Reghan Birch

Age: 48 (m02/d02)

Position: Herald, former professional forger and information-seller who also worked legitimately as a scribe.

Gifts: Tactile- Mind Healing, Empathy, and Mindspeech, split-second Foresight.

Description: Slight, wiry and small-breasted, Reghan has fair skin that is seamed with scars, especially a broad, pale one across one lopsided cheekbone that stops just short of her crooked nose. Her straight white hair is raggedly cropped just below the earlobes, a streak of gold falling into one blue-grey eye, while arching eyebrows, a generous mouth and firm chin complete the features of her oval face.

Personality: Crotchety, prickly and intelligent, this Herald-Trainee combines these with a matronly affection for the youngsters amongst the Trainees and a lilting mountain accent that hasn't changed a bit despite her years in Haven.
Her experiences at the hands of slavers in her earlier years, and the loss of her children and husband to them, have scarred her deeply. Because of her years in Haven's criminal underground, she is pragmatic, tough-minded and occasionally ruthless as needed, with a drive to learn everything she can - knowledge is power.

Short Life Story: Reghan Birch lived in the mountain village of Durrath for twenty-three years of her life until slavers who operated out of the Comb in Valdemar's south came and sacked her home. Sold into servitude, she used the talents of a trained scribe to cause trouble for various owners until she found her way to Haven from Petras in Rethwellan. There she worked to find out who had commanded the slavers, and with the help of a Herald, managed to bring them to justice when she realized that vengeance wasn't worth it. At that point, she was Chosen by Kalynna, a scarred Companion mare with a sardonic sense of humor, and has just come to the Collegium.

Companion: Kalynna, mare