A Cairn 2e Character

Johanna, Barber-Surgeon

You walk the line between healer and harrower, knowing the frailty of the flesh but also the secrets that lay within.
With the right tools, life and death are merely words.

STR DEX WIL HP Age
13 9 10 3 12

How have you “improved” yourself?
One of your fingers has been swapped, the bone replaced by gold and iron. Take a Hook and a Screwdriver that can attach to the fingertip.

What rare tool is essential to your work?
Pneuma Pump Portable iron lungs (bulky). Enables life-saving surgery, or underwater breathing.

Bounds
A white crow appeared to you in a dream, holding a twig in its mouth. You awoke the next morning with The Twig (petty) in your hand. You believe it brings you luck. It smells faintly of sulfur.

Omen (if youngest character in party)
There is a village known far and wide for its impressive “mother tree”, said to shelter the town’s secrets in its boughs. Recently, it has begun bleeding red sap, worrying the elders.

Starting gear
  • 3d6 Gold Pieces
  • Rations (3 uses)
  • Torch (3 uses)
  • Amputation Knife (d6)
  • Bandages (3 uses)
  • Leech (restores 1 STR, 3 uses)
  • Stained Medical Finery (petty)
Traits
Physique Burned
Skin Tattooed
Hair Filthy
Clothing Antique
Face Bony
Speech Stuttering
Virtue Ambitious
Vice Bitter