You'll have to excuse my horrible geography, but I don't even live in the states - is New Camden an actual part of Baltimore, or a fictitious town you've made up for the sake of the RP? Are we in the metro area or on the outskirts? How close are we to nature - the water, national parks, forests or otherwise? It's all pretty relevant to how I plan out my character's backstory, since I'm going full woodland-creature here and I need a solid understanding of how many trees she could've climbed on.

EDIT: Also, I'm a huge fan of Parael and the way the CS was written, but I'm terrified at the surprisingly short number of abilities there. I like to go into a lot of detail about what my characters can do, can't do, and should be able to do if they practice. Am I going to get the boot if I put in many minor spells/abilities instead of a few major ones? Shall I toss in some more weaknesses on top of the usual 'magical fatigue' to balance things out?