Characters for Nightwick Abbey

I plan on running a Nightwick game at my FLGS in addition to the Wilderlands game I started last week. I made some pre-made characters for it in case someone didn't want to take the time to make one and I gave them short backgrounds.  I thought I'd  share the backgrounds on here to give a sense of the kind of characters I imagine adventure in the Dark Country.

Note on alignment: Nightwick uses a 5 point alignment line: Lawful - Good - Neutral - Evil - Chaotic. Lawful and Chaotic characters must have magical abilities granted by the God of Law or some fowl devil respectively. Most humans are neutral but some may be Good or Evil.

Nestorios Parsimonios

• Nestorios Parsimonios is a sage and alchemist and aspiring wizard. His alignment is Neutral.
• Nestorios is from Zenopolis, the greatest city in the World and the last bastion of the old Empire. 
• His father was also a wizard who seems to have had a child mostly to serve as an apprentice. 
• He became fascinated by alchemy while reading his father's books. 
• After his father finally died of a strange illness - unrelated to the strange substances he studied of course - he acted as an alchemist for some years. 
• However Nestorios became bored and, after finding a text describing the strange state of the infamous Nightwick Abbey and its seeming shifting qualities, he has left for the Dark Country to observe these properties for himself.

Dame Ysentrude

• Dame Ysentrude is a Realmish noble and paladin. Her alignment is Lawful. 
• Ysentrude was born to an impoverished noble family in the Realm of Man. Her family was once storied and powerful, but now her title is laughed at by the common folk. 
•  As the youngest daughter, she was likely going to be married to a noble of another kingdom, but the God of Law has shined his light on her and shown her family that she is destined for the life of a warrior. 
• She has left her home to head to the infamous Dark Country in order to fight the Devilry there and make her name famed throughout the World. 
• Luckily, the people of the Dark Country seem to think her family still has wealth.

Ermel the Dagger

• Ermel the Dagger is a Karslish Ranger and purported hero of the People. Her alignment is Evil.
• She was born in a cave in the Karslish Isles where her family was hiding from the brutal servants of a local lord. 
• A holy man who lived in the woods near her village declared that she were destined for greatness. 
• Ermel grew up stealing from both the forces of the evil lord and her fellow villagers, knowing that it was for her destiny. 
• Finally she was caught and threatened with hanging by the Baron, but she was able to have a stay of execution on the promise that she would go on Crusade to the Dark Country.

Friar Schub

• Friar Schub is a Realmish cleric and hermit. His alignment is Good.
• He was born in the Realm of Man inside a monastery.   
• Schub's mother died at birth and his father, a trapper, gave him to the monastery rather than raise him own his own.  
• He eventually began to prefer the seclusion of religious meditation to his cell, but he would return after many days to harangue his brothers with fiery sermons. 
• Recently, the Lady herself appeared to him and told of the Great Evil in Nightwick Abbey and so he joined a caravan to the Dark Country and the village of Nightwick.

Oberich

• Oberich is a dwarf rogue and refugee from the Kingdom Under the Mountain. His alignment is Neutral. He is also a fine dulcimer player.
• He was born in the Kingdom Under the Mountain. When he was too young to remember, the Dragon came up from the mines and drove  people to the four corners of the world.
• He lived thereafter with his parents in a series of rundown shacks as his father served as mason and goldsmith to various human lords and ladies.
• Oberich became jealous of the treasures of men, but decided that rather than indulge in this jealousy that he would go out into the wilderness and perhaps learn about the world before the coming of men. 
• He traveled the forests, valleys, mountains, and especially caves of the World.  Oberich spent much of it among the pagan folk of men or fighting goblins - the descendants of his brethren who turned to Devil Worship. 
•  Recently he has heard of the hoarded gold in the ruins of Nightwick Abbey.  All gold beneath the Earth belongs to the dwarves, and he would seek to reclaim it.

Dirk

• Dirk is a Frogling fighter and criminal. His alignment is Evil.
• He was born in Hopland, the marshy home of the Froglings. 
• His father abandoned him when he was young.  While his mother could support he, he decided to turn to crime because he was bored. 
•  He quickly became a leg breaker for a local gang. 
• He tried to moonlight as a highwayman, but his gang leader found out and put a hit out on him. 
• He came to the Dark Country to find wealth in Nightwick Abbey, more wealth than he could ever have working for the van Grouch gang.