For longer than you can remember, you have traversed the Astral Sea. There, you experienced firsthand the wonders of the Silver Void: you stopped aging and no longer felt hunger or thirst. Driven by wanderlust, you drifted from one part of the Astral Sea to another, like a mote of dust on the wind. You have lost count of the decades that have passed since you arrived here.
In your travels, you have camped on the petrified hulks of long-forgotten titans, narrowly escaped the psychic winds that sweep across the Astral Sea, and observed fragments of worlds and civilizations long since lost to time.
- Ability Scores: The Astral Wayfarer Background allows you to choose between Intelligence, Wisdom, and Charisma. 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 Magic Initiate feat from the Player’s Handbook and must choose wizard for the feat
- Skill Proficiencies: Insight, History
- Tool Proficiencies: Navigator's Tools, Calligrapher's Supplies
- Languages: Two of your choice (Gith or Deep Speech recommended)
- Equipment: A set of traveler’s clothes, a diary, an ink pen, a bottle of ink, and a pouch containing 10 gp
During your travels, you absorbed a piece of forgotten knowledge from the remnants of some ancient entity, drifting ruin, or broken world. This knowledge was not given to you, but rather imprinted onto your mind by the Astral Sea itself. Work with your DM to determine the nature of this secret and how it might shape the campaign.
Roll on the Cosmic Echoes table to discover what lingering fragment of knowledge has settled in your mind, or work with your DM to invent your own.
| d10 | Cosmic Echoes Table |
|---|---|
| 1 | The dying words of a long-vanished archmage. |
| 2 | A map leading to a drifting fragment of a lost world. |
| 3 | A formula for manipulating raw psychic energy. |
| 4 | A chant in a dead language that stirs astral winds. |
| 5 | Memories of a fallen astral conqueror’s final battle. |
| 6 | The secret name of a long-slumbering star. |
| 7 | Knowledge of a ritual to anchor thought into form. |
| 8 | A vision of a future event that has not yet come to pass. |
| 9 | A fragment of a melody that bends space when sung. |
| 10 | An instinctive understanding of a forgotten planar law. |
The Astral Sea holds memories of countless lost worlds, civilizations, and beings. Fragments of those echoes have seeped into your mind, granting you insights that mortals rarely comprehend.
You gain the Magic Initiate feat from the Player’s Handbook and must choose wizard for the feat.
During your travels, you absorbed a piece of forgotten knowledge from the remnants of some ancient entity, drifting ruin, or broken world. This knowledge was not given to you, but rather imprinted onto your mind by the Astral Sea itself. Work with your DM to determine the nature of this secret and how it might shape the campaign.