You Can't Choose Your Family

Part of the fun in this coming game will be rolling up for your family.  Each player will take a turn at rolling the d10 a few times to determine the elemental affinity of his mother and father, whether or not he or she has siblings, which ones are Exalted, and whether or not there are family ties of note that also affect influence to some extent.

Yes, this does mean you might end up with a very boring family... or a tremendously complicated one... or a frighteningly singularly-minded one that seemed to be devoted wholly towards the destruction of Anathema.

Exciting, ain't it?

With that in mind, consider then working with the other players to clearly define why you are best of friends and how you work together in things.  Again, you most likely have only each other to rely upon in this game.  There won't be NPCs who will be there to save your asses (or at least if there are any, there's a good reason they did that!)