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Message: <blockquote data-quote="LostSoul" data-source="post: 6114211" data-attributes="member: 386">I think you need a backstory to give Beliefs meaning in the game world.  I don't know if you must know what would determine any Belief to be true - I think you need some kind of idea, and I think you need to be flexible enough so that your ideas may change through the events in play.I played a PC in a BW game that had a similar belief.  It was something like "I believe that our people are strong, and need to be ruled by the strongest among us; since I have strength, I deserve to rule."  Something like that.  My PC was a Bastard, so didn't really have a legitimate claim to lordship.  (The setting was somewhat dark-ages Germany/Poland, I recall.  It was a few years ago.)  (Found my character sheet - it was "Nobility is not in blood it is in the deed.  I will carve out my own koning.")I had that Belief for a long time and it gave me Fate points here and there.  It wasn't really a major focus of play.  Some of the other players asked if I should change it, but I thought that there was potential there, so I left it on the sheet.It became a focus of play in the last few sessions.  My PC was captured and tortured by an elf witch-queen who totally changed my PC's ideas about who he was and who his people were.  (It was a nice culmination of everything that had happened to my PC, especially his interactions with the other, elven PCs.)  I ended up leading an orc army against the last bastion of humanity in the little valley - I think that Belief changed to "My people are weak and they deserve to die.  I will kill them all and burn the land."  (This was actually "Men are weak but I am strong.  I will kill the troll leader and take over the orcish tribe."  Hmm, seems like more happened in that last session than I recall.  Oh yeah - I think I led a covert ambush to kidnap a princess.)I ended up face-to-face with one of the elf PCs; we had a Duel of Wits - I wanted him to leave the valley with all the other elves and leave us alone; he wanted me to repent for my sins.  I made a few Points that all of this destruction was their fault, caused by the meddling of the elves in human affairs; he didn't listen, so I attacked him.  Being an elf, he killed me pretty easily, which I figured would be the outcome.  (As in, my PC knew that, and was willing to die if it meant getting rid of the elves.)He ended up getting all Greif-y and ended up leaving the valley, never to return.  I think something similar happened to the elf witch-queen; I forget exactly what - she may have locked herself up in her tower forever, killed herself, or allowed herself to be taken from the human lands.Anyway, I thought my PC's death at the hands of his former friend was a very successful resolution of that Belief.</blockquote>

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