You have used alot of your youth traveling between holy sites and to various temples relevant to your religion, church, temple, sect or similar.
You might have been a monk or maybe a seller of holy relics (may they be real or false). Nonetheless, you have left home and often find yourself on the road towards other holy sites.
You are therefore quite often wandering and protected by your faith. You can be traveling together with other members of your faith, you can be traveling with merchants or with adventurers.
Your call to adventure could easily lie on the road to a particular holy site of the world. Here, you could meet some issues or discover some truth that leads you somewhere, or your challenges interrupt you in your journey. You could also be ripped away from your pilgrimage, if you were for instance kidnapped, caught in a storm, arrested or some other event.
- Skill Proficiencies: Religion, Perception
- Languages: Two languages of your choice
- Equipment: a backpack, one (or more) holy symbol(s), a prayer book, a lorebook describing some holy site(s), traveler's clothes, and a pouch containing 15 gp.
As a pilgrim, you seek help of those who share your faith, and you can share the knowledge of your faith with your members of faith. You and your adventuring companions can expect to receive free healing and care at a temple, shrine, or other established presence of your faith, though you must provide any material components needed for spells. Those who share your religion will support you and your companions at a modest lifestyle.
You might also have ties to a specific temple dedicated to your chosen deity or pantheon, and you have a residence there. This could be the temple, where you used to serve, if you remain on good terms with it, or a temple where you have found a new home. While near your temple, you can call upon assistance, provided the assistance you ask for is not hazardous and you remain in good standing with your temple.
Suggested Characteristics
You have been on the road for a long time, focused on your faith and the holy sites that you are/were to visit. It is not often that you find yourself among others, except if you are actively traveling with others on the road. You are more tied to your faith, some travelers and lore that you might learn along the way.
| d8 | Personality Trait |
|---|---|
| 1 | I am as tranquil as the center of a cyclone. |
| 2 | I find wisdom in tales of my old, and I will happily share it with everyone. |
| 3 | I hope to complete a particular legendary route that I heard of once. |
| 4 | I have a particular ritual that I do every day to ensure safe travel. |
| 5 | Nothing can shake my optimistic attitude |
| 6 | I have empathy for all who suffers. |
| 7 | I am oblivious to etiquette and social expectations. |
| 8 | I am often lost in thought and contemplation |
| d6 | Ideal |
|---|---|
| 1 | Tradition. The old stories and traditions must be preserved for the future to learn from (Lawful) |
| 2 | Beauty. Everyone should be able to behold The Beauty of the old monuments and sites (Chaotic) |
| 3 | Live and let live. The affairs of others should be left on the side of the road (Neutral) |
| 4 | Charity. Even though I might not have much, others could have it worse, and hence I must help them (Good) |
| 5 | Peace. There should be no room for unrest or suffering (Good) |
| 6 | Humility. We are all the same on the road. (Neutral) |
| d6 | Bond |
|---|---|
| 1 | A tale of a particular hero that followed a trail of holy site have always fascinated me. |
| 2 | I will always hold a particular holy site close to my heart |
| 3 | I always travel with a particular caravan. We always help each other. |
| 4 | I know a temple near one of the holy sites, where I have always been welcome |
| 5 | A certain acolyte leading a temple near a certain holy site is always open and welcoming to me. |
| 6 | I was born on the road and my parents raised me on the road as well. |
| d6 | Flaw |
|---|---|
| 1 | I am inflexible in my thinking |
| 2 | Once I pick a goal, I become obsessed with it to the detriment of everything else in my life |
| 3 | I put a little too much faith in others. |
| 4 | I went on my pilgrimage to escape a crime that I did long ago. It still haunts me to this day. |
| 5 | I have a fierce temper that does not reflect the ideal pilgrim. |
| 6 | I am oblivious to Etiquette. |
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