Also another question valiant knight gets to design a character. Is that done in secret, someplace on the forums, or hasn't been done yet? I'd love to see the two other character designs.

It hasn't been done yet. (and won't be until sometime post-alpha I guess)
At some point, NPC generation will be parameterized and so on so that I can randomize them... and this will be the ability to pick a specific sets of parameters, a name, and whatever else goes into the deeper non-random NPC definitions. I don't know exactly what that is yet.