===== The World You Left Behind =====

Before the Threshold, you all came from somewhere. I know, for some of you, it may be hard to recall your own past, but that’s okay. You’re reminded of the world you left behind every day here in the Threshold, so whether you’ve been here for fifty years or only a couple minutes, I’m sure you have some memory of the world you came from. But if not, let me refresh it for you! 

We are the product of our environment, and are shaped by thousands of years of history. Speaking of history, your past is rich with it. Tudors, the Renaissance, Ancient Greece, the Regency era, all things you might recall, either through lived experience, or a bleary memory of a sleepy history lesson.
The evidence of history casually wanders around the Threshold in period dress. There’s no running from history, especially in the Threshold where time is not linear, so you might find a modern ‘Tiktoker’ speaking with an Edwardian. 

People hold values and wear the dress of their time, but it’s almost a costume for them, a hangover from life. Over time, the Threshold blends eras and people together: a flamboyant man with a green carnation pinned to a Victorian smoking jacket speaks in 21st century slang. It all intermingles. It’s strangely beautiful, in a way. 

You are welcome to draw from history for your //Threshold// character concept. The //Threshold// world has broadly the same history and pop culture as Earth, and you can reference these directly: in backstory, in game or in character concept. That being said, you cannot play a real controversial/political historical figure. 

If you would like to play a character from the future, here are the events of what happened after a certain point in the early decades of the 2000th year. In about 2050, people went - how do you say - a bit haywire. Governments overthrown, full-blown wars in almost every country, complete anarchy for about 50 years. Poverty had never been so widespread, people had never been so unhappy. Hope for humanity had never run so low. Hope is very important, you know. And then? And then, people got tired of it all. The start of the third millennium brought us hope in the form of technology. Humans went to space, and not just the billionaires. Everybody got to go. For the first time, the streets hummed with technology and neon lights. The wars were over, and the age of technology had begun.