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Shadow War Survivor

Caught up in decades of clandestine faction warfare fought through a scholarly society, as agent or bystander, sharpens political instinct.

common

Granted Features

Automatic:

Deep local ties let a street-smart operator swap Diplomacy for Society to work contacts and pull rumors from a familiar settlement.

A grasp of etiquette, law, and civic history helps a character scrape by in an unfamiliar city and make sense of written records.

Countless factions have fought for influence in Absalom for millennia, and for decades these groups worked through the Pathfinder Society to better control the City at the Center of the World. Perhaps you were ones of these agents who clashed with other operatives during the so-called Shadow War. Or you might have been an unintended victim of these clandestine clashes, inspiring you to join the Society and stop the conflict from within. Whatever the reason, navigating the Shadow War has left you politically savvy and informed.

Choose two attribute boosts. One must be to Wisdom or Charisma, and one is a free attribute boost.

You're trained in the Society skill and the Absalom Lore skill. You gain the skill feat.

Special You can select this background only if you have earned credit for at least 5 First Edition scenarios from Season 1 of the Pathfinder Society organized play campaign.

Boosts CHA, WIS

Trained Society · Lore Absalom Lore