Eliana was born to a very religious family. Her father was a priest and her mother a Sister. She first followed the same path as her mother but could not stand living out the rest of her days in a church. When she reached adolescence, she left her home to join the Inquisitorium. She was quickly promoted to the rank of templar thanks to her physical aptitudes and perseverance. Eliana is a strong and independent woman always on the lookout for a soul in need. She is loyal and her word is sacred. For a year she served in the Republic of Vanas where she personally contributed to a few witchhunts. She is now on her way back to Siven for a well-earned rest.

Talents

• Strong Willed: Add aa to Fear related checks.

Weapon	Skill	Damage	Crit	Range	Special
Silver Light Spear	Melee - Light	6	4	Engaged	Accurate 1, Defensive
Sword	Melee - Light	7	2	Engaged	Defensive 1
Shield	Melee - Light	4	6	Engaged	Deflection 1, Inaccurate 1, Knockdown

Motivation	Description
Strength: Spiritual	Eliana is a devoted disciple of the Creator. Her faith pushes her to overcome every obstacle. She always takes time to pray to thank the Creator for her successes.
Flaw: Recklessness	When it comes to defending the weak and the innocents, Eliana knows no boundary, whether it is law or collateral damages. Not even the high nobility could prevent her from doing what she thinks she is right. Unfortunately, this can put her in delicate situations.
Desire: Safety	Eliana wishes for a safe world where no one would have to fear witches. Even though she is part of the Inquisitorium, she hopes the Inquisition will end soon so the world can live in peace.
Fear: Failure	Eliana sees her templar’s duties as the will of the Creator. In her mind, failing to fulfill these would mean that the Creator would lose faith in her.

Equipment

• 2x Health Elixir: The first health elixir used on a character automatically heals 5 wounds. The second health elixir only heals 4 wounds, the third health elixir heals 3 wounds, and so on. The sixth health elixir has no effect. A character must have a free hand and spend a maneuver to drink a health elixir.
• Power Potion: When your character uses a power potion they increase their Brawn by 1. This effect lasts until the end of the encounter or scene. If your character’s Brawn is already 5, they instead add bb to all checks using Brawn. When the potion wears off, your character suffers 6 strain.
• Scale Armor: Soak +1

• Finley grew up on the streets of a large town where he learned to survive through stealing from others. A charmer and a liar, he became a skilled scoundrel with the years. Unfortunately for him, he recently angered a nobleman when he was caught in bed with his daughter, who was betrothed to a wealthy and renowned merchant. On the run, he knows it is a matter of hours or a day at most until the noble’s mercenaries catch up with him. Finley hoped to sneak aboard a ship but none was leaving for the evening. He resigned himself to wait until the first hours of dawn to get on board.

Lucian grew up in a little community and became a hunter. The settlement was plagued by a mysterious evil. The herd animals were being slaughtered in the night and people started going missing. The baron could not help the population and required support from the count. Days later, a monster hunter came by, offering his service to track down the thing that was spreading death among the villagers. Lucian offered his help to track down the creature. Together, they took down the monstrosity lurking in the forest at night.

Following that experience, Lucian found himself a new vocation. Trained by the monster hunter, Lucian now travels Siven looking for people in need of his services.

Weapon	Skill	Damage	Crit	Range	Special
Long Bow	Ranged	8	3	Long	Unwieldy 3

Motivation	Description
Strength: Adaptable	As a monster hunter, Lucian has to improvise and come up with unexpected solutions to triumph over his enemies. He is never caught off-guard regardless of the situation.
Flaw: Expertise	Even the most courageous monster hunter will have difficulties coming to terms with the nightmarish reality of their profession. Lucian has trouble sleeping at night, and tends to drown the horrors that lurk in his mind in strong drink.
Desire: Expertise	Monster hunting is a vast discipline. Each creature has a specific weakness or ability and Lucian wants to learn them all. He keeps a journal with everything he observes about these entities.
Fear: Commitment	Lucian left his community because he did not want people to depend on him. He would rather live on the road, with nobody depending on him for anything. After witnessing the horrors in the dark, he would not want to have people or a family he would have to provide for. Therefore, whenever gets close to people, he tends to wander off,fearing he would either fail them or see them die.

Equipment

• 4x Health Elixir: The first health elixir used on a character automatically heals 5 wounds. The second health elixir only heals 4 wounds, the third health elixir heals 3 wounds, and so on. The sixth health elixir has no effect. A character must have a free hand and spend a maneuver to drink a health elixir.
• 2x Extra Quiver (Silver): To shoot silver ammunition, you simply have to declare it when attacking but before rolling the combat check. On a check generating hh or d, your character run out of silver ammunition. Weapons with the Silver item quality increase their Critical rating by 1 against humans and animals. Against witches and supernatural beings, if the attack inflicted a wound (after soak has been applied), you can spend aa on the check to inflict damage over time. At the start of the target’s turn, they suffer 2 wounds. This effect last for 2 rounds, for a total of 4 wounds suffered. (Damage do not stack)
• Leather Armor: Soak +1

Cohen is a career physician and has been living in Valcien for years. He recently developed a fascination for witches when one of his colleagues was taken by the Inquisitorium on suspicion of witchcraft. He watched him burn on the pyre, pleading for his life and claiming he never did anything wrong. This left Cohen wondering if there was a way to free witches from Lilithia’s essence. He spent the last years studying witches and creatures by collecting information from templars and monster hunters alike. Cohen hopes to set sails for the Republic of Vanas one day. There, he wants to study Ranie relics and artifacts that would support his researches.

Talents

• Knack for it Removes bb from Knowledge (Forbidden) checks
• Surgeon Rank 2 Medicine heals two additional wounds
• Flash of Insight When you generates t on a knowledge skill check, roll bb and add the results.

Weapon	Skill	Damage	Crit	Range	Special
Staff (Silver)	Melee-Heavy	4	4	Engaged	Defensive 1

Motivation	Description
Strength: Idealistic	The scholar is a man of ideas and conviction. He always finds a way to achieve his goals and encourage people to believe that they can do the same. No cause is too desperate.
Flaw: Intolerance	Cohen is convinced that there is more to witches than pure evil. He despises people who thinks that all witches are necessarily evil. That makes the Inquisitorium not the best company for him.
Desire: Knowledge	Cohen wants to study everything witch-related. While he has not committed heresy of any kind yet, his interest for the subject puts him on the Church’s watchlist as the organization believes his researches could draw him to the ranks of the Midnight Cult. The Church still tolerates him since should he finds a “cure” for witchblood, that would make the life easier for the Inquisitorium.
Fear: Obscurity	Cohen is aware that his research borders on heresy but is convinced that it could bring the Inquisition to a stop by preventing Lilithia’s essence to spread through blood. Deep down, he fears that he will not complete his researches before he passes away and that the Church might simply burn his work, making his life meaningless.

Equipment

• 2x Herbs of Healing: When making a Medicine check, your character may use herbs of healing to add sa to the results. The herbs are consumed when used.
• Apothecary’s Kit: An apothecary’s kit allows your character to perform Medicine checks to heal wounds and Critical Injuries without penalty.
• Protective Tonic: When your character imbibes a protective tonic they gain +1 soak for your character’s next three turns.
• Heavy Robes: Defense 1

Many years ago the monster hunter Lucian Wells and his party rescued the witchborn Emma Brown from Darkwood Cove. 5 years ago, she succumbed to her inner demons and resurrected her dead mother as a Banshee and killed her own father. Instead of killing her, Lucian has taken her in and started training her to use her witch powers for monster hunting instead of against humanity.

Equipment

• Heavy Dress: Soak +1

Weapon	Skill	Damage	Crit	Range	Special
Sword	Melee - Light	4	2	Engaged	Defensive 1

Motivation	Description
Strength: Curious	Emma has always been curious about everything. She is mainly curious about everything witch-related.
Flaw: Anger	It does not take much for Emma to jump at people. A mean remark or a crooked look was enough to make her mad or make her cry.
Desire: Love	Emma is the only child of the Brown family. Her father put her to work sooner that the average child and thus she had less time to play with her friends from the village. She is a girl who requires attention and being out in the fields with her father most of the day, she was lacking some.
Fear: Isolation	Emma’s birth has been a difficult one and her mother, Livia nearly died in the process. Therefore, the Browns decided to not have other children. When they moved on the island, Emma felt even lonelier.

Bewitchment

This spell plays with the subject’s mind. It can alter perception (hearing, seeing, etc) and therefore offers the possibility of either masking something from the subject or having them perceive something that is not there.

For example, a bewitchment spell could make a dog unable to perceive a witch’s scent or it could make a guard believe they heard a voice calling them from afar, possibly distracting them long enough to allow the witch to pursue their agenda.

In addition, this spell can tamper with the target’s memories. It is possible for a witch to either instill a false memory inside the target’s head or remove one they had previously accessed with the Scry spell.

Tampering with the subject’s perceptions requires a Average (dd) Witchcraft while altering the memories would require either a Hard (ddd) Witchcraft check. Should the tampering be exhaustive, the GM could increase the difficulty of the check. For example, making someone ignore the sounds of an ongoing battle could be made without adjustments while making someone see unbelievable things could justify an upgrade or two. Depending on how long the bewitchment lasts, the target could make further Discipline checks opposed by the witch’s Witchcraft to break free of the spell

Bewitchment: Structured

• Range: Short
• Concentration: Yes
• Difficulty: Average (dd) This spell alters a target’s perceptions within short range. They upgrade the difficulty of every combat check they make until the end of your character’s next turn. Before making the Bewitchment check, choose any number of additional effects listed on Table 2.5-3: Bewitchment Additional Effects. These effects are added to the spell.