Yours was the dark cart that creaked down the predawn lanes with hooves, wheels, and driver shrouded in black cloth. Criminal or courtesan, rich man or rat-catcher; they all veered aside, seeking doorways and side streets at your approach. You served as the gallows-man, the night-wagon, and, at times, the plague-wagon. You may have been a shrouded nightly gatherer of the cities fallen, or a suspicious caretaker and historian of graveyard and mausoleum. Perhaps you were an embalmer, cremator, gravedigger, or grave robber; all share a powerful and lasting commonality, born of a sullen and sometimes repellent past. Whatever the case, you have years of up-close and personal hands on experience with the dead.

Variant Gravedigger

Tomb Raider, Body Thief, Amateur Archaeologist

Whether through necessity of one’s station in life; a streak of morbidity and greed; or a scientific, genealogical, or historical curiosity, gravediggers are a motley assortment, ranging widely in class, culture, and mindset, such as reclusive mortician, eccentric amateur, archaeologist, or the common grave robber or bodythief.