[MelancholyFae]

1. ‘The clan was hardest hit, however, when the Xitians had decided to take away most of everything they had, including their best animals and their children and families.’ This is very vague lore relation; it is unclear what lore event it is referring to, or even which time frame this section of backstory occurs in. Please clarify/elaborate.

My apologies. This was supposed to be about the time the Xitians had bested the Lucins, and started taking slaves. This would put the timeline after the Celestial Gate was destroyed, near the end of the 'Age of Betrayal'. I had believed that the Xitians had not taken them -all-, so that the clan, though diminished in numbers, could still handle trading with the other cities, as this helped the Xitians as well in an indirect way.

2. ‘(I'm going to leave the rest out for roleplay fun and spoilers.)’ Everything needs to be reviewed and approved. Please PM me with details on this information, and it will be dealt with from there.

I know I had a reason to put this down, but I no longer remember what it was, so for now it's no longer applicable. If I do think of it at a later date, I can ask in staffchat about it, but I have a feeling I won't remember.

3. Your character’s skill levels need some minor revision. The skill system here is complicated enough; specifics such as ‘Novice/+’ are not necessary and seem difficult to understand. With the animal health care skill, I personally would choose apprentice, as three competent skills at twenty-three (though they are closely linked) is pushing it. Please revise and/or clarify.

I changed the skill levels of all the skills down (taking out the +, and changing to apprentice for animal medicine).

4. As you already know, the rules of Mesalia currently state only one pet is allowed per character. Yes, I am aware of the rule revision that might possibly change this, but it hasn’t been passed, and I’m under the impression you didn’t want to wait. Considering your character’s profession however, the other staff will be voting on this, though personally I would like to see some justification; why two dogs instead of one? Why should this rule be bent for this character? Please provide some justification.

I had wanted to bring in a character that could help with the animals of Ravenna; including herding the sheep, chickens, cows, pigs or whatever we are able to find around. This would help not only for food (and leather, wool, feathers, etc.) but for more possible roleplay.
Taming animals is part of her thing so that the wild (cows, sheep, pigs, etc) that are found, can be legitimately tamed and used as livestock.
The ruling so far, prevents the overly wild wolves from being tamed, so her main taming ability, (though it can apply to livestock but was meant more for dogs/horses) is already hindered.
Since she will outlive her dog(s), the only ways she'd be able to continue her job as herder/tamer/trainer would be to either (1) already have a pair of breedable dogs, or (2) have a dog sent to her from home and have someone else own it to breed with hers, or (3) replace the one that died by having a dog sent from home. I thought the second two were a bit extreme, but they can still be possible. The second two also bypass her being able to train pups from birth.
A fourth option I could do, though, is if she came in with both, but offers one of the hunters the hunting dog, then she is back to one animal, and the breeding of them can still continue.

5. Jelle and Jos themselves require more description. So far, they’re basically listed as objects (which could be how Heidi views them, but that’s only speculation without facts). I would like to see some detail on what they’re like, how they are around people, how they are around Heidi, etc. Please elaborate/revise.

I completely forgot to describe them! Perhaps because I was not sure where to. I've added them under the family relations, since it was a rather large chunk of info.

Thank you - I hope these changes answered your questions.