Roaring Bear (The Elven Warrior Houses, part 3)

Friends make some odd choices at times. Not necessarily bad choices, just odd ones. (They still also make stupid choices sometimes as well, but that's not what the intent of this little diatribe is.) One of the odd choices my friend made was the creation of the Roaring Bear house. Brawling, pro-wrestling elves didn't make a lot of sense to me. It's been kind of difficult to wrap my head around this house. Elves are not known for their brawn. They are known for their tie to nature and the fae, so that's kinda where I decided to go with this one. 

Roaring Bear (Raavea Morko)

Favored Weapons: Bare hands, natural weapons, hand axes, kama, and daggers.

One of the more obscure Warrior Houses, the Roaring Bears are rarely found in great numbers. Traveling alone, or with a single apprentice, Roaring Bears regularly travel from settlement to settlement, helping out the locals against what ever problems the travelers come across upon their arrival. Roaring Bears serve often as temporary advisers, healers, as well as defenders to the community that they decide to rest at, and as such are rarely turned away by a sane ruler. Their reputation is such that they frequently are found in a wide variety of settlements, regardless of the racial majority, promoting understanding and harmony with their elven neighbors and nature in general.

The most esoteric of Warrior Houses, they are more akin to a monk tradition more than a martial house. Roaring Bear training houses are never found inside a city. Instead, they are normally in deep forests, mountain valleys, or as a rest house at some out of the way oasis. Often, the only entry tests needed to join are to arrive at the Training House and prove your worth (which is understandably easier for some than others). Elven heritage has a strong weight on one's "worthy" but even having one-quarter elven blood is sometimes acceptable. Once granted entrance, the applicant begins the decades-long training required to become a Roaring Bear, learning both unarmed combat as well as the druidic abilities that give the order it's name. It is the only house that requires training as a specific classes before allowing an initiate to go out into the world.

Traditional Colors: Most Roaring Bears wear dark brown with silver and black accents, similar to the colors found on a grizzly bear.

Associated Classes: All Roaring bears have levels in either Druid, often with the Bear Shaman archetype, or Shaman with the Nature Spirit; and levels in Monks or Brawler.

Trait: Necessities of the Bear (Elf, Religious)- A druid member of the Roaring Bears can use monk weapons without violating their vows. A Roaring Bear can level both Monk and Druid without restriction, but only these two classes, and one or the other must be the favored class. Finally, a Roaring Bear is trained to care for themselves and others, they gain a +1 bonus to Heal and Survival checks. One of these skills is always considered a class skill.