Beginning play
You do not need a finished biography. You need somewhere you are from, something you inherited, a connection that can still reach you, and an opinion strong enough to cause trouble at the wrong moment.
Separate mornings cross over a repaired fastening, shared bread, and folded papers.
Boundary Kaerys is human-majority; mixed Yards life, shared rooms, and maritime-derived aerial hulls are canon. These people and their relationships are illustrative.Make quick choices. Keep the answer that creates tension and replace anything that merely sounds tidy. Nothing here binds your character sheet, and nothing here is checked against a rule. What it gives you is a position in the world solid enough to argue with — yours, your table’s, and mine.
Every player character spent part of the last few years in Kaerys, whether or not they were born there and whether or not they knew one another. That is the only thing this form assumes.
Human, established, enclave, and exceptional ancestry choices each ask for a different amount of origin work. Read the short guide before treating a PF2E rarity tag as a fact about this world.
Make quick choices. Keep the answer that creates tension and replace anything that merely sounds tidy. Nothing here locks your character — it gives you something solid enough to argue with.
Everyone in the Windlass has one of these. Almost nobody has two.
Your answers stay after the # in this address, where the site host does not receive them. Treat the copied link as a private document: anyone who has it can read the whole slip. A draft also remains in this browser until you choose Begin again.
Neither of these is something you decide alone, and neither belongs on the form. Bring them to session zero and settle them with somebody.
A thing that runs both ways between your character and one other. Shared history, a debt, a promise, a working relationship, a quarrel neither of you finished.
A reason — right now, at the table, in the hold — to trust, protect, need, or watch another character. Present tense, because a hook is useful when it can force a decision this session.
Prefer obligations, shared history, debts, promises, and conflicting loyalties over secret biographies. A secret only pays once. An obligation pays every time it comes due.
The missing span covers capture and transport, so two characters may have crossed paths inside it. Anything older than that needs both players to agree.
Take these to the table
None of these needs an answer in writing. All of them are better answered out loud, in front of the other players, where somebody can grab hold of one.
Name them only when you want them to be able to find you. They will.
Checkpoints, shortages, uniforms, empty chairs, easy money. Choose one and let it show.
Give your GM a conviction worth testing. Being wrong in public is good for everyone.
Something concrete and already in progress, with nothing to do with whoever took you. This is the one that makes it your campaign instead of theirs.
An object can be old without being famous or fine.
A tool is recut into another trade. A blade is re-edged and rehandled. A campaign trunk holds a cheap medal beside repair receipts and an obsolete service paper. What survives is rarely pristine; it is what each generation found worth mending.
Family legend can be true without becoming public history. A household may preserve one sentence about a strike, crossing, regiment, rescue, or disgrace that never entered a textbook. That does not mean no paper survived somewhere.
If an old weapon, shield, tool, letter, garment, or instrument belongs in your story, say what was replaced, who last repaired it, and why your character still carries it. Bring any answer that adds shared history as a session-zero proposal.