Hartmut Glasse

At least within certain families, there’s an awful lot of pressure on young Magic-Users to go out adventuring. Why? Clearly, no one’s paying attention to the number of fatalities. Hartmut is —and he’s heard the stories. He even saw a body once. It’s lethal out there! Why would anyone choose to go slogging through stinky, slippery, vermin-infested labyrinths when there are plenty of great desk jobs for talented people in the city? He wouldn’t, except he feels like there’s no other choice. When his mother had a family portrait made last year, Hartmut’s first thought was, “Well, at least she’ll have something to look at wistfully as she tells the neighbour about her poor, fallen child for the 90th time.”