Idej, please feel free to elaborate on your master on your own.<br/><br/>Crossroads is not the type of setting where the DM decides such elements for you. You can quite literally have a character picked up from any setting and dropped into Crossroads. With the mechanical constraints of chargen being the only fitting you need to accommodate so that they are compatible with Crossroads.<br/><br/>In a way it's like Curse of Strahd where the mists take characters from wherever an transport them to Barovia.<br/><br/>Moreover, my entry into dnd was 5e. So I literally have no prior lore dnd knowledge from other editions and/or settings.<br/><br/>So all the fluff, flavor and lore of your character is yours to do with as you please up until the moment they arrived at Crossroads. Now that I think about it, Crossroads is not that dissimilar from the SG-1 TV show. Where with each episode the team visited a different planet, a new culture, and was presented with a new challenge.