Street Rat

Category: Background

Description

You grew up in the lower districts of the city — the docks, the warrens, the places polite society pretends don't exist. You got into the Academy on a scholarship, and everyone here knows it. The noble kids look down on you, the professors doubt you, and the cafeteria food is better than anything you've ever eaten. But you've survived worse than exams.

Fictional Permission

You know the city's street layout perfectly, including blind alleyways and locations of the nearest informants.

Mechanical Benefits

Background Move — Street Blend: When you attempt to blend into a crowd, evade pursuit in the slums, or act like you belong somewhere you don't, take +1 Forward.

Connection (Anchor)

Underground Contacts. You know people in the city's criminal underworld. once per quest, you can reach out to a fence, an informant, or a smuggler for black-market goods, rumours, or a safe place to hide.

Roleplay Hooks

• Someone from your old life shows up at the Academy gates, asking for a favour you can't refuse.
• A professor suspects your scholarship was arranged by someone with ulterior motives.
• You still have a hiding spot in the city where you stash things the Academy shouldn't know about.

"The Academy thinks it's teaching me discipline. The streets already did that."