You belonged to a dangerous cult for years, climbing the ranks to a position of influence if not power. Eventually you realized the dark ambitions of the leadership and escaped. You have learned how to stay on the run, hidden from those who might seek you out, as your previous allies are very likely keen to prevent you from spreading their secrets.
- Skill Proficiencies: Persuasion, Nature.
- Tool Proficiencies: Disguise kit, Herbalism kit
- Equipment: A Explorer's Pack, a Disguise kit, a set of common clothes, and a week (7 days) worth of rations
Feature: On The Run
After leaving your cult, you have become adept at evading your former allies. You’ve learned from traveling off the beaten path, finding shelter where you can, and how to survive without an identity. You can secure a place to sleep for you and any allies you have at rural farmhouses and know how to ply innkeepers to sleep in the stables for simple chores.
Suggested Characteristics
Runaway cultists usually have some sort of history they’d not like to share, whatever goings-on in their cult that they discovered had more nefarious purposes. Generally, the revulsion and eventual abdication means that the runaway cultist is usually good or neutral in alignment and tends towards chaotic.
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Personality Trait |
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1
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I keep every scrap of every meal I can for leftovers, you never know when your next meal is.
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2
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I’m always watching my back.
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3
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You have to put in a lot of work to get me to trust you, and even then...
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4
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I’m always on the move.
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5
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It’s easier for me to lie than tell the truth.
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6
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Questions about my past make me uneasy.
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7
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I have an innate distrust of all organizations.
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8
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The freedom to make decisions for myself is new and exciting to me.
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Ideal |
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1
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Hopeful. Being away from the cult will let me grow as a person. (Good)
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2
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Revenge. The cult that spurned my ambition will regret it. (Evil)
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3
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Fear. The group I left had something terrible in mind for me, I just know it. (Chaotic)
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4
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Curiosity. The world is a great big place, I want to know more about it. (Lawful)
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5
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Loyalty. I was sent into the cult undercover to determine their objective. Now I have to report back. (Neutral)
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6
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Naive Why would my friends even be upset that I left? (Any)
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Bond |
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1
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Whoever got me out of the cult has my unquestionable loyalty.
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2
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The enemy of my old cult is my friend.
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3
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I’m looking for the parents that abandoned me to that cult.
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4
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I heard a story about an artifact that was too interesting not to check out.
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5
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My best friend is still inside the cult.
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6
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I took something sacred from my cult.
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Flaw |
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1
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I’m distrustful to a fault.
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2
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The horrible things I did inside the cult haunt me.
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3
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A lifetime of seclusion has left me socially awkward.
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4
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I grew up in the cult and don’t know a lot about the outside world.
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5
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have an intense suspicion of those in authority.
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6
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A lifetime in a religious cult has ingrained in me an unreasonable bias against another race.
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