You were once two separate people, siblings, or lovers. You might have been sworn enemies. Then some event happened, and you became two souls in the same body. This often confuses other people as you talk to the other soul. If you hate the other soul, then just know there is one thing that both souls want. To survive. Even if you have your disagreements with the other soul, you can put aside the differences if a dragon is chasing you.
- Skill Proficiencies: Choose one skill proficiencies that both souls learn while being together.
- Tool Proficiencies: Choose one tool proficiencies that both souls learn while being together. Also select one game set to be proficient with.
- Languages: You gain one language of your choice; you may choose which soul knows the language. You can understand languages that your other soul knows via a translation from the language spoken to common.
- Equipment: Set of Common Clothes, 2 Small Notebooks with the name of one soul on one, 2 small trinkets (one from each soul), and a purse containing 25 gp
Every soul has a story, but your souls combine their stories at some point. How so?
d5 Joining of souls.
- Cursed to be in same body.
- Magic allowed souls to be in one body.
- Two souls fought for the body at birth and got stuck.
- An otherworldly entity tried possessing you but failed.
- Come up with your own story?
As you are two people in one body, you can switch between souls when you want. You must use an action to switch between souls. While swapping, you must make a Constitution Saving Throw of a DC 15, on a failure save take 15 (5D6) + Half Player Level rounded down, Radiant Damage.
When you are switching between souls, you keep the same Strength, Dexterity, and Constitution. Wisdom, Intelligence and Charisma will be different between the two souls.
Each soul will get the following when making your character. To help the clarification, your main soul will be the soul that both souls are stuck into. Your second soul will be the one that was put into the body.
Main Soul –
- Gains a Class of players choice.
- Gains a race of players choice, you gain all racial abilities that would be given.
- This is your background of your main soul.
Secondary Soul –
- Gains a Class of players choice.
- Gain all racial abilities from mains soul race.
- Gains a race of player choice, you only gain the following from that race:
- Ability Score Improvement.
- Any Languages that this creature would have known before the souls were merged.
- No background.
Skills and proficiency are different on each character sheet and are limited to what the class states. The main soul’s racial abilities are given to both souls, other than the language and ability score improvement.
You may also speak to the other soul as if it were a person standing in front of you. In addition, when you go to sleep, the other soul can come out, although both souls are subject to spells that cause affects such as sleep and fear. You are also weak to radiant damage. (This does not affect the damage that is caused on a failed save.
As aside note, hit die is always 1d8 with this background despite what your class may say.
Suggested Characteristics
d6 Personality Trait
- We always fight and are on opposing sides of an argument.
- We usually are opposites of each other, but we do our best to cover each other’s backs.
- One of us is shy, one of us is bold. Which is which?
- We both agree that it is fun messing with other people.
- Where one's weakness is, the other makes up for in strength.
- It is odd how much you hate it when you are not in control of your body. Although I should ask if it even is my body in the first place.
d6 Ideal
- Even though we are two different people, we believe in the same things. (Lawful)
- Too many people confuse us for us to not act completely different. (Chaotic)
- Even if we are different, there is no reason to harm others. (Good)
- We've got too many things on our minds to worry about others. (Neutral)
- Why bother trying to hide who we are? If someone does not like us, we will kill them. Simple. (Evil)
- The only reason to hide yourself is if you are scared, and we are not. (Any)
d8 Bond
- I would do anything for (Insert other soul's name). I feel that my life would not be the same without them.
- We were married before we got "Cursed." It is actually a blessing as far as we are concerned, although we won't be able to have children unless we adopt.
- (insert other soul name)! You can shut your trap!
- I may hate (Insert other soul name), but I got to admit that they are useful.
- We love different things, but we let the other have their fun when they are out.
- We are trying to get (Other soul name) their body back. No (other soul name) this is MY body not yours!
- Yea, we are two people in one body, but we have made it work.
- It is a pain, but we do not mind being together.
d8 Flaw
- I hate them, they hate me, we just cooperate because we are stuck. (Was singing that when I made it)
- I will sometimes force myself to go to sleep so that the other one will come out against their will.
- We hate admitting that we rely on each other.
- One of us is of a different race and does not want to admit it.
- (Soul 1 speaking) We've been together for so long; I am finding it harder and harder to keep who is who clear.
- Somehow, we are both on the same wavelength when it comes to wanting to steal stuff.
- It is sometimes too easy to tell us apart because of our opposite personalities.
- It is hard to get the other soul out due to them being incredibly shy and it is hard for me to give control to them at the same time.
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