Oh right, Kaedan. Hmm... I'm somewhat confused as to just what Favored powers are implied that he actually has. Judging by his equipment I'd say that he fell in the category of paladins (priests and the higher ranks of these don't have weapons unless such are specifically required to invoke their Favored powers), but paladins in the service of Deliph only initially have the power to bless weapons with a divine edge or divine mass... and knight-paladins - which are very high ranked within the faith - gain more of a passively active ability to empower their allies and demoralize their enemies. The description of Kaedan's Favored power might need to be a bit more specific.

Deserts, though... Golerin is not a desert-nation, no, and even the Drylands technically still have a slightly higher rate of precipitation than evaporation and grows fields of short, tough grass and some other scattered vegetation. Although the easternmost part of the Drylands are very desert-like (the further east you get in the Drylands, the drier it gets), the only true desert nearby and in that direction would the the Desert of Desperation. Technically there's a closer one in the opposite direction, in the northern parts of northern Wegam Fermos highlands, but that's cold desert... with ice instead of sand (although once again technically, the northern Desert of Desperation would also be classified as cold desert, since nearly all the precipitation there - even during summer - is snow or hail).

Gregory Maede... wasn't that the name of the character you used the first time around? And the equipment and description is either the same or very similar... you just changed his background? Will you indeed be reassuming the role of your old character?

(The formatting of these posts is starting to really annoy me; why can't I be allowed to make single line breaks? Grr...)