Shaman
You stand in the middle of the forest and breathe deeply. You can smell nature around you and in that smell is the smell of power. The earth beneath your feet grumbles as it moves slowly and in that sound is a million years of stories. The wind whips your hair and tickles your fur as it shares the news of an upcoming storm. The babbling brook is clean and pure and you know the mountains are melting their rich ice caps. And fire, ah yes, there it is, miles away crackling in the thunderhead clouds as lightning. A creature stalks out into the clearing and eyes you hungrily. You eye it back, fearless. It lunges forward and with barely a movement of your ringed fingers, vines erupt from the ground and wrap around the creatures legs dragging it to the ground. You can feel the vines and the hungry monster warring deep within your soul. The unquiet of the forest around you make your hair stand on end. You sigh and with a barely audible whisper you inform the beast of a meal 300 yards east that it really should chase. The vines unravel and the slathering beast takes off past you, unaware of what you’ve done. You breathe deeply and return to peace.
Role
Shamans are excellent guides, scouts, and lookouts for the tribe. Able to be more independent thanks to their connection to the land, they have a good intuition on how to navigate areas far afield and, most critically, when to go no further.
Initiation Rites
| Rite | Description |
|---|---|
| Rare encounter | A creature of magic came to you and gifted you with the seed of knowledge, a glimpse into the arcane. You know forge your own path to uncover the mysteries of magic. |
| Raised by Nature | You were abandoned to the wilderness at a young age. A beast took you in as her young and raised you on how to survive. Later in life you found your way to a tribe of Homon. It was at first terrifying but you found out how to integrate yourself. Nature always calls you though. |
Bonus Health Pool: 1d8
Class Features
Primal Ritual
In order to acquire their arcane focus, the shaman must attune, or create a link, with the land around them. They must spend one day in meditation and solitude with the land. Before the ritual ends, they must create a ritual space for the land to create the arcane focus it will gift to them. The focus will have features of the land, its resources, flora, and fauna. Destroyed focuses, or ones no longer desired, should be returned to the earth somehow, even if its not the original location the focus was drawn from.
Commune with the land
While maintaining contact with land they have attuned for one minute, a shaman can use a variety of divination techniques to obtain information about local resources and dangers, as well as any recent events. This effect can lasts up to 1 minute* the caster's empathy bonus.
Class Skills
Shamans start with a +1 in the following skills: Geology (CNG), Biology (CNG), Harvesting (RES), Tracking (Wis), Husbandry (EMP), Craft (DEX)
