Wraith the Oblivion Character Development Document v1.

Beyond the Sunset

Character Development Document

Wraith the Oblivion Edition

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This is the new Character Development Document for use with all characters in the sanctioned
Australian Camarilla chronicle. By completing this document, you will earn 5 Experience Points
that can only be spent on the Character used in this document. This document is designed to
help the player and the Storytellers flesh out the character, filling in background and relevant
character ties. It may be completed only once per character, though players are encouraged to
update this document as their character evolves across the chronicle.

In addition to answering the questions below, a full Character Sheet must be attached, along with
a brief history summary not to be in excess of five pages. This summary is to be in point form
and must cover all the salient events in the Characters past. Players are encouraged to expand
upon this for their own satisfaction, and their Storytellers edification, but that is not required for
this document. All the following questions are to be applied appropriate to the Genre in question.

GENERAL INFORMATION

This section asks about all the basic information on your Character, and the relevant information
on the Characters Genre and position within that Genre. All sections are first person
Character/Player.

1. What is your Characters name? List any associated pseudonyms.

 2. How old are you? When were you born? How old were you when you died ? How old do
you look? Do you act more mature that you look?

3. Describe your characters physical appearance (Hair colour, build, height, eye colour any
distinguishing features such as Deathmarks or Molitations etc.).

4. How does you character dress?

5. How did you die? What were the circumstances leading up to your death?

6. What are your Fetters? Where are they (if you know)?

7. What is your prime nationality, and what language do you speak?

8. Do you speak any other languages?

9. Which Underworld Faction do you belong to (Hierarchy, Renegades, Heretics, none)?

10. Which Legion do you belong to (or which lays claim to you even if you do not
acknowledge the claim)?

CONCEPT

Define the basic concept for your Character: how your character views him/herself and how
he/she fits in to the World of Darkness. For some characters, this view applies to a current
understanding; for others, the character concept is related to the character's behaviour and
feelings from centuries ago. Either way, the character concept sets the overall theme for how the
character is played.

ROLE IN WRAITH SOCIETY

1. Pick the nature that best describes how your character interacts with wraith society and a
demeanour that describes how others perceive them, and explain why you picked them:

Architect You are unhappy unless you are creating something of value.
Avant-Garde: The new and different are the keystones of your existence
Bon Vivant You seek the good things in life even after death.
Bravo: You are something of a bully; you like to be feared
Caregiver: Manny need your love and protection, and you need them to need you.
Child You never grew up and want someone to take care of you.
Conformist: A follower at heart, you find it easy to adapt, adjust and comply.
Conniver: Theres always an easier way which usually involves someone else doing
your work.
Critic: Nothing in life or death is perfect and you take great delight in pointing out flaws.
Curmudgeon: You are a real sourpuss and cynic to the Nth degree.
Deviant: Youre just not like anyone else.
 Director: You hate chaos and are forever taking charge to set things right.
Fanatic: You have a cause and it gives your life meaning.
Gallant: Youre as flamboyant as you are amoral.
Jester: Always the clown you cant take life or death seriously.
Judge: You seek justice and reconciliation.
Loner: You are forever alone even in a crowd.
Martyr: You need to be needed and enjoy being morally superior.
Rebel: No need for a cause; you rebel out of habit and passion.
Survivor: You struggle to survived, no matter what the odds.
Traditionalist: You prefer the orthodox and conservative ways.
Visionary: Wisdom is your quest, insight your key.

2. If you have a problem with another Wraith, how do you seek to solve it? What tools do

you have that can give you the upper hand?

3. Describe a scenario you would like to see for your character, where he or she can fulfill

his or her role. Focus on a conflict your storyteller could present to you, what you find

interesting about that conflict, and how it would reveal aspects of your character you might not
normally get to share.

LIFE

What were you like before you became what you are now? Do you still cling to your former life
as a comfort, or have you turned so far away that you no longer are anything like you
were? This section deals with your interaction with life.

1. What was special to you about your childhood? What is your clearest childhood
memory? How did you spend your early years? How were your basic attitudes and
motivations forged?

2. Who were your mortal family? Did you get on? Have you been married? Have you had
children?

3. Did you go to school? Did you go to University? Did you move around growing up or did
you have a home town? What was school like? Did you play any sports? Did you have
any hobbies?

4. Who were your childhood friends? Did you maintain any growing up? Will anyone miss
you?

5. When you were alive, what kind of person were you? Were you easy to get along with or
did people consider you 'difficult'? Where you popular? Did you have any real friends?
 6. Do you retain any connections to your mortal life? Do you still watch over your
relatives?

7. Are you or were you famous in mortal society? If so, why?

8. Has your character ever done drugs or drank heavily as a mortal? If so, what are your
characters thoughts on them?

9. Has your character travelled overseas at all? What was their favourite destination as a
mortal?

10. What did your character do for a living? What was their occupation?

DEATH AND REGRET

Since becoming Wraith your characters entire existence has changed. As the living your
character was a particular sort of person, but as Wraith they might be something completely
different. In this section try and define what is relevant to your character now that they walk the
lands of the dead. What important events have occurred since first becoming a Wraith.

1. What was your first brush with the supernatural? Did you believe in the occult before you
died?

2. When first met other Wraiths were you disbelieving? Angry? What frightened you most?

3. Describe your characters Death. How did it change you? Did it feel wrong or right? Were
you thankful, reluctant? Do you welcome or despise your existence after death?

4. Why does your character tenaciously cling to the Shadowlands? What did you leave
behind? What do you regret about the way in which you lived?

5. Have you ever been mentored by someone as a Wraith? Who do you look up to? Who do
you respect?

6. If you did have a mentor, how did they treat you? Were they abusive, arrogant, cryptic?
How long did you stay with your mentor? Did they teach you anything?

7. How did you fit into Wraith society? Did it suit you? Where did you excel? Where did
you fail? What positions of Stygian society, if any suit you best?

8. Have you ever broken the Rules of your Faction?

9. How do you fit into your Legion? Do you get along with them? Are they like you? Are
you a black sheep?

10. Do you belong to any minor societies (Guilds, specialist Legions etc.)?
 11. Do you owe anyone anything? Do you owe other Wraith favours? Do you owe mortals
favours?

12. Where do you rest? Where do you gather emotion?

13. What is your preferred method(s) of gathering Pathos?

14. What other resources to you own? Do you have any Relics or Artefacts? What are their
effects?

15. Does your character have any derangements? What caused them to emerge?

16. Have you succumbed to your shadow?

MOTIVATION AND PASSIONS

What are the goals and drives that keep your Character going and guide his/her actions? A
Character with no motivation reacts rather than acts. Such Characters often bore Players because
they spend the majority of game time waiting for something to happen to which they can react.
Characters with motivation, on the other hand, are always working toward some objective; such
characters often actively drive their own plots and help enrich the game for everyone. Consider
this when answering the following section.

Persona Information

The following questions pertain to the motivations and rationales employed by your Character
and the internal forces that drive it in the World of Darkness. The answers should provide the
Storytellers with insight into the Characters goals and objectives, and how these came to be.

1. What are your Characters long-term goals? Do you seek revenge on your enemies? Do
you long to affect your mortal life? Do you wish to ascend the social ladder of Wraith
politics? If you could achieve anything in the world what would it be?

2. What does your Character short term goals? Is there anything within their long term goals
that you could achieve part of in the short term?

3. What are your Characters greatest joys and fears?

4. What does your Character love, or hate, that stands out?

5. Which emotions are the primary drives for your Character?

6. Does your Character hold a vengeance against something/someone? Who? What? Why?

7. Who, if anyone, knows any of your darker secrets? Whose secrets do you know?
HISTORY

What has lead to your Character thinking the way it does? What has it seen, heard and felt over
the years. This does not only apply to Wraiths, but all creatures. What events have transformed
your Character? Draw from real life, history, as well as the created World of Darkness and in-
Game history to provide pivotal points in your Characters existence. Answer the following
questions, and attach your brief, point form, history.

Background Information

These questions ask you to focus on the events that have shaped your Character, be they
mundane or supernatural. Be brief and concise with these answers, as the intent is to highlight
the most important moments in your Characters history and provide Storytellers with clearly
defined events.

1. What important events did you participate in when alive?

2. What historical events have you witnessed or partaken in when alive?

3. What historical events have you witnessed or partaken in, as a Wraith?

4. What historical figures or events have you influenced?

5. What important places in the world have you visited and when?

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