Interspecies Orphan

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Interspecies Orphan

You were always different. One way, at some point in time, you were separated from your original race. Maybe you were a child when you were abducted amid a goblinoid raid, and eventually raised to be a slave soldier. Or perhaps you were already grown, but ended up joining a family of firbolgs when your own was lost to a calamity. Regardless the method and timing, you are among those with whom you share no blood or lineage, and you are of different racial origins entirely.
Skill Proficiencies: Perception, Nature
Tool Proficiencies: A tool or instrument from your upbringing as according to your game setting. For example, being raised by dwarves might mean you are proficient with smith's tools
Languages: One language from your foster race
Equipment: A piece of jewelry worth 5 gp from the family that raised you, common clothes, a trinket from when you were adopted, and a belt pouch with 5 gp.

Feature: Between Both Worlds

There is something about you that just sticks out like a sore thumb among your adoptive family. When you are around others of that family race, this serves as a tell of your different nature.

Suggested Characteristics

Specialization (d4)

1I have a thick and unfitting accent.
2My size is utterly different from the others who adopted me.
3I do things in a way that goes against how everyone else is taught.
4A small feature of my body betrays my true race.

Personality Traits (d8)

1I put too much value in fitting in.
2I question the norms of every society.
3I'm proud of my culture, even if it's not mine by blood.
4I do what feels right and natural by my own heart, whether it aligns or clashes with my culture.
5I'm a weird mix of both the culture I was born in and the culture I was raised in.
6I show absolutely no signs of my blood race's culture, in terms of personality or ideals.
7There is a lot of things about my original race that I am always curious about.
8I don't like new environments and they make me nervous.

Ideals (d6)

1Assimilationist. I just want to fit in. (Lawful)
2Rebel. I know I'm special from everyone else and I want that to be clear. (Chaotic)
3Origin. I want to find the ones whom I was taken away from. (Neutral)
4Usurper. I want to take over this unfamiliar bunch who took me in, because I'm simply better. (Evil)
5Aid. I will do everything I can for this family of mine, blood or not. (Good)
6Realization. I want to figure what and who I am, as a weird mutt. (Any)

Bonds (d6)

1I want to find my birth family.
2I love my family which raised me. Blood doesn't matter.
3I can't seem to bond well with people unless they look like me.
4I don't trust anyone but the ones who raised me and their race.
5There has to be someone out there like me, and I'm going to find them.
6No one is able to relate to a freak like me.

Flaws (d6)

1I'm a very dense person. Subtlety is above me.
2I can't adapt to situations very well.
3I tend to be fussy if things don't go my way.
4I refuse to try new things.
5I resort to denial a lot when things seem bleak.
6I speak condescendingly to everyone.


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Source: D&D Wiki - Interspecies Orphan (5e Background)

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