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&larr; <small>[[Backstories]]</small>
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<noinclude>&larr; <small>[[Backstories]]</small>
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Note: these do not include the player-created backstories. Those can be found here:
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* [[List of player created childhood backstories A through M]]
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* [[List of player created childhood backstories N through Z]]
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because the wiki can't display a page that large.
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! Title <br/> (Short Title) !! Description !! Skill Modifications !! Work types!! Traits !! Tribal !! Outlander !! Pirate !! Offworld !! Outsider !! Imperial<br>Common !! Imperial<br>Fighter !! Imperial<br>Royal !! Bodytype
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!Title <br/> (Short Title) !!Description !!Skill Modifications !!Incapable of !!Civil !!Raider !!Slave !!Trader !!Traveler !!Tribal
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! Abandoned child
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<br /><nowiki /><!--
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-->(Abandoned)
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| [PAWN_nameDef] was born sickly. Thinking that [PAWN_pronoun] would only burden the tribe, [PAWN_possessive] parents left [PAWN_objective] out in the elements. Somehow, [PAWN_pronoun] survived.
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| Melee: {{+|3}}</br>Crafting: {{+|3}}</br>Social: {{--|2}}
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| None
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| {{cross}} || {{cross}} || {{cross}} || {{cross}} || {{cross}} || {{check}}
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|-
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! Apocalypse survivor
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<br /><nowiki /><!--
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-->(Survivor)
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| [PAWN_nameDef] was born during a time of unrest on [PAWN_possessive] homeworld, as climate change threatened mass starvation and flooding. As [PAWN_pronoun] grew up the situation worsened - billions died and peaceful states descended into anarchy. [PAWN_nameDef] and [PAWN_possessive] parents did whatever they had to to survive.
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| Shooting: {{+|4}}</br>Artistic: {{--|3}}</br>Intellectual: {{--|3}}
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| None
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| {{check}} || {{check}} || {{check}} || {{check}} || {{check}} || {{cross}}
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|-
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! Cave child
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<br /><nowiki /><!--
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-->(Cave child)
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| [PAWN_nameDef] grew up in a large and intricate cave complex that extended deep into a mountainside. [PAWN_pronoun] helped the adults maintain and improve the deep caves.
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| Mining: {{+|3}}</br>Construction: {{+|3}}
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| None
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| {{cross}} || {{cross}} || {{cross}} || {{cross}} || {{cross}} || {{check}}
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|-
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! Caveworld tender
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<br /><nowiki /><!--
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-->(Cave kid)
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| [PAWN_nameDef] grew up in cave complex deep beneath the surface of an inhospitable world. [PAWN_pronoun] worked with the other children tending the tribe’s fungus crops.
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| Plants: {{+|4}}</br>Mining: {{+|2}}</br>Shooting: {{--|3}}
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| None
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| {{check}} || {{check}} || {{check}} || {{cross}} || {{check}} || {{cross}}
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|-
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! Caveworld tunneler
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<br /><nowiki /><!--
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-->(Tunneler)
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| [PAWN_nameDef] worked as a digger in the massive underground cave complex.
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<br /><nowiki /><!--
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-->[PAWN_pronoun] knows rock so well that [PAWN_pronoun] can almost navigate caves by smell.
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| Construction: {{+|1}}</br>Mining: {{+|6}}</br>Shooting: {{--|2}}
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| Intellectual
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<br /><nowiki /><!--
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-->Crafting
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<br /><nowiki /><!--
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-->
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| {{check}} || {{check}} || {{check}} || {{cross}} || {{cross}} || {{cross}}
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|-
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! Child spy
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<br /><nowiki /><!--
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-->(Spy)
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| Children are often presumed innocent, and can be ideal as spies. [PAWN_nameDef] was trained in the art of infiltration and information-gathering when [PAWN_pronoun] was just nine years old.
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<br /><nowiki /><!--
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-->[PAWN_possessive] years behind enemy lines and the war-torn nature of [PAWN_possessive] homeworld meant [PAWN_pronoun] had limited opportunity for education.
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| Shooting: {{+|5}}</br>Intellectual: {{--|3}}
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| None
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| {{check}} || {{check}} || {{check}} || {{check}} || {{check}} || {{cross}}
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|-
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! Child star
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<br /><nowiki /><!--
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-->(Star)
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| [PAWN_nameDef] was well-known throughout [PAWN_possessive] homeworld as a child actor in films and TV shows. [PAWN_possessive] fame put [PAWN_objective] in contact with many different kinds of people, but also tended to get in the way of [PAWN_possessive] education.
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| Social: {{+|3}}</br>Artistic: {{+|3}}</br>Intellectual: {{--|2}}
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| Dumb labor
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<br /><nowiki /><!--
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-->
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| {{check}} || {{check}} || {{cross}} || {{check}} || {{check}} || {{cross}}
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|-
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! Coma child
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<br /><nowiki /><!--
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-->(Coma child)
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| A childhood accident put [PAWN_nameDef] into a coma. [PAWN_pronoun] didn’t wake up until [PAWN_pronoun] was in [PAWN_possessive] late teens. [PAWN_possessive] body never recovered from the years of inactivity, but people tend to take pity on [PAWN_objective] when they hear [PAWN_possessive] story.
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| Social: {{+|4}}</br>Construction: {{--|2}}</br>Mining: {{--|2}}
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| None
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| {{check}} || {{check}} || {{check}} || {{check}} || {{check}} || {{cross}}
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|-
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! Convent child
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<br /><nowiki /><!--
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-->(Illicit)
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| The child of an illicit affair, [PAWN_nameDef] was bought up by nuns in a medieval convent. [PAWN_pronoun] learned the value of hard work and submission, but was taught that technology is heretical.
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| Construction: {{+|3}}</br>Plants: {{+|3}}
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| Intellectual
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<br /><nowiki /><!--
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-->Violent
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<br /><nowiki /><!--
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-->
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| {{check}} || {{cross}} || {{check}} || {{check}} || {{check}} || {{cross}}
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|-
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! Cult child
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<br /><nowiki /><!--
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-->(Cult kid)
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| [PAWN_nameDef] was born into a powerful cult which shunned advanced technology and believed that all illness could be cured by cleansing the soul through sacred art.
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<br /><nowiki /><!--
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-->After [PAWN_possessive] first glimpse of the outside world, [PAWN_pronoun] decided to run away.
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| Medicine: {{--|3}}</br>Artistic: {{+|5}}
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| Intellectual
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<br /><nowiki /><!--
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-->
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| {{check}} || {{check}} || {{check}} || {{check}} || {{check}} || {{cross}}
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|-
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! Fire keeper
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<br /><nowiki /><!--
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-->(Firekeep)
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| [PAWN_nameDef] was responsible for keeping the tribe’s fire going. [PAWN_pronoun] took this responsibility very seriously.
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| Crafting: {{+|2}}</br>Cooking: {{+|2}}
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| None
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| {{cross}} || {{cross}} || {{cross}} || {{cross}} || {{cross}} || {{check}}
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|-
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! Frightened child
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<br /><nowiki /><!--
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-->(Scared)
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| [PAWN_nameDef] grew up with a laundry list of phobias and neuroses. [PAWN_pronoun] feared, among other things, doctors and foodborne pathogens.
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<br /><nowiki /><!--
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-->As a result, [PAWN_pronoun] learned to cook and care for [PAWN_objective]self, but many of [PAWN_possessive] fears dog [PAWN_objective] in adulthood.
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| Medicine: {{+|3}}</br>Cooking: {{+|3}}
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| Violent
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<br /><nowiki /><!--
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-->
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| {{check}} || {{cross}} || {{check}} || {{check}} || {{cross}} || {{cross}}
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|-
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! Herder
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<br /><nowiki /><!--
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-->(Herder)
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| As a child, [PAWN_nameDef] tended the tribe’s muffalo herds, keeping them safe from predators and treating the sick. It was quiet work, but [PAWN_pronoun] enjoyed being away from people.
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| Medicine: {{+|3}}</br>Melee: {{+|3}}</br>Social: {{--|2}}
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| None
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| {{cross}} || {{cross}} || {{cross}} || {{cross}} || {{cross}} || {{check}}
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|-
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! Industrial orphan
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<br /><nowiki /><!--
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-->(Orphan)
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| [PAWN_nameDef] never knew [PAWN_possessive] parents. [PAWN_possessive] earliest memories were of drudgery in the mines and workhouses of [PAWN_possessive] industrial world.
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<br /><nowiki /><!--
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-->Because of this, [PAWN_pronoun] never received a proper education.
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| Crafting: {{+|3}}</br>Mining: {{+|3}}</br>Intellectual: {{--|2}}
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| None
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| {{check}} || {{check}} || {{check}} || {{check}} || {{cross}} || {{cross}}
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|-
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! Medical assistant
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<br /><nowiki /><!--
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-->(Medic)
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| [PAWN_nameDef] was born during a catastrophic war in which both sides used napalm extensively. [PAWN_pronoun] grew up helping [PAWN_possessive] parents in an infirmary, treating the cascade of horrific burns from the battlefields. [PAWN_pronoun] was left with a lifelong fear of fire.
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| Medicine: {{+|5}}
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| Firefighting
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<br /><nowiki /><!--
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-->
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| {{check}} || {{check}} || {{check}} || {{check}} || {{check}} || {{cross}}
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|-
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! Medieval lordling
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<br /><nowiki /><!--
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-->(Lordling)
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| [PAWN_nameDef] was a minor noble in an old kingdom on a medieval world. [PAWN_pronoun] grew up in a manor made of stone, served by bowing lowerclassmen.
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<br /><nowiki /><!--
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-->Such a life teaches no technical skills and instils a lifelong aversion to manual labor - but [PAWN_nameDef] learned early the ways of social manipulation.
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| Social: {{+|4}}</br>Construction: {{--|1}}</br>Mining: {{--|1}}</br>Plants: {{--|1}}
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| None
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| {{check}} || {{cross}} || {{cross}} || {{cross}} || {{cross}} || {{cross}}
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|-
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! Medieval slave
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<br /><nowiki /><!--
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-->(Slave)
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| [PAWN_nameDef] grew up pulling carts and digging holes on a medieval world. Simple manual labor is [PAWN_possessive] oldest companion - along with the master's lash.
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<br /><nowiki /><!--
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-->[PAWN_pronoun] didn't learn to read until age nine.
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| Plants: {{+|2}}</br>Construction: {{+|2}}</br>Mining: {{+|2}}</br>Intellectual: {{--|3}}
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| None
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| {{check}} || {{check}} || {{check}} || {{cross}} || {{cross}} || {{cross}}
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|-
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! Music lover
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<br /><nowiki /><!--
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-->(Musician)
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| As a child, [PAWN_nameDef] had a talent for playing musical instruments and singing. [PAWN_pronoun] was given expert training and loved to perform in recitals and concerts, though the lavish praise [PAWN_pronoun] received made [PAWN_objective] a little self-obsessed.
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| Social: {{--|2}}</br>Artistic: {{+|5}}
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| None
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| {{check}} || {{check}} || {{check}} || {{check}} || {{check}} || {{cross}}
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|-
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! Mute
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<br /><nowiki /><!--
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-->(Mute)
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| [PAWN_nameDef] was greatly affected by a traumatic event early in [PAWN_possessive] life. For many years [PAWN_pronoun] refused to speak to people, preferring instead to play with [PAWN_possessive] household's numerous pets.
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| Animals: {{+|5}}
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| Social
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<br /><nowiki /><!--
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-->
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| {{check}} || {{cross}} || {{check}} || {{cross}} || {{check}} || {{cross}}
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|-
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! Organ farm
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<br /><nowiki /><!--
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-->(Organ farm)
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| [PAWN_nameDef] was raised in an illegal underground organ farm. [PAWN_possessive] body was used to grow organic implants for wounded mercenaries. Though [PAWN_possessive] upbringing has left [PAWN_objective] haunted, it has also given [PAWN_objective] a unique understanding of human biology.
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| Medicine: {{+|5}}
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| Violent
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<br /><nowiki /><!--
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-->
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| {{check}} || {{cross}} || {{check}} || {{check}} || {{check}} || {{cross}}
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|-
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! Pyromaniac
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<br /><nowiki /><!--
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-->(Pyro)
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| From an early age, [PAWN_nameDef] had an unhealthy fascination with fire. [PAWN_pronoun] would set refuse heaps ablaze and become so entranced by the flames [PAWN_pronoun] would absent-mindedly burn [PAWN_objective]self.
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<br /><nowiki /><!--
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-->One day while playing with matches, [PAWN_pronoun] carelessly burned down [PAWN_possessive] home.
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| Social: {{--|3}}</br>Cooking: {{--|2}}</br>Artistic: {{+|3}}
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| Firefighting
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<br /><nowiki /><!--
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-->
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| {{check}} || {{check}} || {{check}} || {{check}} || {{check}} || {{cross}}
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|-
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! Reclusive child
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<br /><nowiki /><!--
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-->(Reclusive)
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| [PAWN_nameDef] didn’t learn to speak until [PAWN_pronoun] was nearly 5 years old, and, even then, [PAWN_pronoun] preferred to keep to [PAWN_objective]self. When [PAWN_pronoun] was in [PAWN_possessive] early teens, [PAWN_pronoun] made a habit of wandering off from the village to live in the wilderness for weeks at a time.
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| Melee: {{+|4}}</br>Crafting: {{+|3}}
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| Social
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<br /><nowiki /><!--
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-->
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| {{cross}} || {{cross}} || {{cross}} || {{cross}} || {{cross}} || {{check}}
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|-
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! Scavenger
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<br /><nowiki /><!--
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-->(Scavenger)
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| [PAWN_nameDef] spent [PAWN_possessive] childhood escaping grunt work to go digging through wrecks and ruins for treasures. [PAWN_possessive] natural curiosity got [PAWN_objective] into a lot of trouble, but it also yielded many interesting finds.
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| Mining: {{+|3}}</br>Intellectual: {{+|3}}
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| Dumb labor
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<br /><nowiki /><!--
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-->
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| {{cross}} || {{cross}} || {{cross}} || {{cross}} || {{cross}} || {{check}}
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|-
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! Scout
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<br /><nowiki /><!--
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-->(Scout)
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| Born to colonial administrators from a small imperial power, [PAWN_nameDef] was enrolled in a youth program that taught military scouting skills.
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<br /><nowiki /><!--
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-->[PAWN_pronoun] learned to survive in the wilderness, to obey, and not to ask questions.
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| Shooting: {{+|3}}</br>Crafting: {{+|2}}</br>Construction: {{+|1}}
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| Artistic
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<br /><nowiki /><!--
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-->Intellectual
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<br /><nowiki /><!--
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-->
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| {{check}} || {{check}} || {{check}} || {{cross}} || {{cross}} || {{cross}}
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|-
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! Shelter child
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<br /><nowiki /><!--
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-->(Shelterkid)
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| [PAWN_nameDef] grew up in a shelter deep beneath a toxic world. [PAWN_pronoun] received a comprehensive education, but had no opportunity to do physical labour.
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| Intellectual: {{+|3}}</br>Medicine: {{+|3}}</br>Social: {{+|2}}</br>Construction: {{--|2}}</br>Mining: {{--|2}}
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| None
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| {{check}} || {{check}} || {{check}} || {{check}} || {{check}} || {{cross}}
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|-
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! Shopkeeper
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<br /><nowiki /><!--
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-->(Shopkeep)
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| [PAWN_nameDef]'s mother was often ill, and it fell to [PAWN_objective] to run the store which was their only source of income. [PAWN_pronoun] learned a little about the exotic artifacts which [PAWN_pronoun] sold, and a lot about the art of the deal.
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| Social: {{+|4}}</br>Intellectual: {{+|2}}
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| None
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| {{check}} || {{check}} || {{check}} || {{check}} || {{check}} || {{cross}}
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|-
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! Sickly child
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<br /><nowiki /><!--
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-->(Patient)
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| As a child, [PAWN_nameDef] suffered from a rare disease. Quarantined in a research hospital, [PAWN_pronoun] had minimal human contact and got little physical exercise. In the sterile hospital environment, however, [PAWN_pronoun] became very familiar with science and medicine.
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| Intellectual: {{+|4}}</br>Medicine: {{+|5}}</br>Melee: {{--|2}}</br>Social: {{--|2}}</br>Construction: {{--|2}}
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| None
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| {{check}} || {{cross}} || {{check}} || {{cross}} || {{cross}} || {{cross}}
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|-
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! Sole survivor
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<br /><nowiki /><!--
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-->(Survivor)
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| [PAWN_nameDef]’s entire tribe was wiped out in a raid. Though [PAWN_pronoun] was adopted by another group, [PAWN_pronoun] was emotionally scarred, and preferred to stay near home, cooking and tending crops.
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| Plants: {{+|3}}</br>Cooking: {{+|3}}
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| Violent
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<br /><nowiki /><!--
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-->
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| {{cross}} || {{cross}} || {{cross}} || {{cross}} || {{cross}} || {{check}}
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|-
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! Story writer
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<br /><nowiki /><!--
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-->(Writer)
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| As a child, [PAWN_nameDef] was addicted to reading. [PAWN_pronoun] would spend all day in [PAWN_possessive] local library with [PAWN_possessive] nose in a book. When budget cuts forced the library to close, [PAWN_nameDef] was distraught. [PAWN_pronoun] decided to fill the gap by writing [PAWN_possessive] own stories instead.
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| Artistic: {{+|4}}</br>Intellectual: {{+|3}}
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| None
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| {{check}} || {{check}} || {{check}} || {{check}} || {{check}} || {{cross}}
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|-
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! Test subject
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<br /><nowiki /><!--
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-->(Testee)
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| On the most corrupt urbworlds, scientists without a moral compass commit unspeakable atrocities in the name of research. [PAWN_nameDef] was kept alone in a sealed facility from birth and subjected to a variety of behavioural experiments in an attempt to turn [PAWN_objective] into a perfect super-soldier.
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| Shooting: {{+|4}}
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| Social
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<br /><nowiki /><!--
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-->Caring
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<br /><nowiki /><!--
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-->Firefighting
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<br /><nowiki /><!--
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-->
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| {{check}} || {{check}} || {{check}} || {{check}} || {{check}} || {{cross}}
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|-
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! Tribe child
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<br /><nowiki /><!--
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-->(Tribal)
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| [PAWN_nameDef] grew up in the tribe, running around the village, moving with the muffalo herds, learning essential skills from [PAWN_possessive] parents.
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<br /><nowiki /><!--
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-->[PAWN_pronoun] never learned to read and never saw a machine that wasn't an ancient ruin.
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| Plants: {{+|2}}</br>Melee: {{+|2}}</br>Shooting: {{+|2}}</br>Intellectual: {{--|3}}
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| None
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| {{cross}} || {{cross}} || {{cross}} || {{cross}} || {{cross}} || {{check}}
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|-
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! Urbworld urchin
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<br /><nowiki /><!--
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-->(Urchin)
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| The urbworlds - ancient and deep industrial cityscapes bursting with humanity and poison. [PAWN_nameDef] grew up in the dark, unwanted reaches of such a place. [PAWN_pronoun] had to fight for every scrap of food.
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| Melee: {{+|4}}</br>Shooting: {{+|2}}
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| None
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| {{check}} || {{check}} || {{check}} || {{cross}} || {{cross}} || {{cross}}
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|-
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! Vatgrown soldier
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<br /><nowiki /><!--
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-->(Vatgrown)
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| [PAWN_nameDef] wasn't made as a person, but as an instrument of destruction. Grown in a bioweapons facility and taught combat during [PAWN_possessive] accelerated growth, [PAWN_nameDef] still has a proclivity for combat of all kinds and an aversion to human contact.
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| Melee: {{+|4}}</br>Shooting: {{+|4}}
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| Social
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<br /><nowiki /><!--
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-->Caring
 +
<br /><nowiki /><!--
 +
-->
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| {{check}} || {{check}} || {{check}} || {{cross}} || {{cross}} || {{cross}}
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|-
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! Vengeful child
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<br /><nowiki /><!--
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-->(Vengeful)
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| As a child, [PAWN_nameDef] returned to [PAWN_possessive] village to find that it had been wiped out by bandits. [PAWN_pronoun] swore revenge on the attackers and began a violent rampage across the wilderness.
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| Melee: {{+|3}}</br>Shooting: {{+|3}}
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| Caring
 +
<br /><nowiki /><!--
 +
-->
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| {{cross}} || {{cross}} || {{cross}} || {{cross}} || {{cross}} || {{check}}
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|-
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! War refugee
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<br /><nowiki /><!--
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-->(Refugee)
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| War broke out in [PAWN_nameDef]'s home when [PAWN_pronoun] was a baby. [PAWN_possessive] parents fled with [PAWN_objective], seeking safety wherever they could find it. [PAWN_nameDef]'s earliest memories are of being taught how to defend [PAWN_objective]self.
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<br /><nowiki /><!--
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-->The violence and destruction [PAWN_pronoun] witnessed left [PAWN_objective] scarred for life.
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| Cooking: {{+|2}}</br>Crafting: {{+|2}}
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| Violent
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<br /><nowiki /><!--
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-->
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| {{check}} || {{cross}} || {{check}} || {{check}} || {{check}} || {{cross}}
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|-
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! Wreckage explorer
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<br /><nowiki /><!--
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-->(Explorer)
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| Two generations before [PAWN_nameDef] was born, an apocalyptic war dragged [PAWN_possessive] home planet into anarchy. [PAWN_nameDef] was tasked with watching [PAWN_possessive] tribe's herds, but often shirked [PAWN_possessive] duties to go exploring the crashed warships scattered around the planet.
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| Animals: {{+|3}}</br>Intellectual: {{+|3}}
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| None
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| {{check}} || {{check}} || {{check}} || {{check}} || {{check}} || {{cross}}
 
|-
 
|-
{{:Backstories/Tribal Child}}
 
{{:Backstories/Offworld Specific Child}}
 
{{:Backstories/Offworld Nonspecific Child}}
 
{{:Backstories/Offworld Medieval Child}}
 
{{:Backstories/ImperialRoyal Child}}
 
{{:Backstories/ImperialFighter Child}}
 
{{:Backstories/ImperialCommon Child}}
 
 
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