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⛏️5e - Hermit⛏️

You spent your early years secluded in a hut or monastery located well beyond the outskirts of the nearest settlement. In those days, your only companions were the creatures of the forest and those who would occasionally visit to bring news of the outside world and supplies. The solitude allowed you to spend many hours pondering the mysteries of creation.

Ability Score Increases: +1 to Wisdom and one other ability score (both to a maximum of +4).

Feat: Choose one: 🥇Crafter, 🥇Healer, 🥇Tough, or a special 🥇Origin Feat.

Skill Proficiencies: You gain 🎲Proficiency in 💃Medicine and 💃Religion, or one level of 🎲Expertise if you are already proficient.

Tool Proficiencies: You gain 🎲Proficiency with the 🛠️Herbalism Kit, or one level of 🎲Expertise if you are already proficient.

Equipment: 🗡️Quarterstaff, 🪓Healers Kit, 🛠️Herbalism Kit, 🪓Bedroll, 📕Book (philosophy), 💡Lamp, 3 flasks 🏺Lamp Oil, 👔Travelling Clothes, 1d4 Silver Pieces.

Connection and Memento: Roll 1d10, choose, or make up your own.

Hermit Connections

1. The high priest who banished you to the wilderness until you repent your heresy.
2. The inquisitor who hunts you even through the most solitary wildlands.
3. The supernatural patron whose temptations and gifts you seek to reject.
4. The inner voice you only hear in solitude.
5. The mentor who trained you in silent contemplation — until they mysteriously turned their back on their own teachings.
6. The villain who destroyed the shreds of your original, worldly life.
7. The noble relatives who seek to return you to the life you rejected.
8. The religious superior whose blasphemies scandalized you into fleeing your religious order.
9. The angel who delivered you a prophecy.
10. The mysterious person you glimpsed several times from a distance — unless it was a hallucination.

Hermit Mementos

1. The (possibly unhinged) manifesto, encyclopedia, or theoretical work that you spent so much time on.
2. The faded set of fine clothes you preserved for so many years.
3. The signet ring bearing the family crest that you were ashamed of for years and years.
4. The book of forbidden secrets that led you to your isolated refuge.
5. The beetle, mouse, or other small creature which was your only companion for so long.
6. The seemingly nonmagical item that your inner voice says is important.
7. The magic-defying clay tablets you spent years translating.
8. The holy relic you were duty bound to protect.
9. The meteor metal you found in a crater the day you first heard your inner voice.
10. Your ridiculous-looking sun hat.