You are insane. Something horrid happened to you in your life and you now hear voices inside your mind, lack empathy,and you see people who are not truly there.You now wonder the lands searching for a way to deal with the voices in your mind. You may fight the voices inside your head and attempt to be as normal as can be, or you embrace the madness and wish to listen to the monsters in your head.
- Skill Proficiencies: Choose two from among Arcana, Investigation, Religion, or Survival
- Languages: Choose one exotic language (Abyssal, Celestial, Deep Speech, Draconic, Infernal, Primordial, Sylvan, or Undercommon)
- Equipment: A monster hunter’s pack (see the sidebar), a set of common clothes, and one trinket of special significance (choose one or roll on the Gothic Trinkets table after this background).
Fractured Mind
Prior to becoming an adventurer, your path in life was defined by one dark moment, one fateful decision, or one tragedy. Now you wonder the lands, searching for a way to rid yourself of your monsters inside your mind.
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Fractured Mind |
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A serious social event has changed you and your mind for the rest of your life
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2
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You did not choose to be like this, you were born with something wrong with you
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3
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Your devotion to someone of a higher power than you has granted you "enlightenment" to your mind
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4
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The hate that has come your way your whole life has deteriorated your mind into nothing but shambles
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5
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You have seen so many innocent people slaughtered and you can do nothing to fight against it
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6
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you were raised by monsters and treated as a beast from your own parents. you only know how to survive for yourself
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7
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You were captured and experimented on. you escaped your captors but can never forget what they did to you
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8
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You have come close to figuring out a dark secret, yet it was all taken away from you when you almost found it out and you can never live the failure down
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9
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You have become obsessed with someone and something and it has ruined your mind and sanity
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10
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You have been cursed by an ancient being which has placed your mind into a broken state
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Feature: Split Sanity
You have many monsters inside of your mind. Many look at you as a freak and monster. Yet there are very few that want to help you. These people will help any way they can from lending money to assisting you and your fractured mind.
Suggested Characteristics
You have learned to live with the terror that haunts you. You will protect those who stand by you with your life and your mind
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Personality Trait |
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We are not insane, just special and gifted from something else
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2
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I know of my infliction, and I embrace it
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3
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I have come so close to my cure but cannot find it still
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4
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I have experienced the truth to it all, and it has given me enlightenment
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5
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I don’t talk about the thing that torments me. I’d rather not burden others with my curse.
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6
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I will always fight back my insanity, even if it kills me
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7
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I am not insane, i'm not, I cant
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I have seen and heard things others could never see or they will become like me
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Ideal |
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I wish to use my insanity to my better fortune, and not let others become like me (Good)
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2
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I’ll fight my insanity, even if I have to kill others (Any)
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3
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I can resist my infection for the better of the ones around me (Good)
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4
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I am only led by the beings in my mind (Chaotic)
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5
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I can stand taller than my insanity an I can control it (Lawful)
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6
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We are all one, and we can make others like us all (Evil)
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Bond |
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I have kept my locket of the one thing that can make me sane
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2
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I have kept the memory of what I once was so i can move on
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3
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I can lead my life knowing that there is somebody that can help me
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4
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I know that my loved one is out there, and i ca search for them so we can be insane together
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5
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I must contain the beast that is inside me so it cant make me do what it wants
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6
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I know my master can remove the problem that is inside my mind if I devout myself to him
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Flaw |
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I cant keep the beast inside me all the time
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2
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I can control the beast inside of me by doing horrid things
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3
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I am left as a being of darkness in order to keep my mind contained
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4
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I have an addiction.
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5
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I let my personality lead as it burns all in it's path
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6
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I talk to monsters inside my mind
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