You were raised in the wilds with your orc clan, who may or may not have accepted your half-human status. Whatever terms dictated your departure, you seek a new start in the so-called civilized world. Thanks to a chance encounter with a kind artisan, you have begun to learn a trade, and found a small community to call your own.
- Skill Proficiencies: Insight and Survival
- Tool Proficiencies: One type of artisan’s tools OR one musical instrument
- Languages: One of your choice. Suggestion for Dwarvish, given the shared written alphabet with Orc, but determine based on character story.
- Equipment:
- A set of artisan’s tools or musical instrument (consider your increased strength for durability), a set of traveler's clothes, a pouch containing 10gp. A weapon of 2gp value or below if appropriate with character backstory.
Your time in the wild has left you with an excellent memory for maps and geography, and you can always recall the general layout of terrain, settlements, and other features around you. In addition, you can find food and fresh water for yourself and up to five other people each day, provided that the land offers berries, small game, water, and so forth. This may cause you trouble in cities, where you are unused to confined spaces, making you prone to accidentally damaging good or structures.
Suggested Characteristics
Consider personality traits from both Guild Artisans and Outlanders.
As a half-orc pursuing a trade, you are an outlier to most communities: warlike full-orcs who disdain your abandonment of tradition, tradesmen who doubt your ability and intelligence, and everyday citizens who find your very presence frightening. You may have left because they drove you away for your refusal to accept the religious norms of Gruumsh or because you felt a calling to the outside world having grown up an outsider in your own home. You are unusual in a community of the salt-of-the-earth usual people, but you connect strongly with the ideals of hard work and/or excellence in execution regardless of recognition and/or the validation that comes with status in a guild.
Some questions to consider include: How did you find your current position? Are you gifted or enthusiastic? How do you feel about your master and are you formally part of a guild? Do you seek approval from the citizens who distrust you or disdain them as small-minded? How do you manage the blood-lust that is your legacy? What do you know of your heritage? What do you care of it?
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