Haunted One Image

Yous are haunted past something and then terrible that yous dare non speak of it. You've tried to bury information technology and run away from information technology, to no avail. Whatever this thing is that haunts you can't be slain with a sword or banished with a spell. It might come up to you as a shadow on the wall, a bloodcurdling nightmare, a memory that refuses to die, or a demonic whisper in the nighttime. The brunt has taken its price, isolating you from nigh people and making you lot question your sanity. You must find a way to overcome information technology earlier it destroys you.

Skill Proficiencies: Cull two from amid Arcana, Investigation, Religion, or Survival
Languages: Choose two, i of which must be Abyssal, Celestial, Deep Oral communication, Draconic, Infernal, Primordial, Sylvan, or Undercommon
Equipment: A monster hunter'south pack (containing a chest, a crowbar, a hammer, three wooden stakes, a holy symbol, a flask of holy water, a set of manacles, a steel mirror, a flask of oil, a tinderbox, and iii torches), 1 trinket of special significance (choose one or roll on the Horror Trinkets tabular array after this background), a set of common dress, and 1 sp.

Harrowing Effect

Prior to becoming an charlatan, your path in life was divers by ane nighttime moment, one fateful decision, or one tragedy. Now yous feel a darkness threatening to consume you lot, and y'all fear in that location may be no hope of escape. Cull a harrowing event that haunts you, or coil one on the Harrowing Events tabular array.

d10 Harrowing Upshot
1 A monster that slaughtered dozens of innocent people spared your life, and y'all don't know why.
2 You were born under a night star. You can experience it watching you, coldly and distantly. Sometimes it beckons you lot in the dead of nighttime.
iii An bogeyman that has haunted your family unit for generations at present haunts you. You don't know what it wants, and information technology won't get out you alone.
4 Your family has a history of practicing the dark arts. You dabbled in one case and felt something horrible clutch at your soul, whereupon yous fled in terror.
5 An oni took your sibling one cold, nighttime nighttime, and y'all were unable to finish it.
half dozen You were cursed with lycanthropy and later cured. You are now haunted by the innocents yous slaughtered.
7 A hag kidnapped and raised you. You escaped, but the hag still has a magical agree over you lot and fills your mind with evil thoughts.
8 You opened an eldritch tome and saw things unfit for a sane mind. You burned the book, merely its words and images are burned into your psyche.
9 A fiend possessed yous as a child. You were locked abroad but escaped. The fiend is notwithstanding inside you, merely now you try to keep it locked away.
10 You did terrible things to avenge the murder of someone you loved. You became a monster, and it haunts your waking dreams.

Feature: Middle of Darkness

Those who await into your optics can see that y'all have faced unimaginable horror and that you lot are no stranger to darkness. Though they might fear you, commoners will extend you every courtesy and do their utmost to help yous. Unless yous have shown yourself to be a danger to them, they volition even accept up artillery to fight alongside you, should you observe yourself facing an enemy alone.

Suggested Characteristics

You have learned to live with the terror that haunts yous. You lot are a survivor, who can be very protective of those who bring calorie-free into your darkened life.

d8 Personality Trait
1 I don't run from evil. Evil runs from me.
2 I like to read and memorize verse. It keeps me calm and brings me fleeting moments of happiness.
3 I spend money freely and live life to the fullest, knowing that tomorrow I might die.
four I alive for the thrill of the hunt.
v I don't talk about the affair that torments me. I'd rather non brunt others with my curse.
vi I await danger around every corner.
7 I refuse to become a victim, and I will not allow others to be victimized.
eight I put no trust in divine beings.
d6 Ideal
1 I try to help those in demand, no affair what the personal price. (Good)
two I'll stop the spirits that haunt me or die trying. (Any)
iii I kill monsters to make the world a safer place, and to exorcise my ain demons. (Good)
iv I take a dark calling that puts me higher up the law. (Chaotic)
5 I like to know my enemy's capabilities and weaknesses before rushing into battle. (Lawful)
6 I'm a monster that destroys other monsters, and annihilation else that gets in my manner. (Evil)
d6 Bail
1 I keep my thoughts and discoveries in a journal. My journal is my legacy.
two I would sacrifice my life and my soul to protect the innocent.
3 My torment drove away the person I love. I strive to win dorsum the love I've lost.
4 A terrible guilt consumes me. I hope that I can find redemption through my actions.
5 There'southward evil in me, I tin can feel it. Information technology must never be gear up free.
6 I have a kid to protect. I must make the globe a safer place for him (or her).
d6 Flaw
1 I have certain rituals that I must follow every day. I can never break them.
2 I presume the worst in people.
three I feel no compassion for the dead. They're the lucky ones.
iv I take an addiction.
5 I am a purveyor of doom and gloom who lives in a globe without hope.
6 I talk to spirits that no one else tin can encounter.
d100 Trinket
01 A moving picture you drew every bit a child of your imaginary friend
02 A lock that opens when blood is dripped in its keyhole
03 Wearing apparel stolen from a scarecrow
04 A spinning acme carved with four faces: happy, sad, wrathful, and dead
05 The necklace of a sibling who died on the day yous were born
06 A wig from someone executed by beheading
07 The unopened letter to you from your dying father
08 A pocket watch that runs backward for an 60 minutes every midnight
09 A winter coat stolen from a dying soldier
10 A bottle of invisible ink that can merely exist read at sunset
11 A wineskin that refills when interred with a dead person for a dark
12 A set of silverware used past a male monarch for his final meal
13 A spyglass that ever shows the globe suffering a terrible tempest
xiv A cameo with the contour's face scratched abroad
15 A lantern with a black candle that never runs out and that burns with green flame
xvi A teacup from a child's tea set, stained with blood
17 A little blackness book that records your dreams, and yours alone, when you sleep
18 A necklace formed of the interlinked holy symbols of a dozen deities
nineteen A noose that feels heavier than it should
20 A birdcage into which small birds fly merely one time inside never eat or exit
21 A lepidopterist's box filled with expressionless moths with skull-similar patterns on their wings
22 A jar of pickled ghouls' tongues
23 The wooden paw of a notorious pirate
24 A urn with the ashes of a dead relative
25 A hand mirror backed with a bronze depiction of a medusa
26 Pallid leather gloves crafted with ivory fingernails
27 Dice made from the knuckles of a notorious charlatan
28 A ring of keys for forgotten locks
29 Nails from the coffin of a murderer
30 A key to the family crypt
31 A bouquet of funerary flowers that always looks and smells fresh
32 A switch used to discipline you as a child
33 A music box that plays by itself whenever someone holding it dances
34 A walking cane with an fe ferrule that strikes sparks on stone
35 A flag from a transport lost at sea
36 A porcelain doll'south caput that always seems to be looking at yous
37 A wolf'south head wrought in silverish that is too a whistle
38 A small mirror that shows a much older version of the viewer
39 A pocket-sized, worn book of children's nursery rhymes
40 A mummified raven claw
41 A broken pendant of a silver dragon that's ever cold to the touch
42 A small locked box that quietly hums a lovely tune at night, only you e'er forget it in the forenoon
43 An inkwell that makes 1 a piddling nauseous when staring at it
44 An former doll made from a night, dense wood and missing a hand and a foot
45 A black executioner's hood
46 A pouch made of flesh, with a sinew drawstring
47 A tiny spool of black thread that never runs out
48 A tiny clockwork figurine of a dancer that's missing a gear and doesn't work
49 A blackness wooden piping that creates puffs of smoke that await like skulls
50 A vial of perfume, the odour of which only sure creatures can observe
51 A stone that emits a single endless sigh
52 A rag doll with 2 cherry-red dots on its cervix
53 A jump-loaded toy with a missing creepo
54 A mason jar containing a harmless just agitated, animate ooze
55 A black wooden die with 1's on all the faces
56 A child'south portrait with "born" written on the back, forth with next year's date
57 A dagger-sized shark molar
58 A finger that'southward taken root in a small pot
59 A toolbox containing the remains of a unsafe only broken clockwork arachnid
60 A pitcher-sized, opalescent snail shell that occasionally, inexplicably shudders or tips over
61 The logbook of an ice-breaking ship called The Haifisch
62 A small portrait of you as a child, alongside your identically dressed twin
63 A silverish pocket spotter with 13 hours marked on the face
64 A woodcut of a wolf devouring its own hind leg
65 A planchette etched with raven skulls
66 A moist coral figurine of a lamprey with arms, legs, and a bipedal stance
67 A bronze fingertrap sculpted with roaring tigers
68 A pearl necklace that turns ruby under the full moon
69 A fossil of a fish with humanoid features
70 A plague doctor's mask
71 A paper talisman with smudged ink
72 A locket containing the smeared prototype of an eyeless figure
73 A canopic jar with a hat sculpted like a goat
74 A jack-o'-lantern made from a pocket-sized, stake gourd
75 A single loftier-heeled, iron shoe
76 A candle made from a severed hand
77 A clockwork device that beats like a middle
78 A blank masquerade mask
79 A glass eye with a alive worm within
80 A sheet with two eyeholes cutting in it
81 The human action to someplace called Tergeron Estate
82 An ornate, wax-sealed carmine envelope that resists all attempts to open it
83 A mourning veil trimmed in black lace
84 A straitjacket covered in charcoal runes
85 A tattered, burlap mask with a crooked smile painted on information technology
86 A dark-green ribbon designed to be worn as a choker
87 Dentures with mismatched, sharpened teeth
88 A warm, fist-sized egg case
89 A copper ring with "mine" engraved on the inside
ninety A drinking glass ampoule containing a neon green fluid
91 An eye patch embroidered with a holy symbol
92 A severed large toe with a nail that continues to grow
93 A periodical that has been heavily redacted
94 A glove with a rima oris-similar design stitched on the palm
95 An ornate merely empty reliquary made of silvery and fractured glass
96 A ceramic figure of a cat with too many eyes
97 A crumpled paper ticket bearing the words "acknowledge none"
98 An electrum coin with your confront on 1 side
99 A shrunken gremishka caput that twitches when anyone casts magic nearby
100 A sunburst amulet with a red rock at the heart

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Haunted One Image