Far-Touched

Prolonged contact with the chaotic, incomprehensible energies of the Far Realm has twisted your body and mind. Your experience with that horrific place left a permanent mark on your physical form, manifesting as various mutations, deformities, and a general sense of "wrongness."

While your grasp on sanity is tenuous at times, you can't help but feel like you are on the cusp of something Greater...

Skill Proficiencies: Choose two skills.

Languages: Choose two, one of which must be Deep Speech.

Equipment: A monster hunter’s pack (containing a chest, a crowbar, a hammer, three wooden stakes, a holy symbol, a flask of holy water, a set of manacles, a steel mirror, a flask of oil, a tinderbox, and 3 torches), one trinket of special significance (choose one or roll on the Horror Trinkets table after this background), a set of common clothes, and 1 sp.

Suggested Characteristics

You have learned to live with the madness that torments you. You are a survivor, who can be very protective of those who bring calm and stability into your chaotic life.

d8	Personality Trait
1	I don’t run from evil. If I am to die now, at least it will be with my mind intact.
2	I write uplifting works of fiction in my spare time. It's an effective bit of escapism, and helps take my mind off the whispers.
3	I spend money freely and without concern for the consequences. Money can't save you from the abhorrent things I've seen, but at least it can help you forget for a while...
4	The thrill of battle is one of the only things that still feels "sane" to me. Or perhaps is it merely a lesser form of insanity.
5	I don’t talk about the thing that torments me. I’d rather not burden others with my curse.
6	I expect some crawling abomination to be lurking in every shadowy corner.
7	I refuse to return to that nightmarish place, and I will not allow anyone else to fall victim to it's horrors if I can help it.
8	I put no trust in divine beings, for there are things far above them.

d6	Ideal
1	I try to help those in need, even if they are afraid of me at first. (Good)
2	I will do whatever I can to fight back the nightmares that haunt me, and become whole again. (Any)
3	I slaughter abominations to make reality safer for everyone, and to steel my own resolve. (Good)
4	If you had seen what lies outside of reality, you too would come to realise that "order" is the greatest illusion of all. (Chaotic)
5	Despite what I've seen and experienced, I still wish to do what I can to uphold the delicate order of reality against the entropy beyond. (Lawful)
6	To create a better world, sometimes lives must be sacrificed. I for one am more than willing to sacrifice any number of you, for the greater good of course. (Evil)

d6	Bond
1	I keep my thoughts and discoveries in a journal. To most it looks like the scrawlings of a madman. Maybe that's all it ever was...
2	I would sacrifice my very being if it meant none would ever be exposed to that terrible place or it's inhabitants again.
3	I was trapped in that wretched realm for so long, that the people I once cared for are nothing more than fond memories and dust.
4	A terrible revelation nearly broke me, mind and soul. I hope I can put a stop to the terrible destiny I forsaw.
5	I can hear the whispers. I cannot understand the soft, incomprehensible gibbering, but every now and then, I think I hear my name being called...
6	I have seen what's truly lurking out there. If I don't do my part to protect the reality I call home, who will?

d6	Flaw
1	I experience vivid, chaotic dreams. When I wake, it is often with a cry of terror, a howl of rage, or the laughter of a madman, much to my compatriot's chagrin.
2	I don't truly trust anyone, and I am persistently paranoid that they may not be what they say they are.
3	I feel little concern for the dead. They are at peace now, but we must fight on.
4	I have a crippling addiction to Laudanum. It helps to soothe my fractured mind. I know I have a problem, but I just can't stop myself.
5	I am all too eager to share the horrifying revelations to which I am now privy, whether anyone is ready to hear them or not.
6	I hear nightmarish murmers no one else can, and sometimes find myself trying to converse with them without realizing.