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Setting: Secondary world in a time period that overlaps our Napoleonic/Regency periods

These aren't the sort of issues I usually ask about and might be some things that I can just sidestep all together, but I figure I'll ask anyway.

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Googled a whole bunch about 1848 and read some of Engels' accounts and excerpts from Rhineland Radicals.

So I'd like my character's backstory to involve this particular incident, (http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1849/05/11.htm) after which he flees to the US. What I can't seem to find out is the names of any groups he might have been involved in to get him to the barricades in the first place, or any of the well-known people (besides Engels) who he might have encountered. Descriptions of the other uprisings mention People's Clubs and Democratic Clubs; the communists are just referred to as "the communists."

The character is decidedly bourgeois, but has a libertine streak that I imagine would have him end up with the most radical faction possible.

Setting: modern day London

Characters & Issues: James Bond, Craig era. He's extremely fit and in his mid-40s. Injury does not normally happen to him (for example, he can plunge hundreds of feet into the water, go over a waterfall, and not die). Sometimes the laws of physics do not apply. But I do have a few questions about a specific sort of injury. ( Collapse )