Group/Character Planning

He's a slave...not stupid :) you have the knowledge, I have the drive and emotional connection.

As for life path...
1. He was born and raised in the neighboring Land of Nubia and trained as a warrior
2. He was enslaved after the outpost he was defending was taken by the God-Empresses forces.
3. He lost his wife (also a slave) in a mysterious cave in while building a tomb
4. Has been working with a priest to find a way to get his wife back from the land of the dead.

How's that sound?

That looks good. I'm making your character, correct WarDomo?

Yeah, if you don't mind. I don't have the full book

Also, forgot one more thing, there are a few Stocks (races) available. Man, Elf, Dwarf and Orc. The Mannish lifepaths are going to be the simplest to adapt to this setting, but I'm OK with someone playing the other three stocks, as well. Dwarves suffer from Greed, Elves suffer from Grief and Orcs suffer from Hate. These are defining emotions for those Stocks and have their own rules associated with them. If this is your first time playing, I recommend sticking with Man, but I'm OK with someone trying another one out. So, let me know which Stock you're going to play, as well.

The interaction between these two is going to be amazing.

I have the Gold book and amgoing through it. On page 20 now. Lots of reading.

Name: Adom
Stock: Human

1st draft events:

As a child, he stole a scroll from his father, a scribe, because it called to him somehow. He was unable to read it, but it changed him. He returned it before his father could find out what happened.

A few years later, he began hearing the voices of the dead, drawing the attention of a priest of (god of the dead).

When it became clear the priest was only willing to take on a single initiate, he murdered the other candidate to guarantee his place in the priesthood.

As he oversaw the sanctification of a tomb of a minor (noble?), a crew of workers disappeared, their bodies vanished. He heard their voices like those of the dead, but they sounded... different. He bought one of the remaining slaves whose wife had been among the missing and begged him to help bring her back.

The book just shipped, so I should be able to do the burn myself with some input.

There is a lot to the book, themightykobold. You only need to worry about the Hub and Spokes, the rules section before the character creation section. What sort of character do you think you'd like to play?

If you're going to burn your own character, keep it at 4 life paths. I'll help out with any questions you have.

Would it be reasonable to assume that the priesthood gathers gifted individuals from the other castes? Maybe with a sort of muggle-born stigma, for lack of a better analogy?

That makes perfect sense to me.

Phatasmoron, themightykobold, either of you have any ideas what sort of characters you want to play? I think we've got an interesting thing going with the whole attempting to learn the secrets of the dead / bring back some mysteriously disappeared slaves. I don't want to go so far down that path that we end up building stuff that you can't hook into with your own characters, not that they all have to be up in each other's business from the get go.

Worked 14 hours today. Will try to work something up tomorrow though I'm still unsure where you all are getting the setting stuff. I can see the social hierarchy page but not much on any of the others.

I.e. where is this interest check page?

There's not much else. Feel free to create anything you need that fits.

I just used generic ancient Egypt knowledge and went from there

Exactly.

So reading what you all have written so far, I'm thinking a couple things:

1) I want to be a different race than man. Might as well play on hard mode the first time.

2) I'm thinking my people are in diaspora due to the land used to build the tomb being usurped from my people.

3) I know something about the land on which it is built that may inform where these workers went but refuse to divulge because of above mentioned diaspora.

So that means I'm most likely Orc (that hates that you've taken their land) or Elf (mourning the loss of their ancestral home). I could be a slave but (since we have one already) if not, I'm most likely on the lower end of the hierarchy such as a farmer just scraping by to make a living or a begrudging merchant whose wares are indispensable to the current regime.

I think an Elf is probably going to be easier to play than an Orc. And an Elf farmer having their land taken by the Empress to build this tomb is an interesting look at the society. I like it.

So, it seems that a main thread here is that everyone's connected by the building of this tomb where a tragedy occurred and several slaves just disappeared. You all are curious to figure out what's going on. Why take this mission to investigate why the Nile hasn't flooded yet this year? What's connecting the two?