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Skill Proficiencies: Investigation and Perception
Tool Proficiencies:  Cook’s utensils,Brewer’s supplies
Languages: You can optionally pick two additional languages from Dwarvish, Elvish, Gnomish or Halfling. It must be the same languages your master is able to speak.
Equipment: A fine butler's suit (equivalent to Fine Clothes), a signet ring given to the servants of the family you worked at and a pouch containing 10 gp.
 
Relation with Master
d8 Relation with Master
1 I was always happy to see master's face, and I always tried to ease his or her mood.
2 My master was a good person, albeit greedy. I never had the money or time to spend it on the things I wanted.
3 My master treated me as nothing more than his or her servant. As long as I was doing my job properly I never got scolded.
4 My master always asked me to perform the most difficult tasks. I wish he or she would understand how hard this work was.
5 According to my master, I never understood my position. Many times I suffered physical abuse, after which I sometimes plotted to murder him or her.
6 I secretly fell in love with my master, but I never confessed my feeling towards him or her.
7 My master always tried his or her best at prohibiting me from social interactions. I had to cleverly lie about my relations with others.
8 I want to become just like my master. I openly idolize him or her, even if my master never acknowledged that.
 
Feature: Butler's Profession

 

 
Suggested Characteristics

 

d8 Personality Trait
1 I am always cheerful, thinking about what I am going to do tomorrow.
2 I enjoy peaceful music and relaxing downtime activities.
3 I'm only glad when the work is over, it is the only time when I can finally doze off.
4 I live my life day-to-day, I can't imagine changing anything.
5 I am a perfectionist. I always push myself to my limit when I'm working or doing something.
6 I am confident in my own skills and I will do what I want, even things that would hurt my master indirectly.
7 I have many goals and dreams I want to achieve, but I am not sure which are the ones I want to pursue.
8 I respect my master more than anyone in the world. I always try to mimic his or her pattern of speech and demeanour.
d6 Ideal
1 Diligent and honest work is the key to making society a better place, a one big family where everyone helps each other.
2 People are born to serve others, or to serve something. Order of that must be preserved.
3 Those that abuse and exploit others should suffer the same, just like I did.
4 You can only do so much, but even if the task seems impossible, the first step is more important than the journey.
5 There is no use crying over spilled milk, that's why I think people should always move forward.
6 I sincerely believe that lies and deceit is the only way to make sure a person can be respected by others.
d6 Bond
1 I always try to help and accept requests from others because servicing others reminds me of my family.
2 I hated the place I was forced to work at. I want to ran away from my previous life as far as I can.
3 Even if I am just a butler, I want others to see me as someone different than a servant.
4 I'm fed up with being a tool. Rather than serving others, I want to make others serve me instead.
5 I will only listen to what my master has to say and do anything I can to execute his or her orders.
6 I want to learn more about my real family, wherever they are, their past is shrouded by mysterious oddities.
d6 Flaw
1 I can't help that I am naturally clumsy and I was never good at my work.
2 I always complain about everything because I find work boring.
3 I'm always secretly jealous about something others have that I don't.
4 I can't prevent myself from prying into other people's secrets.
5 I'm always rude to the unclean and unmannered to the point of educating them through force and violence.
6 I was always poor, until I found out how easy it is to steal. Kleptomania is something I want to suppress.

 

 
Variant Butler: The Butler of Noble's Envy

You have worked relentlessly over the years to serve your master, making you a master of your own in terms of your skill. You are well known among the noble families to be one of the best, and most wanted, butlers around. 

 
Variant Feature: Talented Butler
 
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