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Part 1. Family
1.1

Father

What is/was your fathers name?

What is/was your fathers occupation?
Where was your father brought up?
What was his family life like?
What level/type of education did he receive?
What is/was his personality like?
How do others view your father?
How would you explain your father? Give details if possible.
Is/was he courteous?
Is/was he optimistic?
Is/was he curious?
Is/was he honest?
Is/was he patient?
Is/was he generous?
Is/was he forgiving?
Is/was he loyal?
Is/was he cheerful?
Is/was he sober?
Is/was he brave?
Is/was he calm tempered?
What is one story that best describes your father?
Is your father alive?
If so, where does he live now?
If not, how did he die?
How did it affect you?
Explain your relationship with your father?
When was he most proud?
When was he most disappointed?
What is the funniest memory?
What is the saddest memory?
Describe your father.
Size?
Texture?
Scent?
Sound?
Smell?

1.2

Mother

What is/was your mothers name?

What is/was your mothers occupation?
Where was your mother brought up?
What was her family life like?
What level/type of education did she receive?
What is/was her personality like?
How do others view your mother?
How would you explain your mother? Give details if possible.

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Is/was she courteous?
Is/was she optimistic?
Is/was she curious?
Is/was she honest?
Is/was she patient?
Is/was she generous?
Is/was she forgiving?
Is/was she loyal?
Is/was she cheerful?
Is/was she sober?
Is/was she brave?
Is/was she calm tempered?
What is one story that best describes your mother?
Is your mother alive?
If so, where does she live now?
If not, how did she die?
How did it affect you?
Explain your relationship with your mother?
When was she most proud?
When was she most disappointed?
What is the funniest memory?
What is the saddest memory?
Describe your mother?
Size?
Texture?
Scent?
Sound?
Smell?

1.3

Parental History

How did you mother and father meet?

What age were they when they met?
Did they love each other?
What gives you this idea?
Do they still love each other?
What gives you this idea?
Did they marry?
How did their parents feel about their relationship?
Are they still married/together?
Why do you think this is?
Are they happy?
Who is the boss?
How many children did they have? (Names and order)

1.4

Siblings

Answer the following questions for each sibling.

What is her/her name?
What is his/her age?

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What does he/she look like?
Describe his/her personality?
What is his/her education level?
What is his/her occupation?
Does he/she live at home?
Is he/she still alive?
If not, how did he/she die?
How did it affect you?
What is your relationship with him/her?
What is his/her relationship with your father?
What is his/her relationship with your mother?
What hopes/dreams do your parents have for him/her?
How do others see him/her?
How does he/she get along with the rest of the family?
Does your sibling have a family of his/her own now?
How would your explain your sibling? Give details if possible.
Is/was he/she courteous?
Is/was he/she optimistic?
Is/was he/she curious?
Is/was he/she honest?
Is/was he/she patient?
Is/was he/she generous?
Is/was he/she forgiving?
Is/was he/she loyal?
Is/was he/she cheerful?
Is/was he/she sober?
Is/was he/she brave?
Is/was he/she calm tempered?
Describe your sibling?
Size?
Texture?
Scent?
Sound?
Smell?

1.5

Family Politics

Who in your family was your greatest confidant?

Why?
Who in your family was your greatest teacher?
Why?
Who in your family was your greatest rival?
Why?
Who in your family would most be considered the black sheep?
Why?
Who in your family did you most look up to?
Why?
Who in your family did you least look up to?
Why?
Do you have an ancestor of great fame?

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What did he/she do?
Are you looked at differently because of your relationship to this person?
Does this history affect your daily life?
Do you have an ancestor of great infamy?
What did they do?
Are you looked at differently because of your relationship to this person?
Does this history affect your daily life?
Do you try to live up to the reputation of your ancestors, try to live it down, or ignore it?
Have you begun your own family?
If not, do you ever want to have a family of your own someday?
If so, with who or what type of person?

Part 2. Personal History

2.1

Homeland

Where did you grow up?

What are its people like?
Explain your homeland culturally (clothes, dress, people, architecture, etc).
Explain your homeland economically.
Explain your homeland politically.
Explain the flora and fauna of your homeland.
Does this place have a proud history or otherwise?
Would you proudly tell somebody where you are from?
How did growing up in this place affect you?
Were you considered in the majority or minority growing up?
How do you view the heroes/legends of your country?

2.2

Growing Up

What is your full birth name?

Describe your childhood.
What is your earliest memory?
What significance does it hold today?
How did you get along with others?
How would you parents describe you?
What stupid things did you do when you were younger?
Briefly describe a defining moment in your childhood and how it influenced your life.
Did you share a room?
If so, with whom?
Describe it.
Did your family move around much?
If so, why and where were the places you lived?

How did each move affect you?

Describe your house(s).
How did you get what you wanted?
What do you recall as your favorite toy(s) or possession(s) from your childhood?
What do they mean to you today?
Where are these items now?
Were you a hard worker as a child?

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What were your chores?
When did you leave home?
Why?
Where did you go?
How did friends and family react to your leaving?

2.3

Current History

What if any is/are your nickname(s)?

How did you get the name(s) and who gave it/them to you?
Do you hold any titles?
What are they?
How did you come by them?
Where do you currently call home?
Do you live with anyone?
What is your citizenship status?
Are you currently in good standing with the law?
What are your immediate goals (within the next year)?
What are your long term goals (within the next ten years)?

2.4

Appearance

Height?
Weight?
Build?
Poise?
Hair Color?
Hair Style?
Facial Hair?
Eye Color?
Glasses?
Skin Tone?
Texture?
Scent?
Sound?
Voice and Speech?
Overall Attractiveness?
Best Feature?
Worst Feature?
Most distinguishing?
Scars (why/where/what does it look like)?
Tattoos (why/where/what does it look like)?
Birthmarks (where/what does it look like)?
Left or right handed?
What kind of clothing do you wear?
What is your clothing's style or level of sophistication?
What size are you for various pieces of clothing?
Do you wear makeup?
Do you have an unusual gait?
If so, where did you acquire it?

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Are there any circumstances where it becomes more (or less) evident?
At first glance, what would someone say about you?

Part 3. Career / Training

3.1

Early Education (elementary)

What type of education did you receive?

What type of things did you learn?
Where did you receive this education?
Who taught you these things?
Were you a good student?
Explain your relationship with your teacher.

3.2

Early Education (secondary)

What type of education did you receive?

What type of things did you learn?
Where did you receive this education?
Who taught you these things?
Were you a good student?
Explain your relationship with your teacher.

3.3

Early Education (university)

What type of education did you receive?

What type of things did you learn?
Where did you receive this education?
Who taught you these things?
Were you a good student?
Explain your relationship with your teacher.
Have you ever received any awards or honors for the above?

3.4

Trade Education

Did you receive any training for your current profession such as an apprentice?
What type of education did you receive?
What type of things did you learn?
Where did you receive this education?
Who taught you these things?
Were you a good student?
Explain your relationship with your teacher.
Have you ever received any awards or honors for the above?
Have you made a mark in your chosen field?
What are your long-term goals regarding your professions?
How do your relatives and friends view your present occupation?
Is there anything that you don't currently know how to do that you wish you could?

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Part 4. Relationships
4.1

Romance

Who was your first love?

How did you meet?
Describe him/her.
Who was your most relevant love?
How did you meet?
Describe him/her.
Have you lost any loves?
How to what?
How did you handle the loss in the short run?
How did you handle the loss in the long run?
Explain your ideal mate.
What percentage of relationships were ended by you versus those end by your partner?
What is your opinion of the opposite gender?
Do you tend to be loyal to those you are in a romantic relationship with?
Do you desire a relationship or a hard body in bed beside you?
Is courting about the journey or destination?
What would you be willing to do to protect the abovementioned hard body beside you?
What would you not do?
What would you be willing to do to protect someone you are in a relationship with?
What would you not do?

4.2

Friendship

Do you need friendship, or are you a loner?

Who were your childhood friends?
Describe them.
Where are they now?
Who are your friends now? (use the below questions for each)
How did you meet him/her?
How would you explain him/her?
How would he/she explain you?
Who is the more dominate in the relationship?
What does he/she bring to the relationship?
What do you bring to the relationship?
What is more important than this relationship?
Which of the above if any - would you consider your best friend?
What places this friendship above all others?
Would you risk you life to protect this friend?
Would you risk your reputation to protect this friend?
What would need to happen for this friendship to end?

4.3

Enemies

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What is the worst thing someone has done to you?
Who did it and what was their motivation.
Who in life would you consider your enemies? (use the below questions for each)
Why the bad blood?
What would they be willing to do to you?
What would you be willing to do to them?
Beyond death of one or the other what would need to happen for the feud to stop?

4.4

Professional Relationships

Who is your greatest contact among the military culture?

How did you come to know him/her?
Are you currently indebted to him/her?
Is he/she currently indebted to you?
Explain your relationship.
Who is your greatest contact among the merchant culture?
How did you come to know him/her?
Are you currently indebted to him/her?
Is he/she currently indebted to you?
Explain your relationship.
Who is your greatest contact among the academic culture?
How did you come to know him/her?
Are you currently indebted to him/her?
Is he/she currently indebted to you?
Explain your relationship.
Who is your greatest contact among the common man?
How did you come to know him/her?
Are you currently indebted to him/her?
Is he/she currently indebted to you?
Explain your relationship.
Who is your greatest contact among men of state?
How did you come to know her/her?
Are you currently indebted to him/her?
Is he/she currently indebted to you?
Explain your relationship.
What other contacts do you have that are not mentioned above?
How did you come to know him/her?
Are you currently indebted to him/her?
Is he/she currently indebted to you?
Explain your relationship.
Are you a member of a certain group or organization?
What are the organizations goals?
What is the extent of your involvement with the organization?
What is your standing in/with this organization?
How large is this organization?
Where is this organization located?
Who is your most trusted ally?
Why?
What can he/she be counted on for?

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4.5

Interpersonal

How do you generally treat others?

The face you put on in the morning, is it yours or a front?
What are most annoying traits people can have?
Would you consider yourself more an introvert or extrovert?
Are you more humble or proud?
Are you forgiving or do you hold grudges?
Are you prejudiced toward any certain group of people?
How do you react to being insulted?
What would others say is your best quality?
What would you say is your best quality?
What would others say is your worst quality?
What would you say is your worst quality?
What about you would surprise all but your closest friends - the most?
Are you comfortable letting others know how you feel about them?
Do you, or did you, have any role models?
Do you have a Will?
Who is in it and what is left to them?
Are there any closing messages?

4.6

Miscellaneous

If you should just disappear, who would miss you?

How do you think others generally perceive you?
How do others typically react to you?

Part 5. Belief System

5.1

Psyche

Are you a leader?

Would you like to be?
What makes you so, or prevents it?
Are you deliberate or spontaneous?
What are your feelings on violence?
Where did these feeling come from?
Do you consider mental or physical prowess more important?
Do you tend to solve problems with force or with subtlety?
Do you consider yourself lucky or unlucky?
Are you an optimist or a cynic?
Are you an idealist or pragmatic?
Do you have a sense of humor?
Who finds you more funny, you or others?
Are you a hard worker or do you procrastinate?
Do you approach things systematically, or intuitively?
Are you emotionally stable?
What is your worst quality that you want to change?

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Do you rest easily at night?
What kind of dreams do you have?
If you were to have a reoccurring nightmare, what would it be?
Does ugliness or disease frighten you?
What would you like to be remembered for after your death?
Describe any great rational or irrational fears or phobias?
What do they stem from?
Are you courteous?
Are you optimistic?
Are you curious?
Are you honest?
Are you patient?
Are you generous?
Are you forgiving?
Are you loyal?
Are you cheerful?
Are you sober?
Are you brave?
Are you calm tempered?

5.2

Mores/Folkways

What in life do you most trust?

What in life do you least trust?
How do you feel about magic, myth, and the supernatural?
Do you consider good grooming important? If not, at least cleanliness?
What annoys you the most in life?
Is there anything that enrages you?
Is there anything which embarrasses you?
What makes you happiest in life?
Do you prefer to tear down or build up?
Do you have a "Black-and-White" view of reality or can you see shades of grey?
Whom or what do you swear by? Curse by?
Do you consider education or learning important?
Do you consider beauty important? In people? In general?
What to you is worth dying for?
Do you have any heroes or idols?
Have you ever met them?
Do you have any former idols that you have grown disillusioned with?
Are you devout or impious?
Do you actively worship or are you an Easter Sunday, Christmas type of person?
What lengths would you go to defend your faith?
Was your faith influenced or molded by anyone special?
How did this affect your faith and life?
Have you ever been persecuted for your faith?
When was your first kill?
Who was it?
What were the circumstances surrounding it?
What affect did it have upon you?
When do you consider it okay to kill (under what circumstances)?

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When do you consider it wrong to kill (under what circumstances)?
What would you do to a friend who killed for what you considered the wrong circumstances?

What would you do to a stranger who killed for what you considered the wrong circumstances?

Do you consider manners important?

Do you dislike foul language?

5.3

Habits

What is your favorite color?

What is your favorite food?
What is your favorite drink?
Do you drink alcohol? In moderation, or with total abandon?
What is your favorite treat (dessert)?
Do you favor a particular cuisine?
Do you like food mild or heavily spiced?
Do you savor the tastes when eating or "wolf down" your food?
Are there any specific foodstuffs that you find disgusting or refuse to eat?
If you have a favorite scent, what is it?
What is your favorite type of animal?
What (if any) are your favorite forms of art?
What do you read? Textbooks of science or history? Cookbooks, Romances, mysteries, the
newspaper, poems?
Favorite Instrument?
Do you have any unusual or nervous mannerisms?
What bad habits do you have?
Did you ever try to stop your bad habits?

5.4

Would you rather

If forced to decide, would your rather:

Be deaf or blind? Why?
Be responsible for an accident that paralyzes a friend or kills a stranger?
After death, live the same live over or risk being born anywhere in any circumstance?

Would you rather have a dangerous look and friendly eyes or a friendly look and
dangerous eyes?
Would you rather be born a man of privilege locked inside his compound or a poor
man with the world to roam?

5.5

Daily Life

What are your hobbies when they are not traveling or training?
How often do you practice them?
What is your normal daily routine?
Does this change when you are traveling?
What would you do if you had insomnia and had to find something to do to amuse yourself?

What do you do for relaxation?

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What things do you do for enjoyment?
What interests do you have?
Where do you normally put your weapons, or other valuables when you are sleeping?
What pastime (that you participate in regularly) gives you the most enjoyment?
What pastime (that you participate in regularly) gives you the least enjoyment?
What are your hangout places?
Do you go to a bar after work?
Do you play pool?
Do you go dancing?
Who goes with you?
What is your idea of a good evening's entertainment?
Do you cook your own dinners?
Are you a good cook, a gourmet, or a terrible cook?
What do you normally wear in bed at home?
How do you normally dress, when not in your traveling gear?
Self defense at home? On street? What would someone find?

5.6

Travel

Do you get seasick, motion sick?

Do you like riding animals?
What do you normally wear in bed while traveling?
What sorts of general belongings or equipment do you take when traveling?
Which of these are the most important?
Where do you keep weapons when traveling?
Where do you keep your money when traveling?
If youre near a town, will you push past dark to sleep in a bed or will you just put up your tent?

5.7

Materialism

What is your favorite item?

Do you prefer the town or the country?
Do you have political or territorial ambitions?
Do you desire power?
Do you desire wealth?
Do you desire respect?
What are your attitudes regarding material wealth?
Are you miserly with your share of the wealth, or do you spend it freely?
Are you greedy or generous?
Do you see wealth as a mark of success, or just as a means to an end?
Do you enjoy "roughing it", or do you prefer your creature comforts?
What is your most treasured possession?
What things could you not live without?
Do you have a good luck charm?
If your life were to end in 24 hours, what 5 things would you do in those remaining hours?
Are your sheets more likely to be satin or cotton?
Do you keep a journal/planner?
Do you have a look or style? If so, describe it.
Do you wear any identifiable jewelry?

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5.8

Government Legal

What is your utopian government?

How do you feel about the current government of your homeland?
Do you support it?
Do you consider yourself a patriot?
Do you fight against it?
Would you defend it?
How would you see it changed?
Have you ever been persecuted for your political stance?
Is the national government likely to have a file on you?
What is it likely to say?
Is the government of neighboring nations likely to have a file on you?
What would theirs likely say?
What kind of threat do you present to the status quo?
Describe any historical events you have witnessed?

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