Backstory help with my Wintermark Character

[Geoffrey_Willoughby]

Yeah, simple is usually a good idea.

You may also want a quick look at this other thread:

Character backgrounds that work at Empire (Character Creation Week)

As we’re two and a bit weeks from Empire it’s obviously the best time to think about your new character’s background and creating your character . Empire is a big game and the kind of backgrounds that work in an rpg (or a character in a book) don’t necessarily work as well there. So what kind of character backstory does work? What kind of motivations have worked for you in getting your characters moving and doing stuff? What questions do you ask when making characters? And also …