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You have been afflicted with severe memory loss at some point in your life, making everything from before the loss of memory a total blank for you. Seemingly far-flung from where you spent your forgotten days, you wandered the world for some time before eventually settling down. You took up a new trade, a new life, and a new story, but the person you were catches up with you one fateful day, and the desire to remember drives you to adventure.

 
Skill Proficiencies: Choose one pertaining to the secondary background you chose, and then choose one other pertaining to your forgotten past.
Tool Proficiencies: Follows whatever tool proficiency your second background has.
Languages: Follows whatever language proficiency your second background has.
Equipment: Follows whatever equipment comes with your second background, except for any adventuring packs such as Explorer's Pack or Dungeoneer's Pack, in addition to one Trinket tied to your forgotten past.
 
Feature: Forgotten Life

Choose two backgrounds. The first is written somewhere in private, and shared with your DM. All information pertaining to the first background will only be revealed as the story progresses, however wherever applicable your character will still benefit from any features that background has, in addition to gaining half proficiency with one of that background's skills and/or tools. The second is the background you come from as of starting your new life, however you do not have such a deep connection to it, and so while you benefit from that background's feature(s) and have them written publicly, you only gain half proficiency with one other skill from that background.

 
Suggested Characteristics

As an amnesiac, you are forever haunted by your forgotten past. You've been the way you are for as long as you can remember, but where these traits come from you cannot tell.

d8 Personality Trait
1 I feel a strange draw towards artistic endeavors.
2 When working in the trade of my new life, I fall into a trance.
3 For some reason, anything linked to my past makes me angry.
4 I’m oblivious to etiquette and social expectations.
5 I often get lost in my own thoughts and contemplation, becoming oblivious to my surroundings.
6 I’m always picking things up, absently fiddling with them, and sometimes accidentally breaking them.
7 I am horribly, horribly awkward in social situations.
8 For some reason, I am slow to trust anyone I meet.
d6 Ideal
1 Independence. I must prove that I can handle myself, despite my lost memories. (Chaotic)
2 Power. If I can attain more power, it won't matter who I was before. (Evil)
3 Live and Let Live. Meddling in the affairs of others only causes trouble. (Neutral)
4 Destiny. Nothing and no one can steer me away from who I was going to be before I lost my memory. (Any)
5 Charity. I always try to help those in need, no matter what the personal cost. (Good)
6 Aspiration. I’m determined to make something of myself. (Any)
d6 Bond
1 Somewhere out there, I have a family I don't remember. I’m hoping I can face them one day with a clear conscience.
2 I owe my life to the priest who took me in when I was lost and alone.
3 My tools are symbols of my past life, and I carry them so that I will never forget my roots.
4 I suffer awful visions of a coming disaster and will do anything to prevent it.
5 I suffered some defeat before my memory was lost. I don't know the specifics, but the bitter taste of defeat still lingers in my mouth.
6 No one else should have to endure the hardships I’ve been through.
d6 Flaw
1 I will never fully trust anyone other than myself.
2 I have an insatiable desire for carnal pleasures.
3 Now that I’ve forgotten everything about the world, I enjoy its delights a little too much.
4 I’d risk too much to uncover a lost bit of knowledge.
5 I judge others harshly, and myself even more severely.
6 I have trouble keeping my true feelings hidden. My sharp tongue lands me in trouble.
 
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