Background Questions

Note: The word change is used to cover-

Embrace (vampire), Death (wraith), Rebirth (amenti), Awakening (mage), First Change (shapeshifter), Chrysalis (changeling), etc...

History - Answer at least 3 questions.

1) What was your best quality as a child?
2) What was unique about your childhood?
3) What kind of person were you?
4) What was your family life like?
5) What places were most important to you before your change?

I) What was the cause of your first change?
2) What did you feel before/during/after the change?
3) How did it change the way you thought about yourself?
4) What places were most important to you after your change?
5) What ideal, that you held before your change, was shattered afterward?

1) What did you leave behind?
2) In what ways did you never truly live a normal life?
3) Do you have any enemies, anyone you wish to seek vengeance against?
4) Do you desire to return to your old life? Why?
5) What is it you search for most avidly? Why?
6) What was the worst decision that you ever made?
7) What do you regret doing most in your past?
8) Who did you hurt the most in your past?
9) What was the cruelest thing you have ever done?
10) What was the most spiteful thing you have done in your past?

1) What was the most shameful event in your past?
2) When did you feel the most alone?
3) What was the toughest moral decision you had to make?
4) What was the most confusing time/event of your past?
5) In what situation in your past were you out of control?
6) Who hurt you the most in your past?
7) What do you care about the most? Why?
8) What is the best thing you have ever done?
9) At what time in your past did you feel most at peace?
10) In your past did you ever feel like an outcast? Why?

1) When did you first meet a ..........? Did you realize it at the time?
2) How did your Mentor treat you?
3) Did your Mentor aid or hinder you?
4) Were you comfortable with the role set forth by your ..........?
5) How did you learn about the cosmology, history, and/or goals of the .........? Did you agree with it?

1) If you had to cast a mood for your character what mood is it?
3) How did you spend your early years - the period when your basic motivations and attitudes were formed?
4) What do you hope to accomplish in the near future; why these particular goals?
5) What are your long term goals?
6) What is the real reason that you are in your current Sept, Sect, Court, Cabal, etc...?
7) What are your greatest joys and fears?
8) Which emotions are the primary driving ones for your character?
9) How do you view the mundane world and its events?
11) What major events shaped your past; what were the pivotal moments?
12) What are your relations with your tribe, clan, kith, organization, etc...?
13) What will you add to the game?

1) Is their anything that the storyteller needs to know and was not addressed?