Starting skills
Acrobatics or Athletics, Common Lore (Imperial Creed), Deceive or Stealth, Dodge, Intimidate or Charm
Starting talents
Weapon Training (Solid Projectile)
Starting equipment
Stubpistol or Cognomen, Workers plassuit (+10 vs Resist poison/toxic), 5 coupons for Daily Rations
Background bonus
Unseen masses: As long as the character keeps his worker suit on he gets +10 bonus to Stealth checks and Unremarkable Talent.
Comrades in Servitude: Menials share the fate with other menials across the Imperium wherever they toil. Gain Peer (Menial) and +20 on Inquiry checks among menials.
Background aptitude
Offence or Social or Tech
“I toiled beside the engine. I patched what was broke. I was never noticed—but without my duty, the whole machine fails.”
Across the Imperium, uncountable trillions toil in silence. Among them are the Menials—unseen laborers who maintain the infrastructure of hive cities, forge temples, voidships, manufactoria, and shrine worlds. Neither slave nor free citizen, they occupy the forgotten space between cog and gear, living lives of mechanical repetition and subsistence survival.
Menials are born into duty, trained only for the function they must perform, and sometimes half-tethered into the machines they serve. Most die unrecorded, ground underfoot by servitors, overseers, or punishing workload. But a rare few break from the pattern—whether by accident, awakening, or Inquisitorial selection.
These survivors bring with them a blend of practical knowledge, stoic endurance, and an uncanny sense for underbelly of the Imperium. Their strength lies not in ideology or nobility, but in grim utility.
Ignis Aeternus WH 40K campaign notes 