You have spent a large part of your life in the service of the mentally and the emotionally lost. You act as an intermediary between society and the mind and spirt of those who struggle, performing skills of empathy and understanding in order to guide your charges toward clarity. You are not necessarily a cleric—performing sacred rites, not a full sagely scholar,  you are something in between.

Skill Proficiencies: You are adept at speaking to and listening to people. Gain proficiency in Insight, and Persuasion.

Languages: Any two of your choice

Equipment: A set of fine clothes, a set of travelling clothes, a collection of teas, coffees, and other herbal remedies, a deck of cards, a coin purse containing 20 gp.

Suggested Characteristics

Tea Monks are shaped by their experience in travelling the world in order to counsel and comfort their clients. Their study of history, religion, and the mind shapes their relationships toward everyday folk, as advisers, or simply a kind ear to listen to which affects their mannerisms and ideals around behaviours. Their flaws might be some hidden hypocrisy or heretical idea, or an ideal or bond taken to an extreme.

d8	Personality Trait
1	I'm a professional, I do not show very much emotion
2	I constantly think about the people who I couldn't help
3	I can find common ground between the fiercest enemies, empathizing with them and always working toward peace.
4	I quote (or misquote) texts and proverbs in almost every situation.
5	I'm very happy to be of use, and provide assistance when I can
6	I'm very inquisitive, always working towards the truth
7	I've never been known to let a problem be, and am always working towards fixing everything I can.
8	Nothing can shake my optimistic attitude.

d6	Ideal
1	Distant. I try my best to be emotionally uninvolved in anything I do that involves other people. (Neutral)
2	Charity. I always try to help those in need, no matter what the personal cost. (Good)
3	Change. My methods of helping my not always be orthodox but the ends can justify the means. (Chaotic)
4	Power. With these skills and the trust I earn, I could manipulate people of power or the common people out of anything I want. (Evil)
5	Healing. A successful society starts with peace from within one's self and within the home. (Lawful)
6	Self-Improvement. The goal of life is the betterment of oneself. (Any)

d4	Bond
1	I am in dept to the people I have treated, for they have help me grow as a person as well.
2	The reason I help people in the first place is because I got help when I needed it most, and for that, kind souls will always have my respect.
3	I fight to show people that there is always someone out there willing to help.
4	Mental illness is one big problem already, having evil liches and the like running around isn't gonna help with that.

d8	Flaw
1	I believe that everyone has some dark secret, and I must be the one to help them.
2	I'm not actually as reliable as I think I am.
3	I have made people's lives worse than when they came to me, and this haunts me. It will be a secret I will take to my grave.
4	Anyone who I have seen do the slightest harm to innocents are lowly and disgusting.
5	I betray no emotion, there's no point in being sentimental.
6	I'm constantly looking for problems to solve, even if I'm the one who has to create them.
7	Sometimes I use my skills to obtain pleasures or feed my vices.
8	I judge others harshly, and myself even more severely.