Upbringing & Family

Environment You Grew Up In

Roll d20 for the scale and type of settlement.

d20	Result
1-2	Hamlet / Cabin / Wilderness
3-6	Village
7-13	Town
14-18	City
19-20	Fortress / Encampment

Feel free to invent a name for the place. Don’t change the capital cities of each nation, but everything else is yours to name.

Texture

Texture is a measure of how much your Ren does things on its own. The more it does, the harder it is for it to be precise, but it can have greater impact. The less it acts out, the easier it is for it to be precise.

d6	Texture	What it means
1-2	Rampant	Your ren acts out on its own a lot but is harder to be precise with, but yields greater effect
3-4	Volatile	Your ren acts out here and there and when it does it has a little stronger effect than tranquil
5-6	Tranquil	Your ren doesn’t act out on its own and is extremely precise

Care Structure

1. Roll to establish who your parents are and your relationship with them
2. Determine Who Raised you

Parent Rolls

For each parent, perform the following rolls:

1. Their status
2. Their relationship with you
3. Parent’s Background

Parent Status

d20	Status	Example
1	In Good Health, Barely Making Ends Meet	Works the docks six days a week, patches boots instead of buying new ones.
2	In Good Health, Making Ends Meet	Runs a modest shop that keeps the family fed, nothing more.
3	In Good Health, Influential / Wealthy	Sits on the merchant council, owns three warehouses.
4	In Good Health, Retired	Spends mornings fishing, hasn’t worked a trade in years.
5	Missing	Left for a trading run six months ago and never sent word.
6	Exiled	Banished from the city after a political falling out, lives across the border or in another city now.
7	Debt Bound / Financially Ruined	Signed away the family land to a moneylender, or borrowed money from the wrong people - still paying it off.
8	Addicted	Spends every coin on drink or drugs, sells off furniture to cover the habit.
9	Imprisoned	Serving a ten-year sentence. What they did might be criminal, or they may just have been in the wrong place at the wrong time.
10	Insane / Broken Mind	Talks to people who aren’t there, doesn’t recognize old friends anymore.
11	Crippled	Lost a leg in a mill accident, gets around on a cane now.
12	Has a Terminal Disease	Wasting sickness has left them bedridden, healers give it a season.
13	Comatose	Hasn’t woken since the fever broke from when they got sick, but the body keeps breathing.
14	Dead - Murdered by Someone Else, You Know Who	Killed by a rival merchant over a broken contract, everyone knows it but no one can prove it.
15	Dead - Murdered by Someone Else, Still a Mystery	Found dead in an alley, the city guard closed the case without an answer.
16	Dead - Murdered / Killed by You	Died by your hand, whether anyone else knows or they deserved it is another matter.
17	Dead from a Fight / War / Adventure / Attack	Fell during the Castborn attack three years back.
18	Dead from a Disease / Plague	Taken by the fever that swept the lower quarter.
19	Dead from a Random Accident	A cart axle snapped on a steep road, that was the end of it.
20	Dead from an Accident You Caused	A fire you started got out of hand, they didn’t get out in time.

Relationship with You

d6	Relationship	Example	Favor Rating
1-2	Great	Close with this person	+1
3	Never really knew them	Don’t know them well	0
4	Ups and Downs	Not really close with them	0
5	Bad	There’s Resentment between you and this person	-1
6	Hatred	There is hatred between you and this person	-2

Parent Background

If your character is Highborn with only 2 Lineages (Daruner and another), then roll the two Highborn Family tables (position and Status), otherwise, roll the Lowborn / Thuim Background Table.

Highborn Family Tables

d6	Position
1-2	Primary Line Noble
3-4	Secondary Line Noble
5-6	Tertiary Line Noble

d12	Standing	Meaning
1	In Good Graces with all	your family dotes on you
2-3	Has Enemies and Allies	You have enemies inside your house and those who support you
4-5	Disowned	You are so reviled they actually don’t want you in the house at all
6-12	Black Sheep	You don’t play by their rules or adhere to their customs and so no one considers you worthy of taking a position of power, but you haven’t done anything worthy of getting kicked out and don’t interfere with house politics

Lowborn / Thuim Profession

d10	Profession
1	Laborer / Servant
2	Tradesperson / Guild Artisan
3	Merchant / Trader
4	Farmer / Herder
5	Temple / Religious Order
6	Scholar / Academic
7	Military, Guard, or Mercenary
8	Criminal / Underworld
9	Entertainer / Performer
10	Hunter

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Sibling Rolls

Sibling Count

Roll d4 and subtract 1. This is the number of siblings your character has.

If you have no siblings, you grew up close to a friend instead. Roll one extra friend later, under Friend Rolls, and write a Childhood Experience about them in place of the Sibling Experience.

Sibling Position

d8	Entry
1-2	Older Sister
3-4	Older Brother
5-6	Younger Brother
7-8	Younger Sister

Sibling Status

d20	Status	Example
1	In Good Health, Barely Making Ends Meet	Works the docks six days a week, patches boots instead of buying new ones.
2	In Good Health, Making Ends Meet	Runs a modest shop that keeps the family fed, nothing more.
3	In Good Health, Influential / Wealthy	Sits on the merchant council, owns three warehouses.
4	In Good Health, Retired	Spends mornings fishing, hasn’t worked a trade in years.
5	Missing	Left for a trading run six months ago and never sent word.
6	Exiled	Banished from the city after a political falling out, lives across the border or in another city now.
7	Debt Bound / Financially Ruined	Signed away the family land to a moneylender, or borrowed money from the wrong people - still paying it off.
8	Addicted	Spends every coin on drink or drugs, sells off furniture to cover the habit.
9	Imprisoned	Serving a ten-year sentence. What they did might be criminal, or they may just have been in the wrong place at the wrong time.
10	Insane / Broken Mind	Talks to people who aren’t there, doesn’t recognize old friends anymore.
11	Crippled	Lost a leg in a mill accident, gets around on a cane now.
12	Has a Terminal Disease	Wasting sickness has left them bedridden, healers give it a season.
13	Comatose	Hasn’t woken since the fever broke from when they got sick, but the body keeps breathing.
14	Dead - Murdered by Someone Else, You Know Who	Killed by a rival merchant over a broken contract, everyone knows it but no one can prove it.
15	Dead - Murdered by Someone Else, Still a Mystery	Found dead in an alley, the city guard closed the case without an answer.
16	Dead - Murdered / Killed by You	Died by your hand, whether anyone else knows or they deserved it is another matter.
17	Dead from a Fight / War / Adventure / Attack	Fell during the Castborn attack three years back.
18	Dead from a Disease / Plague	Taken by the fever that swept the lower quarter.
19	Dead from a Random Accident	A cart axle snapped on a steep road, that was the end of it.
20	Dead from an Accident You Caused	A fire you started got out of hand, they didn’t get out in time.

Sibling Background

If you rolled highborn for your parents, roll the highborn standing table, otherwise, roll the lowborn Profession table.

Highborn Standing

d12	Standing	Meaning
1	In Good Graces with all	your family dotes on you
2-3	Has Enemies and Allies	You have enemies inside your house and those who support you
4-5	Disowned	You are so reviled they actually don’t want you in the house at all
6-12	Black Sheep	You don’t play by their rules or adhere to their customs and so no one considers you worthy of taking a position of power, but you haven’t done anything worthy of getting kicked out and don’t interfere with house politics

Lowborn Profession

d10	Profession
1	Laborer / Servant
2	Tradesperson / Guild Artisan
3	Merchant / Trader
4	Farmer / Herder
5	Temple / Religious Order
6	Scholar / Academic
7	Military, Guard, or Mercenary
8	Criminal / Underworld
9	Entertainer / Performer
10	Hunter

Relationship with You

d6	Relationship	Example	Favor Rating
1-2	Great	Close with this person	+1
3	Never really knew them	Don’t know them well	0
4	Ups and Downs	Not really close with them	0
5	Bad	There’s Resentment between you and this person	-1
6	Hatred	There is hatred between you and this person	-2

Sibling Experience

Write an experience in relation to something you went through with a sibling or explain their status as it relates to you.

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Role Model Rolls

Status

d20	Status	Example
1	In Good Health, Barely Making Ends Meet	Works the docks six days a week, patches boots instead of buying new ones.
2	In Good Health, Making Ends Meet	Runs a modest shop that keeps the family fed, nothing more.
3	In Good Health, Influential / Wealthy	Sits on the merchant council, owns three warehouses.
4	In Good Health, Retired	Spends mornings fishing, hasn’t worked a trade in years.
5	Missing	Left for a trading run six months ago and never sent word.
6	Exiled	Banished from the city after a political falling out, lives across the border or in another city now.
7	Debt Bound / Financially Ruined	Signed away the family land to a moneylender, or borrowed money from the wrong people - still paying it off.
8	Addicted	Spends every coin on drink or drugs, sells off furniture to cover the habit.
9	Imprisoned	Serving a ten-year sentence. What they did might be criminal, or they may just have been in the wrong place at the wrong time.
10	Insane / Broken Mind	Talks to people who aren’t there, doesn’t recognize old friends anymore.
11	Crippled	Lost a leg in a mill accident, gets around on a cane now.
12	Has a Terminal Disease	Wasting sickness has left them bedridden, healers give it a season.
13	Comatose	Hasn’t woken since the fever broke from when they got sick, but the body keeps breathing.
14	Dead - Murdered by Someone Else, You Know Who	Killed by a rival merchant over a broken contract, everyone knows it but no one can prove it.
15	Dead - Murdered by Someone Else, Still a Mystery	Found dead in an alley, the city guard closed the case without an answer.
16	Dead - Murdered / Killed by You	Died by your hand, whether anyone else knows or they deserved it is another matter.
17	Dead from a Fight / War / Adventure / Attack	Fell during the Castborn attack three years back.
18	Dead from a Disease / Plague	Taken by the fever that swept the lower quarter.
19	Dead from a Random Accident	A cart axle snapped on a steep road, that was the end of it.
20	Dead from an Accident You Caused	A fire you started got out of hand, they didn’t get out in time.

Relationship with You

d6	Relationship	Example	Favor Rating
1-2	Great	Close with this person	+1
3	Never really knew them	Don’t know them well	0
4	Ups and Downs	Not really close with them	0
5	Bad	There’s Resentment between you and this person	-1
6	Hatred	There is hatred between you and this person	-2

Profession

d10	Profession
1	Laborer / Servant
2	Tradesperson / Guild Artisan
3	Merchant / Trader
4	Farmer / Herder
5	Temple / Religious Order
6	Scholar / Academic
7	Military, Guard, or Mercenary
8	Criminal / Underworld
9	Entertainer / Performer
10	Hunter

Role Model Experience

Write an experience in relation to your role model, either explain something they did that shaped you, or their status, maybe if/why the status changed.

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Upbringing

Who Actually Raised You

d6	Who Raised You	Example
1	Parent(s)	Raised by parent(s), whatever their Status turned out to be.
2	Close Family	A grandparent, aunt, or uncle took you in when your parents couldn’t.
3	Older Sibling	A brother or sister barely grown themselves became the one who fed you.
4	Adoptive Family	Strangers by blood who chose you, by custom, contract, or kindness.
5	Guardian / Mentor	A family friend, tutor, or hired hand ended up the one who actually raised you.
6	Institution	An orphanage, workhouse, guild, temple, religious order, or similar, raised alongside dozens of others like you.

Their Style of Raising You

Roll d20 for how the person or people who raised you actually treated you day to day. Write an experience for this.

d20	Style	Example
1	Nurturing & Attuned	Warm and responsive, they noticed when something was wrong before you said a word.
2	Encouraging & Hands-off	Let you fail on your own terms, cheered loudest after you’d already picked yourself up.
3	Strict but Fair	Rules were firm but explained, punishments matched the offense.
4	Helicopter / Overprotective	Hovered over every choice, rarely let you cross a room without checking in.
5	Permissive / Indulgent	Said yes to avoid a fight, gave you what you wanted rather than what you needed.
6	Enmeshed / Living Through You	Your wins were theirs, your failures felt like theirs too, there was no daylight between you.
7	Authoritarian / Controlling	Obedience first, questions never, the rules didn’t need a reason.
8	Conditional Love	Affection arrived after good grades or good behavior, and dried up without them.
9	Emotionally Neglectful	Fed and housed, never comforted, you learned not to bring your problems home.
10	Physically Neglectful	Meals, clothes, and attention were inconsistent, you filled the gaps yourself early.
11	Inconsistent / Erratic	Warm and doting one day, cold or explosive the next, you learned to read the room before speaking.
12	Manipulative / Guilt-Driven	Debts and obligations were the currency, “after everything I’ve done for you” was a constant refrain.
13	Verbally Abusive	Criticism and insults were the default tone, praise was rare enough to remember exactly when it happened.
14	Physically Abusive	Discipline meant hitting, and it didn’t always wait for a reason.
15	Psychologically Abusive	Gaslighting and isolation, your version of events was never the one that counted.
16	Militaristic / Regimented	The household ran on a schedule with punishment built into it, missteps were logged, not forgiven.
17	Dogmatic / Doctrinaire	Raised strictly by a faith or code, deviation was treated as a moral failure.
18	Absent Provider	Money and shelter were never in question, their presence in your life was.
19	Best Friend, No Authority	Treated as an equal or a confidant, structure and guidance rarely showed up.
20	Used You	Valued for the labor, coin, or status you brought in more than for who you were.

Upbringing Experience

Write an experience in relation to what that upbringing was like, how you were treated, something that changed you, etc…