Nightbridge Guide
You are a member of the Nightbridge’s Guidesman, a loose guild of mercenaries who protect caravans traveling through the lands plagued by the Decrept. Each guide has their own style and strategies to keep death at bay. Few understand the undead better than they do. The most common and journey is from Provenance to Carcassonne by the west road. It takes caravans directly into the shadow of the dark mountains. Night begins early here, as the scraggled peaks of the towering mountains plunge this valley into darkness by early afternoon, and the mountains to the east keep the morning at bay until near time for second breakfast.
The undead rise here in the nights and seek out the living. But experts know the tricks to keep them at bay. How they hunt by sound. Which ones are mindless and will wander past a silent camp and which ones will seek them out and give chase til morning. Some have even seen the traps laid by the Guides to provide safety for their hidden camps. Only a Guide would know the way.
Skill Proficiencies Survival, Perception
Tool Proficiencies Weaving Tools
Languages Ember’s Sign Language
Lifestyle Moderate
Features
Feature: Step of the Dead
By choosing to move at half speed you can walk amongst the mindless decrept without their notice. Most of the undead don’t hunt you by scent, but rather by noise and movement. By remaining quiet, shuffling, and being intentionally slow to react you can fool them into believing you to be one of them. If you take any Reaction, take a hostile action, or speak aloud the effect is ended and the decrept recognize you as a target.
You may guide an ally within five feet of you with soft whispers to follow your lead. You can effect as many allies as your proficiency bonus at a time.
Traits
| 1d8 | Personality Trait |
|---|
| 1 | I’m grizzled by my experiences and have a dead eye stare that rattles anyone who questions me. |
| 2 | I’m on edge when traveling, so I love being in cities where I can let my guard down and enjoy. |
| 3 | Business comes before pleasure, and when its time to work it gets my focus. |
| 4 | |
Ideal
| 1d6 | Ideal |
|---|
| 1 | Preparation. I can’t know what dangers we will definitely face, but I can know what dangers we might face and evade them. |
| 2 | Patience. Sometimes you just have to be able to wait out a problem. The foolish man rushes in. |
Bond
| 1d6 | Bond |
|---|
| 1 | My mentor taught me everything that I know about being a guide. With them gone it is my duty to carry on their work. |
| 2 | Through a mistake of my own, I lost someone on the journey. I now feel I owe a debt to their family and take care of them when I can. |
| 3 | I have a love in either Provenance or Carcassonne, going home to them is sometimes all that keeps me going. |
| 4 | One of my regular customers is a well to do noble and has taken a liking to me, and I to them. |
| 5 | There is a friendly creature along one of my regular routes, when I leave food out for it, they come stay in my camp for the night. |
| 6 | I owe a debt to a business after failing to protect their shipment, the mistake was my own. |
Flaw
| 1d6 | Flaw |
|---|
| 1 | I am as good at conversation as the undead I know so well. At least I don’t scream. |
