Hi, 

	So I've thought some more on Girard.  I decided to take a 
third roll on the Medical Traits table (in keeping with the "weird 
freaks" idea), and I got "Birthmark(s): may reduce Comliness 
by 1d3, or indicate a special ancestry".  I got your note about 
the psionic talents (Prescience and Psychometry) and they sound 
fine given craftsman and priestly background.  

	Overall, I am picturing Girard now as a sort of cunning 
warrior-priest who would be a contrast to Dennis' giant.  
He has some stealth and high rhetoric, but he isn't a thief.  
So a bit of combat, rhetoric, and stealth plus his psionic 
talents would be his primary skills.  

	I'm still pondering his background as the first born and 
an unacknowledged bastard.  I generated guilded woodcrafter and 
clan head of father/mother for him -- which applies to the household 
he grew up in, not his biological father.  So his mother had a child 
out of wedlock (Girard), then married the gelfein of a Jarin clan -- 
a guilded woodcrafter by trade.  I'm picturing that the marriage was 
of practical advantage to the father, which would outweigh the 
negative of her having a child.  

	I'm picturing this as a refugee family of a sort, which was 
divided after moving in his grandfather's time.  Girard's mother 
was arranged to marry the gelfein, but she had an affair before 
then which resulted in Girard.  

	As he grew up, he felt out of place in his stepfather's 
household.  He went on a pilgrimage to Araka-Kalai, and there met 
with a priest of the Order of Chuchlaen Wheelwright.  He took to 
heart what he was taught there.  After returning home, he announced 
his intention to take clerical orders.  I imagine he went up to 
Gedan.  Eventually, he was disappointed in the lack of clerical 
support for the movement and left to try to change things.  

- John