If you are new to this series here’s the deal; ‘From The Ground Up’ is a series of blog posts aimed at helping you create a roleplay character from the ground up. Says it on the tin, right? These guides are mostly geared towards creating characters for roleplay within the World of Warcraft, but the basic principles could likely be used for character creation for a variety of different games both online and on table-top, perhaps even for fiction writing. You can find the index for this series here for easy navigation of the other parts. From The Ground Up: Series Index