Character Heritages

In Blood & Burden, your heritage is the family and community you were born into. It shapes your earliest years — the work you saw done, the skills you absorbed, and the world you understood before you ever made a choice. Each heritage grants a starting stat bonus and skill, and gives you a history that follows your character through every term of their life.

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Farmer

You were born to a farming family. Your early years were shaped by soil, weather, livestock, hunger, harvests, and long days of physical work.

+1 Endurance Survival 1
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Hunter

You were born to a family of hunters, trappers, or woodsmen. Your early years were spent learning the shape of tracks in mud, the silence of the woods, and the difference between hunger and patience.

+1 Perception Tracking 1
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Craftsman

You were born to a family of skilled workers. Your childhood was filled with tools, measurements, repairs, apprentices, guild rules, and the expectation that useful hands made an honest life.

+1 Education Engineering 1
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Merchant

You were born to a trading family. Your early years were shaped by ledgers, bargaining, debt, reputation, favors, and the knowledge that coin could open doors strength could not.

+1 Presence Persuasion 1
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Scholar

You were born into a learned household. Books, letters, debate, tutors, records, and old arguments surrounded your youth.

+1 Intellect History 1 Requires any: Education 8+ / Intellect 8+ / Social Standing 8+
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Noble

+1 Presence Etiquette 1 Requires any: Social Standing 9+
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Serf

You were born to a bound peasant family. Your childhood was marked by labor, obligation, poor food, harsh seasons, and little say over your own future.

+1 Endurance Survival 1
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Knacker

You were born to a family that handled dead, dying, and unwanted animals. Disease, butchery, disposal, and social contempt were ordinary parts of life.

+1 Endurance Animal Handling 1 Requires at most Social Standing 5
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Executioner

You were born to a feared and shunned family. Punishment, death, civic duty, and whispered disgust followed your household wherever it went.

+1 Strength Intimidation 1 Requires at most Social Standing 5
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Street Performer

You were born among entertainers, actors, musicians, jugglers, or traveling performers. Crowds, coin, laughter, suspicion, and improvisation shaped your youth.

+1 Agility Persuasion 1
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Artisan

You were born to a family of fine craftsmen—jewelers, weavers, illuminators, or other skilled artisans. Precision, patience, and beauty shaped your youth.

+1 Education Investigation 1
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Cook

You were born into a household of cooks, innkeepers, or brewers. Heat, noise, customers, and long hours were the rhythm of your early life.

+1 Endurance Persuasion 1
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Forester

You were born among wardens, charcoal burners, or boundary keepers. The forest was your home, your teacher, and sometimes your enemy.

+1 Perception Tracking 1
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Healer

You were born to a family of herbalists, midwives, or physicians. Illness, remedies, and the fragility of life were familiar to you from childhood.

+1 Intellect Medicine 1
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Priest

You were raised in a devout household. Ritual, doctrine, charity, and the weight of spiritual duty shaped your earliest memories.

+1 Presence Religion 1
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Sailor

You were born to a family of rivermen, ferrymen, or sailors. Water, weather, rope, and risk were constants in your youth.

+1 Endurance Navigation 1
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Militia

You were born to a family tied to local defense—watchmen, levy guards, or town sentries. Duty and danger were familiar parts of life.

+1 Strength Streetwise 1
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Infantry

You were born to a soldiering family. Marching, discipline, hardship, and the smell of the training yard shaped your childhood.

+1 Endurance Polearms 1
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Cavalry

You were born among mounted warriors—light horse, outriders, or noble retainers. Horses, discipline, and prestige surrounded your youth.

+1 Presence Riding 1
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Royal Scout

You were born to a family of rangers, trackers, or royal scouts. Silence, danger, and the deep wilds were familiar to you from childhood.

+1 Perception Stealth 1
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