Character Generation

Concepts

I don't want to restrict character concepts, but given the features described on the campaign homepage I think there are a few suggestions that are worth making.

Firstly, since it'll be a mystery / secret-y kind of campaign, your characters should be able (and inclined) to be subtle. You don't need to go crazy on the stealth, but at least a Dex excellency might be a good idea. Similarly, characters don't need to be master assassins, but a character who wants to start loud and violent fights with everything they see probably won't help progress the campaign. Nor will characters who like to get drunk and blurt out their top-secret objectives to all and sundry. You've been chosen for this mission because you are trusted agents - please pick concepts that could have earned it :-)

Secondly, since there are only three of you, I'd suggest getting together to make sure your concepts are complementary. This absolutely doesn't mean you have to be perfectly balanced across all abilities - just that you don't want to be treading on each others' toes in one area and leaving another completely vacant by accident. You're welcome to leave skill areas out deliberately if you agree that's the sort of game you want to play - for example, to have little / no combat skill, and resolve to work around all challenges in a non-violent way. So one option is to create a perfect circle (triangle?), but you could also have e.g. three No Moons, each with a slightly different take on acquiring knowledge (spy / scholar / socialite, perhaps?). I'm hoping that the session goals are vague enough that there will always be many ways to successfully approach them. Anyway, point is that you can to some extent design your own game by designing your characters for the sort of game you want to play - just make sure you're all after the same thing first :-)

Thirdly, your characters should trust in the authority / vision of The Winding Path - see the Lunars book. You will be receiving orders from your faction, and you won't be told why (though you are of course invited to work it out). Characters who simply refuse or demand explanations will be missing the point of the campaign. If it were a longer campaign, I'd be more free-form, but in such a short series with a well-defined end point, I need to point you in the right direction a bit to start with...

Mechanics

For now, characters should be drawn up as standard starting Lunars. This might change as I have a closer look at the details, but that'd be a good starting point. (No rush though if you want to wait until I've confirmed this.) Bear in mind that your character will be getting a fair chunk of downtime XP in between each session, so they'll accelerate in power considerably faster than they would normally.

On top of the standard package, you can all take Mentor 2 for free - further details forthcoming. If you want to, you can probably increase this with background / bonus points as normal, but I don't honestly think you'll get much benefit out of it so please let me know before taking any other dots in Mentor. Similarly, taking Backing in The Winding Path probably won't provide any benefit on top of your Mentor dots.

In the unlikely event that you don't want to design your own characters, I can provide suitable ready-made characters or just suggest concepts that would work well.