Soldier

"You are trained in battlefield tactics and combat, having served in a militia, mercenary company, or officer corps. Show smart tactics and bravery on the battlefield to enhance your prowess."

Background Features

• Athletics Proficiency: Gain Proficiency with Strength (Athletics) Ability Checks.
• Intimidation Proficiency: Gain Proficiency with Charisma (Intimidation) Ability Checks.

Background Goals

Performing certain actions that align with this background will reward Inspiration. These goals can be accomplished by any member of the active party, and Inspiration points are pooled, up to a maximum of 4.

General

• One For The Ages: Survive a fight in which you kill ten or more enemies.
  • Summoned creatures that disappear when their summoner dies count toward this.
• Pentacrush: Kill 5 enemies in a single turn.
• Strategist: Defeat a powerful foe in one strike.

Act One

Druids Grove

• No One Left Behind: Ensure all of the Grove's defenders survive the first goblin assault.
  • Kanon dying in the prior cutscene does not prevent getting this.
• To Arms!: Help Guex learn to fight.

The Risen Road

• Chain Of Command: Follow Flaming Fist orders at the burning inn.
• Warrior of the Hells: Kill the cultist leader seeking Karlach.

Mountain Pass

• Conquer the Conquerors: Defeat the Githyanki raiding squad.

Goblin Camp

• A Headless Horde: Kill every leader in the goblin camp.

Underdark

• Drowned in the Dark: Defeat the duergar patrolling on the Ebonlake.

Act Two

Shadow-Cursed Lands

• Centennial Rivalries: Complete the Harper ambush.
• Masterful Execution: Kill any of the bosses in and around the Shadow-Cursed Lands in a single round of combat.

Last Light Inn

• Absolute Devastation: Destroy Last Light.
• Shield of the Moon: Obtain Selûne's blessing from Isobel.

Reithwin Town

• An Apple a Day Keeps the Scalpel Away: Defeat the Surgeon without being operated upon.
• Realities of War: Tell Arabella what happened to her parents.
• The Best Offense is Virtually Nonsense: Defeat a member of the Thorm family without drawing steel.

Moonrise Towers

• A Bone To Pick: Overcome the skeletons in Moonrise prison during the assault.
• Devastation of the Absolute: Complete the assault on Moonrise.
• Familicide: Kill all members of the Thorm family.
  • This includes Ketheric, Gerringothe, Isobel, Malus, and Thisobald.
• Notched Armour: Show off your prowess to the bugbear merchant.

Gauntlet of Shar

• Know Thine Enemy: Defeat yourself in the Gauntlet of Shar's mirror trial.
• Return to Sender: Kill the orthon, returning him to Raphael.
• Soldier of Fortune: Give Nightsong to Ketheric.
  • Allow Balthazar to transport Nightsong from the Shadowfell.

Act Three

Rivington

• Sharing the Spoils: Donate to the refugees.
• Reporting for Duty: Report to Commander Lightfeather.

Wyrm's Rock Fortress

• Court Marshall: Expose the Flaming Fist deserter.
• Great Helm of Legends: Find the Helm of Balduran.
• Regicide: Execute Gortash.

Lower City

• Double-Tap: Kill Auntie Ethel... again...
• Innovations in Volatility: Give your blood to Araj a second time.
• Kicking the Rust Bucket: Destroy a Steel Watcher.
• Knives in the Dark: Survive the confrontation in the Sharran Cloister.
• Love That Smell: Aid the deep gnomes and use the Runepowder Bomb to blow up the Steel Watch Foundry.
• Urgent Communication: Commune with the Netherbrain.
  • Talk to Edenosa after the ambush in the park.
• Veteran's Hotspot: Purchase a room at the Elfsong Tavern.

House of Hope

• Hot Exit: Escape the House of Hope.

Bhaal Temple

• Putting the Past to Rest: Execute Orin.