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# ESO OC Background Questions

1. **Name?**
2. **Nickname?**
3. **Class?**
4. **Focus/role (e.g., magicka, stamina, tank, healer)?**
5. **Race?**
6. **Age?**
7. **Alliance?**
    1. **How do they feel about/relate to their alliance?**
    2. **Do they fight for their alliance in Cyrodiil? Why or why not?**
9. **Are they more confident or nervous?**
10. **Are they more outgoing or reserved?**
11. **What are they like in their interactions with others (polite, rude, friendly, impatient, wary, distracted, etc.)?**
12. **Where did they grow up?**
    1. **Is that the homeland of their race? How does that affect them?**
    2. **If they did not grow up in their race’s homeland, do they feel like an outsider? Do they make an effort to hide their background when interacting with others of their race?**
14. **How and why did they learn their primary skill set?**
15. **Do they have any family? What is their relationship like?**
16. **Why are they an adventurer?**
17. **Do they have a (primary) home?**
    1. **Do they share it with others? Are their roommates also adventurers?**
    2. **Do they like having somewhere to return to, or do they prefer to always be on the move?**
19. **Do they know any of your other characters? How do they relate to them?**
20. **Are they an active member of any guilds/factions? How do they relate to their guilds and their guildmates?**
    1. **Do they frequent the guild hall?**
22. **How do they feel about combat?**
23. **How do they feel about stealing?**
24. **How do they feel about murder (i.e., outside of combat)?**
25. **How do they feel about necromancy?**
26. **Is it important to them to be powerful?**
27. **(If they’ve played any of the main questline) How are they coping with having been killed?**
28. **Are they religious? What pantheon/practice, if any, do they follow?**
	1. **How do they relate to their religion and/or their gods?**
	2. **Is this the dominant religion where they grew up? Is it the dominant religion for their race? If not, how did they come to it?**    3. **How do they feel about their people's or surrounding culture's dominant religion, whether or not they practice it?**
	3. **If they worship multiple gods, do they have a patron or “main” god?**
	4. **How do they feel about the various deities/pantheons/practices in Tamriel other than their own?**
30. **(If they’ve played any of the main questline) How do they feel about having to travel to and from Coldharbour?**
31. **What kind of mount do they prefer?**
32. **What kind of pet do they prefer?**
33. 
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**The rest are more relevant to specific races or alliances, but might apply to others as well.**

### Altmer questions

1.  **How do they feel about the Queen’s Decree to open Summerset?**

### Dunmer questions

1. **How do they feel about the Great Houses (as a system, not necessarily each one individually)?**
2. **Do they belong to a Great House? If so, which one?**
	1. **Were they born into it, or did they choose to join?**
	2. **What is their rank in the House? (Or, more generally, are they a high-ranking member or more common-level?)**
	3. **How do they feel about the other Houses?**
4. **How do they feel about Ashlanders?**
5. **If they grew up in Morrowind, how do they feel about outlanders? / If they did not grow up in Morrowind, do they feel like an outlander?**
7. **If they have interacted with any of the Tribunal, how do they feel about it?**
    1. **How do they regard them when interacting directly (e.g., with awe, respect, disdain, casually or formally)? Does it depend on which of the Three they're interacting with?**

