30 Days of World-Building - Day 29 - Character II

Exercise 29 - Look in your social and cultural world for not just the places where your character doesn't fit in, but also the places where he or she does, and note them in your character notes. Make sure that, by the end of today, you can name your character's parents and siblings, the town where they grew up, their age and any training they've had, and the three most influential people in their lives.

Places Hadrian DOESN'T fit in:

• The northern tundra cities, due to his upbringing in a temperate zone. On a physical scale, Hadrian would not be able to survive as well as people naturally born there. Also, despite his actions to dodge his lessons, Hadrian truly loves his grandparents, and wishes the best for them. Once in a blue moon, he'll even offer to help them. And as noted yesterday, the elders of the north wouldn't be too accepting.
• The marshland and jungles in the southwest, again because of his physical upbringing. Also, while he may be self-sufficient, the flora and fauna of the jungles differ greatly from those of the woods, and he wouldn't know the difference between poisonous or safe, hostile or docile

Places Hadrian DOES fit in:

• While he was raised in a small trade-village, Hadrian finds early on that he is easily accustomed to the winding streets of the cities. Among the people, he is able to satiate his curiousness without having to subject himself to the elements of the forests. It is, in a sense, his own concrete jungle.
• There is nowhere that Hadrian feels more at home than in the shrouded forests of Kasova. Particularly in the forests surrounding Coppervale, he has explored everywhere he can imagine. He has drawn countless maps that nobody but him can read, written in scrawls about the wonderful things he has found, and spent his days dreaming of the world beyond the confines of his grandparent's home.   

Other facts:

• Hadrian's parents, ____________________________ , raised him in the small village of Kern. However, they sent him to Coppervale to live with his grandparents when he was five years old, following a vicious blight that swept across the crops for miles around. It has been eight years since he has seen them.
• Apart from parents, Hadrian holds very few people as high as he does the heroes of the realm. He admires their bravery, and wishes that he possessed the courage that they had. However, as the story progresses, Tomas Gerridon III, Professor Drevan, Headmaster Grecian, and the other strong characters he meets will shape his destiny in ways that he couldn't imagine. In addition to teaching him magic and aiding him in his endeavors, they also teach him morals and values that his parents and grandparents never got the chance to teach him themselves.