[@Ozerath] I love your tone as a writer here.  *sits on*  I may be grinning like an idiot right now.  I think personality and backstory are solid.  Benchmarks are...iffy, in my opinion.  Not that they're not great skills, but a lot of the mental ones seem more physical to me, and some of them seem more like "oh he can do this" and not "he's trained so he's better at this".  But I'm not exactly clear on benchmarks entirely to start with, so I'm going to shoot that over to [@Gowi].

Elian and Thael are in the same fraternity, and I daresay they'd know each other.  I feel like their hollering battlestyles would be either great or at least fun together, and I request that they end up in the same group, in terms of which characters are grouped where.  Elian also sees Pariah as a game more than anything else, and I think the dynamic between them would be a /lot/ of fun.  To this end, I suggest that Elian was in BroForce, though only an occasional/tertiary member -- healers never lack for willing partymates, after all, and she's on the independent side, not to mention her love of exploration.  This would allow the drama in question to have blown right by her, so she knows something happened but doesn't really know what.  I suggest that she and Thael have stayed in touch and still party up when the opportunity presents itself.  What say you, Oz?