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Message: <blockquote data-quote="airwalkrr" data-source="post: 6110376" data-attributes="member: 12460">While I am aware that you do not have to have a mark to be a member of a house, I had originally inferred that she was an heir herself, which is the main cause of scandal. It was my thinking that only heirs (those who actually have the tattoos) were prohibited from marrying so I looked into it to refresh myself. The main issue is the rise of mixed marks, which are too common among the children of two heirs from different houses. And I found a reference to intermarriage between houses being banned (not specifying whether it applied to all members of a house or just heirs) after the War of the Mark. So taking a very broad interpretation, I suppose that it could be taken to mean all members are prohibited from intermarriage. I imagine in such a situation though, the woman's heritage might be of import. If she is a member of the house but no member of her blood family has ever manifested a mark, I do not see either house having a very big problem with it. If, on the other hand, she had a father or cousin with a mark it would obviously be a scandal.Nevertheless, I did find a reference which said that heirs who have "strayed" are usually allowed to keep their position so long as their give up their children (for what purpose it does not say, but probably nothing good). And there is also a reference which says that most houses don't take the issue that seriously in 998 YK because the War of the Mark was so long ago the reasons have faded from memory of living house members. At any rate, I think it would make more sense if the woman was at least blood-related to someone with a different mark. She'd also have to be fairly naive (or simply a rebel) to not realize or not care Duran was a member of another house if they met while he was training. Even if they first met in a bar or some social gathering completely outside of a house enclave, I can't imagine "so why are you in town?" not coming up in one of their first conversations. Any of this could be possible, of course. I just didn't get that impression when I first read Duran's background. So your explanation works for me. Perhaps your character did not necessarily lose position in the house, but feels as though he has lost favor due to the incident.Re: human paragon skills, treat it as if you are multiclassing into a different class, because that is all it is; I might be confusing you guys by saying I am treating you as 1st-level for purposes of experience, so just forget that for now. Treat your character as a 4th-level character who took his first level as a base class and his next three levels as a paragon class. Re: Adaptive Learning, the human paragon, like the expert (class), gets to choose 10 skills to be human paragon class skills. Adaptive Learning allows him to treat one of those skills as a class skill for all classes. For example, say you choose Search as one of your ten skills for human paragon. Then for Adaptive Learning, you make Search an adaptive skill. This means that even if you were to take your next level as barbarian, wizard, or whatever, you would treat Search as if it were a class skill for that class from that point forward, allowing you to always spend one skill point for one full rank in Search. Hope that clears things up.I had forgotten about Wildhunt Elite. That's a powerful feat, but since you are planning on playing as more of a fighter than a caster, it isn't terribly unbalanced, so I will allow it. Everything else looks good.Looks good so far. Have you decided upon a druid sect for K'ihren (see p. 75 of the ECS)? The default sect is the Wardens of the Wood, which is closest to the druid described in the PH, if you want to keep things simple. You need not take any associated sect feats, but you will need to pick one of the five sects of which to be a member.To EVERYONE: Please, please, please let me know where you are taking your feats and other such abilities from when you post requests or builds if they are not in the core rulebooks, the ECS, or the XPH. My memory is pretty good, but it isn't perfect. You will save me a lot of hunting and Google searches if you just note which book stuff comes from, which I will greatly appreciate.</blockquote>

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