Necromancer

You have spent your life in the service of a demon or a pact. You act as an intermediary between the realm of the evil and the mortal world, performing sacred rites and offering sacrifices in order to bring power to your otherworldly patron. The common path to choose is Warlock,

Choose a demon, a pact, or some other patron, and work with your DM to detail the nature of your service. Were you a lesser-known temple searching for power, quietly plotting to take over others? Or were you a normal citizen who stumbled into a pact with a demon? Perhaps you were the leader of a small cult outside of any established temple structure or even an occult group that served a fiendish master that you betrayed for another. 

Skill Proficiencies: Insight, Deception

Languages: Abyssal and one of your choice

Equipment: A arcane focus (a gift to you when you entered the pact), ritual book, 5 sticks of incense, vestments, a set of common clothes, and a pouch containing 15 gp.

Suggested Characteristics

Necromancers always have a trick up their sleeve. They never reveal their whole plot. As a consequence, their friends never know how to help or what to expect. They've also spent countless months on their own, so they have a twisted view of social etiquette. They will do anything that will give them power, and relish in the idea of suffering.

d8	Personality Trait
1	I idolize a particular hero of my faith, and constantly refer to that person’s deeds and example.
2	I can find common ground between the fiercest enemies, empathizing with them and always working toward peace.
3	I see omens in every event and action. The gods try to speak to us, we just need to listen.
4	Nothing can shake my optimistic attitude.
5	I quote (or misquote) sacred texts and proverbs in almost every situation.
6	I am tolerant (or intolerant) of other faiths and respect (or condemn) the worship of other gods.
7	I’ve enjoyed fine food, drink, and high society among my temple’s elite. Rough living grates on me.
8	I’ve spent so long in the temple that I have little practical experience dealing with people in the outside world.

d6	Ideal
1	Tradition. The ancient traditions of worship and sacrifice must be preserved and upheld. (Lawful)
2	Charity. I always try to help those in need, no matter what the personal cost. (Good)
3	Change. We must help bring about the changes the gods are constantly working in the world. (Chaotic)
4	Power. I hope to one day rise to the top of my faith’s religious hierarchy. (Lawful)
5	Faith. I trust that my deity will guide my actions. I have faith that if I work hard, things will go well. (Lawful)
6	Aspiration. I seek to prove myself worthy of my god’s favor by matching my actions against his or her teachings. (Any)

d6	Bond
1	I would die to recover an ancient relic of my faith that was lost long ago.
2	I will someday get revenge on the corrupt temple hierarchy who branded me a heretic.
3	I owe my life to the priest who took me in when my parents died.
4	Everything I do is for the common people.
5	I will do anything to protect the temple where I served.
6	I seek to preserve a sacred text that my enemies consider heretical and seek to destroy.

d6	Flaw
1	I judge others harshly, and myself even more severely.
2	I put too much trust in those who wield power within my temple’s hierarchy.
3	My piety sometimes leads me to blindly trust those that profess faith in my god.
4	I am inflexible in my thinking.
5	I am suspicious of strangers and expect the worst of them.
6	Once I pick a goal, I become obsessed with it to the detriment of everything else in my life.