#Alternate Backgrounds (代替背景) — Section Index

Contents

#Identity

This adds alternate growth branches (5th-dan/9th-dan forks) to the core 13 backgrounds, and newly establishes 5 new backgrounds + 5 foreign origins. A background is the starting point of a PC's narrative and a growth branch point at the midgame (5th dan) and late game (9th dan).

#Design Goals

• Core 13 backgrounds × alternate branch (C route) — 13 branches completed (02-01).
• 5 new backgrounds: Refugee, Pirate, Mixed-Blood Child, War Comrade, Heterodox Believer (02-02).
• 5 foreign-origin backgrounds: Joseon, Ming, Nanban, Northern Nomad, Spirit Realm Immigrant (02-03).
• 1~2 additional techniques per background — a background-specialized general trait or a narrative technique.
• Selectable in parallel with the core existing branches (5th dan/9th dan). Not a replacement.
• Foreign-origin backgrounds link automatically with the foreign Adaptation traits (general traits).

#File Composition

• 02-00-index.md (this file)
• 02-01-existing-branches.md — core 13 backgrounds C route branches
• 02-02-new-backgrounds.md — 5 new backgrounds
• 02-03-foreign-origins.md — 5 foreign-origin backgrounds

#Reference Documents

Core required:

• Backgrounds (背景) — all backgrounds (13 kinds)
• Progression (成長體系) — 5th-dan/9th-dan branch slot structure
• Classes (職業, Classes) — class × background interaction

1st Expansion:

• 5 Drifted Outsiders — Strangers Trapped in the Domain — Drifter background variation example

Within this expansion:

• Additional General Techniques (一般特技) — Section Index — links to the foreign-Adaptation-line new general traits
• Foreign Divine Treasures (異國神器) — Section Index — linking foreign backgrounds with foreign Divine Treasures

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#§ Point-in-Time Data Distribution

#§ Design Perspective

• Keeping the core A/B branches: no modification of the core original. A parallel C branch is added.
• Foreign Adaptation link: the 02-03 foreign origins link automatically with the 03-04 foreign Adaptation traits.
• 1st-expansion compatibility: the 02-01 Child of the Spirit Realm C branch links with the 1st-expansion Spirit Realm system.

#§ File List for This Section

• ex2-02-01-existing-branches.md — core 13 backgrounds alternate branch C (optional)
• ex2-02-02-new-backgrounds.md — 5 new backgrounds
• ex2-02-03-foreign-origins.md — 5 foreign-origin backgrounds

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