Remember: you always have the liberty to modify most variables of the situation as would be appropriate, so you don't necessarily have to post about your character. (Though yes, I do take your point : o)
On a completely unrelated note: I'm done the first post finally ... real terror. Wait for it to come up, but now that that's out of the way I can close all these tabs I have open on biomes and weather and other stuff. >_>