You are one of the mortals unfortunate enough to be born into the Shadowfell. Whether you have escaped to another plane or still inhabit the plane of shadow when this adventure finds you, your life up to this point has left you with certain skills and abilities. The undead horrors stalking the wastelands and grim forests of your home have taught you how to survive unseen in a hostile environment, and the sights which still haunt your dreams make lesser fears unimpressive.
- Skill Proficiencies: Stealth, Survival
- Tool Proficiencies: Healer's kit, poisoner's kit
- Languages: Undercommon
- Equipment: A dark travelers cloak, a silvered dagger, a poisoners kit or a healers kit, and bone fragments from a loved one, taken to prevent their reanimation.
You have advantage on saving throws against being frightened, and cannot be surprised while awake. In addition you are resistant to necrotic damage.
Suggested Characteristics
Shadowborn bear the physical and emotional scars of their life in the Shadowfell. They are slow to trust, but when they do they can be fiercely loyal. Whether through luck, strength, sacrifice, or some combination of the three they have escaped their horrific homeland, and the memories of that place haunt their dreams.
| d6 | Bond |
|---|---|
| 1 | I left behind good people when I escaped the Shadowfell, some day I'll go back and save them all. |
| 2 | I owe my life to the Planeswalker who rescued me from the Shadowfell. |
| 3 | I escaped from the Shadowfell into the Underdark, and a tribe of ________ found me. I consider them my family. |
| 4 | Above all else I seek to destroy the Fiend who ruled of the section of the Shadowfell where I live. |
| 5 | I survive with a small group of companions, they are more precious to me than life itself. |
| 6 | Everyone I've ever loved has died. I'll never let anyone get that close again. |
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