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How much of characters' backgrounds do CYOAs define?
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>In this particular instance? The actual CYOA itself is literally just a mysterious merchant approaches you and offers you a bunch of potions or Essences to drink that give you the powers associated with it. As such I'm going to largely discard that and just make my own backstory up. Like at most I'm just ripping the powers for the Demon Emperor option from it because they aren't too broken comparatively, in addition to the fact that that's what it was created for, and because it gets me as close to a character like Melkor without me having to butcher Tolkien's writing.