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Gruul Anarch

The entire world of Ravnica is a sprawling metropolis, but you are a native of the wild areas that still exist - the abandoned districts, the rubblebelts, the overgrown parks, and the crumbling ruins. You are part of a savage society that clings desperately to the Old Ways - attuned to nature, full of primal rage, and given short shrift by a world consumed with continuing civilization's march of progress.

Skill Proficiencies Animal Handling, Athletics
Tool Proficiencies Herbalism Kit
Languages Choose one of Draconic, Giant, Goblin, or Sylvan
Equipment
  • A Gruul insignia
  • A hunting trap
  • An herbalism kit
  • The skull of a boar
  • A beast-hide cloak
  • A set of traveler's clothes
  • A pouch containing 10gp

Features

Rubblebelt Refuge

You are intimately familiar with areas of the city that most people shun: ruined neighborhoods where wurms rampaged, overgrown parks that no hand has tended in decades, and the vast, sprawling rubblebelts of broken terrain that civilized folk have long abandoned. You can find a suitable place for you and your allies to hide or rest in these areas. In addition, you can find food and fresh water in these areas for yourself and up to five other people each day.

Gruul Guild Spells

Prerequisite: Spellcasting or Pact Magic class feature For you, the spells on the Gruul Guild Spells table are added to the spell list of your spellcasting class. (If you are a multiclass character with multiple spell lists, these spells are added to all of them.) Fueled by the fire of rage burning in your heart, your magic is almost always accompanied by fiery effects, such as flames smoldering behind your eyes or dancing over your hands.
Spell LevelSpell
Cantrip Fire Bolt, Produce Flame
1st Compelled Duel, Speak With Animals, Thunderwave
2nd Beast Sense, Shatter
3rd Conjure Animals, Conjure Barrage
4th Dominate Beast, Stoneskin
5th Destructive Wave

Suggested Characteristics

Gruul ways aren't the ways of civilized folk, and the Gruul have little patience for social niceties. But they do have cherished traditions and values, just as important to them as the different values held by the urban, cosmopolitan culture of Ravnica.

Traits

D8Personality Trait
1Unlike people, the beasts of the wild are friends who won't stab me in the back.
2Go ahead and insult me - I dare you.
3I scorn those who can't survive away from the comforts of the city.
4Don't tell me I'm not allowed to do something.
5Laws are for people who are afraid to face their inner beasts.
6I smear the blood of my enemies over my skin.
7I was, in fact, raised by maaka.
8HarrRRAAGGHH! (I rarely form a coherent sentence and prefer to express myself by breaking things.)

Ideal

D6Ideal
1Clan: My clan is all that really matters. (Any)
2Anarchy: No person or law or custom can tell another what to do. (Chaotic)
3Nature: We weren't born tame or domesticated, so we shouldn't have to live that way. (Neutral)
4Might: The strongest are meant to dominate the weak. (Evil)
5Rage: AAAAAARRRRggggh! (To live is to feel and express the rage burning in your belly.) (Chaotic)
6Tradition: The Old Ways must be preserved and upheld. (Any)

Bond

D6Bond
1I am determined that one day I will lead my clan - or a new one.
2I would give my life for my clan chieftain.
3The chieftain of another clan has a grudge against me.
4I am devoted to a sacred site in the midst of the rubblebelt.
5My weapon is made from the first raktusk I ever hunted.
6GrrrRRAAAAGGHH! (I will do anything to prove myself greater than my siblings or ancestors.)

Flaw

D6Flaw
1If you question my courage, I will never back down.
2HrrrGGGAAAARRuuuh! (My anger in battle led to the death of a loved one.)
3I'm as stubborn as a batterboar.
4I'm so convinced of my superiority over soft, civilized people that I'll take great risks to prove it.
5I'm easily manipulated by people I find attractive.
6I'm not actually all that angry.


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Ezrageric.

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