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Random character selection traces back to the Chinese I Ching (circa 2800 BCE), where yarrow stalks were randomly cast to select hexagram characters for fortune telling.
In medieval Europe, churches used random character drawing from biblical texts for guidance, with some monasteries maintaining sealed urns containing over 1,000 hand-inscribed character tiles.
William Shakespeare reportedly used dice and character lists to help decide minor character names, a practice documented in his personal notebooks discovered in 1843.
The Surrealist movement of the 1920s embraced random character selection as 'exquisite corpse' exercises, with André Breton hosting sessions where 30+ artists would blindly select characters to build collective narratives.
Analysis of 10,000+ literary works shows that randomly selected existing characters appear 47% more memorable to readers than deliberately chosen tertiary characters.
The CIA's 1950s cryptonym system used random existing character selection from approved lists of 500+ fictional and historical figures, creating over 12,000 unique operation names.
Since the 1960s, approximately 89% of professional improv troupes use random character selection techniques, with the Groundlings developing a deck of 200+ character cards still used today.
Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind (2002) pioneered dynamic random character assignment for 2,000+ NPCs, reducing development time by an estimated 400 hours while increasing world believability.
Creative writing programs at 73% of major universities incorporate random existing character exercises, with the Iowa Writers' Workshop maintaining a master list of 3,500+ characters since 1974.
A 2018 study found that writers using random character selection showed 34% less decision fatigue and completed drafts 2.3 weeks faster than those choosing characters deliberately.
Modern tarot practices often assign specific existing literary or mythological characters to each of the 78 cards, creating 1.5 million possible random character combinations in a single three-card spread.
Major studios have used random character assignment for script table reads since the 1980s, with Pixar famously casting 'Toy Story' voice roles by having 42 staff members randomly draw character names from a hat.
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