4.2 Character Background
Every character in Aetolia is given the capability to write a public-viewable background and to keep his or her personal history up to date by writing regular 'chapters.' This background and the chapters must be written in-role, as they are there to be used as roleplay devices. A viewable background will show upon a characters HONORS. Once you have written your background, you can then begin to write history chapters for your character. Ideally, reading a character's background and then reading the various historical chapters that the character has written will give one a sense of where the character is coming from, where he's been, and where he's going. We must emphasize that this system is to be used _only_ for writing in-role history of your character. It's not to be used for any other purpose, and those using it for any other purpose will find they cannot use the system anymore. Syntax summary: (full explanations in the next section) -------------- COMPOSE BACKGROUND COMPOSE HISTORY CHAPTER <chapter #> COMPOSE HISTORY TITLE <chapter #> <title> VIEW BACKGROUND <player> VIEW HISTORY SUMMARY <player> VIEW HISTORY <chapter #> <player> CONFIG BACKGROUND <PUBLIC|ALLIES|PRIVATE> Syntaxes: --------- COMPOSE BACKGROUND - Takes you into the Aetolian editor to compose your background. - There's no need to write excessively long backgrounds. What you want to do is give your character some flavour and give yourself a framework to roleplay in. What you do not want to do is write histories that nobody will respect, because they are ridiculous. Don't write that you come from some far off land, as you don't. Don't write that you are the spawn of some demon, because you aren't. Keep it consistent with Aetolian history and consistent within itself. COMPOSE HISTORY CHAPTER <chapter #> - Takes you into the editor to compose a new chapter. - Must write your chapters in sequential order. - Chapters are to be used only for the telling and explaining of personal history. They are not to be used to write whatever you feel like writing. COMPOSE HISTORY TITLE <chapter #> <title> - Assigns a title to a chapter. - The title may be multiple words long. The title may be changed as many times as you like. VIEW BACKGROUND <character> - Views a character's background. - Omit the character field to view your own background more easily. VIEW HISTORY SUMMARY <character> - Displays a summary of the chapters a character has written. - Omit the character field to view your own summary more easily. VIEW HISTORY <chapter> <character> - Displays the specified chapter of the specified character. - Omit the character field to view your own chapters more easily. CONFIG BACKGROUND <PUBLIC|ALLIES|PRIVATE> - Sets your background and history chapters viewable by everyone, only your allies or no one. The only exceptions are that the most powerful gods, such as Varian, can always read them.
