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They were recruited from a young age to the demon hunters, so they've had years of training. They didn't start off as being capable. His sister only rescued him months after they were attacked, and with the help of others who were genuinely skilled.

Most of his skills are useless in combat and are only really for entertaining people, which wouldn't come up for a while because his personality means he won't be very quick to go all artsy on everyone. Also, for his magic, it's explicitly the result of the experimentation, and he doesn't have very good use of it yet. It's not really powerful, and he has poor control of it. I planned on it mostly being a way to bolster his weapon use. [/quote]

indeed, however, most of these skills are either superflous or can be condensed. All the performance related skills for instace, can just be condensed into 'Performing', this would be playwriting, acting, singing. Reading and Writing don't need an experience level, its assumed characters are literate, unless stated otherwise in their background or such. 'Untrained Blacksmith', would be an example of a superflous skill. And the main issue I have with this is that his Dark Magic how much power it provides him- If it was support, or bolstering magic, I'd accept it if these were passive abilities, or purely acrobatic abilities, but giving him damaging bursts, as well as a shield, on top of martial skills is a no for this early in the game. 

And again, I dont believe that being breifly experimented on is reason to give Thorn magical abilities without practice and experience. 

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Am I underestimating how good a novice would be at things? I assumed a novice medic would be somewhere along the lines of, "knows how to usr basic field medical supplies, like a bandage." I explicitly stated he wasn't very good at practical applications of his skills, but I figured having a decent knowledge of those skills would bump it up to "novice". I can make them untrained if you want?

Am I also underestimating journeyman? I once again stated specifically he was by no means archmage material. I can change that to novice or even untrained if you want. He's not supposed to be an ultimate deathknight or anything. More of a scared kid conscripted into military service.
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No, you were correct in the general estimation of novice and journeyman, its just the extremely broad set of skills he has that makes me iffy.

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His personality is sort of an exaggeration of the jerk with a heart of gold trope, with some nerdiness thrown in. He's not a crazy sociopath, he won't just run off during a fight on impulse. However, he makes bad decisions and tactical errors under pressure, and is kind of an asshole. So he could ignore the order to retreat for a few moments and get himself or someone else hurt, or say something stupid at the wrong time and land himself or others in hot water, but he's not going to straight up fuck everyone over intentionally.
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Good, I will hold you to that.

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And the armor resistance was because he was a demon hunter. I figured it made sense for them to ward themselves against their main foes. I didn't want it to weaken Thorn's magic because then if the armor were removed he'd be more powerful magically. I didn't want to think of a way to give him two different power levels, and it's a weak enchantment anyways, so I figured it wouldn't affact his own magic.
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And what are the demon hunter's main foes? Demons, monsters, and the like, all of which have different strengths and weakensses. Demon hunters are more close to Monster Hunters. Only a ludicrously rich man would be able to afford magical armor that resists the strengths of the many demons out there. That being said, I will allow your character's slayer coven to specialize against dark-magic based monsters and be more hardy when it comes to resisting such magic, but I'm not going to allow magic items this early in the RP.

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The second loss of family was more to bring him into his current situation than to add more woobiness. I didn't really plan on him angsting a lot truth be told, I planned for his interactions to be more lighthearted than anything.
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I don't see the connection. Losing multiple families = lighthearted? Also, what is woobiness?

Also, you don't address why a warrior who has fought in the war is being sent to guard a caravan as opposed to returning to the front lines. and on whose orders is he following if his Order has been eradicated?
 
So in review, my main concerns are:

- How he obtains magic, as I don't believe 'random experiments' to be a proper reason.
- Why he's with the caravan instead of on the frontlines.