What ever your life was before you were captured is in the distant past, perhaps lost to memory or scoured from the material plane. You were once enslaved and forced to work for your captors until you were rescued, escaped or were freed. Slavery can take many forms, from chattel work forced into doing back breaking labour to indentured servants relatively well cared for. Regardless you learned how to read your masters mood and desires in order to survive until the day you were freed. You may not have much to start with but you do have your freedom and that is what matters most.
- Skill Proficiencies: Insight
- Languages: One language spoken by your masters
- Equipment: A small knife, a set of common clothes, and a pouch containing 10 gp
Time spent in servitude has taught you how to appear as insignificant as possible, leaving you barely noticed in plain sight. You have advantage on Dexterity (Stealth) and Disguise Checks so long as those you are trying to fool are not actively looking for you. This applies to Disguise Checks performed to help an ally hide. This only applies if you are trying to pass yourself off as a regular citizen or household staff.
Suggested Characteristics
Liberated Slaves yearn to remain free and may be dedicated to helping others avoid their fate, though their traumatic past may have soured them towards others.
| 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 slave who taught me to live in chains. |
| 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. |
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