Creating a Human

These steps are provided so that you can create a human character that is invested in the world and feels like a part of it. It can also help you learn the world.

Step 1: Determine Nation

Your nation will influence a lot about what your character is exposed to, their baseline beliefs, and their cultural norms so it's a good starting place.
A result of "Roll Twice: Take Both" means that your mother and father are from two different nations. Assign the results to both.
Once you roll it, head over to the nation's article under Nations > Humans in the World Codex to learn more.
While reading, make a note of anything that jumps out at you; things that interest you or adventures that spring to mind. Also note how that nation defines 'family' and what a strong person looks like.

Roll (d100)	Nation
1	Drangsdt
2 - 29	Pfaets
30 - 55	Knach
56 - 72	Lussk
73 - 86	Rhone
87 - 92	Vipling
93 - 100	Zwek
93 -100	Roll Twice, Take Both

This doesn't represent actual demographics: it is skewed towards adventurers. This means a PC is more likely to be from nations like Ingsdt, Vipling, and Freslorf because they're more likely to be travelers, wanderers, adventurers, and mercenaries.

Naming

This makes up the first part of the first part of your character's name, along with their homeland and hometown, which we'll get to in the next steps.
This part of the name is just your nation. So, if your character is from the nation of Lussk, the first part of their name would be "Lussk". For mixed heritage characters, you'll generally use the one you most identify with.

Step 2: Determine Homeland

Now we know what your character's nation is, it's time to learn where they grow up. Just because you were born in a specific nation, doesn't mean that you were born in that nation's home barony. Your family could be a group of expatiates who fled from the orcish invasion or they could be merchants or part of a missionary group.
If you're of mixed heritage, choose one to roll on but gain a +/-10 weighted towards your other parent's nation's home barony if it appears on that table. This modifier can only be applied if it actually gets you to your other parent's home barony - it's all or nothing.
If you're not from a state that normally belongs to your nation, you should consider where your family immigrated from. So, if you're Pfaets growing up in Ingsdt: where is your family from? Are they Entaufhi merchants? Welb missionaries? Part of the Freslorf Dispora? This answer can help shape your character. You can see which states are options by going to your nation's page and looking at the list under the table of contents on the right.
The Drangsdt have spies everywhere: you're family is probably pretending to be from another nation.

	Drangsdt	Pfaets	Knach	Lussk	Rhone	Vipling	Zwek
Dominion of Drangsdt	1 - 84	1	1	1	1	1	1
Barony of Al	85	2	2	2	2	2	2 - 7
Barony of Entaufhi	86	3 - 56	3 - 7	3	3	3	8
Barony of Juwango	87	57	8	4 - 6	4 - 8	4	9 - 57
Barony of Kiend	88	58 - 60	9	7 - 64	9	5	58
Barony of Loch	89 - 90	61	10 - 24	65	10	6	59
Barony of Meedt	91	62	25 - 37	66	11	7	60
Barony of Plensch	92	63	38	67 - 70	12	8	61
Barony of Sern	93	64	39	71 - 88	13	9	62 - 66
Barony of the Rhone	94	65 - 67	40	89	14 - 73	10 - 14	67 - 71
Barony of the Vipling	95	68	41 - 45	90	74 - 81	15 - 74	72
Grand Barony of Hiewia	96	69 - 71	46 - 87	91	82	75 - 87	73
Barony of Ingsdt	97	72 - 78	88 - 94	92	83	88	74
Barony of Welb	98	79 - 86	95 - 97	93 - 97	84	89	75
Free or Contested State	99	87 - 99	98 - 99	98 - 99	85 - 99	90 - 99	76 - 99
Any of your Choice	100	100	100	100	100	100	100

Free or Contested States Table

Congratulations: your character doesn't belong to one of the established Baronies but is from a smaller state which is either sovereign unto itself (like the Stronghold of Bancs) or wishes to be sovereign but isn't currently recognized as such by its mother Barony (like the County of Hugu) or is not even really a state anymore but is still not happy about it (like Upper Juwango).
The Drangsdt have spies everywhere: you're family is probably pretending to be from another nation.

	Drangsdt	Pfaets	Knach	Lussk	Rhone	Vipling	Zwek
Wastes of Freslorf	1 - 10	1 - 5	1	1 - 5	1	1 - 10	1
Bastion of Freslorf	11 - 20	6 - 25	2	6 - 10	2	11 - 15	2 - 51
County of Hugu	21 - 30	26	3 - 32	11 - 60	3	16	52
Free City of Ichall	31 - 40	27 - 41	33 - 66	61 - 80	4	17 - 21	53
Freslorf Dispora	41 - 50	42 - 87	-	-	-	-	-
Rhona Exiles	51 - 60	-	-	-	5 - 61	-	-
Upper Juwango	61 - 70	88	67	81 - 85	62 - 96	22 - 25	54 - 97
Stronghold of Bancs	71 - 80	89 - 98	68	86 - 90	97	26 - 35	98
Order of the Dragon	81 - 90	99	68 - 90	91 - 95	98	36 - 50	99
Stronghold of Niekernkinn	91 - 100	100	91 - 100	96 - 100	99 - 100	51 - 100	100

Naming

This makes up the second part of the first part of your character's name.
This part of the name comes first and is given the suffix -a. So, if your character is from the nation of Knach and the Barony of Loch, their name would be "Knach Locha".
Finally, if they're from an independent or contested state, this part of their name can reflect their status. Let's say they're from the County of Hugu, a splinter state of the Barony of Loch. If they support the county's independence, they would probably refer to themselves as "Knach Huga", while, if they didn't, it would be "Knach Locha".

The Right Layer of Naming

A human's name is a nesting doll of identification and which they use, as noted, can be a political statement of how they're aligned and/or who they're talking to.
For instance, two Vipling meeting each other wouldn't introduce themselves as "Vipling" but, instead, default to their hometown (which we'll figure out next). Additionally, a Freslorf might not introduce himself to an Entaufhi as "Freslorfa" to indicate that he doesn't align with them and make it easier to get off on a good foot with what would otherwise be an ancient enemy of his people.
The first three levels of the name are all geographic based and are generally used with strangers and on first meetings.

Step 3: Determine Hometown

Now it's time to figure out where your hometown is.

	D.o. Drangdst	B.o. Al	B.o. Entaufhi	B.o. Juwango	B.o. Kiend	B.o. Loch	B.o. Meedt	B.o. Plensch
Stronghold	1 - 15	1 - 33	1 - 40	1 - 20	1 - 15	1 - 10	1 - 15	1 - 25
Notable Village	16 - 65	-	41 - 65	21 - 40	16 - 45	11 - 30	16 - 30	26 - 30
Small Village	66 - 90	34 - 66	66 - 85	41 - 70	46 - 85	31 - 80	31 - 90	31 - 35
Isolated Community	91 - 100	67 - 100	86 - 100	71 - 100	86 - 100	81 - 100	91 - 100	36 - 100

	B.o. Sern	B.o.t. Rhone	B.o.t. Vipling	Gb.o. Heiwia	B.o. Ingdst	B.o. Welb	W.o. Freslorf	B.o. Freslorf
Stronghold	1 - 25	1 - 5	1 - 40	1 - 40	1 - 60	1 - 25	-	1 - 60
Notable Village	26 - 35	6 - 10	41 - 65	41 - 50	61 - 70	26 - 55	-	-
Small Village	36 - 65	11 - 80	66 - 90	51 - 80	71 - 80	56 - 70	-	61 - 80
Isolated Community	66 - 100	81 - 100	91 - 100	81 - 100	81 - 100	71 - 100	1 - 100	81 - 100

	C.o. Hugu	F.C.o. Ichall	F. Dispora	R. Exiles	U. Juwango	S.o. Bancs	O.o.t. Dragon	S.o. Niekernkinn
Stronghold	1 - 70	1 - 70	1 - 45	1 - 85	1 - 15	1 - 80	1 - 40	1 - 45
Notable Village	-	-	-	86 - 90	16 - 40	-	-	46 - 60
Small Village	71 - 85	71 - 95	66 - 85	91 - 95	41 - 50	81 - 95	41 - 80	61 - 75
Isolated Community	86 - 100	96 - 100	86 - 100	96 - 100	51 - 100	96 - 100	81 - 100	76 - 100

Definitions

Stronghold

Strongholds are centers of power. Even if they don't have a city surrounding them, they're usually the seat of the regional, if not baronial, if not duchal, power.
Once you know whether it's been destroyed, head to the world map and filter down to the Strongholds and find your home state (either the "Sovereign States" or the "Vassal States" layer). Once there, select a Stronghold that feels right (although, sometimes you'll only have one choice).

Notable Village

Notable villages are the large enough villages that most other people in the Middle Realm will know of it (even if they can't exactly point it out on the map). This could be because it's large and influential or because a notable event occurred in/near it). Sometimes both.
Once you know whether it's been destroyed, head to the world map and filter down to the Villages and find your home state (either the "Sovereign States" or the "Vassal States" layer). Once there, you'll probably have 2 or 3 choices. Pick whichever one feels right.

Small Village

Small villages are villages that don't meet the criteria to be notable.
Once you know whether it's been destroyed, head to the world map and find your home state (either the "Sovereign States" or the "Vassal States" layer). Once there, turn on the "Region Maps" layer.
If you don't see a region map, pick a notable village or Stronghold to be near.
Otherwise, go to the regional map and choose a village that appears on that map but not the world map.

Isolated Community

Isolated Communities are those communities way out in the sticks. It could be as small as a single family living in a fortified farmstead or even just a homesteader's cabin. Some of these communities are ancient, with their buildings built centuries ago.
Once you know whether it's been destroyed, head to the world map and find your home state (either the "Sovereign States" or the "Vassal States" layer). Once there, turn on the "Region Maps" layer.
If you don't see a region map, pick a notable village to be near.
Otherwise, go to the regional map and choose a village that appears on that map but not the world map to be near.

Lost Hometown

There's a chance your hometown was destroyed in the Orcish Wars; thus is the way of war. Just because your town hasn't been destroyed, doesn't mean that it hasn't seen the horrors of wars.

	D.o. Drangdst	B.o. Al	B.o. Entaufhi	B.o. Juwango	B.o. Kiend	B.o. Loch	B.o. Meedt	B.o. Plensch
Stronghold	0%	0%	10%	10%	25%	0%	0%	33%
Notable Village	0%	-	10%	25%	25%	10%	10%	10%
Small Village	10%	10%	25%	25%	33%	15%	15%	90%
Isolated Community	50%	10%	25%	33%	10%	15%	15%	50%

	B.o. Sern	B.o.t. Rhone	B.o.t. Vipling	Gb.o. Heiwia	B.o. Ingdst	B.o. Welb	W.o. Freslorf	B.o. Freslorf
Stronghold	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	100%	50%
Notable Village	0%	0%	10%	0%	80%	0%	100%	100%
Small Village	25%	0%	15%	25%	80%	10%	100%	100%
Isolated Community	25%	0%	5%	33%	15%	5%	80%	90%

	C.o. Hugu	F.C.o. Ichall	F. Dispora	R. Exiles	U. Juwango	S.o. Bancs	O.o.t. Dragon	S.o. Niekernkinn
Stronghold	0%	0%	100%	0%	0%	90%	0%	0%
Notable Village	-	-	100%	0%	5%	-	-	5%
Small Village	15%	0%	100%	0%	5%	100%	15%	5%
Isolated Community	10%	25%	100%	0%	5%	80%	15%	10%

Naming

This makes up the third part of your character's name.
Like homeland, this part of the name comes first and is given the suffix -a. So, if your character is from the nation of Knach, the Barony of Meedt, and the Stronghold of Meedt, the first part of their name would just be "Knach Meedta", however, if they're from the Barony of Meedt and the Stronghold of Echts, their name would be "Knach Meedta Echtsa".
As mentioned, if two people are from the same areas, they'll drop whatever parts of the name they share in common; so the first guy introduces himself as "Knach" while the other "Glepscha" - meaning he's a Knach from the Barony of Loch but from the village of "Glepsch". If the second was also from Stronghold of Loch, he would drop to the next level down (which we'll hash out in the next few steps).

Step 4: Determine Social Class

Now you need to determine where you fall in the social order.
If your home town was destroyed, you get an additional -5.
If you're a foreigner, you get an additional +2

Modifiers
Stronghold	+1
Notable Village	+0
Small Village	+0
Isolated Community	-3
Hometown Destroyed	-5*
Foreigner	-2*

Roll (d20)	Social Class	Abbreviation
<=1	Lower Lower Class	LLC
2 - 3	Middle Lower Class	MLC
4 - 7	Upper Lower Class	ULC
8 - 12	Lower Middle Class	LMC
13 - 17	Middle Middle Class	MMC
18 - 19	Upper Middle Class	UMC
>=20	Lower Upper Class	LUC

Lower Lower Class (LLC)

Slaves, drifters, leppers, outlaws

Middle Lower Class (MLC)

Tinkers, beggars, petty thieves, actors

Upper Lower Class (ULC)

Laborers, mercenaries, soldiers

Lower Middle Class (LMC)

Parish priests, craftsmen, petty merchants

Middle Middle Class (MMC)

Guild merchants, artisans

Upper Middle Class (UMC)

Guild officers, priests, doctors

Lower Upper Class (LUC)

Non-landed nobles, knights, bishops, lawyers

Middle Upper Class (MUC)

Heads of guilds, abbots, counts

Upper Upper Class (UUC)

Dukes, barons, powerful cardinals

Step 5: Determine Childhood Religion

Now it is time to determine the religion you were raised in as a child. This might not be the religion you associate with now but it is the one you're most knowledgable about. Accepting and/or rejecting it would form a part of your character's beliefs.
Find your homeland's column and roll a d100 on each row. If you roll under the percentage, that faith was part of your culture growing up

If a favored sect is noted in parentheses next to the percentage

Rolling under half the percentage results in you being apart of that sect,

Otherwise, you're just part of a local or familial sect.

If there are two or more noted, they'll have percentages, roll for those chances as well

If you get two or more, that means that you're apart of syncretic religion that blends the beliefs of all of them

This includes rolling for sects

If you don't roll any, default to your nation's favored religion

Nation	Favored Religion
Drangsdt	Cult of the Father
Pfaets	Brotherhood
Knach	Brotherhood
Lussk	Brotherhood
Rhone	Ancestor Cult
Vipling	Ancestor Cult
Zwek	Ancestor Cult

Other things might play a part in your family's religion:

If your family works/-ed at a university +25 to Cult of the Father

If nation = Drangsdt, +70 to Cult of the Father

If LUC & Kiend, +70 to Cult of the Cat, -70 to Ancestor Cult

If LUC & Hiewia, +50 to Ancestor Cult although it is always a familial sect

If LUC & Welb, +70 to Cult of the Bird, -70 to Brotherhood

	D.o. Drangdst	B.o. Al	B.o. Entaufhi	B.o. Juwango	B.o. Kiend	B.o. Loch	B.o. Meedt	B.o. Plensch
Ancestor Cult	5%	25%	5%	35%	80%	10%	15%	80% (One Way)
Brotherhood	10%	75% (United Patriarchate)	75%	80%	20%	80%	80%	10%
Cult of the Bird	0%	0%	10%	0%	5%	0%	0%	1%
Cult of the Cat	0%	0%	15%	0%	10%	0%	0%	15%
Cult of the Father	100%	0%	1%	0%	1%	15%	10%	1%

	B.o. Sern	B.o.t. Rhone	B.o.t. Vipling	Gb.o. Heiwia	B.o. Ingdst	B.o. Welb	W.o. Freslorf	B.o. Freslorf
Ancestor Cult	80% (80% Just Way, 20% Collectors)	80% (50% Universal Way, 50% Just Way)	80% (80% Just Way, 20% Maiden's Way)	25% (Just Way)	10%	10%	50%	10%
Brotherhood	10%	15%	15%	80%	80% (Asking)	80%	80%	80%
Cult of the Bird	1%	0%	0%	0%	15%	30%	0%	0%
Cult of the Cat	1%	0%	0%	0%	5%	10%	0%	0%
Cult of the Father	1%	0%	0%	5%	1%	1%	0%	1%

	C.o. Hugu	F.C.o. Ichall	F. Dispora	R. Exiles	U. Juwango	S.o. Bancs	O.o.t. Dragon	S.o. Niekernkinn
Ancestor Cult	20%	20%	15%	90% (Just Way)	80% (Two-Fold Way)	25%	20%	50%
Brotherhood	70%	80%	80%	5%	80% (Two-Fold Way)	80%	80%	50%
Cult of the Bird	1%	5%	0%	0%	0%	1%	0%	0%
Cult of the Cat	10%	1%	0%	0%	0%	1%	0%	0%
Cult of the Father	3%	1%	0%	0%	1%	1%	1%	1%

Step 6: Clan Name

The next part of your character's name is their clan, which links them back to some hero. For prestigious families, these link back to great, world-shaking heroes in ages now past while most families will have a local ancestor who might have done a great service to the local community or faith.
Older clan names are Germanic in origin, giving them an archaic feeling, while newer names will have clans will have normal german names. If your social class is lower than Lower Upper Class, you can generate a German name in the next step when you generator your own. Otherwise, you can use one of the name generated here
You're going to regionalized it, as per the set up in the next step and then add -er to the end.
So, if you're Zwek and you got the name "Seigfreid", regionalize it, you would get "Siygfriyd" so your clan name would be "Siygfriyd".

Step 7: Personal Name

Now is the final step of getting to know your character, which is their given name. These are based on German names with one change, which represents variant spelling based on the dialects spoken in the Middle Realm.
You can generate German names here:
Male
Female
I don't care
So, if you generate the name "Sabine" but your character is Lussk, your name would be "Sebuno".
Your final name will look something like:
Pfaets Entaufha Drechdta Iriser Layra

	a	e	i	o	u	y
Pfaets	a	i	e	u	y	o
Vipling	e	i	y	a	a	u
Rhone	e	i	y	a	u	o
Zwek	e	i	i	u	o	a
Knach	a	i	o	u	y	e
Drangsdt	y	a	e	i	o	u
Lussk	e	o	u	o	i	a

Monikers

Monikers are very common in the Middle Realm but they're only given out to people who are widely accepted to be deserving of them - village Masters, high-ranking priests, adventurers. This is something that others give you. It is extremely distasteful to refer to yourself by your moniker and even more so to try to give yourself one.

Languages & Dialects

There is no 'common', only dialects of human, orcish, and elvish. These dialects are reflected in the vowel changes for names and places but are otherwise background noise.