CycloBenzene: 1)  You guys grew up together in an isolated orphanage(it's a monastery, but you aren't monks..  Unless you want to be), you don't know much about the world...  There was once an empire, however it's current state is unknown.  You rarely talk with others outside the area, that was mainly left to the headmaster and higher ups in the order.  One day, you wake up and everyone is dead.  You charge out to find out the dying body of the headmaster, and discover that the eldest brother had stolen a sacred weapon from the monastery, and escaped with it.  The headmaster charges you with getting it back, and you set out.
[6:52pm] CycloBenzene: Character info is as follows
[6:53pm] CycloBenzene: You would start at about lvl 7 or 8, with full magic gear.  However, you would all be fairly young characters.  You must all be followers of a different God, (from PHB1), but you don't need to be a religious class.  Races are pretty well fair game, just nothing too obscure. (and no deva)
[6:53pm] CycloBenzene: I got 1 session in with this world, for my friends bday before everyone moved to different places when uni started in first year QQ
[6:54pm] CycloBenzene: last full session as a group of high school kids
[6:55pm] Revan: mm, I'm eladrin... young is kinda subjective
[6:55pm] Revan: anywhere between 30 and 300
[6:55pm] CycloBenzene: of course
[6:56pm] Relai: deva?
[6:57pm] Akacha_: immortals
[6:58pm] Akacha_: http://d.pr/60u0
[6:59pm] Revan: one time my friend was a revenant paladin
[6:59pm] Revan: shouldn't be possible
[6:59pm] CycloBenzene: 2)  More so based on dragon age.(mainly for views on magic)  However, main difference is that templars and mages get along with each other.  Templars are still the handlers, but they work together.  However, psionisism is just starting to appear, and is different from magic.  People hate this stuff.  With a passion.  An order within the chantry was formed, called the seekers.  They hunt psionics, and kill them on sight.  Reason magic isn't liked is because a long time ago, literally an age, mages opened a gate to another realm and monsters flooded in.  They killed everyone, and everything.  The mages who opened the gate, died.  Nearly everyone else ran away, and arrived in your current spot.  The dwarven nations then built a massive wall to keep everything else out, and people began to recover.  However, populations above the wall still aren't massive.  That said, everyone is more or less happy and there hasn't been a significant problem until psions appeared.
[6:59pm] CycloBenzene: Character info is coming
[7:00pm] CycloBenzene: Characters can be anything you guys want.  If one of you is a psion, you will be together on the run.  If you are all non-psions, then you are starting in a city with barely knowing each other.
[7:00pm] Revan: CB, for some reason some text is being cut off your big paragraphs
[7:00pm] CycloBenzene: No real restrictions on anything.
[7:00pm] CycloBenzene: Yeah?  Here I'll copy paste it into paste bin
[7:00pm] CycloBenzene: that should fix it