Give yourself a backstory of highly specific lost love

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So memorable that the gossips will pass it all over town; so peculiar, no one will believe it could have been invented.

Game Instructions: This creates twenty-two points of Backstory.

Success

A tapestry

You do not simply borrow any one of these stories. That would be crude, artless, and far too easily discovered.

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Description summary:
The second paragraph varies with your Identified with a School: quality.

Identified with a School:	Second paragraph
The Nocturnals	[…] you want […] to reveal a dark truth of the human heart. Here is the unusual love story of an ardent revolutionary […] Here […] a corrupt politician […] It is a doomed romance. All the well-intentioned parties are fools, and all the villains miserable. […]
The Bazaarines	No, what you want is the best love story, and you construct it the way an artisan makes an inlaid table. From this love story, lift the […] wretched twist […] File away the inconsistencies of these bijou tales, glue them down and fill the gaps. Perfection.
The Celestials	No, what you want to do is pull together strands from all these stories and weave them together into something new and uplifting, a romantic history that will inspire the listener with renewed hope in higher things. A Celestial's love story.
You reject all labels	No, what this requires is art. Find common strands between many stories: the motif in which one's lover turns out to be other than human; […] a prolonged and tragic search. The story […] is no one's, and yet it is entirely characteristic of the Neath.

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