Character Creation: A Guide

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Name: What's in a name? Quite a lot, actually. A name for your character is the first place you start, but it can say a lot: what's your character's heritage? What does their name say about them? Do they like their name, or do they dislike it?

Age: Simple enough, but it's here where you decide between student and adult.

Birthdate/place: Remember, the current year is 2038. And don't forget the place!

Species: This can get a bit tricky, beyond witch or wizard. Play around with it, but talk to staff if you're unsure.

Gender: What is your character's gender?

Family: Include blood status and any family members.

Appearance:
Hair:
Eyes:

Build/height- What does your character look like? How do they carry themselves? Not everyone's tall, dark and handsome: some people are slight and awkward, some are stubby, some have knobby knees. Play around with it!

General Description- This is where you describe skin, face, clothing, and general demeanor. Clothing can tell a lot about a character, so be specific!

Possessions- Anything particular your character owns? List it here! No need to get super-specific, but try to mention any pets, if your character owns a home... you know, major things.

Personality:
Temperment/Mental Attributes-What is your character like? What do they think about? How do they relate to other people? What are their interests, pet peeves? What have past instances done to affect your character mentally? These are all excellent questions to answer here!

Alliance- Are you a 'good guy', a 'bad guy', or somewhere in the grey area!

Alignment- [Lawful Good, Lawful Neutral, Lawful Evil, Neutral Good, Neutral, Neutral Evil, Chaotic Good, Chaotic Neutral, Chaotic Evil] Confused? Read this!


Employment&Education: This section is split into a Student section and an Adult section - feel free to delete the section that doesn't apply to your character.

-Students-
House- Gryffindor, Slytherin, Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw. Or did you not go to Hogwarts?
Year- 1-7
OWLs/NEWTs- Feel free to generalize.

-Adults-
Former House-
Job- This isn't only the things in the Positions Roster, this can be anything! Come up with your own job if you don't find the provided ones satisfactory.
Employer- List who's paying you, unless you're self-employed.
OWLs/NEWTs- Optional

Other:
Magical Skills- This is where you would list any specific magical talents or abilities, such as Occlumency, Metaphorphagus, Animagus, Werewolf, etc. Don't go crazy here! Stick to no more than 3 or 4, if any. It's fine if your character doesn't have any extraordinary abilities at all!

Patronus- very, very few students can create a full-bodies patronus. Keep that in mind.

Wand- How does your character's wand relate to them? The Wand chooses the Wizard, after all!

Goals/Aspirations- Optional, but very useful in plotting and RP. It's much easier to write a character if you know what they want!

Other Information- Does your character speak any other languages? Do they have a penchant for any muggle talents? Can they play an instrument? List that here!

History-

History varies depending on character, but there should be at least a brief description of childhood, a section about Hogwarts (if you're a graduate. If you're still a student, Hogwarts up until the present), and a section covering from your graduation to the present. Get into detail here! It's a character's history that makes them into who they are, so the more history, the more to your character!

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Lawful Good

Lawful Good is known as the "Saintly" or "Crusader" alignment. A Lawful Good character typically acts with compassion, and always with honor and a sense of duty. A Lawful Good nation would consist of a well-organized government that works for the benefit of its citizens.

Lawful Good characters, may sometimes find themselves faced with the dilemma of whether to obey law or good when the two conflict - for example, upholding a sworn oath when it would lead innocents to come to harm - or conflicts between two orders, such as between their religious law and the law of the local ruler.

Neutral Good

Neutral Good is known as the "Benefactor" alignment. A Neutral Good character is guided by his conscience and typically acts altruistically, without regard for or against Lawful precepts such as rules or tradition. A Neutral Good character has no problems with co-operating with lawful officials, but does not feel beholden to them. In the event that doing the right thing requires the bending or breaking of rules, they do not suffer the same inner conflict that a Lawful Good character would.

Chaotic Good

A Chaotic Good character favors change for a greater good, disdains bureaucratic organizations that get in the way of social improvement, and places a high value on personal freedom, not only for oneself, but for others as well. They always intend to do the right thing, but their methods are generally disorganised and often out of alignment with the rest of society.

They may create conflict in a team if they feel they are being pushed around, and often view extensive organisation and planning as pointless, preferring to improvise. While they do not have evil intentions, they may do bad things (even though they will not enjoy doing these things) to people who are, in their opinion, bad people, if it benefits the greater good.

Lawful Neutral

A Lawful Neutral character typically believes strongly in Lawful concepts such as honor, order, rules and tradition, and often follows a personal code. A Lawful Neutral society would typically enforce strict laws to maintain social order, and place a high value on traditions and historical precedent. Examples of Lawful Neutral characters might include a soldier who always follows orders, a judge or enforcer that adheres mercilessly to the word of the law, and a disciplined monk.

Characters of this alignment are neutral with regard to good and evil. This does not mean that Lawful Neutral characters are amoral or immoral, or do not have a moral compass; but simply that their moral considerations come a distant second to what their code, tradition or law dictates. They typically have a strong ethical code, but it is primarily guided by their system of belief, not by a commitment to good or evil.

Neutral

Neutral alignment, also referred to as True Neutral or Neutral Neutral, is called the "Undecided" or "Nature's" alignment. This alignment represents Neutral on both axes, and tends not to feel strongly towards any alignment. A farmer whose primary overriding concern is to feed his family is of this alignment. Most animals, lacking the capacity for moral judgment, are of this alignment. Many roguish characters who play all sides to suit themselves are also of this alignment.

Some Neutral characters, rather than feeling undecided, are committed to a balance between the alignments. They may see good, evil, law and chaos as simply prejudices and dangerous extremes.

Chaotic Neutral

A character of this alignment is an individualist who follows his or her own heart, and generally shirks rules and traditions. Although they promote the ideals of freedom, it is their own freedom that comes first. Good and Evil come second to their need to be free, and the only reliable thing about them is how totally unreliable they are. Chaotic Neutral characters are free-spirited and do not enjoy the unnecessary suffering of others, but if they join a team, it is because that team's goals coincide with their own.

They invariably resent taking orders and can be very selfish in their pursuit of personal goals. A Chaotic Neutral character does not have to be an aimless wanderer; they may have a specific goal in mind, but their methods of achieving that goal are often disorganised, unorthodox, or entirely unpredictable.

An unusual subset of Chaotic Neutral is "strongly Chaotic Neutral", describing a character who behaves chaotically to the point of appearing insane. Characters of this type may regularly change their appearance and attitudes for the sake of change, and intentionally disrupt organizations for the sole reason of disrupting a lawful construct.

Lawful Evil

Characters of this alignment see a well-ordered system as being easier to exploit, and show a combination of desirable and undesirable traits; while they usually obey their superiors and keep their word, they care nothing for the rights and freedoms of other individuals and are not averse to twisting the rules to work in their favor. Examples of this alignment include tyrants, devils, undiscriminating mercenary types who have a strict code of conduct, and loyal soldiers who enjoy the act of killing.

Like Lawful Good Paladins, Lawful Evil characters may sometimes find themselves faced with the dilemma of whether to obey law or evil when the two conflict - however their issues with Law versus Evil are more concerned with "Will I get caught?" vs "How does this benefit me?"

Neutral Evil

Characters of this alignment are typically selfish and have no qualms about turning on their allies-of-the-moment. They have no compunctions about harming others to get what they want, but neither will they go out of their way to cause carnage or mayhem when they see no direct benefit to it.

They abide by laws for only as long as it is convenient for them. A villain of this alignment can be more dangerous than either Lawful or Chaotic Evil characters, since he is neither bound by any sort of honor or tradition nor disorganized and pointlessly violent.

Examples are an assassin who has little regard for formal laws but does not needlessly kill, a henchman who plots behind his superior's back, or a mercenary who switches sides if made a better offer.

Chaotic Evil

Characters of this alignment tend to have no respect for rules, other people's lives, or anything but their own desires, which are typically selfish and cruel. They set a high value on personal freedom, but do not have any regard for the lives or freedom of other people. They do not work well in a group, as they resent being given orders, and usually behave themselves only out of fear of punishment.

It is not compulsory for a Chaotic Evil character to be constantly performing sadistic acts just for the sake of being evil, or constantly disobeying orders just for the sake of causing chaos. They do however enjoy the suffering of others, and view honor and self-discipline as weaknesses. Serial killers and monsters of limited intelligence are typically Chaotic Evil.

_{Thank you Wikipedia!}