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Questions to ask yourself when making a character
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The following questions are meant to be used by the player as a springboard to fill out the character’s background as much as possible. You don't have to write down or type out answers to these questions or anything, it's just another tool to help you broaden your understanding of your character(s) and their possible mindset/views before the game starts.


Questions for all Kindred characters

How old are you?

When were you born? How old were you when you were Embraced? How long have you existed as a vampire? How old do you look? Are you more mature than you seem? Less?

What was unique about your childhood?

How did you spend your early years? How were your basic motivations and attitudes forged? Where did you go to school? Who were your immediate family? What is your clearest childhood memory? Did you go to high school? Did you have a hometown, or was your family constantly on the move? Did you go to college? Did you run away from home? Did you play sports? Did any of your childhood friendships last to adulthood?

What kind of person were you?

Were you a decent person, or were you an asshole? Were you popular? Did you have a family? How did you earn a living? Did you have any real friends? What kept you going from day to day? Will anyone miss you?

What was your first brush with the supernatural?

When did you realize you were being stalked? Did you believe in the occult before your Embrace? When did you first meet a vampire? Were you afraid? Disbelieving? Angry? What frightened you most?

How did the Embrace change you?

How did your sire catch you? Was the Embrace painful? Did you get a kinky pleasure out of it? Did the Hunger tear at you? Did it frighten you? Did it feel right? Are you grateful to your sire? Do you want to kill him for what he did to you?

Who was your sire, and how did he treat you?

What do you know of your sire? Was he abusive, arrogant, cryptic. or open? Why do you think he chose you? Did you even know your sire at all? How long did you stay with your sire? Did he teach you anything at all? How long was your “apprenticeship”? Where did you stay? Where did you go? Did you meet any other vampires during that time? Do you judge other vampires in general by your opinion of your sire? When did he teach you the laws of your Sect, or DID he?

How did you meet the others in your coterie or pack? (if you have one)

Were you brought together by chance or design? Are you all of one Sect? Are you united in purpose and attitude? How long have you been together? Did you know any of the others before the Embrace? Are your sires in cooperation, or are they rivals? What holds your coterie together when things are at their worst?

If you're solitary, why are you alone?

If you were a vampire before Gehenna, why have you avoided other Kindred? Or have you? Were you simply unable to find any others in your original location and moved on? If you were embraced after Gehenna and are currently alone...is it because your sire rejected or abandoned you? Why? Did your sire do something even worse? Did he/she try to harm or outright destroy you? Did that taint your view of other vampires?

Where is your haven?

Where do you hide during the day? Do you have a permanent home at all? Do you stay in the place you inhabited in your mortal life? Do you hide in an abandoned building? The sewers? Do you have anyone to protect you during the day?

Do you retain any connections to your mortal life?

Are you presumed dead? Do you still watch over relatives or friends from afar? Do you pretend to be still alive? Did you abandon your mortal existence entirely?

What are your habitual feeding grounds?

Whom do you feed upon, and where? Do you have a territory that you consider exclusively yours? Is your favorite hunting ground used by others? Do you compete with others? What is your preferred prey? Do you ever kill when you feed? Do you have a specific herd? Do you seduce your prey? Kidnap them? Assault them on the street? Do they come to you?

What motivates you?

Do you seek revenge on any enemies? Do you long to return to your mortal life? Do you have ambitions in Kindred society? If you could achieve anything in the world, what would it be?


Further questions for original Kindred

What experiences did you have during Gehenna and the Withering?

Were you a believer in Gehenna before it happened, or were you a complete skeptic? Did you lose any Kindred close to you during it? Friends, loved ones, your sire or progeny? When it ended, how did you feel when you realized you'd been spared when so many others had died? Do you think you were allowed to live for a reason? Or do you think it was pure luck? How did you act in the days, weeks, months, and first few years that followed? Were you afraid that the Withering would start up again to finish the job? Or did you resume your unlife as usual? Did it change how you view mortals? Do you consider them more dangerous than you did before, or did surviving the Withering make you feel invincible?

How did your clan/bloodline fare during the Withering?

Do you belong to one of the clans that fared as well as could be expected, and are now one of the more populous among the surviving vampires? How do you feel about that? Does it back up any feelings you may have already had that your clan/bloodline is superior to others? If, on the opposite side of the spectrum, you belong to one of the clans/bloodlines who were almost driven extinct, does it make you angry or bitter that your line was so harshly punished and others were allowed to survive in greater numbers? Did the loss make you apathetic about the eventual future of your kind, or did it make you all the more driven to see your clan rise from the ashes and reclaim their former glory?



Were you a member of one of the Kindred sects before Gehenna?

Did you belong to the Camarilla? The Sabbat? The Anarchs? Or were you always a lone wolf? If you did belong to one of the factions, did you have any rank or standing among them? How did you feel when Gehenna came and destroyed the leadership of both the Camarilla and the Sabbat? If you were Sabbat, how do you feel now? Gehenna has come and gone, the Antediluvians are dead, but so are most of your faction. Do you feel any urge to resurrect your sect and bring it back to life? Or do you want to forge ahead and find a new path in unlife? If you were an Anarch, does the fall of the Camarilla make you happy? If you meet another vampire who wants to bring it back, does that piss you off? Will you want to stop them?

Do you know about the new bloodlines that are emerging from the surviving clans?

Have you heard about this strange 'year of grace' that occurs when a vampire who survived Gehenna sires a new childe? Have YOU sired since Gehenna? If you did, how did you feel when your childe showed no sign of your clan weakness? Did your childe eventually become a full member of your clan, or did she turn out to be one of these strange new vampires? How did you treat her afterwards? Did you accept her anyway because she was still your childe, or did you force her out to fend for herself? Did you try to kill her? If you haven't encountered any member of the new bloodlines, do you dismiss these stories as just rumors and post-Gehenna paranoia? Do you dismiss these odd Kindred as just useless Caitiff, unworthy of notice? Or, if you DO know that these are truly new bloodlines, how does that make you feel? Resentful? Hopeful for the future? Threatened? If you belong to a clan that was almost decimated by the Withering, do the existence of these `flawed', 'imposter' childer make you fear for the continued survival of your own clan/bloodline? What do you think should be done about these new bloodlines? Should they be accepted into Kindred society and eventually be equals with their parent clans, or do you think they should be destroyed utterly and only Kindred belonging to the *true* clans deserve to exist?


Further questions for Kindred characters embraced after Gehenna

How long after your Embrace did you realize there was something `wrong' with you?

How did you feel when you didn't develop the weakness your sire *said* you would? How did your sire react when you didn't? Did it frighten him? Confuse him, anger him? How did he treat you afterwards? Did he let you stay so he could keep a watch on you, or did he abandon you immediately? If you were kept, how did you feel at the end of your first year when the change happened? If you became a full member of your sire's bloodline, did you resent finally being stuck with his flaw? Did it make you relieved that you would finally be fully accepted? If you did `breed true' at the end of your first year, did it make your sire or other clan-mates more controlling of you when they found out vampires sired by you are full members of your clan immediately after the Embrace? If so, do you resent that? Or do you see it as your duty to build your clans ranks back up? If you ended up a variant of your sire's clan, does your sire treat you any different? Or was he satisfied that you ended up similar enough to a `normal' childe ultimately? If you became one of the new bloodlines entirely, did that ruin your relationship with your sire? Or did your new ability fascinate him?

If you were driven off (or escaped) after your Embrace, how have you survived since then?

How do you feel about your Sire and the other members of his clan/bloodline? Do you hate them for treating you like a freak or a mistake? Do you fear them? Are you afraid to let other vampires know what you are when you meet them? Do you try to masquerade as a member of another clan when interacting with other vampires? Does it make you want to find other young Kindred like yourself? Or do you think you're the only member of your new bloodline and thus truly alone? Do you believe your bloodline is inferior to the original ones, or do you feel your bloodline (and the other new ones) is superior to the old ones and the *true* future of the Kindred?


Further questions for mortal characters

Have you had any brushes with the supernatural?

Have you always known there were strange and dangerous things lurking in the shadows? Did you fear them? Hunt them? Long to be one of them? Were you (like most humans) completely oblivious of their existence?

What did you think about the events in New York City nine years ago?

That giant, fleshy...THING, that the videos showed coming out of the ground in the Big Apple, those people who seemed to possess strange and frightening powers destroying it...those pale people on camera afterwards claiming to be vampires, of belonging to a group called the Cammy, Camarello, Cama-whatever it was...did you believe the news when it said all of that was just a terrorist attack? One giant hoax combined with bombs laced with hallucination-inducing chemicals? Or are you sure it was all real and the Government did what it does best and tried covering it up? Do you now believe in vampires? Are you paranoid that the pale man you see hanging out in the corner of the club is really a vampire himself? Are you terrified of meeting one? Do you WANT to meet one? How has that changed your life? Or did it?
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