Moonmarked

You carry the touch of the Crooked Moon - a silvery curse, or blessing woven into your soul. When the moonlight bends strangely, or laughter echoes where none should, you sometimes see reflections move, or hear faint whispers that know your name.

Whether you've escaped the Carnival, were born during the Hunger Festival, or simply looked too long into a mirror under moonlight, something saw you... and marked you. The mark lingers, shimmering faintly whenever the moon wanes, and the world around you occasionally responds as if it remembers something you do not.

Ability Scores: Your connection to the Moon has heightened both your insight into others and your awareness of the unnatural. 

When creating your character, you can increase one ability score of your choice by 1 - this could be Wisdom, Charismas, or Intelligence, reflecting whether your mark manifests as intuition, persuasion, or an understanding of the arcane.

Feat: You may take a feat, or an ability score increase.

Skill Proficiencies: You gain proficiency in Insight and Arcana, helping you to read both people, and magic.

Alternatively, you can replace Arcana with Religion, or Perceptions to reflect your specific connection to the Moon's Influence.

Tool Proficiencies: You gain proficiency with one of the following tools:

• Disguise Kit, to represent your ability to mask your Moon mark, or
• Herbalism Kit, to reflect a knowledge of cures and lunar remedies passed amongst the afflicted.

Languages: You can speak, read and write one of the following:

• Sylvan, fey language,
• Deep Speech, or,
• Mooncant, a secret dialect or murmured, mirrored phrases.

Equipment: You start with the following equipment in addition to the equipment granted by your class:

• A silver shard that hums under moonlight (a trinket),
• A small hand mirror that sometimes fogs from the inside,
• A set of traveller's clothes,
• A pouch containing 10gp in tarnished Somberreach coins.

Spell List

Some Moonmarked individuals exhibit a faint echo of the Moon's power - fragments of dream and reflection that can often manifest as minor magic. These spells often shimmer with silver light, flicker like laughter, or appear through mirrored surfaces (including puddles or pools of clear water).

Your DM may allow you to learn one, or more of these spells as you level up, representing your growing bond with your Moon mark.

Spell Level	Spells
Cantrip	minor illusion
1st	detect magic
2nd	detect thoughts, mirror image, moonbeam
5th	dream

• Minor Illusion -  A warped laugh echoes faintly through all illusions you create.
• Detect Magic - Reveals faint, silvery threads that link moonlight and madness.
• Mirror Image - Your double grins a little too wide.
• Moonbeam - The light emitted when casting this bends strangely, shifting through hues of violet and pale gold.
• Detects Thoughts - You hear whispered laughter between the lines of other creatures minds.
• Dream - The moon within the dream always hangs too low.

Suggested Characteristics

Those marked by the Moon are strange, thoughtful, or quietly haunted. They laugh at odd times, lose track of themselves under the moonlight, and sometimes seem far more at home in dreams than they do in waking life.

Use the following tables to help define your traits, ideals, bonds and flaws, or create your own inspired by lunar mystery and fey influence.

d8	Personality Trait
1	I listen for laughter in silence - when I hear it, I know something is near.
2	I don't trust mirrors. I cover them up whenever I can.
3	I speak to my reflection when I'm alone - and sometimes it answers back.
4	I find beauty in strange places, especially those bathed in crooked moonlight.
5	I laugh when I'm afraid. It's not nervousness... it's a habit.
6	I'm always watching the sky, counting days until the next crooked moon.
7	I have a journal of dreams that I'm convinced are warnings.
8	I can't remember what my face looked like before I became Moonmarked.

d6	Ideal
1	Knowledge. The Crooked Moon hides truths that are worth uncovering. (Neutral)
2	Survival. What touched me won't take me again. (Any)
3	Reverence. The Moon is a God, and I am its chosen. (Lawful)
4	Freedom. The Moon may have marked me, but it doesn't own me. (Chaotic)
5	Balance. Everything under the Moon's gaze must have its reflection. (Neutral)
6	Curiosity. I want to see what happens when the Moon smiles again. (Chaotic)

d6	Bond
1	I owe my life to the one who saved me from the Carnival many years ago.
2	The mirror shard I carry whispers the name of someone I once loved.
3	I must find out what the Moon sees when it looks down at the city.
4	My reflection ages faster than I do. I need to know why.
5	The Clerics believe that I can resist the Laughing Sickness -- they're all wrong.
6	The laughter in my dreams sounds like a child I once failed to protect.

d6	Flaw
1	I can't help but stare at the moon for far too long.
2	I secretly enjoy the way the Moon makes me feel powerful.
3	I believe the reflections are more real than we are.
4	When the moonlights hits me, I start to lose track of who I am.
5	I see omens everywhere, even in ordinary events.
6	I think I'm being followed by myself.

Contacts

Those who share your Moonmark, or those who study its signs, might recognise the mark upon you. 

Your mark may also make you a target for fey, cultists, or reflections that want to reclaim "what belongs to the Crooked Moon."