Great thread. I made up a number characters with class and backstories before EA, but decided to play none of them : they will be kept for full release.
@Abits : I have a druid with about the same backstory. A human from a merchant family, with a family business that's been running for 3 generations. He went on a first travel, as part of an effort from the family to expand their business to other cities, and fell in love with the nature. Eventually, he became a druid. He's an educated, perceptive and diplomat person. Don't ask any physicality out of him.
As I was playing EA and trying stuff, I came up with one more character, that I'll play full game with. But one that intrigues me, and might be a future full-playthrough character in formation is the following.
She's a Githyanki who failed to become the shining knight she'd always thought she'd be. It wasn't out of lack of strength (with a very good 16), but maybe the rolls were not going her way on that crucial day of The Test. Fact is, she was then considered a failure by her society and left with finding something else to do with her life. She turned punk, alternative and anti-conformist. Also, mage. She's got shaved sides and a dreadlocks pony tail. She also probably spent much time out of the Astral Plane, so her hair is now grey-white and she has a couple of wrinkles. But don't mistake that old-looking lady for a weakling. She'll topple you in the blink of eye and blast you out of her way like you're bread crumbs. She favours Force and Thunder type of damage spells (fire and ice are too subtle). She may have just as bad and blunt a personality as an old Toph Beifong.
My main issue with her is that I didn't find any options to tell young Lae'zel to drop it with her "we must do this and go there and do that". I know the protocol as much as you kiddo.
