- You are a spy keeping an eye out for the Arcane Brotherhood.
- You are being hunted by a noble family for a crime or slight you committed.
- You are fleeing from gangsters of the city of Luskin.
- As a child you were left in the cold to die but an owl-shaped humanoid saved you.
- You were secretly raised by yetis.
- You were infected by an otherworldly parasite.
- You are the secret heir for royalty in hiding.
- You have hazy dreams of being kidnapped by an alien race and then crashing down in the ice.
- You seek an heirloom was stolen from you long ago.
- You covet a small amulet made of a strange black and silver metal. Sometimes you hear it speaking to you.
- You have dreams of a massive strange black structure, a city, buried under the ice.
- Someone you love was murdered by a ghost.
- You are actually an escaped clone, a construct, built by the Arcane Brotherhood for some unknown purpose.
- You were reincarnated into your current form by a mysterious druid.
- You are outcast for having documented a forbidden text. It could be dark magic or a tell-all book.
- You are an escaped and hunted prisoner.
- You have a phobia of talking animals.
- I witnessed a terrible crime and fear the one who committed it.
- I escaped a mark for sacrifice to Auril.
- My dreams are filled with tentacled nightmares.