"1- Don't try to outdo other players or the Setting of PlaneShift. Make your story and home interesting, but keep it within reason. It puts other players in an awkward situation if they have to try to either accept your outlandish claims, see your character as insane, or explain out of character why you could not have come from that place. It is not pleasant in any case."
I think i did this to the best of my ability, i just cannot finish my character background till i have a better idea of where i am from *Shrugs* I will get it eventually, i have been researching bits here and there on my off time.
2- Your character was born in Yliakum. No ifs, ands, or buts about it. There are no unapproved distant kingdoms beyond the Stone Labyrinths or on the surface. No character has been to the surface (if indeed there is a surface). There are no current portals to or from other worlds. There are no mysterious hidden cities that no one has ever heard of before.
Already thought of that too
3- ALL race (Kran and Lemur aside) homelands and histories are lost to the past, and have been so for hundreds of years. No character is old enough to have come through the portals or remember why there is no record of what happened to the homelands. There is an In-Character reason for that, and it is not open for debate. Kadiakos is also off limits as a birthplace. As far as all current characters go, there is only Yliakum.
*Shrugs* Seems like a hole in thing's right there as far as IC reason's go? It's a great rule if the story writers are planning to expand on this in the future.
4- Your character was not born in a city that was destroyed in a great race war. That is final.
Also not a worry
5- Yliakum is not relatively large. Any point can be reached in a matter of days.
Makes having an excuse for being ignorant of the world all that much harder no?
6- No part of Yliakum allows slavery.
Also not a worry
7- That does not mean you have to settle for mundane if you do not wish. As you have read in Character Creation, there have been many good and bad happenings in the past. Creatures or bandits could have attacked your village (but do not make yourself the only cliché survivor). Perhaps you were born in the Stone Labyrinths or other interesting (existing) place, such as the Temple of Laanx. There is a lot of leeway in what you can do as long as you use a bit of common sense.
*Shrugs* that's fine but my character does not need leeway since his background is not intended to be exotic.
Where do Ylians live in small and medium populations? I need somewhere that there are farms and small towns that would not be out of place (and what large town would be closest to it?) Hydlaa could work i suppose as the nearest town... And i guess my character may have reasons for not knowing the town... These are questions though that if asked my character needs to have the answers to correct?
And if the world is not that big then should not others know about the places? I've run into people several times from different states that knew people i knew or that i knew directly... If any place in Yliakum can be reached in days... Should not there be those that know near every nook and cranny?
