Saturday, May 5, 2012

Regarding Yosho and "Castes"

This post was made after I made a Slight Change to the character info box in the wiki.

Basically, I added "Castes", Social catagories in which people fall into.

This is comprised of three sepirate caste-catagories: Individual, Social, and Eternal

The first of the three is generally the most import to the Character themselves. This caste is how the character views themselves. For example, Yosho views himself as a fighter. He fights, uses combat tactics, and physical knowledge as a means to achive his goal.

The second is how others view the character; In Yosho's case, as a Hunter. This could mean several things, but the overall meaning is that "The Hunter" is seeking something diligently. Whether that thing is truely game to feed a family, or your evil sister who has murdered a bunch of people does not matter. What matters is that the Hunter hunts and likely seeks to destroy their target, otherwise they might be something like a "Seeker".

The final caste in this trio is important to...well, no one, really. This caste describes the Character's relationship to the world they live in. In this case, Yosho is Fated. What does fated mean, though? Is he Destined to do something? Like DIE!? Perhaps he'll change the world entirely. Yosho is a special case, since he is a main character of a book, and does bring about some extream changes in the world he lives in. Other people might have a caste like "Leader" or "Follower".

With this system in place, a blueprint for random character generation could possibly be scratched up. Random castes are chosen from a list, then a random alignment, and ta-da! Instant, two-dimentional character, ready to be given a new dimention.

I'll toy with it some, but for now, the Caste thing is un-important, its just another tid-bit similar to "Disposition", a way to see the character at a glance.

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