Background
Background noun - The physical conditions or features that form the setting against which something is viewed.
Past life and background are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Past life" instead a noun "Background".
Past life
Background and past life are semantically related. You can use "Background" instead a noun phrase "Past life".
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This actually comes both from her Defrosting Ice Queen background and her past life in the Silver Millennium, where her past self made an oath of chastity to Princess Serenity.
Source: Celibate Hero -
Taken even further during some flashbacks: you get to choose part of the background of your character's past life.
Source: Video Game / Pillars of Eternity -
The "Past Life" background was changed to "Ancestors", and involves direct communication with literal ancestor spirits (which better explains the Bone Gnawers, Glass Walkers, and Silent Striders lacking access to the background; the former two are too modernist to care, the latter are cursed).
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