Well, PP, the theme of the party so far seems to be "more than human."  So, I would definitely go with something that was explicitly supernormal.<br/><br/>Now, whether that's a Barbarian who is simply twice the size of a normal man, or a daring duelist of inhuman skill...I think you could go either way on that.  But in either case, I'd build a PC that could do things no normal person can do.  If the latter concept can't be built to achieve sufficiently improbable feats of derring-do, then go with the Barbarian.