You are unfortunately a pariah of society. People see you as less than sentient and view you as an unthinking creature: a beast. They don't respect your rights, and they use you cruelly for entertainment and other forms of demeaning treatment to prove their superiority. Your past is dotted with mistreatment and feral tendency. Either you were treated as a beast or even raised by beasts as a wolf child. The result remains that you are not of normal social circumstance. You may have mannerisms more beastly than that considered normal, and this has cost you. Most likely you were raised to be like an animal and treated as one, perhaps even kept in such conditions.

There are many ways you can think of this background. The two primary specializations are raised by wolves and caged tiger, though they are not mutually exclusive. Raised by wolves means that you were left, one way or another, to fend for yourself in the wilderness. You may not have learned speech normally, or even how to write. Instead, you learned the ways of the wild things, and primal survival. A caged tiger, on the other hand, is someone who was treated like a beast. They may be caged as entertainment for people to poke and prod, like an exhibit. They are often treated as subhuman and subject to mistreatment as a result. It is possible for one to be raised by beasts and thus caged as well, of course.

When making a beastlike, consider their past and how they were raised or treated as beasts. Were they abandoned in the woods and thus now have a stunted growth? Do they treat everywhere as the wilderness, behaving erratically like a caged animal? Maybe they were instead kept in a cage most of their lives and treated as a spectacle to be ridiculed, thus fostering a great distrust against the world. How did you eventually escape that life? Are you used to civilization? Do you still have speech impairments perhaps as a vestige of your darker times?

Skill Proficiencies: Survival and Nature

Languages: Sylvan

Equipment: A set of common clothes, a beastly trinket of your choice, and 1 gold

Suggested Characteristics

The beastlike vary as beasts do, with unfamiliar behaviors and unpredictable emotions due to their complicated and often difficult upbringing.

d8	Personality Trait
1	I always have a plan for what to do when things go wrong.
2	I am always calm, no matter what the situation. I never raise my voice or let my emotions control me.
3	I prefer to be alone. Large crowds are a bother.
4	Protecting my allies is the most important aspect to my life.
5	I tend to be rude to people who enter my personal space.
6	I treat my friends like they are my family.
7	I never look anyone in the eye.
8	I have intermittent rashes of violent tendencies.

d6	Ideal
1	Blood. I seek to murder the ones who look down on me. (Evil)
2	Loyal. I’ll protect who I love, at any cost. (Good)
3	Hunger. I must feed on something, regardless friend or foe. (Chaotic)
4	Uncaring. I am a lone wolf who needs no one but my own fulfillment. (Neutral)
5	Human. The beast won’t take over my soul. I am a worthy person with rights! (Any)
6	Mighty. The strongest beast will survive, and that will be me. (Lawful)

d6	Bond
1	I have allies whom I trust everything with.
2	People can be two-faced, and I don't like them.
3	My goal comes first. I have a duty.
4	I'm the most expendable. If I don't take the risks, who will?
5	I don’t quit even if it means death.
6	I won’t fail the people that believe in me.

d6	Flaw
1	Thoughts of murder run rampant in my head.
2	I can't trust more than a handful of people at a time.
3	I'm not really a team player.
4	I'm very, very antisocial.
5	My temper is way too short.
6	I make dumb choices. I’m a little quick headed.