If it would help your process, I could join up.
I will b e posting daily on my PbP game anyway...joining in on yours would be a nice distraction
What would the options for races be by your setting?
Is there room for something odd...not looking for special stats or the like, I just tend to gravitate to the odd choices.
1/2 ogre raised by forest elves...never met another ogre or 1/2 ogre, only elves and half elves (would fit with other party members)?
A big simple guy, honor bound to the elves, perhaps on a mission for the elven elders...a big guy that seeks to find his place in the world...an artisan perhaps...
No worries if not...just a thought.
“The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of the infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.”
― H.P. Lovecraft