A significant portion of your life was defined by captivity. In that time, you were forced to adapt to a foreign environment and way of life, until it became the only thing that you knew. Life as a captive has molded and shaped you with so many influences that you are a confusing yet keen mixture of the training, abuse, and tricks from your surroundings which provides you with a store of knowledge to prepare you for the overwhelming possibility of freedom.

Skill Proficiencies: Athletics, Insight

Tool Proficiencies: Thieves’ tools

Languages: One of your choice

Equipment: A trinket from your captivity, a set of manacles, a set of common clothes, and a pouch containing 10 gp.

Suggested Characteristics

No captive leaves their bondage the same person they were when they entered it. Most come out a mixture of their earlier, free life and the vast array of influences they lived among as a captive, either toughened by them or broken. Once free, someone who has lived in captivity tends to value his or her freedom above all else.

d8	Personality Trait
1	All things are certain, black and white. What is cannot be changed.
2	I refuse to show any weakness.
3	Being in the dark makes me feel more secure.
4	I am very on edge no matter the situation.
5	I have come to love music and other art. Things I was never able to enjoy.
6	The world is a hopeless mess, I always expect the worst of everything and everyone.
7	I enjoy being around animals. They often make better friends than people.
8	I am a different face to each person I meet.

d6	Ideal
1	Pure. You must never let people choose who you are. I will not be like my captor. (Good)
2	Adaptive. We must adapt to the world around us no matter what that may bring. (Chaotic)
3	Trust. I would never betray the trust of a friend. (Lawful)
4	Recompense. All evil must be repaid in equal measure. If not to the guilty then to their relations. (Evil)
5	Passive. The best thing anyone can do is nothing. Action brings consequences, inaction can bring peace. (Neutral)
6	Decency. No one should have to suffer what I did. (Any)

d6	Bond
1	I was betrayed to my captor.
2	I still have hope for my captor despite what they have done.
3	My home was destroyed during my capture. I will never recover from what I’ve seen.
4	I am not guilty of the accusation that brought about my capture.
5	I have come to respect my captor, whether or not I agree with them.
6	I was part of coup formed against my captor without their knowledge.

d6	Flaw
1	I will never trust or let anyone into my life ever. No one can be trusted.
2	I am paranoid and begin to panic when I am trapped or cornered, and as such I throw all logic out the window.
3	The only way to survive is to not ask questions and to do as you are told.
4	Helping others is only another way to waste your time and endanger yourself. I must spend my time protecting myself, for no one else will.
5	I resent anyone who has freedoms and luxuries that I could never have.
6	I feel no sympathy for anyone’s pain, for I have suffered far worse.