Barb

Barb is the bartender at Springs Eternal, a tavern in the town of Hope. She wears dark glasses over her all-white eyes, and her bloodhawk familiar augments her vision.

Roughly 25 years ago, she attended Hieronymous Wiggenstaff's School for Heroism and Villainy as a student on the Villain Track, known by the alias "Bloodhawk Barb," at the same time Althea Song attended the school as a hero. Barb was on course to become a fearsome professional villain, but was stricken with an "errant curse" (implied to be the cause of the damage to her eyes) and decided she wasn't getting paid enough to deal with the hazards of villainy, settling down to become a bartender instead. In combat, she wears a signature hawk-themed helmet and wields two sickles.

In the present, she distrusts HWSFHAV and its students, and dislikes how they teach things like magic and villainy for money.