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Here's my character.  Meet Tanis the Lance, druid knight.

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Name:  Tanis the Lance
Age:  34
Gender:  Male
Appearance:  Tanis has dark hair, brown eyes, and pale skin, but since he practically never takes off his ironwood full-plate, you’d never know.  The armor is crafted from magical ironwood, strong as steel, and is still alive.  Leaves sprout from the shoulders, helm, and back, and the armor heals when damaged.  Tanis wears a tabard over it displaying his coat of arms, a passant, black big cat on a metallic gold background, which contrasts with the dark, earthy tones of his other equipment.  He carries a kite shield, a mace, and his signature lance for personal defense, all worked from ironwood.  Being tall for a halfling, he stands about three feet tall, but makes up for his height by riding a leopard into battle.
Home Universe:  The Forgotten Realms
Background:  As a young man, Tanis lived in a largely peaceful, agrarian village of halflings, the son of a local lord.  His noble origin gave the halfling knight some training in the martial and diplomatic arts, but nowhere near enough to prepare him for when a band of marauding orcs attacked the village, slaughtered everyone, and burned not only the village but everything for miles around before absconding with their spoils.  Furious, Tanis vowed to avenge everything that the orc warband had destroyed, but by the time he’d recovered from his wounds and become strong enough to actually stand a chance against the orcs, finding them was a greater challenge than fighting them would ever be.  Tanis now travels the realms as a knight errant, righting wrongs where he finds them, ever searching for his nemesis.  Championing harmony’s cause is just one more quest.

Advantage:  As a druid, Tanis can cast a wide variety nature-based spells, communicate with animals as though they shared a language with him, transform into animals at will, and enjoys the services of a loyal leopard animal companion.  However, he cannot use metal weapons, armor, or tools without losing all his druid abilities for a week.
Stats:
Melee:  5.  As his moniker suggests, Tanis is extremely skilled with a lance, and he’s not bad with his mace either.
Ranged:  3.  Tanis is a fairly bad shot with a bow, but he has access to powerful druidic spells like Flame Strike, Ice Storm, and the ever-useful Web to inconvenience foes or defeat foes.
Mobility:  2.  Tanis’ halfling legs don’t make him very quick, but his leopard mount is quick and agile.  Still, they can’t get to anywhere a halfling riding a leopard couldn’t go.
Defense:  2.  Tanis’ shield and armor provide solid protection, but they can be circumvented with creativity or brute force.
Super:  2
Skills:
Wild Shape:  Tanis uses a turn to transform into an animal, allowing him to redistribute his melee, mobility, and defense stats until he ends the transformation.  However, Tanis cannot cast spells while transformed, so his ranged stat becomes useless to him.
Restorative Magic:  As a druid, Tanis has an arsenal of spells to heal and cure any ailment, wound, or curse.  He can do most healing on the spot, but particularly nasty wounds or ailments might require him to wait until he can prepare a spell specifically to deal with it.  Tanis prepares his spells at sunrise.
Obnoxious Spellwork:  Druids have access to more crowd control and zoning spells than any other spellcaster in the Forgotten Realms.  Web, entangle, wall of fire, sleet storm, spike stones, and wall of thorns are only some of the many ways that Tanis can ensure you’ll never want to leave where you are right now.

Supers:
Critical Success:  Sometimes, when one attempts a task, one succeeds beyond one’s wildest dreams.  This super transforms a roll of 6 from a catastrophic success into a critical success, which has positive results above and beyond what it might be reasonably expected to.

My Champion sheet has been filled out. I decided to go in a bit of a different direction with my character. My fiend character has been submitted to the GM.

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Name: Marcello
Age: 27
Gender: Male
Appearance: Marcello has an appearance similar to that of an adult human, if humans were approximately one foot tall with silvery insect-like wings. He has fair skin, green eyes and short off-black colored hair. His usual attire is a brown colored formal suit designed similarly to a vest to permit it to be taken on and off without the wings getting in the way.
Home Universe: Palanoma: A world where psionic abilities are common, which led to a its denizens following a different evolutionary path favoring mobility and efficiency over size and strength.

Advantage: Precognition: A powerful psionic ability allowing the user to see the future. The vision of the future can be changed subject to the users actions, making it difficult to accurately see very far ahead. A skilled practitioner of this ability such as Marcello is able to view a hypothetical result of his actions without the need to actually perform such actions.
Background: Marcello was previously employed as a police investigator. He would use his talent in Precognition to determine who was likely to commit serious crimes ahead of time, and then collect evidence before it even became evidence.

As Harmony has already found a sufficient amount of skilled warriors by the time it came to Palanoma, it sought Marcello out for his spectacular information gathering abilities.

Melee: 2 Marcello hits about as hard as you might expect a one foot tall person to, which is to say not very hard at all; however the ability to detect the precise location and moment that an attack would be the most effective using precognition enables him to harm even very large creatures.
Ranged: 0 Marcello may be psionically gifted, but performing tasks like exploding people's heads is not one of his talents. Carrying massive guns is also not one of his talents.
Mobility: 4 Marcello's speed and agility are roughly average for his species, but this is still much faster than that of a human. He is able to easily fly and change direction.
Defense: 6 The power of precognition permits Marcello to get out of the path of attacks before they are even fired. Combined with his high speed, his enemies will have a very hard time getting even a single hit in. Marcello's defensive abilities come almost entirely from evasion.
Super: 2

Skills:
Precognition (Active): This character focuses on something, and learns what will happen in the near future. This is prone to change based on this characters actions. This character can also factor in hypothetical actions of his own into the future vision.
Danger sense (Passive): The shorter a vision of the future is, the easier it is to predict. This ability will let the user detect hostile attacks roughly ten seconds before they occur using precognition; showing exactly how the attack will play out provided that this character does not react accordingly. This ability only alerts the user to immediate threats.
Deduction (Passive): This character has a chance to gain additional information from observing things.

Supers:
Flawless Precognition: This ability permits the user to view virtually any future event. When using this ability, the user may choose a time, a place or a person to view. Selecting a time will allow the user to view events occurring over a very wide area, but only about a minute worth of information. Selecting a place or a person will show a very large amount of time, but focused on that one place or person. A person can only be viewed if it is a person the user is familiar with. As with most precognition abilities, the foreseen future is prone to change based on the users actions. This ability can yield a positively insane amount of information if you know where or when to look.