Homebrew/Survivor

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Survivor

You survived an encounter that should have erased you.

In the borderlands of Anaya, you served as a guard, soldier, scout, or escort when your unit encountered something that was not meant to be understood. The reports never matched the reality. Orders failed. Formations collapsed. Whatever emerged did not behave like a creature—it behaved like a contradiction.

You ran. Or were thrown clear. Or woke up alone.

You are alive, but you carry fractured memories, recurring visions, and knowledge that cannot be safely shared. Others may doubt your story. You do not.

• Ability Scores: Constitution, Wisdom, Charisma
• Skill Proficiencies: Perception, Survival
• Tool Proficiency: Navigator’s Tools
• Equipment: Navigator's Tools, Traveler's Clothes, Trinket (a personal token from a fallen comrade), Book (a journal filled with incomplete notes and sketches), {{{Menge}}}

Feature: Alert

You gain the following benefits.

• Initiative Proficiency. When you roll Initiative, you can add your Proficiency Bonus to the roll.
• Initiative Swap. Immediately after you roll Initiative, you can swap your Initiative with the Initiative of one willing ally in the same combat. You can't make this swap if you or the ally has the Incapacitated condition.
• Preparedness. You are immune to the Surprised condition.
• Watchful. You have advantage on Wisdom (Perception) checks made to notice ambushes.

Personality Traits

Survivors are shaped by proximity to something that defies reality. Their experiences fracture their memories and sharpen their instincts. They often struggle to articulate what they know, relying instead on intuition, repetition, or ritual. Their ideals are born from trauma, their bonds from loss, and their flaws from knowledge that refuses to stay buried.

Personality Traits

d8	Personality Trait
1	I constantly scan my surroundings, even when I try to rest.
2	I struggle to explain what I’ve seen—it never sounds right.
3	I sleep lightly and dream worse.
4	Sudden silence makes me uneasy.
5	I trust my instincts more than reassurances. I react before thinking when something feels wrong.
6	I speak in fragments when stressed.
7	I remember details others dismiss as irrelevant.
8	I don’t trust calm situations to stay calm. I believe the worst is still coming.

Ideal

d6	Ideal
1	Vigilance. The world survives only if someone stays alert. (Lawful)
2	Warning. Others must be told, no matter the cost. (Good)
3	Destruction. Whatever I saw must be eradicated. (Chaotic)
4	Control. Fear is a tool—use it before it uses you. (Neutral)
5	Containment. Some knowledge must stay buried. (Lawful)
6	Obsession. I need to understand what I saw. (Chaotic)

Bond

d6	Bond
1	I was the last to see my unit alive. I still see their faces.
2	I carry something recovered from the encounter.
3	Someone doesn’t believe me; and I need them to.
4	I owe my survival to a comrade who didn’t make it out.
5	I promised to warn others, no matter the cost.
6	What I saw still calls to me in dreams.

Flaw

d6	Flaw
1	I overreact to perceived threats.
2	I avoid places that remind me of the encounter.
3	I distrust authority after what I witnessed.
4	I keep secrets even when I shouldn’t.
5	I fixate on patterns that may not exist.
6	I believe I survived for a reason—and I fear what it is.