Daniel Fichelscher is a bard from the College of Harpers in Cherafir on Melderyn. He is nearly 6 foot tall (5'11") and slim (175lbs) with blue eyes. He has long light brown hair in a pony tail, with a moustache and a little goatee beard. There is a small area of his scalp, about 1 1/2" long, on which no hair will grow as the result of a lightning bolt. He is inclined to blame Agrik for this. If given an excuse he prefers to dress in red silks, but usually wears drab wool clothing. It should be noted that Daniel really does not like the Pagaelin.

He is an expert player of both the lute and flute, and his recitation of the Panaga Saga has been heard by many Royal and Important Personages. He is a modest and unassuming person. He is also a famous Harnic poet and author.

Daniel was born the son of a Master Potter of Thay on the 13th of Nolus, 701. In 707 his parents travelled to Kaldor to link up with the Khuzdul. On the way there the wagon train in which they were travelling was ambushed by Pagaelin barbarians. During the ambush Daniel's parents were killed, and he was captured and enslaved.

He escaped six years later, when he was 12. After a hair raising journey he arrived in Burzyn where he linked up with the local Potter's Guild. They arranged for him to be looked after by Kirlin in Burzyn. When he was 16 he went to the Cherafir College of Harpers, who thought he had untrained potential. He spent 2 years there before returning to Burzyn to experience life as a street entertainer for a while.

It was during this later period that he had his first adventure. It was this strange episode that showed him that not writing songs and tales can be almost as useful as writing them. It also made him see the light and decide that being a street entertainer was a mug's game. He returned to Melderyn and college to resume his studies as quickly as possible after that. From that time one he lived in Cherafir and let adventures come to him, which they duly did.

He wrote the famous poem Strange Rescue about his second adventure.

His third adventure he never made any attempt to record as he never thought anyone would believe a single word of it. Many Harnic scholars have gnashed their teeth over this. They would love to know the true story of how Martyn Yanyez De Barbudo lost both a hand and a foot, and why he was sometimes called lutefoot. It is also the expedition that Zytsi of Orinane refers to as the "ten thousands years of torment".

His fourth adventure is the Panaga Saga.