As a youth you were apprenticed to an artisan, and learned all the skills and secrets of a particular craft.  

You are proficient in a particular craft skill and the use of the tools in that craft.   You completed your journeyman's project and are able to produce quality work, but for reasons of your own, elected not to sit the master's exam and are not enrolled in the guild.

Skill Proficiencies: History, Insight

Tool Proficiencies: One type of artisan’s tools

Languages: You know one of the following languages:  Dwarven,  Gnomish,  Elven,   Loxodon,  Marquesian 

Equipment: A set of artisan’s tools with which you are proficient, a set of traveler’s clothes, and a pouch containing 5 gp and a gem worth 10 gp

Suggested Characteristics

Use the tables for the guild artisan background below as the basis for your traits and motivations, modifying the entries when appropriate to suit your identity as a clan crafter. (For instance, consider the words “guild” and “clan” to be interchangeable.)

Your bond is almost certainly related to the master or the clan that taught you, or else to the work that you produce. Your ideal might have to do with maintaining the high quality of your work or preserving the dwarven traditions of craftsmanship.

d7	Personality Trait
1	I am proud of my skills, and enoy doing my own repairs and upgrades when possible.
2	I believe that anything worth doing is worth doing right. I can’t help it—I’m a perfectionist.
3	The fact that I don't have my master's credentials is a bit of a sore spot with me.
4	I always want to know how things work and what makes people tick.
5	I love "talking shop" with other professionals in my field.
6	I like to talk at length about my profession.
7	I don't care what something costs, as long as its quality is worth the price.

d6	Ideal
1	Aspiration: I work hard to be the best there is at my craft. (Any)
2	Community. It is the duty of all civilized people to strengthen the bonds of community and the security of civilization. (Lawful)
3	Generosity. My talents were given to me so that I could use them to benefit the world. (Good)
4	Freedom. Everyone should be free to pursue his or her own livelihood. (Chaotic)
5	Greed. I’m only in it for the money. (Evil)
6	People. I’m committed to the people I care about, not to ideals. (Neutral)

d6	Bond
1	The workshop where I learned my trade is the most important place in the world to me.
2	I created a great work for someone, and then found them unworthy to receive it. I’m still looking for someone worthy.
3	I owe my guild a great debt for forging me into the person I am today.
4	I pursue wealth to secure someone’s love.
5	One day I will return to my guild and prove that I am the greatest artisan of them all.
6	I will get revenge on the evil forces that destroyed my place of business and ruined my livelihood.

d6	Flaw
1	I'm never satisfied with what I have― I always want more.
2	I’ll do anything to get my hands on something rare or priceless.
3	I’m quick to assume that someone is trying to cheat me.
4	No one must ever learn that I once stole money from guild coffers.
5	I would kill to acquire a noble title.
6	I’m horribly jealous of anyone who can outshine my handiwork. Everywhere I go, I’m surrounded by rivals.