Mage Questions from Awakening pg 70 - 71
How old are you?
What year were you born?
How old were you when you Awakened?
Did your Awakening make you old beyond years or are you emotionally a child?
Do you look your years?
What was unique about your childhood?
What were your early years like?
Did you get along well with your family or were your relations troubled?
Did you like school, and if so, why?
Did it challenge you or insult your intelligence?
Did you fit in the high school pecking order or were you ostracized? Or did you create a clique of your own, foreshadowing the members-only world into which you’ve stumbled?
What about life after school? Was there college or did you go straight into the work force?
Are or were your married?
Do you have any long term friendships or just acquaintances?
What kind of person were you?
What were you like before Awakening? A chivalrous example to all, or a cad?
Are you likeable to strangers or do people have to get to know you?
Are you rude to those who disrespect you or do you turn the other cheek?
What experiences of the supernatural have you had?
When did you first feel the brush of magic?
Was it an unlimited sense of wonder or a nightmare you’re still trying to forget?
Have you seen a spirit or a ghost, or witnessed someone do something that can’t be explained away by the normal laws of physics?
Do you believe the occult to be synonymous with Satan, or are you more open minded?
What was your Awakening like?
If there’s no prelude to illustrate it, was your Awakening a journey of the soul to a Supernal Realm, or a waking dream in which the world seemed to turn upside down and become unreal?
Was it enlightening or scary (or both?)
Who was your first mentor?
Who was the first mage to find you upon your Awakening?
Was he helpful or abusive?
Did he offer his aid or did you have to beg him for it? Or did you refuse his offers?
Does he hold political power among the Awakened, or is he a pariah?
Are you still loyal to him or do you prefer to forget him?
How was your cabal formed?
Were you brought together by chance, design or destiny?
Do you follow a symbolic them, or have an alliance of mere convenience?
Are you friends or cautious acquaintances?
Is there a rival in your cabal (for power, affection or leadership)?
How loyal are you to your fellow cabal members?
How loyal do you think they are to you?
Do you maintain a sanctum?
Do you have your own sanctum?
If not, where do you live and work your magic?
Or do you share a sanctum with others, such as your cabal or your mentor?
Where is it and how obvious is it?
Are you attached to it or are you looking to move the first chance you get?
Do you retain and connections to your Sleeper life?
Do your parents and friends still know you?
Do you visit them frequently?
What about talking to them over the phone?
How do you explain your strange absences and new obsessions?
Do you involve them in your new work?
Do other mages know about them?
What motivates you?
What are your goals?
Revenge for a past slight?
Mastery of an Arcanum or Arcana?
To become Hierarch of the Consilium?
Or do you spurn power for wisdom and spiritual awareness, preferring knowledge to conflict and wealth?
Do you desire to mentor other mages?
Do you want other to Awaken?
If you could have anything you wanted (which isn’t beyond possibility for a mage!), what would it be?