You were once a companion to an important person - either as their servant, apprentice, spouse, child, or domesticated pet - but your value to them has all but disappeared. Whether you had a falling-out with your former companion, or they simply forgot about you over time, you've had to make your own way in the world. The person who once knew you as their companion no longer plays any active role in your life - positively or negatively.

Skill Proficiencies: Survival, Medicine

Tool Proficiencies: Choose 2 from Cobbler's Tools, Cook's Utensils, Tinker's Tools, Thieves' Tools, Dice Set, Playing Card Set, Three-Dragon Ante Set, Dragonchess Set.

Languages: You are fluent in the primary language used by your former companion.

Equipment: A small knife, a map of the city you grew up in, a token to remember your former companion by, a set of common clothes, and a pouch containing 5 gp

Suggested Characteristics

Abandoned Companions are shaped by lives of survival, and reluctant independence. Abandoned Companions tend to endure many hardships on their path to becoming a self-sustaining person, and their abandonment weighs heavily on their minds. They would give anything to be able to go back to a time when they were still with their former companion, but they realize that isn't possible.

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'm beginning to feel like the gods are not on my side.
5	I eat like a pig and have bad manners.
6	I misuse long words in an attempt to sound smarter.
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	Embracing. Life is messy. Throwing yourself into the worst of it is necessary to get the job done. (Chaotic)
4	Punishment. A public display of consequences is an excellent deterrent for other criminals. (Evil)
5	Knowledge. The path to power and self-improvement is through knowledge. (Neutral)
6	Aspiration. I'm determined to make something of myself. (Any)

d6	Bond
1	I've seen too many in need. I must not fail them as everyone else has.
2	I sponsor an orphanage to keep others from enduring what I was forced to endure.
3	I deeply miss someone and am quick to adopt people who remind me of them.
4	I owe a debt I can never repay to the person who took pity on me.
5	I lost someone I care about, but I still see them in guilty visions, recurring dreams, or as a spirit.
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 trust others too easily.
4	I let my need to win arguments overshadow friendships and harmony.
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.