Every character in Imperian is given the capability to write a publically-viewable background and to keep his or her personal history up to date by writing regular 'chapters' . This background and the chapters must be written in-role, as they are there to be used as roleplay devices.
In order to promote consistent roleplay, you must remember that once you've written your background, it cannot be altered. You can, however, provide updates to your background by way of the aforementioned chapters. Ideally, reading a character's background and then reading the various historical chapters that the character has written will give one a sense of where the character is coming from, where they've been, and where they're going.
Syntax Summary
COMPOSE HISTORY TITLE <chapter #> <title>
VIEW HISTORY <chapter #> <player>
SET HISTORY PUBLIC / ALLIES / PRIVATE
Syntaxes
Compose Background
- Takes you into the Imperian editor to compose your background.
- You may only write a background ONCE, ever. We recommend writing it off-line in a word processor, spell-checking it, reading it over a few times to make sure it's just how you want it, and then pasting it into the Imperian editor.
- There's no need to write excessively long backgrounds. What you want to do is give your character some flavour and give yourself a framework to roleplay in. What you do not want to do is write histories that nobody will respect, because they are ridiculous. Don't write that you come from some far off land, as you don't. Don't write that you are the spawn of some demon, because you aren't. Keep it consistent with Imperian history and consistent within itself.
Compose History
- Takes you into the editor to compose a new chapter.
- Like with backgrounds, you may not edit these once saved.
- Chapters are to be used only for the telling and explaining of personal history. They are not to be used to write whatever you feel like writing.
Compose History Title <chapter #> <title>
- Assigns a title to an chapter.
- The title may be multiple words long. The title may be changed as many times as you like.
View Background <player>
- Views a character's background.
- Omit the character field to view your own background more easily.
View History Summary <player>
- Displays a summary of the chapters a character has written.
- Omit the character field to view your own summary more easily.
View History <chapter #> <player>
- Displays the specified chapter of the specified character.
- Omit the character field to view your own chapters more easily.
Set History Public/Allies/Private
- Sets your background and chapters viewable by everyone, only your allies or no one. The only exceptions are that the most powerful Gods, such as Avasyu, can always read them.