You were raised (or adopted) into the ancient, secretive teachings of the Ashen Veil, a monastic offshoot of the Fire Ashari that emphasizes the spiritual tension between harm and healing. Your training was elemental, martial, and spiritual — rooted in flame rituals, Ki breathwork, anatomy, and the ethics of restraint. You may have served as a battlefield medic, a spiritual guardian, or a fire-ritualist who read pain like scripture.

Your role was not to avoid violence, but to understand it — and choose when to intervene with a hand of healing… or one of pain.

Even if your path has taken you beyond the Veil, its teachings still shape how you move, breathe, and act.

Ability Scores: Constitution, Wisdom, Dexterity

Feat: Healer

Skill Proficiencies: Medicine and Nature

Tool Proficiencies: Herbalism Kit

Languages: Primordial (Ignan dialect) or Ashari Sign Language (DM discretion)

Equipment: Choose A or B: (A) Quarterstaff, Herbalism Kit, Bedroll, Book (philosophy), Lamp, Oil (3 flasks), Traveler’s Clothes, 16 GP; or (B) 50 GP

Suggested Characteristics

d4	Personality Trait
1	I do not raise my voice. The world listens when I move, not when I shout.
2	I treat every wound like a message, every scar like a memory.
3	I breathe in four beats, hold for four, release for four — always.
4	I light a flame when I sleep, even if it’s just a spark — to remind me I’m still here.

d4	Ideal
1	Balance. Pain and healing are threads of the same cloth. (Lawful)
2	Mercy. I will always give others a chance — just one. (Good)
3	Discipline. Strength without control is ruin. (Neutral)
4	Purity. Some wounds must be cauterized — body or soul. (Any)

d4	Bond
1	I lost a patient once — their name still burns in my mind when I fight.
2	My mentor vanished during a cleansing ritual. I carry their obsidian.
3	The Ashen Veil is gone… but its teachings live through me now.
4	I will not allow fire to destroy what it once protected.

d4	Flaw
1	I hesitate to harm, even when it’s necessary — and people suffer for it.
2	I believe my pain matters more than others’ — even when I know it doesn’t.
3	I fear losing control — and becoming the flame I was taught to contain.
4	Sometimes, I confuse mercy with avoidance… and run from hard truths.