[@Bacon] Looking good! I just have one little issue I'd like to discuss. As stated in the OP, your characters are supposed to start as fresh arrivals in the Vale, having just got off the boat. It's kind of important that your characters are strangers to the Vale, so if you could change that in your background and maybe add a bit about why your character came to the Vale I'd be grateful.

Also, if you ever want to copy the formatting of another post, you can click the "raw" link in the top right corner of that post to see how the poster wrote it. From there, you can copy, paste and edit to your hearts content. Also, if you want to have a place to fiddle and experiment with coding posts, I highly recommend starting a thread of your own in the Test Forum and go to town!