You used to be a slave living under squalid conditions. While this has taught you some useful handicraft, it has also shaped your perception of the world as a hostile and unfair one. You are used to doing extreme physical chores, day after day, with no reward. You can push your body to limits that most people haven't even dreamed of, and you probably have scars and mental trauma to show for it.

Sometime during your enslavement, you managed to find your way to freedom. Maybe your freedom was granted to you by your previous master, or you could have gotten it by means of a stealthy escape or violent rebellion. Whichever way you gained your freedom, you intend to keep it. There are many things you want to accomplish in life, and none of them involve being someone else's puppet.

You start your adventuring career with food and equipment that will enable you to survive on your own. This equipment may have belonged to your previous master once, or you might have acquired it after your life in slavery. What are your intentions with your newfound freedom? Do you intend to enjoy the most of it, or do you have unfinished business with your former slaver?

 

 

Skill Proficiencies: Deception, Insight, Medicine, Nature, Performance, Stealth, Survival

Tool Proficiencies: Jeweler's Tools, Mason's Tools, Smith's Tools, Carpenter's Tools, Cobbler's Tools, Cook's Utensils, Glassblower's Tools, Leatherworker's Tools, Potter's Tools, Weaver's Tools, Woodcarver's Tools.

Equipment: A small knife, manacles you have kept from your time in slavery, a [Tooltip Not Found], a set of common clothes, and a pouch containing 10 gp

Suggested Characteristics

Slaves are shaped by lives of hardship or abuse. While some select few slaves might have lived in luxury, most of them have lived under physical conditions that other people haven't even dreamed of.

Freed slaves are as varied as they are many. While some slaves wish to never look back on their past life in misery, others seek a furious vengeance for how they were treated in the past.

d8	Personality Trait
1	I hide scraps of food and trinkets away in my pockets.
2	I ask a lot of questions.
3	I like to squeeze into small places where no one else can get to me.
4	I sleep with my back to a wall or tree, with everything I own wrapped in a bundle in my arms.
5	I eat like a pig and have bad manners.
6	I think anyone who’s nice to me is hiding evil intent.
7	I don’t like to bathe.
8	I bluntly say what other people are hinting at or hiding.

d6	Ideal
1	Respect. All people, rich or poor, deserve respect. (Good)
2	Community. We have to take care of each other, because no one else is going to do it. (Lawful)
3	Change. The low are lifted up, and the high and mighty are brought down. Change is the nature of things. (Chaotic)
4	Retribution. The rich need to be shown what life and death are like in the gutters. (Evil)
5	People. I help the people who help me — that’s what keeps us alive. (Neutral)
6	Aspiration. I’m going to prove that I’m worthy of a better life.

d6	Bond
1	My town or city is my home, and I’ll fight to defend it.
2	I sponsor an orphanage to keep others from enduring what I was forced to endure.
3	I owe my survival to another urchin who taught me to live on the streets.
4	I owe a debt I can never repay to the person who took pity on me.
5	I escaped my life of poverty by robbing an important person, and I’m wanted for it.
6	No one else should have to endure the hardships I’ve been through.

d6	Flaw
1	If I’m outnumbered, I will run away from a fight.
2	Gold seems like a lot of money to me, and I’ll do just about anything for more of it.
3	I will never fully trust anyone other than myself.
4	I’d rather kill someone in their sleep than fight fair.
5	It’s not stealing if I need it more than someone else.
6	People who can’t take care of themselves get what they deserve.