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You had a knack at getting yourself into trouble as a child, and as a result developed a silver tongue at an early age.
You have no problem making friends and learning information from them wherever you go.
You are no stranger to loss and intense emotions.
You were trained to harvest all parts of an animal with care and precision.
The reputation of your bloodline grants you a degree of fearful respect.
Your position in society grants you special insight into others, and special consideration or outright awe from others.
You know a good deal about your most dire enemies.
You have lived a physically taxing life, working long hours for a master or to support a trade.
A tutor or private instructor guided you in learning your art, profession, or trade, and through your education, you became capable of teaching and guiding others.
For everything there is a price, and you are a negotiator at heart.
You lived your life as a merchant, buying and selling goods.
You've always found yourself in positions where others look up to you as a leader, and you can distinctly remember an event from your early childhood where you led several other children to accomplish a goal that each of you individually could not.
You've always found yourself in positions where others look up to you as a leader, and you can distinctly remember an event from your early childhood where you led several other children to accomplish a goal that each of you individually could not.
The only thing extraordinary about your appearance is its ordinariness.
You grew up separated from your birth parents, and had to learn to watch out for yourself.
Your childhood was tough, and your parents always had to make every copper piece count.
Your childhood was tough, and your parents had to make every copper piece count.
You were born into a rich family, perhaps even the nobility, and even though you turned to a life of adventure anyway, you enjoy a one-time benefit to your initial finances—your starting cash increases to 900 gp.
You were born into a rich family, perhaps even the nobility, and even though you turned to a life of adventure, you enjoy a one-time benefit to your initial finances—your starting wealth increases to 900 gp.
You were born and raised in untamed lands far from civilization.