Conscripted into the Taosu Monotachi Shinobi Clan for your talents.Trained for killing and tortured till few memories remain of life before the Clan.Under threat of death studying books and scrolls, magic and mayhem; battle is in your blood. The God incarnates' personal killing force. The Shoguns' assassins doing God's biding. Killers in the shadows and the holy hands of death.

Ability Scores: The Shinobi Background allows you to choose between Constitution, Intelligence, and Dexterity. Increase one of these scores by 2 and another one by 1, or increase all three by 1. None of these increases can raise a score above 20.

Feat: You gain the following benefits.

Two Cantrips. You learn two cantrips of your choice. Intelligence, Wisdom, or Charisma is your spellcasting ability for this feat’s spells (choose when you select this feat).

Level 1 Spell. Choose a level 1 spell. You always have that spell prepared. You can cast it once without a spell slot, and you regain the ability to cast it in that way when you finish a Long Rest. You can also cast the spell using any spell slots you have.

Spell Change. Whenever you gain a new level, you can replace one of the spells you chose for this feat with a different spell of the same level from the chosen spell list.

Skill Proficiencies: Skill Proficiencies: Stealth, Perception

Tool Proficiencies: Tool Proficiencies: Thieves' Tools

Languages: Any 1 Language of your choice

Equipment: 6 Shiruken, 10' length of weighted chain, 1 katana, 1 wakizashi, 1 sickle or dart and leather or studded leather armor.

Suggested Characteristics

Always running from your past you are plagued by the memories of all the souls you've taken you find it difficult to connect to others on a personal basis without feeling like your working.