Forlorn Philosopher

The road an unreasoning maze, every temple soaked in blood, each destination drenched in gloom. You once thought that cold analysis might tame Fate itself. Now that dream of reason has decayed to shifting madness and only the cold remains.

• Begins with: d6×10s and d4 Omens.
• HP: Toughness + d4.
• Abilities: Mental Focus — roll 3d6+2 Presence. Too Much Reading! — roll 3d6−2 Strength.
• Ruthless Inquisition: test Presence DR14 to tear through others' deceptions and delusions. Enough of these LIES!

Roll d6 on the weapon table and d2 on the armor table. You begin with one Tablet of Ochre Obscurity and one of the following gifts (d6):

1. Thorns of Comprehension — pierce flesh (d2, escalating) for −4 DR and ignoring two attacks.
2. Hegelian Owl — a bitter philosophical owl assistant.
3. Prism of Ambiguity — heal and reduce DRs, or harm on failure.
4. Flute of Tosk — Echoing Fugue deals an echo of fatal damage to another enemy.
5. Sash of the Stylite — no hunger, water-only HP recovery, but collapses after d4 days.
6. Marked by Obscurity — an ever-shifting Tablet tattooed on your flesh.

The Roots of your Dejection (d8):

1. Your mother alternated praise and humiliation leading to grandiose self-image and burning self-hatred.
2. You wanted to be a warrior or great leader but you can't! Stop! THINKING! STOP THE THOUGHTS!!
3. Ambient stupidity and bright lights cause your hypersensitive mental tissues to INFLAME.
4. You could save this doomed world! If only the unwashed masses would understand your GENIUS!
5. You fell victim to the mental virus of "love," then the object of your affection went to live in a hole.
6. You encoded your omnivalent philosophy in a single tome for safekeeping and saw it burn as you fled. All is lost.
7. Udok cultists captured your family and forced you to debate with them while they devoured your parents alive.
8. You were Südglans' most revered philosopher — which sank into the sea and now everyone ruthlessly mocks you.

The dejection of your Roots (d6):

1. Raised by fanatical Theists in a temple beneath Grift's bridges.
2. Born to a nameless mother in a Galgenbeck sanatorium.
3. Brought up by illiterate, pig-ignorant churls in a peaceful Western Kingdom forest.
4. Raised by life-shaming cultists of the frozen Kergüs waste who think no one should be born into this dying world.
5. Abandoned in Bergen Chrypt's catacombs.
6. Educated by the damned amongst the Valley of the Unfortunate Undead's mud pits.