What once started at an young age as an infatuation for a given topic, object, or ideal has fully grown into a devoted personality based around the desired will. The obsessive nature wraps around your thoughts, how you pursue actions, how you live day to day, and even hold conversations with people. People around you start to take notice of these quirks in your personality, and could even to choose to distance themselves from the things that consumes your thoughts and waking existence. What caused your obsession? Did a single imprint, event or even an idealized person turn you to creating yourself around this thing? Was it an religion that you've followed closely your entire life and let consume your mind? Or is it something that constructs the very being of the universe like space or time that you cannot physically get your hands on?
- Skill Proficiencies: The skill you've chosen proficiency for relates back to the thing you have obsessed over. For example, the obsession in changing the time-lines might link to History or Arcana.
- Languages: Two languages of your choice
You always want to learn or do more for your chosen obsession, leading you to do things that could be strange or taboo in the pursuit of information. Some people might think of you as a "know it all" in a given subject that you've chosen to follow. The desire to get a grip on what haunts your brain plays a role in your planning, trying to find a way to have what your group or adventuring party benefit your search for more. The path you've followed makes you more observant in the hopes of finding it and previous experiences of fine-tooth picking through texts, essays, or studies about the topic allows you to pick up details in readings.
Suggested Characteristics
Obsession can take root within anyone given the right state of mind, wether you are born with a trait or quirk that causes the spiral or something has triggered it within your being. Things like trauma may cause this mental state tick or the use of a routine that relives anxiety that has been pushed into something that you cannot live without. While not all obsession can lead to negative outlooks, some obsessions might be towards work and the bettering of one's self.
| d8 | Personality Trait |
|---|---|
| 1 | Ideally I am a Loner, I do not like to spend time with others |
| 2 | I am convinced I am finding the knowledge from gods and it is destined. |
| 3 | I'll do anything, and I mean anything, to find out more |
| 4 | I am messy with my own personal belongings, and cannot keep track of where I keep things |
| 5 | I love to talk and talk about my research to no ends. |
| 6 | I am not open-minded and do not take criticism very well. |
| 7 | I do not trust others with what I have learned. |
| 8 | I put the search ahead of my own needs for things and other's requests. |
| d6 | Ideal |
|---|---|
| 1 | Knowledge. I want to know everything about the world. |
| 2 | Power. What I strive for will make me more powerful than those that came before me. |
| 3 | Greater Good. The thing I am yearning for will change the world for the better. |
| 4 | Chaos. I want to break the natural order of the world. |
| 5 | Lawful. The laws put in place are there for a reason, and I cannot change that. |
| 6 | Trust. I believe the gods have made things the way they are for a reason, and I put my trust in them. |
| d6 | Bond |
|---|---|
| 1 | My research notes mean more than anything or anyone else to me. |
| 2 | My work has brought me closer to the gods in my mind set. |
| 3 | I am close to few people, but those few people I will lay my life down for. |
| 4 | All I need are my own beliefs, not anyone else. |
| 5 | I could not be where I am today without a higher figure in my life. |
| 6 | Everything I do is for the world to gain more than before. |
| d6 | Flaw |
|---|---|
| 1 | I have lost my ability to see the difference between good and bad or right and wrong. |
| 2 | I pawn my responsibilities off to make more time for myself. |
| 3 | I fear death and will sacrifice others to stay alive. |
| 4 | I ran away from the world I once knew in pursuit of something new and greater. |
| 5 | I am not shamed to turn-tail and run away when the fight seems too much. |
| 6 | I believe my knowledge makes me superior to all else. |
You have given up your life towards research that could develop a new way to save lives or even change the way certain medications are used and created. You devoted endless time to know everything about your field of research and given up relationships with others to see your name go down in history as someone who helped the people.
You know all there is to know about the materials used to make up the things you've worked with, you can find better variations of the items while in groups just by look and feel. (I.E. You can tell which ingredient will provide the best results out of a batch.) When searching for needed materials, you know just where to look to find it from knowledge of where the material grows or develops in nature.
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