Cultist background for Cairn
Cultist
You have studied dark secrets and worshipped things best left undisturbed. That said, you have insight into many things that others only experience in their nightmares.
Names
Thulsa, Crowley, Mola, Obed, Enoch, Alhazred, Lazlo, Simon, Kane, Constantine
Starting Gear
- 3d6 Gold Pieces
- Rations (3 uses)
- Torch (3 uses)
- Ceremonial dagger (d6)
- Extraplanar Convocation spellbook
- Bone necklace, signet ring, or some other sign of your membership in the brotherhood (petty)
- Ornamented robes (petty)
What Horror blasted your mind? Roll 1d6:
- The Dark Lady, Mysterious Queen of Cats. You have an affinity with the night and can see in moonlight as though it were broad day. Conversely full sunlight makes you queasy.
- Yog-Yama-Tshah, the Lord of Spheres. Your insight into the workings of the hidden realms is vast, but you find difficulty in making yourself understood by ‘normal’ people.
- The Fearsome Star Woman, Mother-of-All. You may randomly affect nearby plant and animal life, causing great fecundity and growth. Conversely, when you are ill or injured plants and animals nearby may start to wither and die.
- Father-Dark, the Lord of Suffering. You take sustenance from pain – killing or critically damaging an enemy gains you 1d3 HP.
- The Shining-Scaled Lord of the Deeps. Once a day you can breathe underwater, but you feel pain if anyone eats fish within 1 mile of you.
- The Many-Tentacled Lord of Chaos. You see much that is hidden and any illusions you perceive may become real, but you often have difficulty in perceiving what the vulgar call ‘reality’.
What have you gained from your unhallowed rites? Roll 1d6:
- Esoteric knowledge and the secrets of the transmundane are your forte, you have a lens that allows you to decipher ancient or forbidden writing (petty).
- You’ve been involved in enough forbidden rituals to know your business, you can sense nearby abnormality or cosmic disorder.
- Your study of the science of the ancients is voluminous and has made the strange second nature, you can sense nearby relics.
- Your rituals and ceremonies have allowed you to pierce the veil between worlds, you have a third eye that can see through invisibility and cloaking.
- You know the secrets of the inner pathways of the mind, you can walk inside the dreams of others.
- What you have seen would have destroyed lesser minds and yet you endure, you are unaffected by insanity or mental manipulation.