You are an exceptionally helpful individual, I thought I might say.
In the character bio that spawned this whole discussion, I sort of fudged in a piece about the tribe/clan he came from (or was adopted by, in any case) and went with the flow of it.
I'm rather excited about the next book - I'm also a bit hopeless. As the character has started and is gaining money, I've been spending what I can spare customizing his armor more barbarianly appropriate. His sword is currently being modeled off of an Anglosaxxon Long sax (the blades that were so obiquitiously carried that the Romans named the whole people for them).
Now if I had any idea how to get a cloak that looked like fur...
