You had a home once, but that was a long time ago. By bad luck, misadventure, war, or natural disaster, you don't anymore. You carry everything you have and wander the world, looking to return to the place you left or find a new home to settle into.
- Skill Proficiencies: Choose from Arcana, Deception, History, Insight, Nature, Perception, Persuasion, or Survival
- Tool Proficiencies: Choose a tool that has come in handy in your wanderings: Cartographer's Tools, Cook's Utensils, Herbalism Kit, Navigator's Tools, Thieves' Tools, Dice Set, Bagpipes, Dulcimer, Flute, Lyre, Pan Flute, Playing Card Set, Drum, Lute, Horn, Shawm, Viol, Vehicles (Land), Vehicles (Water)
- Languages: Choose two languages that have assisted you in your travels.
- Equipment: An explorer’s pack, a set of common clothes, and one memento of your homeland (choose one or roll on the Memories of Home table after this background), a bag containing 5 gold.
Life-Changing Event
Prior to becoming an adventurer, your path in life was defined by one life-altering tragedy or a series of small changes that led your home to be untenable. Though you keep moving, it touches all the parts of your life. Choose a harrowing event that haunts you, or roll one on the Life-Changing Events table.
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Life-Changing Event |
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1
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A landslide, volcano, earthquake, tsunami, hurricane, or other natural disaster destroyed your home.
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2
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A nefarious empire has overtaken your homeland.
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3
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A bloody coup has ousted you from your home.
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4
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Your home was the bright spots you choose to remember from a place that was always hellish.
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5
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Years of slow political change caused a homeland that was once tolerable to become nightmarish, and you left with your family.
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6
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Blight and famine drove your family from your lands.
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Feature: Light in the Darkness
Those who look into your eyes can see that you have stood bravely in the face of great odds and are no stranger to oppression. Though they might worry for what your presence means, commoners will extend you every courtesy and do their utmost to help you. Unless you have shown yourself to be a danger to them, they will even take up arms to fight alongside you, should you find yourself facing an enemy alone.
Suggested Characteristics
You have learned to live with the terror that haunts you. You are a survivor, who can be very protective of those who bring light into your darkened life.
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Personality Trait |
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Tragedy touches everyone. There's no way to know what pain is hidden behind another face.
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2
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I like to read and hear the stories of my home. It keeps me calm and brings me fleeting moments of happiness.
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3
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I spend money freely and live life to the fullest, knowing that tomorrow I might die.
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4
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I'm thrilled to see any face from home, no matter how I would have felt about them before.
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5
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If the story of my woes can help another, I'll share it, even if it hurts.
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6
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I expect danger around every corner.
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7
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I refuse to become a victim, and I will not allow others to be victimized.
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8
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I put no trust in kings and nations.
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Ideal |
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I try to help those in need, no matter what the personal cost. (Good)
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2
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I’ll face my role in what happened to keep me from my home. (Any)
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3
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I will find a new home that is a better place for my family. (Good)
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4
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The laws of my home have been perverted, and I need no longer follow them. (Chaotic)
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5
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I will rebuild when I have learned enough about what befell me to prevent its return. (Lawful)
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6
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I will go home again, and anything that tries to stop me will fall. (Evil)
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Bond |
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1
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I keep all my memories of my homeland in a journal. My journal is my legacy.
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2
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I would sacrifice my life and my soul to protect my countrymen.
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3
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Tragedy separated me from the person I love. I strive to find the love I’ve lost.
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4
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A terrible guilt consumes me. I hope that I can find redemption through my actions.
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5
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Now that the road is home, I never want to leave it.
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6
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I have a child to protect. I must make the world a safer place for him (or her).
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Flaw |
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1
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My customs are foreign and unusual to those I keep company with.
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2
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I assume the worst in people.
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3
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I'm suspicious of everyone -- they may be involved with the downfall of my home.
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4
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I have a phobia of the type of natural disaster that destroyed my homeland.
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5
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I am a purveyor of doom and gloom who lives in a world without hope.
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6
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My mistrust of governments and authority prevents me from being a productive member of an organized society.
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