Public Background

As part of character creation, you will write a public background for your character which will be viewable to anyone on your character sheet. Information included in the public background should therefore be considered common knowledge, personal details which it would be easy for anyone to discover or figure out easily without much personal familiarity.

A more detailed and in-depth background for your character should be provided in the private background.

Examples

Donna Seaglass

Raised as the daughter of the couple who built the Seaglass Inn at St Loomis, Donna Seaglass is the current innkeeper. She has two sons, one lost to the sea, and the other living a fisherman's life down near the St Loomis dockyard with a wife and two young children. Her daughter has left for Imbryck, but everyone in St Loomis knows that Donna is hoping for her daughter to return and take over work at the inn. The picture of bubbly religiosity, Donna is at church every morning on the Lord's Day.

Halfah Mistbane

To anyone living in the Mistmarches, the current Master of Lamps is a personage of some renown and the object of much admiration, or even awe. Though few know much of the woman's past -- most even know her simply as "Hal" instead of by her full name of Halfah -- and many are not entirely certain just what it is that a Master of Lamps does, everyone is very much aware of the vital importance and dignity of the post. Most people of the Mistmarches also still recall her role in the Battle of Foggy Fens, when she took up the lamp when the previous Master of Lamps fell, and bravely rallied the defenders against the Mist. Outside the Mistmarch, and particularly among the Court, Hal is viewed rather less positively, as few among the nobility relish being treated as an equal by someone possessing the multiple defects of being a woman, a commoner, a Yehani, and one of the leaders of some esoteric society defending against a superstitious threat that is clearly exaggerated.

See Also

• Private Background