Friday, May 15, 2020

Backgrounds for Your Fantasy Protagonist


1. A simple farmer. There are a lot of options here. Vegetables, cotton, magic, all sorts of fun things can be found on a farm.
2. A rancher. Related to the farmer, but with a focus on livestock off of the farm. Cattle could be run from one town to another for auction, or perhaps your rancher helps handle the dragon migration in the winter.
3. Innkeeper. All your protagonist wanted was for those adventurers to take their decaying magical artifact outside, so there would still be an inn for other travelers. But apparently that was too much to ask for.
4. A student. Old or young, everyone can have a chance to learn. Some knowledge could send you off on a deadly quest outside the school library though, so be careful what you read.
5. A royal. Maybe you just lost your throne, or just found out you have one. Or perhaps after years of preparing to get married off to strengthen relations with the neighboring kingdom, your family's kingdom was just invaded by the very kingdom you were about to be married into.
6. Surprise! You are the dragon.
7. You're the one in charge of cleaning all the magical objects scattered throughout the land. Too bad you always have to run from adventurers trying to use you as a shortcut to those magical objects.
8. You're a witch's familiar. And you're pretty sure she did something wrong with that last potion, because you not meant to be a human.
9. Your name is Jack, and so you are cursed to suffer from all the crazy magical problems the world hasn't gotten around to fixing yet. Why? Because fixing all those problems is Jack's job.
10. You are a shoemaker, stuck in a kingdom that just outlawed all footware but socks.

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