Hannah Bishop

Hannah Bishop is a female human fighter in the Asprana campaign. She is a PC played by Tim.

## Vital Statistics

### Eye Color

Blue

Hannah Bishop is a former soldier and member of a treasure hunting team that accepts jobs for Io Naeran. She is a founding member of the mercenary company Ishmael's Pilgrims.

## Background

### Early Life

Hannah was born in the Holy Denomination of Crusade to Marshall and Corinne Bishop. Her parents were respected professors at the Holy University and, though they were employees of the state, they disagreed with many of the government's heavy handed policies. When Hannah was 14, her parents became involved in radical politics and fell in with the PFC, the People’s Front of Crusade, a group of anti-war activists and political organizers. The PFC led a workers' strike to oppose the constant draft wars of conquest. The strike became violent and was brutally repressed by the government’s troops. Hannah’s parents spent three years in jail while in the meantime, she was raised by some of her parents’ fellow political dissidents, primarily Cosimo Morello, The remaining members of the PFC were hard core militants, and they taught Hannah the basics of combat, guerilla warfare, and about how those in power abuse their authority.

When her parents were finally released, they were shadows of their former selves. They had been tortured and retained physical and mental scars from the ordeal for the rest of their lives. They reunited with Hannah and fled in secret to Vadray, where they took menial jobs to survive. They existed on the edge of poverty and the next few years were a constant struggle. Hannah saw her parents as good people who were ultimately too weak to fight back against those who sought to oppress them. She believed in their ideals, but those lofty ideals and eloquent speeches hadn’t saved them from imprisonment and torture. She vowed to never let herself be put in that position. When she decided to stand up for her beliefs, she would be able to fight for them.

### Joining the Military

When she was 20, Hanna joined the army of Vadray to further her combat skill and make some badly needed money for her family. There she met Flard Hellsnout, her commanding officer and future boon companion. Hannah immediately respected Flard as a soldier and as a goblin of principle, and while she quickly became disenchanted with the army her esteem for Flard always remained high. The feeling was mutual and Flard eventually promoted Hannah to Sergeant. The two became trusted friends and comrades.

#### Incident in Raskin

After a couple years in the army Hannah and Flard’s unit was deployed to the allied City State of Raskin in the Democratic Republic of Batize. They had engaged in a shooting war with the City by the Bey and Vadray agreed to send “advisors” to help bring the conflict to an end.

While in Raskin, Hannah's unit was assigned Flard's commanding officer, Captain Dekrok, to help Raskinite forces take a warehouse that was reported to be a munitions factory that the Beys were using to manufacture weapons. His platoon was working in conjunction with a Raskinite platoon led by a bugbear captain named Dorr Vevomikk. They two units swept in and took the structure with almost no resistance. The lack of resistance soon became clear, the structure was a makeshift medical facility, not a munitions factory. It was obvious they had received bad intelligence.

Flard ordered a thorough search to ensure there were no hidden munitions and, Hannah ensured it was a thorough search. Indeed, no munitions were uncovered and Vevomikk's men also appeared to come up empty on their search as well. Flard ordered Hannah to prepare to withdraw, but she quickly realized that Vevomikk's men were preparing to execute the wounded and the medical staff and reported it to Flard immediately.

Flard confronted Vevomikk and demanded he stand down. Hannah, ever practical, made preparations for if the bugbear refused. Indeed, Hannah proved correct and Vevomikk refused, stating that if the Beys were healed they’d just rejoin the fight and it would be better to execute them here. Flard ordered his men to take position against the Raskinites, and stated that if Vevomikk opened fire on the wounded he would order his men to fire on the Raskinites.

There was a tense standoff that was only broken once Vevomikk realized that even before Flard ordered his men to stand against the Raskintes, Hannah had taken a squad and maneuvered into a sniping position to begin the potential battle with rifle shots to Vevomikk and his non-comms.

Vevomikk agreed to stand down, but vowed that he would see Flard court martialed for this betrayal. Unbeknownst to Flard and Hannah, Vevomikk had connections with the politicians of the Raskinite government, who put pressure on the Vadray government to see the unit punished for the “betrayal.” It had all the makings of a full blown international incident, and all at a time when a trade deal was being negotiated between the two countries as well, which means a great deal of business leaders were also keenly interested in ensuring the Raskinites were kept happy, lest a great deal of money be put at risk.

Captain Dekrok, Flard's commanding officer, informed Flard and Hannah that the blame for the incident needed to be put on the two of them in order to appease the Raskinites, and that the pressure to do this was coming “all the way from the top.”  Dekrok wouldn’t admit it outright, but it was obvious that in order to prevent all this pressure from impacting he and the officers above him, Flard and Hannah were being made the sacrificial lambs of the incident. The two were given a General Discharge and with that their military careers were over.

### After the Army

The two soldiers left the army in total disgust but not total disgrace. They remained friends over the next few years while Flard worked in law enforcement and Hannah worked in private security for big tech and bio research corporations.

Hannah soon realized that the private sector was just as, if not more, ruthless and unscrupulous than the army brass, so she quit and became a merc for hire. This way she could choose her own jobs and avoid working for anyone she deemed morally dubious.

## Working for Io Naeran

One fateful day Hannah was searching the dark web for merc jobs and came across the advertisement for treasure hunters. She wasted no time and sent a message to Flard to invite him to accompany her. The goblin agreed quickly, as he'd left Law Enforcement in disgust and was out of work. The two soon met their new colleagues, Sanibel Travaris and Zencey.

### Kassen's Tomb

The first mission was to travel to Kassen's tomb, near Atticus Bluff, to try to recover a piece of the Everflame and an amulet that was said to be interred in the tomb. During the mission Hannah and her companions took note that in addition to a number of undead that seemed to defend the tomb, there were a number of more recent bodies indicating that another team had also made an effort to search the tomb and died in the process.

The mission was ultimately successful, with the heroes destroying a skeletal warrior that was the remains of a creature that had slain Kassen. This caused the ghost of Kassen to thank them and announce he could finally pass on to the afterlife.

The amulet was not found, though they recovered the requested piece of the Everflame and a number of other trinkets found paid handsomely for the job.

### The Library Job

After a couple of months Io contacted Hannah and the others again, offering them another job, this time to secure information stored in the library of the South Prodan Academy of the Arts and to procure information about a cult he believed was responsible for beating him to the amulets he sought in Kassen’s Tomb.

The quartet traveled to the city of Pandora and was able to take advantage of a distracting concert to sneak into the archives of the library. Within they found a number of texts, including the one sought by Io. They were able to successfully parlay with the sentient magical guardian of the restricted archives, secure the information requested, and slip back out of the library without anyone being the wiser.

## Formation of Ishmael's Pilgrims

Hannah and her companions decided to formalize their mercenary concern, choosing the name Ishmael's Pilgrims, after Sanibel's adorable familiar, Ishmael. Their first mission under their new moniker was to accept another job offered by Io Naeran.

## Appearance and Abilities

Hannah is 5 ft 9, has a thin face with a long nose framed by chin length black hair. Her alert blue eyes are always searching for threats and sizing up anyone she encounters. She is a tenacious fighter; strong, tough, and skilled in both firearms and close combat.