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Character Background
When generating characters it is worth remembering Anobora is different from traditional fantasy setting based on the Northern European England / France economy model. Anobora is based large absentee owned farms that import vast amounts of migratory labor servicing large and affluent cites
Mountain
The mountain regions of Anobora are rugged, inaccessible and overlooked by the rest of the world. This makes them ideal for the common man looking to escape oppressive central authorities. Unfortunately for this very same reason the Mountains are poor resources which drives the common man back to the rest of civilization. However this environment produces a rugged, independent people who are accustomed to hardship, willing to take great risks and have no respect for property laws. Yes in other words adventurers.
Must take
The country is the baseline for the campaign and there are no special modifiers for coming from there. Most of the locals are the workmen and peasants attached to the various large estates with a small minority of freeman farmers on the fringes. All gleefully exploit the vast amounts of migratory laborers coming from the mountains to work the harvests (think rural California and the Mexicans here)
Sea
With the land so tied up one way to break free from the social order for the poor is go to sea. Unfortunately the fishing is poor around Anorbora; centuries of human exploitation and a lack of a shallow continental shelf make the pickings slim. (Most of the fish consumed is imported from Trabazonie, Rawmia and Lusitiania) For the more ambitious there is work in Anoborea's vast merchant marine, and for those who insist on personal independence piracy.
Mandatory
The city is were Anoborea shines. Most of the major ones have been continuously inhabited since ancient times and some like Natorie boast to be the origins of some of the more uniquely urban practices like muggings. These large old cities are also home to centuries old civil wars.
Mandatory
The nobility is much less prominent in Anobora than traditional for FRPs, the Cities having more or less swallowed them up. Still privilege and connection is what they are all about (and good rents from their prime lands).
Mandatory
Nobility
change Low Nobility to Aristocracy
Well Connected (you got relatives,
friends and people who want to be your friends everywhere)
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| Commoners | |||
| Mountain Goat Herder |
6g
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| Rural Paper |
10g
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| Urban Scum |
15g
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| Substance Fisherman |
12g
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| Mountain Substance Farmer |
24g
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| Rural Laborer |
30g
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| Urban Servants |
2D
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| Rural Peasant |
3D
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| Sailor |
4D
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| Urban Worker |
4D
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| Craftsman |
8D
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| Successful Peasant |
6D
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| Successful Mountain Bandit |
12D
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| Well to Do Peasant |
16D
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| Guildsman |
18D
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| Middle Class | |||
| Ship's Officer |
20D
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| Poor Merchant |
30D
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| Poor Farmer |
20D
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| Successful Merchant |
80D
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| Successful Farmer |
70D
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| Ship's Master |
80D
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| Rich Merchant |
220D
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| Shipping Magnate |
220D
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| Rich Landowner |
220D
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| Herring Magnate |
400D
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| Nobility | |||
| Mountain "Noble" |
20D
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| Impoverished Squire |
40D
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| Well to Do Squire |
120D
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| Knight |
160D
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| Impoverished Nobility* |
40D
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| Well to do Nobility* |
160D
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| Wealthy Nobility* |
400D
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* Title
1-5 Baron
6-8 Viscount
9-10 Count
11 Duke
12 Prince
1. Your family owns a good patch of ground and nice place to ambush passerbys so somebody at one time gave you a patent of arms as a bribe to quit bothering their people. Since your neighbors could care less about your' title you get no fringe benefit "low justice"
2. Must belong to one of the three
great Herring Importer families. With all the obligations and entanglements
that go with this it is really not best for a PCs.