Orphan of the Mourning (Eberron)

Either as a result of the Last War raging in Cyre, or of the Mourning itself, you lost your home and family and have spent a year or more outside the borders of the Mournland, or perhaps in a refugee camp in New Cyre. You may or may not be aware of family friends or relatives elsewhere in Khorvaire. Four years after the Mourning, you are either still in the camp/woods, or are in search of a new home and family.

Skill Proficiencies: Survival proficiency - can be applied to any ability of the player's choice including Constitution; and any one other skill

Tool Proficiencies: Choose any one tool set, kit or instrument and describe in your back story how you learned use it

Languages: One standard language of your choice. You picked up this language by talking to a fellow refugee.

Equipment: Backpack, blanket, small knife, mess kit, waterskin, 3 candles, and a single trinket, toy or other item of your choice from your home/family

Suggested Characteristics

D8  Personality Trait

1. I am the child of a (dead) high-ranking or influential figure in Cyre. I have a relative in another city who is looking for me.
2. I can't remember anything from before I came to the refugee camp in New Cyre.
3. I am so obsessed with being reunited with my family that I hear their voices in my head and have vivid dreams about them.
4. I've been in a refugee camp for awhile. I am reaching adolescence, and a dragonmark has just appeared on me.
5. I barely escaped my burning house during a terrible battle, and made it out of Cyre just days before the Mourning.
6. I and two friends or siblings from Cyre are surviving together in the wilderness, having narrowly escaped Cyre on the night before the Mourning.
7. I was traveling with my family to Sharn from Cyre when the Mourning happened. We were attacked by bandits, and my parents were killed but I escaped.
8. I was in the refugee camp, but a relative came to get me and I now live with them.

D6 Ideal

1. Love. I want to give and receive succor and kindness. (Good)
2. Order. The best world is one where things are stable and predictable. (Lawful)
3. Freedom. I love being my own person and out from under the tyranny of my old life. (Chaotic)
4. Power. I have to be tough to survive, and will do whatever it takes. (Evil)
5. Family. I most value the thing I have lost. (Neutral)
6. Hope. I believe tomorrow will be better. (Any)

d6  Bond

1. I owe my life to the person who brought me to the refugee camp.
2. I must discover who caused the Mourning and have revenge on them.
3. I am obligated to protect my younger sibling in the absence of our parents.
4. I believe the Mourning is somehow my own fault or the fault of my family.
5. My family was the most important thing to me and I need to find them.
6. There is something in the Mournland that I need to get back.

d6  Flaw

1. I am utterly miserable and overwhelmed with grief over the Mourning, even after all these years. I cry constantly.
2. I hated my family and my old life, but I'm afraid to admit it to anyone.
3. I've already been so close to death so many times, I'm completely reckless.
4. In my years in the wilderness, I've eaten several poisonous plants and am now somewhat sickly and a little bit funny in the head. 
5. I was a sheltered child, and I never learned how to swim, way-find, or use tools.
6. I feel compelled to steal things -- even things I don't need -- in the name of "survival".