Your life's entirety up until now has been within the outskirts of civilization. How you were brought into the wilderness is unknown but your origins are not important to you. Being raised within the wild has given you detailed insight and expertise of survival, and you have a deep relationship with fauna whom also enact as your guardians. Additionally, to accommodate for your surroundings, your body frame is on the smaller and more nimble side of your race.
- Skill Proficiencies: Proficient in Survival. Choose one of the following: Acrobatics, Animal Handling, Athletics, Insight, Nature, Perception, Stealth.
- Tool Proficiencies: Wood carving.
- Languages: One language of choice.
- Equipment: robes, pouch, 2 daggers, spear or longbow, stake, stone of good luck (luckstone).
The animal group that had raised you. This may greatly affect your instinctive nature.
| d12 | Fauna Guardians |
|---|---|
| 1 | Wolves |
| 2 | Weasels |
| 3 | Eagles |
| 4 | Great Apes |
| 5 | Tigers |
| 6 | Hares |
| 7 | Bears |
| 8 | Foxes |
| 9 | Deer |
| 10 | Raccoons |
| 11 | Monkeys |
| 12 | Dragons |
Within a forest, you are unparalleled regarding navigation and movement. The denser and/or taller a forest is, the faster you may move, and with that density comes more options and opportunities. As long as the greenery around you stays mostly intact, you can continue dancing amongst the branches.
Suggested Characteristics
Animals in the wild are diverse in what they do to survive and what they like to eat. You having been raised by the wilderness have adopted the traits and wantings of certain animals as your own. This variety of traits may induce great upbringing or great disappointment.
| d16 | Personality Trait |
|---|---|
| 1 | I perform well in teams. |
| 2 | I am in love with music as it reminds me of birdsong. |
| 3 | I have an aversion to donning extra weight in order to stay nimble. |
| 4 | I am afraid of vehicles and easily get sick on them. |
| 5 | I enjoy embrace as it reminds me of the warmth of my family when I was still with them. |
| 6 | I need to be on top of things both in metaphorical and literal sense. |
| 7 | I'm a bit of a show-off. |
| 8 | I am easily agitated and will bite people when angry. |
| 9 | I am easily entertained. |
| 10 | I am addicted to cultural cuisine, and in particular, sweets. |
| 11 | I like to carve wooden statues, totems, and weaponry. |
| 12 | I am very competitive. |
| 13 | I am very open about how I'm feeling. |
| 14 | In my alone time I mimic the sounds of my family. |
| 15 | I enjoy makeup and face paint as it reminds me of the times I had spent with endearing tribes. |
| 16 | My pettiness knows no bounds. |
| d6 | Ideal |
|---|---|
| 1 | I only wish to protect my family and my home, any means necessary. (chaotic) |
| 2 | Freedom, I desire a flowing changing life like a river, and to run like one too. (neutral) |
| 3 | Understanding. I owe to everyone my love, and though it burdens me, I will not give in to the irrationality of indirect revenge. (good) |
| 4 | Laws, there's only two of them: live and reproduce! (any) |
| 5 | Destruction. I yearn to obliterate all those who have wronged me, and all innocents in the way. (evil) |
| 6 | Responsibility. I believe it is my duty to seek peace for all discourse between nature and man. (lawful) |
| d6 | Bond |
|---|---|
| 1 | I am kin with all wildlife. |
| 2 | I owe my life to my family and to those who have gained my trust. |
| 3 | I suffer great wounds being connected to the forest, day by day I feel it's pain as it's seized by civilians. |
| 4 | I have deep respect for certain tribes for they love my home as much as I do. |
| 5 | I shall exact vengeance upon those who've murdered my brethren. |
| 6 | I am in debt to the one who saved my family from hunters, I shall never forget their face. |
| d6 | Flaw |
|---|---|
| 1 | I speak mainly in gestures and growls, I only know a little of one language. |
| 2 | I avoid interaction with civilians as much as possible, even when it's beneficial. |
| 3 | My animalistic nature sometimes gets the better of me. |
| 4 | I fail to respect most social normatives. |
| 5 | I get heavily distracted by man-made surroundings. |
| 6 | I am extremely slow to trust anyone outside my home. |
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Posted Jul 2, 2025Generally a good background that covers ground that others don't, but the "leaper" thing is kind of vague in terms of what it actually does in gameplay. it's nicely described as being able to use natural environments to your advantage in terms of mobility, but what does it actually quantifiably do? like, does it increase your movement speed when you're in a forest, how are you meant to measure how much faster you become in which degrees of density? what even are the "options and opportunities" mentioned? how do you determine how intact the greenery is and what causes it to qualify as not being "mostly intact"?
Great concept, but it doesn't exactly do, well, anything in actual gameplay.
Edit: I just noticed this background automatically gives you a luckstone, which is a WONDROUS item?? Why would a background just give that out to a character just starting out lmfao