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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Maidhc O Casain" data-source="post: 5328079" data-attributes="member: 29558">Thanks! I was also thinking that the Cavalier's 'Expert Trainer' ability would translate similarly. Rather than always being facility with animals suitable as mounts, the Handle Animal skill would translate into facility with maintenance and repair of vehicles in a higher tech genre.Default PersonaGaibrial Brannan is a mechanic in an impoverished, gang riddled neighborhood of a major city. He's been a mechanic his entire life; he learned the trade in his father's garage, served in the motor pool in the marine corps and came home to take over the family business on his father's death.Gaibrial is a leader in his community, much respected by both the 'civvies' and the bangers for his unique attitudes as well as his physical prowess. He sees the gangs as misguided organizations with the potential for positive influence; thus, he treats the bangers with respect and courtesy even as he's pushing them to use their influence for the true betterment of the community. At the same time, he tolerates no foolishness from them and keeps the 'peace' within his neighborhood with an steel will and iron fist if things get 'out of hand.'A huge man (6'8" tall, 305 pounds) with features that lend themselves naturally more to ferocity than to laughter he nevertheless has an easy way about him. Possibly his ease comes from the utter certainty that he can handle himself in just about any situation. Wherever it comes from, he laughs far more often than he snarls, and while he can 'mix it up' with the best of them he prefers to solve problems with words if possible.Appearances aside, however, Gaibrial has an inner unrest, a sadness, that comes from the long-standing belief that he could be doing something more with his life. This, along with his natural sense of loyalty to his 'old stomping grounds' and his father's legacy, is the motivation behind his efforts to rehabilitate his community rather than just packing up and leaving when things started to go downhill. This belief and its resultant discontent has led to much difficulty in his life; his wife, citing emotional distance and irreconcilable differences, divorced him and took their daughter to live across the country on the west coast.(I may rethink the 'easy way' part of his personality - not sure on second reading whether it's too 'vanilla.' But I got the leadership aspects of Cavalier in there, along with the loyalty aspects for the Order of the Dragon, so I'm pretty happy with the way it's coming along).</blockquote>

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