Raised in a convent

You grew up in a convent of a religion of your choosing. Whether it is a dark cult, a loving environment or a big library of multiple religions; you have grown up with religious knowledge or an ability to not draw attention to yourself to keep the abuse of the zealots of the convent away.

The convent has a specialty to keep the convent afloat to receive donations and they have used you as a worker. You have learned one skill in either Calligrapher's Supplies, Painter's Supplies or Weaver's Tools. You also have a side gig going on, approved by the convent or not, granting you one skill of the following: Tinker's Tools, Forgery Kit or Thieves' Tools.

You have also learned a language of the following choices: Abyssal, Celestial, Deep Speech, Draconic, Dwarvish, Elvish, Gnomish, Halfling, Infernal, Vedalken, Marquesian, Zemnian. Your accent may not be perfect but you can read it without any problem.

 

Skill Proficiencies: Religion or Stealth

Tool Proficiencies: Calligrapher's Supplies, Painter's Supplies or Weaver's Tools.

 

Languages: You learn one language of your choice between: Abyssal, Celestial, Deep Speech, Draconic, Dwarvish, Elvish, Gnomish, Halfling, Infernal, Vedalken, Marquesian or Zemnian  

Suggested Characteristics

Your time at the convent has traumatized or raised you up in more ways than one. It has instilled you with piety or a deep disdain of religion. 

d12	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.
9	I idolize a particular hero of my faith, and constantly refer to that person’s deeds and example.
10	I see omens in every event and action. The gods try to speak to us, we just need to listen.
11	I am tolerant (or intolerant) of other faiths and respect (or condemn) the worship of other gods.
12	I’ve spent so long in the temple that I have little practical experience dealing with people in the outside world.

d6	Ideal
1	Respect. All people, rich or poor, deserve respect. (Good)
2	Faith. I trust that my deity will guide my actions. I have faith that if I work hard, things will go well. (Lawful)
3	Change. We must help bring about the changes the gods are constantly working in the world. (Chaotic)
4	Retribution. The rich need to be shown what life and death are like in the gutters. (Evil)
5	Power. I hope to one day rise to the top of my faith’s religious hierarchy. (Lawful)
6	Aspiration. I seek to prove myself worthy of my god’s favor by matching my actions against his or her teachings. (Any)

d6	Bond
1	I would die to recover an ancient relic of my faith that was lost long ago.
2	I sponsor an orphanage to keep others from enduring what I was forced to endure.
3	I will someday get revenge on the corrupt temple hierarchy who branded me a heretic.
4	I owe a debt I can never repay to the person who took pity on me.
5	I seek to preserve a sacred text that my enemies consider heretical and seek to destroy.
6	No one else should have to endure the hardships I’ve been through.

d6	Flaw
1	I put too much trust in those who wield power within my temple’s hierarchy.
2	Gold seems like a lot of money to me, and I’ll do just about anything for more of it.
3	My piety sometimes leads me to blindly trust those that profess faith in my god.
4	I’d rather kill someone in their sleep than fight fair.
5	Once I pick a goal, I become obsessed with it to the detriment of everything else in my life.
6	People who can’t take care of themselves get what they deserve.