■ Background · No. 02Disposition · Captive / SkepticOrigin · Wild Frontier
Surveyor Class · Personnel
Field Reference · Backgrounds · No. 02

The Native Recruit

Leans toward body and spirit.

Disposition
Captive / Skeptic
Origin
Wild Frontier
Tier mod
+1 body · −1 mind

You were born in a world Solace wanted access to. They needed a local guide — someone who could read the land, the people, the spirits, the seasons no Core surveyor could parse. They offered things your home couldn't refuse: medicine, leverage, weapons, the freedom of one of your siblings. Now you wear their uniform and walk Paths your ancestors warned about. You miss your home with an ache that doesn't fit on any intake form. Your colleagues are kind, mostly, and have no idea what they look like to you.

Tier modifier

+1 Body, −1 Mind. You learned to read terrain, weather, and danger before you learned to read words. Bureaucratic literacy is still uncomfortable.

Perk · Local Knowledge

You possess a working understanding of Frontier life that Core-born surveyors lack. In any world the GM judges to share key features with your home — terrain, climate, social structures, supernatural elements — you treat your Effective Tier as +1 in Body or Spirit, your choice. This applies to one pool at a time per scene.

Signature item options

3 options
  1. Opt 01A weapon, tool, or piece of clothing made by your own hands or your community's, declared on your Solace inventory but never quite *theirs*
  2. Opt 02A small bundle of items from home — herbs, charms, pieces of cloth — that mean something only you understand
  3. Opt 03A photograph or rendering of someone you left behind, kept folded in a pocket where you can feel its edge

Hooks

4 prompts
  1. H01I want to bring something useful from this work back to my people.
  2. H02I want to find out what Solace *actually* wants from my home.
  3. H03I want to free the family member whose freedom they hold.
  4. H04I want to walk back through the Path home and find it the way I left it.
End of entry · Background No. 02 · Filed by Surveyor Class Personnel