Apprentice Background

You've spent the last few years working under the tutelage of a guild, organization or powerful character. Maybe you acquired the skills of dwarven ore-melting deep in the mountains, worked as an assistant in an alchemy shoppe, were a trainee sellsman for an illustrious wine-making family, a damsel of company for a local noblewoman, or even a squire for a legendary paladin... in any case you've quickly learned to guess other people's needs as you attended to the many practical tasks your work demanded. You've also become quite proficient in dealing with powerful, often difficult people and ironing out their quirks as well as their laundry.

Yet all this time spent working for others hasn't offered you the opportunity to truly discover your path in life. Recently released from your duties, you intend to remedy to this, as you finally set out on your own !

Skill Proficiencies: Insight or Persuasion + 1 other skill of your choice.

Tool Proficiencies: 2 sets of tools of your choice.

Equipment: A small portable kitchen, a short sword, a big leather satchel, a lantern, a set of common clothes, and a pouch containing 15 gp.

Feature: Dependable Mindset

As an apprentice, you're used to be faced with impromptu and sometimes awkward work situations that demand both a quick response and good People's Skills. As such, you've become knowledgeable in various tricks of the trade and can placate or divert an interlocutors' anger, or inspire their confidence when the need arises.

Your mindset can be based on a sour disposition backed by a perfectionist's mind, or a happy-go-lucky openness that show your natural optimism and resourcefulness, but be it as it may, you're the man (or woman) for the situation when unexpected practical difficulties arise.

You have access to various professional contacts and shoppes in one city of your choice, and know of at least one influential NPC relating to your old work.

Suggested Characteristics
Apprentices are generally very practical and/or people oriented, so their skills and specialties will tend to gravitate towards the social and the immediately useful.

On the other hand, they may have quirks that reflect their old masters and employers' tendencies or traumas.