One other thing I missed before too was you get a +2 to your fort save from fighter in the base save section. Helps just a bit in surviving being poisoned and whatnot<img alt=":)" src="./images/smilies/smile.gif" title="Smile"/>Also it is up to you on the matter of charisma but it does not have to mean your character is considered a bore. They present another reason for the lower charisma being that people could be a bit put off from you for one reason or another (like that you have a dangling lure and are a voracious creature of the deep sea making them uneasy). This kind of makes sense since you took mistrusted race as a flaw because you could in theory be the most charismatic person in the world but simply because you are a strange creature (in their eyes anyway) that they don't normally deal with, people feel unnerved around you. And if we end up in the deep sea and find your own kind, they could just as easily be put off that you left home to go to the surface instead of remaining in the deep 'where you belong' or some such rhetoric. A person's perceptions of your character matter just as much and sometimes more for determining how Charisma is handled at times. Don't let a number bog you down if you feel it is appropriate for your character.