Dungeons & Dragons 2024 (D&D) Background: Cometborn

Languages: Primordial and one other language of your choice

Cometborn are individuals born under the passing of a comet. The event magically changed them, instilling in them memories from before they were born. These memories are fragments of various events and people that existed in the world in some of the previous times the comet passed overhead. Cometborn are aware these memories are not their own but find comfort in the memories nonetheless. They often turn to these memories in times of stress or uncertainty, seeking—and often finding—answers to their current plight. This connection to the past makes cometborn seem “wise beyond their years” and leads many to lives of historical study or to advisory roles among their peers. This connection also gives cometborn an innate sense of people, able to read others and easily detect patterns in behavior.

Features

Fragments of the Past

Memories of the past fill your mind, always within easy reach should you need them. Whenever you face a difficult decision or great uncertainty, you can look to these memories for an answer. The answer might come in short flashes or glimpses into a similar situation viewed or experienced by someone in the past, but the answer is never a clear direction for the decision you must make. The memories provide you with a sensation of hope, foreboding, tranquility, despair, joy, indifference, or similar emotion around your planned course of action, hinting that the plan might lead to positive, negative, positive and negative, or neutral results. You can consult your ancient memories in this way no more than onceevery 24 hours.

Suggested Motivations

The memory fragments in the cometborn’s mind often leave them feeling apart from those around them, as they know and understand things they shouldn’t or that others take years to learn. As a result, some cometborn tend toward being charismatic and gregarious, overcompensating for any awkwardness they feel they might exhibit, while others become paranoid and reclusive, shutting themselves off from others to avoid being hurt.
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