|---|
| 1 | Choice. I will not be controlled. I've done my fair share of good, it's time I do whatever I want. (Chaotic) |
| 2 | Cruelty. Those weaker than me deserve to be treated as less than. (Evil) |
| 3 | Resentment. I feel bitter toward my deity and those that have benefitted from my actions while I have not. (Neutral) |
| 4 | Anger. I must unleash my rage in any way I can. (Chaotic) |
| 5 | Apathy. I feel nothing, no regret, no turmoil, no empathy. (Neutral) |
| 6 | Narcissism. I am all that matters. |
| d5 | Bond |
|---|---|
| 1 | I will do anything to get the deity to leave me alone. |
| 2 | Those closest to me are the only ones I will not subject to my rage. |
| 3 | I am still tempted to listen to the deity's demands/requests. |
| 4 | One day I will be the ruler of this realm and everything and everyone will bow to me, even the gods. |
| 5 | I am bound to nothing and no-one but myself. |
| d6 | Flaw |
|---|---|
| 1 | When someone is weak I want to make them weaker. |
| 2 | I cannot control my anger and impulses. |
| 3 | I can't help but disrespect other people's beliefs if they don't align with mine. |
| 4 | I falter in my mission to go against the angel on my shoulder. |
| 5 | I can be pressured into decisions. |
| 6 | I am obsessed with being in control. |
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