» Sun Nov 11, 2012 12:00 pm
The power of imagination!
Seriously, they leave it open so you can come up with your own backstory. If it gets too constrained everybody has the same history and that's just dumb.
As for physical characteristics, what we heard from the alpha event was that it's rift-style, with presets that you can change with sliders, and the triangle to change the overall shape and tone of body and face, as well as a height slider.