1. How does your character think of their father? What do they hate and love about him? What influence – literal or imagined – did the father have? 2. Their mother? How do they think of her? What do they hate? Love? What influence – literal or imagined – did the mother have? 3. Brothers, sisters? Who do they like? Why? What do they despise about their siblings? 4. What type of discipline was your character subjected to at home? Strict? Lenient? 5. Were they overprotected as a child? Sheltered? 6. Did they feel rejection or affection as a child? 7. What was the economic status of their family? 8. How does your character feel about religion? 9. What about political beliefs? 10. Is your character street-smart, book-smart, intelligent, intellectual, slow-witted? 11. How do they see themselves: as smart, as intelligent, uneducated? 12. How does their education and intelligence – or lack thereof – reflect in their speech pattern, vocabulary, and pronunciations? 13. Did they like school? Teachers? Schoolmates? 14. Were they involved at school? Sports? Clubs? Debate? Were they unconnected? 15. Did they graduate? High-School? College? Do they have a PHD? A GED? 16. What does your character do for a living? How do they see their profession? What do they like about it? Dislike? 17. Did they travel? Where? Why? When? 18. What did they find abroad, and what did they remember? 19. What were your character’s deepest disillusions? In life? What are they now? 20. What were the most deeply impressive political or social, national or international, events that they experienced? 21. What are your character’s manners like? What is their type of hero? Whom do they hate? 22. Who are their friends? Lovers? ‘Type’ or ‘ideal’ partner? 23. What do they want from a partner? What do they think and feel of sex? 24. What social groups and activities does your character attend? What role do they like to play? What role do they actually play, usually? 25. What are their hobbies and interests? 26. What does your character’s home look like? Personal taste? Clothing? Hair? Appearance? 27. How do they relate to their appearance? How do they wear their clothing? Style? Quality? 28. Who is your character’s mate? How do they relate to him or her? How did they make their choice? 29. What is your character’s weaknesses? Hubris? Pride? Controlling? 30. Are they holding on to something in the past? Can he or she forgive? 31. Does your character have children? How do they feel about their parental role? About the children? How do the children relate? 32. How does your character react to stress situations? Defensively? Aggressively? Evasively? 33. Do they drink? Take drugs? What about their health? 34. Does your character feel self-righteous? Revengeful? Contemptuous? 35. Do they always rationalize errors? How do they accept disasters and failures? 36. Do they like to suffer? Like to see other people suffering? 37. How is your character’s imagination? Daydreaming a lot? Worried most of the time? Living in memories? 38. Are they basically negative when facing new things? Suspicious? Hostile? Scared? Enthusiastic? 39. What do they like to ridicule? What do they find stupid? 40. How is their sense of humor? Do they have one? 41. Is your character aware of who they are? Strengths? Weaknesses? Idiosyncrasies? Capable of self-irony? 42. What does your character want most? What do they need really badly, compulsively? What are they willing to do, to sacrifice, to obtain? 43. Does your character have any secrets? If so, are they holding them back? 44. How badly do they want to obtain their life objectives? How do they pursue them? 45. Is your character pragmatic? Think first? Responsible? All action? A visionary? Passionate? Quixotic? 46. Is your character tall? Short? What about size? Weight? Posture? How do they feel about their physical body? 47. Do they want to project an image of a younger, older, more important person? Does they want to be visible or invisible? 48. How are your character’s gestures? Vigorous? Weak? Controlled? Compulsive? Energetic? Sluggish? 49. What about voice? Pitch? Strength? Tempo and rhythm of speech? Pronunciation? Accent? 50. What are the prevailing facial expressions? Sour? Cheerful? Dominating?
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Halone, the Fury 1. How protective is your character over their possessions and/or loved ones? 2. How stubborn is your character? 3. Is your character more defensive or offensive when in battle? Menphina, the Lover 4. How difficult is it to earn your character’s love? 5. Does your character separate love and sex or do they tie them together? 6. How romantic is your character? Thaliak, the Scholar 7. When it comes to formal education, does your character have any goals? 8. Does your character enjoy reading? If so, what kind of books? 9. How important is education to your character? Nymeia, the Spinner 10. Does your character believe in fate? 11. Do you think your character is lucky or unlucky? What do they think? 12. Describe an instance where your character experienced a direct consequence of the ‘butterfly effect’.
Llymlaen, the Navigator
13. Is there a place they haven’t seen that they wish to see before they die? 14. Favorite place in they’ve been to? 15. How adventurous is your character?
Oschon, the Wanderer
16. Does your character feel like they have a purpose in life? If so, what? 17. Does your character ‘go with the flow’ or do they tend to follow their own path? 18. Most influential place in their life they ‘wandered into’? Byregot, the Builder 19. Does your character have any constructive hobbies? 20. Does your character enjoy the arts? If so, what kind? 21. Do they tend to get thigs done themselves, or do they rely on others? Rhalgr, the Destroyer 22. At the peak of their fury, do they tend to be destructive? If so, how? 23. Do they tend to destroy themselves or those around them? 24. Would your character sink a ship if it meant dragging their enemies down with them? Azeyma, the Warden 25. In general. how curious is your character? 26.
Do they mind their own business or are they nosy when it comes to other’s affairs?
27. Dscribe a situation where curiosity got them in trouble. Nald’thal, the Traders 28. How materialistic is your character? 29. Is your character frugal or do they tend to be extravagant? 30. Is there something they’d trade anything for? If so, what? Nophica, the Matron 31. How connected is your character to nature? 32. Does your character hold any respect for those who work the land? 33. Does your character respect nature, or wuld they stomp on it if it meant their benefit? Althyk, the Keeper 34. If they could go back in time, would your character change anything in their past? If so, What? 35. Does your character live in the moment or do they tend to be stuck in the future/past? 36. How does your character kill time?