Setting Details

You've all already successfully joined the Knights and gone through the year of training at Fort Naoth.  The game will be beginning as you are dropped off back at Greenbrook to undergo your Blessing Ceremonies (alongside one other novice who evidently got permission to use the Crystal Pool in the village rather than at her hometown) as a sort of introduction; there will be a brief week of timeskip while you grow accustomed to your powers (and new equipment, if you requested any) before you begin your First Trial in the game proper, in which you will be travelling to Lomorre; the journey is expected to take about two months, as is the case for all First Trials.

You must all be seventeen or eighteen, and must have been born in Greenbrook.  This is partly due to plot reasons and partly because it means the PCs will already know each other.

Even as novices, you are more powerful than most new-Blessed Knights.  This is probably not super noticeable at first, but as noted above you will be increasing in PL rapidly; this is not normal for the setting.  Consider how your characters would react to rapidly eclipsing their friends and rivals outside of the player group (and, you know, maybe don't make a character who either depends on constant competition with such an NPC or who would not react in a pleasant way to developing such power.)

You will, at various points in the adventure, be travelling to each of the major four cities, so any Complications related to those locations will come up briefly.  Complications related to Greenbrook itself, however, are discouraged as you will not be going back for anything important.  (Of course NPCs from Greenbrook might travel and conveniently get caught up in something.)