You grew up on a farm, working with animals was just something you did, but you happened to have a particular knack for it. By the time you reached your early teens, you were supplementing your families income by traveling to nearby human- and non-human- villages to tend to their live stock, pets, and occasionally- if a healer wasn't present- to anyone willing to let an animal doctor poke and prod them. You spent most of your formative years on the road between villages and in pastures and fields waiting for animals to heal. That has given you an inordinate amount of time to explore other interests, activities, and skills.
- Skill Proficiencies: You are proficient at medicine and animal handling.
- Tool Proficiencies: You are proficient with a Healer's Kit and your choice of Herbalism Kit or a Alchemist's Supplies.
- Languages: You've spent years traveling to non-human villages. Choose two languages of the non-human villages that you spent the most time visiting.
- Equipment: Alchemist's supplies, backpack, bedroll, wagon, clothes traveler's, a donkey or mule, fishing tackle, lamp, rope, hempen.
You have spent days traveling from village to village and have come to appreciate and recognize the need for a home away from home. Your wagon is a tinker’s dream, a literal mobile home with all the amenities of a small home- a small kitchen, lab, and living space. This includes a set of runes etched into the wagon causing it to go unnoticed when you have setup for the evening meaning you need not worry about unwelcome or unwanted visitors.
Suggested Characteristics
Veterinarians are well versed in animal care and are skilled healers. They accustomed to life on the road, solitude and plenty of time to study new things and practice new skills.
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d8 |
Personality Trait |
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1 |
Cruelty to animals is never okay and I will not stand for it. |
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2 |
Diagnosing an ailment is a challenge, a riddle and I love riddles. |
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3 |
I love to explore new things and find new ways of doing things. |
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4 |
I feel tremendous empathy for animal of all kinds. |
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5 |
I’m used to dickering over prices and sometimes forget every conversation isn’t a transaction. |
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6 |
I am entranced and inspired by the brilliance and glory of nature and all living things. |
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7 |
I often get lost in my own thoughts and contemplation, becoming oblivious to my surroundings. |
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8 |
I have spent years on the road alone with my thoughts and tend to prattle on and on when I have good company. |
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d6 |
Ideal |
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1 |
Greater Good. My skills are not to be wasted, nor abused. It is my duty to see to the wellbeing of all living things.(Good) |
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2 |
Logic. There is a logical solution to every problem and logic must always guide our choices. (Lawful) |
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3 |
Free Thinking. Whoever coined the phrase ‘Don’t reinvent the wheel’ is a fool. The wheel has been reinvented more times than one can count. Pursuit of knowledge and new ways of doing things is the pursuit of happiness, traditions are boring. (Chaotic) |
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4 |
Power. A favored pet is as valuable as a favored child, especially if its family must watch it suffer. (Evil) |
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5 |
Pragmatism. Life and death are but two sides to the same coin. You win some, you lose some. (Neutral) |
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6 |
Meaningful. My work has purpose- the dairy cow produces food, the draft horse makes possible trade, and pets are family. There is no higher calling. (Any) |
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d6 |
Bond |
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1 |
I long for the open road and simplicity of a life among the common folk. |
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2 |
I have spent years studying animals and illness and have developed a theory on heritability and evolution that could change the world. |
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3 |
I took up this profession to spend my life on the road to avoid complications and entanglements with other human beings. |
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4 |
I’m less interested in animals than how things work in general. |
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5 |
I know how similar we are to animals, and now I can't stand to eat meat anymore. |
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6 |
There’s a fine line between healing and inflicting suffering and I’m not sure which I prefer more. |
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d6 |
Flaw |
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1 |
I am perpetually disappointed in the lack of logic in others. |
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2 |
In a very public setting, I applied my skills to a human in need and was mistaken for a doctor. Now I don’t know how to explain I’m not. |
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3 |
I have decided to no longer eat flesh and now won’t shut up about it or what I do choose to eat. |
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4 |
I’ll see to the needs of an animal before those of a sentient human being. |
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5 |
I work with animals because I can cause them pain in the guise of healing and no one is the wiser. |
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6 |
I have a bad habit of stealing and ‘collecting’ animals that I feel are mistreated or abused and have started quite the collection. |
| d8 | Personality Trait |
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| 1 | Cruelty to animals is never okay and I will not stand for it. |
| 2 | Diagnosing an ailment is a challenge, a riddle and I love riddles. |
| 3 | I love to explore new things and find new ways of doing things. |
| 4 | I feel tremendous empathy for animal of all kinds. |
| 5 | I’m used to dickering over prices and sometimes forget every conversation isn’t a transaction. |
| 6 | I am entranced and inspired by the brilliance and glory of nature and all living things. |
| 7 | I often get lost in my own thoughts and contemplation, becoming oblivious to my surroundings. |
| 8 | I have spent years on the road alone with my thoughts and tend to prattle on and on when I have good company. |
| d8 | Ideal |
|---|---|
| 1 | Greater Good. My skills are not to be wasted, nor abused. It is my duty to see to the wellbeing of all living things.(Good) |
| 2 | Logic. There is a logical solution to every problem and logic must always guide our choices. (Lawful) |
| 3 | Free Thinking. Whoever coined the phrase ‘Don’t reinvent the wheel’ is a fool. The wheel has been reinvented more times than one can count. Pursuit of knowledge and new ways of doing things is the pursuit of happiness, traditions are boring. (Chaotic) |
| 4 | Free Thinking. Whoever coined the phrase ‘Don’t reinvent the wheel’ is a fool. The wheel has been reinvented more times than one can count. Pursuit of knowledge and new ways of doing things is the pursuit of happiness, traditions are boring. (Chaotic) |
| 5 | Power. A favored pet is as valuable as a favored child, especially if its family must watch it suffer. (Evil) |
| 6 | Power. A favored pet is as valuable as a favored child, especially if its family must watch it suffer. (Evil) |
| 7 | Pragmatism. Life and death are but two sides to the same coin. You win some, you lose some. (Neutral) |
| 8 | Meaningful. My work has purpose- the dairy cow produces food, the draft horse makes possible trade, and pets are family. There is no higher calling. (Any) |
| d6 | Bond |
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| 1 | I long for the open road and simplicity of a life among the common folk. |
| 2 | I have spent years studying animals and illness and have developed a theory on heritability and evolution that could change the world. |
| 3 | I took up this profession to spend my life on the road to avoid complications and entanglements with other human beings. |
| 4 | I’m less interested in animals than how things work in general. |
| 5 | I know how similar we are to animals, and now I can't stand to eat meat anymore. |
| 6 | There’s a fine line between healing and inflicting suffering and I’m not sure which I prefer more. |
| d6 | Flaw |
|---|---|
| 1 | I am perpetually disappointed in the lack of logic in others. |
| 2 | In a very public setting, I applied my skills to a human in need and was mistaken for a doctor. Now I don’t know how to explain I’m not. |
| 3 | I have decided to no longer eat flesh and now won’t shut up about it or what I do choose to eat. |
| 4 | I’ll see to the needs of an animal before those of a sentient human being. |
| 5 | I work with animals because I can cause them pain in the guise of healing and no one is the wiser. |
| 6 | I have a bad habit of stealing and ‘collecting’ animals that I feel are mistreated or abused and have started quite the collection. |
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