Highborne and Slyborne
Highborne
Some communities manage to carve out a surviving section of an Old World cityscape, reinforcing barricades and battlements within a deadly urban ruin while enjoying the spoils of sacking the remnants of the past age's high society. Others were lucky enough to build a new township near a resource-rich location, where those who rose to power could enjoy an uncommon life of comparable luxury.
Highborne communities within the Age of Umbra are extremely rare, and are often either based on the ghost of an Old World political power or a newly forged tyranny built on recovered or stolen resources. Opulence in these dark times is scarce but hedonistic, reserved for those close to ruling powers and protected with promises of influence or threats of violence.
- Who are the leaders of your community, and how close are you to their inner circles to have tasted the finer things in this dire life?
- How did you or your bloodline manage to accumulate enough resources or reputation to carve some influence within your community?
- Among the upper echelon of your community, who do you trust the most? Who do you trust the least?
Slyborne
Slyborne characters are skulkers and thieves who flourish alongside those of influence or wealth across the land. Whether they work for highborne factions that try to maintain control, or they operate in the shadows against such power structures, slyborne find opportunity in the chaos of the Age of Umbra.
In a world where resources are scarce and survival often depends on taking from others, the slyborne have carved out their own niche. Some serve as spies and informants between settlements, others as black market traders dealing in recovered artifacts from the Old World, and still others as simple cutthroats who prey on the desperate.
- What drove you to a life in the shadows rather than standing openly with The Age of Umbra/03 Factions/The Enduring?
- Who have you stolen from that you regret, and who have you stolen from that you'd steal from again?
- What valuable secret do you carry that others would kill for?