As long as you could remember you were in the tall cold mountains alone. You hunted arctic animals with your bare hands for years to survive. You eventually found a rock which you head butted and now permanently has your face indented in it.
Eventually you headed down the mountain, into forests, where you hunted the animals there. The forest honed your acrobatics and your athletics.
You eventually make it to civilization, but couldn’t stay long. Adventuring is the only thing that your comfortable with now. You couldn’t learn there language well but you learned it.
- Skill Proficiencies: Athletics, Acrobatics
- Tool Proficiencies: Choose one tool proficiency. (You learned this at the civilization)
- Languages: Choose any one language.(Should be the language of the civilization you found)
- Equipment: A pair of common clothes, a rock with your face indented in it, and 5 gp.
Your reputation of being alone for so long in the wild makes people treat you more like an animal than a human. This lets you get away with getting into places uninvited, eating other peoples food, bad manners, and just non socially common things all around.
Suggested Characteristics
A character with this background should be mainly strong and bulky and tends to brute force there way through things, wild animals are simply prey to you. Creatures and people who are smarter then you(most people) tend to confuse you so if there mean to you your mean to them and visa versa.
| d8 | Personality Trait |
|---|---|
| 1 | I prefer all my meat uncooked |
| 2 | I prefer animals over people |
| 3 | I don’t see the point in manners |
| 4 | I feel safe in small villages like the one I found |
| 5 | I much prefer the cold over the hot |
| 6 | I almost never get mad after what I’ve been through |
| 7 | I tend to give everyone the benefit of the doubt |
| 8 | I hate others of my race because they weren’t there for me |
| d6 | Ideal |
|---|---|
| 1 | Charity: I always help others no matter the cost (good) |
| 2 | Aspiration: I’m gonna prove myself to this world (Any) |
| 3 | Independence: I am a free spirit, no one tells me what to do (Chaotic) |
| 4 | People. I'm loyal to my friends, not to any ideals, and everyone else can take a trip down the Styx for all I care. (Neutral) |
| 5 | Fairness: I never target someone who can’t spare to lose a little (Lawful) |
| 6 | Might. If I become strong, I can take what I want--what I deserve. (Evil) |
| d5 | Bond |
|---|---|
| 1 | I owe everything to the man from the village that took me in |
| 2 | Anyone that harms the mountains or forest has to face punishment |
| 3 | I never met the others of my race, but I’m going to no matter what |
| 4 | A powerful person destroyed my village, I’m gonna kill him for that |
| 5 | My relatives never came for me, I’m determined to see them headless |
| d5 | Flaw |
|---|---|
| 1 | I could never learn any language, and now all I can say is my name |
| 2 | I’m extremely short tempered and will always have the final word |
| 3 | I love a good fight, and I’ll always try to start one |
| 4 | I have very bad trust issues, I refuse to listen until you prove yourself to me |
| 5 | I refuse to help anyone unless it benefits me |
Contacts
Rumors about you have spread far and wide but you really only know the people in the civilization you found.
Your story is still the same except instead of somewhat learning the language you learned quickly, you quickly became a member of there society and are treated almost just like a human. (Must pick variant feature if you pick this)
Your quick learned language allows you to act like a civilian but people still seem to pity you cause of your life so far, your reputation has spread and people tend to let you off the hook easier and be kinder to you.
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