You live your life as a mediator, diviner, storyteller, healer, and psychopomp. Among your people, you serve as a carrier of traditions and conduit of archaic wisdom. A shaman performs spiritual services for their community, paying obeisance to those spirits that will provide boons, and doing combat with spirits that would cause harm.
Ability Scores: Constitution, Intelligence, Wisdom
Feat: Unknown Druid
Skill Proficiencies: Anticipation, Depicting
Tool Proficiencies: Your choice of Herbalism Kit
Equipment Choose A or B: (A) 50 feet of rope, a small knife, a herbalism kit, a set of traveler's clothes, and a belt pouch containing 10 gp, or (B) 50 gp
Suggested Characteristics
Shamanistic practices are employed to preserve social order and benefit individuals in your society.
| d8 | Personality Trait |
|---|---|
| 1 | I am slow to trust people that are not members of my social group. |
| 2 | I am deeply reverent of the spiritual world - people and cities are not important in comparison. |
| 3 | The spirit world is a terrible and brutal place, and so am I. |
| 4 | I have faced oppression for my beliefs, and I am reticent to express them. |
| 5 | Tradition is the backbone of any society, and following it gives much benefit. |
| 6 | The spirits are in control of our fate and we only act out the part. |
| 7 | The spirits have taught me to be tolerant and understanding of all creatures. |
| 8 | Mortal life is less real and important than the world of the spirits. |
| d6 | Ideal |
|---|---|
| 1 | Tradition. The ancient traditions of my ancestors must be honored and upheld. (Lawful) |
| 2 | Wild. Nature abhors a wall. (Chaotic) |
| 3 | Wisdom. The path to power and improvement is through the understanding of ancient wisdom. (Any) |
| 4 | Power. Communion with the spirits can offer the path toward power and domination. (Evil) |
| 5 | Balance. Both the mundane and spiritual world seek balance in all things. (Neutral) |
| 6 | Greater Good. It is my duty to use my abilities to help people and assist the ailing. (Good) |
| d6 | Bond |
|---|---|
| 1 | I must always protect my homeland and my people. |
| 2 | Protection of the spirits and the natural order is paramount. |
| 3 | I sold my soul for greater deeds and power. I hope to do great deeds and win it back. |
| 4 | My life is my devotion to my people and their traditions. |
| 5 | I have been searching my whole life for the answer to a certain question. |
| 6 | I have been entrusted with a powerful secret, and I must not let it fall into the wrong hands. |
| d6 | Flaw |
|---|---|
| 1 | I find it hard to take worldly matters seriously. |
| 2 | I only value the needs of my tribe and I do not care for other civilizations. |
| 3 | The spirits often interfere with my life and request things of me. |
| 4 | I am in awe of the spirits and am afraid to act against them. |
| 5 | I am flighty and prone to distraction. |
| 6 | I am deeply mistrustful of members of other faiths. |