Excercise: Character Questions

[warraven]

I had to dig pretty hard to find this. It's something I was given in college to apply to any original characters I made. It's not supposed to be a definitive guide to who your character is but it can give you an idea of how well you know your character. If you find you don't know your character that well there will be a workshop on character development. For now, fill out the following questions and find out!

1) Name:
2) Nickname:
3) Sex:
4) Age:
5) Looks:
6) Education:
7) Vocation:
8) Status+Money:
9) Marital Status:
10) Family:
11) Race/faction:
12) Diction, accent, etc:
13) Relationships:
14) Places they visit:
15) Possessions:
16) Hobbies/recreation:
17) Obsessions:
18) Beliefs:
19) Politics:
20) Ambitions:
21) Religion:
22) Superstitions:
23) Fears:
24) Attitudes:
25) Character flaws:
26) Character strengths:
27) Pets:
28) Taste in books, music, etc:
29) Journal entries:
30) Correspondence:
31) Food preferences:
32) Handwriting:
33) Talents:

[warraven]

I'll fill one out as sort of an example.

1) Name: Warraven (originally Namka)
2) Nickname: War
3) Sex: Female
4) Age: Exact unknown, but betwen 20 and 30 winters.

5) Looks: Large and strong like all tauren, especially so due to the types of weapons she carries. She braids bits of stone, beads, and feathers into her mane and often ties the same to her armor along with other charms of the spirits she speaks to. Her totems are roughly carved and each have a bit of something she made tied to them, typically an embossed piece of leather with a raven on it.

6) Education: None, save what she has learned on her own by traveling through Azeroth and beyond. She has some guidance from Thunder Bluff but generally they let her learn on her own. She can barely read and write and is mostly illiterate.

7) Vocation: Shaman with no ties to anything but the shamanistic path, even though she does not know where that will take her.

8) Status+Money: Low status as she is a drifter, in and out of the various cities and has not spent extensive time with the other shamans to gain any influence with them. She is fairly well off from her adventures but does not use it except to support herself when needed.

9) Marital Status: Single, as she does not feel it is meant for her to wed.

10) Family: Father and mother in a small clan in Mulgore who have since renounced her as their daughter and given her up to the Earthmother's claim.

11) Race/faction: Tauren, loyal first to the Earthmother, then a tie between her own people/the Horde and the Remnants of Honor.

12) Diction, accent, etc: Speaks slowly unless excited, at which point she will grow very animated and speak very quickly.

13) Relationships: Strong friendship with Molinu and feels a great deal of responsibility for her other friends and the Remnants, even the friends who have spurned her.

14) Places they visit: Mulgore, briefly to reconnect with her roots, and other lone places of the world where the clamor of the real world is quiet and she can listen to the spirits clearly.

15) Possessions: Leatherworking tools, her weapons and armor, and traveling rations. She has little she considers of value.

16) Hobbies/recreation: Leatherworking. She greatly enjoys the hunt and use of animal skins and hide.

17) Obsessions: Organization! She believes the world is in a chaotic state but even in this chaos there is some reason to it, albeit beyond her comprehension. As a result, she organizes what she can. Don't cross her on the guild bank.

18) Beliefs: The Earthmother has a hand in everything and guides those that follow her. She may not understand everything but if she follows her instincts, stays to what she knows is true, then she will be guided along the path she is meant to take, no matter where it leads - to her benefit or loss.

19) Politics: Warraven does not concern herself very much with politics as she sees things in black and white. These people have done something to wrong the children of the Earthmother. If they cannot be saved then they must be killed before they do more wrong.

20) Ambitions: None that she consciously realizes.

21) Religion: Follower of the Earthmother but listens to other religions and pays respect to Elune but is unsure if the moon is truly a deity as the night elves claim.

22) Superstitions: Ravens guide her and are sent by the Earthmother.

23) Fears: Water. She is terrified of deep water.

24) Attitudes: Gentle and forgiving. When she has a goal she is aggressive, violent, and determined to accomplish, no matter what gets in her path.

25) Character flaws: Does not look at the big picture and tends to get tunnel vision when decided upon a course of action.

26) Character strengths: Unbreakable loyalty to those around her.

27) Pets: Too many? Montimious her ram steed, SkyCrier her wyvern, two cats, ummm.... a couple other misc. animals.

28) Taste in books, music, etc: Can't read, but appreciates drumming as it reminds her of home.

29) Journal entries: Can't write, doesn't keep one.

30) Correspondence: Used to write to Eonthane where he'd correct her spelling. No longer writes to anyone.

31) Food preferences: Is it not moving? Good.

32) Handwriting: Horrific. Almost as bad as her spelling, if not worse. Barely readable.

33) Talents: Able to listen to the spirits, even if the doesn't understand, and will discern what needs to be done or even what has been done in a place or time by what they say.