So many types of organizations were active across the face of Faerûn and also in the north are not bound by the structures of geography. Basically, these types of factions could pursue all of their agendas without be regarding for political boundaries, and also their members can be operated at anywhere organization deems necessary. These types of groups can employ the listeners, rumormongers, smugglers, sellswords, cache-holders (also the people who guard caches of wealth or magic for use by the faction’s operatives), haven keepers, and also the message drop minders, to name a few.
At each and every core of the factions are those whoever don’t merely fulfill the small function for that specific organization, but those whoever serve like its hands, head, and heart.
Like a prelude for your adventuring career (and also in preparation for it), you served like an agent of any specific faction in Faerûn. You might have been operated either openly or else secretly, by depending on the faction and its goals, as like as how such goals could be mesh with your own. Basically, by becoming an adventurer does not necessarily require you for relinquish membership in your faction (though you can choose to do so), and also it might have enhanced all of your status in the faction.
Skill Proficiencies
Insight and one Intelligence, Wisdom, or Charisma skill of your choice, as appropriate to your faction
Tool Proficiencies
None
Languages
Two of your choice
Equipment
Badge or emblem of your faction, a copy of a seminal faction text (or a code-book for a covert faction), a set of common clothes, and a pouch containing 15 gp
Suggested Characteristics
You have to use the tables of dnd acolyte background like the basis for all of your traits and even motivations, by modifying the entries whenever it appropriate to suit your identity (For an instance, consider the words “faith” and “faction” to be interchangeable.)
Bond
| D6 | Bond Options |
|---|---|
| 1 | I would die to recover an ancient relic of my faith that was lost long ago. |
| 2 | I will someday get revenge on the corrupt temple hierarchy who branded me a heretic. |
| 3 | I owe my life to the priest who took me in when my parents died. |
| 4 | Everything I do is for the common people. |
| 5 | I will do anything to protect the temple where I served. |
| 6 | I seek to preserve a sacred text that my enemies consider heretical and seek to destroy. |
Ideal
| D6 | Ideal Options |
|---|---|
| 1 | Tradition; The ancient traditions of worship and sacrifice must be preserved and upheld. (Lawful) |
| 2 | Charity; I always try to help those in need, no matter what the personal cost. (Good) |
| 3 | Change; We must help bring about the changes the gods are constantly working in the world. (Chaotic) |
| 4 | Power; I hope to one day rise to the top of my faith’s religious hierarchy. (Lawful) |
| 5 | Faith; I trust that my deity will guide my actions. I have faith that if I work hard, things will go well. (Lawful) |
| 6 | Aspiration; I seek to prove myself worthy of my god’s favor by matching my actions against his or her teachings. (Any) |
Flaw
| D6 | Options For Flaw |
|---|---|
| 1 | I judge others harshly, and myself even more severely. |
| 2 | I put too much trust in those who wield power within my temple’s hierarchy. |
| 3 | My piety sometimes leads me to blindly trust those that profess faith in my god. |
| 4 | I am inflexible in my thinking. |
| 5 | I am suspicious of strangers and expect the worst of them. |
| 6 | Once I pick a goal, I become obsessed with it to the detriment of everything else in my life. |
Personality Traits
| D8 | Personality Traits Options |
|---|---|
| 1 | I idolize a particular hero of my faith, and constantly refer to that person’s deeds and example. |
| 2 | I can find common ground between the fiercest enemies, empathizing with them and always working toward peace. |
| 3 | I see omens in every event and action. The gods try to speak to us, we just need to listen. |
| 4 | Nothing can shake my optimistic attitude. |
| 5 | I quote (or misquote) sacred texts and proverbs in almost every situation. |
| 6 | I am tolerant (or intolerant) of other faiths and respect (or condemn) the worship of other gods. |
| 7 | I’ve enjoyed fine food, drink, and high society among my temple’s elite. Rough living grates on me. |
| 8 | I’ve spent so long in the temple that I have little practical experience dealing with people in the outside world. |
Your bond might also been associated with some other members any of your faction, or else a location or otherwise an object which is much important to your faction. One of the ideals which you have striven for its perhaps in keeping with the tenets and also the principles of your faction, but it might be more personal in nature.
Feature: Safe Haven
Being a d&d 5e faction agent background, you have free access for a secret network of the supporters and also some of the operatives those who can provide some assistance on your adventures. You always know the set of secret signs and also passwords which you can use to identify such types of operatives, those who ever can provide you with an access such as for a hidden safe house, free room and board, or assistance in finding the information. These kind of agents never do risk their valuable lives for you or else risk revealing their true identities.
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Feature: Factions of the Sword Coast
As per this factions of the sword coast feature the lack of large, and also the centralized governments in the side of north and even along the sword coast which is like to be directly responsible for the proliferation of secret societies and also some of the conspiracies in such lands. Suppose, if your background is almost like an agent for one of the important factions of the north and also the sword coast, from below lines we tried to mention some possibilities.
The Harpers: It has been founded many years ago its almost been millennium ago, disbanded and also reorganized many times, the Harpers would remain be powerful behind-the-scenes agency, which would actually act to the wart evil and then promote fairness via knowledge, rather than the brute force. Normally, these harper agents are frequently proficient in the investigation, by simply enabling them to be adept at the snooping and spying too. They frequently seek aid from some other harpers, sympathetic bards and also by the innkeepers, rangers, and the clergy of gods that are aligned with the Harpers’ ideals.
The Order of the Gauntlet: As per this feature one of the newest power groups in the Faerûn, normally the order of the Gauntlet has their own agenda which is almost similar to that type of Harpers. Basically, all its methods are closely different, although: bearers of those gauntlet are the holy warriors on the righteous quest to the crush evil and also they do promote their justice, and also even they never ever hide in the shadows. All the order agents pretended to be proficient in the Religion, and also oftenly seek their aid from the law enforcement friendly to the order’s ideals, and the clergy of the order’s patron gods.
The Emerald Enclave: Maintaining a specific balance in the natural order and also it combating the forces which has threaten that balance like it is the twofold goal of a Emerald Enclave. Those whoever serve a faction are the masters of a survival and also it is living off the land. They are frequently proficient in the nature and of course they can frequently seek to get assistance from the woodsmen, hunters, rangers, barbarian tribes, druid circles, and also the priests who ever revere to the gods of nature.
The Lords’ Alliance: On a specific level, some of the agents of the Lords’ Alliance are the best representatives of some cities and also some other governments which are constituting the alliance. Al though being a faction with many interests and also by concerns which is transcend to local politics and by the geography, actually the alliance has its personal cadre of the individuals those who ever work on the behalf of the organizations, and also wider agenda. Mostly the alliance agents are almost required to be knowledgeable in the History, and even it can always be rely on the aid of the governments which are part of an Alliance, even the other leaders also the other groups those who uphold the Alliance’s ideals.
The Zhentarim: Mostly in this recent years the Zhentarim became more appearable in this world at a huge glance, but as the group of team works for improving its reputation among this common people. Basically, the faction could draws the employees and also the associates from many types of walks of the life, even setting them to tasks which serve the goals of a black network but they are not necessarily been a criminal in the nature. Also their agents of the Black Network should be frequently working in a secret and also they are frequently be proficient even in the Deception. They always seek to be aid from the different kinds of wizards, mercenaries, merchants and priesthoods allied with the Zhentarim.