Origins

An origin represents your character's background — where they grew up and what they did before adventuring. Each origin has favored attributes, favored skills, example starting equipment, and access to a curated list of origin feats. See the Origins page for the full list.

Favored Attributes: You can lower the attribute bonuses from your race by up to two, and distribute them to your origins favored attributes. You cannot increase an attribute by more than a total of 2 points.

Favored Skills: The skills that your origin is particularly adept at, see Favored Skills.

Example Starting Equipment: The typical gear and items your origin starts with.

Origin Feats: Allowed list of origin feats to take when creating your character. Racial origin feats are always available. For origin feats not on the list, consult your game master.

Name Description

Archeologist

 You sift through the bones of dead civilizations, knowing some of them aren't entirely dead.

Barber

 Razor in hand, you learned that people tell their barber everything.

Craftsman

 You built things with your hands and learned the patience that mastery demands.

Criminal

 You operated outside the law, and inside a world with rules most people never see.

Cultist

 You served a hidden power, learning secrets most dare not seek.

Entertainer

 You made strangers feel something — and learned to feel nothing, or everything, at will.

Farmer

 You worked the land until the land — or something else — pushed you away from it.

Guard

 You kept the peace, and watched how quickly it could fall apart.

Headhunter

 You tracked people for a living — and learned that everyone, eventually, makes a mistake.

Heir

 Blood and title were your birthright — whether you embraced or fled them is another matter.

Herbalist

 You learned the language of roots and leaves — and the thin line between cure and poison.

Hunter

 Patience, stillness, and the moment between breath and release — that is where you live.

Lumberjack

 You felled giants for a living and learned the forest is never as quiet as it looks.

Mercenary

 You sold your blade to the highest bidder and survived long enough to tell the tale.

Merchant

 You learned that every transaction is a negotiation, and every person has a price — even if it isn't coin.

Monk

 Discipline, devotion, and the long work of mastering the self before anything else.

Nomad

 The road was never a path to somewhere — it was home.

Pirate

 You took what the sea offered and asked no one's permission.

Priest

 Faith is easy. Shepherding the faithful — and your own doubts — is the real work.

Sailor

 The sea shaped you — unpredictable, resilient, and always watching the horizon.

Scholar

 Knowledge was never enough — you always needed to understand why it matters.

Skallywag

 You lived by your wit, your charm, and your ability to be somewhere else when the bill arrived.

Soldier

 You served, you fought, and you carried the weight of both orders and conscience.

Spy

 You wore other people's faces for a living, and lost track of your own somewhere along the way.

Squire

 You served a knight and learned that heroism is messier up close than in the songs.

Student

 You pursued knowledge with a hunger that lectures could never quite satisfy.

Tribesfolk

 You were raised by a community bound by blood, tradition, and the land itself.

Urchin

 The streets raised you, and you raised yourself the rest of the way.