You were left in the forest when you were very young as your family/village departed in haste from being attacked. You were found by a forester (Ranger) who took you in and trained you in fieldcraft and hunting in the forest, trapping and various types of weapons for hunting and combat. You learned how to survive in the forest and how to defend yourself against predators. Life was good, growing up in the forest, although one day your benefactor received a message calling him to report for duty.  He leaves, stating that he should only be gone for a fortnight but he has never returned.  Since then, you've always been alone and have done things your way. You respect nature and protect it against all things that would destroy or defile it. You became known to the surrounding villages as "Wolf Child". You avoid the people who come to explore the forest and villages. Animals are not frightened of your movements in and around your home forest. Your left the forester's home and made new home in the forest in a hollowed out ancient oak tree with the hidden entrance fifteen above the forest floor above a stout primary branch.

Skill Proficiencies: You are proficient in Survival and two of the following skills: Acrobatics, Animal Handling, Nature, or Stealth. After all, you've seen and adapted to the wonderful and harsh realities of living alone in the forest.

Tool Proficiencies: You are proficient in one tool set and one instrument of your choice.  Tool sets: Herbalism kit, Weaver's Tools, Woodcarver's Tools, and Thieves' Tools.  Thieves' tools may seem unusual, but your benefactor taught you the valuable skill in saving (freeing) caged and chained animals.

Languages: Languages: One language of your choice based on the locality of your forest home and neighboring races.

Equipment: Set of dark common clothes including a hood, pouch containing 15gp, a backpack with a blanket, 50' hempen rope, grappling hook, 5 candles, a trinket from your previous life (your mother's necklace, or your father's ring, etc.)

Suggested Characteristics

Those who are abandoned usually know how to survive. They do not like much contact or interactions with other people and tend to keep to themselves having special connections with animals.

d6	Personality Trait
1	I'm oblivious to etiquette and social expectations.
2	I yearn to explore the world outside my forest but am too scared to leave.
3	I am content with being alone and prefer it.
4	I feel way more comfortable with animals than I do with other humans.
5	I've been isolated for so long that I rarely speak, preferring gestures and the occasional grunt.
6	I am prone to ignore others and go off on my own.

d6	Ideal
1	Live and Let Live. Meddling in the affairs of others only causes trouble. (Neutral)
2	Nature. The natural world is more important than all the constructs of civilization. (Neutral)
3	Survival. I will do whatever it takes to survive to the next day. (Chaotic)
4	Freedom. I will live in the forest until my last breath.
5	I’m loyal to the animals, my forest inhabitants, and my friends.
6	Friendship. I'll go from being abandoned, to having made wondrous friendships. (Good)

d6	Bond
1	The forester who took me in was quite kind...I owe them gratitude, still.
2	I feel a kinship with the wild, I feel uneasy when I am away for too long.
3	An injury to the unspoiled wilderness of my home is an injury to me.
4	I will bring terrible wrath down on the evildoers who defile my forest.
5	Seeing even little animals get along makes me smile, I can't stand to see one hurt.
6	Thinking of the people I can call my friends...that makes me smile.

d6	Flaw
1	I have been alone so long I no longer pick up on common social queues
2	I try to avoid meeting other people.
3	When I see someone harm nature, I want to hurt them.
4	I don't know any humans; I only know the animals in my forest.
5	I tend to get lost in the beauty of nature and to pay attention to my surroundings.
6	Don't expect me to save those who can't save themselves. It's the survival of the fittest.