This background is the product of a failed reincarnation spell or a natural reincarnation if your campaign setting allow that kind of spiritual revive. In any case, the character woke up one day as a young member of his new race.
Replacing a death fated child which soul departed to let you take his place. You have no knowledge of your past life, you may have been the worse or the best of a now enemy faction, or the husband of someone close, and now, you may be opposite sex and different race.
If you don't have an active memory of your past, you still have reminiscent knowledge and for some reason you are proficient with an exotic skill a language and a toolkit which may be something alien in your new life.
Your soul is old from one to multiple life. If you can't remember who you were, you know that fact and some of your previous nature surface every now and then.
- Skill Proficiencies: Choose any one Skill.
- Tool Proficiencies: Choose any one Toolkit or Instrument.
- Languages: Choose any one Language.
- Equipment: A kit of the selected tools, a set of clothes, a purse or belt pouch containing 15gp.
Somehow, with practice and through unexpected flashback you can remember knowledge from the past.
Every week, you can recall from your past life and earn an advantage on any knowledge base skill (History, Religion, Arcana, Nature) and roll as if you were proficient.
When you're dreaming, images and scenes from your previous life can emerge.
GM may reminisce the player nightmarish actions or peaceful places while dreaming, meditating or else.
Suggested Characteristics
d8 Personality Trait
1 I feel estranged with everyone i know and familiar with people i don't
2 I try my best to fit in my new skin.
3 What i have done wrong ? The guilt is haunting me
4 What i have done right ? I love my new life
5 I'm tolerant by ignorance of myself
6 I'm pretty sure i hate what i was, and that goes for any culture i suspect to be my previous life
7 I have a new chance to complete some destiny, thanks the gods, nature or whatever mystery made me return
8 I feel the lost soul of the child i reincarnated into.
d6 Ideal
1 This new life is a chance to redeem my previous life and be a positive force in the universe(good)
2 This life is not new, it is part of a cycle of perfection (neutral)
3 This new life is an opportunity to finally repay my debts, (avenge my death) (lawful)
4 This new life won't be wasted I'll embrace every pleasure and opportunity( chaotic)
5 There is a destiny to be fulfilled(any)
6 I'm meant to unveil secrets and historical knowledges, this is the mean to do it.(any)
d8 Bond
1 There is a family somewhere i was a part of, i want to know they are safe.
2 My new family saved me, i will make them proud
3 The original soul of that body is contacting me
4 I have a deep connection to someone from my past life, and i can't reveal myself to him/her or some curse will unfold
5 A strange birthmark has appeared when i came to life again.
6 I crafted a symbol from the first vision i had of my previous life, i keep it close.
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