OOC: The Hearth
OK, I posted the character creation rules. Statistics and Skills are very important, especially early on. Sword, Lance, and Horsemanship will help keep you alive in battle, as will your Damage rate, which should be 5d6 for melee weapons.
Tournament is a useless skill until at least the first tournament is help in 510. Faerie Lore will be useful, but not everyone necessarily needs it. If people can specialize a little it might help. Maybe one or two people are good at Intrigue, others at Faerie Lore, etc. 'Soft' skills will absolutely come into play and can be very useful but prior to the coming of Arthur the mass of your Glory and Wealth will come from Battles. There will certainly be other adventures but maybe less lethal than fighting. Battle is useful for leading troops in Battle, not something the PCs will be doing initially.
Please select an Avatar and write up a basic description of your character. It should include general appearance, obvious attitudes, and MUST include values of all Personality Traits, Passions, Statistics, and Skills 16 and higher. These are what you are known for.
I still have lots of work to do on figuring out background for everyone and what your fathers did and what they told you. I also need to create a host of Cornwall NPCs, available ladies, and figure out how to fit everyone into the coming events. So no big rush right now. :)