## Samsaran

### Like the Sky and the Stream
Mysterious humanoids with pale blue flesh and transparent blood like the waters of a trickling brook, samsarans are ancient creatures even in their youth. A samsaran’s life is not a linear progression from birth to death, but rather a circle of birth to death to rebirth. Whenever a samsaran dies, it reincarnates anew as a young samsaran to live a new life. Their past memories remain vague and indistinct—and each new incarnation is as different a creature and personality as a child is to a parent. Samsarans appear similar to humans, with dark hair and solid white eyes with no pupils or irises with skin tones generally shades of light blue.
### Cyclical Nature
Samsarans prefer to live simple lives of reflection, scholarship, and worship. They try to live their lives free of the ambitions and greed that mortality often imposes, since they view their lives as only the latest incarnation of many 
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to come. Any accomplishments left undone in this current life can surely be achieved in the next, or the one after that. Samsarans’ memories of their past lives are not complete—they most often feel like half-remembered dreams. Samsarans can give birth, yet they do not give birth to samsarans—instead, they birth human children. Typically, samsarans give up their children not long after birth to be raised in human society, where the children grow and live their lives normally. Upon death, such offspring sometimes reincarnate as samsaran children, if they lived their lives in keeping with harmony. While most samsarans who die also reincarnate as samsaran children, this is not always the case. When a samsaran has utterly failed at maintaining harmony in their current life, or when they have succeeded perfectly at it, their soul instead travels to the Great Beyond to receive its final, long-delayed reward or doom.
### Samsaran Names
Samsarans do not keep family names, but often retain the names of their previous one or two incarnations, regardless of gender, as a sort of replacement for a family name to honor their previous lives’ accomplishments or to remind them of their past shames.

**Male Names.** Agyen, Bakji, Dakash, Henar, Puran, Sonan, Thukten

**Female Names.** Chimi, Mindu, Nalita, Rema, Sonitri, Treeni, Yeshing

### Samsaran Traits
Your Samsaran character has a series of natural abilities as a result of constant reincarnation.

**Ability Score Increase.** Your Wisdom score increases by 2 an your Intelligence score increases by 1.

**Age.** Samsaran have a different view of age. They live for about a century, afterwhich they reincarnate.

**Alignment.** Samsarans often edge toward a lawful good alignment, somewhat reflective of their cyclical nature.

**Size.** Samsarans stand between 5 and 6 feet tall. Your size is medium.

**Speed.** Your base walking speed is 30.

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**Darkvision.** You can see in dim light within 60 feet of you as if it were bright light, and in darkness as if it were dim light. You can't discern color in darkness, only shades of gray.

**Lifebound.** It is in your nature to live as long as possible to learn all that you can. You have advantage on death saving throws.

**Shards of the Past.** Your past lives grant you uncanny knowledge and ability. You gain proficiency in two skills of your choice.

**Samsaran Magic.** You know the *spare the dying* cantrip. When you reach 3rd level, you can cast the *comprehend languages* spell once once per day. When you reach 5th level, you can cast the *detect thoughts* spell once per day. Wisdom is your spellcasting ability for these spells.

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## Samsaran Feats
This section includes two feats for you to explore the nature of your samsaran character further when you gain levels.

### Life's Blood
*Prerequisite: Samsaran*

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Your blood flows with eternal life, and its healing powers allow you use it to heal others. As an action, you can perform a special bloodletting ritual to heal others. You take 1d4 necrotice damage and one creature you touch regains a number of hit points equal to twice the necrotic damage you take.

A creature can regain hit points from this spell once per long rest.

### Uncanny Recollection
*Prerequisite: Samsaran, 5th level*

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You share a powerful connection with one of your previous incarnations, granting you access to their abilities. Choose a class feature besides the Spellcasting feature that is available at 1st level from a class that you haven't taken any levels in. You gain that class feature as if you had a single level in that class.

If you take levels in that class later, you don't gain a second instance of the chosen class feature.

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> ##### Art Credits 
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> **Seeker of Enlightenment** by Earl-Graey https://www.deviantart.com/earl-graey/art/Seeker-of-Enlightenment-733216306

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