Exiled

You have lived the better part of your life away from everything you knew, and everyone you loved.  Perhaps it was as penance for a misdeed.  Or, you were spirited away from your home to protect you from harm.  Either way, you have lived your life in the wilds, fending for yourself.  You have learned to keep a watchful eye, and survive to one day return to your home; redeemed or to reclaim what is yours.  It is what drives you; keeps you sane.  Some you encounter take pity on your state and offer a warm bed, or a hot meal.  Others are more than willing to offer coin for help with tasks.  But most treat you with distance and even those that extend their generosity expect your intrusion to be short.  You have learned to make the best of it.  But, the cost you suffer is loneliness, and uneasy eyes watching you anywhere you go.

Skill Proficiencies: Your time in the wilds have made you adept at living off the land, and crafting healing potions and balms from ingredients found in the wilds.  You gain proficiency in Medicine and Nature.

Tool Proficiencies: Herbalism Kit

Languages: Your wandering has allowed you to pick up on languages of people you encounter.  Choose two languages for which you gain proficiency.

Equipment: In order to survive you had to learn to hunt for food and shelter.  A short bow, and dagger are added to your inventory.

Suggested Characteristics

Personality Traits

Ideals

Bonds

Flaws

d6	Personality Trait
1	Loneliness is my only company. I rarely get too close to anyone for fear they will learn my secret.
2	Despite my situation, I am always positive and friendly to those around me.
3	I keep people at a distance. I once trusted someone with my life, and they betrayed me. I won't make that mistake again.
4	I flee from those that still want me dead. I rarely stay in one place for too long for fear of leading them straight to me.
5	I gave up all I knew to protect someone else from harm. I'll be damned if I let someone harm me in return.
6	My life was stolen from me, and I will make them pay for my exile and any harm they have caused my loved ones as a result.

d4	Ideal
1	One day I will return to my home and be forgiven for my crimes. It is a hope I hold to tightly.
2	Everyday I hope for someone from my home to find me and bring me back to everything I know and love.
3	My exile was for a purpose. The gods have a bigger plan for my life and I have to believe this is part of my journey.
4	I am the master of my own fate. I refuse to be consumed by what ifs and move forward until I draw my last breath.

d4	Bond
1	I have made few friends throughout my life. Those I have I hold as close as family.
2	There is one person that I trust with my life. They are my anchor in this storm of the unknown.
3	No one in my life will be more important than the person that came with me in exile. Their absence will never be replaced.
4	One day, when I return home, I will be reunited with the love of my life. I can still feel their fingertips on my skin.

d6	Flaw
1	I struggle to contain the anger I feel for losing everything. Vengeance is what usually keeps me going.
2	I hate myself for what caused my exile. I wish nothing more than to make it right but I am unable.
3	I struggle with self-doubt in the choice I made to leave everything. I can't help but wonder what if I had stayed?
4	My actions have led to the path I walk. I can never forgive myself for those crimes.
5	Even in my exile I still think of myself as I was in my old life. I forget that I am nothing to those around me.
6	My exile was unfair. No one gets away with embarrassing me.