Creating Characters

Points

Players have 20 points, plus the value of any contributions to spend building their characters.

Where Characters Come From

Player characters will most likely be the offspring of Royal Amberites. Less likely, they could be powerful shadow-dwellers. It's conceivable that PCs could be from Chaos, but the campaign cosmology means that any Chaos character conception has to clear numerous hurdles. Only those of the Blood of Amber may walk the Pattern.

Where Else Characters Come From

Note that there are only a few safe places for your character to have been at the time of the Black Rain:

1. At the Primal Pattern
2. In Amber
3. In the immediate vicinity of the Jewel of Judgment
4. In the Courts of Chaos (includes the Amber Expeditionary Force)
5. A gleam in your mama's eye.

Characters born after Patternfall to someone in the Expeditionary Force will not be able to start the game with Pattern Imprint - a definite handicap. Of course, this gives them more points to spend on other things...

Amberite PCs born before Patternfall may well have been brought along on the invasion of Chaos or stashed in Amber for safekeeping. This may have been done secretly or openly.

The Stages of Character Creation

There are four stages to character creation:

1. The Vision stage
2. The Powers stage
3. The Elements stage
4. The Magic stage

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