: Re: How do I create a mysterious character? What personality traits and ways does he need to be mysterious? What attitudes must he have to be so? How do I create a mysterious character? What

@Frith254

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Do not tell the story from this character's point of view.

Do not have the character talk about his motives.

Avoid having characters who are familiar with the mysterious one and are at all willing to talk.

Know what the character is after, but this should be a relatively complex matter, or possibly even several purposes being pursued at the same time. This do not have to be major purposes, but the character's actions must not fit a simple pattern -- though this may be less important if you want to hide his motives for his actions, but not his purpose for it. For instance, if a man asks when another will be arriving, scouts out his path, buys a weapon that will allow him to make a ranged attack, and goes to a point from which he will be able to see the path, we know that his purpose is to kill the man, but not why he wants to.

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