Orphan

Your parents were murdered when you were a small child and you were forced to live on the streets.

Skill Proficiencies: Having barely any food or money, you are a master of Pickpocketing (Slight of hand) and survival.

Tool Proficiencies: You've mastered just about any tool you've gotten your hands on.

Languages: You can speak a bit of common and your native language but not very fluently, since you didn't have a very good education.

Equipment: 1 day of rations, a discarded weapon (a broken sword, two broken daggers, or a broken bow with 5 arrows), and tattered clothes.