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Time Traveller, Variant

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Time Traveller, Variant

Time is a fickle thing...and you knew the risks didn't you? How did this happen? Some crazy scientist threw you back in time? You found or made a machine to alter time itself? You died but came back in a timeline you don't know? What purpose do you have in this timeline as well? Do you want to avenge somebody? Stop a tragedy? Did you have no choice? What about the future? What is it like in your original time? How did your society come about?
Skill Proficiencies: Insight, Arcana
Tool Proficiencies: Land vehicles, Weaver’s tools and 1 more Artisan tool of your choice
Languages: Common and 1 Exotic language to represent the future
Equipment: A trinket that only comes from the future, A bell, Inquisitive's Goggles and a pouch containing 5 GP.

Feature: Butterfly Effect

The purpose that brought you here... Why did you come back in time?

Suggested Characteristics

Personality Traits (d8)

1The past is confusing to me, It may take me a minute or two to adjust correctly...
2I feel as everything is taking too long, I don't have enough time!
3I'm just as confused as the locals around here, I don't have a clue why I'm here.
4I regret going here, the past is horrible... But I can't go back.
5I have certain things that I do that is normal for my time but weird for the locals.
6I feel like meeting past me, It'll be so cool to remember meeting myself!
7This is amazing, I finally got time travel down! I feel so good for myself because of this.
8The past is so much better then the future, I'm ready to make a name for myself here.

Ideals (d6)

1Home I gotta return back to my time-line soon. (Any)
2Legacy The future will remember me one way or another (Chaotic)
3Control I know what happens in the past, I can weave the thread of everyone (Evil)
4Justice I must make right of something that has or might happen that is wrong (Neutral)
5Heroism I must fix the people of my time-line by doing something here (Good)
6Responsibility I know that I have to be careful, Entire time-lines are at stake because of me. (Lawful)

Bonds (d6)

1My people I care for are safe, I know they are.
2I exist in this time-line, I wonder what will happen if we meet.
3The one that I look up for inspiration is alive in this time-line, I must meet them.
4This trinket shall keep me going, Even in the darkest times.
5My greatest enemy isn't even born yet.
6I am completely on my own now, In this time-line.

Flaws (d6)

1I love tampering with random things, Just to see what will happen in the future.
2I have no clue what time-line I'm in... I'm just as clueless as a newborn baby.
3I do not look like I fit here at all, And I never will be able to fit in.
4I have no clue what the past might throw at me.
5I know everything about the future but nothing about the past.
6Because I come from the future, I feel I have to be better then everyone else.


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