{"name":"Harrowing Event","description":"Prior to becoming an adventurer, your path in life was defined by one dark moment, one fateful decision, or one tragedy. Now you feel a darkness threatening to consume you, and you fear there may be no hope of escape. Choose a harrowing event that haunts you, or roll one on the Harrowing Events table.","tabledata":"[b]d10[\/b]|[b]Event[\/b]\r\n1|A monster that slaughtered dozens of innocent people spared your life, and you don't know why.\r\n2|You were born under a dark star. You can feel it watching you, coldly and distantly. Sometimes it beckons you in the dead of night.\r\n3|An apparition that has haunted your family for generations now haunts you. You don't know what it wants, and it won't leave you alone.\r\n4|Your family has a history of practicing the dark arts. You dabbled once and felt something horrible clutch at your soul, whereupon you fled in terror.\r\n5|An oni took your sibling one cold, dark night, and you were unable to stop it.\r\n6|You were cursed with lycanthropy and later cured. You are now haunted by the innocents you slaughtered.\r\n7|A hag kidnapped and raised you. You escaped, but the hag still has a magical hold over you and fills your mind with evil thoughts.\r\n8|You opened an eldritch tome and saw things unfit for a sane mind. You burned the book, but its words and images are burned into your psyche.\r\n9|A fiend possessed you as a child. You were locked away but escaped. The fiend is still inside you, but now you try to keep it bottled up.\r\n10|You did terrible things to avenge the murder of someone you loved. You became a monster, and it haunts your waking dreams.","tags":"background, haunted, one, harrowing, event","isShared":"on","templateId":"1","blockId":"1460278","world":"530aafb2-caa4-4d5e-af66-d2ddc6ec6d27","folder":"28995"}