You lost your memory - you don't know what happened before a point in your life, when you woke up lost and in a place you quite never expected to be. From then on, you began to search for answers as to what happened, investigating, talking to some of the locals, and trying to recall your forgotten past.

    When choosing this background, work with your DM to determine where you woke up. Were you perhaps in a dark cell several feet below the ground, or perhaps in a barren land full of dead bodies with you being the last one standing. Maybe you were left on a dark alley on the floor, heavily bruised or intoxicated. Were you alone when you woke up, or did someone find you and helped you on your feet? Or might a flock of vultures surround your body in the barren wasteland.

 

Skill Proficiencies: Perception, Survival

Tool Proficiencies: One set of artisan's tools or an instrument of your choice

Languages: One language of your choice

Equipment: A cloak, a set of common clothes, a scrapbook or a set of notes that you have remembered so far, a personal trinket(s) (see Table below), and a pouch containing 10 gp.

Suggested Characteristics

For their own safety, amnesiacs tend to stay to themselves and are slow to trust others, though any bond with a friend over time becomes stronger and important to them. Still, they strive to gather information, lacking some compassion, intuition, or valor, often labeling them as quiet without that many words. Whether they recall their past or accept their newfound lives, their future shapes them heavily.

d8	Personality Trait
1	I often get distracted by the things in life trying to chase my past.
2	I feel empathy towards anyone that gets harmed on my sight.
3	I feel like people look at me weird everytime I'm around.
4	I burst into joy when I find something from my pressumably lost past that excites me.
5	I am a bit of an air-head, which contrasts to my progress of finding out who I am.
6	I don't smile as much... or emote much at all.
7	My manners don't match that of the locals, and I don't know if that is a good or bad thing.
8	I ask around town to see who recognizes me, and I keep in contact if I find something interesting about them.

d6	Ideal
1	Helpful. I always help out whoever is in trouble, despite what the people say about my surface. (Good)
2	Duty. Even though my past memories have been tossed to the bonfire, there is still honor, and a task I must fullfil. (Lawful)
3	Acceptance. I highly doubt my past was worth anything than the life I'm living as of now. (Chaotic)
4	Revenge. I'll find whoever was responsible for my amnesia, and they will pay in blood. (Evil)
5	Move On. I must focus on what is ahead of me, rather than dwendle about my past every so often. (Neutral)
6	Remember. It helps to gather and recall memories from time to time, and especially as of now. (Any)

d6	Bond
1	I stay on people's good terms so that they can help me in exchange for their services.
2	I owe my life to the people who found me napping on the floor.
3	Any family or friends that I once had must be worried sick.
4	I still pledge my allegiance to the nation that no one seems to remember.
5	I don't know what I would do if I all of the sudden lost my memories once again.
6	I have a new family now, and it is the people I've meet through my blinded travels.

d6	Flaw
1	I am selfish, and I will be bias depending if my decisions aids my recovery over people's own good.
2	I sabotage my self-esteem, believing I don't fit anywhere despite my efforts.
3	No matter what, the people shame me for what nuisance I am.
4	I gave up who I am, and took another identity to mask who I was in my past, believing the wrong weighted my soul and that this is my solution.
5	I get nightmares in my sleep, hearing echoes inside my head screaming my name; screaming for help.
6	I suffer from short-term memory lost.