Memory-less

You are any humanoid race. You are not sure of who you are, you name, family, life story or otherwise. All you have are the clothes you are wearing and the notion of some memories. You just woke up one day in; (choose one)

1. A field, bloody and surrounded by bodies dressed similarly to yourself (heavy iron armor).

2. A forest, surrounded by all manner of creatures that quickly left when you began to stir (leather armor).

3. A house, or rather the remains of one. All but the bed you lay on and the north wall is burnt to the ground (Commoner clothes).

4. Underground. You recall clawing your way to the surface on instinct, the will to live taking over any rational thoughts you had as you awoke (ceremonial chain-mail armor).

You have scars all along your body. Maybe you were a soldier, you can’t remember. Now you set off, in search of something or someone who could tell you.

(the only possible classes this background is good for is barbarian, fighter, paladin, rouge)

 

 

 

Skill Proficiencies: After some hunting with an item you found, you found you are pretty good at using it: (choose one to have advantage on when using)

1. Spear

2. Long bow

3. Javelin 

4. Throwing knives

5. War pick

You have a keen sense of hearing, perhaps from years of honing it? (You have 13 passive perception no matter what)

 

 

Tool Proficiencies: Any basic medicine/ healing kit

Languages: (Up to five of any languages not including common (that is not abyssial or celestial) but you must first come in contact with speakers of those languages to realize)

Equipment: If you woke up in a battle field, you have heavy metal armor and a bloody sword in your hand. You can scavenge some money (8 silver pieces) off the bodies around you and a map, plus the weapon you used to hunt which you found lying around.

If you woke up in a forest, you have leather armor, the weapon you used to hunt which was in your hand, and a bag of various items: a gem amulet, an iridescent purple cloth, a golden goblet, a rose hair clip, a knife with a bone handle and gold end-cap, a bottle with some sort of dark liquid inside, some different coins (18 silver and 3 gold).

If you woke up in the burnt down house you have common clothes, the weapon you used to hunt which you found lying in the yard, some coins you found after digging through the ash (7 gold), a picture. The edges are burnt, but you can tell it’s a pretty woman and a young boy (of any humanoid race). You have some minor burns you must treat…

If you woke under ground, you have the gold-encrusted armor and a similar sword strapped around you waste. There is a dead rose in your hand…

 

 

Suggested Characteristics

You respect life in all its forms. You find no reason to hate any particular type of beast or race because you have no memory of a reason to or ever doing so.

You find you like your solitude. Maybe because that’s because you’ve forgotten how to be around people, or maybe you were always this way.

You feel like you’d be quick on your feet in a fight, and you know how to defend yourself.

You are wary of others. You don’t know who to trust, and your can’t even trust yourself.

You prefer quiet over noise.

You don’t like needles violence, however if someone is getting into a fight over say a spilt drink then that’s none of your business, no matter how violent it gets.

You like animals. Their company is slightly better than that of the races, anyway.

You don’t like crowds. They make you nervous and on edge.

You always have a plan prepared to deal with any sort of situation whether you know it or not.

You don’t like to argue or get into confrontations, so you are not prideful. Getting defensive will only make a conflict worse.

You have no preference religion wise. It’s of no consequence to you really. You can’t remember ever following one.

You have zero preference on food.

You are perfectly fine living on little.

You have nightmares/dreams often, but usually forget them in the morning.

You have no gag reflex. That is, it seems difficult to gross you out.

Although you don’t like getting into fights, if you come across something that is just wrong in every way you will do what you can to prevent it. ESPECIALLY if a child is involved. No kid should have to suffer like that.

You have a special place in your heart reserved for hating “fakes”, or people who pretend to be better someone they are not or are better at something then they actually are. Why though, you have no idea.

You like unpredictability. If someone is predicable then they are either naive or hiding their true intentions, and both are equally dangerous.