Within the Shadoweave, instead of choosing from races, characters instead have a background. This background may be where you were born and raised, however it could also represent where you grew and developed as a person. Regardless, you receive a benefit from your background. Each background provides a bonus to one skill (from a selection of 3) and also provide you with another small beneficial bonus.

To better understand the meaning of your background, you can read about the different types of locations that are listed below within the locations.

Agricultural

  • You receive a +1 bonus to 2 Skills: Endurance, Athletics, Assembly or Cosmology
  • Your Carry Capacity is increased by 10 lbs.

Extraction

  • You receive a +1 bonus to 2 Skills: Technology, Overpower, Destruction or Database
  • You receive a +10 bonus to your Safe Fall.

Frontier

  • You receive a +1 bonus to 2 Skills: Endurance, Perception, Survival, or Negotiation
  • You receive a +1 bonus to your Insight.
  • You receive a +1 bonus to your Awareness.

Industrial

  • You receive a +1 bonus to 2 Skills: Corporate, Deception, Assembly or Hacking
  • You receive a +2 bonus to your Insight.

Recreational

  • You receive a +1 bonus to 2 Skills: Performance, High Society, Streetwise, or Sleight of Hand
  • You receive one bonus Language.

University

  • You receive a +1 bonus to 2 Skills: History, Technology, Database, or Science
  • You receive a +2 bonus to your Recall.

Urban

  • You receive a +1 bonus to 2 Skills: Streetwise, Stealth, Corporate, or Charm
  • You receive a +2 bonus to your Awareness.

Wild

  • You receive a +1 bonus to 2 Skills: Survival, Acrobatics, Athletics, Overpower
  • You receive a +1 bonus to your Initiative.

Astral Station

  • You receive a +1 bonus to 2 Skills: Technology, Intimidation, Assembly, Database
  • You receive a +4 bonus to your Hit Points.

Astral Vessel

  • You receive a +1 bonus to 2 Skills: Science, Cosmology, Negotiation, or Planar Walking
  • Your receive a +2 bonus to Presence.

Astral Space

  • You receive a +1 bonus to 2 Skills: Planar Walking, Perception, Intimidation, or Secret Society
  • You receive a +1 bonus to Mana.