Dreams of a Fallen Crown:GM Questions
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Questions
- The initial focus of the game will be a conflict with the Guild in the South, and the corruption it represents. With that in mind, answer the following:
- Why is your character opposed to the guild?
- What are your character's intentions with regards to the guild?
- What reasons do you have for remaining in the South for the moment, besides already being there?
- Note: Since these three questions reflect the premise of the game, 'None, really' is not a valid answer for obvious reasons.
- List 3 different things (people, objects, organizations, causes) that your character wants, hates, or cares about. Don't worry about lack of knowledge regarding the setting. Make them up if needed, and *poof* they were always there. We'll find a way to work them in, possibly with a bit of mangling.
- List 3 things that you as a player want to show up in this game. This can be conflicts, moral questions, scenes, opponents, opportunities etc.
- Describe an environment (set piece) for a fight scene you'd like to see.
Answers
Oath-Graven Diamond
- Why is your character opposed to the guild?
The Guild represents the very worst of the tyranny of mortals. It is practically a government unto itself, but one focused on gaining wealth at the expense of the people. It is a merchant in king's robes; while merchants have their place, they can't possibly be regarded as the fair, just, and impartial force that a ruler must be. While the dragonblooded are in revolt against the natural order, the guild represents an even more flagrant violation. Bringing them low is the greatest blow that can currently be struck for righteousness.
- What are your character's intentions with regards to the guild?
Ultimately, to see the guild in ruins and its trade brought under the eye of strict policing; its slaves freed and its leaders destroyed. Making this permanent will require the force of the Realm, but disrupting the Guild to its core will greatly reduce its impact for many years.
- What reasons do you have for remaining in the South for the moment, besides already being there?
My manse and my investments in Chiaroscuro, first--"all my stuff is there", so to speak. It's something of a surrogate homeland, also, having been dispossessed of my own. Truly, though, every land the Unconquered Sun touches is my home.
- List 3 different things that your character wants, hates, or cares about.
I hate the Realm for its usurpation by the Dragonblooded. They must eventually fall if this world is to become righteous.
I care for the people oppressed by the Realm and by the Guild. While the Realm might be wicked, those living under its rule are innocent of their rulers' crimes.
I care for my family, if distantly; I wish them no ill despite my estrangement from them.
- List 3 things that you as a player want to show up in this game. This can be conflicts, moral questions, scenes, opponents, opportunities etc.
- Conflict with his brother, Cathak Kiru, riding with the Wyld Hunt
- Lead a slave revolt out of somewhere interesting
- Deal with spirits or elementals
- Describe an environment (set piece) for a fight scene you'd like to see.
A running battle across the clear glass rooftops of Chiaroscuro, harried by hungry ghosts along the way...
Eclipse
Al'mun Fa-Shazzad, The Masked Fox
- Why is your character opposed to the Guild?
- Fa-Shazzad is not so much opposed to the Guild as much as opposed to certain practices; namely slavery and drug sales. Such trades inherently shackle and subjegate a people built on their freedom and will. No profit or pleasure is worth the cost of the desert soul.
- What are your character's intentions with regards to the Guild?
- To show them that people of the South will not stand for their attempts to lessen their resolve or character. To make it... unprofitable to pursue such trades as slavery and drug sales in the Southern lands.
- What reasons do you have for remaining in the South for the moment, besides already being there?
- The South really is Fa-Shazzad's major concern. These are his people, and he is proud to be in their number. Even in the face of his Exaltation, the Fox feels that his place is in the Desert, somewhat to the exlusion of other areas. He also believes the answers to his many questions can be found quickest, if at all, in this region.
- List 3 different things (people, objects, organizations, causes) that your character wants, hates, or cares about.
- He cares deeply for the people of the South, both the actual individuals and the ideal.
- He wants to discover his actual history.
- He hates Paragon and all that it represents.
- List 3 things that you as a player want to show up in this game. This can be conflicts, moral questions, scenes, opponents, opportunities etc.
- Describe an environment (set piece) for a fight scene you'd like to see.
- A huge astrolabe, or similar clockwork-ish device with lots of massive moving parts, with swinging pendulums and spinning orbs.
