====== Origin ======
To help role-play who your character is now, you should know where he came from. What circumstances molded him into what he is now? Someone who was raised to a life of great wealth and luxury might become a jaded sybarite. On the other hand, he might (like the Buddha) decide from personal experience that such amenities are worthless. Someone born poor might stay poor or might be driven to become a ruthless business entrepreneur.

Each sample origin contains a brief description and lists a few specific examples that fit the particular origin. When you choose your character's origin, you also get one point in a single related [[Backgrounds|Background]]; appropriate choices are listed at the end of each description. In addition to the origins here, feel free to generate your own and determine its corresponding Background, with the Storyteller’s approval.

===== Aboriginal =====
Instead of being raised in a “developed” nation such as those of Europe or the United States, you had the traditional upbringing of a low-tech society.

**Examples:** Australian Aborigine, Bedouin, Inuit, Pygmy

**Background Options:** [[Cipher]] or [[Menagerie]]

===== Activist =====
You're a proponent of new, modern politics. 

**Examples:** Anarchist, Suffergette, Communist, Fascist 

**Background Options:** [[Influence]] or [[Reputation]]

===== Academic =====
You're a scholar from a long line of scholars; education and knowledge have always been important to you.

**Examples:** Scientist, Teacher, Librarian, Monk 

**Background Options:** [[Backing]] or [[Sanctum]]

===== Creator =====
You're an artist or entertainer of some sort or another, earning your living by making others laugh, think or simply relax.

**Examples:** Dancer, Circus Acrobat, Stage Magician, Musician

**Background Options:** Influence or Reputation

===== Defender =====
You crusade against society's wrongs.

**Examples:** Muckraker, Politician, Police Officer, Missionary

**Background Options:** [[Contacts]] or Influence

===== Foreigner =====
You're not in your home country for me reason or another, whether to start a new life or to escape you old one.

**Examples:** Diplomat, Immigrant, Royalty in Exile 

**Background Options:** [[Allies]] or Resources

===== Gambler =====
Risk is what makes life palatable. 

**Examples:** Card Sharp, Bookie, Stuntman, Barnstormer 

**Background Options:** Contacts or [[Mentor]]

===== High Class =====
You come from wealth and are used to commanding great financial resources.

**Examples:** Duchess, Business Tycoon, Eccentric Millionaire

**Background Options:** Followers or Resources

===== Low Class =====
Your whole life has been a struggle to keep shoes on your feet and a roof over your head.

**Examples:** Revolutionary, Criminal, Laborer 

**Background Options:** Cipher or Contacts

===== Middle Class =====
You had an average upbringing, with some hard times and some luxuries.

**Examples:** Chauffeur, Police Officer, Greengrocer, Accountant

**Background Options:** Ally or Contacts 

===== Military =====
You’re enlisted in (or possibly retired from) some form of armed service, or you were the child of military personnel and were raised in that disciplined milieu.

**Examples:** Sailor, Soldier, Pilot, Mercenary 

**Background Options:** Backing or [[Followers]]

===== Mystery =====
Your past is shrouded in conjecture or is entirely blank, either deliberately or due to some vagary of fate. 

**Examples:** Spy, Fugitive, Amnesiac, Orphan 

**Background Options:** Cipher or [[Nemesis]]

===== Outlaw =====
Somehow you have ended up on the wrong side of the authorities.

**Examples:** Mobster, Bank Robber, Fugitive, Smuggler 

**Background Options:** Contacts or Reputation

===== Philosopher =====
Occupied with matters of the mind. 

**Examples:** Scientist, Poet, Theorist 

**Background Options:** Followers or Sanctum

===== Pioneer =====
You push at the world’s boundaries. 

**Examples:** Artist, Inventor, Explorer 

**Background Options:** [[Gadget]] or Reputation

===== Saint =====
You do good works or studiously avoid wickedness. 

**Examples:** Priest, Moralizer, Samaritan 

**Background Options:** Followers or Influence

===== Tinkerer =====
Not only do you find out what makes things tick, you make them tick better.

**Examples:** Mechanic, Watchmaker, Inventor 

**Background Options:** Gadget or Sanctum
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