Who? The Expedition Leader doesn’t have Backgrounds, per: “Each Explorer (which isn’t the Expedition Leader) has none or two Backgrounds”

Or do you mean the Expedition Leader telling you what other people’s Backgrounds are?

I don’t think it’s necessary, really.

Also it’s an interesting distinction between me having no backgrounds (which I can’t have since only Explorers who are not me have none or two backgrounds) and me not having any value for a Backgrounds variable.

Though it’s weird, since that technically makes the sentence “I have no backgrounds” true as well.

On the other hand, the rules don’t explicitly disallow me having no backgrounds either.

Yet it’s reasonable that I have no backgrounds, but not that I have two backgrounds, even though the rules say the same thing about both.

A non-paradoxical explanation would be if the Backgrounds variable was created including me, and only the restrictions are concerning Explorers who aren’t me.

[Sphinx] Interesting wording, I guess that means you could take on backgrounds if you so wished but currently couldn’t “reveal” them to anyone. I’m not certain if you telling someone “I’m a spy” when you aren’t a spy counts as revealing and even if you are a spy the person you’re telling it to can’t verify the truth so it might not be revealing your own background anyway.