Richard Skinner

Richard Skinner is the principle of the local high school and also the leader of a Coven of Hedgers. A trained and experience thaumaturge, Skinner secretly recruited kids from the school to join an extracurricular club of sorts; a guise for his cult. The cult never reached a full thirteen members and it was a mix of high school kids, drop outs, and recent graduates that he could still influence through money, grades, beer and anything else in between. He taught them to embrace their inner darkness, to channel their hatred and fear into their magic so that they could grow more and more powerful - all in the service of him … as the leader of the cult and the ‘voice’ of the Dark One. Trick gained a measure of power, using his skill to contact the Twilight and Shadow Realm and parley with the ghosts and spirits within.

He bought a small house in Pigeon Hill for the boys of his Hedger coven to live in (since most were homeless and living on the street).

After a failed summoning ritual which involved a human sacrifice, Skinner was seriously injured and took time to recover. Once he was able to assess the damage to the coven, his boys had fled - they apparently weren't ready for the sacrifice of a human. He tried to explain that the boy had turned traitor on them and had given them up to the local Sheriff but they still ran. One of them, a young man named Trick even took a bulk of his books on rituals.