A place of shadow, your home has a reputation for bad luck. Death and decay, sinister conspiracies, and unsavory people are rumored to follow you. Few good things have been made by your bloodline, and deep scars race out from its influence. By oath or by curse, you are tied to your family by a strong bond. You have inherited a name, a passage, and a trade, and you are expected to live by them. Will you choose to break the shackles of your heritage, or forge another link in the irons?

Your birthright is a depressing prospect. Although you have made well with what you were given, people find your service unsightly, no matter how necessary or useful it might be. Your labors possess a sense of being un-right or discomforting. Despite the grim nature of your work, you know how to make it sound enticing to certain people.

Skill Proficiencies: Persuasion, and your choice of Insight or Deception

Tool Proficiencies: One set of artisan's tools of your choice, and vehicles (land or water; your choice).

Equipment: A set of common clothes, artisan's tools (your choice), a chest, a lock, and a pouch containing 10 gp.

Suggested Characteristics

Your trade skill has made you a pariah in society. Only the desperate and sinister are happy to make use of your company. Your esteem might be polished or stained by this shift of attention.

d8	Personality Trait
1	I weave shrouds for the dead, each a personal token to commemorate a life gone.
2	Warmth is a gift from the living. I prefer the cold.
3	Everyone says I'm a creep.
4	All I want is anonymity.
5	My past is shameful and I despertely want to be cleansed of it.
6	Isn't blackmail the normal thing to do?
7	Every road leads downhill, and I started at the bottom.
8	Information belongs to those who have it.

d6	Ideal
1	Craft. Dedication is the pursuit of perfection. Life is the pursuit of dedication. (Good)
2	Sincerity. It doesn't matter what you think of me. I can not lie to myself. (Lawful)
3	Opportunity. Every crack in the wall and tear in a pocket is waiting to be a hole I can reach through. (Chaos)
4	Hostility. This world will kill us all, unless we force for ourselves a place to fit in. (Evil)
5	Twins. Every lost item is found by someone. Everything made is eventually broken. (Neutral)
6	Art. Even if no one wants me, I live for myself and no one else. (Any)

d6	Bond
1	Blood is thicker than water. I need both to survive.
2	Most of my commissions are to a mysterious stranger.
3	I must deliver myself and a package, or else something terrible will happen.
4	People I've never met before seem to know my face. I must find out why.
5	My home was ruined by natural disaster. I blame the gods.
6	I've killed my best friend, and I don't remember what I did with the body.

d6	Flaw
1	I can't help but laugh in the face of a threat.
2	My money is my life. Touch it, and find out how easily it can be taken.
3	Ugly things are more beautiful to me. My collection is growing.
4	I resent authority, because I can never say no to it.
5	I will swear myself to serve anyone who says they want me.
6	Crashing parties is what I do best. No one survives a party-crasher like me.