Backgrounds

Your character’s background describes what they did before they joined the crew. Choose one of the general background options from the list on your playbook, then write a detail about it that’s specific to your character. For example, you could choose Labor, and then write Leviathan hunter sailor, mutineer. Or you might choose Law and write Former Bluecoat. See more examples below.

Academic: A scholar, a professor or student from Doskvol Academy, a philosopher or journalist, etc.

Labor: A servant, a factory worker, a coach driver, a docker, a sailor, a Rail Jack, etc. A stevedore for the North Hook Company.

Law: An advocate or barrister, a Bluecoat or inspector (or even Spirit Warden), a prison guard from Ironhook, etc.

Trade: A shopkeeper, a merchant, a skilled crafts-person, a shipping agent, etc. A liaison to the Ministry of Preservation.

Military: An Imperial or Skovlander soldier, a mercenary, an intelligence operative, a strategist, a training instructor, etc.

Noble: A dilettante, a courtier, the scion of a fallen house, etc.

Underworld: A street urchin, gang member, young thug, or other outcast who grew up on the streets