[center]Backgrounds/Virtues/Flaws[/center]
I am of the mind that what happens after the game starts is far more important than what happens to your characters before the game starts. I want to focus on what is/will be, rather than what was/may have been. To that end, I am requiring only the following elements in any background you wish to write up:
- Birth place
- Apprentice Covenant
- Parens
- 1 trial from your Gauntlet
That's a rather short list, and I'm hoping that it stays that way. Again, I'm not focused on what you've done, but you are going to do.
However, for all of the lack of background that is required, there are some things that you will have to write out for your character. Any Virtues or Flaws that have story seeds/hooks attached to them, such as Dark Secret, need to have a write-up to include all the high points for that Virtue/Flaw so that I can appropriately bring it up in-game when necessary. And I can't do that if I don't know what it is you are expecting.