Because Edward is fed up with the routine of everyday life, he lives in the woods and isolates himself from human society. There, he contemplates the thoughtlessness of romance as a symbol for everyday life through a character by the name of Bella (who may or may not be a myth). In the woods, he meets a wolf whom he personifies as a symbol of thoughtless male sexuality and names him Jacob. He wrestles with his inner Jacob and ultimately rejects it in favor of deliberate romance. When Edward leaves the woods, he decides to never marry.

In the modern era it’s a hotel and ‘listed building’ (protected by conservation law).

However it’s *not* really a castle – it was actually built in the victorian era, and has never been a noble’s home.

Personally I’m actively trying to get out of the habit of referring to larps as ‘games,’ since as it says here they are not.

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In a campaign context, it can also be worth considering taking a break; play a different character for an event or two, then decide if you want to go back to your old one. It may be you feel refreshed by doing so or it may be you discover some whole new aspect of the game (e.g. getting involved in meetings your previous character was excluded from due to social class).

Also remember that ‘lack of goals / direction’ can itself be regarded as an in-game problem. If you feel like your life is over and you have nothing more to do after marriage, then it sounds like character is having a mid-life crisis. You can play on that – lack of plot becomes a plot itself.

Another option is to speak to a player making a new character, and write a prior relationship with their character in. For example in Vampire, you bring in someone to play your childe, establish the relationship for a game or two, then still ‘retire’ the character to the shadows. This means you can still act as your character in downtime, as a mentor/adviser/demanded elder to the childe, handling down your plot threads, while playing a new character at the events.

Another option is to have something traumatic happen to your character in downtime that significantly changes them. It’s not entirely a new character, but it is different. For example, riest might accidently say something heretical at the wrong time, fall out of poltical favour and get excommunicated, becoming a social outcast. That might give you enough of a change to your experience that you want to keep playing the character. “Gm, please hit me with the big plot stick”