You have served the prison where you were hired, standing as its first line of defense against crime without most of people knowing your existence. You aren’t a soldier, your code of honor is less strict: your job is to prevent others from escaping, causing important troubles or compromising the integrity of the prison. This applied to everybody, may it be future accomplices outside the prison, guards or prisoners and you used any necessary means to accomplish your job. Your service to your prison was to help the guards maintaining order inside the prison from lawbreakers and malefactors silently and effectively.
You might have been part of the lawbreakers in the past, proposed your help for a salary, or were forced to do it, but decided to become the best of all in what you did. Maybe you come from a family that does this kind of work for generations, maybe you come from nothing and just wanted to repay your debts, only you knows.
Perhaps you did this in a precise goal, as saving someone confined in the deepest part of the prison. Or you wanted gold, fast without chances of getting arrested, working for the city in its shadow.
Even if you’re not city-born or city-bred, this background can describe your early years as a member of law enforcement. Most settlements of any size have their own prison and police forces.
- Skill Proficiencies: Chose two between Acrobatics, Stealth or Athletics and get Perception
- Tool Proficiencies: Choose any one tool.
- Languages:
- Equipment: A badge of your unit and indicative of your rank, often a very high and known rank to stay undercover while having a freedom of decision, a signal whistle or a horn with which to summon help, a set of manacles, a pair of costume clothes to stay incognito if needed and a pouch containing 10 gp
Your experience in enforcing the law, and dealing with lawbreakers with unorthodox methods, gives you a feel for local laws and criminals. You can easily find the local outpost related to the law, and just as easily pick out the dens of criminal activity in a community and is often welcome amongst them if they do not know your background. People who knows about your real job often see you as a pariah and refuses to help your get informations.
You also know how to travel inside a prison, even if it is the first time you are visiting it, you seem to have an uncanny ability to find secret passages inside a prison and to move exatly where you want to go the most effective way.
Spell List
| Spell Level | Spells |
|---|
Suggested Characteristics
| d8 | Personality Trait |
|---|---|
| 1 | I’m always polite and respectful. |
| 2 | I am always calm, no matter what the situation. I never raise my voice or let my emotions control me. |
| 3 | I’ve lost too many friends, and I’m slow to make new ones. |
| 4 | I am incredibly slow to trust. Those who seem the fairest often have the most to hide. |
| 5 | I can stare down a hell hound without flinching. |
| 6 | The quickest the job's done, the better. |
| 7 | I have a crude sense of humor. |
| 8 | I face problems head-on. A simple, direct solution is the best path to success. |
| d6 | Ideal |
|---|---|
| 1 | Respect. All people, rich or poor, deserve respect. (Good) |
| 2 | Responsibility. I do what I must and obey just authority. (Lawful) |
| 3 | Independence. When people follow orders blindly, they embrace a kind of tyranny. (Chaotic) |
| 4 | Might. In life as in war, the stronger force wins. (Evil) |
| 5 | People. I’m loyal to my teammates, trust in a group is paramount when you want the job's done with no deaths or captures. (Neutral) |
| 6 | Nation. My city, nation, or people are all that matter. (Any) |
| d6 | Bond |
|---|---|
| 1 | No one else should have to endure the hardships I’ve been through while I was in prison. |
| 2 | I owe my survival to another prisoner who taught me to live peacefully in prison. |
| 3 | I wasn't trained to be honorable, I was trained to get results. |
| 4 | I’ll never forget the prison break I let happen because of my inattention or the enemies who did it. |
| 5 | Something happened when I wasn't there, many lives have been taken. Retribution will come for them. |
| 6 | I fight for those who cannot fight for themselves. |
| d6 | Flaw |
|---|---|
| 1 | I turn tail and run when things look bad. |
| 2 | I’d rather kill someone in their sleep than fight fair. |
| 3 | I made a terrible mistake in battle that cost many lives, and I would do anything to keep that mistake secret. |
| 4 | Survivors are bound to recidivate, my blade shall not grant them mercy. |
| 5 | I obey the law, even if the law causes misery. |
| 6 | I’d rather eat my armor than admit when I’m wrong. |
Contacts
| d3 | Contact |
|---|---|
| 1 | Your superiors when working at the prison. |
| 2 | Criminal(s) that owe you. |
| 3 | Someone who knows your secret identity. |
| d3 | Non-contact |
|---|---|
| 1 | Someone you stopped from prison breaking. |
| 2 | A prisoner who tried to kill you |
| 3 | A member of a criminal organization who placed a bounty on your head |
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