List of childhood backstories

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Note: these do not include the player-created backstories. Those can be found here:

• List of player created childhood backstories A through M
• List of player created childhood backstories N through Z

because the wiki can't display a page that large.

Title (Short Title)	Description	Skill Modifications	Incapable of	Civil	Raider	Slave	Trader	Traveler	Tribal
Abandoned child (Abandoned)	[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.	Melee: +3 Crafting: +3 Social: −2	None
Apocalypse survivor (Survivor)	[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.	Shooting: +4 Artistic: −3 Intellectual: −3	None
Cave child (Cave child)	[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.	Mining: +3 Construction: +3	None
Caveworld tender (Cave kid)	[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.	Plants: +4 Mining: +2 Shooting: −3	None
Caveworld tunneler (Tunneler)	[PAWN_nameDef] worked as a digger in the massive underground cave complex. [PAWN_pronoun] knows rock so well that [PAWN_pronoun] can almost navigate caves by smell.	Construction: +1 Mining: +6 Shooting: −2	Intellectual Crafting
Child spy (Spy)	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. [PAWN_possessive] years behind enemy lines and the war-torn nature of [PAWN_possessive] homeworld meant [PAWN_pronoun] had limited opportunity for education.	Shooting: +5 Intellectual: −3	None
Child star (Star)	[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.	Social: +3 Artistic: +3 Intellectual: −2	Dumb labor
Coma child (Coma child)	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.	Social: +4 Construction: −2 Mining: −2	None
Convent child (Illicit)	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.	Construction: +3 Plants: +3	Intellectual Violent
Cult child (Cult kid)	[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. After [PAWN_possessive] first glimpse of the outside world, [PAWN_pronoun] decided to run away.	Medicine: −3 Artistic: +5	Intellectual
Fire keeper (Firekeep)	[PAWN_nameDef] was responsible for keeping the tribe’s fire going. [PAWN_pronoun] took this responsibility very seriously.	Crafting: +2 Cooking: +2	None
Frightened child (Scared)	[PAWN_nameDef] grew up with a laundry list of phobias and neuroses. [PAWN_pronoun] feared, among other things, doctors and foodborne pathogens. 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.	Medicine: +3 Cooking: +3	Violent
Herder (Herder)	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.	Medicine: +3 Melee: +3 Social: −2	None
Industrial orphan (Orphan)	[PAWN_nameDef] never knew [PAWN_possessive] parents. [PAWN_possessive] earliest memories were of drudgery in the mines and workhouses of [PAWN_possessive] industrial world. Because of this, [PAWN_pronoun] never received a proper education.	Crafting: +3 Mining: +3 Intellectual: −2	None
Medical assistant (Medic)	[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.	Medicine: +5	Firefighting
Medieval lordling (Lordling)	[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. 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.	Social: +4 Construction: −1 Mining: −1 Plants: −1	None
Medieval slave (Slave)	[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. [PAWN_pronoun] didn't learn to read until age nine.	Plants: +2 Construction: +2 Mining: +2 Intellectual: −3	None
Music lover (Musician)	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.	Social: −2 Artistic: +5	None
Mute (Mute)	[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.	Animals: +5	Social
Organ farm (Organ farm)	[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.	Medicine: +5	Violent
Pyromaniac (Pyro)	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. One day while playing with matches, [PAWN_pronoun] carelessly burned down [PAWN_possessive] home.	Social: −3 Cooking: −2 Artistic: +3	Firefighting
Reclusive child (Reclusive)	[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.	Melee: +4 Crafting: +3	Social
Scavenger (Scavenger)	[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.	Mining: +3 Intellectual: +3	Dumb labor
Scout (Scout)	Born to colonial administrators from a small imperial power, [PAWN_nameDef] was enrolled in a youth program that taught military scouting skills. [PAWN_pronoun] learned to survive in the wilderness, to obey, and not to ask questions.	Shooting: +3 Crafting: +2 Construction: +1	Artistic Intellectual
Shelter child (Shelterkid)	[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.	Intellectual: +3 Medicine: +3 Social: +2 Construction: −2 Mining: −2	None
Shopkeeper (Shopkeep)	[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.	Social: +4 Intellectual: +2	None
Sickly child (Patient)	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.	Intellectual: +4 Medicine: +5 Melee: −2 Social: −2 Construction: −2	None
Sole survivor (Survivor)	[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.	Plants: +3 Cooking: +3	Violent
Story writer (Writer)	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.	Artistic: +4 Intellectual: +3	None
Test subject (Testee)	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.	Shooting: +4	Social Caring Firefighting
Tribe child (Tribal)	[PAWN_nameDef] grew up in the tribe, running around the village, moving with the muffalo herds, learning essential skills from [PAWN_possessive] parents. [PAWN_pronoun] never learned to read and never saw a machine that wasn't an ancient ruin.	Plants: +2 Melee: +2 Shooting: +2 Intellectual: −3	None
Urbworld urchin (Urchin)	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.	Melee: +4 Shooting: +2	None
Vatgrown soldier (Vatgrown)	[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.	Melee: +4 Shooting: +4	Social Caring
Vengeful child (Vengeful)	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.	Melee: +3 Shooting: +3	Caring
War refugee (Refugee)	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. The violence and destruction [PAWN_pronoun] witnessed left [PAWN_objective] scarred for life.	Cooking: +2 Crafting: +2	Violent
Wreckage explorer (Explorer)	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.	Animals: +3 Intellectual: +3	None