Character Questions

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Please answer as many of the questions below as fully as you can. This information will be used primarily to fix your character's personality and preferences in my mind and to add subplots and enrich the storyline.

1. How do you feel about your relatives and why? Like or dislike? Love or hate? Would you die to save their lives?

2. To your character, does revenge mean (1) "an eye for an eye," (2) "repayment with interest," (3) "the only good enemy is a dead enemy," or (4) something else? In exacting this revenge, would your character serve it hot, as soon as possible after the offense, or cold, awaiting a perfect place and time?

3. Your character is plagued by a recurring nightmare/dream. Describe the dream.

4. How do you think your character's father would describe your character? And how would that description differ from the description given by your character's mother? (Assume that the dying King of Ember is your father and his late Queen your mother.)

5. Your character has need of a horse for a long journey. Describe the steed's size, coloring, build, training, and personality.

6. What was your character like at the age of ten (fifth grade)? Was your character a wimp, a bully, a nerd, a snitch, or a klutz? Popular or not? Write up a little description, and, if you like, a little day-in-the-life story about your character at that age.

7. What is your character's favorite food? Drink? What food does the character hate?

8. Take a 'Devil's Advocate' stand. Describe what you (the player) hate about your character. What are the good reasons for other characters to dislike/hate the character? What little, minor bad habit does your character have that would annoy anyone after awhile?

9. Your character gets into a discussion about death and dying. How would your character describe the perfect death?

10. Describe your character's personal bedroom or suite. Is it located in the Castle? Describe the contents and the various rooms. What is the style of the furniture? Describe your favorite reading spot, and your favorite chair.

11. Your character is the butt of a practical joke. Could your character see the humor in it? Would your character get even? Does getting even mean staging another practical joke?

12. How would your character describe his or her perfect mate/spouse? Do you, the player, agree? How is your character mistaken? Overly idealistic? Or is your character looking for all the wrong things?

13. Write the story about your character's first battle/hunt, first love or first killing of another person. Try to make it as vivid as possible, including the character's age, training and inexperience, plus details on the surroundings (weather, terrain, uniforms or clothing of self and others).

14. If your character uses servants, which servant is most trusted? Most liked? Most indispensable? Describe each of them.

15. Everybody has some little item that they regard as somehow sacred. A piece of clothing, a memento of some event, whatever. What is your character's sacred item? Tell the story of how your character found it, or why it came to be important.

Revised: February 10, 2001.
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