TheriapolisV3/Content/Data/backgrounds.json

[
  {
    "id": "coliseum_survivor",
    "name": "Coliseum Survivor",
    "flavor": "You fought in the arena — voluntary or otherwise. Your body is a map of old wounds and your instincts are sharpened by crowds that wanted your blood.",
    "skill_proficiencies": ["athletics", "performance"],
    "tool_proficiencies": ["gaming_set", "herbalism_kit"],
    "feature_name": "Crowd Reader",
    "feature_description": "Gauge the mood of any group instantly. Identify the leader, sense incoming violence, and find the quickest exit. Advantage on Insight checks in group settings.",
    "suggested_personality": "Hypervigilant in open spaces. Flashbacks triggered by cheering. Distrust of spectators. Comfort only in controlled violence."
  },
  {
    "id": "passer",
    "name": "Passer",
    "flavor": "You are a hybrid who presents as purebred. You've built a life on a lie, and every day is performance.",
    "skill_proficiencies": ["deception", "stealth"],
    "tool_proficiencies": ["perfumers_kit", "disguise_kit"],
    "feature_name": "The Mask",
    "feature_description": "Maintain a scent-mask and behavioral profile of your presenting clade. Casual scent checks don't detect your hybrid status. Under stress, CHA (Deception) check or the mask slips. Access to the underground passer network.",
    "suggested_personality": "Constantly calculating. Genuine only with other passers. Terror of discovery beneath every interaction. Relief and grief in equal measure when the mask drops."
  },
  {
    "id": "covenant_enforcer",
    "name": "Covenant Enforcer",
    "flavor": "You served the legal system that upholds the Covenant of Claws. As investigator, bailiff, or executioner, you've seen what happens when the agreement breaks.",
    "skill_proficiencies": ["investigation", "intimidation"],
    "tool_proficiencies": ["manacles", "vehicles_land"],
    "feature_name": "Badge Authority",
    "feature_description": "In regions that honor the Covenant, carry legal authority. Compel cooperation from civilians, access restricted areas, demand answers. Vanishes in lawless zones; carries enemies.",
    "suggested_personality": "Haunted by cases. Black-and-white morality softened (or hardened) by experience. Instinctive distrust of charm."
  },
  {
    "id": "herd_city_born",
    "name": "Herd-City Born",
    "flavor": "You grew up in one of the great prey-clade cities — massive, communal, fortified, paranoid in the bones of its architecture.",
    "skill_proficiencies": ["perception", "history"],
    "tool_proficiencies": ["artisans_tools", "herbalism_kit"],
    "feature_name": "Safety in Numbers",
    "feature_description": "Always know the nearest exit, defensible position, and rally point in any urban environment. Find safe lodging in any prey-clade community within 1 hour.",
    "suggested_personality": "Agoraphobic tendencies. Deep communal loyalty. Suspicion of solitary behavior. Comfort in crowds, anxiety in open spaces."
  },
  {
    "id": "pack_raised",
    "name": "Pack-Raised",
    "flavor": "You come from a traditional Canid pack structure — hierarchical, loyal, suffocating. The pack is family, employer, and identity.",
    "skill_proficiencies": ["athletics", "insight"],
    "tool_proficiencies": ["vehicles_land", "artisans_tools"],
    "feature_name": "Pack Network",
    "feature_description": "Find Canid pack-affiliated contacts in any settlement. Contacts offer basic hospitality, information, and short-term shelter. Obligations flow both ways.",
    "suggested_personality": "Instinctive deference to authority or instinctive rebellion against it. Loneliness hits harder than it should. Comfort in hierarchy."
  },
  {
    "id": "borderland_stray",
    "name": "Borderland Stray",
    "flavor": "You grew up in the spaces between — border towns, disputed territories, places where clade identity is fluid and survival is daily.",
    "skill_proficiencies": ["survival", "deception"],
    "tool_proficiencies": ["thieves_tools", "gaming_set"],
    "feature_name": "No One's Territory",
    "feature_description": "Navigate lawless zones. Find black-market contacts, under-the-table work, and discreet passage in any border settlement. Read danger before it arrives.",
    "suggested_personality": "Pragmatic to the point of amorality. Loyalty earned, never assumed. Distrusts idealists. Sleeps light."
  },
  {
    "id": "hybrid_underground",
    "name": "Hybrid Underground",
    "flavor": "You're openly hybrid, or you were raised in hybrid community spaces — the informal networks, art collectives, and mutual aid groups that exist because no one else would have you.",
    "skill_proficiencies": ["performance", "persuasion"],
    "tool_proficiencies": ["musical_instrument", "perfumers_kit"],
    "feature_name": "Blend Network",
    "feature_description": "Access to the hybrid underground: safe houses, scent-masking supply chains, identity documents, community healers who understand hybrid biology. Find the network within 24 hours in any city.",
    "suggested_personality": "Defiant. Artistic. Rage just below the surface. Deep bonds with chosen family. Default distrust of purebreds softened by individual proof."
  },
  {
    "id": "warren_runner",
    "name": "Warren Runner",
    "flavor": "Leporid-origin logistics and communications. You were a messenger, courier, or information carrier for the warren-networks that connect communities.",
    "skill_proficiencies": ["acrobatics", "perception"],
    "tool_proficiencies": ["navigators_tools", "vehicles_land"],
    "feature_name": "The Network Runs",
    "feature_description": "Know the fastest route between any two points in a region you've worked. Deliver messages with near-perfect reliability. Contacts in Leporid warren-networks across multiple cities.",
    "suggested_personality": "Restless. Difficulty sitting still. Excellent spatial memory. Loyalty to the network above individual relationships."
  },
  {
    "id": "rawfang_investigator",
    "name": "Rawfang Investigator",
    "flavor": "You hunt the worst criminals in the world — those who break the Covenant by consuming sentient flesh. This work has changed you.",
    "skill_proficiencies": ["investigation", "medicine"],
    "tool_proficiencies": ["alchemists_supplies", "forensic_kit"],
    "feature_name": "Crime Scene Reader",
    "feature_description": "Analyze a location for evidence of Covenant violation. Blood typing, scent remnants, tissue identification. Read a scene in minutes. Contacts in law enforcement and forensic communities.",
    "suggested_personality": "Quiet. Dark humor as a coping mechanism. Difficulty eating meat of any kind. Insomnia. Unwavering commitment to justice."
  },
  {
    "id": "scent_suppressed",
    "name": "Scent-Suppressed",
    "flavor": "You grew up on scent-suppressants — maybe your parents were progressive, maybe paranoid, maybe you're a hybrid whose scent was managed from birth. You've lived partially invisible in a world that communicates through smell.",
    "skill_proficiencies": ["stealth", "insight"],
    "tool_proficiencies": ["perfumers_kit", "alchemists_supplies"],
    "feature_name": "Scentless",
    "feature_description": "Your baseline scent is nearly undetectable. Creatures relying on scent to detect or read you do so with disadvantage. You read others by body language rather than scent.",
    "suggested_personality": "Observant. Disconnected from scent-culture rituals. Feels invisible. Either grateful for the privacy or resentful of the erasure."
  },
  {
    "id": "former_chattel",
    "name": "Former Chattel",
    "flavor": "Hybrid-specific. Your grandparents — or you — were property. The Imperium's shadow is long, and some regions only recently abolished hybrid ownership.",
    "skill_proficiencies": ["athletics", "survival"],
    "tool_proficiencies": ["artisans_tools", "herbalism_kit"],
    "feature_name": "Unbreakable",
    "feature_description": "Advantage on saves against exhaustion and against effects that would compel obedience or subservience. Contacts in abolitionist networks and former-chattel communities.",
    "suggested_personality": "Quiet fury. Absolute refusal to be owned, controlled, or spoken for. Deep empathy for the powerless. Difficulty trusting authority."
  },
  {
    "id": "coliseum_breeder",
    "name": "Coliseum Breeder",
    "flavor": "You worked the coliseum system — not as a fighter, but as the industry behind the spectacle. Trainer, handler, promoter, or medic. You know how the machine works.",
    "skill_proficiencies": ["animal_handling", "medicine"],
    "tool_proficiencies": ["herbalism_kit", "gaming_set"],
    "feature_name": "Arena Insider",
    "feature_description": "Know the coliseum circuit, active and underground. Secure fights, find fighters, negotiate purses, identify fixed matches. Know which officials take bribes.",
    "suggested_personality": "Pragmatic about violence. Business-minded. Complicated relationship with ethics — kept fighters alive, but kept the system running."
  }
]