Expanded Character Backgrounds - Acolyte

In this series I plan to expand upon the vanilla 5e character backgrounds by providing a variety of associated ‘sub-backgrounds’ under each generic title. Each of these will have its own independent feature and a selection of fitting personality traits/suggestions for backstory elements.

The idea is to replicate the player’s handbook style of providing a basis for each character that can be randomly rolled for or selectively picked from. My aim is not to completely write a specific character for you, but instead provide a direction from which you can build your own story and personality. To this end there are purposefully as few references to specific people, locations or lifestyles as possible beyond the general themes of the original title.

I hope that the features I’ve written are as near to balanced with the ‘strength’ of the vanilla ones as possible, but this is my first foray into such things so any feedback on this would be appreciated.