You are widely respected for your age, wisdom, and care. Whether as a healer, teacher, or spiritual guide, you served your community for so long and so well that your reputation has begun to travel beyond it. Many pilgrims, travelers, or former students have passed through your home and shared stories of you with others. Now, as you walk the wider world, you sometimes find familiar eyes or unexpected kindness from strangers who know your name—or whose lives you once touched indirectly.
Insight, Medicine
Herbalism Kit
One of your choice
A set of humble but well-kept robes, a satchel of dried herbs or minor remedies, a small book of collected wisdom or devotional writings, a walking stick or token of station (such as a wooden holy symbol or woven sash), and a belt pouch containing 10 gp.
Though you may never have left your homeland until now, your name—or the memory of your care—has. In places where travelers or pilgrims gather, there is some chance that someone has heard of you or benefited from your wisdom secondhand. These individuals may offer you small kindnesses: a warm place to rest, a simple meal, or news of a region. While this hospitality is never guaranteed, your presence often opens doors among common folk, clergy, and caretakers.
As a revered elder, your age and experience shape your perspective. You may be calm and nurturing, rigid and formal, or playful and disarming—whatever path your long life has carved for you.
- I share stories not to boast, but to teach.
- I’m slow to judge but even slower to forget.
- I greet strangers as if we’ve already met.
- My wisdom was earned at a cost, and I respect those still earning theirs.
- I often pause to enjoy simple things—birdsong, good food, quiet shade.
- I speak in parables or sayings, even when it’s not helpful.
- I never hurry, and I never worry when others do.
- I carry the memory of everyone I’ve helped—and everyone I couldn’t.
- Peace. Wherever I go, I try to ease pain and leave no harm behind. (Good)
- Tradition. I uphold the practices that nurtured me; they are my roots. (Lawful)
- Hope. I believe even the worst wounds—of the heart or the world—can be healed. (Neutral)
- Service. My gifts are not mine to keep; I exist to help others. (Good)
- Wisdom. Not all answers come quickly. I help others find their own path. (Any)
- Legacy. I want the stories people tell of me to guide those I’ll never meet. (Any)
- A student or child I raised still needs me—even if they don’t know it.
- I carry an heirloom or symbol of my old home that reminds me who I am.
- My community entrusted me with a final task I must see through.
- I seek to pass on my knowledge before it’s too late.
- Someone I once failed now suffers because of it.
- I’m followed—quietly—by those who want to learn from me, even uninvited.
- I sometimes mistake familiarity for trust.
- I see the best in others, even when I shouldn't.
- I cling to old ways, even when the world has moved on.
- I downplay my own needs until I collapse.
- I talk too much about the past—and act too little in the present.
- I fear becoming forgotten or irrelevant.