You believe, therefore you are

You are about to develop a character that will live and roam in a world of its own. This character will become a part of the Age of Aquarius universe, and travel across time to eras you may not know. It will interact with other characters you wouldn’t meet every day in the real world.

The character you help design will have some features and personal traits that you do not possess. The skills and attributes of your character may make it slightly stronger, more intelligent, more wilful, and through the use of magic, have powers equal to your wildest dreams. However, in Age of Aquarius this character will also be a part reflection of you, albeit in very heroic terms. We use your birth details to calculate your astrological horoscope, from which we determine some attributes and personality traits for your character.

To give this character life requires a certain amount of belief in the character by you. Within the game, you will be that character you have helped create, just like an actor playing a part on a film set. Based on the abilities and attributes of your character you will make decisions and perform actions that you will have to believe are right for your character.
You have control over the character, from its first portrayal to its death (or its Ascension to Godhood!), and it is you who must breathe life into it within the game. A life that is separate and different from your own.

Age of Aquarius is a roleplaying game. Roleplaying is fiction and, in the nature of all fiction, the more involved you get with your character, the more realistic the situation will feel, and the more fun the game will be.

In Age of Aquarius you are really playing two characters. Your Simulacra, or Human Host, can be anyone. This person is specific to the time period the game session is being played in though - don’t expect Robert the minstrel from Elizabethan England to appear again outside that era! Your options are limited by the cast list the writers post before each game. You select which Human you wish to have as a character, and then the writers begin incorporating your storyline and other important details into the characters background. You will find that race, gender, social class, and sexual orientation will be important factors in many historical time period sessions.

Most players in Age of Aquarius will also play a second character, their Nephilim spirit, which inhabits and possesses the Human Host. Your choice of Nephilim Elemental form from your prelude session will forever determine what Nephilim you are. However, you are an elemental being, who is usually beyond petty human concerns of race, gender, social class, and sexual orientation. Such details are mundane, and are only of concern where they may affect your ambitions at a particular time. As a Nephilim you can possibly recall details of past lives, carrying over skills acquired and knowledge learned to other incarnations.