To be honest, I'm a bit embarrassed. I was lazy on this one and instead of taking the time to really sort through everything I just cranked out a character that I enjoyed, and thought would work well into the roleplay. I'll address your points one by one.

1) Honestly, I see where you're coming from. When I first looked at the list of accepted characters, I honestly saw nothing more than fantasy names, not something that was dependent on time.. I suppose I can change it but I really didn't put any thought into it to begin with.

2) I didn't do research on his instrument of choice, which was admittedly only intended to flesh out the character and would not serve a huge purpose in the roleplay. This will be corrected. As far as the cigar, I did look into it. Tobacco was first introduced to Europe in the late 1400's, which I understand may be a bit beyond the timeline of this story, but I figured it wouldn't really be hurting anything since the analogy to real-world history is really more of a suggestion to help the setting. And of course by cigar I don't mean some nice, factory produced smoke, but a [url=http://www.latinamericanstudies.org/exile/gilberto-leon-4.jpg]crude, handrolled type[/url]. If you'd like me to, I can remove this entirely.

3) Admittedly, I didn't take the time to read each of the character stories. If I had done so, I would have realized that Raptorman has squarely assumed the role of crypt keeper. I'll PM him and arrange my character's role, because I doubt that he'd have a problem with my character being the gravedigger. If he does, then I'll be back to square one, but whatever.

4) I did read the all of the FAQs before posting, and it was my understanding that magic was inherent, and it wasn't some mystical thing, but it was also something that had to be learned just like math or the alphabet to be fully realized, or even recognized at all. Since my character never received any training, and was never in a situation where he'd even be able to know that he could do this. If I'm still incorrect in this, know that by the time you see this I have re-read it and will make corrections as necessary.

Sorry 'bout that.