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Adventurer
Even before you were selected for a soul pact, you traveled and sought your fortune fighting. This experience serves you well for the dungeons ahead.

Feature: Mercenary You know what your skills are worth and how to be properly paid for them. You gain advantage on insight, intimidation, and persuasion checks made to negotiate compensation (monetary or otherwise) for your services.

Alternate Feature: Well-Traveled You've been around further than most, and you pace yourself well. You gain advantage on constitution saving throws to avoid taking damage or fatigue from a forced march, and you require 1 less serving of food for each level of rationing while in the field. You may maintain this lower ration requirement for up to 1 week before needing to complete a long rest with filling rations in order to do so again.

Bastion Engineer
You work with the complex machinery of the Bastion. Though many of the principles behind it elude you, you can apply your knowledge in unexpected areas.

Feature: Eye for Detail

Alternative Feature: Teamwork

Ee-seh-kye
You slipped through the cracks between realms, and awoke in a new body. You may wish to return to your world, but that requires saving this one, first.

Feature: Outsider You have no connections in this world, but your knowledge from your home world can maybe help you survive in it. When making an intelligence-based check, you may roll a d4 and add the result to your roll. If you roll a 1 on this d4, you must wait until you complete a short rest before you use this feature again.

Firebrand
Your temper has gotten you into more than enough trouble. Fortunately you're tough enough to have made it through it all.

Feature: Lucky Fist When you roll initiative, you gain a d4 inspiration die. You may roll this die after a successful unarmed strike and apply it to the damage dealt, or when you take damage and reduce the damage taken by the result. You also gain this inspiration die if you roll a natural 20 or a natural 1 on a d20 when making an attack roll.

Alternative Feature: Sing for your Supper When procuring lodgings for yourself, you may attempt to convince your hosts that the stories of your victories are worth at least basic accommodations; you are proficient in persuasion checks made to do so, and if you have recently been in a fight (such as the last 3 days, or since the last time you had been in civilization), you gain a d4 inspiration die that can be added to the check.

Follower
A devout worshiper of your Source, you embody their teachings more than most.

Feature:

• (abyss)
• (bastion)
• (brass star)
• (greenmother)
• (light)
• (twins)

Long-lost
You were lost to the darkness for a time in a slumber... Somehow, you have awoken little worse for the wear. Supposedly.

Feature: Awakened from the Dark

Alternative Feature: Dark's Embrace (begin with corruption; advantage to saving throws made against the effects of miasma)

Noble of the Bastion
You lived a comfortable life before the soul pact chose you. Now you have even higher expectations than normal to live up to.

Feature: Commanding Presence

Alternative Feature: Fallen from Grace

Perfumer
An expert at blending perfumes, you also know the less ...peaceful uses for your art.

Feature: Right Scent for the Job You know how to properly mask or enhance scents, allowing you to use the help action for an ally (other than you)'s deception, intimidation, persuasion, or stealth check by preparing and applying perfumes beforehand. This process takes 1 minute, and for the next hour your subject may make 1d4 checks of the chosen skill with advantage.

Alternative Feature: Hide the Poison (advantage to deception checks to hide poisons on your person, targets suffer disadvantage to notice or identify poisons you use)

Tempted by Darkness (Dark Soul-pact Only) From a young age you have been curious about the Dark. Now that it has branded you, it's a struggle to balance the power it gives and your desire to remain yourself.

Feature: Branded You have been forever tainted by the Dark, changing your blood a magenta color, and any glow or flame you produce is a deep violet. This brand burns away any non-magical clothing, accessories, or armor you attempt to wear, as if it is attempting to force you to rely on it for protection and sustenance. As a reaction when attacked, but before the result is declared, you may choose to roll a d4, applying the result as a bonus to your armor class; if the result of the d4 is a 1, you instead add +5 to your armor class and gain 1 point of corruption. In addition, you may choose to gain 1 point of corruption to not require food or water for that day.