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Book of Blades

You have spent your life tending to the dead and helping the living celebrate memories of the departed. Whether you spent time conducting the funerary rites of one culture or many, you intuitively understand loss and the many ways mortal creatures cope with death. 

You are familiar with all aspects of laying the dead to rest, including preparing corpses, performing burials, conducting memorial services, and maintaining gravesites. If you come from a small or remote community, you may have been the sole conductor of all those services.

Skill Proficiencies

Choose two from History, Insight, Medicine, or Religion.

Additional Proficiencies

Learn two languages of your choice.

Equipment

Two blocks of incense, a set of traveler’s clothes, a shovel, a tinderbox, a trinket that once belonged to someone close to you who died, vestments, and a pouch containing 25 gp.

Talent

You’re not necessarily a healer, but you’ve picked up a few tricks as you laid people to rest. Choose a talent to represent this experience: Combat Conditioning, Field Medic, or Physical Fortitude. 

Adventuring Motivation

Grave keepers are among the rare people willing to confront the mysteries of death daily. It takes a deep commitment to transform the ugly realities of decay and loss into something that comforts the living. Whether your commitment comes from religious faith, compassion for those left behind, or something else, your convictions carry you through even the darkest moments.

ADVENTURING MOTIVATION
d8	Adventuring Motivation
1	I go adventuring to learn more about the nature and variety of life and death.
2	I’m on a long sabbatical as an adventurer, trying something different as a change of pace.
3	I am part of a religious or humanitarian organization that brings rest to the dead and forgotten, wherever they are.
4	Adventuring brings me to new people whom I can comfort by giving a reverent burial to their loved ones.
5	I continue the line of my ancestors by adventuring.
6	Adventuring gives me clues to solve the mystery of death permanently.
7	The vagaries of life have resulted in so much death. When I go adventuring, I can mitigate some of the pain and chaos.
8	Adventuring allows me to live my life to the fullest, the best repudiation of death.