Backstory Questionnaire

It is recommended to answer these questions from a characters perspective, as though they where asked these in an interview with their player. Sometimes you may wanna add some blank facts in (" ") if a character would be dishonest about a point.

## Backstory

### Upbringing

* **Where and to what family where you born?** *Which country and which city? How long has it been? Was your family poor, wealthy and influential, academic and famous? What was tour he characters perception of your parents/siblings during their first years? What feeling does your early life invoke?*
* **What where your aspirations when progressing through your life?** *What was your dream job as a kid? What did your parents wish you to become? How did you imagine your perfect life as you grew older?*
* **When was the first time you had a really strong bond to another person and who as that?** *Did you have a strong friendship during your younger life? Who was your first love? What archetype of a person where they; and do you find similar people immedeatly sympathetic when meeting them?*
* **What was your worst moment during your early life?** *What traumatic experiences did you have? When did you feel the most anxious about yourself or another person? What do you still feel ashamed for or what wakes you up at night?*

### Path to Unlife

* **What was your first contact to the supernatural?** *When did you find truth in common rumors and ancient stories? Did you see a ghost, encounter a gravespawn, witness a necromancer or Afflicted during their handywork?*
* **How did you become an Afflicted?** Did you have a master or did you find the necessairy knowledge yourself?

### Personality

* **What is your greatest fear?** *Loss of controll? Death? What awaits in the afterlife? Losing someone you love? Succumbing to evil?* Every character should have atleast one significant fear.
* **What brings you joy?** *What do you do when you are bored? What are your private passions? What brings you real happiness?*
* **How is your relationship to others?** *Are you extroverted and open, enjoying the company of many? Are you hesitant or afraid to make personal bonds? What dynamic do your friendships or relationships have?*
* **What are your vices?** *What do you feel a guilty pleasure for enjoying? What secret desire or addiction could be used against you if others found out about it?*
* **What are your insecurities?** *What part of you do you despise or feel shameful for? What things have you done that you regret to this day? What is something you believe to be forever unable to achieve?*
* **What do you want the most?** *What concrete goal do you have in the world?*

## Affliction

* **What are your feeding preferences?** *Every Afflicted has certain tastes and preferences when it comes to aquiring their sustenance. Strigoi may favour the blood of a specific gender/ethnicity, Ghouls may only eat the heart of their victims and Revenants may prefer the souls that have committed sinful and vile acts; and each of these preferences may vary in importance to the character.* Choose a perference for your characters favorite way to feed; aswell as one they find repulsive.
* **How does feeding feel to you?** *Every Afflicted needs sustenance to survive; but everyone has a different relation to their eating habits. For some feeding is an utterly repulsive act as blood, rotten flesh or spectral energies taste as they would to a mortal; others feel pure extacy when feeding, quenching an all-consuming hunger; others may consider it an intimate or almost sexual act.*
* **How does your character view their own Affliction?** *Some Afflicted consider themselves cursed and grew to despise their new state of being, others will accept any change to themselves aslong as they can persue their goel; where as others revel in the supremacy of their undying flesh.*
* **What influence did their transformation have on their human aspects?** *Some Afflicted find their emotions, empathy, charnal desires and human needs criticially reduced after their prolongued undeath; for others the opposite is the case. For most these changes will only affect specific parts of their personality associated with humans.*