Hero's Prodigy

You met a great hero at one point in your life, this hero might have saved you, adopted you or maybe they even birthed you. You have sense then trained under them, learning their skills and abilities and they have become a strong influence in your life, although that relationship might not be entirely positive, your hero might be overly controlling of you and your actions, trying to hold on to the spotlight through your actions or manipulating you into finishing some business on the hero's behalf. Or on the other side you and your hero can be the best of friends, close as kin and maybe just mentor and student, in this case your hero cares greatly for you and wishes to see your potential fulfilled and for you to make your own mark on the world. Whatever the relationship is you have now been set free into the world to put all you've learned into practice, what you use those skills for is in your hands now, will you use them to uphold your hero's legacy? Or disgrace it? Or will you attempt to step out of their shadow and carve out a legend for yourself? (This is a good background if you wish to tie a new PC an older one. Perhaps one from a previous campaign. Or you and the DM can make up the hero of villain that trained your character. You and your Hero are most likely the same class although they are a much higher level and have a variety of proficiencies and skills of their own, when picking this background be sure to focus on your PC and the Hero's relationship.)

Skill Proficiencies: When picking this background, choose two skills and a tool that your hero is proficient in, you gain proficiency in those skills and tool.

Equipment: If your hero is a holy caster, you gain their first holy symbol. If your hero is an arcane magic caster, you gain a spell focus they personally enchanted or a component pouch from their privet stock. If your hero is a martial warrior or rogue, you gain a customized weapon designed especially for you. Additionally, you gain 4 rations, the key to your hero's home, a set of common or fancy clothes, a pouch containing your final allowance of 20 gp.

Suggested Characteristics

Your hero has a great deal of influence over you and your values, if your hero was aligned with goodness and lawfulness its likely that you are as well, same thing if they were evil and liked to sow chaos. Or you might be a rebel, striking out against their values out of spite or a hunger for independence. But their lessons are something that will stick with you throughout your adventures, for better or worse.