It's fairly vague and not to heavy on crunch. What it can do exactly I'll leave up to you since I'm not sure what all would come up in your campaign and I'm sure you know better than I do.
I tried to write it fairly system agnostic but there might be some villains and vigilantes specific terms in there since that's what I play.
Full disclosure, a lot of this is borrowed from the Farscape character Stark.
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| I've been watching the show a lot lately. |
Psychopomp: The character has a natural connection to the dead and dying.
This ability can be used to see the souls of the recently deceased as well as spirits that roam the earth and refuse to leave.
Ghosts, ghouls and other haunts can hide themselves from the psychopomp but he can find them with a detect hidden check, an attack as mind control, or whatever search system you prefer.
Psychopomps are able to detect when a person is close to death and can guide a dying person to their afterlife if they are in close physical proximity.
This does not hasten the dying process but instead gives the individual spiritual peace and a death without pain. In return the Psychopomp receives a spiritual "echo" from the person. This echo is a limited copy of the person's essence and has their thoughts, memories, skills and emotions compounded. Psychopomp's can access these echoes for their own means. Not everything in the person's mind will be available however and generally the better a Psychopomp is at guiding the person to peace the more likely they will find what they want in the spiritual echo.
The full limits of a Psychopomp's abilities are unknown. They are often highly skilled at exorcising spirits still haunting the earth, dealing with all kinds of intangible enemies, and finding the shortcuts that connect between the realms of the living and the dead.
Due to their connection to death, Psychopomp's have been known to experience mental trauma when close to mass slaughter.
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