Making a character is a part of the proccess for taking part of a player and being involved in the game. 

In a freeform like this the important parts are who the characters are and what their relationship with the castle is. 

The Castle is a hodge podge of different groups:

• The castle servants and staff (ranging from kitchen staff, ladies/men in waiting, scribes, etc.)

• The yeomen and wood folk 

• The guard and knights 

• The various minor nobles 

• Merchants and travellers 

• The holy folk, ranging from the monks and nuns who are settled to look after the local abbeys interests and the priests who work in the castle chapel. 

These groups are all going to have their own wants and wishes, knights looking to gain a name for themselves by defeating a Giant Snail, Priests looking to cover up any naughty imps running around, the nuns trying to hide any unfortunate looking fruit in such a way as to implicate the monks and vice versa. etc. 

One easy starting point is to look at a archetype:

• Gallant soldier 

• World weary Yeoman

• Nervous Monastic Scribe 

• foppish noble

• Third child with more money than sense 

These are example, but a strong archetype can help decide the basics of the character that you can then hang the details from. 

Once you have these details and ideas you can decide on costume, an outline of character such as a couple of positive points: smart, an excellent fight etc. also a couple of negatives, such as, nervousness, greedy or something similar. 

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