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Each dragonmark grants a set of abilities that
Although this mutilation is no longer practiced,
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such exiles are still called excoriates. If you’re an
dragonmarked race gives you a set of traits
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derived from the magic of your mark. If you
punishment. Were you a criminal? A charlatan?
are a spellcaster, your dragonmark also fuels or
Or perhaps a sage who engaged in forbidden
channels some of your spells. Each dragonmark’s
research?
description includes a list of dragonmark spells
Foundling. Your ancestors left the house
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long ago. You have no ties to the house and may
a character with the Spellcasting or the Pact
not have known you were connected by blood
Magic class feature, your dragonmark spells are
before you manifested your dragonmark. As an
added to the spell list for each of your spellcasting
outlander or an urchin you might know nothing
classes, thereby expanding the spell options
about the houses. As an acolyte or hermit, you
available to you.
could have put your faith ahead of worldly
You might also consider your dragonmark
things, choosing not to pursue a connection
the source of any or all of your spells or class
with the houses. Whatever you decide, this is an
features. As a cleric with the Mark of Healing,
opportunity to talk with your DM about the role
for example, you could say your mark is the
you’d like the house to play in a campaign. Do
sole source of the healing and supportive spells
you want them to be your enemy? Would you
you cast, or your magic might come from a
prefer to avoid them completely? Or do you want
combination of your mark’s power and your
to work your way into a position of power in the
faith in the gods. As a warlock, your aberrant
house, despite being an outsider?
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patron, the source of all your magic. These
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don’t change your character’s abilities, beyond
the dragonmark spells added to your spell list.
Over the centuries, the houses have developed
tools that enhance and channel the powers of a
mark, and these items give the houses much of
their economic power.

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