For those who haven't played 7th Sea in a little while should know that there is a specific section where we talk about the 20 questions. This is important for two reasons one, it fleshes out the hero more so I know what you want out of your hero. Two it helps people learn more about your hero so that you can form bounds with your current adventures if you wish.

Answer the questions here but feel free to discuss in OCC chat.

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Step 0: Twenty questions

1. What nation is your hero from?

2. How would you physically describe your hero?

3. Does you hero have recurring mannerisms?

4. What is your hero's main motivation?

5. What is your hero's greatest strength? Greatest weakness?

6. What are your hero's most and least favorite things?

7. What about your hero's psychology?

8. What is your hero's greatest fear?

9. What are your hero's highest ambitions? Her greatest love?

10. What is your hero's opinion of her country?

11. Does your hero have any prejudices?

12. Where do your hero's loyalties lie?

13. Is your hero in love? Is she married or betrothed?

14. What about your hero's family?

15. How would your hero's parents describe her?

16. Is your hero a gentle?

17. How religious is your hero? What sect of the church does she follow?

18. Is your hero a member of a guild, gentle's club, or secret society?

19. What does your hero think of sorcery?

20. If you could, what advice would you give your hero?

Oh no! All Gabrielle's secrets will be revealed! Oh right, she hasn't got any :)

Step 0: Twenty questions

1. What nation is your hero from?
Montaigne

2. How would you physically describe your hero?
Gabrielle is short and slight, barely reaching 5', with dark hair and brown eyes. She looks more like an older child than an adult. Her hair is worn short; in the right clothes, she could pass as a boy; alternatively, in the right clothes, she is clearly a woman. Despite her lack of size, she can be intimidating when she needs to be.

3. Does you hero have recurring mannerisms?
(To be determined during play.)

4. What is your hero's main motivation?
Survive and thrive.

5. What is your hero's greatest strength? Greatest weakness?
Her greatest strength is her skill at unarmed combat.
Her greatest weakness is that she's a fish out of water in high society, or out of the city.

6. What are your hero's most and least favorite things?
Gabrielle loves hot baths.
She hates caviar. She's not over-fond of fish generally, and caviar is just salty, sticky, fishy, muck. While she's not one to refuse food, caviar is something she prefers to avoid.
She also has a love-hate relationship with society fashion: she loves the colors, patterns, and materials, but hates how awkward and uncomfortable it can be. And she's confused by quail's eggs: they look too small to be real.

7. What about your hero's psychology?
(To be determined during play.)

8. What is your hero's greatest fear?
To be poor again.

9. What are your hero's highest ambitions? Her greatest love?
She hasn't had much opportunity to think about either - to be determined.

10. What is your hero's opinion of her country?
Montaigne would be a paradise if it had competent leadership that cared about its people. All its people.

11. Does your hero have any prejudices?
She hates those who are contemptuous of the poor. She's fine with those who are merely uncomfortable around the poor, or who are well-intentioned but ineffectual, or who merely ignore them, but sneering at the poor or believing that they don't deserve any help is a good way to get into her bad books. She also reacts badly to supposed reolutionaries, including the Rilasciare: a patriot should be loyal to their country, not just the bits they like.

12. Where do your hero's loyalties lie?
Gabrielle serves Lady Arabella loyally, and by extension her family.

13. Is your hero in love? Is she married or betrothed?
No - or rather, not yet.

14. What about your hero's family?
Gabrielle knows nothing about her family. (A later Story may be about her discovering they weren't penniless peasants, but abandoned her for a reason.)

15. How would your hero's parents describe her?
Likely 'unwanted', but that'll depend on the later story.

16. Is your hero a gentle?
No, though she makes some effort to turn it into a Yes. It's instinctively a Yes towards her friends: on the street, that was a survival trait. She tries to act chivalrous in court for Lady Arabella's sake, but lying is sometimes convenient.

17. How religious is your hero? What sect of the church does she follow?
She is a loyal Vaticine, in part for the help and kindness the church showed her as a child. But she's not a fanatic: having had to fight over food and other meagre possessions, she feels fighting over religion is a folly. Punishment for not following the true faith is in the hands of Theus; for anyone else to claim that right is presumptive. She lacks the religious knowledge to articulate theological arguments, but she's comfortable with what she believes.

18. Is your hero a member of a guild, gentle's club, or secret society?
No, though she might be asked to accompany Lady Arabella.

19. What does your hero think of sorcery?
Gabrielle hasn't encountered it yet, so she has no strong opinions; indeed, she's not even sure it exists. Or if it might exist, but its effects are exaggerated.

20. If you could, what advice would you give your hero?
"You've had to fight, literally and figuratively, your whole life. Learn that not everything needs to be a fight, and you can safely relax and enjoy life a little."

1.What nationality are you from?
Castille

2.How would you physically describe yourself?
Carlos is tall and tanned. He has a trimmed beard as moustache which has a dark ginger tint to it and eyes of pale grey.
His hair is short with a priests Tonsure (shaved head) on top. He wears sturdy boots and priests robes

3.Does your hero have recurring mannerisms?
He always looks at a space he goes into for the nearest exit

4.What is your hero’s main motivation?
To help others in the name of god……and to make those that betrayed him pay

5.What is your hero’s greatest strength? Greatest weakness?
His greatest strength is to judge people because of their actions. His main weakness is not allowing his previous life to colour his new one

6.What is your hero’s least favourite things?
Corruption in the church and boiled meat...why would you boil meat

7.What about your hero’s psychology?
For someone who has killed a lot of people he is calm and collected, he is still a little rough round the edges due to his upbringing but he will gladly give his last crust so that no one will starve.

He likes a good debate and is able to talk with confidence in many diverse subjects from his believe in his god to the best brothels in most major cities.

He does not push his religion  onto people but will willingly prayer and give comfort to anyone that asks it needs it.

He has a great sense of humour and a easy smile and is comfortable in a large group or working on his own and can adapt to most situations.

8.What is your hero’s greatest fear?
Dying before he kills his mentor

9.What is your hero’s highest ambitions? Their greatest love?
To have a small church to tend in a small village or town in the  middle of nowhere and redeem himself in the eyes of god. As for greatest love he hasn’t found one yet.

10.What is your hero’s opinion of his country?
He loves his people  but has no time for those in power who abuse their station

11.Does your hero have any prejudices?
He tries to treat everyone the same as god teaches and judges people by their actions not their words.

12.Where does your hero’s loyalties lie?
His loyalty lies with those that come to him for help and guidance

13.Is your hero in love? Is he married or betrothed?
No

14.What about your hero’s family?
He has no family

15.How would your hero’s parents describe him?
if he'd had parents they would probably have disowned him years ago

16.Is your hero gentle?
He is gentle to the innocent and poor.

17.How religious is your hero? What sect of the church does he follow?
He believes in the word of god but also believes people should be able to make the right decisions in life. He follows the Valicine sect of the church

18.Is your hero a member of a guild, gentleman’s club or secret society?
He was a member of the assassin’s guild but as they believe he is dead he doesn’t belong to any at present

19.What does your hero think of sorcery?
Sorcery is to be watched. Many a time he has had to face it when he was on the hunt for a target. And he has the utmost respect for it and the ones that use it as it can be dangerous to face.

20.If you could, what advice would you give your hero?
Do not accept the deal with the devil when you were a boy he was not your friend or mentor but a traitor.

Step 0: Twenty questions

1. What nation is your hero from?
The Center of the World: Montaigne.

2. How would you physically describe your hero?
There is no question about who Isabelle is the moment she's in sight. The very picture of Montaigne nobility. She is young. She is blond. She is gorgeous in a pale, delicate way that suggests she may never have seen the sun. Her hair is always done, worn up into a complex, layered confection. She wears makeup daily, including a tiny heart painted onto her cheek.

But the fashion! Isabelle loves a new dress, and hates every dress she owns. They're all complex, corsetted, covered in elaborate decoration, and accompanied by jeweled accessories. She's the very height of Montaigne fashion which is very extra at its most calm.


3. Does you hero have recurring mannerisms?
(To be determined during play.)

4. What is your hero's main motivation?
Have fun. Isabelle doesn't think very far ahead and isn't particularly concerned about other people.

5. What is your hero's greatest strength? Greatest weakness?
When she wants to be, Isabelle is a genuinely effective diplomat and courtier. She attracts new friends like flies and has a natural grace within the systems of courtly politics that most people find a labrynth. She speaks manners as a second language. But she rarely puts that to any sort of good ends- Isabelle is spoiled, self-centered, and not careful with the power she wields.

6. What are your hero's most and least favorite things?
Isabelle is the very picture of Montaigne nobility everyone keeps in their head. She likes men. She hates work. She likes delicate little desserts. She hates priests. She's decadent and lustful and joyous and indolent all at once.

7. What about your hero's psychology?
(To be determined during play.)

8. What is your hero's greatest fear?
Isabelle was born into one of Montaigne's great families. She comes from incredible wealth and political power. She is a sorceress of natural talent and ability. Isabelle doesn't know fear.

9. What are your hero's highest ambitions? Her greatest love?
Someday, eventually, Isabelle wants to get married. She's going to rise some even grander station of some even greater rank with a larger summer home that maybe has some stable boys? She hasn't really thought hard about this- she's far too busy with the here and now. Because what Isabelle truly loves is having a good time. And planning for the future? It's not a good time.

10. What is your hero's opinion of her country?
Montaigne is the center of the world. Not literally, obviously, but in every way that's important. Its music is the best, and Isabelle loves music. The greatest art. The best parties. All the best parties. Cards! How could this even be a discussion?

11. Does your hero have any prejudices?
Isabelle has not thought enough about other people to be prejudiced.

12. Where do your hero's loyalties lie?
Isabelle is, when it really comes down to it, loyal to her family. She's a noble- family and legacy are important. But honestly, little is demanded of her in that regard.

13. Is your hero in love? Is she married or betrothed?
Isabelle goes through true love the way other people go through outfits. Or maybe the way she goes through outfits? How many outfits do peasants have? Ten? Ten sounds right. Anyway, Isabelle falls in love frequently, and out of love just as quickly.

14. What about your hero's family?
Isabelle's parents think the world of her- she's willful, she's charming, she's popular, she's a sorceress, she's an impeccable match. The light of their lives. A classic only child. Isabelle's extended family have a somewhat more realistic view of her- as a brat and a wild child.

15. How would your hero's parents describe her?
Montaigne is the center of the world, and Isabelle is the center of her parents' world. They make no secret of this, and have spoiled their child to no end. And, in the upper echelons of the Montaigne nobility, that truly means no ends.

16. Is your hero a gentle?
Isabelle plays at gentility when it's fun, as do many young Montaigne nobles. It's a game, a diversion, something to pretend at between card games, parties, and hunting expeditions.

17. How religious is your hero? What sect of the church does she follow?
Any religion that would have Isabelle as a member isn't worth following. Isabelle is a stylish atheist.

18. Is your hero a member of a guild, gentle's club, or secret society?
Clubs and secret societies are the order of the day in Montaigne. Anyone who is not a member of a chess club, a debating society, a lectures salon, has an embarrassingly empty social calendar. Isabelle is a member of several fashionable clubs.

19. What does your hero think of sorcery?
Isabelle is a sorcerer, and proud of it. She makes no secret of it. Sorcery is one of her family's great legacies. To proclaim it with anything less than the loudest of voices would be similar to disavowing her ancestors.

20. If you could, what advice would you give your hero?
Isabelle needs to slow down and spend some time thinking of others.
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1. What nation is your hero from?
Vodacce.

2. How would you physically describe your hero?

Lukesa has dark hair and straight dark eyebrows, a delicate jaw, a straight nose. There’s a speckling of very faint golden freckles across its bridge, you’d have to look close to see them. There’s also a hint of a dimple in her chin. The shape of her mouth is inviting (so said a very brave poet who hasn’t been seen since). Although her mouth is often solemn, there’s a warmth there — a familarity with humor, laugh-lines quick to appear. Usually veiled in public, Lukesa’s eyes are clear and quite expressive. Her clothing is of the highest quality, but always demure and invariably black with little ornament. Ornaments she does wear tend to be simple: gleaming stones, luminous pearls.

3. Does your hero have recurring mannerisms?

Sure does. I'll figure them out IC.

4. What is your hero’s main motivation?

A sincere, unshakable belief that the world could be better than it is and the will to try and make that happen.

5. What is your hero’s greatest strength? Greatest weakness?

Her greatest strength is her ability to connect with and figure out people. Her greatest vulnerability is her brother Teodaldo. Her greatest weakness? A tendency to bite off more than she can chew. She really pushes the envelope.

6. What are your hero’s most and least favorite things?

Lukesa loves music of any stamp, from the lush operas to the simple romantic ballads to drinking songs from ships, and she really loves a music competition where the best of the best strive to outdo each other. Lukesa likes good wine (and is very picky) and to learn new things. She really likes the smell of a library. Stories are always welcome. She loves the adventure of dressing up as her brother (or, rather, as a young man, thanks to Teodaldo's wardrobe) and hitting the streets, although this is a verrrry closely guarded secret.

There are so many things which are technically ‘least favorite’ things. She does not like being blackmailed or the way her papa pats her head sometimes. He’s being affectionate, but Lukesa doesn’t like to feel she’s a pet. She hates to be hugged without permission. She really dislikes people who talk through a play and people who use a play as a cover for an assassination are scum.

Lukesa likes philosophical discussions, she hates when people say “You wouldn’t understand.” They can be arrogant and imply it, fine, but to say it makes her skin crawl. Games that involve throwing things are tedious, she thinks.

7. What about your hero’s psychology?
TBD?

8. What is your hero’s greatest fear?

To be locked away and unable to act, nobody to see, no world to be in.
To see how to prevent harm from falling on her brother and to fail to do so.
To have no control.

9. What are your hero’s highest ambitions? Her greatest love?

Lukesa would probably say her greatest love is ‘hope’ or ‘how hope and destiny are really twins’ if somebody asked her that question. She loves to feel like she is able to change things.

Her highest ambitions are … ahem, very high, indeed. Lukesa is an idealist - she wants to, and intends to, change her nation for the better. These three pursuits are dear to her heart: Freedom, happiness, and Greatness. Not for (just) for herself, but for everybody.

Lukesa wants a glorious, prosperous Vodacce — unified. The squabbling of cousins put to rest, the bonds of the strega snapped and salted and at the bottom of the seas, and cruelty punished as it should be. People are always on about what Prince should unite Vodacce, but as usual an entire gender seems to be discounted. Maybe the time for princes is done, eh?

10. What is your hero’s opinion of her country?

Lukesa loves Vodacce. Vodacce are the most passionate, cleverest, defeated most often by themselves. She thinks Vodacce is a nation of endless possibility, of inspiration. It is flawed, yes, and shadowed by cruelty in a way that feels like a curse. She understands Vodacce’s byzantine layers of intrigue and suggestion aren’t everybody’s cup of tea, but it’s like loving the sea, isn’t it? All those complicated tides, all that weather? You take the bad with the good, or change the bad TO good... somehow.

11. Does your hero have any prejudices?

Yes, and no. Fate treats everybody equally, after all. But she doesn't really like the Vesten out of home-nation pride, and she is pretty jealous of Castille, with its emphasis on education and dislike of sorcerers, so tends to feel self-conscious and prone to being a bit sharper than usual around those from Castille.

12. Where do your hero's loyalties lie?

In more-or-less order: Her vision for a better Vodacce/Vodacce, her brother (Teodaldo), Sophia's Daughters/women in need, her immediate family, her extended family... And theoretically her betrothed (Ostasio), although practically-speaking, not so much yet. Currently 'friends' might occupy the slot right after or before extended family, depending on what they need.

13. Is your hero in love? Is she married or betrothed?

Lukesa is not in love. She is betrothed, soon-to-be-married. Marrying into a new family gives her some low-key anxiety, but one does what one must. For a while it looked as though she was going to marry a Bernoulli boy, but that match evaporated for one reason or another (a mysterious "illness" which improved once the betrothal was broken), and she's been betrothed to Ostasio of the Villanova family for a good three years now. She's never met him, though he sends her birthday presents. They're very thoughtful, so there's that.

14. What about your hero’s family?

Family is very important to Lukesa. As mentioned above, she is anxious about marrying into a new one.

Her papa is Michele Angelo Falisci, half-brother of Prince Donello Falisci. Michele Angelo has a good head on his shoulders for business and intrigue, is loyal to his brother, and was once a renowned rake. He tends to indulge his children, wanting to be loved by his family but also unable to see them as anything but tools. He's a conflicted man on those grounds.

Her “mama” is Anadora Falisci, her papa’s wife, a thoroughly respectable woman and a remarkable seamstress. Anadora’s moods are wild and her mothering skills inconsistent, she has tried to do well by all her husband’s children (even if their existence hurt her more than she expected).

Lukesa’s mother was Valeria the Poet, a courtesan famous for her clever wit and writings. She is dead. They say she threw herself off a bridge when it became clear that her only daughter was a strega. Nobody talks about her in front of Lukesa, though Teodaldo’s heard some stories from courtesans he’s acquainted with, and he has shared these with his sister.

Teodaldo, Lukesa’s twin, Lukesa’s best friend, better half, the person she loves more than anything. Teodaldo is energetic, a lover and a fighter. He makes masks for fun, gets into a lot of fights, definitely knows his way around a ship and a ship's command. Your Classic Young Vodacce Noble here! But he's beginning to have a reputation for good advice. He’ll make somebody a good consigliere, if only he’d settle down. He does truly love his sister, and keeps her secrets - at least the ones he knows - as she keeps his.

15. How would your hero’s parents describe her?

Michele Angelo might describe Lukesa as a quiet, observant girl, loyal to family. He'd praise her for her self-composure. If he were drunk, he might say she’s clever and bright, with a funny sense of humor, and she’d’ve made a good son. He might also say she reminds him of… and then trail away.

Anadora, the stepmother, would describe Lukesa as a work-in-progress but commendable. "She is very pious," she'd say. "She is very virtuous," she'd say. "She's very good with people, although only in the most appropriate fashion." Then in private to Michele Angelo, "Your daughter is too... I can't put my finger on it, but there's something there. She was a wilder child..."

Valeria’s ghost would describe Lukesa as a pretty pet with teeth.

16. Is your hero a gentle?

Chivalry is a nice story. Lukesa appreciates those who engage in it for many reasons. How nice, to order your life on such romantic dreams.

17. How religious is your hero? What sect of the church does she follow?

Lukesa is Vaticine, although obviously a very Vodacce sort of Vaticine. She finds the church interesting, the cardinals interesting, the whole edifice interesting, and is comfortable enough with hypocrisies.

18. Is your hero a member of a guild, gentle's club, or secret society?

Yes! Lukesa is secretly part of the Sophia's Daughters, recruited when she was at the Diletante.

19.What does your hero think of sorcery?

Lukesa keeps her opinions on other forms of sorcery to herself, but she disdains the Inquisition. There's wonder in sorcery, she thinks, as with any science. Skill. As far as Sorte goes, she has a love-hate relationship with it.

20. If you could, what advice would you give your hero?

Be careful. Find good friends. Stick by them. Don't let yourself become reckless. Don't let your loves tear you apart. And try to stay optimistic.
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Alright, time for twenty questions.

1. What nation is your hero from?
Vincent is a proud Avalonian.

2. How would you physically describe your hero?
Vincent cuts the figure of an archetype of a noble warrior, with a strong jawline, bulging muscles and a winning smile. He dresses in the finery expected of any nobleman, usually sticking to reds and violets that better hide bloodstains. He is never seen without his sword and panzerfaust, the weapons of his particular dueling style.

3. Does you hero have recurring mannerisms?
He always bows to people he meets for the first time, even people he is inclined to dislike. It's just good manners, after all.

4. What is your hero's main motivation?
To sally forth into the world and right all wrongs! ...And also to help improve the reputation of his country and his family.

5. What is your hero's greatest strength? Greatest weakness?
Don't let his noble background or gentle demeanor fool you, because he is a terrifyingly strong swordsman capable of impressive feats with a blade. However, he has little mind for stealth, and is about as sneaky as a bag of bricks rolling downhill.

6. What are your hero's most and least favorite things?
Vincent loves nothing more than a fun evening among friends with a good beer in hand and a good song in the background. There is nothing he hates more than being inhospitable, which he considers to be an offense against both morality and good etiquette.

7. What about your hero's psychology?
Vincent is a terminal optimist, always assuming the best of people until they prove otherwise. He always gives them the benefit of the doubt, and is willing to go to great lengths for anyone who says they are in need. He is also vengeful, and does not react well to anyone who tries to take advantage of his generosity, and he especially has little patience for bullies.

8. What is your hero's greatest fear?
Vincent would love to say he hates evildoers most of all, but in reality what he most fears is solitude. When he's left alone with no one to talk to, it quickly starts to get to him, especially if it is dark and quiet.

9. What are your hero's highest ambitions? Her greatest love?
Vincent dreams of being a hero that is beloved the world over. He also has a weakness for pretty women, although he tries to be gentlemanly when wooing them.

10. What is your hero's opinion of her country?
He's a proud Avalonian, love it or leave it. He recognizes there are problems, but he will not sit idly by as someone insults his country and his people.

11. Does your hero have any prejudices?
For the most part, Vincent strives to be egalitarian towards all peoples. That said, he has a certain degree of distrust for the people of Montaigne, who he sees as suspicious for their Emperor's absurd decision to reject the Vaticene church. He's also not sure what to make of the Vesten, who are perhaps a bit too invested in their coin.

12. Where do your hero's loyalties lie?
His first loyalty is to the Crown and the Graal. His second loyalty is to his family. After that, his final loyalty is to his own sense of honor. Anyone who does not understand this may find themselves on the wrong end of a blade when they overstep their bounds.

13. Is your hero in love? Is she married or betrothed?
Vincent has known many women intimately, but he does not have anyone he would consider his love at present. His flighty nature has also made it difficult for his family to nail down a fiancee for him, despite his good lineage.

14. What about your hero's family?
Vincent is the youngest of four siblings. His older brother, Carlton, is set to become the head of the household, while his two older sisters, Meredith and Cecilia, are already married with children. His father Leonard is already getting on in years, and his mother Tabitha is not far behind, though they both still have an overly indulgent attitude towards their children.

15. How would your hero's parents describe her?
Though he is a full-grown adult that is certified as a duelist (and with a body count to show for it), Vincent still gets treated as mommy and daddy's little boy. Some would be surprised to see how quickly the mighty swordsman becomes an overgrown child in the presence of his parents.

16. Is your hero a gentle?
Vincent is a gentle, through and through, and he wouldn't have it any other way.

17. How religious is your hero? What sect of the church does she follow?
Vincent is technically a Vaticene, but his relationship to the Graal obviously complicates matters. He doesn't consider himself overly religious, but he still tries to observe the major tenets and celebrate the more important holidays, at the least.

18. Is your hero a member of a guild, gentle's club, or secret society?
Aside from being a member of the Duelist's Guild, Vincent is also a proud member of the Knights of the Rose and Cross.

19. What does your hero think of sorcery?
In truth, Vincent has a mixed view of sorcery, despite technically being a sorcerer himself. In some ways, he considers his Glamour to be an extension of his own abilities, but as for other sorcerers, he tries to take it on a case by case basis.

20. If you could, what advice would you give your hero?
Watch yourself. In this world, trusting people to have your back may just give them more opportunity to stab you where you can't see them.

1. What nation is your hero from?

The Highland Marches! It's part of the Glamour Isles- and yes, it's more than just Avalon.

2. How would you physically describe your hero?

 Beileag has the stocky but muscular build of a peasant woman with big bones and an active lifestyle. Her skin is wind-roughened by a life on and near the water and her hands calloused by nets and weaponry. She has a plain, healthy beauty instead of the more polished looks of more cultured woman. She’s on the tall side for a woman, but not to a
remarkable degree. Her hair is a thick, light auburn color and her eyes the grey of a cloudy sky. She favors sturdy, serviceable homespun clothing and has her Clan colors packed away, but always close at hand. She wears a broach somewhere on her person with their symbol on it (a leaping fish over waves), even if she has to keep it hidden under an outer layer.

3. Does your hero have recurring mannerisms?

Not sure yet.

4. What is your hero's main motivation?

She thinks it's adventure and survival. Oh, and revenge if she can get it against entities much stronger than she is.

What truly motivates her, however, is the search for a place to belong (in addition to her childhood home) and a new love. She doesn't hate her birth family by any means, but part of adulthood is getting to choose new family that can follow you wherever you choose to tread.

5. What is your hero's greatest strength? Greatest weakness?

Like most Marches, Beileag has trained as a warrior since she could walk. She's also a fisher's daughter and knows how to buckle down and put in a hard day's work. She's great at logistics- sourcing new materials or mending the old ones- and keeping track of money, as most of her countrywomen learn how to do as a matter of course.

Her greatest weakness is probably her pride. Or her stubbornness. But she definitely doesn't turn down many dares, even when she should.What's life without a good challenge now and then?

6. What are your hero's most and least favorite things?

Beileag's most favorite thing is the sea. It was a constant presence nearby when growing up and the means to adventure and freedom now. There's nothing better than the wind in your face, the shushing of the waves and the smell of salt on the air.
She loves a good argument like a friendly tussle, as sport and entertainment, but hates when it sours into someone more hell-bent on being right than enjoying the banter.
She loves music in all forms.

Her least favorite thing is to be alone, or see a young couple in love. It's a painful reminder of what she no longer has. Toward that end, she hates talking politics- and specifically discussions of Marches Independence. It's what her love got killed over and any mention of it makes her tetchy. The Highlanders are going nowhere while Elaine's still alive anyway, right?

7. What about your hero's psychology?

Some only children end up spoiled little beasts who think they’re the center of the universe. Others think they are too… and that isn’t a good thing- it just means that they feel everything that goes wrong is their fault. Beileag is one of the latter. Her parents made sure she knew the value of a hard day’s work early and had plenty of Clan children
around her to give her the socialization she needed. She works hard, plays hard, and doesn’t like to make things too complicated. Sure, one can have plots and plans and manipulations, but what’s the *point*? Does it make you *happy* to have to watch your back for daggers all the time? Better to focus on loving your family and taking care of your friends. Everything else generally works out once those are handled.

But she takes losses and failures hard, berating herself and brooding over what feel like glaring mistakes long after others have forgotten or forgiven. Her wounds are nursed in private where she can safely cry her tears unobserved before picking herself back up and moving on. She’s stubborn as a terrier and doesn’t let go of things easily, bad or good. And she is entirely too susceptible to a challenge or a dare, drawn by either the thrill of danger or the need to prove herself that only children are also prone to.

She is not, however, prone to fits of temper. She does get angered at injustice, but fishing and privateering are both professions that help instill a good deal of patience in their practitioners. Her anger is most often a steady, smoldering ember rather than the spark of a blazing bonfire.


8. What is your hero's greatest fear?

Returning home to find her family dead.She's still young and gutsy enough that she hasn't really confronted her own mortality yet.

9. What are your hero's highest ambitions? Her greatest love?

Beileag came from working stock. She's not ashamed of that, but she can be a little sensitive about her lack of intellectualism around more classically-educated people and would like to remedy that lack someday. She wants to make sure her parents are taken care of in their old age.

On the 'pigs might fly' side of the ambition equation, she wants to do something truly worthy and spectacular. To bring honor to her Clan. And to help the Marches be seen as more than just a piece of Avalon whether or not it stays in the union.

Her greatest love might actually be her claymore. It's a traditional coming of age present in the Marches and just seeing it reminds her of her parents' love.

10. What is your hero's opinion of her country?

Proud, stubborn fools the lot of them, but they're *my* proud, stubborn fools. We have our problems, but we know how to buck up, join together and get through our troubles with a good laugh or a good fight. Our leaders aren't perfect, but they know their duty to their people and the need to earn their respect. That's more than most nations can say.

11. Does your hero have any prejudices?

She's always happy to take a Montaignese ship and do their nobility dirty, though she has nothing in particular against their common folk. Avalonians tend to be overbearing, in her opinion, and the Inish rather flighty (though both are more trustworthy than most mainlanders).

12. Where do your hero's loyalties lie?

Family first, Clan second, the Marches third, and Avalon a distant fourth. Oh, and Theus is in there somewhere.

13. Is your hero in love? Is she married or betrothed?

No. She was betrothed once, but her love got killed trying to break up a fight.

14. What about your hero's family?

Her mother is Eilidh and her father Arran, both fishers along with the rest of a mess of aunts, uncles and cousins of varying degrees that made up the extended family of her Clan. She suspects her mother married much beneath her, socially speaking, as it's generally the noble families who favor the traditional claymores like the one her parents
gave her.However, her mother has refused to talk about her past, saying only that some things should stay buried. Beileag suspects that means her mother's birth Clan has an active feud, but she's never pushed on a clearly painful subject.

Until relatively recently, she Beileag was an only child- her poor mother victim of a string of miscarriages and stillbirths until they just quit trying to save Eilidh’s health. Then her brother Daividh showed up after her mother thought herself too old for childbearing. It was perfect timing of him- her parents now had a baby to distract them
where they otherwise would have made a fuss about their only child running off to sea. And now she’s got a brother she can hug and spoil on visits, but miss out on the tantrums, teething and toilet-training of the toddler years. Win-win.

15. How would your hero's parents describe her?

A good girl, a loving daughter and a devoted older sister. Too big a heart, sometimes, and too itchy a pair of feet, but she's young yet. She'll get over it and settle down someday.

16. Is your hero a gentle?

The Marches don't really breed gentles. Too much playacting and not enough *doing*.

17. How religious is your hero? What sect of the church does she follow?

She gives a word of thanks to Theus daily. How she does it and what sect she follows tends to depend on where she is and what level of formality she feels like observing. Avalonian religious tolerance meets Marcher pragmatism here.

And, of course, one must always be careful to respect the Goodly FOlke, lest they decide to take offense to the rude.

18. Is your hero a member of a guild, gentle's club, or secret society?

Nope. Beileag generally prefers a straightforward approach to secrecy. THough I think if she were to join any, it would most likely be Die Kreuzritter (she knows Monsters exist and would be willing to fight them), Los Vagabundos (not so crazy about the masking thing, but fully supportive of Nobles who prove themselves worthy of the title) or Sofia's Daughters- and perhaps has helped smuggle a Fate Witch or two to Avalon in the past despite a lack of membership.

19. What does your hero think of sorcery?

Nod, smile if you get a gift from a sorcerer, and run the other way when they're not looking.

20. If you could, what advice would you give your hero?

Don't be afraid to try new things, and to find more family than you were born to.
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1. What nation is your hero from?

Sarmatian commonwealth

2. How would you physically describe your hero?

5'8" 160 lbs, lean muscle, white, dusty blonde hair

3. Does you hero have recurring mannerisms?

None as yet

4. What is your hero's main motivation?

See the world from the wheel of a ship

5. What is your hero's greatest strength? Greatest weakness?

Naivety

6. What are your hero's most and least favorite things?

Favorite: experiencing new things

Least Favorite: being confined

7. What about your hero's psychology?

Not afraid of much, but too trusting in people, he's young

8. What is your hero's greatest fear?

The Kraken

9. What are your hero's highest ambitions? Her greatest love?

To own his own ship and see the world, trading from one end of the sea to another, bringing people exotic gooda

10. What is your hero's opinion of her country?

He loves it dearly, and wants to bring many wonderful things back to it

11. Does your hero have any prejudices?

No

12. Where do your hero's loyalties lie?

Ship, crew, Captain

13. Is your hero in love? Is she married or betrothed?

No

14. What about your hero's family?

The crew is his family

15. How would your hero's parents describe her?

His captain would call him dependable, raucous, and honest

16. Is your hero a gentle?

No(?)

17. How religious is your hero? What sect of the church does she follow?

He doesn't practice religion much

18. Is your hero a member of a guild, gentle's club, or secret society?

No

19. What does your hero think of sorcery?

It's amazing to see, but dangerous and not worth the cost to him

20. If you could, what advice would you give your hero?

Maintain your heading

So due to some outside circumstances involving a game coming back from the dead, I've decided to pivot away from Iseblle for this game and instead do someone whose a little less... Insufferable. Or at least, insufferable in an entirely different way.

So, ladies and gentlement, presenting... Els de Klarx.

1. What nation is your hero from?

Els is from Vesten. By which she means, Vendel. What else could that mean?

2. How would you physically describe your hero?

Els is the picture of a Vesten, and a student. She is young, stunningly blond, and incredibly tall. She dresses in modern styles- mostly men's styles. She favors long jackets, britches, and shirts with frilled collars. Els has made it her solo mission to bring the top hat to every campus in Theah.

3. Does your hero have recurring mannerisms?

When Els drinks- which is often- she prefers a brew unique to the trendy cafes and debating societies of Vendel. Genever is the drink favored by the intellectual and fashionable. A clear drink, it has tasting notes of juniper, fur trees, and pure evil. It is favored by university students and sailors alike for its wickedly high alcohol content.

4. What is your hero's main motivation?

Els wants to prove herself the greatest scholar, adventurer, and debater in Theah. She knows that she is, without a doubt, one of her generation's great minds. And if she gets to bed every pretty woman in court along the way... So much the better.

5. What is your hero's greatest strength? Greatest weakness?

Els is too arrogant to take much of anything seriously. She's young and, therefore, immortal. She hasn't yet reckoned with much outside the lecture hall. That said, she is actually an intellectual powerhouse, with fluency in a huge array of topics and ability to grasp complex topics with ease. She believes she's the smartest person in Theah because she's yet to meet anyone smarter.

6. What are your hero's most and least favorite things?

Els loves philosophy, debate, women, liquor, economics, and writing. She hates boredom, listening to idiots, and anything old-fashioned.

7. What about your hero's psychology?

(To come, as the game plays out)

8. What is your hero's greatest fear?

If there's anything Els fears, it's the thought of being someone's wife. Chained to a home and house. Not able to rollick through life.

9. What are your hero's highest ambitions? Her greatest love?

Someday, Els dreams of publishing her great work and being remembered for all time as one of Theah's greatest ever thinkers. She's going to revolutionize her field... Whichever one that happens to be.

10. What is your hero's opinion of her country?

Vendel is fantastic. The rest of Vesten is backward little hovels but... The people are quaint.

11. Does your hero have any prejudices?

If someone accused Els of being a liberal elitest, she would thank them for noticing. She basically assumes most people are ill-educated idiots and slack-jawed yokels.

12. Where do your hero's loyalties lie?

There is no doubt- Els' highest calling is to knowledge. She's an elitest, arrogant, but she is a genuinely dedicated scholar.


13. Is your hero in love? Is she married or betrothed?

Only with knowledge and herself.

14. What about your hero's family?

Els is the youngest member of a banking clan that has seen incredible success as the Vendel League has thrived. The family business was, once upon a time, working as the huscarls to the jarls of the small city of Vendel. They went from bookkeepers smoothly to bankers. And when the Guilder exploded across Theah, they small family fortune suddenly became quite vast. It's afforded them a life of modern luxury, funding Els' fine education. Currently, her father and brothers run De Klarx bank.

15. How would your hero's parents describe her?

Els needs to grow up, according to her parents. Her father wants her to calm down and step into a role in the family business- there's a reason they paid for that education. Her mother remains convinced that she just needs to meet the right man. While they are proud of her, they know she's a child and their patience isn't infinite.

16. Is your hero a gentle?

To some degree. Wild displays of romance and chivalry are the reaction people Els' age and class tend to have to most thing. It's not a conscious decision.

17. How religious is your hero? What sect of the church does she follow?

Els is far too smart to be religious. She's a deist- a clockmaker Theus, a world that works through physical principles that can be studied, and no divine intervention through things so silly as prophets.

18. Is your hero a member of a guild, gentle's club, or secret society?

Els has recently become a member in good standing of the Explorer's Society. She's also a member of Rod and Viper, a secret society that she and her friends made up.

19. What does your hero think of sorcery?

Sorcery is just some yet-to-be-understood physical principle. Saying it is something else is akin to saying that walking is some mystical property.

20. If you could, what advice would you give your hero?

Els desperately needs to grow up. She's a college romantic, a kid, and doesn't even realize it.

And last, but certainly not least, here's Eberhard!

1. What nation is your hero from?

Eisen

2. How would you physically describe your hero?

Tall and possessed of a muscular build, Eberhard's closely cropped brown hair and beard (both of which are going grey at the edges) give the appearance of a man in his early 30s.

3. Does your hero have recurring mannerisms?

To be determined in play.

4. What is your hero's main motivation?

To put monsters in the ground.  And to make sure they stay there.

5. What is your hero's greatest strength? Greatest weakness?

Eberhard is possessed of significant strength of both mind and body, both of which are more than a little essential given his line of work.  Unfortunately, said line of work has also made him rather inflexible, and slow to trust.  After all, when friends are likely to be eaten by ghouls, and bloodsuckers can wear any face, what's the point?

6. What are your hero's most and least favorite things?

Like any red blooded male of the species, a good tumble in the hay and a solid drink are quite high on his list.  However nothing quite beats the rush you get when you're engaged in a life or death struggle.

That said, Eberhard detests the Church.  Absolutely despises it.  Eisen and religion doesn't mix after all.  Not well at any rate.  There was a war about it and everything.  A really long one.  One that shattered Eisen and allowed the vultures from Montaigne and Castille to try and pick up the pieces.

Did I mention that he hates the Church with a fiery passion?

7. What about your hero's psychology?

To be determined during play

8. What is your hero's greatest fear?

To see his homeland disappear, either fallen to the monsters that now call it home, or else swallowed up by foreign devils intent on exploring their weakness.

9. What are your hero's highest ambitions? His greatest love?

To see his homeland purged of the darkness now infesting it.  Even if just a fraction.

Family and country.  Though there seem to be less of both as the years go by.

10. What is your hero's opinion of her country?

Eberhardt is a true Eisen patriot through and through.  Though he doesn't much trust the various Eisenfurst who seem more interested with solidifying their own power as opposed to actually solving the issues of the country.

11. Does your hero have any prejudices?

He's incredibly distrustful of those who call Montaigne and Castille home.  This goes doubly so if they're religious.  And Theas help those who

12. Where do your hero's loyalties lie?

Country, Family, Friends.  In that order.

13. Is your hero in love? Is she married or betrothed?

Married or betrothed?  Certainly not.  His lifestyle doesn't lend itself well to that sort of thing.  As for love... no?  Though he does seem rather fond of Lukesa de Falisci and the two seem to get along rather well.

14. What about your hero's family?

Eberhard hasn't been back home to Eisen to see his family in almost a decade now.

15. How would your hero's parents describe her?

If they were alive, they'd likely be proud of him, given the dedication he's shown to fulfilling his family's legacy.  However, both perished during the upheavals of the War of the Cross, so...

16. Is your hero a gentle?

You're kidding right?  You're going to ask a man of Eisen such a ridiculous question?  Obviously, the answer is no.  Foolish drivel like that of the gentles will only get you killed.

17. How religious is your hero? What sect of the church does she follow?

While he's nominally Objectionist, Eberhard is far more an agnostic these days.  Hardly surprising for a veteran of the War of the Cross.

18. Is your hero a member of a guild, gentle's club, or secret society?

Eberhard is a proud member of Die Kreuzritter, as was his father before him, and so on and so forth... Suffice it to say, he's a legacy, able to trace his lineage back to those Crusaders who were betrayed by the Inquisition some five hundred years ago.

19. What does your hero think of sorcery?

There's nothing inherently good or bad about sorcery, it's a tool, nothing more, nothing less.

20. If you could, what advice would you give your hero?

“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.”
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Step 0: Twenty questions

1. What nation is your hero from?
Ussura

2. How would you physically describe your hero?

Height: 6’0”
Weight: 190lbs
Hair: blonde, full beard
Build: Muscular
Eyes: Hazel

Boris is a striking figure obviously from Ussura based on his attire if the blonde hair and long beard didn’t give it away. His Boyar status is made apparent by his brown leather overcoat with arctic fox fur lining studded with stones of polished marble. The undershirt was plain white linen with brown leather vest. His boots were made of snow leopard fur in a style that was broad for hikes in the snow covered hills.

3. Does you hero have recurring mannerisms?
Answers most threats with laughter and a smile, bounces on the balls of his feet from one foot to the other when he starts getting excited

4. What is your hero's main motivation?
Wealth and and a worthy opponent

5. What is your hero's greatest strength? Greatest weakness?
Raw strength is his greatest strength, his weakness is not being subtle

6. What are your hero's most and least favorite things?
Favorite thing is his boxing, least favorite is boring lectures

7. What about your hero's psychology?
He attempts to do things gently but uses excessive force when that fails

8. What is your hero's greatest fear?
Losing to a pitiful opponent

9. What are your hero's highest ambitions? Her greatest love?
Ambition is to one day become a Vendel Chair, greatest love is professional sports

10. What is your hero's opinion of her country?
Ussura is strong and will always prevail as long as they stay within their borders

11. Does your hero have any prejudices?
He does not like to deal with those who use others to do their dirty work

12. Where do your hero's loyalties lie?
His loyalty is to his family and to the Vendel League as long as the latter does not compromise the former

13. Is your hero in love? Is she married or betrothed?
He is not currently in love or betrothed, but he is not opposed to such things.

14. What about your hero's family?
The members of his family are rich Boyars who have a love for sports and make a fortune training and recruiting the best athletes.

15. How would your hero's parents describe her?
Bold and brash with a hint of overconfidence

16. Is your hero a gentle?
He is gentle to his friends and lovers but a brute to his enemies.

17. How religious is your hero? What sect of the church does she follow?
He is religious in that he believes in and makes prayers to Mother Matushka. He does not follow the church.

18. Is your hero a member of a guild, gentle's club, or secret society?
Duelists Guild and the Explorer’s Society

19. What does your hero think of sorcery?
He believes in the power bestowed on others through bloodlines and gifts bestowed by mythical beings as well as using those powers wisely as Mother Matushka teaches.

20. If you could, what advice would you give your hero?
Money can’t buy happiness and there will always be someone stronger than you.
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