Farmer

Farmers are perhaps one of the most common kinds of commoners in Magnula. Most work on a lord's estate, proving manual labour in exchange for housing and a small living wage. Others might own their own, smaller farmstead - where they survive through trade in the local town or village. In other cases, a farmer might work for a company, producing resources from the land in return for food, shelter, clothing, protection, and other benefits. Farmers focus on raising living things and harvesting various useful goods - mostly food - from the land. They make up the vast majority of the peasantry, alongside other raw resource producers, such as miners and fishermen. Farmers are a hearty, enduring folk. They work long hours under the sun or in the rain, often doing dirty, exhausting and sometimes downright disgusting work.

As a farmer, you were what most common folk are. Nevertheless there is still many ways in which farming can differ. Different places and countries specialise in different forms of agriculture and animal husbandry. Consider this when designed your character. How did you become a farmer, and for how long were you one? What did you do on your farm? Were you the landlord of the farm, or were you just a farmhand? And what caused you to leave that life behind? Was your home destroyed by war? Were you cast out for some crime? Did you flee taxes you could not pay? Were you called to join the Lord's army? Was your home stolen by an unscrupulous rival?

* **Skill Proficiencies -** Animal Handling and Nature.
* **Tool Proficiencies -** Land Vehicles and Farm Implements.
* **Equipment -** A farm implement (such as a pitchfork or shovel), a set of work clothes or common clothes, a wide brimmed hat, a sack containing 5 gp worth of trade goods, and a belt pouch containing 5 gp or 1d4+2 gp.

## **Farm Specialisation**

Not every farm is alike; there are a vast range of goods produced by farmers of different sorts, and nearly all farms focus on just one product or a limited group of products.

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## **Feature: Of the Land**

You lack the formal education of the higher classes, but for how little you may know there is a great deal that you understand. You have a practical, working knowledge of meteorology, and can easily track the time and date as well as predict the weather within a few hours, or days if you're lucky. You understand the "secrets of life"; the needs of life (water, light, air, salt, etc.), and the ecosystem-based connections between different plants and animals.

## **Suggested Characteristics**

Farmers are typically shaped by their difficult and labour-intensive lifestyles, but perhaps also the inherent simplicity of their lives. Perhaps this life has made them hard-working or lazy individuals. Maybe they have a practical mindset as a result of living such manual, practical lives. Also consider class dynamics and how that might influence a farmer. They might blindly trust those in a higher social position, or resent the nobility that prevents them from moving above their station.

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### **Bonds**

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### **Flaws**

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