Edit sorry I was way to vague and bad explained question. But great explanation everyone.
If you start playing as a player in a homebrew world that I built. How little information would you feel needed to be able read before you can build a character in it?
I have been planing to start looking for players soon but I struggling as I don’t want to give them a whole novel of mostly boring lore dump but sending them like two sentients feels just silly.
Not to mention would you as a player like reference to other mediums so you could quickly know what to expect or would you rather have a in game view of it?
I started with a small town in a not sooo important duchy, wherein they grew up in and explored the world from there on together with them. (Had a greater scheme of things in mind, of course, but as a scheme, as I said, not as over 20 leather bound volumes of down written history.) Worked well!