>How would you feel about hand-crafted totems, say objects that imbue magical power? I'm planning a sort of shamanistic character who makes/uses totems from animal skins.

Carrying over my question from the IntCheck. My concept, in more detail, is a "Skinchanger," a shaman that can take the shape of animals that he makes totems out of the remains of. A play on the concept of a viking berserker, if you will.