diff --git a/ChaosBot/Lodestone/Character.cs b/ChaosBot/Lodestone/Character.cs
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+namespace ChaosBot.Lodestone
+{
+    public class Character
+    {
+        public string Avatar;
+        public int FeastMatches;
+        public long ID;
+        public string Lang;
+        public string Name;
+        // public ? Rank;
+        // public ? RankIcon;
+        public string Server;
+    }
+}
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diff --git a/ChaosBot/Lodestone/PaginationWrapper.cs b/ChaosBot/Lodestone/PaginationWrapper.cs
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+using System.Collections.Generic;
+
+namespace ChaosBot.Lodestone
+{
+    public class PaginationWrapper<T>
+    {
+        public PageinationEntries Pagination;
+        public List<T> Results;
+    }
+
+    public class PageinationEntries
+    {
+        public int Page;
+        public int? PageNext;
+        public int? PagePrev;
+        public int PageTotal;
+        public int Results;
+        public int ResultsPerPage;
+        public int ResultsTotal;
+    }
+}
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diff --git a/ChaosBot/Services/LodestoneHttpProxy.cs b/ChaosBot/Services/LodestoneHttpProxy.cs
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+using System;
+using System.Collections.Generic;
+using System.Linq;
+using System.Net;
+using System.Net.Http;
+using System.Net.Http.Headers;
+using System.Threading.Tasks;
+using ChaosBot.Lodestone;
+using Newtonsoft.Json;
+using NLog;
+using NLog.Fluent;
+
+namespace ChaosBot.Services
+{
+    public static class LodestoneHttpProxy
+    {
+        public static T fetch<T>(string endpoint, Dictionary<string, string> parameters)
+        {
+            // TODO: implement some sort of local caching
+            return LodestoneHttpConnection.fetch<T>(endpoint, parameters).GetAwaiter().GetResult();
+        }
+    }
+
+    static class LodestoneHttpConnection
+    {
+        private static readonly Logger _logger = Program._logger;
+        static HttpClient client = new HttpClient();
+
+        public static async Task<T> fetch<T>(string endpoint, Dictionary<string, string> parameters)
+        {
+            try
+            {
+                client.BaseAddress = new Uri("https://xivapi.com/");
+                client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Accept.Clear();
+                client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Accept.Add(
+                    new MediaTypeWithQualityHeaderValue("application/json"));
+
+                string queryString = String.Join("&",parameters.Select(param => $"{param.Key}={param.Value}").ToArray());
+                HttpResponseMessage response = await client.GetAsync($"{endpoint}?{queryString}");
+                string output = null;
+                if (response.IsSuccessStatusCode)
+                {
+                    output = await response.Content.ReadAsStringAsync();
+                    return JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<T>(output);
+                }
+
+                throw new HttpRequestException($"HTTP Response for '{response.RequestMessage.RequestUri}' returned status code {response.StatusCode}");
+            }
+            catch (Exception ex)
+            {
+                _logger.Error(ex, $"HttpProxy.fetch<{typeof(T)}>: Exception [{ex}] thrown, <[{ex.Message}]>.");
+                throw;
+            }
+        }
+    }
+}
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