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<blockquote data-quote="OnCider" data-source="post: 6075867" data-attributes="member: 5612">I've just started a new campaign (Kingmaker) and have asked for detailed character back stories that I want to explore throughout the campaign.&nbsp; One of my players has really gone to town and has given me a very well-written 4000 word back story which is written in a journal.&nbsp; It talks about his father taking him away from his mother at an early age and from then on being a constant wanderer.&nbsp; His father eventually also gets killed (3 out of 4 of these character histories have violent parent deaths (!)).Anyway, I had an idea to turn this around on the player a little.&nbsp; Perhaps the character is actually somehow killing people (including originally his own mother and perhaps later his own father) but his memories of the events are somehow changed.&nbsp; His father witnessed the original killing and then fled with the child when he realised that he had no memories of the event.&nbsp; This could be from some sort of programmed amnesia (but that is a 9th level spell) or perhaps he is possessed by some kind of entity that is messing with him (dominating him, killing people and then erasing the events from his mind) - I notice the Yithian in Pathfinder (bestiary 3) is such an entity that could perhaps do this.Another idea was that he has some kind of split personality (Jekyll and Hyde) or something similar to the plot of Memento where he is purposefully making himself forget things.The journal could become crucial to this.&nbsp; Perhaps at some point he discovered that his memories were being altered and wrote about it in the journal, however the evil side removed the page so the good side would not find out.&nbsp; The character might notice that pages were removed but didn't remember ever having removed them.&nbsp; Perhaps he comes across a fragment of a burned page in the fireplace of a previous home.So I thought I'd post here to see whether anyone could offer any ideas (motivation of the entity?) or advice (perhaps mechanics - we're playing Pathfinder).&nbsp; Or maybe you think I might be being a bit harsh on my PC!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="OnCider, post: 6075867, member: 5612"] I've just started a new campaign (Kingmaker) and have asked for detailed character back stories that I want to explore throughout the campaign. One of my players has really gone to town and has given me a very well-written 4000 word back story which is written in a journal. It talks about his father taking him away from his mother at an early age and from then on being a constant wanderer. His father eventually also gets killed (3 out of 4 of these character histories have violent parent deaths (!)). Anyway, I had an idea to turn this around on the player a little. Perhaps the character is actually somehow killing people (including originally his own mother and perhaps later his own father) but his memories of the events are somehow changed. His father witnessed the original killing and then fled with the child when he realised that he had no memories of the event. This could be from some sort of programmed amnesia (but that is a 9th level spell) or perhaps he is possessed by some kind of entity that is messing with him (dominating him, killing people and then erasing the events from his mind) - I notice the Yithian in Pathfinder (bestiary 3) is such an entity that could perhaps do this. Another idea was that he has some kind of split personality (Jekyll and Hyde) or something similar to the plot of Memento where he is purposefully making [U]himself[/U] forget things. The journal could become crucial to this. Perhaps at some point he discovered that his memories were being altered and wrote about it in the journal, however the evil side removed the page so the good side would not find out. The character might notice that pages were removed but didn't remember ever having removed them. Perhaps he comes across a fragment of a burned page in the fireplace of a previous home. So I thought I'd post here to see whether anyone could offer any ideas (motivation of the entity?) or advice (perhaps mechanics - we're playing Pathfinder). Or maybe you think I might be being a bit harsh on my PC! [/QUOTE]

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