Simple Background - Revision history

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Archin: /* Purpose */

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Purpose

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	But the world you knew is gone, and rebuilding asks everything of you.		But the world you knew is gone, and rebuilding asks everything of you.


	<font color="#DAA520">What is it that keeps you going, when so much has already been lost?</font>		<font color="#DAA520">What is it that keeps you going, when so much has already been lost?</font>

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	Below are the questions you'll encounter. Asterisked headings are submenus that may or may not appear in game, depending on your earlier choices. They're included here to help you prepare for, and better understand, your character ahead of time:		Below are the questions you'll encounter. Asterisked headings are submenus that may or may not appear in game, depending on your earlier choices. They're included here to help you prepare for, and better understand, your character ahead of time:


	=<font color="#DAA520">Origins</font>=		=<font color="#DAA520">Origins</font>=
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	*Political Pamphlets		*Political Pamphlets
	*Market Broadsheets		*Market Broadsheets


	=<font color="#DAA520">Adulthood</font>=		=<font color="#DAA520">Adulthood</font>=
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	Whether you were trained by drill sergeants or hardened by gang wars, hired as a man-at-arms or born into brutality, you learned to fight, and you favored a method.		Whether you were trained by drill sergeants or hardened by gang wars, hired as a man-at-arms or born into brutality, you learned to fight, and you favored a method.


	<font color="#DAA520">What was your weapon of choice</font>		<font color="#DAA520">What was your weapon of choice</font>
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	*Woodwind Instruments		*Woodwind Instruments
	*Stage Performance		*Stage Performance


	=<font color="#DAA520">The Last War</font>=		=<font color="#DAA520">The Last War</font>=
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	*Worked in the hospitals, caring for the wounded.		*Worked in the hospitals, caring for the wounded.
	*Fled to the countryside, avoiding the Prussian bombing campaigns.		*Fled to the countryside, avoiding the Prussian bombing campaigns.


	=<font color="#DAA520">The End of the World</font>=		=<font color="#DAA520">The End of the World</font>=
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	The British Empire-once the mightiest force on Earth-lies buried beneath snow. Its halls of power, its fleets, its monuments to industry, all reduced to ruin.		The British Empire-once the mightiest force on Earth-lies buried beneath snow. Its halls of power, its fleets, its monuments to industry, all reduced to ruin.


	<font color="#DAA520">You have survived, but in doing so, what hurt most to lose?</font>		<font color="#DAA520">You have survived, but in doing so, what hurt most to lose?</font>
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	*Yourself		*Yourself
	*Nothing		*Nothing


	=<font color="#DAA520">Purpose</font>=		=<font color="#DAA520">Purpose</font>=

Archin: /* Adolescence */

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Adolescence

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	An Apprentice: you learned a trade, your future tied to another's craft		An Apprentice: you learned a trade, your future tied to another's craft
	A Student: you spent your days with books and lessons		A Student: you spent your days with books and lessons


	==*Apprenticeship==		==*Apprenticeship==

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Adolescence

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	Perhaps your master was a good one, patient with your mistakes, or perhaps they were not, and the lesson came harder for it. Regardless, the work shaped you all the same.		Perhaps your master was a good one, patient with your mistakes, or perhaps they were not, and the lesson came harder for it. Regardless, the work shaped you all the same.


	<font color="#DAA520">Under who did you apprentice?</font>		<font color="#DAA520">Under who did you apprentice?</font>
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	==*Studies==		==*Studies==

	In an age when many children labored more than they learned, simply staying in school was a privilege hard won. Even with new laws and Board Schools rising across Britain, education came at a price: coins for ink and paper, hours lost to wages not earned. For some, school was a gift granted by station. For others, a fight clawed out of poverty. Ragged schools and dame rooms might watch a child for a time, but true study? That cost more than money.		In an age when many children labored more than they learned, simply staying in school was a privilege hard won. Even with new laws and Board Schools rising across Britain, education came at a price: coins for ink and paper, hours lost to wages not earned. For some, school was a gift granted by station. For others, a fight clawed out of poverty. Ragged schools and dame rooms might watch a child for a time, but true study? That cost more than money.

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	*Market Broadsheets		*Market Broadsheets


	=<font color="#DAA520">Adulthood</font>=		=<font color="#DAA520">Adulthood</font>=

Archin at 22:22, 27 July 2026

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	~~The~~ Simple ~~Background option is~~ a ~~multiple-choice~~, ~~choose-~~your~~-own-adventure-style backstory builder~~.		During [Character Creation], you'll choose between two backstory paths: Simple or Advanced. Both are valid ways to establish your character's history and influence future storytelling. Staff will be able to inspect a player and pull up this information at any time during play.

			Below are the questions you'll encounter. Asterisked headings are submenus that may or may not appear in game, depending on your earlier choices. They're included here to help you prepare for, and better understand, your character ahead of time:

	=<font color="#DAA520">Origins</font>=		=<font color="#DAA520">Origins</font>=

Archin: /* Sacrifice */

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Sacrifice

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	=<font color="#DAA520">Sacrifice</font>=		=<font color="#DAA520">Sacrifice</font>=
			The year is 1896, and the world has frozen over.

	The British Empire-once the mightiest force on Earth-lies buried beneath snow. Its halls of power, its fleets, its monuments to industry, all reduced to ruin.		The British Empire-once the mightiest force on Earth-lies buried beneath snow. Its halls of power, its fleets, its monuments to industry, all reduced to ruin.
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	*Yourself		*Yourself
	*Nothing		*Nothing


	=<font color="#DAA520">Purpose</font>=		=<font color="#DAA520">Purpose</font>=

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	*Merchants		*Merchants
	*Aristocracy		*Aristocracy


	=<font color="#DAA520">Childhood</font>=		=<font color="#DAA520">Childhood</font>=
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	*Enrolled in School, or private tutelage		*Enrolled in School, or private tutelage
	*Playing in the woods in the countryside		*Playing in the woods in the countryside


	=<font color="#DAA520">Adolescence</font>=		=<font color="#DAA520">Adolescence</font>=

Archin: /* Artistic Expression /

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*Artistic Expression

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	==*Artistic Expression==		==*Artistic Expression==
	For the upper class, art was cultivated behind velvet drapes-taught by private tutors, praised when properly restrained. Elsewhere, it lived in the margins. Some artists found patrons. A few were born into wealth and could afford to create without concern. Most scraped by-busking in alleyways, painting signage, writing by candlelight, selling verses by the line.		For the upper class, art was cultivated behind velvet drapes, taught by private tutors, praised when properly restrained.

			Elsewhere, it lived in the margins. Some artists found patrons. A few were born into wealth and could afford to create without concern. Most scraped by, busking in alleyways, painting signage, writing by candlelight, selling verses by the line.

	<font color="#DAA520">What was your artistic focus?</font>		<font color="#DAA520">What was your artistic focus?</font>
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	*Woodwind Instruments		*Woodwind Instruments
	*Stage Performance		*Stage Performance


	=<font color="#DAA520">The Last War</font>=		=<font color="#DAA520">The Last War</font>=

Simple Background - Revision history

Archin at 22:29, 27 July 2026

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Archin at 22:22, 27 July 2026

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Archin at 22:09, 27 July 2026

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