Heroic Backgrounds: Cults of Faerun

Backgrounds for Cultist Characters

            There are many different reasons why someone might want to play a character with a background in a cult. It can provide story hooks that lead to interesting side quests, it can present moral quandaries when they are forced to choose between their past faith and their current mission, and it can simply serve to add an air of dark mystery to a character, to name just a few. Faerun is rich with secret societies, orders, and other cult-like organizations, each of which could easily provide a background on their own.

            This book provides three new backgrounds for player characters, each based on a cult or secret society from the Faerun campaign setting. Included are backgrounds for the cult of the dragon, the cult of shared suffering, and the cult of the howling peak.