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Previous Section: [[03 🔵 Heritage|Heritage]]
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# Background
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Backgrounds help to define a character's personal history before becoming an adventurer. When choosing a background, consider how it plays into your character's heritage and class. Did life as a soldier pave the way for you to become a fighter? Did a religious experience pull you away from a community that holds a different faith?
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Your background may grant [[02 🔵 Skill Descriptions#Skill Specialization|Skill Specializations]], [[02 🔵 Skill Descriptions#Knowledge Skills|Knowledge Skills]], and [[02 🔵 Skill Descriptions#Language Skills|Language Skills]]. It also provides a starting set of [[01 🔵 Equipment|Equipment]] and [[06 Qualities|Qualities]].
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## Elements of a Background
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### Skills
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Each background grants +2 to two [[02 🔵 Skill Descriptions|skills]] and +1 to two other [[02 🔵 Skill Descriptions|skills]]. Players also get to choose an additional [[02 🔵 Skill Descriptions|skill]] to increase by 2 and another [[02 🔵 Skill Descriptions|skill]] to increase by 1.
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#### Specialization
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Backgrounds grant a single Novice [[02 🔵 Skill Descriptions#Skill Specialization|Skill Specialization]]. The skill that this specialization is applied to is set to +5 and can not be increased by other benefits of this Background.
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### Language Skills
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Backgrounds can grant one additional [[02 🔵 Skill Descriptions#Language Skills|Language Skill]] on top of the languages learned from a Heritage or increase the level of a language already learned.
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### Knowledge Skills
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Each background grants up to 4 [[02 🔵 Skill Descriptions#Knowledge Skills|Knowledge Skills]]. Two of these skills are free for the player to choose.
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### Contacts
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Each background grants at least 2 [[04 🔵 Interacting with Creatures#Contacts|Contacts]]. Players may come up with the contacts but they should be approved by the GM. The upper limit of contacts a player can gain during character creation is limited by GM discretion.
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### Equipment
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Each background provides a package of starting equipment.
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### Adventuring Motivation
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A background contains suggested motivations to help inform your reasons for becoming an adventurer. You can roll to determine it randomly, pick one off the list, or use them as inspiration for creating your own motivation.
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# Next Section
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[[05 🔵 Intimacies|Intimacies]]
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