After you joined the ranks of the undead, the person who brought you back met their untimely end leaving with no one to teach you how things are generally done in the afterlife. Without someone to instruct them on how to hunt or how to use their newfound powers, new vampires have a very short (un)life expectancy often at the hands of a vampire hunter or an angry mob, but somehow you managed to be one of the few to survive.

What was your relationship to your creator? Did you hate them or did you even know them? Do you see their death as being a bad thing which resulted in you being ill prepared for the dangers of the world? Or did you see this as gaining your independence? What did you do to survive since your creator’s death? Do you try to fit back in to your old life? Or do you survive on the fringes of civilization taking what you can?

Skill Proficiencies: Choose two from among Stealth, Athletics, or Survival

Languages: One of your choice

Equipment: A shovel, a hammer, a steel mirror, a set of traveler's clothes, and 10 gold.

Suggested Characteristics

Orphaned vampires, lacking many of the social ties of other vampires, find benefits in the adventuring as a way to hone their skills, develop ties with people who might be social outcasts themselves, and feed on enemies with little consequence. Parties of people who are already shunned by most normal societies make great places for orphaned vampires since, presumably, the people in the party are less likely to be judgmental (due to they themselves already having to deal with the stigma of being seen as evil or monsters) and said groups often don’t mind having another person on their side.

d8	Personality Trait
1	I am in awe of the new experiences undeath has brought me.
2	I have a stable of rats that I breed and consume as needed.
3	I prefer nature to the confines of the city.
4	I have a strong sense of independence and don’t like to rely on anyone.
5	I have a tendency of hoarding anything that might be the least bit useful for later.
6	No one can tell me what to do.
7	I try to maintain multiple hideouts in case things go wrong.
8	I am feral and more like a beast in some ways.

d6	Ideal
1	Self Reliance. I am the only person who I can rely on when things get tough. (Chaotic)
2	Might. The strong do what they will and the weak suffer what they must. (Evil)
3	Anarchy. Society is a lie that only serves to protect mindless herds. (Chaotic)
4	Freedom. No one should be forced into servitude. (Chaotic)
5	Life. My diet of vermin and other small animals is a choice I make to prevent unnecessary death and suffering. (Good)
6	Hierarchy. A strong top-down social order is good for everyone. (Lawful)

d6	Bond
1	I have made friends with a group of outcasts.
2	I am hunting for the one who killed my master.
3	One day I will return to see my loved ones again.
4	I worked with someone else to engineer my own master’s demise.
5	I live in the seedy underbelly of the city where I was turned at.
6	My master is still existing out there somewhere, but for some reason unknown to me our bond was severed.

d6	Flaw
1	I am prone to losing control and hurting people near me.
2	I still get squeamish at the thought of consuming a living creature’s blood.
3	I haven’t taken to independence well.
4	Isolation has left me socially awkward and standoffish.
5	I have no loyalty to anyone other than myself.
6	I don’t understand the formalities or politics among the intelligent undead.