Martial Arts Instructor

You have spent many years in the monastery or academy where you taught. You were once a student much like one of the sea of faces that you can remember instructing. Your experience has made you an unrivaled teacher of the martial arts that you perform as well as an almost infinity patient individual. Part of your training was a craft or art that served doubly as a meditative practice and over the years you have become quite proficient in it.

Skill Proficiencies: Acrobatics, Insight

Tool Proficiencies: One martial or simple weapon. One set of artisans tools: Carpenter's Tools, Painter's Supplies, Calligrapher's Supplies, or Smith's Tools. 

Equipment: A weapon that matches your proficiency from this background, a set of tools that matches your proficiency from this background, a set of traveling cloths, a uniform from your old school, a token from your favorite student, and a scroll case containing a set of notes you have deemed worthy of writing down over the years. A small pouch with 5gp

Suggested Characteristics

Teachers eventually become a combination of all their students and no two are ever the same. The person you have become is a direct reflection of the path you were set down as you helped others follow their own.

d8	Personality Trait
1	I care about helping those around me do the best that they can.
2	Willful ignorance is no excuse for failure.
3	I’m used to teaching others so I often patiently explain things in depth, to everyone....
4	Life is just a series of steps, understand them and you will have fulfillment.
5	If logic cannot resolve a conflict, I can. So, logic still wins.
6	The key to success is trial and error, fail often but do not repeat the same mistake twice.
7	If the conversation isn't about hitting, meditating, or tea, I feel horribly awkward talking to folks.
8	I'm convinced at least one of my students will become a master and come back to challenge me, I will then teach them hubris.

d6	Ideal
1	Understanding. The path to power and self-improvement is through observation and understanding. (Neutral)
2	Beauty. A balance of power and grace, no thing is more beautiful or frightening. (Neutral)
3	Logic. Emotions must not cloud our logical thinking. (Lawful)
4	No Limits. The muscle is bound the spirit, free the mind and the body follows. (Neutral)
5	Self-Improvement. The goal of a life of study is the betterment of oneself. (Neutral)
6	Power. Technique is the path to power, power is the path to domination. (Evil)

d6	Bond
1	It is my duty to empower my students.
2	I have an ancient technique that holds terrible power that must not fall into the wrong hands.
3	I work to preserve a martial style and way of learning.
4	My life’s work lives on in the muscles and minds of my pupils.
5	Ive left my home to become an even better teacher.
6	There are no shortcuts, to follow one is to only cheat yourself.

d6	Flaw
1	I am easily distracted by the sounds of combat.
2	Most people seek combat training to deal with foes, I sought it to become one.
3	Protecting the honor of my dojo is above me and the life of my student.
4	I am prone to toying with an opponent especially if I know I will win.
5	My reflexes are sharp, so much so that I have given friends black eyes that were only trying to give me a hug.
6	If I see a waterfall, I just have to meditate beneath it. Same thing for a stack of rocks... or a really tall post... or an ancient tree...