Bear-ward

Alternatively: Animal Tamer.

Bear-wards are folks who live out on the frontier, attempting to capture or coax bears, tame them to whatever extent possible, and train them to perform some sort of task, often for the entertainment of nobles or for other applications, such as in the military. Bear-wards tend to pass their profession through family lineages, but their job is both highly dangerous, and often doesn't pay particularly well depending on how successful they are in a given season.

          Bear-wards are halfway to the life of an adventurer, and in many ways are tougher than the average adventurer to begin with. If they can wrestle a bear, they can kill a kobold. Adventurers who used to be professional bear-wards tend to still keep one of their animals with them from their old life, but as a companion rather than to be sold. They might also tend to push the party towards quests that involve dealing with dangerous animals, since its right up their alley.

          Animal Wrestling: While your specialty is with bears and large animals in particular, you can apply your skill at wrestling and taming animals to other animals in general. When encountering a hostile Beast, you can, as an action, perform a bestial call which draws the creature into a duel with you. If this happens, you fight it one-on-one, dealing non-lethal damage with all non-spell attacks, even if they would normally not be, and as long as you do keep locked in this one-on-one duel, you gain resistance to all damage dealt by the Beast to you. If you can knock the Beast to 0hp, instead of becoming unconscious, the Beast temporarily submits to you. You may make an Animal Handling check (the DC of this check is 12 + the Beast's CR), and upon a success you convince the Beast to be friendly to you, and you may even begin to train and care for the creature if you wish. If you fail, the Beast runs away from you into the wilderness.

If you choose Bear-ward, you gain the following:

~Either a +1 to your Wisdom score or a +1 to your Strength score~

~A Skill Proficiency in either Animal Handling or Athletics~

~A Tool Proficiency with any Musical Instrument (for training the animals)~

~The following items: A baby black bear, a basket of berries, a jar of honey, a papoose, and a belt pouch with 10sp~

~Animal Wrestling feat~

Bounty Hunter

Alternatively: Cutthroat or Tracker.

In some places, particularly where large kingdoms or empires attempt to govern vast tracts of land, it is impossible for the government's forces to keep complete control over any criminals or outlaws. Many slip through their net, and run roughshod over the countryside. In these cases, Bounty Hunters, private law enforcers (of sorts) will be hired out by the powers that be to track down these criminals and bring them to justice, for a flat fee per job. Bounty Hunters are often feared by local communities for their association with wanton violence, while many in fact keep a strict oath never to kill.

          Bounty Hunting is one way that adventurers sometimes keep food in their bellies, and when adventurers playing bounty hunters meet those who do it professionally, sometimes there can be conflict - other times, there can be collaboration. Bounty hunters who go on to adventure more broadly will continue to always check the local bounty boards or bounty offices, and might keep a series of bounties tucked away just in case they get lucky.

          You Can See Them By Their Soles: There is no good accepting a bounty if you can't find the mark. You are experienced at looking for dusty trails, spats of blood, footprints, and any sign that someone has passed by. When performing the Tracking travel activity, once per day if you would normally have to make a second tracking check while tracking the same person (for example if their trail intersects with a river), you can ignore that and continue tracking without the check. Furthermore, when calculating the DC to track, you treat the tracks as if they are two days younger than they actually are, though this provides no benefit if the tracks are fresh.

If you choose Bounty Hunter, you gain the following:

~Either a +1 to your Dexterity score or a +1 to your Wisdom score~

~A Skill Proficiency in either Stealth or Perception~

~A Tool Proficiency with Thieves' Tools or a Poisoner's kit~

~The following items: Either thieves' tools or a poisoner's kit, a bingo book, manacles, a fur-skin hat, and a belt pouch with 12sp~

~You Can See Them By Their Soles feat~

Forager

Alternatively: Gatherer.

Foragers tend to live on the frontier, often making up large portions of the workers in traditional tribal communities. Foragers spend time looking for wildly occurring edible plants, bugs, nuts, eggs, and fungi, often traveling from one part of the surrounding wilds to another, sweeping around throughout the year. Hunting can be feast or famine, whereas foraging tends to keep a steady flow of food coming into a community.

          Foragers often begin to develop the skills necessary for a life of adventure, having to deal often with dangerous animals and people, and they specialize in avoiding conflict when possible, as they are usually unarmed while doing their work. Foragers who go on to adventure will likely keep a basket with them at all times on the trail, always keeping an eye out for any treats along the way - they may even embarrass the party by bringing these treats into eating establishments to save money.

          Fiendish Forager: As a forager, you have spent many hours crouched in front of bushes, climbing trees to reach nests, and wandering the ground looking for mushrooms. Naturally then, you excel at the Foraging travel activity. When Foraging, you treat the environment as one step more abundant, if possible, on the Food and Water Availability table. Therefore, a DC 25 becomes a DC 19, and a DC 19 becomes a DC 13. Furthermore, any food above what the party needs to feed themselves, you can dry and turn into stable Rations overnight.

If you choose Forager, you gain the following:

~Either a +1 to your Wisdom score or a +1 to your Intelligence score~

~A Skill Proficiency in either Survival or Nature~

~A Tool Proficiency with an Herbalism kit~

~The following items: A satchel, an herbalism kit, a knife, a pouched-tunic, and a belt pouch with 5sp~

~Fiendish Forager feat~

Hermit

Alternatively: Guide or Wildman/Wildwoman.

Hermits are individuals who, for whatever reason, decide to live apart from the rest of society, and most of their fellow folk. Often, hermits do this for some religious purpose, to reach personal enlightenment, or for philosophical or political reasons, such as an opposition to civilization itself. Sometimes hermits live near to other hermits in hermitages, acting together in a shared purpose.

          Adventurers might sometimes speak with hermits when on a quest, seeking guidance or wisdom. Or, in some cases, hermits may have the finger of blame pointed at them by neighboring communities for some recent ill, whether rightly or wrongly. Hermits who go on to adventure might still feel at odds with spending too much time in towns or around large crowds, and will prefer adventuring work that keeps the party in the wilderness.

          Self-Sufficient: You are quite accustomed, perhaps even comfortable with solitude. You work well on your own, and because of this, you have 1 free reroll that you may use on any roll while you are not aided or accompanied by any allies (not including animal companions), once per long rest. Furthermore, you are used to playing possum when you need to with others that are stronger than you. When you would be hit by a melee or ranged attack that would drop you to 0hp, you may use a reaction to try to play dead - make an opposed Performance or Deception check, Performance against the enemy's Perception, Deception against the enemy's Insight. If you succeed, you remain at 1hp, are prone, and your opponents believe you to be dead. If you fail, you are not only at 0hp, but start out with 1 failed Death Saving Throw. You may only use this reaction once per long rest.

If you choose Hermit, you gain the following:

~Either a +1 to your Constitution score or a +1 to your Wisdom score~

~A Skill Proficiency in either Survival or Religion~

~A Tool Proficiency with an Herbalism kit or Woodcarver's tools~

~The following items: Either an herbalism kit or woodcarver's tools, 5 days of rations, a quarterstaff, a fur-skin poncho, and a belt pouch with 5sp~

~Self-Sufficient feat~

Hunter

Alternatively: Poacher or Trapper.

Hunting is one of mankind's oldest professions - humans themselves, and many of the Kith species in Adra had their beginnings in large hunter-gatherer tribes. Today, hunters still exist across Adra, either in the more traditional tribal communities, or often on the frontier. Hunters who do their work in a liege's lands are often considered poachers, as hunting on those lands is the priveledge of the nobility and those they give their grace to.

          Hunters tend to be tough, capable, and cunning, and a life on the frontier prepares them early on with the skills needed to break out into a successful career in adventuring. Hunters who go on to become adventurers will always enjoy keeping an eye out for game while on the road, and will always have something smoking around the fire while out on the trail.

          Hunter's Second: Hunters work well alone, but work best as a team. You can, as a bonus action, give someone else in your party a +2 to their next attack. If the attack hits, you gain advantage on your next attack. You may do this once per short rest.

If you choose Hunter, you gain the following:

~Either a +1 to your Dexterity score or a +1 to your Wisdom score~

~A Skill Proficiency in either Stealth or Survival~

~Any one Language commonplace in the wilderness~

~The following items: Either a shortbow or a light crossbow, a quiver with 20 arrows or 20 bolts, an animal skin, a cap with a feather in it, and a belt pouch with 10sp~

~Hunter's Second feat~

Lumberjack

Alternatively: Woodsman/Woodswoman.

Most large forests have been cut down near to large towns and settlements, and lumberjacks have continuously had to push further into the frontier in order to continue to procure good timber. Lumberjacks often work in small camps of other lumberjacks during the summer, returning to their families in town during the other seasons. Others work in tribal communities, trading their timber for lucrative trade goods with larger nations.

          Lumberjacks often have to deal with wild animals, and if they are especially unlucky, they might upset fey creatures in their constant pursuit for timber. In these cases, they often must rely on adventurers to protect them, or otherwise negotiate settlements with outraged fey. Former lumberjack adventurers might enjoy taking wood cuttings from exotic trees as they explore lands far from their home.

          Cut It in Twain: With a good sturdy axe, you can easily cut through wooden objects, and if you are pressed to it, through non-wooden objects as well. When dealing damage to an object, you can choose to double the damage dice dealt to it, or triple the damage dice dealt to it if it is wooden. Furthermore, your exacting skill allows you to deal half damage to an object if you choose to, allowing you to open containers as gently as possible. Finally, when attacking plant creatures, you deal an extra 1d8 damage with slashing weapons.

If you choose Lumberjack, you gain the following:

~Either a +1 to your Strength score or a +1 to your Constitution score~

~A Skill Proficiency in either Athletics or Nature~

~A Tool Proficiency with Woodcarver's tools~

~The following items: A lumber axe, woodcarver's tools, a long saw, leather gloves, and a belt pouch with 10sp~

~Cut It in Twain feat~

Shaman

Shamans are the religious leaders in traditional tribal and nomadic communities in Adra, often responsible not only for the religious leadership of their people, but also as the keeper of the tribe's stories, history, and myths. Shamans tend to follow a certain traditional pantheon, but might also pray to the ancestral spirits of the tribe, or both.

          Shaman are often the first person that adventurers meet when encountering a new tribe - shaman tend to speak the languages common elsewhere in the world, and often know the problems that plague a tribe's people. Sometimes, when a new shaman rises, or when a tribe is crushed in battle, a shaman will decide to travel, becoming an adventurer, and when doing so, will often try to teach the traditions of their tribe and faith to their fellow adventurers.

          Blood Magic: To restore the life to someone, some life must be given in exchange. You may take a blade or tool and draw blood from yourself as an action, dealing 1d4 damage and using up one of your hit dice. In exchange, you heal 12 hit points to a target within 5ft of you. You may not perform this action on the same target twice before a long rest.

If you choose Shaman, you gain the following:

~Either a +1 to your Wisdom score or a +1 to your Intelligence score~

~A Skill Proficiency in either Religion or History~

~Either a Tool Proficiency with an Herbalism kit or any one Language that is holy to your faith~

~The following items: An herbalism kit, a curved dagger, a holy symbol, a ceremonial headdress, and a belt pouch with 5sp~

~Blood Magic feat~

Tribal Elder

Alternatively: Village Elder, Local Leader, or Chief.

In traditional living arrangements between kith, very little government or bureaucracy is required, or wanted. Tribal Elders then serve as either the leaders of tribes, or as the advisors to them, collecting the knowledge and wisdom of the past, and advising the tribe on its future path. Tribal Elders tend to hold the most respect in non-militaristic cultures, whereas in martial cultures, war chiefs tend to hold the most power and respect.

          Tribal Elders or Village Elders are often the first people an up and coming band of adventurers will meet with, always a reliable person to go to for quests and word of local troubles. Tribal Elders often serve for a period before giving way to another elder, and in these cases, they may seek to aid the same adventurers that helped their local community. Tribal Elders who go on to adventure will likely maintain the ties to their homeland, and insist on semi-regular visits to check up on them.

          I Think You Would Do Better Than Us: In the small village where you once sat as elder, you sometimes contracted with adventurers and rat-catchers to solve your problems. If you are presented with a quest that you are not interested in doing, you can accept it, but then find another group to accept the quest on your behalf as if they were your Followers. As with Follower Quests, if the group succeeds, you gain half of any monetary rewards and half of the XP of a completed quest. It is up to the player character to find a suitable group to pursue the quest. Unlike with Followers, you can only contract out one of these groups at once.

If you choose Tribal Elder, you gain the following:

~Either a +1 to your Intelligence score or a +1 to your Charisma score~

~A Skill Proficiency in either Persuasion or History~

~Any one Language spoken by a greater power near to your tribe~

~The following items: A record of the tribe or village history, a quarterstaff, your tribe or village's symbol on a piece of leather, a humble tunic, and a belt pouch with 10sp~

~I Think You Would Do Better Than Us feat~

Wiseman/Wisewoman

Wisemen and Wisewomen are often elders in tribal communities or on the frontier who serve as bastions of medical knowledge and herbal remedies. In most places historically, folks who had no access to magical healing would turn to the knowledge of their local wiseman or wisewoman to heal their wounds. Small tribes in particular depend on them more than large ones, who have access to shamans and magical healers.

          Wisemen and Wisewomen are often a boon, or even a last refuge for adventurers who have gotten in over their head while on the frontier. Often, these healers will be asked if they would travel with the party that they saved, and sometimes, they say yes, when their healing is not needed in their local community. Adventurers who served once as a wiseman or wisewoman will likely continue to serve as healers for their fellow adventurers, and may also be suspicious towards certain modern forms of healing, such as surgery.

          Pack of Poultices: You have a variety of recipes for herbal poultices, each of which are keyed to various purposes. During a trip that takes at least 2 hours, you may perform Herb Gathering, a traveling activity akin to foraging, in which you gather the herbs and plants needed for one of your poultice recipes (you must choose which recipe you want at the beginning of your gathering). Because the poultice must be kept fresh, you can only keep one at a time. Each poultice can be used 5 times before it runs out, and requires an action to be applied to a target that is within 5ft (including yourself). Choose from the following recipes when you begin Herb Gathering:

                Cat-Eyes Poultice: This bright and refreshing mint-herbal poultice can be applied to closed eyelids to grant the person the ability to see in darkness, granting 30ft of Darkvision for 1 hour.

               Sharp-Senses Poultice: This sweet and smoky citrus-herbal poultice fills the nostrils, granting the ability to perceive more sharply, while not actively looking, granting +3 to Passive Perception for 8 hours.

               Quick-Dodge Poultice: This peppery-herbal poultice can be applied to the limbs, granting the ability to move and dodge more quickly, granting +1 to AC for 10 minutes.

               Thick-Skin Poultice: This jerky-herbal poultice can be applied to the skin liberally, drying and hardening it rapidly, subtracting 1 from every die of damage taken for 1 minute.

               Quick-Wits Poultice: This berry-herbal poultice, filled with nutritious oxidants, can be applied directly to the forehead, granting more formidable minds, granting an instant attempt on a Wisdom, Intelligence, or Charisma saving throw against an effect they are currently suffering from.

If you choose Wiseman or Wisewoman, you gain the following:

~Either a +1 to your Wisdom score or a +1 to your Intelligence score~

~A Skill Proficiency in either Medicine or Nature~

~A Tool Proficiency with an Herbalism kit~

~The following items: An herbalism kit, a healer's kit, a smoke stick, ceremonial face paint, and a belt pouch with 5sp~

~Quick-Wits Poultice feat~