Well, until the new information in this forum landed I confess I was looking at a non-human mage, but the campaign structure makes that a combination of an impossible idea with a really bad idea (at least for a PC).<br/><br/>Let me throw a couple of other relevant questions out there while re-thinking initial PC concepts:<br/><br/>1. Is this to be a predominantly urban or wilderness sort of campaign?<br/>2. Is there a place our backgrounds should 'bring us to' or otherwise be for the beginning of the game?<br/>3. Is the Era "Ancient" or "Feudal?" Leaning a bit towards "Ancient," personally. Otherwise there is no riddle to Steel.<br/><br/>I am now knocking around the possibility of a sneak-thief sort, either a Burglar (if we're going to be predominantly urban) or a Scout (if we aren't) and rather more of a Subedai than a Conan type, potentially with a Heritage.