Building a non-crummy noble Character in AToW... Possible?

[Pyro]

Use point-buy, go crazy with the enemies.  No noble worth mentioning doesn't have several enemies, ranging from the arranged marriage they're trying to get out of, to the junior Lord who wants to get promoted into your title and needs you out of it first, to the upper Lord who your father insulted at a party and holds a grudge against you for, to the enemy Noble who wants to increase his holdings by invading yours, to the circle of gossip-mongers at Court that just think they're cooler than you...

And that's just enemies as nobles, if he's also a soldier, there might be subordinates or superiors who resent your character and think he'd have never gotten anywhere without the title.

[Col Toda]

AToW Companion has rules for starting characters with more than 5000pts and if you make a point allowcation character as opposed to a life path character you do better . Just use the life path as a guideline so you do not end up unskilled in a TAG skill .  If you are a Nobel you should have a minimum of Protocol 4 and your native language high too .  If English is going to be the unit's common tongue you should be better than LVL 0 in it .

[Leto_II]

On the other hand, starting out with, say, a prissy, self-entitled noble and walking him up to being a competent warrior, leader of the people and a noble truly worthy of his position is a *great* story arc.