Dethroned Deity (5e Background)
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Dethroned Deity[edit]
You were once beloved, but due to circumstances, your name does not hold the power it once did. This may bring relief but may also bring agony.
Skill Proficiencies: Religion, History and one related to your domain up to DM and player discretion (or two and no tool proficiency)
Tool Proficiencies: A weapon or tool representative of the domain (musical instrument, kit, etc)
Languages: Common, the most common language of your people and one of your pantheon. (Example: Duregar Deity: Common, Undercommon, Dwarvish)
Equipment:
Specialization[edit]
| d6 | Varieties |
|---|---|
| 1 | Replaced: While you may be a member of your pantheon in status, another pantheon's deity is far more known in your domain. |
| 2 | Banished: Your pantheon cast you out for sins that were or were not your own. |
| 3 | Forgotten: You are no longer worshipped due to the nature of time. |
| 4 | Usurped: You were overthrown by a member(s) of your pantheon - do the others even know you are alive? |
| 5 | Missing: You vanished one day, and no one knows why. |
Feature: Ancient Worshippers[edit]
You have advantage roles when working with those who serve your domain that recognize who you are and have no quarrel with your pantheon and/or you.
Alternate Feature: Scorn for the Banished[edit]
Worshippers of your old pantheon will disdain you, unless their own deities are also banished or outcasted in their pantheon.
Suggested Characteristics[edit]
| d8 | Personality Trait |
|---|---|
| 1 | I am burdened and sometimes nostalgic with the knowledge of the eras I have lived. |
| 2 | My life is about my domain, and everything goes through the lens of my domain. |
| 3 | I am particular about how my domain is represented, for better or worse. |
| 4 | I am nostalgic, missing the old days and my powers. |
| 5 | I am very flashy, as I should be for who I was. |
| 6 | I am scared and subtle - I don't think I was meant to survive my dethroning. |
| 7 | I am unsure who I am now. Mortality is a completely different thing. |
| 8 | I am a fountain of wisdom (real or otherwise) that I wish to share. |
| d6 | Ideal |
|---|---|
| 1 | L (Lawful) |
| 2 | f (<-Alignment->) |
| 3 | <-Ideal->. (<-Alignment->) |
| 4 | <-Ideal->. (<-Alignment->) |
| 5 | <-Ideal->. (<-Alignment->) |
| 6 | <-Ideal->. (<-Alignment->) |
| d6 | Bond |
|---|---|
| 1 | Loyalty: I will do whatever I can for those who still hold me in their hearts (Lawful) |
| 2 | Pride: I will take back my right no matter what (Neutral) |
| 3 | Vengeance: I will make everyone who turned on me pay (Evil) |
| 4 | Peace: I will walk among people, helping quietly (Good) |
| 5 | Service: My life is about my domain, and always will be (Lawful) |
| 6 | Reputation: Even if I am not recognized for who I was, my name will still mean what it must (Neutral) |
| d6 | Flaw |
|---|---|
| 1 | I crave the power I once had and will do anything to get it back. |
| 2 | I am so lost in my own mythology that I am unable to accept things might be different than they seem to me. |
| 3 | I am jealous of other deities who still get worshipped. |
| 4 | I burn myself out serving others because I forget my own new limitations. |
| 5 | My loyalties to my old life are too rigid to be based in reality. |
| 6 | As a deity, I was never wrong and am still never wrong. |
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