Executioner

As an executioner, you were convicted of a crime worthy of death, or born into a family of executioners convicted of an especially heinous crime. In exchange for your life, you work as your city's, or town's, executioner. To mark you as such, you have been branded with an indisputable symbol on your face, neck, or arm indicated to all the job you perform. If you were the individual convicted, you also bear a partnered brand announcing the crime of your conviction. Although these brands are known ubiquitously throughout your home, their exact meanings may be obscured in foreign lands. Not only do these permanent markings announce your profession, they also inform your neighbors of your stance in society. 

Work with your DM to determine your home's laws surrounding your role as executioner. Many executioners are denied certain rights and privileges such as partaking in democracy, living within the city, dining with civilians and nobility, buying from market, entering a public establishment, and marrying. Although these drawbacks exist, executioners are at the call of their government. Not only will you be called to perform capitol punishment, you may be asked to serve as a body guard, a torturer, a doctor or surgeon, or even perform duties of body disposal and city maintenance. Your life is simple, but not always easy, and your persistence in this career hinges on a flawless performance and a willingness to comply. Together, you and your DM should determine the exact regulations of your station.

Some of the benefits of being executioner may include (but are not limited to): A noble contact, a precise pay for performing duties, criminal contacts, medical expertise, provided housing, and privilege to driot de havage. Driot de havage, or the right to dip into, is often granted by law to an executioner who is not permitted to buy from a market, or enter a public establishment, and grants them access to tax vendors for minimal amounts of free food and necessities to live within their city or kingdom.

Skill Proficiencies: Choose two: Deception, History, Medicine, Persuasion, Religion, Stealth.

Tool Proficiencies: Grants proficiency with Thieves Tools, and one gaming set of your choice.

Languages: One of your choice.

Equipment: An executioners hood, executioner and/or criminal branding, a scroll decree of your legal limitations, and a pouch containing 10 gold.

Suggested Characteristics

Executioners have typically been convicted of a major crime, and their role in society has been offered as a trade to their lives. Because of this, many go misunderstood or shunned.

d8	Personality Trait
1	I am truly remorseful for the crime I've committed, but few know my true feelings.
2	I felt no guilt until I was caught, and told that I was guilty.
3	I've accepted my position and view every execution and odd job as a means to survive.
4	If I could do it all over again, I wouldn't change anything.
5	I wish I could console the families of those I've wronged.
6	I'm convinced my government needs me more than I need them.
7	The law I broke was wrong, and I'm determined to change it.
8	I was falsely accused and seek to reverse my charges.

d6	Ideal
1	Honor. I know what I did was wrong, and this service is the best outcome for me to survive within society. (Lawful)
2	Freedom. I will prove that I am innocent -- even if I am not. In doing so, I will break this bondage. (Chaotic)
3	Redemption. This job was given to me in order for me to have time to improve who I am as a person. (Good)
4	Power. They let me live. With every head, I will only have time to plan my next crime while becoming less and less bothered by the death around me. (Evil)
5	Live and Let Die. You can't change the system, and lopping of heads is just a job now. (Neutral)
6	Family. I hold my loved ones dear, although we are rejected by society. (Any)

d6	Bond
1	I still communicate with my fellow criminals, and it keeps me going.
2	The nobility I server show me great respect, and I respect them in return.
3	Execution is all I know, and my belongings are my only friends.
4	I have a small pet that brings me company and comfort.
5	This brand has been passed to me, it is my legacy.
6	I have secret liaisons with a certain someone in town.

d6	Flaw
1	The killing brings me joy and it shows.
2	I weep every time I take a life.
3	I still make many attempts to commit crime.
4	I refuse all authority and walk on thin ice with the nobility.
5	I've been stealing items from those I execute. They're my prizes.
6	I can't keep a secret, it's hard to hold back when someone finally speaks with me.