Your body is not your own, by magical means you found yourself inhabiting the body of another living creature. As if having to get used to a different body wasn't enough, now its original owner's soul can speak directly to your mind, making thinking and acting normally hard. This other soul living within you could be friendly, accepting its fate, or instead it could be aggressive, trying to kick you out of its body before you ruin its reputation. On the other hand, your entrance could have killed the original body's soul or you could have entered a souless body.
- Skill Proficiencies: Choose two from among Arcana, Insight, Nature, or Perception
- Languages: Choose one exotic language (Abyssal, Celestial, Deep Speech, Draconic, Infernal, Primordial, Sylvan, or Undercommon)
- Equipment: Your original body has his own backstory, pick the equipment from the background that the original body came from.
Just as you entered this body you realized something strange about it. Choose the realization or roll from the Original Soul State table.
| d6 | Orignal Soul State |
|---|---|
| 1 | The original body's soul is still alive and very much inside the body, you have come to terms with it and you are working together to get you a body of your own |
| 2 | The original body's soul is still alive and very much inside the body, its angered that you took over its body and just wants you out of it by any means. |
| 3 | The original body's soul is still alive and very much inside the body, but it hated its own body, and is willing to find a way for you to let it jump into another creature. |
| 4 | When you entered you killed the original body's soul. You feel a great weight as you feel like it was your fault. |
| 5 | When you entered you killed the original body's soul. Its spirit haunts you constantly not letting you forget what happened. |
| 6 | The body you jumped into was an empty vessel, who knows what it was going to be used for. |
Having to get used to living in a body different than yours have been an interesting and difficult story. You know about both the anatomy and history of both your original race and or gender and this new race and or gender.
Suggested Characteristics
You have learned to live in a strangers body, you have worked hard to make this new chance at a new life work.
| d8 | Personality Trait |
|---|---|
| 1 | This body is not my own, I will do with it as I wish. |
| 2 | Sometimes I try doing something that I used to do when I was in my original body to think about those times. |
| 3 | I spend money freely and live life to the fullest, knowing that tomorrow I might die. |
| 4 | Having a second opinion is not such a bad thing, but I fear that I will be the one in the backseat if I get too careless. |
| 5 | I don’t talk about the thing that torments me. I’d rather not burden others with my curse. |
| 6 | Working together with my new invisible partner is great, we can catch things that one person alone wouldn't be able to. |
| 7 | I refuse to become a victim, and I will not allow others to be victimized. |
| 8 | I put no trust in divine beings. |
| d6 | Ideal |
|---|---|
| 1 | I try to help those in need, no matter what the personal cost. (Good) |
| 2 | I’ll find a new body for me or my soul buddy, it will be nice having it by my side. (Any) |
| 3 | I kill monsters to make the world a safer place, and to exorcise my own demons. (Good) |
| 4 | My past actions doesn't hold me back anymore, and so I can make my own life now. (Chaotic) |
| 5 | I like to know my enemy’s capabilities and weaknesses before rushing into battle. (Lawful) |
| 6 | I shoudln't be alive, I will destroy anything else that gets in my way. (Evil) |
| d6 | Bond |
|---|---|
| 1 | I keep my thoughts and discoveries in a journal. My journal is my legacy. |
| 2 | I would sacrifice my life and my soul to protect the innocent. |
| 3 | This event drove the love of my life away from me. I strive to win back the love I’ve lost. |
| 4 | My past life's terrible guilt consumes me. I hope that I can find redemption through my actions. |
| 5 | There’s evil in me, I can feel it. It must never be set free. |
| 6 | I have a child to protect. I must make the world a safer place for him (or her). |
| d6 | Flaw |
|---|---|
| 1 | I have certain rituals that I must follow every day. I can never break them. |
| 2 | This body's original owner is a bit of a paranoid and will keep bothering me expecting danger at any step. |
| 3 | I feel no compassion for the dead. They’re the lucky ones. |
| 4 | Entering a new body means I must be immortal, I will give no second doubts about charging ahead |
| 5 | I am a purveyor of doom and gloom who lives in a world without hope. |
| 6 | I talk to spirits that no one else can see. |
Your new body became like a jail for wandering souls, you can absorb the soul from a recently deceased and store them for knowledge or just a chat, they can share what they know if they are willing to, and if they are not, you have to create a bond with the soul.
Work with your DM to set a limit of souls inside you or how the souls react to being inside your body.
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