Backgrounds
Cathedral WardRaised within a temple orphanage, shaped by liturgy and quiet ritual.Foundry BratGrew up underfoot in a House Ilmath foundry, reading machinery before words.High-Road FoundlingFound along an elevated trade road and raised hand-to-hand by passing caravans.Ruin ScavengerCame of age picking through half-buried ruins for salvage.Air-ship ScampStowed away, then stayed, aboard a merchant airship as its cabin-runner.Arcane ProdigyShowed magical talent early enough to be swept into formal academy training.Gilded WallflowerAttended every court function that mattered without ever quite being seen at them.Garrison CadetEnlisted young into a Legion garrison and drilled before they could vote in a House assembly.House ScionBorn into the inner family of one of the Eleven Great Houses.House ApprenticeApprenticed young into a Great House's guild trade rather than its bloodline.Market UrchinGrew up quick-fingered and quicker-witted in the stalls and alleys of a great market.Dockside RunnerMade a living as a child sprinting messages and parcels along a busy harbor.Witch ApprenticeTaken in by a witch and taught the old, holistic ways of Sympathetic Casting.FarmhandRaised working land that answered to weather and season long before the rail lines came.Smuggler's Cove ChildGrew up among smugglers, learning to read tides, patrols, and the fine print of looking away.