The system also gives some points for writing a character background and drawing a character portrait.

Lifepaths are an optional way to randomly generate character backgrounds and personalities through a series of tables.

The creation is rather simple, and consists of choosing a starting magic school, a gender and a character "background".

It wasn't until later that this idea was disregarded as the directors felt it was too weak a character background.

June 2007 however marked the first time that a comprehensive work of detailed character backgrounds was made public.

How better, after all, to set up all that usually tedious character background than with a play about an amnesiac?

Finally, the protagonists of the two films also bear a bit of a resemblance in terms of character background and development.

Compared to the short run of the anime, the manga covered much more ground in terms of character background and added new stories.

After major changes were added to the script, which included story setting and character background, slight casting changes also occurred.

The character backgrounds were further developed before the filming of Carnivàle began, but were not made part of the show's visible structure.