Great to meet you!  Like you said, Master Gunner [i]is[/i] taken, but since he's going to be dying of old age any day now, I'm sure he'll be training some young pup to take over!  :)  I'd love to see a non-human aboard - a Deor would be awesome!

And good idea with the harvesting of [i]caith[/i] - great minds think alike!