[@Blueskin][@Penny][@Dusty][@The Wyrm] Thank you all for your interest, I very much appreciate it - if others are interested, then please do say so. For those already here, I won't be going with a standard Character Sheet, so if you [b]would[/b] like to begin a 'sheet' then please read on... I've decided to go with a prose-based biography for characters, ending with why they're present in Schartenfeld; I'd be much obliged if you could include their name, a brief overview of their 'look' - equipment etc - and, primarily, some of their background. You can include age and so on as well if you wish. Allow me an example here: [Hider= Renault Geelard, Bretonnian Peasant]Renault Geelard had always been a peasant, like his father and his father before him, bound to their little plot of Bretonnian soil in the Dukedom of Quenelles for just over ten-and-seven years... or was it ten-and-nine? As a peasant of no education and downtrodden birth he was no even truly sure how old he was, his liege lord would never tell him and his father - the only individual who had ever openly loved him - had been struck down by a fairie arrow when their lord had attempted to enter Athel Loren in search of a particularly elegant stag. Nevertheless, while not the brightest of folk, Renault had grown tall and strong as rustic folk are want to do when sufficiently provided for. Again, it was his father that had given him his last spoon of oats, or his single slice of beef on fesitival days, and although such thoughts filled him with great sadness it never failed to bring a lopsided smile to his youthfully handsome face. The breaking point came when his lord, Sir Gilette de Mooton, began to gather another force of the peasantry to enter the fairie forest yet again; Renault would not be part of such an expedition, he would not die as his father did! On a thunderous winter night he clothed himself in simple garbs of leather, breeches and a jerkin over his 'best' woollen shirt, and fled into the surrounding countryside. By the time he reached the towering border between the Empire and Bretonnia...[/hider] You get the idea. If you would like to send me a character, please feel free to pop it into a hider here or PM it to me. I'll wait for a couple more writers, then I'll get an OOC up. Thank you all again.